A SHOPPING centre in West Lothian that is home to a host of big-name retailers is up for sale with a price tag of nearly £20 million.

“Measly” was the word Scottish Labour MSP Monica Lennon used, quoted in an article in the Ferret and this paper, to the revelation that Scotland’s six offshore wind farms had paid just £150,000 to nearby communities in the last 12 months. Ther...

By Ian McConnell

HAVE you completed your census yet? Today's the last day to do it, thanks to an extension introduced due to lack of engagement.

SCOTLAND’S state-owned investment bank is to spend £175,000 on headhunters to help find a new boss after the last one resigned in mysterious cirumstances.

MORE than 4000 NHS beds have been cut by the Scottish Government in the past 12 years prompting fears that patients are being put in danger.

DISCARDED cigarette butts and disposable vaping products are having "devastating" impacts on Scotland’s beaches and waters, according to leading public health and environment representatives.

THE SNP cabinet minister in charge of Scotland’s census will be out of the country on the final day of the exercise today as opponents warn it has turned into a “fiasco”.

KATE Forbes has hinted she will cut back some public services in today’s four-year spending review, saying it would “prioritise public investment in areas that will deliver the greatest change for Scotland and help tackle the cost of living crisi...

Christopher Harrison’s career has been much like the fairy tales he performs on stage, and he credits a local dance teacher who visited his primary school for making it happen.

Scottish entrepreneur Robert Kilgour has secured £30 million from an unnamed investor to nearly double the size of his Renaissance care home chain within the next three years.

SMITHS News has said it expects its bad debt risk from the administration of McColl's to be between £3.4 million to £4.5m.

THE construction of lochside slipways and the installation of electric charging infrastructure for an electric barge are among projects included in £7 million forestry-based funding round.

SNOOP Dog, Jay-Z, Dr Dre, Nadine Dorries. Forget Straight Outta Compton, we’re talking Straight Outta Da Commons.

SICKENING damage to a memorial in Spain for a Scot killed abroad has been discovered as the 10th anniversary of his death.

By Scott Wright

Pay for chief executives of FTSE 100 companies has returned to pre-pandemic levels amid a high degree of support from investors, but the year ahead could prove “more challenging” as the cost-of-living crisis continues.

BUSINESS confidence in Scotland rose 14 points during May to 42 per cent, the highest reading since June 2021, according to the latest business barometer from Bank of Scotland.

THERE seems to be a new iron rule in Scottish politics. If Holyrood insists on doing things differently from the UK Government, the outcome is worse.

The cost-of-living crisis has been dominating the policy debate across the UK, although perhaps not as singly as some political figures may hope.

WHEREVER you look decency is getting its throat cut. If you've power and money, then you can do whatever the hell you want. But if you're poor and powerless, tough luck, sucker, you're going to suffer.

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Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

WITH 90,000 civil servants soon to lose their jobs, it’s reassuring to hear that the government is making sure Whitehall’s reduced workforce will be deployed on critical priorities.

YOU may have missed it with everything else going on, but Scotland last week acquired a new Board to accompany a new Strategy, two commodities with which any reasonable person might think we are already awash.

Mind your language

Mortality rates in the UK ceased to fall as quickly as in previous years in 2012

A steady stream of Tories have backed a ballot to decide the PM’s future, or called for Boris Johnson to step down

The Queen is the first British monarch to celebrate the occasion having acceded to the throne on 6th February 1952, when she was just 25-years-old.

SCOTRAIL has warned the Tartan Army to ‘plan ahead’ as last minute alterations will not stop the last trains from some towns and cities from leaving before Scotland’s World Cup play-off with Ukraine kicks off tomorrow.

THE prospect of thousands of Scots local authority workers from cleaners and binmen to care workers and school staff going on strike this summer in pay disputes has come a step closer as another union launched a strike ballot.

HMRC is now tracking 277 UK businesses it suspects of using tax havens to artificially reduce their tax bills in the UK, said law firm Pinsent Masons.

A FORMER attorney general has called for Boris Johnson to resign.

COMPANIES would be banned from destroying unsold goods as part of widespread plans by the Scottish Government to eliminate waste.

NATIONALISED ScotRail has warned the Tartan Army to 'plan ahead' as extra trains will not stop the last services from Glagsow to major cities from leaving before Scotland's World Cup play-off with Ukraine starts.

The former goalkeeper vowed to “fight like I’ve never fought before” despite doctors saying he'd have just months to live.

SUPPORT for Douglas Ross from Conservative party members has plummeted, according to a new survey.

A UK minister's idea to replace ferries with underwater tunnels has received a terse response from transport secretary Jenny Gilruth's office.

RURAL roads that are central to the transportation of timber in Scotland are among projects to share in a £7 million fund.

SNP ministers have been accused of climate “rank hypocrisy” after refusing to commit to halting an expansion of aviation and investigate making rail travel a cheaper alternative to flying.

MORE than 400 train services are estimated to have been been hit yesterday due to a shortage of train drivers - despite extensive cuts to the nationalised ScotRail timetable.

SCOTLAND’S food banks have warned the Scottish Government they are struggling to meet a huge rise in demand amid the cost-of-living crisis, with one in three parcels being  given to children and demand outstripping supply.

SUNDAYS can sometimes seem like a twilight zone between the political week just past and the one to come, but are they home to an alternative reality, a parallel universe where things are not as they seem?

At today’s EU summit, Europe’s leaders will continue their tortuous efforts to agree the shape of a Russian oil embargo. And the next summit at the end of June will prove no less challenging when the question of Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova joini...

I was speaking to a guy in the pub the other day who worked on the shipyards in Glasgow for nearly 50 years, starting shortly after the work-in led by Jimmy Reid, and what was really striking as he talked about his long career was how much things hav...

 

“Whole classes” of pupils are leaving primary school without basic reading skills because of a failure to focus on systematic synthetic phonics (SSP), according to a teaching consultant.

There are tough years, and then there are periods of tumult where problems spring up like incessant weeds in an array of awkward places. The latter probably best describes the 14 months since Parsley Box made its debut as a publicly-listed company.

THOSE trade unions are at it again: fighting for their members; trying to secure better pay and conditions.

Two of Scotland’s top entrepreneurs have given a scathing indictment of Boris Johnson, following the publication of the Sue Gray report into Partygate. Speaking on the Go Radio Business Show with Hunter & Haughey, Sir Tom Hunter said: “In 2020 th...