Ukraine residents are braced for an increased offensive by Russian troops in the east, after a warning by President Volodymyr Zelensky.

THE destination marketing organisation for Moray and Speyside is this week revealing details of a UK marketing campaign focused on boosting tourism to the area and promoting opportunities for "outdoor activities, natural experiences and wellbeing".

THE Chancellor, his wife, her tax status and his green card. Not a sequel to the Peter Greenaway movie of 1989, but a summary of what was on the minds of Sunday politics show hosts at the end of an embarrassing week for Rishi Sunak.

If you’ve seen the inside of the People’s Pantry in Govanhill you will know that it is so small, so tiny, so infinitesimally miniscule that there is no room inside for the First Minister to answer questions from newspaper journalists. This is a n...

ALL Scottish Tory councillors will submit "every possible bid" to a UK Government funding scheme if successfully elected.

By Scott Wright

Is it only luvvies and lefties who care about Channel 4? Or could the privatisation proposed by Boris Johnson yet demolish his tottering government?

IN a less sclerotic age my father would choose his words carefully when explaining our family’s historic animosity towards Toryism. “It’s not necessarily that they’re bad people,” he would say, “it’s just that they can never know anythi...

When writing about Scottish educational reform, it’s all too easy to slip into analogies of battlefields, repeatedly fought over for little purpose or gain. Instead of overrun redoubts and burnt-out tanks, the educational battlefield is littered wi...

On a Highland hillside, lifelong vegetarian Megan Rowland aimed her shotgun, took fire and claimed her first kill.

The Scottish Conservatives have suspended a council candidate after he allegedly grabbed a person by the throat.

French polling agency projections show President Emmanuel Macron and far-right rival Marine Le Pen leading in the first round of the presidential election.

Analysis

JUST a few weeks ago Joe Scott couldn’t walk more than couple of steps after undergoing a life-changing heart transplant.

By Ian McConnell

Name: Malcolm Morrison.

VISITORS to Edinburgh's Science Festival will be encouraged to take part in a unique experiment showcasing how the brain "hallucinates" our sense of reality.

It wasn’t supposed to be like this – 2022 was expected to be a year of economic recovery, with incomes and business activity picking back up two years on from the start of the pandemic.

Scotland's health boards spent an “eye-watering” £236million in one year on bank and agency nurses to plug NHS staffing gaps, figures show.

A WEST Lothian-based pizza oven company that saw sales rocket during lockdown is ramping up its export business.

TECHNOLOGY is one of Scotland’s biggest success stories and “we should be shouting about it from the rooftops”, according to Sir Tom Hunter.

NUCLEAR energy must be part of the UK’s energy system in the future, two of Scotland’s leading entrepreneurs believe.

JAMES Watson (Letters, April 8) repeats the oft-expressed canard that our children and grandchildren will have to pick up the bill for the National Debt. This is just incorrect. The National Debt started in 1694 and has grown steadily with the econom...

It cannot escape any of us in regard to the tragic and inhumane scenes unfolding in Ukraine right now from the war instigated by Russia’s President Putin. The loss of life, the loss of culture, and people in their millions being displaced from thei...

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

THE sun was shining brightly one morning, so energetic reader Gordon Wright decided to wear his shorts for a power walk.

IT is a practice that is commonplace in the country of its origin and now Swedish Death Cleaning is soon to make its mark around the world via a new TV show.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has referred himself to the Prime Minister's independent adviser on ministerial interests after questions were raised over his family's financial affairs.

An American student has embarked on a project to collect and record every song and poem connected to Scotland’s Jacobite rebellions.

The operator of a Glasgow city centre hotel has this week fallen into administration, with trading now halted and all staff made redundant.

ALEX Salmond has suggested that the campaign for Scottish independence should be detached from the Scottish Government as people do not think it is "competent".

SCOTLAND could declare itself independent with the election of a majority of pro-independence parliamentarians in Westminster, an SNP MP has claimed.

THE SCOTTISH Conservatives have warned any coalition between the SNP and Greens in Glasgow is a "disaster" waiting to happen.

THE FORMER Chancellor of the Exchequer has admitted he also held the same controversial tax status as Rishi Sunak's wife.

A funny thing happens during Aljaž Škorjanec and Janette Manrara's dance tribute to the music of the movies.

NEWLY released figures from Police Scotland show a staggering postcode lottery for public urination offences.

Islands, surrounded as they are by water, and swept by winds, always seem much closer to the elements. So it is that the hundreds of Scottish islands present us with places in which it’s possible to see the full force of nature.

SCOTLAND won't meet its climate change targets unless 79,000 more construction workers are recruited by the end of the decade, ministers have been warned.

Last week, doom-scrolling took on a new meaning as unspeakable images crowded our social media screens, day by day, following the withdrawal of Russian forces from the suburbs of Kyiv. We tried not to look. War should not be a spectator sport. How wo...

Interview by Neil Mackay

THE hours are long, the pay low, and the successful candidate will have to steel themselves to abuse on social media.

COUNCIL bosses have warned SNP ministers that authorities have not been equipped to meet net zero targets – insisting that “urgent delivery is now critical”.

IT has been one of the most challenging periods of the Queen's reign as she endured her first year without the Duke of Edinburgh by her side and had to contend with Prince Andrew's controversies, as well as adjusting to the reducing mobility of her a...

WHEN you are a west of Scotland male on the wrong side of 50 you must stake out the treacherous terrain of sex and relationships with the caution of a minesweeper.

WHEN you are a west of Scotland male on the wrong side of 50 you must stake out the treacherous terrain of sex and relationships with the caution of a minesweeper.

WHEN you are a west of Scotland male on the wrong side of 50 you must stake out the treacherous terrain of sex and relationships with the caution of a minesweeper.

British hauliers of perishable goods are wanting to be prioritised at the port crossing into Europe, complaining that long wait times are causing products to go bad.

A coastguard helicopter has landed on a Scottish beach as it responds to an ongoing incident.

An alcohol ban on all ScotRail services is currently “under review” after the franchise was taken into public ownership earlier this month.

Health Secretary Humza Yousaf is being asked if he can guarantee Edinburgh’s new Sick Kids hospital is safe, amid concerns that cladding similar to that used on Grenfell Tower has been installed at the flagship hospital.