A DATE has been set for a high-profile clash between London and Edinburgh over Holyrood’s powers.

AT various points in Dominic Cummings’ testimony to Westminster’s Health and Social Care committee you hoped they were watching in places like India and Italy.

RANGERS have lost the right to take legal action to force the receipt of two years income from its own branded merchandise worth millions after Mike Ashley's Sports Direct won a legal block.

IS IT bizarre to be so far away from Westminster and yet be so riveted by its doings?

TAM Dalyell was wont to deploy a charmingly eclectic blend of interrogatory techniques in the Commons.

AN AMERICAN woman has condemned the Home Office for ‘profiteering from their own incompetence’ over visa delays.

Glasgow's schools convener is urging the new Education Secretary to direct an overhaul of Scotland’s “unfair” and “inflexible” alternative assessment process as fears grow for pupils forced to self-isolate amid a fresh spike in Covid in...

Scotland’s Health Secretary Humza Yousaf said there was “significant community transmission” of coronavirus in the Glasgow hotspots.

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THE pandemic will undo 10 years of progress in dementia care unless urgent funds are allocated by the Scottish Government, a charity leader has warned.

After so many months in lockdown with little else to do, binge-watching has become an even bigger business than the streaming providers could have ever hoped back in 2019. Little wonder, then, that the battle for content is reaching grandiose scal...

“WE are on the cusp of losing something critical to our cultural heritage,” Aleks Krotoski told listeners at the beginning of the first episode of a new series of The Digital Human. “And already so much has disappeared into history.”

WHAT would fashion in the 1980s and 1990s have looked like without Peter Lindbergh and Azzedine Alaia? As a new book, Peter Lindbergh Azzedine Alaia reminds us, the German photographer and the Tunisian designer effectively invented the age of the ...

She was the matron of the Scottish Mission girls’ boarding school in Hungary and gave her life to protect Jewish schoolgirls during the Holocaust.

ALEXANDER McKay (Letters, May 28) asserts that the transfer of patients from hospitals to care homes led to unnecessary deaths. He seems unaware that Robert Cuffe, the BBC’s head of statistics, concluded that care homes receiving hospital discharge...

Faced with climate change, a spiralling population and potential food shortages, find out how Scottish businesses and scientists are taking the bull by the horns by clicking here

By Ian McConnell

A North Sea oil firm has started removing the giant production platform used on a venerable field in what it reckons is one of the biggest projects of its kind to be attempted in the area.

New research showing that sales of alcohol in Scotland fell by almost 8% after the introduction of minimum pricing has been hailed as "powerful, real-world evidence" of the success of the policy.

A man is to appear in court charged with conspiracy to murder over the shooting of black equal rights activist Sasha Johnson.

THE fallout from Dominic Cummings accusations and the state of the Conservative party were the issues discussed by columnists in the newspapers.

FROM BRIGITTE Bardot to Serge Gainsbourg, some of France’s most iconic stars were rarely seen without their cigarettes. But new research finds the country’s films simply can’t kick the habit.

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LABOUR and the SNP have criticised the UK Government after the Prime Minister was cleared of wrongdoing over his flat renovation.

Nicola Sturgeon has previously said she hopes mainland Scotland will be able to move to Level 1 – the second lowest in the five-tier system – from June 7.

THE HEALTH Secretary has been found to have committed a "minor breach" of the ministerial code after failing to declare his link to a firm awarded an NHS contract.

BORIS Johnson was "ill-served" by officials over the funding plans for his lavish Downing Street flat refubrishment, but did not breach the ministerial code.

Controversial Former MP George Galloway has announced he is running in the upcoming Batley and Spen by-election with the explicit aim of ousting Sir Keir Starmer as leader of the Labour Party.

WATERSHED moments are not always clear at the time but we maybe saw one late last week, in terms of Scotland’s emergence from coronavirus-related restrictions.

Scotland's football fans will get the opportunity to raise a glass to a new limited-edition single malt that has been ageing for nearly 23 years and has now been released to mark the national team's reappearance at a major men’s tournament.

Scotland has seen a large increase in weekly Covid cases, according to new figures.

THE Scottish Greens have admitted they are concerned about being punished at the ballot box if they form a joint government with the SNP.

NICOLA Sturgeon has warned people not to follow the example set by Scottish Green co-leader Patrick Harvie, who this week broke Covid rules to have a pint.

THE UK Government has been criticised for its “dismissive attitude” towards the problems with Universal Credit after rejecting more than a dozen recommendations on improvements to the system.

There’s a rather visionless mantra doing the rounds that bringing the Green Party into a pact, or “formal cooperation agreement”, with the SNP imperils Scotland’s economy.

A single-shot coronavirus vaccine from Johnson & Johnson has been approved for use in the UK.

Business leaders in Scotland's largest city has said the decision to remain under level three restrictions will be"devastating" for sectors already reeling under the costs of of the pandemic.

Accusations from Scotland’s First Minister that the UK Government is not engaging with the devolved nations on a proposed trade deal with Australia are “simply wrong”, the Department for International Trade (DIT) said.

Former leader of the Scottish Labour Party Kezia Dugdale labelled the SNP and Scottish Greens cooperation talks a publicity move.

Glasgow is to remain in Level 3 Covid restrictions after the First Minister said cases remained "uncomfortably high"

The First Minister confirmed that 641 new cases of the virus have been recorded since Thursday, an increase of 177 on the day before

A huge wildfire tearing through countryside near Glenfinnan Viaduct has been captured on film.

By Ivor Campbell

THE peediest bairns from Kirkwall’s Glaitness Primary, in identical mini hi-viz vests, were lined up behind a chain. In front of them was a young woman, in jeans, walking boots and what Hello! magazine informed the world was a Seeland Woodcock A...

The argument over Scottish independence has intensified after the Scottish National Party’s landslide victory in the Holyrood election earlier in May

Ms Sturgeon has said there are "reasons to be optimistic" about the situation in the city

HOW must the families of the Hillsborough victims be feeling this week? I can’t begin to imagine. On Wednesday, the case against two South Yorkshire policemen and the force’s former solicitor who had been charged with perverting the course of ...

A man had to jump out of an upstairs window to escape a fire that was deliberately started outside the door of a property.

IT'S often said that a week is a long time in politics, and that may be well true, but for Glasgow and Scotland’s beleaguered hospitality, tourism and leisure sectors, languishing in the government's revolving cycle of business-crippling lockdow...