THE heat, in many parts of the world, has arrived early. It’s only May, but last weekend temperatures in some regions of Spain were around 15 degrees above average for the time of year. Rangers fans sizzled in Seville last week, the issue for some ...

STATE-CONTROLLED ScotRail cancelled or curtailed more than 60 train trips due to driver shortages on the day over a third of services were scrapped "to give greater certainty" to the public.

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SNP and Green ministers have been accused of putting their “constitutional obsession” ahead of Scotland’s food security.

The financial outlook for most people in the UK has never been gloomier, with consumer confidence now weaker than in the darkest days after the global banking collapse. Already hampered by a decade of austerity and the fall-out from Brexit, the UK ec...

SCOTRAIL’S trains may not be the only thing not running this weekend.

A NEW report has called on the UK Government to move "immediately" to give the green light to the Scottish carbon capture and storage cluster.

By Scott Wright

ALL academic instinct and training suggest that Professor Sir Tom Devine (“FM’s legacy ‘will be defined by delivery or not of independence...’, May 23) is wrong. There is no place in historical enquiry for the concept ‘regardless’. Yet he...

Covid led to serious heart damage in “healthy” middle-aged patients who were more likely to die as a result, a major Scottish study found.

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Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on the Sue Gray report

WHEN, in 1919, the useful idiot Lincoln Steffens declared of the Soviet Union, “I have seen the future; and it works” (a line he came up with before he had actually gone there), he was wrong. But that’s Marxist determination for you.

I FELT some sympathy for the SNP’s transport minister, Jenny Gilruth, as she tied herself in knots yesterday, on Good Morning Scotland. The faster she spoke, the tighter they became.

INDEPENDENCE is starting to feel like that suit of clothes you left in the wardrobe and didn’t try on again until after pandemic. It doesn’t seem to really fit anymore. Maybe the wearer has changed – perhaps a bit bigger thanks to Covid binge-w...

Labour said there was now “no doubt” that Mr Johnson had “lied” to MPs

Political pressure has mounted on the UK Government for a one-off additional tax to fund support for customers facing higher energy bills

Fewer than two fifths (38%) of those who responded said they agreed with the Bill

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Travel back in time with Google Map's 'time travel' Street View feature now on your smartphone.

SCOTTISH legislation on living wills is “ambiguous and incomplete” and risks putting patients' “human rights in jeopardy,” according to a damning new report from the Law Society of Scotland.

SCOTTISH Conservative leader Douglas Ross has called on the Prime Minister to explain himself after a series of photographs emerged of him at a lockdown-busting party.

THE PRIME Minister told MPs that there was "no party" on the same date he is pictured attending one.

A SERIES of bombshell photographs of a party in Downing Street appear to cast doubt on the Prime Minister's claims that he did not know of any rulebreaking during lockdown.

Braehead Shopping Centre has hailed the opening of H&M’s new store at the mall.

THE SCOTTISH Government’s most senior civil servant has demanded officials take a “rigorous approach” to record-keeping after a key ferries contract document temporarily went missing.

THE UK Government's education secretary has been asked to give advice to Holyrood on teaching practices amid claims Scotland's standards are "in freefall".

A NEW study has warned that a state-owned bank is “unfocused and ill-conceived" - amid calls being made for a re-set of its operations.

A UNION has accused ministers of being "inflammatory, unreasonable and factually incorrect" in blaming train drivers for a pay dispute impasse that has led to major cuts to nationalised ScotRail services.

A LIBDEM councillor has been nominated by the SNP to become Edinburgh’s new lord provost as a deal to run the city will be put out to Green members to be approved tomorrow.

CHURCH of Scotland ministers will be able to conduct same-sex marriages after the General Assembly backed a change in policy by 274 votes to 136.

DOWNING Street officials arranged the meeting between Sue Gray and Boris Johnson, a spokesman has confirmed.

A BORDERS village has seen the return of rail services for the first time in 58 years - with the opening of Britain's newest railways station.

NICOLA Sturgeon has urged Scots to get their Covid jags saying the virus has left her “knocked for six”.

A LIBERAL Democrat MP has tabled a motion in an attempt to force the government to publish minutes of a controversial meeting.

WORK is to get under way on the flagship building of a new civic centre in Edinburgh.

Here is a look at some of the last ScotRail train times amid the temporary cuts in Monday to Friday services. 

IT could all come down to the photos. That is the thinking as Westminster readies for the publication of Sue Gray’s report into Downing Street parties during lockdown.With fines issued and the police investigation concluded, the senior civil servan...

I recently described how a long-anticipated holiday in Gran Canaria turned into a nightmare. To recap briefly, I became very ill and in need of urgent, lifesaving surgery. Thankfully, I hadn’t skimped on insurance and had taken out a top-of-the-ran...

I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed. Labour, the Lib Dems, and some independents have struck a deal to run a Scottish council and the SNP and its supporters have called it a “unionist pact”. Others in the party have called it a “backroom d...

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Very little renewable energy is produced in London. So why is the daily standing charge there the lowest in Britain by a country mile? You don’t have to be a "raving nationalist" to ask.

Is Scotland the most gullible country in the world? Our First Minister seems to think so. The Sunday National published a rare article written by her yesterday in which she announces that “now is the time to debate independence”. She doesn’t qu...

By Scott Wright

IT WAS hailed as one of the platforms which helped Glasgow reinvent itself as a city of cultural significance and attracted more than four million visitors in just five months.

SCOTLAND is not facing “Covid Two”, a leading scientist has said, after a patient tested positive for monkeypox.

A 'LANDMARK' in Glasgow’s east end is in line for a £1.7 million refurbishment.

A CAMPAIGNER whose daughter died from a deep vein thrombosis days after warning doctors she was ill said he is "very disappointed" by figures showing an increase in blood clot deaths among females under 40.

By Scott Wright