Paul Sweeney: Last News

Glasgow homes have been evacuated after Storm Malik winds targeted an 'unsafe' historic building.

Homes in Glasgow have been evacuated due to an unsafe structure worsened by Storm Malik.

The Scottish and Westminster governments face urgent calls to combat the cost of living crisis that threatens to force many into poverty.

Afghanistan told a protest of his disgust over the chaotic Allied withdrawal from the country. Paul Sweeney, whose best friend Bobby Hetherington was killed in Helmand, said there had been so much sacrificed by so many and it now felt in vain.Sweeney was addressing a protest in Glasgow, organised by the Afghan Human Rights Foundation and the Glasgow Stop the War Coalition. Hundreds of people held up placards demanding “no more war” and “Afghan refugees welcome here”.He said: “I felt numb watching the scenes from Afghanistan. “One of my best friends was killed in 2013, blown apart by an IED in Helmand and we have to question what was it for?"I have been speaking to friends who have been in Afghanistan, who have sacrificed so much, who have

A former Labour MP has spoken about how he is unemployed for the first time since he had a paper round at 14.

A rebel churchman has vowed to risk jail to make a stand against Scotland’s drug deaths.