The Scottish Parliament does not have a second chamber like the House of Lords. Instead, it has a powerful committee system which can propose as well as scrutinise bills. Committees are made up of ...

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Drink is part of the fabric of the place, but the drinking dens of Parliament are not what you might imagine. The bars reserved exclusively for MPs and peers – in the deeper recesses of the ...

Latest updates from your Sport topics will appear in My Sport in the BBC Sport App and in a collection on the BBC homepage. BBC Scotland's chief sportswriter Tom English has been answering some of ...