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The SNP is urging members of the public to register to vote at the coming Holyrood election as the annual voter registration survey begins.

Further information on US oil companies lobbying of the US Senate over deals with Libya has emerged adding to calls for the US Senators keen to investigate any business involvement with the case of the Lockerbie bomber to start with companies at home.

SNP MSP Rob Gibson has called for the devolution of the Crown Estate after concerns were raised over it's handling of Scottish property ahead of a boom in off shore renewables that could generate revenue for Scotland.

The UK Information Commissioner has confirmed to Alex Neil MSP that an investigation has started into the disclosure of personal data from a number of local primary schools to Karen Whitefield MSP.

People in Scotland overwhelmingly support the position that the decision on the Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Al Megrahi, who was released from prison on compassionate grounds, was made for the right reasons, that the Scottish Government were right to refuse requests to explain the decision to the US Senate, and that it was right that Scotland’s Justice Secretary made the decision according to a YouGov poll for the SNP.

SNP Work and Pensions Spokeswoman, Dr Eilidh Whiteford MP, has described Con Dem plans to squeeze child benefit and winter fuel allowance as "the wrong choice".

Former Minister Jack Straw has admitted he was "relieved" when David Cameron became Prime Minister - an admission which SNP MP Angus MacNeil said would haunt Labour in Scotland.

SNP MP Angus MacNeil has described the first 100 days of the coalition government as ‘a shameful start’ as the so called "respect agenda" faltered and Number 10 only succeeded in delivering cuts for Scotland.

Ahead of his speech at the Edinburgh Book Festival tonight the SNP called on Alastair Darling to accept his responsibility for two thirds of the coming cuts to Scotland’s budget and for ushering in Cameron’s Conservatives.

SNP MSP Stewart Maxwell has today welcomed reports that the BBC is broadcasting live televised coverage of all Scotland’s away games in the forthcoming European Championship qualifiers, including the final match away to World and European champions, Spain.