Nicola Sturgeon insisted she has no regrets about ensuring complaints against her predecessor Alex Salmond were investigated - despite the "difficulties" it has caused.

The First Minister spoke out as the row surrounding her government's bungled handling of sexual harassment allegations against Mr Salmond grew - with her political opponents claiming that the Scottish Parliament itself is being damaged by fallout from the fiasco.

Mr Salmond was awarded more than £500,000 after the Court of Session, Scotland's highest civil court, ruled the way the complaints were handled by the Scottish Government to be "unlawful".

He is due to give evidence to MSPs seeking to discover what went wrong with that process on Friday.

But, ahead of that, his successor, who will herself address the Committee on the Scottish Government Handling of Harassment Complaints next week, was challenged on the issue at First Minister's Questions.

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