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MENO-RAGE is what Caroline Phipps-Urch calls the perimenopausal anger that sometimes rises in her. It’s a word even her three sons, aged 9, 11 and 12, use. In fact, the eldest, when he found her hacking away with a saw at a garden tree branch asked...

So we’ve now got two teams left in Europe when we were hoping we’d have four. It’s not surprising. Aberdeen and St Johnstone don’t have the comparable level of budget to Rangers and Celtic that would enable them to challenge at a high level e...

JUST as the shops start to clear out their summer stock in readiness for autumn and Christmas (not cancelled yet!), so television has been saying cheerio to a few long-staying guests.

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MOUNTAINS. They’re a nice idea, I suppose. But to be honest, I am very much in the “lovely to look at, but I don’t want to climb them” camp. I was raised at sea level, and I’ve never seen the need to go much higher to be honest. Where I liv...

“Wokeism” is impeding efforts to tackle the chronic gender gap in pupil performance because of a tendency to attack or suppress opinions that highlight the possible link with innate sex differences, according to a leading expert.

FROM engineering to fishing, housebuilding to bread-making, core businesses that supply this country and others with essential foods and goods have outlined in detail the scale of the shortages crisis, and in a manner that has not been seen before.

People infected with the Delta variant of Covid-19 carry twice the risk of needing to be treated in hospital than those with the Alpha strain, a study has suggested.

Get kids to engage with the natural world and help plants, animals and insects thrive with these top tips from NatureScot.

The Scottish Greens are to reveal if members have backed plans that could put their party into government for the first time in the UK, as part of a deal with the SNP.

ONE way or another, 9/11 has never left the news schedule. What is happening now in Afghanistan has brought the subject new prominence, as has the approaching 20th anniversary of the tragedy. Can it really have been two decades since the world watche...

THERE was a certain irony this week that on the day the Scottish Government unveiled its £1 billion NHS Recovery Plan, NHS Lanarkshire announced that it was cancelling the majority of its non-urgent elective surgery for the next couple of weeks.

“I AM not a still photographer, and I won’t pretend to be at this stage in my career,” the cinematographer Roger Deakins writes in the introduction to his new book Byways. It’s a book that rather refutes his claim

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By Kristy Dorsey

There is an urgent skills shortage in the UK STEM sector.

By Stephen Jones

The US military said it used a drone strike to kill a member of the so-called Islamic State group's Afghanistan affiliate.

Winnie Ewing is a re arkable woman: intelligent, compassionate, combative. Long before she reconvened the Scottish Parliament, she made her mark upon the history of Scotland and the SNP.

IT may be challenging to promote Richard Milhous Nixon as an example of moral leadership. But here goes.

Just under two weeks ago, I spent the best part of a day at the new Royal Hospital for Children and Young People (RHCYP) in Edinburgh – the Sick Kids, as we will probably forever know it.

IN two year’s time Glasgow will once again become European City of Sport. It’s the only city to be given the accolade twice following on from Glasgow earning the title in 2003.

ON a windswept, soggy bog on the Isle of Lewis, Margaret Rowan and Donald John Morrison make an unlikely pair.

PRESIDENT Joe Biden’s role in Afghanistan and his future after the Kabul airport attack dominated the newspaper comment sections.

Thousands of cash machines were put out of action during the first national lockdowns between March and May last year, with virtually none being replaced, according to new data.

YOU wonder if there’ll ever come a point when the SNP run out of idioms indicating support for independence without actually setting the controls for it. This week, Ian Blackford reached for another of these. The leader of the SNP’s Westminster g...

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HE was in the news this week for eating two chicken tikka masalas on the trot, but Tom Cruise is now making headlines for something rather more dangerous.

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AT the beginning of the pandemic, lockdown and restrictions on liberty unprecedented in peacetime were justified as essential to prevent the NHS from being overwhelmed. That ambition was largely achieved, if the test was the ability to handle Covid h...

WHEN Joe Biden finally made it to the White House, the bien pensant and the leftist media coast-to-coast welcomed his election as a victory “for the American people”. The triumvirate of President Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Natio...

DIDN’T I tell ya? Didn’t I say that Sleepy Joe would drop us in it? Biden’s exit from Afghanistan is the most astonishing display of gross incompetence by a nation’s leader, perhaps at any time. And remember, that’s coming from the guy who ...

SHEEP wool is now used in lots of valuable ways for gardeners: as mulch, as tree and shrub mats, as protective duvets round pots in winter and in water-retaining pellets for containers and hanging baskets.

IT was ultimately disappointment for St Johnstone on Thursday night as they crashed out of the Europa Conference League at the hands of Austrian outfit LASK.

MARION Millar, the Scottish feminist campaigner accused of a hate crime, is to appear in court next week, the Crown Office has confirmed.

A High Court judge has ordered ministers to take “reasonable steps” to get relatives of an Afghan man recruited by the British Government out of Afghanistan.

Manchester United have agreed a deal for the return of Cristiano Ronaldo.

TWO British nationals and the child of another British national are among those killed in the Kabul terror attack.

Covid tracing processes in schools are creating confusion and increasing risk because not every pupil identified as a close contact is being asked to take a PCR test before returning to class, according Scotland's largest teaching union.

One of Nicola Sturgeon’s key Covid advisers has said people should permanently avoid cruise ships because of the potential for various infections to spread on board.

A TASK FORCE set up to help the Scottish seafood industry has produced its final report.

Find out the latest Covid statistics in your area with our Scotland coronavirus tracker.

DOCUMENTS revealing confidential details of Afghans who worked for the British in Kabul have been abandoned in the embassy.

I’VE been on holiday. What do you mean you didn’t notice? I’m crushed.

ONE of Nicola Sturgeon’s key advisers on the Covid pandemic has said a return to lockdown would be “unbearable”.

NICOLA Sturgeon has accused the Secretary of State for Scotland of 'making up' the rules over holding a referendum.

A woman has launched a petition for NHS Lothian to make the hormone treatment Utrogestan prescribable, after she was shocked to find the only way for her to get this form of "micronised progesterone" was to pay for it.

OPPOSITION politicians are calling for an inquiry into the Government’s handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal as the UK winds up its evacuation efforts.