Three ministers are to tour Flexiant’s headquarters today and hear more about the cloud company's important role in three EU projects. Livingston, UK (PRWEB)

IT REALLY does depress the soul watching a minister in the Scottish Executive nonchalantly reveal his ignorance in public. Fergus Ewing (Newsnight Scotland, July 23) had better get up to speed, and quickly, if he wishes to avoid being taken for a fool in this current debate on the methadone farce.

By Hamish Macdonell, Scottish Political Editor ALEX Salmond was facing a parliamentary backlash last night over his controversial plans to invest in roads at the expense of trams.

By DAVID ROSS HIGHLAND CORRESPONDENT CALEDONIAN MacBrayne yesterday submitted its bid to continue operating its own routes, an exercise which the man who may become Transport Minister last night condemned as a grossly expensive waste of time.

By ROB ROBERTSON THE controversial GBP610m project to provide direct rail links to Edinburgh Airport from all over Scotland was given the green light yesterday. However, SNP politicians pledged to stop the project in its tracks if they win power in the Scottish elections in May.