WHEN Coldplay signed up to a partnership with Finnish sustainable aviation fuel company, Neste, as part of a bid to halve the emissions of their tour, they may have thought they were doing their bit for the planet, but Carlos Calvo Ambel didn’t thi...

Hundreds of trains services have been cancelled or curtailed this week due to driver shortages linked to a bitter pay dispute ahead of a possible summer of discontent on the newly-nationalised Scots rail network.

NETWORK provider Commsworld is linking rural communities in England with boosted broadband under a new partnership.

By Scott Wright

ROLLS-ROYCE has said a gradual improvement in flight demand and higher defence spending by governments has boosted trading over the start of the year.

I GREW up in a deaf household but it was not without music. In 1975 an allergic reaction to antibiotics lost my mum her hearing and her music collection ends abruptly.

The Auditor General has indicated that claims of fraud at a crisis-hit college may require police involvement.

BORIS Johnson certainly ensured the week got off to the noisiest of starts on the Brexit front.

GOING shopping for stuff back in the day really was quite a chore.

SHELL has clinched a deal to sell its retail and lubricants business in Russia after deciding to withdraw from the country in response to the attack on Ukraine.

NORTH Sea heavyweight Neptune Energy has seen its UK profits increase by 150 per cent amid the surge in oil and gas prices which has left consumers facing sharp rises in their energy bills.

Fresh funding is being made available to encourage overseas firms to set up their research and development operations in Scotland.

IT is touching that so many of your correspondents have the best interests of the Labour Party at heart (Letters, May 10, 11 & 12), although I suspect they probably neglect to express that concern in the best way that they could – namely by actuall...

EDINBURGH-based Aegon UK has posted a 26 per cent increase in first quarter profits as its Dutch owner underlined the strategic value of the investment platform business.

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

By Dominic Hall

Pitch-perfect puppet

Our cartoonist Steven Camley's take on Scottish Government secrecy.

IT is a day historically considered to be a harbinger of bad luck, but where does the dark shadow looming over Friday the 13th originate?

I DIDN’T vote in last week’s local authority election. There, I admitted it! It puts me in the majority (less than half of us showed up at the polling station), but perhaps more to the point it is the only election in which I have failed to vote ...

ALL politicians live in glass houses. They throw stones at their opponents and, inevitably, have to be prepared to be on the receiving end when the disfavour is returned. Events mean no one inhabits the high moral ground for very long.

A case of monkeypox was announced south of the border on Saturday

Holyrood’s Presiding Officer has warned MSPs they must be courteous to each other, as the Scottish Parliament prepares to debate contentious legislation.

The Prime Minister was understood to have told his Cabinet on Thursday that the service should be cut by a fifth

Ms Truss said Russian leader Vladimir Putin was ‘humiliating himself on the world stage’

Tickets for the Arcade Fire world tour go on sale today including a gig in Glasgow. Here's how to get tickets.

The situation this week was described as “absolute chaos” and “manic” by travellers.

Nicola Sturgeon will take questions from Douglas Ross and Anas Sarwar at First Minister's Questions as she is likely to be asked about the ferries fiasco and a bullying probe into a former SNP minister

WHEN Natalie McGarry made a bid to be one of the SNP’s candidates in the 2014 European elections she told party members that she had “studied law at university and went on to further study international government diplomacy.”

WOMEN for Independence founder Jeane Freeman has called for an apology from the people in the wider Yes movement who criticised her and colleagues for reporting Natalie McGarry to the police.

BP chief executive Bernard Looney has said the oil giant will reinvest all the profits it makes in the North Sea into Britain as he opposed calls for the Government to impose a windfall tax on firms.

MORE than 100 high rise towers in Scotland will be subject to a cladding assessment scheme in the wake of the Grenfell tragedy after SNP ministers announced an extension to the project.

JOHN Swinney has denied giving the “final nod” to the contract that led to the CalMac ferries fiasco, but admitted he did give it “budget approval”.

AN ONLINE consultation on a £2bn plan for 7,000 homes on the outskirts of Edinburgh has gone live.

Inspired by the majesty and magnificence of Scotland’s coastlines, there’s no mistaking why Scottish contemporary painter Scott Naismith’s new exhibition is simply entitled ‘Awe’. By Lorraine Wilson

NICOLA Sturgeon will chair a roundtable summit to draw up plans for buffer zones to be established outside abortion clinics despite the risk of legal challenges.

NICOLA Sturgeon has been accused of having “hidden behind” data protection laws after she suggested the outcome of bullying allegations against a former SNP minister may be kept secret.

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has warned the EU that the UK Government will take action on the Northern Ireland Protocol if negotiators in Brussels do not show sufficient flexibility.

Glasgow pupils had been evacuated from their classrooms after a threatening call was made to a primary school.

VAULT City Brewing has secured listings in 200 independent bars across the UK for its inaugural core range.

North Korea has fired three short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea, South Korea has claimed.

FINLAND'S leaders have announced they support the country joining Nato, less than 24 hours after signing a new security pact with Britain.

THE METROPOLITAN police have confirmed more than 100 fines have been issued over the partygate scandal.

BANK of Scotland owner Lloyds' staff are staging a protest outside the bank's annual meeting today as part of a dispute over pay.

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 ...