Katrine Bussey

Katrine Bussey is PA Scotland's political editor, with almost two decades of experience covering Scottish politics without the spin, at Holyrood, Westminster and beyond.

Scotland’s economy is estimated to have shrunk by 0.3% in February, according to new GDP figures from the Scottish Government (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

Scottish economy estimated to have shrunk by 0.3% in February, figures show

Striking college staff staged a rally outside Holyrood (Jane Barlow/PA)

Minister urges striking unions and college bosses to get back round the table

A spur cable, which comes off a 68-mile-long subsea cable between Shetland and the Orkney Islands, was used to connect Fair Isle (Openreach/PA)

‘World-first engineering’ used to connect remote island to ultrafast broadband

A new paper for the STUC has proposed short and long-term changes to taxes in Scotland which it says could raise some £3.7 billion extra a year for public services (Jane Barlow/PA)

Tax changes could net £3.7bn a year more for Scotland, STUC says