GB dominated throughout and sealed a 10-3 win on the ninth end.

The woman was taken to ninewells hospital in Dundee following the crash

MARK McGhee will look to harness the experience of the senior players at Dundee as the Dens Park side look to stay in the top flight.

DRAM wars have erupted over claims that Irish whiskey sales to America are close to outstripping Scotch for the time since the days of Prohibition a century ago.

A FORMER SNP justice secretary has warned Scotland has become a haven for "rich man's justice" after the Solicitor General said that massive damages payouts over malicious prosecutions in the failed Rangers fraud case were the result of victims' high...

A NEW vision for a national social care service featuring new surgeries and an emergency response service has been revealed as ministers push a project that one respected think tank says lacks ambition, is underfunded and is a "betrayal" to Scotland.

MINISTERS are considering changing the controversial pupils' sex survey which asks kids if they have had anal sex to cater for transgender children, it can be revealed.

I’m not sure who was more dismissive last week of the prospects for an independence referendum, Boris Johnson or Jim Sillars. “It’s just not going to happen,” said the PM on his dash north to mark Nicola Sturgeon’s belated acceptance of fre...

Our jails are full, it’s mostly the poor and addicted behind bars, and violent crime is rising. What can Scotland do to make our country a safer and more just society? Neil Mackay speaks to one the nation’s leading criminologists Dr Alistair Fras...

THE Scottish Conservatives have failed to mention Boris Johnson on their party's campaign material for the council elections in May despite reports of a rapprochement between the party north and south of the border.

The first signs of warmer days to come are already emerging from well-tended flower beds that take up a corner of Glasgow’s East End.

GIVEN the option of becoming British champion this year or seeing Celtic clinch the Premiership title, Nick Campbell greedily hopes for both. Ideally within a few hours if possible.

More than 3,000 instances of self-harm have been logged in Scotland’s prisons in the past four years, new figures show.

VLADIMIR Putin calls it “hysteria” but with 150,000 Russian troops on Ukraine’s doorstep and nuclear drills taking place this weekend across the border, there is nothing exaggerated about the fear now stalking eastern Europe.

EARTHA Cumings, who will have to wait a bit longer for her first Scotland cap, is clearly an exceptionally resolute young woman. How else to describe a footballer who came through an extraordinary teenage trauma and is now on the brink of representin...

THE Olympics are broken. Of that, there can be little doubt. Prior to Beijing 2022, many had suspicions there was a chronic problem within the Olympic movement; these Winter Games have served only to confirm it beyond all dispute.

Scots are being urged to look out for vulnerable people after referrals for support increased in the past six months.

It was back in 2014 that pro-Russian separatists began consolidating their breakaway ‘republics’ in Luhansk and Donetsk. Could this be where the endgame of the current standoff is also played out, asks Foreign Editor David Pratt

Under cover of darkness, deep in a Cairngorm wood and with eyes peering through a tiny mesh panel, Patrick Galbraith saw what only a handful of people in recent years have witnessed.

Cast an eye over a list of Scotland’s A-listed buildings and you won’t be surprised to see the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Glasgow School of Art, the Scott Monument and Eilean Donan all featuring. But you might be very surprised indeed to find a foo...

Scottish icons: Ben Nevis

In the end it was a bald, bland, 146 word statement which brought down the curtain on the royal trial of the decade – and did so before even an interval G&T had been ordered or front row ticket sold.

THE first thing you are apt to notice upon wandering into a decent second-hand bookshop isn’t the books themselves. It’s that smell.

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ALARM bells must surely be ringing at Holyrood given that defence giant Babcock has suggested that it would consider moving its fabrication facilities from Rosyth to England in the event of not being welcomed in an independent Scotland. How many othe...

JIM GOODWIN has reaffirmed that Scott Brown remains an Aberdeen player amid speculation regarding his immediate future.

JIM GOODWIN had to settle for a draw for his first game in charge of Aberdeen.

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The Prime Minister was speaking in Munich as tensions on the border of Ukraine and Russia come to a boiling point

JIM GOODWIN will get straight to work and take charge of Aberdeen's trip to Fir Park just hours after his move to Pittodrie was confirmed.

Record breaking gusts of up to 122mph were recorded during Storm Eunice, with less severe Met Office alerts issued over the coming days

The Met Office have extended multiple yellow warnings until Monday as low tempratures, icy conditions, wind and heavy rain follow Storm Eunice

THE documentary market has become one of the toughest to break into. It is not just that there are so many around, although looking at Netflix it seems like there is one born every minute. The trouble lies in trying to find new ways to tell stories, ...

IT started out as a homage to their home city and saw some of Glasgow's most famous landmarks replicated into chess pieces.

IT was closed for almost six years and has cost £69million to refurbish and next month the public will have their first glimpse of the recreated Burrell Collection as it welcomes a new generation to the world-renowned collection.

It is a world in miniature which captures what the inside of an 18th century townhouse might have looked like.

JOHN Menzies Kuwaiti suitor has secured a 19 per cent stake in the Edinburgh business after buying a further 5.3 million shares.

THE Scottish Conservatives are aiming to double their tally of councillors in Glasgow at May’s local elections – believing that harnessing the pro-Union vote will “cause a political earthquake against the SNP” and send Nicola Sturgeon a messa...

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By Scott Wright

AIRLINES, like oil and gas companies, are rightly a focus in the battle against the effects of the use of fossil fuels on our struggling climate.

THE Justice Secretary Keith Brown has blamed the number of historic sex offenders in custody as one of the reasons why Scotland's prison population has not fallen 14 years after a landmark report called for the high incarceration rate to be cut.

SCOTLAND have yet to play to their best in this year’s Six Nations - and they will almost certainly have to do so against France on Saturday if they are to claim the win they need to get their Championship challenge back on track.

WITH Olympic silver and European indoor gold corralled in a 2021 that brought her the most astonishing of breakthrough campaigns, Keely Hodgkinson’s trajectory remains fascinatingly upward. Uncomfortable news for her domestic rivals, including Jemm...

SCOTLAND will play Colombia on Friday for the last place in this year’s Rugby World Cup after the South Americans beat Kazakhstan 18-10 in yesterday’s Final Qualification Tournament semi-final. Bryan Easson’s team have failed to qualify for the...

FIRST half goals from Abi Harrison and Martha Thomas ended a four game run without a win for Scotland and set up a final Pinatar Cup match against Hungary on Tuesday. The holders cannot finish better than fifth in the eight-nation tournament after lo...

The family of a British expat swimmer killed by a white shark in Australia have paid tribute to him.

Eight flood warnings and five flood alerts are in place as wet and windy weather returns overnight in the aftermath of Storm Eunice.

EACH weekend we ask well-known faces from across public life to share their favourite place. This latest instalment sees author Kate Mosse, known for her novels Labyrinth and The Taxidermist's Daughter, talk about the landscapes that inspire her writ...

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