Scotland’s councils are facing mounting financial pressure as the cost of delivering services rises faster than the funding available. The Accounts Commission has warned this could threaten the ...

STV is proposing to end the separate service for the north and reduce the amount of purely local news it shows.

“We’ve got figures going back to when records began in 1855,” she said. You can see a general downward trend in birth rates. At the peak in Scotland, there were about 130,000 babies a year being born, ...

The First Minister said the proposals would ‘set a damaging precedent and accelerate the decline of public interest journalism in Scotland’.

Ofcom’s group director of broadcast and media Cristina Nicolotti Squires said the regulator “will be monitoring STV” ...

The broadcaster announced plans last year to remove its dedicated north of Scotland television news programme and cut 60 jobs ...

STV bosses say they do not need permission from the media regulator to move production and presentation of their north of Scotland news programme to Glasgow. The broadcaster intends to cut 60 jobs and ...

Labour MP Brian Leishman has tabled a motion opposing STV’s plans to cut local news in Scotland, urging Ofcom to protect regional news and ...

Yes, STV claim their programmes will now show more news of interest to those in the central belt and in the north. I think we ...

To offset the softer revenue environment, STV is pressing ahead with previously announced cost-saving measures. Actions ...

STV journalists walk out over proposed job cuts and changes to news programme - Reporters from the broadcasters Glasgow and Aberdeen offices are taking strike action.