SCHOOLS are about to go back for the start of a term in which we will see COP26 comes to Glasgow. Such imminent events got me pondering where we’re at in terms of providing the kind of education our young people need to not only understand the chan...

POPE FRANCIS wants to host an open-air Mass during his visit to Glasgow later this year, according to reports.

Chaotic scenes have unfolded at Kabul airport as thousands of people attempt to flee Afghanistan.

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The media has finally hit the alarm button over the climate crisis.

ALEX Salmond has been elected unopposed as the full-time leader of the Alba party after a left-field challenge fizzled out.

FEARS have been raised about a potential housing disaster in Scotland as the number of tenants facing legal action for eviction has doubled since a ban was eased leaving nearly 10,000 at risk of being kicked out their homes.

PASSENGERS were forced to take a bus on an over 150 mile journey as one of ferry operator CalMac's oldest vessels had to be redeployed amidst a row over a series of cancellations affecting lifeline services in Scotland over the weekend.

The next time the Prime Minister comes to Scotland – and it’s going to be a while, let’s be honest – he should come to the place where I live. If he did, I would show him the empty buildings. I would show him where the shops and businesses us...

By Kristy Dorsey

AS society eases back into post-lockdown normality we will soon all be asked to vote for the heroes of Covid. By the end of the year not a single newspaper or television franchise will have failed to establish some kind of award to show that they car...

The chief executive of the arm’s-length council organisation that runs Glasgow’s culture and leisure services fears even greater cuts could be looming next year.

Former prime minister Gordon Brown is urging world leaders to convene an emergency summit to tackle the “scandal” over a lack of global coronavirus vaccines.

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Scottish video recruitment specialist Odro has welcomed the resurgence of the wider talent search industry after sealing a major multi-year partnership with Hays.

ONLY last week the White House reckoned it could be months before the Taliban fought their way across Afghanistan and reached the city limits of Kabul. In the end it took mere days and hours to make the unthinkable real.

“Both of these sectors have been impacted by the pandemic and changes to immigration as a result of Brexit.”

Name: Darren Auld.

In late May this year, our team at Scottish Engineering reviewed our ready-to-publish survey results from members with a strong sense of caution, and a trusted calculator to double check the numbers. We acknowledged at the time that the improvements ...

A MOTHER-OF-TWO has launched a business to help elderly people "live life to the full" after being inspired by her experience looking after a friend with dementia.

SCOTTISH adults who are living with physical or mental health conditions are significantly more anxious about the easing of coronavirus restrictions, a study has found.

Nearly two-thirds of Scots back keeping the £20-per-week Universal Credit uplift in place at least until the economy improves, a poll has suggested.

Sales of tickets on platforms such as Viagogo and StubHub should be subject to tighter rules, the competition watchdog is proposing.

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THE Scotland Office is to hold talks with the developers behind the proposed Cambo oilfield amid growing calls for it to be abandoned in the fight against climate change.

With increasing volumes of vacancies across the board and as furlough comes to an official end in September, now is a crucial time for businesses to retain quality employees and attract the best talent.

Nearly two-thirds of Scots want to maintain the £20-per-week uplift in Universal Credit introduced because of the Covid pandemic at least until the economy improves, a poll has suggested.

Here is the list of new Netflix releases this week including TV shows, Netflix originals, films and documentaries. 

Strictly Come Dancing had to go ahead without the audience last year due to the coronavirus pandemic but for 2021 it's back - and you can be in it.

Just seven days earlier it had been his late mistake which had cost his side a point and the Pole was only too happy to complete his redemption tale

AUDITORS for Crieff Hydro Limited have highlighted a “material uncertainty” which “may cast significant doubt” on its ability to continue as a going concern, as chief executive Stephen Leckie declared a staff shortage was threatening the reco...

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There's a lot of misunderstanding around OCD but it's important people know what it really means, hears Liz Connor.

There have been 1,498 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

Germany World Cup winner Gerd Muller has died aged 75.

CalMac has canceled sailings on the Campbeltown-Ardrossan service route for the rest of the day due to positive Covid tests.

THE last place I expected to see Jimme O’Neill was on a vintage clip exhumed from the ITV’s vast film archive.

PATRICK Harvie has said he expects to unveil a potential joint government deal with the SNP “very soon”, but still wants Nicola Sturgeon to “go further” on climate change.

Boris Johnson is facing calls for a last-ditch intervention to prevent the complete collapse of Afghanistan as Taliban fighters were reported to have entered the outskirts of Kabul.

LOOKED at from a certain angle, maybe what follows is a ghost story.

The summer is still with us, the seas and lochs continue to warm up. Everyone seems to be going on about wild swimming – though last month's tragic deaths are a reminder that our waters can be dangerous. But what if you like your dipping a bit less...

ALEXIS Fleming is just starting to get to know the “new guy” who arrived at her hospice yesterday. This “old man”, as she calls him, was dumped last week in Grimsby, has anal cancer and is “covered in lumps”. “He could die next week," s...

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has warned it is “arrogant” to think the UK could unilaterally prevent Afghanistan falling back into the grip of the Taliban.

THE bus was almost always old and uncomfortable, the long journey exhausting and there were no guarantees of success at the end of it.

THE success of Team GB and its “heroes who lifted a nation,” brought some much-needed sporting joy into our Covid-depressed lives. But some people were more lifted than others.

The Taliban have seized the last major city outside of Kabul held by the country's increasingly isolated central government, cutting off the capital to the east as helicopters began landing at the US embassy there.

They are Europe’s favourite sunshine holiday islands. And Pedro Sánchez’s too.No

Twenty years ago, Foreign Editor David Pratt was an eyewitness as the Taliban were routed by Northern Alliance fighters. Today though the tables have been turned and it’s now the Islamist insurgents that are overrunning Afghanistan with a speed tha...

When there were shortages of certain things in the supermarkets, we decided to create a wee “stock cupboard” up in our loft.