Devolved administration governing Scotland, overseeing policy areas such as health, education, environment, agriculture and planning.
Glasgow City Council dropped a fire-and-rehire threat to 23,000 staff by agreeing three years of pay protection with its unions. The equal-pay regrading still needs union members' votes, and for staff who lose under the new grades the deal delays the cut until the protection ends.
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Scotland has plans for at least 23 hyperscale AI data centres, the largest a 1,000MW site at Chapelcross in Dumfries and Galloway. The government has refused a moratorium, so the fight over their power, water and noise is happening one planning case at a time.
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A Cambridge-led team mapped every stem across 569 square kilometres of the Cairngorms and found 2.65 million under five metres, a baseline precise enough to audit restoration targets against even though one flight cannot date the trees.
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Ninety-two percent of cafe customers surveyed could not tell whether a cup was already costing them money, and the behavioural case for a mandated charge rests on a field experiment in three university cafes.
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Parliament approved text saying no decisions should be taken on data centre schemes over 50MW until national guidance is complete, while the planning minister told the same debate that a moratorium is neither necessary nor appropriate.
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Nesting records from across the UK show that scheme exclusion dates, set one per country, miss when lapwing and oystercatcher are actually on eggs, and an Aberdeen-led team puts the fix at two or three weeks.
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