Locals shared videos of police, ambulance and fire service vehicles at the scene of the fire on social media.

A Met Office warning is in place for much of Scotland for . Follow along as we provide updates on travel disruption and more for across the country.

AS warriors against wokeness would have it, you can hardly swing a cat (metaphorically, of course) without coming across a “trigger warning” alerting viewers to something potentially upsetting. Even news bulletins have them. So it would be the re...

SCOTLAND’S ferry network could be broken up under radical plans to revitalise the taxpayer funded service in a move that has raised fears that the most lucrative routes will be sold off to private firms.

HARSH winter weather and heavy rain have taken their toll on roads in Scotland's largest city in the past few years resulting in potholes on many key routes.

Moray Group, the expanding professional services business headed by legal sector veteran Rob Aberdein, is launching a new financial arm.

Early doors

The UK’s largest marine infrastructure project has received a £30 million funding boost from the Scottish National Investment Bank (SNIB) as it prepares to go operational in the next few months.

Profits at the restaurant group fell sharply in the year to April 2021

YOU can hear the steel in Mark Fotheringham’s voice. It’s apt because he comes from a family of scaffolders. He was helping his dad with the family business this week before jumping in his car and driving the 240 miles from his house in the Forfa...

The dust from the Covid-induced collapse of the economy has far from settled, but amid the haze of continuing uncertainty there are preliminary signs that Scotland has at least some of the underlying leverage needed to make a meaningful recovery.

IT is not every day that someone you know creates sporting history and rewrites the record books.

Businesses in Scotland saw a dramatic uplift in instances of advanced financial distress in the final quarter of 2021 as the emergence of the Omicron variant hampered growth.

JUST when you thought that Covid couldn't spread any faster, a new 'stealth' sub-lineage of Omicron comes along.

“WHEN Septimius Severus entered the lands of the Maeatae he did so with the following command to his soldiers: invade the rebel’s country, kill everyone you meet, let no one escape destruction, not even the babe in the womb of its mother.”

IT has a been a hotbed for rowing talent since it first opened its doors in 1846, and now Scotland's oldest open amateur rowing club is looking to the future with a new £1 million boathouse in Edinburgh.

OF all the cycling disciplines, cyclo-cross is the least well-known to the wider Scottish public.

I’VE had a madeleine moment. You’ll recall that, in Jimmy Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, the narrator eats a madeleine, a little cake, and the sensual experience unexpectedly transports him back to his childhood.

Eleanore

TORY spokesman Donald Cameron whines about the civil service carrying out its proper function in preparing for the delivery of an electoral commitment and now the policy of an elected government at a cost of £700,000 ("SNP ministers tasked £700,000...

THE innocuously named Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Bill is, according to the SNP, merely a prudent mechanism to allow for a nimble government response to any future public health emergency, and doesn’t furnish much more in the way o...

Our Cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on the report on the investigation into the Glasgow School of Art fire

THEY are little multicoloured chocolates that have been around for more than 80 years, but M&Ms are being redesigned for a "more dynamic, progressive world”, with a focus on “female empowerment” and inclusivity.

HAS Liz Truss become Boris Johnson’s secret weapon as he fights to salvage what remains of his premiership? With each sullen interview given by his supercilious Foreign Secretary the besieged Prime Minister seems to inch his way closer to salvation...

THESE are troubled, anxious times – and not just because we still wait to learn whether the Prime Minister will be, to borrow a phrase, here today but gone tomorrow.

OUT of the mouth of babes. Tess, Lego expert, artist extraordinaire, reader and writer, also moonlights – with her sister, Grace, and cousin, Arran – as the light of my life.

SCOTLAND was always going to say No. That, at least, was the prediction from pro-Kremlin Russian pundits in the run-up to our big 2014 vote.

WITH his man boobs straining inside his shirt, Boris Johnson is evidence of a big problem on two legs, a high-vis reminder that Britain looks to have lost the battle of the bulge.

THEY are the comforting sights and smells of granny’s kitchen-pot of warming broth, a delicious cake in the oven and a sheep’s head charring away under the grill.

IT began with a pub chain’s well-intentioned efforts to make sure the name of a town’s oldest hostelry did not cause offence.

WE keep using words of war to talk about politics. For America, especially, this is starting to get awkward.

Anyone for tennis?

BETWEEN the jargon, the mounting tension, and the presence of Vicky McClure, it hardly required the combined nous of Sherlock Holmes and Jim Rockford to deduce that Trigger Point (STV, Sunday) came from the same stable as Line of Duty. Jed Mercurio�...

It sells (almost) everything you would expect to buy in a regular supermarket, but shoppers can expect to pay around 70 per cent less at the tills of a new food store opening in Glasgow.

Charity Cycling UK said that a “long-term and well-funded communications campaign” is needed to make people aware of the update.

This event is one of the three skating disciplines at the Games

Nordic Combined is an event that is fairly unique in the Winter Olympics

Disney's The Lion King, Hairspray, Bat Out Of Hell and more - See all the West End shows coming to the Edinburgh Playhouse and how to buy your tickets.

There are five different rounds, from spells and potions to Hogwarts and creatures, and questions range from common knowledge to very niche. 

IT was a long time coming, but Callum Davidson finally added long term transfer target Melker Hallberg to his McDiarmid Park ranks yesterday.

Businesses in Scotland saw a dramatic uplift in instances of advanced financial distress in the final quarter of 2021 as the emergence of the Omicron variant hampered growth for those already impacted by two years of pandemic disruption.

PLANS to set up two freeports in Scotland are set to be confirmed after an SNP minister was replaced by his boss in leading discussions with Westminster officials.

COUNCIL leaders have warned that authorities still face “real terms budget pressures” of more than £250 million despite Kate Forbes finding an extra £120 million in next year’s settlement.

THE Met Office has upgraded a weather warning from 'yellow' to 'amber' with gusts of up to 80mph forecast to hit Scotland.

IT appears Nicola Sturgeon is rather impressed by Boris Johnson’s philosophy of ‘cakeism’.

KILMARNOCK are in talks with Hibernian midfielder Scott Allan, according to reports.

NICOLA Sturgeon has warned the probe into lockdown parties held at Downing Street during lockdown is getting “murkier by the minute” as the wait goes on for Sue Gray’s report to be handed over to the Prime Minister.

THERE was a palpable sense of relief from the international travel sector north of the Border

JEANDO FUCHS looks set to depart Dundee United this January with reports suggesting that he could be on his way to Peterborough.

SCOTS may face a referendum on the European Union post-independence under plans currently being considered by the SNP, according to reports.