A FERRY brought in to help support Scotland's beleaguered and ageing lifeline CalMac network has been put out of action for a second time after it was chartered, it has emerged.

A NATURE restoration project is being launched covering nearly 800 square miles of the Highlands which it is hoped will help protect Scotland's precious landscape and wildlife, including the threatened Scottish wildcat.

SPECIALIST staff have voted to down tools in an industrial dispute expected to "strike at the heart" of the UK's nuclear submarine base on the Clyde.

THE idea of having babies has always seemed fairly abstract and faintly absurd. I mean, of course I know where they come from, but the whole shebang still retains the air of a sci fi miracle.

NEW LAWS are to ensure all tips are paid directly to staff rather than employers choosing what to do with the money.

THE exasperation of Scotland’s airport bosses appears to have intensified very significantly from an already-elevated point with Nicola Sturgeon’s decision to diverge, at least temporarily, from what has largely been a four-nations approach to ov...

By Scott Wright

Pupils are being encouraged to set up US-style LGBT+ activist groups within schools as part of landmark efforts to make Scottish education more inclusive.

KERMIT the frog and Sophocles. Typical Boris. The showman and the politician couldn’t resist mentioning both in his keynote climate change speech at the UN.

Death. Taxes. ‘Leigh Griffiths faces SFA rap’.

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A SCOTTISH technology firm has hailed £700,000 investment to roll out a new product it believes will transform the maintenance of windfarms.

By Scott Wright

A HUMANITARIAN peace walk held in Glasgow as a response to travel restrictions due to covid has now established itself as an awareness event in Scotland.

By Scott Wright

FORMER racing champion Damon Hill is part of a Scottish-led investment syndicate backing a new synthetic fuels company.

LISTEN, just to be upfront with you, I don’t really care who the next James Bond is. I probably haven’t cared since Roger Moore’s debut Live and Let Die in 1973, back when I was 10.

A CAMPAIGN group fighting for harassment-free access to abortion services have accused the Scottish Government of ‘backtracking’ over clinic buffer zones after they were told that ‘national legislation was not on the cards’.

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Thirty-seven new affordable mid-market homes have been created at the site of a former police station in Main Street, Baillieston, on behalf of Glasgow Housing Association (GHA).

I DO not doubt that there are people who attend A&E when they could phone 111 or their GP.

By Karen Peattie

WHAT a fantastic feeling, if a tad overwhelming, it was to be back promoting live music again at Glasgow’s iconic Barrowland Ballroom.

THEY have had a seismic impact on the way we live our lives, but the iPhone’s next role may be even more revolutionary - detecting and diagnosing depression and cognitive decline.

Flummoxed by film

WELCOME to Brexit: the reality show. To recap: back in 2016, business partners Boris Johnson and Michael Gove persuaded the public to back their very unusual idea: to turn away from Britain’s largest trading partner and pursue trade deals with othe...

HIS laughter was spontaneous, high-pitched and joyous. Some time over the last week or so a man videoed a brawl right in the heart of one of Glasgow’s main drags of pubs and clubs.

A 21-year-old woman has died in a quad bike accident on a farm in Dumfries and Galloway.

The growing concerns about a cost of living crisis have been compounded by some petrol stations closing due to a concern about fuel shortages

A Scottish architect has created what he believes is the world’s ‘most expensive’ brick as part of a £500,000 crowdfunding campaign.

Icon of the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland who sought common ground and consensus

By Karen Peattie

These are the tee times for today’s Ryder Cup matches, and for every match throughout the weekend.

Nicola Sturgeon will take questions from opposition MSPs including Douglas Ross and Anas Sarwar.

THE Perth side booked their slot at Hampden in November for the semi-finals of the Premier Sports Cup after a win against Dundee on Wednesday night.

A £30 billion investment plan to transform Glasgow into a net zero city by 2030 has been revealed – less than 50 days before the city hosts the COP26 global climate conference.

MAYBE it’s his initials, or the fact George Clooney once played him in ER, but Douglas Ross seems to think he’s a doctor these days at FMQs.

AN SNP minister has demanded “radical behavioural change” in Scots’ transport choices – amid a warning that journeys by both plane and car will need to be permanently cut to end the country’s contribution to the climate crisis.

The HGV driver shortage has hit BP and Tesco with deliveries of petrol and diesel to forecourts across the UK set to be reduced to ensure supplies do not run out.

NICOLA Sturgeon has been accused of presiding over an “international humiliation”, after Scotland’s state-owned shipyard wasn’t deemed good enough to build state-owned ferries.

AN SNP MP has challenged the conservatives over their continued refusal to wear masks in Parliament.

A SCOTTISH Greens minister has refused to say if the government’s flagship deposit return scheme will begin next July as promised.

A former MP bullied a member of parliamentary staff in a “hostile, sustained, (and) harmful” way, a report has found.

A SENIOR SNP MP has called for the UK Government to shift its focus to so-called dark money influencing the country's democracy rather than tackling miniscule levels of voter fraud.

Join us for our live coverage of the draw for the semi-finals of the Premier Sports Cup.

TRADITIONALLY, autumn can be a fruitful month for Scottish tourism and the wider hospitality and events sector.

Glasgow is not alone in facing challenges with street cleansing, the City Council leader, Susan Aitken has said.

SCOTLAND’S drugs minister has defended the use of police warnings for people caught with heroin and cocaine amid claims of decriminalisation by the backdoor.