By Ian McConnell

Ukrainian forces have continued to reclaim territory north of the country's second-largest city Kharkiv, UK officials have confirmed.

Royal Mail's push for more drone operated routes could improve the mail service to Scotland's islands.

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is set to hold talks with the vice president of the European Commission amid considerations of overriding parts of the post-Brexit deal for Northern Ireland.

The UK economy contracted in March as households cut down on spending amid rising prices.

There have been queues outside passport offices in Glasgow, Liverpool and other cities as desperate travellers try to beat the backlog of applications and save their holidays abroad. After two years of Covid restrictions it seems everyone is heading ...

HOLLYWOOD likes a good John in an action movie. Sylvester Stallone was John Rambo, then Bruce Willis was John McClane in Die Hard, and these days Keanu Reeves is John Wick.

CALLS have been made for urgent new investment in green energy as a new report reveals that the north of Scotland needs around four times more renewable generation in eight years to put the nation on course for net zero by 2050.

WEALTH management group Tilney Smith & Williamson has announced the addition of the Capital Risk Management and MP2 Financial team to its operation in Edinburgh.

It’s not easy to read the runes just now, a week on from the local elections, but a new report from the Electoral Reform Society in Scotland may reveal a little of how we’re feeling. The ERS paper includes polling on how Scots view government and...

EDINBURGH-based Capricorn Energy has highlighted how much money firms are making in the North Sea as it underlined its appetite for acquisitions.

“Sector tailwinds” drove Vertu Motors to record profits during the year to the end of February as supply chain constraints pushed up prices for both new and used vehicles.

A SCOTTISH exhibition centre has announced a raft of conference wins that will bring thousands of delegates and provide millions of pounds of economic benefit in the next year.

AVOIDABLE delays in isolating an elderly Covid patient are believed to have triggered outbreaks of the virus in a Lanarkshire hospital, an internal investigation has found.

SCOTTISH Government plans to make emergency Covid powers permanent will turn Holyrood into a “toothless talking shop," opposition MSPs have warned.

SCOTTISHPOWER chief executive Keith Anderson has been forthright in his attempts to highlight the threat of further huge increases in power bills for consumers while proposing a solution some might find surprising to the problem.

SO, in the wake of the election to Stormont, where are we now?

By Scott Wright

IT is of course little surprise that Andy Stenton’s recent brave letter (May 10) arguing for Labour to support independence should be critically received as it was on your Letters Pages today (May 11). For one thing, as John Gilligan points out, �...

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

ON Tuesday we watched a crown worth an estimated £3-5 billion driven in its own Rolls-Royce to the state opening of the British parliament. The crown, a rather kitsch diamond-encrusted affair with purple trimmings, was there in place of the Queen, w...

Our cartoonist Steven Camley's take on ferry transparency.

Cinematic silliness

THE Scottish Covid independent inquiry chair, appointed by the Scottish Government in December 2021, faces a daunting task. She promised the inquiry would be ‘open and transparent’.

A PUBLIC health expert has warned that the Scottish Covid inquiry risks being shrouded in unnecessary secrecy.

SCOTLAND'S ferry fiasco contract was cleared by the transport minister Derek Mackay, but only after a final consultation with deputy first minister John Swinney, it has been revealed.

By Ian McConnell

Police Scotland will be an anti-racist service, chief constable Iain Livingstone said at an inquiry into the death of a black man in custody.

A MAN has died after being injured at a building site in Glasgow.

A TORY MP has been condemned after saying foodbank users cannot cook or budget properly.

WOMAN’S health minister Maree Todd has been urged to resign after angry men with loudspeakers staged an anti-abortion protest outside a sexual health clinic in Glasgow

Miller Homes is launching 178 of its "most popular home styles" at its Kinglass Meadows development this weekend.

A CONSERVATIVE MSP has broken ranks with Douglas Ross and insisted the Prime Minister should still resign over the partygate scandal.

Scots singer Paolo Nutini has teased the release of new music for the first time since 2014.

BORIS Johnson said the UK “will not hesitate” to defend against any threat from “21st century tyrant” Vladimir Putin.

THE transport minister was accused of treating the Scottish Parliament with 'contempt' after claiming to have found a 'missing' email that showed that the ferry fiasco contract was finally approved by then transport minister Derek Mackay.

A HOME Office minister has confirmed that a "significant" number of asylum seekers and refugees will be detained to stop them trying to evade deportation to Rwanda.

A GROUP of climate activists deflating tyres on SUVs have warned drivers they intend to continue targeting the vehicles until politicians ban them in urban areas.

SNP and Green MSPs have been accused of a “betrayal” after voting down a Labour attempt to enshrine a right to food in Scotland.

THE UK Government’s Energy Minister has called on Scottish ministers to reverse its opposition to nuclear power.

High school staff in Dundee are to go on strike over council plans that would see subjects grouped in "faculties" and principal teachers removed.

STEPHEN Thompson, the former chairman of Dundee United Football Club, has announced his return to the convenience retail scene in Scotland.

A UK minster has told MSPs that a windfall tax on oil and gas profits would likely raise energy prices further as he was warned a lack of action was “killing off people”.

THE SCOTTISH Government has expressed “grave concerns” over plans to replace the Human Rights Act with a new UK wide Bill of Rights.

A ScotRail staff member has been hospitalised after a team formed to deter anti-social behaviour was attacked on a train.

Scottish-headquartered Orbex has publicly unveiled a full-scale prototype of its Prime orbital space rocket for the first time.

MICHAEL Gove has ruled out an emergency budget, as he insisted Boris Johnson’s suggestion of more help to ease the cost-of-living crisis was “overinterpreted”.

Teachers at a Glasgow secondary school are threatening to go on strike over violent and disruptive pupil behaviour.

The 50-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene. 

A PROMINENT housebuilder has revealed plans to open 14 sites in Scotland as it targets building more than 2,300 new homes north of the Border this year.