Scotsman

Deputy First Minister Nicol Stephen has said he wanted a "fundamental" change in approach to how failed asylum seekers are dealt with...

But Scottish Socialist leader Colin Fox said: "It has been six weeks since the First Minister first flagged up this prospect and raised false and ultimately cruel hopes for one community in Drumchapel.

"Any protocol won't make a blind bit of difference to an asylum policy which sees 13-year-old girls dragged from their beds in the dead of night in their pyjamas and sees 15-year-olds handcuffed and slammed into the back of a waiting van."