Ciaran Jenkins , Scotland Correspondent

Scotland’s first Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she’ll make a decision on a second independence referendum only when there’s clarity over Britain’s exit from the EU. Speaking on the first day of the SNP’s spring conference in Aberdeen, she wouldn’t put a figure on the start-up costs of independence.

Its rugged landscapes have provided the backdrop to many a Hollywood blockbuster, but as the worldwide fame of the Hebridean island of Skye continues to rise, it risks joining the likes of Venice, Barcelona and Amsterdam as a tourist hotspot in danger of being overrun. Now new figures show the scale of private houses and…

An independent Scotland could end up keeping the pound for several years while preparing to move over to its own currency, according to a report commissioned by the SNP. The Sustainable Growth Commission, set up to investigate the country’s future economic prospects, aims to show how Scotland could go it alone, but opponents say there’s…

It’s been estimated that a thousand highly-skilled migrants, among them doctors, teachers and entrepreneurs, have been told to leave the country under measures intended in part to expel terrorists and war criminals. In some cases migrants have found themselves with 14 days to leave the UK after making amendments to their tax returns. The campaign…

It’s a move that promises to “take a stand” against gambling addiction – but at the same time could cost twenty thousand jobs. The government today said it would cut the maximum stake someone can gamble on a fixed-odds betting machine from 100 pounds to just two pounds. Campaigners welcomed the announcement, but Britain’s bookmakers warned it…

As if the divisions within the cabinet over Brexit weren’t trouble enough for the Prime Minister, a vote in the Scottish parliament today has paved the way for a potential constitutional crisis. The Scottish National Party joined forces with Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens to vote down Theresa May’s EU withdrawal bill. At…

There’ll be no more cheap booze in Scotland from today: it’s just become the first country in the world to impose a minimum price for alcohol. Health campaigners have described it as the biggest public health breakthrough since the smoking ban.

Keeping a good supply of people willing to work while ending free movement from Europe has been one of the main goals of ministers drawing up the Brexit agreement. The Migration Advisory Committee has taken evidence from businesses, industry bodies and Government departments as part of a major inquiry into how this will be done.…

Last month, we brought you a report from Dundee, where the death rate from drugs is higher than almost anywhere in the European Union. A very close second to the drug death rates of Dundee is the city of Glasgow, which for three years now has been in the midst of an unprecedented HIV outbreak.…

They’re the machines dubbed “the crack cocaine of gambling”: fixed odds betting terminals, where you can put down a stake of £100 every 20 seconds. Campaigners wanted this slashed to just £2. But the figure that the industry regulator went for today was way off that.

After the ‘Beast from the East’ receded and Storm Emma blew herself out, most of the UK has finally thawed, but not so for the Carron Valley. Here some families have been cut off for the seventh day after deep snow drifts blocked access roads. While the main road has been cleared, residents’ cars are…

In Scotland – where yellow weather warnings remain in place – the government has opened up an emergency funding scheme to help local authorities cope. Ciaran Jenkins reports.

    We can reveal the major drugs plight of Dundee in Scotland, a city where the scale of drugs deaths is greater than anywhere in the UK, which in turn has by far the highest death rate in the European Union. Channel 4 News has learnt that in January alone there were 12 suspected…

Initiatives like Police Scotland’s Violence Reduction unit – set up to tackle all kinds of violent behaviour, including knife crime. Over a decade on – they say Glasgow is no longer the ‘murder capital of Europe’. Our Scotland correspondent Ciaran Jenkins has been finding out more about their work.

The seaside town of Grimsby voted overwhelmingly to leave the European Union, but now Brexit is on the horizon, it’s being accused of avoiding the reality. Faced with the prospect of hefty tariffs and import duties, it’s now asking for special dispensation for its vital seafood industry. Remainers say they’re deploying double standards