SOME familiar questions have re-emerged following the sale of a Scottish business that looks to have been valued at tens of millions of dollars.

LAST Saturday, you reported: “The latest US military intelligence assessment suggests Kabul could come under insurgent pressure within 30 days” (“Taliban seize four more provincial capitals and Kabul now vulnerable”).

THE Queen is reportedly staying at her summer residence after a worker at Balmoral tested positive for Covid-19.

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab defended the Government’s intelligence from Afghanistan, saying Britain's “hearts go out” to the citizens of the nation.

You don’t have to struggle, in Scotland, to find yourself in a location that makes you think that add a few orcs, hobbits or elves, and you could imagine yourself in a scene from The Lord of The Rings.

IT'S Ben Nevis.

THE Scottish Government will today begin work on a multi-billion pound plan to provide every household with a minimum level of income to help tackle poverty.

SCOTS conservationists have set out an action plan to stop outdoor toileting in one of the world's great beauty spots saying that the "shocking" problem has increased four-fold in two years.

TRAVELLERS were advised to go on a massive 125 mile detour and ensure they take rest breaks - in the wake of a row over a series of cancellations affecting lifeline services in Scotland over the weekend.

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THEY were among thousands of items looted by British soldiers in 1897 from the Nigerian city of Benin. Treasures were taken from the royal palace including numerous bas-reliefs and sculptures only to find their way to museums and private collectors.

KATE Forbes has angered campaigners after her advisory group tasked with drawing up a 10-year strategy to transform Scotland into a net zero economy is lacking anyone with a climate or environmental background.

CONSTRUCTION of a wind farm extension in Scotland featuring what are described as the “UK’s tallest onshore wind turbines”, at 200 metres high, is under way.

Modern life tends to be a maelstrom of unnecessary stress. Beeping mobile phones here, shrieking social media there, torrents of e-mails piling in everywhere?

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Tribe Kitchen declared this concept is “big in the United States”.

They were launched in Australia more than 20 years ago to help reduce loneliness and improve the health of older men.

A NORTH Sea-focused company set up by a team of energy entrepreneurs has hailed the approval of the acquisition of stakes in a series of exploration licences with $1 billion-plus prospects.

Baxters declined to comment on how much Baroness Davidson would be paid for the role

Scotland's unemployment rate dropped slightly in the last quarter, according to latest figures.

Bob Dylan groomed a 12-year-old girl, plied her with drink and drugs then sexually abused her in the 1960s, a lawsuit has alleged.

By Scott Wright

THE Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and a lack of diversity at the BBC were discussed by columnists and contributors in the newspapers.

Two in five university staff are anxious about returning to in-person working according to a union's new report.

SCOTS with advanced dementia cannot wait until the new National Care Service is set up to benefit from fairer care home costs, a charity leader has said.

IT was probably the most significant conversation of my entire career. In August 1999, I had a long discussion with a CIA contact working in Pakistan. He’d just received intelligence from a source within al-Qaeda that Osama bin Laden’s terror gro...

IT WAS a long time ago – about the time that the First Minister would have been starting primary school – that the SNP adopted the stirring slogan: It’s Scotland’s Oil! A lot of water has swirled around and lots of barrels of oil flowed from ...

CUTTING CORNERS on health and safety and putting road users in danger appears to be the UK Government’s latest solution to fast-tracking new drivers into the haulage industry.

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SCOTT BROWN has shrugged off an accusation of being an “acclaimed bully” in the wake of Aberdeen’s 5-3 aggregate victory over Breidablik in the Europa Conference League.

A BESPOKE resettlement scheme for Afghans is due to be announced by the Prime Minister after the Taliban seized control of the country’s capital.

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THE FOREIGN Secretary has pledged to hold the Taliban to account in his first statement since the Afghan capital fell yesterday.

Isaac Julien's 2019 film, The Lessons of the Hour, is here shown in its UK and European premiere in ten screen installation, an interpretation of the life of Frederick Douglass, the brilliant and forward-thinking orator, writer and philosopher who be...

SCOTLAND will play its "full part" in helping Afghans in crisis, according to an SNP MP.

GROUPS seeking to attack Western countries will feel “emboldened” by the situation in Afghanistan, a former UK intelligence service chief has said.

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A BODY has been found in the search for missing woman Catriona Gaskell.

FORMER Rangers chief executive Charles Green has said he expects to see criminal charges laid against Scotland's most senior law officer, prosecutors and the police over malicious club fraud prosecutions.

The Scottish Government has recorded 1,567 new coronavirus cases and no new deaths in the past 24 hours.

DOWNING Street has defended the UK’s withdrawal from Afghanistan as the Prime Minister prepares to chair an emergency COBRA meeting on the escalating situation.

Former Aberdeen defender Tommie Hoban has been forced to retire from football.

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IN a couple of decades’ time when, due to environmental degradation, the world is becoming an increasingly hostile place to live, our children and grandchildren will ask us, why?

ALEX Salmond has claimed Scotland could get rid of Trident on “day one” of independence despite previously accepting it would take years.

Fish butcher and chef Josh Niland is hoping to revolutionise how we treat, cook and eat fish. Ella Walker finds out about his latest undertaking.

UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace broke down while admitting to LBC's Nick Ferrari that "some people won't get back" from Afghanistan.

What, in your view, constitutes terrorism?