Alex Salmond

Concentrate on fiscal policy before considering currency
Saturday 4 May 2013

The recent advocacy for a re-established Scottish currency to provide an independent Scotland with the capacity to practise a less-restrained fiscal and monetary policy founds on the assertion that Scotland can stand proud and prevail in future scenarios of market turbulence ("Canavan calls for new Scots currency", The Herald, May 1).

Salmond: UK pension funds split is possible
Friday 3 May 2013

COMPANIES operating across the UK could be forced to split their pension funds into separate Scottish and English schemes under post-independence plans being considered by SNP ministers.

A penny for First Minister's thoughts as Lamont notes problem
Friday 3 May 2013

The last time I checked, 12 pennies Scots were worth a single penny in funny foreign English money. At the current rate of intellectual exchange, you can get almost as many Holyrood opinions for one rational thought on currency union.

Auschwitz visits for Scots pupils given funding boost
Friday 3 May 2013

A SCHEME to send Scots pupils to the Auschwitz- Birkenau concentration camp is to be extended by a further two years.

Holyrood tributes to Brian Adam
Friday 3 May 2013

The widow and children of the late Brian Adam MSP listened as tributes from across the political divide were paid to him at Holyrood.