The Latest Breaking News from Scotland

NICOLA Sturgeon has resigned as Scotland’s First Minister, having spent more than eight years in the role.

Emily set herself the challenge to trek up to Edinburgh from London only using £2 local buses after a scheme to make public transport affordable came into action.

The Scottish National Party leader drops a huge political bombshell by calling it quits and has ‘no obvious successor’

Like ex-New Zealand PM, Scotland’s first minister speaks of duty to admit how ‘brutality’ of political life got to her

Michael D Higgins’ comments came after Taoiseach Leo Varadkar paid tribute to Ms Sturgeon as a ‘friend of Ireland’.

With the cause of Scottish independence stalled by a Westminster government veto on a new referendum, nationalist leader Nicola Sturgeon on Wednesday offered a new approach to break the deadlock - her resignation as first minister of Scotland.

Independence campaign and gender recognition laws will be at top of successor’s in-tray

NICOLA Sturgeon is arguably one of the most photographed people in Scotland.

When Jacinda Ardern resigned as New Zealand’s prime minister a few weeks ago, Nicola Sturgeon assured voters she still had plenty left in the tank. Yet apparently, Scotland’s first minister had been thinking about her own future for some time. She said so in her resignation speech on Wednesday, which…