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Scotland: News in brief - April 23rd, 2021

GREEN PARTY: Climate strikers’ stark warnings for politicians must be heard at the 2021 Holyrood election, the Scottish Greens have said.

Co-leader Patrick Harvie visited climate striker Dylan Hamilton today, who has spent the last week on a vigil in Edinburgh calling for the poll to be “a climate election.”

Mr Harvie said: “What the climate strikers do to raise the threats we all face is humbling, because their generation has been failed by the lack of action from governments.”

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