Anas Sarwar says Nicola Sturgeon should stand down if she broke ministerial code

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Naman Ramachandran Acclaimed Bangladeshi director Rubaiyat Hossain, known for her powerful women-centric films, has a new project participating in the Berlinale Co-Production Market and is launching a female filmmaker grant.Her Berlinale co-production market project, “The Difficult Bride,” follows Novera, a bride-to-be in present-day Dhaka who is in love with the groom and the idea of a fairytale wedding, but secretly struggles with her body, which does not seem to comply with the wedding rituals. She makes continuous trips to the beauty salon and uses home remedies to “cure” her body.

Christopher Vourlias Germany’s Sola Media has closed a wave of international sales for the animated feature “Finnick,” produced by Riki Group, which will be released by Sony Pictures Russia in Russia and CIS on March 24.The CGI-animated comedy follows the adventures of 13-year-old Christine, who befriends the young prankster Finnick – one of the furry and usually invisible beings known as Finns. The odd couple has to team up as detectives to solve the mysterious events happening in their city.The Stuttgart-based sales agency has inked deals with Eagle Pictures (Italy), Independent Films (Benelux), Koch Films (German/Austria/Switzerland), Vertigo Releasing (U.K.), Tanweer (Greece), Selmer Media (Scandinavia), Myndform (Iceland), Rialto (Australia and New Zealand), and Black Sheep Films (South Africa), and holds exclusive distribution rights in multiple additional territories.

Celtic boss Ange Postecoglou used to watch Scottish Cup Finals from the other side of the world.

Gordon Smith feared Rangers were booked for trouble with Craig Whyte when learning he’d dodged paying the club’s pre-season hotel.

An Ayrshire nursing home which was previously told to improve its infection control practices has been given the thumbs up by an official watchdog.

Chapelhall FC will kick their first league ball during the summer, having been borne of a hunger for the game in the village but, more importantly, to help struggling players with their mental health battles.

Calum Gallagher says Airdrie can't focus on Cove Rangers, and must take care of their own business.

Manori Ravindran International EditorMia Wasikowska will take on the lead role in “Little Joe” director Jessica Hausner’s cult thriller “Club Zero,” Variety can reveal.The Australian actor will portray an unusual schoolteacher in Hausner’s second English-language film, which begins shooting in the U.K. and Austria in July.Wasikowska was most recently seen in Mia Hansen-Løve’s Cannes-premiering film “Bergman Island.”In “Club Zero,” Wasikowska’s teacher takes a job at an elite school and forms a strong bond with five students — a relationship that eventually takes a dangerous turn.Discussing the film at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra event last year, Hausner described the film as “a lot about eating,” relating to eating disorders and “eating behaviors.” This will be Hausner’s sixth feature.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentItalian director Roberta Torre, known for campy Mafia musical “Tano to Die For” and other anarchic pics, is making “Le Favolose,” about a group of transgender women who reunite after 20 years to commemorate a dead friend and do right by her after her identity has been violated.“Le Favolose,” which translates as “The Fabulous Ones,” is being produced by Donatella Palermo, who is at the Berlinale with auteur Paolo Taviani’s competition entry “Leonora Addio.”Palermo, who has a longstanding rapport with Torre, is the Italian producer behind two Berlin Golden Bear winners: the Taviani brothers’ “Caesar Must Die” and Gianfranco Rosi’s “Fire at Sea.” “When a person decides to face the [gender] transition from man to woman it can be a very painful process in several different ways: social, physical, etc.,” said Palermo, who notes that “when a trans dies, most of the time their body is returned to their families.” Torre’s new pic is based on a real-life story of Antonia, one of the “Fabulous Ones,” who is buried by her family dressed as a man under her original name, Giampaolo, amid the indifference of most.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorArna Media, the Russian distribution company run by Nadezda Motina, has secured the rights to “Brother and Sister,” “The Tank,” “Little Allan – The Human Antenna” and “The Colors of Fire” for its theatrical pipeline. Arnaud Desplechin’s family-drama “Brother and Sister” stars Marion Cotillard, Melvil Poupaud and Golshifteh Farahani. Cotillard and Poupaud play the titular siblings who, following the death of their parents, reunite after decades of silence.

John Swinney has confirmed.The Deputy First Minister has told the Holyrood inquiry into the Government's unlawful investigation of Salmond that he is unable to provide details that the committee had asked for.Swinney, who is facing a vote of no confidence after refusing parliament's demands to release legal advice for almost four months, had said the Government did not record minutes of meetings with its external counsel about the former first minister's ultimately successful legal challenge.The current First Minister and Evans, Scotland's most senior civil servant, held meetings with external legal advisers about the judicial review on November 2 and November 13 2018, according to evidence provided to the committee.MSPs have asked the

Nicola Sturgeon’s ill-fated court battle with Alex Salmond. Despite serious flaws in the case against the former first minister being identified on September 27, 2018, officials ploughed on at a cost of £127,000.

botched handling of complaints made against Alex Salmond - a legal row that cost the taxpayer at least £600,000.But the stunt has provoked mixed reactions on social media, with one Twitter user calling the organisers "fannies".One Twitter user, @lalalauramac, said: "Anyone else see the plane cutting about with the big banner on the back saying Nicola Sturgeon should resign? Some folk have too much money."Another, @chazforbes898, observed: "Small plane flew over Edinburgh pulling a banner saying Sturgeon Resign. Obvious breach of Covid restrictions.'While @KealinKato commented: "Walked to the office just now - there’s a plane flying around the city with the sign Resign Sturgeon.

John Swinney said the release "utterly" disproved a conspiracy theory by Salmond around the Government's handling of the case.A Holyrood committee is investigating the Government’s mis-handling of sexual misconduct complaints against Salmond when he was First Minister.Salmond took the government to court and it was agreed the internal probe, which destroyed his friendship with Sturgeon, had been unlawful.The flaw in the botched investigation, which cost the taxpayer over £600,000, was that the Government’s Investigating Officer had prior contact with the female complainers.A key controversy is over the Government’s 2018 legal advice in relation to Salmond’s judicial review.In recent months the Government has twice ignored votes of

Twitter thread showing celebrity-lookalikes-for-hire, which is now unfortunately private, showed a variety of celeb doppelgängers available from the UK-based “Lookalikes agency”. James Hamilton’s thread said, “For absolutely no reason, here’s some genuine lookalikes you can hire from a UK lookalikes agency.

is giving evidence today to a Holyrood committee investigating how the Scottish Government managed to botch its own internal complaints process - a mistake which ended up costing the taxpayer more than £500,000. Two women had raised complaints against Salmond in 2018 dating to his time in the top job in Scottish politics and the government launched a probe.Salmond denied the allegations and insisted the complaints process was biased against him - a claim vindicated in the civil courts in January 2019.But Sturgeon told MSPs she felt "very let down" by the former first minister.She said: “I have learned things about Alex Salmond over the past couple of years that have made me rethink certain things I thought about him.

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First Minister said she had seen nothing that “comes within a million miles” of any conspiracy allegations.A Holyrood committee is investigating her Government’s handling of sexual misconduct complaints against Salmond when he was First Minister.Salmond took the government to court and it was agreed the internal probe, which destroyed his friendship with Sturgeon and cost the taxpayer over £600,000, had been unlawful.He was also charged with sexual offences and acquitted after a trial.Salmond gave evidence last week and accused his successor of misleading parliament over his meetings with her during the live probe.He also alleged that senior SNP figures, including Sturgeon’s husband Peter Murrell and her chief of staff Liz Lloyd, plotted to

own internal complaints process - a mistake which ended up costing the taxpayer more than £500,000.Two women had raised complaints against Salmond in 2018 dating to his time in the top job in Scottish politics and the government launched a probe.Salmond denied the allegations and insisted the complaints process was biased against him - a claim vindicated in the civil courts in January 2019.However, at the Inquiry today, Sturgeon accused her predecessor of "deeply inappropriate behaviour".She recalled to the Inquiry her version of events when Salmond - accompanied his former chief of staff Geoff Aberdein and legal advisor Duncan Hamilton - visited the First Minister's home in Glasgow on April 2, 2018."Alex has claimed in his testimony to the

Salmond by two women when he was First Minister.Salmond took the government to court and it was agreed the internal probe, which destroyed his friendship with Nicola Sturgeon, had been unlawful and tainted by apparent bias.The fiasco cost over £600,000 of public money.Salmond gave evidence last week and accused his successor of misleading parliament over aspects of the scandal..Giving her own evidence, she said “two women were failed and taxpayers’ money was lost, I deeply regret that.”The First Minister said: “Although I was not aware of the error at the time I am the head of the Scottish Government so I want to take this opportunity to say sorry to the two women involved and to the wider public.”

Alex Salmond harassment committee today.The First Minister will answer questions from MSPs at the Scottish Parliament on a range of issues to do with the affair.Committee members will quiz the SNP leader on what she knew about the botched handling of complaints made against former First Minister Alex Salmond.Salmond took the government to court and it was agreed the internal probe had been unlawful and tainted by apparent bias.

Nicola Sturgeon  ’s bitter political feud with former First Minister Alex Salmond after a third government snub in four days. can reveal anxious  SFA  bosses had been expecting Holyrood to sanction the re-start of League One and League Two last week after being promised a final answer by Friday afternoon - a decision which could determine if this season’s Scottish Cup can be played to a completion or not.

Nicola Sturgeon  ’s bitter political feud with former First Minister Alex Salmond after a third government snub in four days. can reveal anxious  SFA  bosses had been expecting Holyrood to sanction the re-start of League One and League Two last week after being promised a final answer by Friday afternoon - a decision which could determine if this season’s Scottish Cup can be played to a completion or not.

Nicola Sturgeon ’s bitter political feud with former First Minister Alex Salmond after a third government snub in four days. Record Sport can reveal anxious SFA bosses had been expecting Holyrood to sanction the re-start of League One and League Two last week after being promised a final answer by Friday afternoon - a decision which could determine if this season’s Scottish Cup can be played to a completion or not.

Anas Sarwar has said his party would not have "no choice" but to back a no confidence vote in Deputy First Minister John Swinney over the publication of legal advice.On two occasions, MSPs have voted to compel the Scottish Government to produce legal advice taken as part of the legal challenge brought by Alex Salmond over its harassment complaints procedure, but ministers have so far not handed the advice over.The Scottish Government went on to concede the judicial review into the investigation of the former First Minister, which Judge Lord Pentland said was "tainted with apparent bias".In a letter to Linda Fabiani, the convener of the committee looking into the handling of complaints against Salmond, in December, Swinney said he was keen

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has accused the Tories of “chest beating unionism” and vowed to take on the SNP to win back lost voters.In an interview with the Record, Sarwar vowed to offer an alternative to the “Saltire waving” nationalism of the SNP and the “army tank driving” image of the Conservatives.He also called on Nicola Sturgeon to be clearer on dates for easing lockdown and said cops and teachers should be prioritised for the vaccine.Sarwar, a Glasgow MSP, defeated colleague Monica Lennon to become Scottish Labour’s tenth leader since devolution.In a watershed moment for Scotland, he is also the first Muslim and BAME leader of a political party.However, Sarwar is taking over against a backdrop of years of Labour decline north

Nicola Sturgeon is on course to win a super-slim majority in the Holyrood elections – leaving plans for a second independence referendum on a knife-edge.A Daily Record poll reveals the SNP would emerge from the May 6 election with 67 MSPs, giving the First Minister just two more seats than she needs for an overall majority.The news that Sturgeon is set to win an outright majority at Holyrood comes at the end of a nightmare week for the SNP leader, during which her former mentor Alex Salmond accused her of misleading Parliament.The findings are part of the same survey which revealed support for independence has dropped from 58 per cent in October to a 50/50 split.According to the Survation poll of 1000 Scots, the SNP would have 67 MSPs, a

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a bombshell opening statement to the Holyrood inquiry into the Scottish Government’s unlawful investigation of sexual harassment claims against him, Salmond accused his successor Sturgeon of using a Covid press conference to “effectively question the result of a jury”.Read Salmond's full opening statement to MSPs below“Three important points require to be made at the outset. Firstly, this inquiry is not about me," he told MSPs.

told the Holyrood Inquiry the name had been shared with his former chief of staff.A Holyrood committee is investigating the SNP Government’s botched handling of sexual misconduct complaints against Salmond when he was First Minister.Salmond took the government to court and it was agreed the internal probe, which destroyed his friendship with Nicola Sturgeon, had been unlawful and tainted by apparent bias.He was separately acquitted of sexual offences after a trial last year.In a bombshell submission to the Inquiry, the former First Minister accused Sturgeon of misleading parliament and breaching the ministerial code of conduct on aspects of the tainted government probe.He has also accused Sturgeon’s husband, SNP chief executive Peter