Scotland is to be handed sweeping new powers from the Government in its biggest power grab since devolution ten years ago, including powers to cut income tax, the Daily Mail reports.
Nationalist ministers will be able to set drink-drive and speed limits, air gun controls as well as controversially having an unprecedented control of taxation – including stamp duty.
Holyrood will seize a 10% share of all income tax raised in Scotland – being allowed to raise …

The Scottish Government were defeated tonight in a Holyrood vote on the Lockerbie affair, opposition parties defeated the SNP in a series of votes on the decision by Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill to free Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi from prison on compassionate grounds, The Scotsman reports.
SNP ministers had asked the Parliament to endorse MacAskill’s decision as “consistent with the principles of Scottish justice”.
A series of four votes saw the Scottish Government defeated by 73 votes …

The Scottish Parliament are to mull the bill for an independence referendum in the coming year, the BBC reports.
Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the people of Scotland had a democratic right to have their say on the issue of independence.
A referendum on independence was a key Scottish National Party (SNP) manifesto pledge before the 2007 Holyrood election.
The SNP have previously said they hoped to introduce a bill early in 2010, with a vote taking …