The campaign against nuclear weapons comes to Holyrood today with a meeting of the Nuclear weapons Convention in the Scottish Parliament.

The meeting, which marks the Scottish launch of the campaign, will hear from representatives including former New Zealand disarmament minister Marion Hobbs and Rebecca Johnson, Vice Chair of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.

Claims at the Lib Dem conference that the decision on Trident will not be taken this Parliament are being questioned after Defence Minister Liam Fox was reported as saying he would only delay the decision by four to six months.

The SNP had welcomed Lib Dem claims by Tavish Scott, Lynne Featherstone and now Paddy Ashdown that they had influenced the decision and that replacement would be delayed as one step towards abolition.  However the comments attributed to Liam Fox throw doubt on these assertions.

Commenting on reports that Stuart MacLennan - the Labour candidate who was supposedly suspended from the Labour party and its employ after his insulting comments about the elderly, his prospectice constituents and other politicians on twitter were revealed during the election is now working for gaffe prone MSP Frank McAveety Glasgow MSP Bill Kidd, a member of the Parliament's Equal Opportunities Committee.

"This is clearly the office for inappropriate and offensive comments. Two men and their big mouths in one office is a recipie for disaster.