Referendum News

• Indy Scotland 'would need to guarantee savings'

  AN independent Scotland would need its own guarantee system to protect people's savings in the event of another banking collapse, the chief executive of the UK-wide protection scheme said yesterday.

• It's the economy, stupid ... but who is making the best case?

  Jim and Margaret Cuthbert

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  ONE YEAR ON: HOW WAS IT FOR THEM?

  IT'S Friday afternoon in Yes Scotland's Glasgow offices, and chief executive Blair Jenkins is feeling under pressure.

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  Wanted: referendum editor to head new £5m BBC unit

  IT will require a nose for a good story and – more importantly – very thick skin.

• 370,000 pledge their support to Yes campaign

  THE Yes Scotland campaign, formed a year ago to fight the pro-independence cause in the referendum, claims to have signed up more than 372,000 signatories to its Independence Declaration.

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  Yes Scotland hail 372,000 Independence Declaration signatures

  Yes Scotland is marking its first anniversary with the announcement that more than 372,000 people have so far signed the Independence Declaration.

• Scott fears Scottish campaign free-for-all

  BODIES receiving public funding from the Scottish Government could be involved in a "free-for-all" next summer promoting independence, it has been claimed.

• We want our voice heard in indyref debate: charities fight regulator 'gag'

  Scottish charities have issued a tersely worded rebuke to their own regulator over their involvement in campaigning over Scotland's constitutional future.

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  Emails reveal clash between Alex Salmond, Gordon Matheson over youth training

  CONFIDENTIAL emails have revealed another clash between the Scottish Government and Glasgow City Council – this time over the launch of a youth training scheme.

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  Salmond's threat to ditch debt in sterling struggle

  AN INDEPENDENT Scotland would walk away from the UK without paying a share of national debt unless it was able to keep the pound as part of a sterling zone, Alex Salmond has said.

• SNP: UK policies have set back Scots economy

  It argues decisions by UK governments – from the failure to invest in an oil fund in the 1970s and 1980s to cuts to capital spending in the past few years – have undermined growth.

• Minister in Arab Spring row

  Opposition parties have criticised the Scottish Government's External Affairs Minister Humza Yousaf, claiming he has drawn crass and irresponsible comparisons between the Arab Spring and Scotland's own constitutional journey.