Of all the ways to measure the UK’s standing in the world, the most bizarre has to be the country’s finishing position in Eurovision.

A FORMER senior detective who snared serial killer Peter Tobin believes a couple who were staying at the same apartments where Scots holidaymaker Kirsty Maxwell died could hold vital clues.

By Scott Wright

Clearly, the public vote and overall win went massively – and rightly – to Ukraine's Kalush Orchestra. But Sam Ryder’s belting version of Spaceman won support from national juries across the continent and beyond. Even this independence supporte...

Now, where was I? Ah yes, just about to head off on our first overseas sunny holiday in more than two years. As it turned out, it became the holiday from hell. Anyone planning a similar venture, might be able to learn from our experience. It could he...

How prejudiced am I? How prejudiced are you? I saw a group of drug addicts outside my local café the other day. They were waiting for the chemist to open to get their methadone. They were shouting and swearing and generally causing a bit of a scene....

ANAS Sarwar has insisted that he is intent on transforming Labour back into a party of government in Scotland as he stressed he has cleaned up a legacy of “toxicity” left by his predecessor.

EVERY few years, film emerges of diminutive chaps brandishing rudimentary weapons in a jungle clearing on some remote Pacific island. It’s accompanied by a narrative suggesting that this is one of the world’s last, undiscovered indigenous peoples...

NICOLA Sturgeon is to use a speech in Washington today to warn of the “catastrophic” consequences of failing to meet the climate change targets agreed last year at the Cop26 summit in Glasgow.

RADICAL policies proposed for the capital may never see the light of day after the SNP blamed Anas Sarwar for a failure to form a majority council coalition.

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I read the news reports last week concerning the Scottish sports writers’ awards debacle with increasing dread, a sense of déjà vu and some sympathy if I am honest.

COMPANIES that achieve net zero should benefit from a lower corporation tax rate than those that have not achieved that target business leaders have said.

PETER A Russell (Letters, May 13) suggests that the Labour Party’s problems in Scotland began in 2014. It is certainly true that after this, loss of support became a haemorrhage. However, is the cause only the referendum and Labour’s alliance wit...

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IT is a word full of foreboding that may make us shiver at its utterance, but it seems the truth is, most of us have a ‘doom’ box and the rising trend is not quite as bad as it may sound.

THERE was a satisfying conclusion to the weekend’s Eurovision Song Contest. Some lank-haired chap from the UK – looking like Thor impersonating a Bee Gee impersonating Thor – came second, and beleaguered Ukraine bagged victory (We’re sure the...

Rachel Maclean, safeguarding minister in the Home Office, said famililes could “protect” themselves from soaring energy and food bills and tax rises by working more.

Vapes are being used by young girls as an appetite suppressant prompting concern from Scottish public health experts.

NEWLY-NATIONALISED ScotRail has blamed a "significant number" of pay dispute train drivers as over 400 services were cancelled in the space of just three days.

JUST 45 per cent of Scots want to retain the monarchy, according to a new poll.

BORIS Johnson will head to Belfast tomorrow, in a bid to try and end the political deadlock over the Northern Ireland Protocol.

JAEGER opened its first west of Scotland outlet with Marks and Spencer, in Braehead, this week, following “phenomenal” early interest in the new partnership between the two iconic high street names.

MICHAEL Gove has suggested the House of Lords could decamp to Edinburgh while the Palace of Westminster is being refurbished.

Jeremy Hunt has declined to say whether Boris Johnson is an honest man.

THE Scottish Conservatives have claimed that the "stink of corruption is growing” over the SNP government's ferry fiasco.

RUSSIAN hackers attempted to disrupt Saturday’s Eurovision Song Contest, Italian authorities have said.

Finland’s president and government have confirmed that they will seek to join Nato, despite Russia’s warning that membership would be a "mistake."

SACKED civil servants will be able to find work in farming and fishing, a Scotland Office minister has claimed.

Kadi Johnson spoke of her guilt in encouraging her brother to relocate from London. She also said she would not encourage young black men to make the same move. 

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.

By Kathleen Nutt

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...

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.

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?

Tributes have been paid to one of Glasgow's most influential cultural leaders after his death at the age of 85.

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.

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