It’s a very tight Premiership at the moment, with the top six clubs separated by just four points. It’s also strange when you consider that Rangers and Celtic are at opposite ends of the top six. That hasn’t been the case too often over the yea...

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SCOTLAND'S lifeline island ferry network is suffering a new wave of disruption and cancellations over the September weekend - after it emerged one of its ageing fleet of vessels will be out of action for the third time in three weeks.

THERE are only so many wheels that can fall off a wagon before it grinds to a halt in the dust.

SCOTLAND is punching above its weight in employee owned businesses – but could do better with more support from the Scottish Government, according to an adviser to the sector.

SCOTTISH Labour has claimed the SNP-Greens co-operation deal is “a greenwashing stunt ahead of COP26” – accusing the junior partner of having “sold out” its values in exchange for power.

Teachers are to consider a demand that national guidance on supporting transgender pupils be pulled amid fears over excluding parents and the risk of legal action.

By Scott Wright

IT is, in truth, rather a long time since my courting days. By deliberately deploying such an archaic term, which I would not remotely have used in my eager youth, I am reminding myself of the passage of years.

TO be honest I had to take a deep breath before listening to Julia Bradbury on Monday morning on Women’s Hour (Radio 4). The former Countryfile presenter had revealed at the weekend that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and this was her fi...

By Ian McConnell

AT the beginning of the pandemic, the frailties of the care sector were exposed as the virus swept through premises claiming the lives of thousands of elderly residents.

Glasgow-based home architecture firm HOKO is planning to open 30 further studios, including its first overseas presence in Dublin, as it seeks to reach £50 million in revenues by 2025, writes Kristy Dorsey.

By Jason Hollands

While holidays closer to home have been encouraged over the past year many of us have taken advantage of the beauty that the north of Scotland has to offer, but two brothers each took on the challenge to run some of the country’s most iconic routes...

Andrew Neil's week, as imagined by Brian Beacom

Rory McIlroy stayed optimistic in Wisconsin, however, with the Northern Irishman saying his side ‘can come back from 6-2’.

Yellow baboon, Kenya, Manoj Shah

WE are still reeling from the consequences of the disaster in Afghanistan. Now comes the crisis enveloping our energy supplies.

THE importance of in-person GP appointments, Universal Credit cut and impoverished children were the topics debated by columnists in the newspapers.

THE UK Government has said it is willing to work with Scottish Government and the country's largest local authority to address Glasgow's culture funding crisis.

FEW people have ever heard of the tiny country of Nauru. Even fewer ever think about what happens at the bottom of the world’s oceans. But that may soon change.

THERE might, in other circumstances, be a case for resisting the Lord Advocate’s decision that police warnings rather than prosecutions could be appropriate for those in possession of Class A drugs, or at least for rigorous investigation and debate...

RUTH Bader Ginsburg was a pioneering advocate of women's rights until her death last year. Now, in a “woke” tribute, a historic US institution has altered one of her most famous quotes, replacing the word "woman" with “person”.

THE promise of a chair at the top table seems to have melted the Scottish Green Party’s commitment to cardinal human rights principles. To protect their power-sharing deal with the SNP, the Scottish Greens voted for illiberal, authoritarian, and di...

The Dapper Mongoose

DOROTHY BAIN was this week’s unlikely recipient of group-hugs on social media. The decision of Scotland’s Lord Advocate to divert drugs-users away from criminal prosecution sparked such an outpouring of exultation that it seems certain the day wi...

There are times when fate intervenes and keeps you from harm. In this case, from the chasse lunch,

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A possible sighting of a pensioner who went missing more than ten days ago has prompted police to focus search efforts in a Scots village.

Henry McLeish's admission that he would back Scottish independence has made headlines across the country.

Andrew Neil has described how he came "close to a breakdown" during his time with GB News.

Archaeological work has revealed the changing landscape on the edges of Auld Reekie

FROM Sixteen: Class of 2021 to Educating Yorkshire, there have been so many documentary series about school life you could be forgiven for thinking one more was a piece of homework too far.

CALLUM DAVIDSON insists St Johnstone have proved the doubters wrong once again by booking their place in the Premier Sports Cup semi-finals.

MEMBERS of Alex Salmond’s Alba party have posed with models to highlight the precarious state of Scotland’s ship-building industry.

HENRY McLeish has said he would vote for Scottish independence in a second referendum if the Union fails to reform itself.

THERE’S jobs going today paying £30 an hour - equivalent to £62,000 a year - to pick cabbages. Nice work if you can get it.

RANGERS and Celtic have received confirmation of fixture amendments after both clubs progressed to the semi-finals of the Premier Sports Cup.

The Transport Secretary has tried to dissuade drivers from panic buying petrol, after BP was forced to close down a handful of its forecourts.

BORIS Johnson has effectively ditched his plan for a 30-mile link between Scotland and Northern Ireland.

An SNP MSP has thanked NHS staff after revealing she has completed treatment for breast cancer.

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.

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...

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.