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  • 11 Jun 2013
    Beliefs and values festival to announce new name and programme

    Britain's biggest beliefs and values festival re-launches on 18 June, when it will unveil its new 'mystery' name and a vibrant, engaging programme.

  • 11 Jun 2013
    Scotland to extend scope of Freedom of Information

    MSP Alison Johnstone has welcomed plans by the Scottish Government to extend the country's Freedom of Information law, after consultation.

  • 10 Jun 2013
    The Iona Community: 75 years of inspiration

    The Iona Community is a dispersed Christian ecumenical community working simultaneously for peace and social justice, the rebuilding of human bonds of collaboration locally and globally, and the renewal of worship. This past weekend it has been celebrating its 75th anniversary.

  • 9 Jun 2013
    Scotland is still behind with greenhouse emission targets

    Independent and Green MSPs want a debate in the Scottish parliament over environmental action, following disappointing climate change news.

  • 4 Jun 2013
    Scottish court cuts will compromise justice, say legal activists

    Lawyers and legal justice campaigners have held a demonstration outside the Scottish Parliament over the proposed closure of ten sheriff courts.

  • 31 May 2013
    Kirk refuseniks are looking backwards rather than forwards

    Two rural congreagtions say they will vote to leave the Church of Scotland over possible further ordinations of lesbian and gay ministers. In truth, the landscape is changing, says Simon Barrow. Larger numbers may well stay or join the Kirk if it ends its rejection of same-sex relationships, than will leave for the same reason. The refuseniks are looking back, not forward.

  • 29 May 2013
    Scotland and 'the vision thing'

    How goes the referendum on Scottish independence? This is the question my friends from down south ask almost every time I speak to them. The answer is that it feels to be in a strange kind of limbo.

  • 28 May 2013
    Concern over Scottish involvement in rendition flights

    Questions are being asked following a report which claims that Scottish airports were used as part of a US programme of rendition flights.

  • 23 May 2013
    Does the Kirk need to be constitutionally enshrined?

    The 2013 General Assembly of the Church of Scotland has voted for what is effectively “establishment by the back door” in any new constitutional arrangements for an independent Scotland, says lawyer and commentator Carla J Roth. She questions whether this is helpful or appropriate either for the church or for the nation.

  • 8 May 2013
    Charity calls for regulation of letting agents in Scotland

    Shelter Scotland has called for regulation to ensure responsible letting agents are rewarded and the bad ones are suitably penalised.