A petition has been launched in England to get free bus travel for all over 60s - with the same arrangements in place in ...

Nicola Sturgeon has called for Scotland to have a process to hold an independence referendum such as Northern Ireland has to hold a border poll.

Assembly members (MLAs) are unlikely to receive "massive" pay rises as a result of the introduction of new plans to set pay ...

More than 10,100 people have signed an online petition supporting calls for changes to be made to the English National ...

Public sector pay awards have been a bone of contention for Stormont since its return last year with health and education ...

For five years, the Independent Financial Review Panel (IFRP) set wages and expenses for politicians in the assembly. But the ...

SCOTLAND has been hailed for its free pensioner travel scheme as the UK Government was urged to expand an “unjust” policy.

Stormont’s Assembly Commission – which has representatives from all the main parties – has noted in a report that politicians in devolved legislatures in Scotland and Wales are paid around £19,000 per ...

The national entitlement scheme operates UK-wide but there are different eligibility rules under devolved governments.

The Department for Transport confirmed last year that the UK Government has "absolutely no plans to withdraw the ...

Scotland may call itself a nation but it has no status as a sovereign nation-state in the eyes of anyone but fanatical nationalists.