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The UK government is prepared to "trade off" Scotland's fishing industry in Brexit negotiations to ensure Britain's financial services sector is protected, a Holyrood committee has been told.

Unions have hit out at some of the "longest hours in the world" facing teachers in Scotland and large class sizes as they launched a national survey of working conditions.

The length of time it would take an independent Scotland to negotiate re-entry to the EU will be dictated by how far the UK diverges from European regulations post-Brexit, officials in Brussels have said.

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A senior Scottish Government minister has called on Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle to “stamp out” barracking of SNP MPs at Westminster, calling it a “a form of discrimination”.

The drugs death crisis in Scotland and across the wider UK will come under the spotlight at a major conference in Glasgow next month organised by the UK Government.

The Scottish Government has come under fire over “broken promises” on child poverty which will see an additional 100,000 Scottish youngsters’ hit by sliding living standards.

An 83-year-old widower in the Scottish Borders has hit out at plans by the town’s St Mary’s School for an inflatable sports pitch to be put up just yards from his home.

The weekly joust between Scotland's political leaders at the Scottish Parliament was disrupted today by protesters seeking to link the SNP to the IRA.