Glasgow to lose in East Coast Main Line plans
Often during a by-election campaign you can see a party which runs a council, or the government put extra resources into an area especially if it is the same party who is defending the vacant seat and the more cynical amongst us then accuse them of trying to buy the election.We have seen accusations thrown at the SNP for holding one of their national conversations pieces in Glasgow North East for example.However, it is rare, and some may even say stupid when you see a party defending a seat take the opposite action.Imagine if you will an MP stands down, the party defending this seat then leaves it vacant for say four months, then perhaps the same party de

Charles Kennedy joins Eileen Baxendale on the Glasgow North East campaign trail
The Scottish Liberal Democrats candidate for the Glasgow North East by-election candidate, Eileen Baxendale has had a busy week with visits in Glasgow North East with Leader Tavish Scott, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland Alistair Carmichael and yesterday former UK Leader, Charles Kennedy MP.Eileen Baxendale hasn't taken a day off since she was selected to fight the seat made vacant over 120 days ago when Michael Martin stood down.

What abeautiful sunrise over Britannia and Leith Harbour in Edinburgh
Wow, what an absolutely gorgeous sunrise today, also an anniversary for me, it is one year ago today that we were starting polling day in the Glenrothes by-election.This is the view from my flat and I wanted to share it with you this morning. That is Leith Harbour the former Royal Yacht Britannia and the Ocean Terminal shopping centre.

Threshers shut 53 stores across Scotland
53 Threshers shops out of the 219 across Scotland are now to close down. There will be 373 closures across the UK out of a total of 1,300 shops which will affect all of First Quench's brands including Threshers, Wine Rack, Haddows, Bottoms Up and Victoria Wine.As most people know the parent company, First Quench went into administration just last month and have appointed KPMG as their administrator, they have announced they hope to sell the company as a growing concern and will make an announcement on Friday of this week.How many of the company's 6,500 employees are to be made redundant is not yet clear, there are stories of around 1,700+ across the UK - but however

STV Debate for the 4 main parties in the Glasgow North East by-election
A blow by blow account of tonight's STV debate from Conservative, Ruth Davidson, Labour, Willie Bain, Liberal Democrats Eileen Baxendale and SNP David Kerr.Labours Willie Bain is first in the hot seat.David Kerr starts the debate with a stunt, he throws a £2 coin at Willie Bain saying that's all Labour have spent in Glasgow North East on education.Then he moves onto Margaret Thatcher and asks Willie Bain, repeatedly if he would have invited her into No 10.Ruth Davidson from the Tories has a pop about Labour air brushing Gordon Brown out of all the by-election literature, Willie denied it!Then she moves onto the number of Scots who have become unemployed and then