Nicola Sturgeon is set to miss First Minister's Questions today as she continues to recover from Covid-19.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to announce a new billion-pound package of measures today, but Kirsty Blackman said the measures have been "held back". 

When experts suggested the idea of a double hand transplant the father-of-three initially dismissed the idea but then decided to go ahead despite the risks.

Voters think Scotland should continue to be home to Trident nuclear weapons if it splits from the United Kingdom, a poll has suggested.

Tennis star Emma Raducanu has revealed, in an interview with Elle magazine, that her biggest dream is to play mixed doubles with Andy Murray.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak will today announce a new billion pound package of measures to deal with the cost of living crisis.

BORIS Johnson was meant to be doing a lot of apologising yesterday, to the public, to parliament, and to Conservative MPs. The impression Downing Street gave was that the Prime Minister was ready, in the manner of a radio quiz contestant, to say sorr...

By Ian McConnell

Greater urgency is needed across Scotland to stop the lives of babies, infants, children and young people in care from being “determined by their circumstances.”

THE Scottish tourism industry is braced for a difficult first full summer coming out of coronavirus with major staffing problems, rising costs and fewer bookings than expected creating a challenging backdrop this year.

It’s always struck me as odd that someone like me – the child of two committed republicans – should have spent so much time at Royal celebrations as a kid. Silver jubilee. Britannia docking at Caithness (several times). Braemar Games (many time...

A drive to expand free early learning and childcare (ELC) is under threat from Government-imposed conditions that are creating yawning pay gaps and driving nursery staff to leave for jobs in shops, MSPs have been warned.

HAS the office market in Scotland put Covid behind it?

IN any normal week the parliamentary findings on Britain’s handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan would surely still be dominating the news agenda.

It links one of Glasgow's busiest city centre streets with Glamis Castle and the Lanarkshire town of Airdrie.

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

WHAT goes on behind the Black Door? Sounds like the title of an Algernon Blackwood story. But, no, the Black Door under advisement is that at Number 10 Downing Street, a portal mentioned frequently during proceedings in yonder London Parliament.

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on Partygate report May 26 2022

SUE Gray needs a holiday. In fact, we all need a holiday. Except Dominic Raab. He already had one, when he was Foreign Secretary, and the Taliban were taking control of Afghanistan. Remember?

FORGET Sue Gray. You don’t need a civil servant to mediate the truth for you. Trust what you see with your own eyes, and hear with your own ears.

Footy faux pas

Eva Mireles was one of the two teachers killed at Robb Elementary school in the south-western Texas on Tuesday.

The prediction comes amid reports the Queen’s Bank Holiday weekend could be the hottest of the year.

Boris Johnson is facing mounting pressure over Downing Street parties as the government prepares for what is expected to be a "quite critical" final report by senior civil servant Sue Gray.

THE SNP will be ousted from power in the capital after Labour and the LibDems agreed a deal with the Tories to seize control.

A woman has been charged in connection with the alleged vandalism of three Barclays banks across Scotland.

DOUGLAS Ross has said that Boris Johnson does not have his "unqualified support" to continue as Prime Minister - suggesting the only reason he continues to back him is the war in Ukraine.

Scotland's health officials have confirmed they are investigating a “small number” of possible monkeypox cases. 

PUPILS were left horrified when maggots fell from the ceiling on to their desks in class.

Former Trainspotting and Grey's Anatomy actor Kevin Kidd has been pictured in Glasgow city centre filming the new ITV drama The Elect.

THE historic Caledonian Brewery on Edinburgh’s Slateford Road is to close down, putting 30 jobs at risk.

Weddings set to be held in a picturesque Scots castle face being cancelled or moved to its grounds as inspections could see its doors closed for months to come.

CHRISTIAN protesters have staged a second anti-abortion demonstration outside a sexual health clinic in Glasgow

BORIS Johnson has claimed staff thought they were "working" when they held parties in Downing Street until 4am.

NECESSITY being the mother of invention and all that, perhaps it’s time to re-think our attitudes to the impending cost-of-living apocalypse. Rather than seeing the steep energy, fuel and food price rises as a threat to our all-round contentment pe...

DOUGLAS Ross has been told to “salvage any remnant of self-respect" and again call on Boris Johnson to quit over the Sue Gray report into the partygate scandal.

It comes as 277,000 suspicious contact attempts were reported to the HMRC in the twelve months running up to April 2022. 

THE CHAIR of Scotland’s coronavirus inquiry has promised bereaved families that she won’t “shy away” from uncovering the Scottish Government’s “wrong decisions” over the pandemic.

THE PRIME Minister has begun his day of apologies after the publication of the Sue Gray report.

BORIS Johnson has been warned his “dithering and his delay” to tackle the cost-of-living crisis has added £53 million to householders’ soaring bills.

BORIS Johnson has received Sue Gray’s report on lockdown-busting parties in Downing Street and Whitehall.

SUE Gray has provided detail of individual events which took place in Downing Street during the pandemic.

A DAMNING report into lawbreaking parties in Downing Street has been published.

Krishna Singh, 72, was convicted of 54 charges, mainly of indecent and sexual assault, following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow which ended last month.

A GLASGOW manufacturer of graphics and signage solutions has hailed  a major link-up with global big-screen company.

SSE has told Chancellor Rishi Sunak that a windfall tax could put £15 billion of investment in Scotland at risk.

SUPPORT for independence remains at the same level it was since Nicola Sturgeon took over as First Minister more than seven years ago.

THE REPORT into parties and lawbreaking across Whitehall has been handed to No.10.

The shooting in Texas is America’s deadliest school shooting since 20 children and six adults died at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut in late 2012.

SCOTTISH ministers have been urged to back a new UK law on gene editing, with Boris Johnson's environment secretary promising it will “tackle the challenges of our age”.