The First Minister will address MSPs and provide the latest information of when restrictions will ease

DECAYED and abandoned, they speak of the forgotten contribution of women to Scotland’s industrial revolution in factories and homes.

The First Minister is due to update the Scottish Parliament on the latest review of the route map out of lockdown later this afternoon

FOOD SHORTAGES are heading our way this autumn unless the UK Government can get its act together and address the crippling labour shortages which are rippling across Scotland’s food supply chain.

A SCOTS family of lifesavers have received praise after managing to resuscitate three people in four years having been inspired by a tragic loss.

STATE-CONTROLLED ferry operator CalMac has apologised after been forced to bring in a relief vessel as another of its fleet broke down causing three days of cancellations to lifeline services to an inner Hebrides island over the weekend.

Popular sunscreens - including a leading children’s sun lotion - are failing to meet their sun protection claims, according to a new investigation.

THE pandemic has proved to be a tumultuous period for the UK’s “big four” grocers, Tesco, J Sainsbury, Asda and Wm Morrison.

SCOTLAND’S industry body for self-catering accommodation has drawn up plans for a registration scheme to allow businesses to opt out of the SNP’s plans to require Airbnb-style short-term lets to obtain a licence.

By Scott Wright

BLOODY foreigners, eh? Coming here, saving lives, stitching our wounds, scrubbing our wards and our operating theatres.

IT'S long been known that keen gardeners speak to their plants and flowers to bring them on and HRH the Prince of Wales once said how important it was to talk to them.

By Ian McConnell

SOME Scottish home-workers are struggling with work-life balance and excessive workloads amid the pandemic, new research shows.

Forgive me if this opening paragraph is interrupted by a gaping yawn – sorry, I’ve just yawned – but that’s the effect of watching major championships on the west coast of the USA as you sit there entranced by the golfing ebb and flow yet sim...

By Ian McConnell

THE venerable Scottish Investment Trust, which has put its fund management arrangements under review, under-performed in the first half but enjoyed an improvement in its fortunes in the latest month.

AROUND 68 per cent of start-ups grew during the pandemic, with only 11% saying they contracted, according to a new survey.

A new study revealed the real number of callouts made and the cost to the ambulance service

TWO hydro power plants in the Highlands have been acquired by investors in what has been billed as a multi-million pound deal, which reflects strong interest in renewable energy assets.

FINALLY, we’re beginning to get a clear picture of the UK’s Culture War. For years now, the country has seemed riven down the middle, entrenched between one extreme and the other. For a long time, it’s felt as if the battlegrounds of the Cultur...

A SHIVER ran down my spine when I read that the much-dreaded school weigh-ins are set to make a return in England. The results of lockdown have apparently seen children’s weight on an upward trajectory again. Online schooling, less exercise and eas...

ANDY Burnham launches his leadership campaign to replace the wooden Sir Keir Starmer with a clever wheeze; attack Nicola Sturgeon over Covid travel restrictions to his part of England ("Burnham anger at Sturgeon over travel ban ‘hypocrisy’", The ...

By Scott Wright

Nicola Sturgeon is set to provide Scottish Parliament with a Covid lockdown update today as cases around Scotland continue to rise.

THE OECD has reported on Scotland’s Curriculum. The OECD is well regarded for thoroughness although its reports often need re-reading to find the subtle nuanced messages crafted carefully for policy makers to progress. The short, embargoed report a...

Scotland’s relationship with England is complicated. The Auld Enemy is the international football team we Scots wish to beat most. We desperately want England to feel the same way about us, whilst secretly worrying Germany or Argentina matter more....

Viking raid

Denmark will face Wales in the Euro 2020 last 16 after clinching second place in Group B with a superb 4-1 victory over Russia in Copenhagen.

Scotland’s gutsy performance against England sets up a mouth-watering showdown with Croatia at Hampden on Tuesday night with Steve Clarke’s side aiming to take all three points and progress out of the group stage of a major tournament for the ver...

Scotland will definitely qualify for the Euro 2020 knockout stage if they beat Croatia after Monday’s results went their way.

Shirley-Anne Somerville’s announcement that the national exams board faces the chop came swiftly – or at least it appeared to. For many, the news will, as the Lib Dems said on Monday, be “long overdue”.

Gareth Southgate has refused to rule Mason Mount and Ben Chilwell out of England’s Euro 2020 clash with the Czech Republic, despite the pair being forced to self-isolate after being in contact with Scotland’s Billy Gilmour, who has tested positiv...

THERE was no dream finale for North Macedonian hero Goran Pandev as he made his last hurrah for his country.

Glasgow's Barrowland Ballroom may have been devoid of bands and gig-goers for over a year, and of smokers for even longer, but as I walk up the famous stairs lined with posters and close my eyes for a second, I swear there's a whiff of stale booze, s...

POLLING expert John Curtice has outlined how allowing Scots living in the rest of the UK the right to vote in an independence referendum could impact the result.

A CONTROVERSIAL travel ban has left a number of Greater Manchester residents "seriously out of pocket" after they were forced to cancel planned trips to Scotland, the region's mayor has claimed.

Glasgow City Council has said it will resist further student accommodation developments in areas where over-provision risks "eroding" communities.

STUDENTS and researchers are being invited to take part in a global competition to help tackle the growing problem of space debris.

Aberdeen have confirmed the signing of defender Jack Gurr.

By Alan McIntosh

Daisy Chain

Dominic Cummings has launched his latest criticism of those in Government, claiming decision-making in the corridors of power at Westminster was like "the blind leading the blind."

NICOLA Sturgeon has announced a shake-up of the way the Scottish Government handles complaints against former and serving ministers in the wake of the Alex Salmond affair.

What difference might expanding the franchise to allow Scots in the rest of the UK make? John Curtice explores...

There have been 1,250 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

The SQA is to be replaced as part of the reforms from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Organisation (OECD) report.

One ex-employee at the site, one of 24 such warehouses across the UK, said their “target was to generally destroy 130,000 items a week”

Nicola Sturgeon has received her second dose of a coronavirus vaccine.

MP Stewart McDonald has published a briefing paper setting out his assessment of disinformation activity in Scotland