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THE loser in last year’s race to be deputy leader of Scottish Labour has been fined after failing to declare around £17,000 of donations on time.

THE number of parents referred to official agencies over drugs and alcohol misuse has more than doubled since the start of pandemic, a new study has found.

A FISHING industry chief has blasted a Tory grandee who criticised organisations who were not happy with the UK's Brexit deal.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon addressed the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday with the latest update about what will happen next in the fight against Covid-19.

THE founder of a theatre group which helps those battling addiction has won the 2021 Robert Burns Humanitarian Award.

WITH a populist Government firmly installed in the UK – an administration which has proved extremely determined in using patriotism to achieve its aims – it is no great surprise the country’s place in today’s world has been the subject of ...

EVER since the UK voted to leave the EU in 2016, the City of London knew it would have to fight to keep its crown as Europe’s leading financial centre.

IN the blue corner we have Scotland requiring all inbound international passengers to quarantine at an airport hotel. In the red corner England, where only those arriving from the red list countries need do the same. At present both systems are fl...

WAITING times for patients whose treatment has been delayed as a result of the pandemic should be published "to enable transparency", Scotland's public spending watchdog has said.

ENGLAND Awakes! The dog has finally barked, we're told, the elephant has stirred – chose your metaphor. The English Question, rather than the Scottish one, is now the issue du jour in metropolitan thinking circles. England is on the march.

THE Hollywood film director Zack Snyder, best known for making comic book movies including Justice League, Watchmen and 300, has said he is developing a film project that will be a “faithful” retelling of the myth of King Arthur.

All eight of the UK’s largest retail banks, including Scotland-based RBS, Bank of Scotland and TSB have set out the importance of protecting access to cash, but concerns have been raised over varying timeframes of their commitment to two vital i...

RISHI Sunak needs to "boost it like Biden" and quadruple the UK’s planned crisis spending to restore jobs, investment and services amidst the pandemic, according to a leading think-tank.

DOMINIC Raab is urging all conflict zones around the world to implement a “vaccination ceasefire,” by temporarily pausing the fighting to enable the rollout of coronavirus vaccines to tens of millions of people in war-ravaged countries.

One of the UK's rarest bumblebees has been discovered by conservationists in Caithness.

Captain Sir Tom Moore’s daughter said his heart would have been “broken” to hear about the online abuse the family received.

More than three-quarters of Scots support rewilding in Scotland, according to new study.

Glasgow Science Centre's first digital festival hopes to inspire conversation – and seek solutions – on the climate change crisis. By Colin Cardwell

YOUNG Enterprise Scotland (YES) and Royal Bank of Scotland have joined forces to launch the #FemaleBoss programme for Scotland’s college students, to encourage and inspire more women to set up their own businesses.

By Ian McConnell

HE threw on Son Heung-Min, Erik Lamela and Lucas Moura, three players who know a thing or two about staging a spirited second-half comeback away from home in Europe, at half-time.

INFINITY Works, a cloud and digital transformation consultancy, has been acquired by professional services company Accenture.

SOFTWARE allowing the use of video and facial recognition for remote witnessing of contracts and legal documents is being pioneered by a Glasgow-based team of IT specialists.

FINANCIERS have underlined their appetite for windfarms in Scotland amid the latest in a series of deals in the sector.

THE Sussexes tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey and concern for the staff working in quarantine hotels were the issues raised by columnists and contributors in the newspapers.

GAMEKEEPERS have had a mixed press over the years, in no way helped by DH Lawrence’s controversial novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, where a member of the servant class enjoys a dangerous liaison with the landowner’s wife. The era of Mellors a...

IT IS a curious fact that all hopes for industrial activity on the west coast, linked to the oft-predicted boom in renewable energy, owe their existence to decisions taken half a century ago.

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Nicola Sturgeon is under growing pressure to toughen up rules for the use of face coverings in schools after confirming that a phased reopening of classrooms will begin from Monday.

A SENIOR judge has said she will not "interfere with" or "seek to direct" a Holyrood inquiry into the Alex Salmond saga.

The MSP urged her colleagues not to "hide behind Boris Johnson".

Business leaders have welcomed a ‘lifeline’ from the Scottish Government in the form of extension of rates relief, highlighting the importance of the move to firms’ survival.

MASS vaccination appears to be increasing people’s protection against Covid-19 in the whole of the UK but with “substantial” variations across the nations and regions, the latest data on antibodies suggests.

PEOPLE travelling on refugee family reunion visas should be exempt from paying the £1,750 hotel quarantine fee, the Red Cross has said.

PEOPLE should brace themselves for rises to income tax, VAT and National Insurance in the years ahead to help the UK Government begin filling the financial black hole left by the coronavirus crisis, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned.

PROSECUTORS face another huge payout after a judge concluded that there was no “probable cause” to prosecute a key figure in Craig Whyte's takeover of Rangers in a doomed club fraud probe.

THE CONSERVATIVE Government is being urged to explain the awarding of almost £2bn worth of contracts to firms linked to party members or donors.

SCOTLAND’S Transport Secretary has accused the UK Government of creating a “reckless” loophole to quarantine hotel rules – warning the move could “compromise our vaccination programme” by leaving the door open to mutant strains of the ...

BUSINESSES hardest hit by the coronavirus lockdown are to have their rates waived for a further year, Kate Forbes has announced.

Tourism representatives have been swamped with calls from anxious operators after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's announcement over potential holiday restrictions.

A SENIOR judge who agreed to vary a court order made during Alex Salmond's criminal trial has published her full reasons for doing so.

SUMMER holidays overseas are "highly unlikely" this year, Nicola Sturgeon has said.

Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed that Scottish schools will reopen for P1-3 children and secondary pupils who need to carry out practical assignments.

NICOLA Sturgeon has warned her government is “likely to advise against booking Easter holidays” - as a new tiered exit strategy is being drawn up by officials.

HUMZA Yousaf has been criticising for refusing to say if the Scottish Government believes there are more than two sexes.

SCOTLAND'S external affairs secretary Michael Russell is supporting a move to set a deadline of five years to have a replacement for one of Scotland's key roads opened - as it emerged experts are in a race against time to stop 100,000 tonnes of de...

RESEARCHERS have warned that the Scottish Government must adopt a more devolved strategy to achieve its key carbon reduction targets by handing more resources and powers to city regions.

A LIBERAL Democrat MSP who was caught on camera mouthing offensive language during a virtual committee meeting has apologised in the Holyrood chamber.

What would losing £20 a week mean to you? Would you notice? Would it be an inconvenience? Would such a loss of income drag you and your family “down into destitution”?