Alex Salmond

MILLIONAIRE Mohamed Al Fayed has accused First Minister Alex Salmond of wanting to “treat Scotland like a rubbish dump” blasting — “it’s not BANGLADESH”. The ex-Harrods boss spoke out in a letter to the SNP leader over a scheme to build a green ...  

A Scottish National Party (SNP) campaign to encourage one million people to sign a declaration of independence ahead of 2014's referendum has reportedly gained over 7,500 signatures a day after launch. The 'Yes Scotland' campaign was launched last week As well as the 7,563 signatories, of which SNP leader Alex Salmond was the first at a high-profile launch event in Edinburgh on Friday, the party said around 3,000 had shared the...  

ScotsmanLeaders: Blurred vision on independenceScotsmanThere is disquiet over Alex Salmond`s low-tax plans for corporation. Picture: Ian Rutherford FRIDAY'S launch of the Yes Scotland campaign marked a sea-change in the debate about Scotland's future. For some time now the SNP has been at pains to identify ...Alex Salmond is the Yes ManThe Scottish SunScottish independence campaign has stalled, says Alistair DarlingThe GuardianCampaign for...  

Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond is not having a good day. First, the Pope vetoed a visit to the Vatican over his support for gay marriage. Then a new opinion poll by YouGov found that only one third of the Scottish people back Salmond’s dream of independence.  

First Minister Alex Salmond, one of the key speakers at the launch in Edinburgh ... The message from former James Bond star Sir Sean was read out by Martin Compston, who starred in the Ken Loach film Sweet Sixteen. "This is a historic day for Scotland ...  

ScotsmanScottish independence: Alex Salmond's pledge to sign up 1m votersScotsmanBy ANDREW WHITAKER ALEX Salmond yesterday launched a bid to get a million Scots to sign a declaration of support for independence from the UK. He told the start of the “Yes Scotland” referendum campaign that if the aim of getting the public to sign up ...'Scotland's future will be in Scotland's hands'Herald ScotlandScottish independence: 'Yes' campaign to be...  

A string of A-listers looked on, including GoldenEye star Alan Cumming and Bourne Supremacy actor Brian Cox — who both plan to move back to Scotland just so they can vote in the referendum. Long-time Labour supporter Cox — who turned to the SNP at the ...  

At present, Alex Salmond is master of all he surveys ... And there have been mumblings to the effect that he might even renounce the SNP’s historic commitment to unilateralism and to the removal of Trident from Scottish waters, and seek to join Nato.  

SPEAKING as the stage was being dismantled, organisers of the independence campaign launch attempted to explain what the big day yesterday was not. The Yes Scotland campaign was not going to produce a precise blueprint on how exactly an independent ...  

He was urged by Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie to consider an inquiry less than a week after the man convicted for the atrocity died in Libya. More than 40 politicians, religious leaders and journalists signed a letter on Tuesday calling ...  

The formal campaign for Scottish independence was launched today at a celebrity-endorsed event. Organisers of the Yes Scotland movement vowed to stage the 'biggest community-based campaign in Scotland’s history' in the run-up to the independence ...  

Alex Salmond has told the 'yes' campaign in Edinburgh that the parliament has "earned it's spurs" and is ready to run an independent country. David Cameron has insisted the Culture Secretary "acted impartially" in ruling over the BSkyB takeover ...  

Megrahi was sentenced to life imprisonment in Scotland, but was released two years ago on compassionate grounds and returned to Libya because he was suffering from advanced terminal prostate cancer and thought to have just a few months to live. His release ...  

ALEX Salmond seems to have learned the wrong lesson from Tony Blair. The lesson from Blair is not that cosying up to Rupert Murdoch is the key to success. Rather, it’s when you have won a landslide call your referendum quick. After the landslide of 1997 ...  

Alex Salmond has been warned by a leading supporter of Scottish independence that his efforts to woo centre ground voters with "middle of the road blandness" could backfire by alienating left-wing, radical voters. Patrick Harvie, the leader of the pro ...