Happiness, Dr Rangan Chatterjee, believes can transform our health - and is the missing piece of the puzzle around public health. You can also work towards it, as he outlines in his book, Happy Mind, Happy Life. Here are some of his key tips:

ISLAND communities delivered an emphatic verdict to the Scottish Government over the ongoing ferries scandal, with the SNP vote slumping and bucking the national council elections trend, it has emerged.

A SPIRALLING catalogue of faults with the two vessels at the centre of Scotland’s ferry fiasco under the stewardship of minister-controlled Ferguson Marine has prompted serious shipyard concerns over whether they will ever see service.

It’s exactly 125 years since the publication of Bram Stoker’s masterpiece Dracula. Here our Writer at Large, a horror novelist who’s a scholar of all things spooky, charts the roots of the evil Count and explains how the Dracula myth has shaped...

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Sausage Wars – Biden steps in. The US President has sent a team of influential congressmen to stop Boris Johnson ditching the Northern Ireland Protocol this week. But do they know what they’ve got themselves into?

NICOLA Sturgeon has said she hopes to encourage greater investment and co-operation from the US as she prepares to head to Washington, DC.

NICOLA Sturgeon has come under attack on the eve of her visit to the United States from one of America’s top foreign policy analysts over her plan to hold an independence referendum next year and remove Trident from Scotland.

WHAT would you do if you won the lotto? It is a question that many of us have asked ourselves. Buy a big house. Fancy boat. Swanky car. Glittering jewellery. Private island. All of the above? Each to their own, I guess.

For the leathery sea squirt, life mainly revolves around finding a surface to anchor itself upon and remaining there for the rest of its long life, sucking in seawater and spitting it out again.

Standing up to 40 metres tall, their leafy canopies have been a familiar feature of the landscape for hundreds of years, providing a home for an array of species.

Long and narrow, Loch Shin stretches for 18 miles across awe-inspiring North Highland landscape, a haven for salmon, trout, ospreys and otters, it is hugged by unspoiled peat moorlands and rolling hills.

Nobody had told Tetiana Talalayko about the One o’clock Gun, so when, bang on time, the cannon let off its daily crack, the Ukrainian just froze.

Insight and analysis on stories from across the world by Foreign Editor David Pratt

EXPECTATIONS are rising that, as fears of a recession loom, Boris Johnson is planning to unveil a grand giveaway to placate disgruntled voters and maximise his chances of staying in Downing St.

ON December 21, 1972, the then Secretary for Scotland, Gordon Campbell, was asked a question about plans to improve the A9 in the Highlands.

Trainee doctors are being enticed to a rural area of Scotland with brand new homes.

By Derek Mitchell

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THE latest update of the research on the minimum price of alcohol (MPA) confirms that this token attempt to reduce harmful drinking has had very little effect ("Scottish ministers to consider new alcohol price hike after policy review", May 8). Alcoh...

A total lunar eclipse will see the moon turn red this week - find out when the blood moon is happening and how to watch it in Scotland.

Standards of pupil behaviour are plummeting and driving teachers away from the classroom, a major conference has been told.

AMONG the memories that GP and presenter Dr Rangan Chatterjee shares with me about his time spent in Edinburgh evolves around a phone call he received from his mother one night, while he was at Edinburgh Medical School.

A 'MILESTONE' payment of more than £1m was paid to a Scottish shipyard the day after Nicola Sturgeon launched a new ferry that remains unseaworthy and languishing in the yard to this day, it can be revealed.

Honest to a fault MILLIONAIRE Tory donor turned wholly coincidental Tory peer and Scotland Office minister Malcolm Offord made a rare public appearance on BBC Scotland’s Debate Night on Wednesday. Joining in with the mood of rest of the panel, he w...

As calls to the barricades go, it’s hardly French Revolution standard, but there is no doubting Jim Moir’s enthusiasm as he introduces The Prince’s Master Crafters: the Next Generation (Sky Arts, free to view, Wednesday, 8pm).

Councillor George Redmond says he has the votes to replace Malcolm Cunning as leader of the Labour group on Glasgow City Council.

THE prospect of a national strike that could bring the already limping UK grinding to a halt is another psychological blow to businesses and homes struggling to balance the books.

AN INVESTIGATION has been launched into a "very unusual" spike in deaths among newborn babies in Scotland for the second time in just six months.

Built in the late 18th century, Haining House, with its grand triple arched entrance, quartet of Grecian-style columns and graceful floor to ceiling windows, occupies a delightful position in the heart of its 61-acres Selkirk estate.

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THE fragile target of keeping global temperatures to a 1.5C rise, agreed at November’s Glasgow COP26 climate change summit, remains “alive,” Alok Sharma, the COP President, has insisted but he warned the window of time to keep it so was “clos...

ASK Gordon Buchanan about his most memorable wildlife encounters and he is spoiled for choice – perhaps no surprise after three decades of adventures that have taken the presenter and filmmaker to almost every corner of the globe.

A POIGNANT ceremony is to be held to mark the official opening of the first phase of Scotland’s Covid Memorial just weeks after reaching the fundraising target.

THE Scots finalist of the Queen’s Platinum Pudding contest might have lost out on being crowned the winner, but is ready to head to Balmoral if she is asked.

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London-headquartered KultraLab is opening a new "product hub" in Edinburgh in a move that will double its workforce with the creation of 25 jobs.

By Ian McConnell

THEY were the last age group to be offered Covid vaccinations, and uptake has been notably sluggish.

By Ian McConnell

IF I’M honest, I still think Radiohead peaked on their second album The Bends. However, this is, if Archive on 4 (Radio 4, Saturday) is to be believed, a minority position. It’s the band’s third album, 1997’s OK Computer, which is seen as the...

IT has been apparent for some time that the parliamentary system at Holyrood is not working at all well. The recent exchanges about the ferries fiasco have demonstrated this clearly ("Swinney denies he gave the ‘final nod’ to Calmac contract", Th...

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THEY are on their way. Seville is bracing itself for a red, white and blue invasion and Rangers are preparing for their shot at glory.

THEY are microscopic single-cell organisms at the very base of the food chain and hard to spot with the naked eye.

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