Martyn McLaughlin Journalist
  • Glasgow
  • National World

Martyn McLaughlin is the investigations correspondent and a columnist for The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday. He was named Daily Reporter of the Year at the UK Regional Press Awards in 2019, and again in 2020.

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  • Investigations

384 Articles
5 months ago
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Scottish Budget exposes SNP’s failure to achieve meaningful reforms – Martyn McLaughlin

The tax rises announced by Finance Secretary Shona Robison will do little to shore up stretched public services, as t...

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5 months ago
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Calls for Taser ban after Police Scotland statistics show weapons used 131 times against children

Children and Young People’s Commissioner for Scotland ‘very concerned’ by figures

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5 months ago
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Passions: The wonderfully indiscreet memoirs of David Niven

Actor’s account of Hollywood’s golden age still entertains decades later

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5 months ago
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Rizz named word of the year by leading lexicographers

Word popularised by Generation Z hailed by Oxford dictionary publishers

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5 months ago
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Attacks on Police Scotland officers could be ‘sign of things to come’ without adequate funding, s...

New president of Association of Scottish Police Superintendents says business case for single nationwide force is ‘at...

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5 months ago
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'His brilliance was limitless': Tributes to John Byrne as Scots cultural polymath dies aged 83

John Byrne – the creator of The Slab Boys and Tutti Frutti – has been hailed as ‘supremely talented’

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5 months ago
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Clutha tragedy anniversary: Survivors recall Glasgow helicopter crash on tenth anniversary of tra...

New documentary hears from regulars and staff inside the Clutha when disaster struck

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6 months ago
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Analysis: OpenAI fallout reveals the battle for AI's soul - and why it matters to every one of us

Under the leadership of Sam Altman, OpenAI has become a major tech player after the widespread take-up of ChatGPT, it...

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6 months ago
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Hotelier 'interested' in acquiring fire ravaged Station Hotel in Ayr amid demolition fears

Concern mounting over future of landmark building

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6 months ago
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Police Scotland pledge review as seven members of Glasgow paedophile gang convicted of 'horrific'...

Case believed to be the largest prosecution of a child abuse ring in Scottish legal history

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6 months ago
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David Cameron: Surprise appointment is a gamble that could backfire for Prime Minister

57 year-old becomes first former prime minister to serve as foreign secretary since Sir Alec Douglas-Home

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6 months ago
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Descendant of prominent Scots dynasty in court action over Church of Scotland plans to re-bury an...

The Dalrymple family occupied leading roles in legal and political worlds

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