Ruaraidh Gilmour

@ruaraidh0.bsky.social

Journalist @holyroodmag.bsky.social | Ruaraidh.gilmour@holyrood.com |📍Edinburgh

Last night my aunt, Sheila Begbie, was inducted into the Scottish football Hall of Fame. A trailblazer, a legend, a hero - she is also one of the nicest people you'll ever meet. After I visited the San Siro to watch Milan some years ago, she said, 'Oh, I played there for Scotland once'.

Sheila Begbie gives an interview wearing her Scotland strip in the mid-1970s.

Elaine Stewart, the MP for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock, describes the effects of “fourth-generation unemployment” in the former mining towns she serves. “The last 14 years have become so much worse – worse than it was in the 80s.” @holyroodmag.bsky.social www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...

Elaine Stewart: Poverty is worse than it was in the 80s

Much of Elaine Stewart’s constituency still suffers from the effects of the mining industry collapse in the 1980s but th...

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NEW: The man who threw an egg and became involved in a punch-up with John Prescott, Craig Evans, has told the Press Association he had "no regrets", adding that his thoughts were with the late politician's loved ones.

BREAKING: The Scottish Government says the National Care Service Bill will not progress to the next stage of parliamentary scrutiny later this month, as was planned.

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