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Call in cops over Cal Mac ferries contract says Labour's Jack McConnell

The former First Minister issued a warning that it would be a criminal offence to destroy documents relating to the botched £250million ferry contracts.

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Fresh calls for light to be shone on 'serious issues' at troubled Lanarkshire college

Damning allegations of fraud and theft at a Lanarkshire college have again come under the spotlight at the Scottish Parliament

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Cal Mac ferries scandal deepens after watchdog criticises lack of documents

The construction of two ferries at a Scottish Government-owned shipyard has run massively over budget.

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Scots ferry fiasco yard sets its sights on building warships for the Bangladesh navy

Ferguson Marine, the shipbuilding company which has struggled to deliver two CalMac ferries in recent years, is in a bid to build warships for the Bangladesh navy out of its yard in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde

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Scots ferry fiasco yard sets its sights on building warships for the Bangladesh navy

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Call for South Lanarkshire Council's factoring service to be investigated

East Kilbride election candidate Jim Wardhaugh wants Audit Scotland to carry out a probe in to the service.

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Sturgeon defends pay package and rushed procurement of former shipyard CEO

Scottish Labour said his daily rate was nearly £3,000 a day and asked the First Minister if she had been signing Lionel Messi

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Forbes: ex-yard owner McColl is trying to shift blame for ferry delays

Attempts by opposition MSPs to force the First Minister to make a statement on the ferries scandal failed

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Jim McColl accuses SNP government of 'fabulous propaganda' for shifting blame over ferries fiasco

Billionaire Jim McColl - former owner of the Ferguson yard on the Clyde - took aim at the SNP government after a war of words broke out over a ferry contract.

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Finance Secretary denies government rushed ferry plans for party conference

Kate Forbes also said she doubted Jim McColl's assertion that the ferries could cost £400m

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Kate Forbes hits back at former shipyard owner over claims ferries were given 'for political purposes'

The Finance Secretary blasted Jim McColl saying if it weren't for the Scottish Government then the yard on the Clyde would have went into administration.

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Sturgeon under pressure over claims botched ferry contracts were awarded to 'maximise publicity'

Former Ferguson yard owner Jim McColl claims contracts for two CalMac ferries were awarded in haste to coincide with the 2016 SNP conference

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Nicola Sturgeon under pressure on claims botched ferry contracts awarded to 'maximise publicity'

Former Ferguson Yard owner Jim McColl has claimed the over budget contracts for two Cal Mac ferries were awarded in haste to time with an announcement at NIcola Sturgeon's first party conference as SNP leader.

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Derek Mackay signed off on ferry contract but buck stops with me – Sturgeon

Douglas Ross presses First Minister for answers in Parliament

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Nicola Sturgeon accused of blaming disgraced Derek Mackay for CalMac ferry fiasco at Ferguson Marine

The First Minister told MSPs "the buck stops with me" when asked who was at fault for the shambles at the Ferguson Marine shipyard.

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Highland Perthshire residents likely to wait “a number of years” before superfast broadband is installed in their area

Audit Scotland published its latest R100 (Reaching 100 per cent) broadband scheme update report last week

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Tories to call for more ferry funding as watchdog reports on Ferguson Marine

Audit Scotland is expected to give its spending findings this week on the Ferguson Marine shipyard

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Data gap limits analysis of Scottish Covid-19 business support

Latest Audit Scotland report draws criticism from opposition politicians over pandemic spending

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Scottish councils face 'financially uncertain' future

Audit Scotland report reveals local authority funding cuts of 4.2% in real terms

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Scots poverty hotspots 'being failed by ministers' drug and alcohol policies'

Audit Scotland said 'long-standing inequalities' remain in poorest neighbourhoods because of a lack of action by the Scottish Government.

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Sturgeon gives full backing to NHS recovery plan despite ‘unsustainable’ claim

Watchdog Audit Scotland released a report on Thursday which said the NHS in Scotland was ‘not financially sustainable’.

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Nicola Sturgeon told to deliver £15 an hour pay for Scotland's social care heroes

Sarwar referenced a damning Audit Scotland report as he called for immediate changes to a sector facing a range of pressures.

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£16m lost to fraud and error in Covid business support schemes, MSPs told

Holyrood’s Public Audit Committee heard from Audit Scotland officials on Thursday.

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