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BREAKING: Asked if she regrets her choice of words in saying she "detests the Tories", First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said: "No."
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EXCL: The BBC has edited out multiple calls for a ceasefire in Gaza from the Scottish Bafta Awards ceremony Winners and presenters used their speeches to voice solidarity with Palestinians during the event in Glasgow on Sunday and noticed edits on the BBC iPlayer's coverage
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BREAKING: Letters of no confidence in Liz Truss are already coming in, according to reports
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UPDATE: The Palestinian MP interviewed on TalkTV by Julia Hartley-Brewer has called her 'unprofessional' and 'racist' It comes as the station faces calls to fire the host
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We know our Photoshop team are very talented, so just to confirm: this is 100% real 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Good luck! Molta sort! Our final front page before Catalonia decides ... and we have the world exclusive final poll that predicts a Yes win
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🚨Rishi Sunak has been reported to Westminster's sleaze watchdog over his £1000 Rwanda bet with Piers Morgan The bet is said to be a 'clear breach' of the ministerial code
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Fans of domestic abuser and singer Chris Brown are disappointed after he cancelled his Glasgow gig
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Alan Cumming has handed back his OBE. The Scottish actor won the award in 2009 for his activism in LGBT rights but said recent conversations around the history of the British Empire has 'opened my eyes' .
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Mhairi Black told the House of Commons that the UK is 'sleepwalking' towards fascism in a speech that's gone viral on social media
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BREAKING: Prince Andrew has been reported to the police after court documents linked to the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein were made public
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BREAKING: The Scottish Government has confirmed that Nicola Sturgeon intends to attend COP27 after Rishi Sunak pulled out of the climate summit
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They've done it! Congratulations from Scotland!
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Tomorrow's front page: This is where we would have reported on Theresa May's visit to Scotland. We were barred from her press conference with the other newspapers, so we have refused to cover it.
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🎥 Nicola Sturgeon told Douglas Ross to "get off his phone" as a serious issue was being discussed during First Minister's Questions
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BREAKING: The UK Supreme Court has granted the SNP permission to intervene in the case on Scotland's right to hold an independence referendum
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GB NEWS presenter Dan Wooton was mocked so mercilessly over a clip where he was filmed laying a floral tribute to the Queen that he deleted the Tweet
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Here's a look at tomorrow's front page 📰 'Has the UK gone mad?'
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It's been two years since Matt Hancock pretended to cry live on TV. Never forget.
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Here's a look at tomorrow's newspaper🗞️ Ian Blackford kicked out of the House of Commons after saying Boris Johnson 'misled' parliament
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What a photo! 📷
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🚨 BREAKING: Stephen Flynn angrily eviscerates Speaker Lindsay Hoyle, who is absent as MPs debate his move to accept Labour's Gaza motion. “Where on earth is the Speaker of the Commons and how can we bring him to this House?”
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BREAKING: Prestwick Airport will no longer do business with the Israeli Air Force after hosting a military plane The Scottish Government said the airport would host no more Israeli military flights after major backlash over public assets playing part in a 'campaign of genocide'
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WATCH: Nicola Sturgeon DESTROYS the claim Scotland must join the euro to get into the EU in a fiery clash with Douglas Ross 🔥🔥
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🚨This year, Michelle Mone put The National on 'legal notice' - but you'd never guess why. We're revealing the full details of what happened 👇
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BREAKING: The official TV ratings for the Queen's funeral are in - figures suggest more people watched last year's Euro final and Princess Diana's funeral
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Tomorrow's front page: 'You can't have our Clara!' Scotland sends a message to Spain on day of incredible support for Catalan academic with nearly £200k in legal fees raised 😀👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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BREAKING: A new poll has shown that a majority of Scots want Prince Andrew to be stripped of his Scottish title Read the full story here:
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WATCH: Scottish fans drown out God Save the King with boos at Hampden Park ahead of the 150th anniversary match ⚽️
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Tomorrow's front page: Save us Roberto, you're our final hope!
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Our front page: Hello, Catalonia! Historic day as Catalan Parliament declares the birth of a new independent European republic
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BREAKING: Nicola Sturgeon proposes a Scottish independence referendum be held on October 19 2023
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This was the powerful closing statement in South Africa's genocide case against Israel. Senior advocate Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh addressed the International Court of Justice on day one of the hearing.
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NEW: Humza Yousaf has said that pro-Palestinian marches in London on Armistice Day should go ahead. He added that describing them as 'hate marches' is 'unacceptable' and that he was 'beyond angry' at the UK Government's response to the planned demonstrations.
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NEW: Support for the monarchy has fallen under 50% for the first time in the UK, a new poll has found The Savanta research, described as 'huge' by Republic, shows the monarchy is losing support fast
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BREAKING: Support for Scottish independence is at its second-highest level ever recorded. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 A brand new poll, commissioned exclusively for The National, puts support for Yes at 54%, and No at 46%.
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Tomorrow every National comes with this poster. 👇 Tweet out your photos holding it using #ScotsForCatalonia and let's show our solidarity.
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During her press conference on the NHS, Nicola Sturgeon was asked if she 'personally used private healthcare' The First Minister replied: 'No I don’t and never have'
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NEW: Nicola Sturgeon described Boris Johnson as a 'f****** clown' in WhatsApp messages sent to her then chief of staff Liz Lloyd. She also said his 'utter incompetence' was 'offending me on behalf of politicians everywhere'.
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The UK Government has decided to block gender reform legislation in Scotland
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NEW: Brendan O'Hara was applauded by his colleagues in the House of Commons after he explained why the SNP want an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. When speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle reminded them that clapping is not permitted in the chamber, one SNP MP heckled back: 'It’s a new…
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Tomorrow's front page: Si! Against all odds, with political leaders in prison and in exile, Catalonia delivers pro-indy majority. Amazing.
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BREAKING: A new poll has shown support for Scottish independence has risen to 56% Story coming soon
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Great to see 👏 Watch as this powerful message from Europeans to Scotland is read out in four different languages across four European cities.
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We should ALL be speaking out against Spain's treatment of Catalonia. The situation would be different if more already had.
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: The Scottish Government has won the first major legal battle in the Supreme Court showdown on indyref2 🚨
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📺 Crowds cheer as Nicola Sturgeon addresses Scottish independence supporters outside the Parliament following the Supreme Court verdict today
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Kate Middleton was told 'Ireland belongs to the Irish' by a member of the public during a visit to Belfast 👀
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The whole crowd at the @ScotConvention Build2 conference hold up their copy of The National in support of Catalonia. We're with you! 😎✊️
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Kevin Bridges went ahead with the Hydro show last night after the Queen's death
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Incredible! ✊
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BREAKING: New polling has suggested Scotland would vote Yes to independence in the event of a second referendum. The results showed that support for Scottish independence sat at 52% for Yes versus 48% for No
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BREAKING: All Scottish Government benefits are to be increased in line with inflation
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Tomorrow's front page 🗞️ Glasgow: 1 'Team UK': 0 People power forces despicable Home Office to back down
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Strike action called off as NHS Scotland vote to accept improved pay offer from Scottish Government
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BREAKING: Humza Yousaf has called on Suella Braverman to resign after a far right crowd attacked police in London near the Cenotaph
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WATCH: Nicola Sturgeon slams Douglas Ross over his calls for Holyrood to replicate the tax cuts announced by the UK Government
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Must-watch - Nicola Sturgeon gets stuck into Douglas Ross's extensive flip-flopping in this savage #FMQs exchange 🔥
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The Scottish Parliament has voted in favour of progressing the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill to Stage 2. It passed with 88 votes for, 33 against and 4 abstentions.
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Our front page: As the first Syrian refugees arrive in Scotland tomorrow, we'd like to offer them a warm welcome
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BREAKING: The majority of Scots support the Scottish Parliament having the right to negotiate and legislate for independence. A new poll from FindOutNow reveals that 57.5% are in favour of Holyrood having powers over independence referendums or negotiations.
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Congratulations to Glasgow's Roza Salih who has become Scotland's first refugee councillor 👏
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Here's your first look at tomorrow's front page 👇 Sturgeon's 'f***ing clown' message said what we were all thinking 🤔
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BREAKING: Scotland’s gender reform legislation has PASSED after three days of lengthy debates and Tory attempts to kill the bill
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BREAKING: Support for Scottish independence is at 54%, according to the latest figures from Ipsos.
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NEW: The SNP have taken the rare step of calling out the BBC's Fiona Bruce over her 'constant interruptions'
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NEW: A tearful Humza Yousaf has revealed that his pleas with the Foreign Office to help his family in Gaza have been 'ignored'. 'The fact that the Foreign Secretary has so far ignored my letter but also not been in touch makes me angry', the First Minister said
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A republic is born!
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Alan Cumming on why he returned his OBE
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BREAKING: Liz Truss is trying to block Scotland's Gender Recognition Act reforms
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BREAKING: The SNP have called for a 'full, independent investigation' into new revelations which they say prove the Labour Party deliberately sought to wreck the SNP motion on a ceasefire in Gaza. Story to follow.
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We say: Scotland must now speak up and recognise an independent Catalonia.
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NEW: The BBC has been panned after inviting 50 voters on Laura Kuenssberg's show and billing the focus group as “Britain in a room”. The issue? It was just 50 English voters, with no representation from Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland ...
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BREAKING: Support for independence has soared - leading against pro-Union responses by 4 points, a new poll has found
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'How is it democratic that Scotland is stuck with a PM we don't trust, a Conservative party we don't support and Tory governments we haven't voted for since 1955' 👏 WATCH as @ianblackford_MP tells Boris Johnson that Scotland is on its way to independence
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WATCH as Mick Lynch says Scottish independence should be decided on 'the will of the Scottish people' and that his union will 'go where democracy takes us' 👏
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It's about democracy.
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Scots overwhelming reject seeing the Union Jack on Scottish produce, new polling exclusively for The National has found
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A Scots comic has rejected an invitation to celebrate Burns Night with the Prime Minister, saying the 'billionaire Tory tw**' should pay the nurses instead
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NEW: Humza Yousaf has become the first UK party leader to condemn Israel’s push for 'ethnic cleansing' The First Minister said recent Israeli ministers' comments were 'the textbook definition of ethnic cleansing and must be called out'
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'The way the British Empire profited at the expense (and death) of indigenous peoples across the world really opened my eyes'
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NEW: The first poll since the FM quit has found the SNP and Greens are on course for a whopping 23-seat majority in the Scottish Parliament
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A look at tomorrow's front page 📰 'Sir Ken Starmer: Introducing the amazing plastic politician!'
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WATCH as Boris Johnson sends luck to Rangers football club as they prepare to compete in the 2022 Europa League final tonight in Seville
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