NICOLA STURGEON has said she still plans to kick out the UK's nuclear deterrent in the early years of an independent Scotland, despite Russia's ruthless war in Ukraine.

THE Scottish Tories have again turned to former leader Ruth Davidson for help as they enter the final stretch of the local election campaign trailing in the polls.

A SCOTS council has told staff it is taking action to improve employee relationships as in concludes an over two-year-long investigation into serious allegations of poor management, culture and bullying.

The rebuild of the fire-ravaged Glasgow School of Art could be determined by the cheapest price over quality due to a flawed tender system, a leading Scottish architect has warned.

IT is a brand that brings back memories of childhood summers in busy residential streets across Scotland.

Education bosses are under fire after watering down proposals to ringfence principal teacher posts for black and minority ethnic (BME) individuals.

GLOBAL upheavals in recent years have a curious tendency of uniting influential Unionist and SNP opinion. Last week in the New Statesman, Andrew Marr, the former presenter of the BBC’s Sunday Politics, suggested that the war in Ukraine had effectiv...

Music For Dementia and UK Music have published a new report which outlines a blueprint to use music to help improve the nation’s health and wellbeing. Both as a composer and the founder of The Cumnock Tryst, an inclusive music festival taking place...

I’ve always loved voting. Physical voting I mean. The booth. The pencil on a string. The lady marking your name off a list. The people at the door with rosettes and pamphlets and slogans. The democracy! It's exciting and wonderful and I love it

The big results from Thursday’s local elections are already in. A shamefully low turnout, which will be deemed "impressive" if it tops the previous record high of 46 per cent.

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Signs of early financial distress across the Scottish business community levelled off during the first quarter of this year, but firms are being urged to prepare for tougher times ahead as consumers cut back amid the cost-of-living crisis.

The conflict and resulting human misery in Ukraine these past two months has been truly awful and distressing to watch. A peaceful resolution cannot come soon enough.

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A major pharmacy chain has been accused of breaching NHS health worker rules by allowing Covid-positive staff to work with the public if they feel "well enough".

LEADING entrepreneur Sir Tom Hunter has described Elon Musk, the South African CEO of SpaceX and electric carmaker Tesla Motors as a “true disruptor” following his recent purchase of social media platform Twitter for $44 billion.

LORD Willie Haughey, one of Scotland’s most high-profile entrepreneurs, has described the wrongful conviction of sub-postmasters as “the greatest miscarriage of justice ever in the history of the UK”.

CONCERTS, events and conferences are back – with a gig by young star Sam Fender in March recording the highest-ever audience for a single show at The OVO Hydro, the chief executive of Glasgow’s Scottish Event Campus (SEC), Peter Duthie, has confi...

IT is a phenomenon of the constitutional debate that many people who are united in seeking the best for Scotland have bitter enmity towards each other as to how that end may best be achieved. Perhaps people perceive the same things differently due to...

FOR most of us, a lunch hour of old may have involved nipping out for a sandwich at a local deli or running an errand at a nearby shop, but times have drastically altered and now, new research suggests the lunch hour as a concept is over.

A DIARY tale about meaningless training courses reminds Julie McAlpine of her days in gainful employment. She recalls a team- building course where an over-enthusiastic trainer kept repeating the phrase: “Remember guys, there’s no ‘I’ in team...

The partnership announced between the Trussell Trust and Deliveroo, which will enable customers to add a donation to their food orders, is the clearest indication yet of how the dominant approaches to tackling hunger are broken and ignore the relatio...

Netflix remains the most popular in the UK providing a hub of our favourite TV and films.

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Anum Qaisar, who was elected SNP MP for Airdrie and Shotts in May 2021, said she was told by opposition MPs which men to avoid in Parliament.

A long-awaited opertion to evacuate people trapped in a steelworks in the southern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol was finally underway yesterday (Sunday), the United Nations said.

A FLAGSHIP Glasgow office development has been sold in a deal worth around £215 million.

Deputy first minister John Swinney insists mininsters were under "cross-party pressure" to discharge patients from hospital at the start of the Covid pandemic.

One of the consequences of the unexpected national campaign was that it put a stink on the idea of coalitions.

OFFICIALS have considered shutting the Cairngorm mountain resort for good as concerns escalate over the costs to the taxpayer of its railway, the scale of structural repairs and how it is going to be paid for.

MINISTERS have been accused of a "scandalous" waste of over £110m of taxpayers' money by failing to use catamarans instead of two new alternative lifeline vessels which are now being built in Turkey.

MINISTERS have come under pressure for failing to resolving a cladding crisis in Scotland as it emerged that over 400 mainly public buildings including high-rises and schools have the potentially deadly material five years after the Grenfell Tower bl...

Glasgow’s Dr Campbell Price is British TV’s go-to guy when it comes to ancient Egypt. But the study is riddled with racism and he wants to drag the world of mummies into the 21st century … and he doesn’t care if you call him ‘woke’. By Wr...

THE SNP have drawn up proposals to transform Edinburgh into a “modern European capital” – but a handful of parties are vying to realistically hold the balance of power after Thursday’s election.

MILLIONAIRE brothers James and Sandy Easdale are considering an appeal to Scottish ministers over a £100 million housing development bid following a dispute with a council and claims of underhand practices.

SCOTLAND’S minimum alcohol unit pricing has cost drinkers £270 million, according to a new report due to be published tomorrow.

NEW build houses in Scotland will be required to comply with the rigorous "Passivhaus" standards of sustainability to reduce fuel consumption and help meet climate change targets, according to new plans to be unveiled next week.

The Foreign Secretary Liz Truss used to be famous for her “it’s a disgrace!” conference speech about imports of EU cheese. Now her place in history may have been assured as the first Western leader to declare World War Three.

IT is May 1. Did you get up early to wash your face in the morning dew? It is a tradition that I always think fondly about but can only recall doing once with any real commitment, back in my student days, when a few of us stumbled bleary-eyed up Arth...

IT is one of the world’s most endangered species, rarely spotted due to decades of over-fishing.

BORIS Johnson, the U-turn Prime Minister, has hinted he might be prepared to slam on the brakes and change direction yet again as he seeks to limit the damage from the expected Conservative car crash at this coming week’s local elections.

With the supply of Western arms growing, energy imports ‘weaponised’ and attacks spilling over into neighbouring regions alongside an escalating nuclear rhetoric, the war in Ukraine has all the hallmarks of a dangerously expanding conflict, repor...

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AS a consequence of the Russian invasion of Ukraine hundreds of millions of the world’s most vulnerable people around the world are facing famine and dislocation, “particularly those countries already struggling with other crises such as conflict...

JOHN Simm certainly arouses the curiosity. The actor is synonymous with playing terrific angst-ridden characters on screen; think a mix of Charlie Brown, Holden Caufield and Heathcliffe – but with a Lancashire accent. But this success makes me wond...

The Killing Tide

IF these last couple of years have made us realise anything, it’s the value in the seemingly smaller moments and for many of us, simply being out and about and popping into a coffee shop has to be up there.

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