TWO in three Scots who are close to retirement do not have the pension savings to sustain their planned income, a new study has warned.

WILLIE Rennie has always been a pathological optimist about elections. The Scottish Liberal Democrat leader can’t help assuming the best as polling day nears.

FROM the beginning of the Covid vaccine rollout, the issue of virus transmission has loomed large as the major unanswered question of clinical trials.

Magnet fishing is now allowed on Scottish canals, in what is being described as a "UK first."

WILLIE Rennie has cast doubt on whether an SNP majority in the next Holyrood parliament would be a "legitimate" mandate for a second independence referendum.

POLITICIANS are an odd lot, but a "favourites" playlist on a YouTube account linked to Alba MP Neale Hanvey still managed to raise eyebrows this week.

The latest weekly coronavirus figures have been released, highlighting hotspots of Covid-19 per 100,000 of the population and the risk in each neighbourhood.

A Glasgow minister has said efforts to tackle Scotland's drug death crisis can't wait until Nicola Sturgeon secures independence and has full policy control.

ITS grand staircase and corridors were built wide to accommodate the bustle of Victorian skirts while more famous patrons in later generations included a prince, rock royalty and Hollywood movie stars.

HAULIERS in the Scottish islands are not surprisingly “through the roof” after ferry services were decimated amid a series of breakdowns.

A group of Hebridean islands have come together to demand two dedicated ferries over each of two routes which would help replace the "elderly" 32-year-old MV Lord of the Isles - the most-travelled vessel in the CalMac fleet.

WHEN he was growing up near Alness on the Cromarty Firth, David Macpherson would often gaze in awe at the oil rigs that loomed high above the water, watching as these mighty beasts were towed into the bay for repair.

As the potential end of lockdown promises to open up more opportunities to enjoy the great outdoors, NatureScot is urging all of us to act responsibly. At the heart of their new communications initiative is the Scottish Outdoor Access Code. By And...

BREWGOODER, the Glasgow-based purpose-driven beer brand, is enabling beer drinkers to track the global impact of their purchase through new interactive cans.

By Ian McConnell

IT is celebrating its coming up age but for the second year in a row one of the biggest whisky festivals is having to go virtual.

IT was his dream to pursue a career in music and a jail term at Barlinnie saw him pick up a guitar for the first time in years.

WHEN we think of the heroes of the current pandemic, frontline health workers and those who work on bringing effective vaccines to market come to mind.

IT must have been the unlikeliest of Scottish pub conversations: a meeting over a drink between a space systems engineer and a human rights and media specialist. But it was, almost literally, electric.

IT was the first big land buyout in Scotland where wealthy owners were forced to sell to the community.

HOW Covid has changed our perspective on holidays, the tragedy unfolding in India and Boris Johnson riding high were the issues raised by columnists in the newspapers.

THIS could be awkward. Back in 2008, the music critic Ann Power tells us in her retrospective on the career of the artist eternally known as Prince, she somehow found herself in the Purple One’s bedroom. “I nervously contemplate the room’s h...

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ASK yourselves; what will this Holyrood election determine? Your constituency MSP? Your list representatives? The incumbent of Bute House? The future of Scotland?

A CENTURY on from the "Roaring Twenties" when the world revelled in the end of the 1918 pandemic and the post-war economic boom, experts are predicting a new era of post-pandemic 21st century indulgence.

IF my political beliefs informed my football preferences I’d probably be supporting Partick Thistle or Albion Rovers. Celtic, the club in which I’ve made a lifetime investment of tens of thousands of pounds and more time and emotion than can e...

I NOW know the best way for foiling a man who’s attacking you. It’s the head-butt. The bony protuberance of the forehead smashed hard down; and ideally into the nose which erupts easily.

Gates to Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park will be shut tonight and on Saturday

National strike action at colleges that was due to take place next week has been suspended after talks to resolve a bitter dispute over lecturer jobs made progress.

BORIS Johnson has denied trying to protect his fiancee's friend after he was suggested to be the source of a high-profile leak of lockdown plans.

BORIS Johnson's Government has been accused of " lurching between cover-ups and cock-ups" amid further calls for an inquiry after bombshell claims by Dominic Cummings.

Dominic Cummings has described the renovation plans for the Prime Minister's Downing Street flat as "unethical, foolish and possibly illegal".

Dominic Cummings has claimed the Prime Minister considered calling off a high-profile leak inquiry when it emerged the source of the leak may have been his fiancee's best friend.

NICOLA Sturgeon has insisted the SNP doesn't want to see a hard border between Scotland and England after comments from one of her candidates suggesting a new trade barrier could “create jobs”.

LOGANAIR will be adding more flights to its schedule in the coming weeks as non-essential travel rules to Scottish islands start to ease.

BORIS Johnson's former senior adviser Doninic Cummings has hit back at claims that he was responsible for the leaking of private text messages between the PM and James Dyson.

Scotland's largest teaching union has urged national leaders to look at developing a more "equitable" examination system amid ongoing concern about high-pressure pupil assessments in the current school term.

PURE Spa, the beauty and wellbeing brand, has announced it is to reopen all nine of its Scottish locations on Monday.

Foreign summer holidays this year will be challenging, Scotland’s national clinical director has said.

THE lifeline vessel at the centre of a new Scots ferry crisis is not now expected to be back in service for another month, it has emerged.

THE SNP MSP who sparked a furore by claiming that a post-independence trade border with England would “create jobs” has been challenged to prove it.

AS Scotland continues to edge timidly out of lockdown, no-one should be in any doubt, least of all our electioneering politicians, that our road to recovery will be a long, exhaustive and arduous potholed trek. But sadly for tens of thousands of our ...

The BBC has dismissed over 1000 complaints about BBC Scots football pundit Michael Stewart questioning Rangers star Glen Kamara who insisted he was racially abused by a Slavia Prague player during the Ibrox club's Europa League 2-0 defeat.

THE SNP’s deputy leader has been criticised after responding to a question from Anas Sarwar over undiagnosed cancer delays by calling for independence.

Scottish Government statistics have revealed that 255 positive coronavirus tests have been recorded since Thursday

Born: November 12, 1955

WRONGFULLY convicted subpostmasters have called for a full inquiry into the Horizon scandal which saw dozens of workers prosecuted for crimes they did not commit.

MORE than £4.5billion of taxpayers’ money has “vanished into a black hole of SNP incompetence” over the last 14 years, the Scottish Tories have claimed

A FEW weeks ago I was struck by a photo posted on social media by one of my colleagues who works at a university in Israel.

THE BBC has defended coverage of the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral after being hit with complaints.