Home Secretary Priti Patel has said Conservative MPs writing letters of no-confidence in Boris Johnson is a "sideshow".

I HAVE never met Ross Greer. Despite him being an MSP for West Scotland, and the Scottish Green Party’s spokesman for “International Development and External Affairs, Education and Skills, and Culture and Media” (no opinion on the price of fish...

AN emergency scheme to combat drought has been introduced in Scotland while much of the country has been given an early warning of water scarcity.

NATIONALISED ScotRail is facing months of chaos, after a 'final' 4.2% staff pay offer was rejected without ever being put to train drivers.

THE Edinburgh International Conference Centre has taken on the management and operations of Convention Edinburgh.

By Ian McConnell

Borgen

I remember once speaking to a nice old guy who worked on the royal yacht Britannia from the day of its launch in Clydebank in 1953 to the day he retired in the 1980s and it seemed to me that his experiences pretty much summed up our difficult, comple...

THE trickle looks like it could turn into a flood.

Leading economist Carolyn Wilkins has flagged the dangers of external threats to the UK financial system even as inflation remains “top of mind” for domestic households, businesses and policymakers.

Scotland has a drug problem. Over the past two decades, overdoses have soared and, in 2020, the country recorded its largest ever number of drug-related deaths.

Over the last few months, UK immigration policy has been making news headlines. Rarely are they positive.

On the night of February 23, a Russian programmer was online with friends from Moscow. They warned him to leave Berdyansk immediately. Up until the last minute, Ukrainians never believed this war would start.

TWO weekends ago, the hashtag #BalmoralHotelIncident went viral on Twitter.

By Ian McConnell

Parsley Box cut its losses in the first five months of this year but revenue growth remains stalled as order volumes have failed to rebound.

THE Scottish distillery behind Pickering’s Gin is to expand with plans to double its capacity and enter Scotch whisky markets around the world.

UP until a few weeks ago we were still being asked to believe that education, specifically closing the attainment gap between rich and poor children in Scotland, was the defining mission and the No 1 priority of the Nicola Sturgeon regime. Yesterday ...

Scotland's national opera has been criticised for continuing to display the name of the disgraced billionaire American donors accused of fuelling a drugs catastrophe in the US.

Theatre

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

NOSTALGIA, perhaps a little disproportionately, was once punishable by death. Swiss soldiers in the 1600s faced the axeman at the merest hint of dewy-eyed longing for the past. Nostalgia made them useless in a fight, you see. Nobody wants a soppy sol...

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A train drivers union has claimed the "ball is clearly in Scotrail's corner" after it rejected a 4.3% pay increase offer.

The Queen's 70-year reign is being marked with events across the UK, with the firs in many area being the lighting of beacons.

Cryptocurrencies are exploding in popularity and continue to grow in 2022. Part of that is because of the skyrocketing prices of some of those crypto assets.

We've said goodbye to a number of people in the public eye in 2022, including Meat Loaf, Ronnie Spector and Barry Cryer.

With all the street parties set to occur over the Platinum Jubilee weekend, the supermarkets have a number of great discounts for shoppers to make use of.

The RAC estimated that 19.5 million leisure trips by road will take place between Wednesday and Sunday.

Johnny Depp winsdefamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard, getting $15 million in damages.

Scotland's top police officer and the writer best known for the fictional detective John Rebus have both been knighted.

EXPERTS have warned that more than 200,000 extra Scots could be forced into the highest tax band by 2028 – using “baseline assumptions” that SNP ministers will freeze the higher-rate threshold.

THE SCOTTISH Government has extended the deadline for the census by another two weeks.

NICOLA Sturgeon has insisted that spending £20m on holding a second independence referendum is “a really good investment”.

Boris Johnson claimed quitting as Prime Minister over the “miserable” partygate scandal would be irresponsible and denied suggestions he is a “habitual liar”.

THE SCOTTISH Greens have snubbed a Holyrood debate on the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, with MSPs walking out of the chamber ahead of tributes to the monarch’s 70 year reign.

Dundee Airport has deployed its emergency team to remove the aircraft from the runway, with the runway remaining closed until 4pm.

NATIONALISED ScotRail is facing months of chaos, after the train drivers union rejected ScotRail's 'final' 4.2% pay offer.

THE Hyatt Hotels Corporation has announced the signing of the franchise agreement with the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) to operate a new 350-room hotel in the Scottish capital.

COSLA has demanded an urgent meeting with the First Minister and Finance Secretary Kate Forbes, warning that the Scottish Government’s billion-pound cut to budgets will mean “fewer jobs and cuts to services.”

A MAN has died following an incident in Johnstone.

The pressure on Boris Johnson has continued to grow as criticism from his own MPs rises following the publication of the Sue Gray report.

SCOTTISH voters are split down the middle on independence but united in their dislike of Boris Johnson, according to a new poll.

ONE of Scotland's busiest ferry services is expected to be hit during the Jubilee bank holiday weekend after a new fault with a lifeline vessel.

The First Minister met with Kira Rudik, a member of the Ukrainian parliament and the leader of the country's liberal Golos party at Holyrood. 

KATE Forbes has rejected claims that cuts to public spending will result in a “slash and burn” of frontline services.

A FACTORY in Glasgow has been forced to evacuate and halt operations due to Palestine Action Scotland activists.

The 'Tyre Extinguishers', the group which is leading a global movement targeting "gas-guzzling" SUVs also claimed to have deflated tyres on 10 cars in Edinburgh. 

By Ian McConnell

WOOD, the Aberdeen-based energy services giant, has sold its built environment consulting business for around $1.9 billion (£1.5bn).