For over 1,000 years, the tiny sacred isle of Iona – barely three miles long and one mile wide - has symbolised the beating heart of Christian faith.

HAROLD Wilson had a way with words. Remember him expertly conjoining promise and challenge when he confronted us with the “white heat” of the technological revolution?

MINISTERS have provoked anger for telling teachers to watch out for critics of Covid-19 public health messaging in a bid to prevent radicalisation of children.

Glasgow has finally dropped to Level 2 of Scotland’s coronavirus measures as restrictions have been eased across the country

BUSINESSES that only just limped through lockdown are facing being finished off by the country’s ferries fiasco, islanders are saying.

Free school meals for Primary 4 children will start in the new school year but Primary 5 pupils will have to wait until January, the Scottish Government has announced.

IT was second only to the shopping mecca of London at one point.

WHEN Shirley-Anne Somerville says she will take full responsibility for the appeals process for this year’s diet of “exams”, she’s doing nothing noble or exceptional: she is merely explaining where responsibility lies – with her.

A TERM already exists for the most predatory and ruthless of corporate profiteers: vulture capitalists. By using their existing wealth, these firms and individuals roam the world seeking business carrion that still has enough meat on its bones to ...

YOU can tell it’s a nurse doing an injection because you barely feel it.

Calendar clash HOT news from Albania, aka the realm ruled by chortling overlord Alex Salmond. In his latest video to the masses, the Alba leader this week announced the party’s first autumn conference had been rescheduled due to excess demand. ...

WHO will be crowned Scotland’s Home of the Year? It is a question that has kept viewers rapt over the last two months as the judges have criss-crossed the country in search of abodes that delight and dazzle.

Lockdown restrictions have eased in multiple areas across Scotland today.

AN unlikely row between the oldest Buddhist monastery in the western world and the gun lobby has reached the Scottish Parliament.

ONE small upside of the whole working-from-home thing that’s been going on for the last year is the daily chance to test ourselves on Ken Bruce’s weekday PopMaster quiz on Radio 2.

“YOU need to be loving towards the person you’re photographing, interested in the person,” Albert Watson says. If anyone should know, it’s him. Born in Scotland in 1942, and now based in America, he is one of the most successful and revere...

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By Ian McConnell

By Ian McConnell

BAE Systems has joined with Fuel Change, a platform to help create a low carbon environment, to challenge young people from across Scotland to use their skills and ingenuity to help lower the carbon footprint of its shipyards in Glasgow.

THE Nepal strain of Covid, why we must get children back on track post pandemic and the great governmental data grab were the topics discussed by columnists in the newspapers.

A HERD of elephants are marching hundreds of miles across China in a long and winding journey that has intrigued animal experts and captivated the country.

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THEY file in quietly. It is an unusual football crowd. There are no raucous cheers, no outbursts of anticipation.

COVID now accounts for 1% of all deaths, according to the Office of National Statistics. On Tuesday, the UK reported zero Covid deaths, yet we weren’t allowed a moment for celebration.

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A man who was chased and stabbed by a motorcylist in Edinburgh has been left fighting for his life.

A man who spent 167 days in intensive care due to coronavirus has finally left hospital.

THE SNP’s hopes of a cross-party consensus to tackle poverty has been halted after Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie accused the new housing minister of playing the constitution card.

A FORMER car club chief has helped launch a car sharing platform and 20 fleet cars in the Scottish capital.

Summer holidays have been thrown into doubt for many after Portugal was moved from the green to amber travel list on Thursday.

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THE prominent SNP MP Joanna Cherry QC has given her tacit support to a feminist campaigner charged with a hate crime over social media posts.

The percentage of people testing positive for Covid in Scotland has likely increased in the latest two weeks, new figures show.

FOR the last quarter of a century I have lived not so very far from Bonnybridge. Indeed, at one point I stayed just a mile up the road. And yet in all that time I have never seen a UFO, I can’t tell you how disappointed I am. Isn’t Bonnybridge...

Yet again, Scotland’s schools face a nightmarish summer. Yet again, it’s all down to the SNP government’s inability to manage the education brief.

Nicola Sturgeon welcomed the news that the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine has been approved for use in the over-12s.

Professor Julie Fitzpatrick has been appointed as the Scottish Government’s next chief scientific adviser (CSA).

NICOLA Sturgeon has stressed nobody in the Scottish Government "is trying to alarm people" after her Health Secretary was criticised for claiming 10 young children had been hospitalised “because of Covid”.

Online child abuse has been desribed as a "national threat" by police after figures showed a rise in the cyber crime during the last year.

NICOLA Sturgeon has warned Scotland is at a "critical" and "fragile" juncture in the fight against coronavirus.

ALEX Salmond’s Alba party has said its two MPs intend to “unleash tactics” at Westminister in a bid to give Holyrood the power to hold a second independence referendum.

There have been 992 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

The UK has approved the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for use in children aged 12 to 15

The decision to make travellers from Portugal quarantine may be “politically motivated”, an infection expert has said.

Nicola Sturgeon is due to hold a media briefing on the latest coronavirus updates in Scotland

"The pandemic is still with us, the disease has not gone away, but the emergency has gone away."

The alternative assessment system in schools is driving senior pupils to self-harm and suicidal thoughts, a GP has warned.