Summer is on the horizon – and with it the potential for sunnier days and more opportunities to get out and explore. Hitting the road is one of the best ways to do just that, with an engine and four wheels allowing you to check out here, there and ...

The wild salmon is telling us something and we refuse to listen. It is, as the Prince of Wales once put it, “an aquatic canary” in the coalmine. This is a fish whose life journey takes it through fresh and marine water environments, and provides ...

By Scott Wright

SKYRORA, the Edinburgh-based rocket company, has appointed SpaceX veteran Lee Rosen as chief operations officer as it gears up for its maiden launch from British soil, in Shetland.

“It's a very volatile situation – we’re not allowed to stray from our hotels… Because we’re European, we’ll be immediate targets for criminality.”

For all the dialogue on the demise of high street shopping – which was under pressure even prior to the landslide triggered by Covid restrictions – the fact remains that brick and mortar outlets can make money, and online retailers can lose it.

By Walter Humes

A POST office worker’s life has been saved by a quick-thinking optician.

Workspace provider Pure Offices has acquired its first site in Glasgow as part of its continuing expansion in Scotland.

By Scott Wright

By Ian McConnell

Scots living in the poorest areas can now only expect to live in good health until they are 47 in a "worrying" reversal of population improvements.

LIAR, adulterer, law breaker, incompetent. Boris Johnson may be known for many things, but for some reason his athletic prowess never tends to feature.

I AM sure there are many Glaswegians who feel a deep sense of embarrassment, and perhaps anger, at the lack of the official response to Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee by the city council over this four-day bank holiday.

THE constitution has a distorting Hall of Mirrors effect on Scottish politics. SNP supporters put up with, even celebrate, policies which would have them screaming from the rooftops if they came from the Tories or Labour. SNP foot soldiers defend and...

By Scott Wright

Farming

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

By Jamie Livingstone

Steven Camley’s take on PM's no confidence vote June 7 2022

WHEN Thomas Jefferson, the architect of the Declaration of American Independence and who would later become the third President of the United States of America, wrote that “all men are created equal”, he was not only a prosperous Virginian plante...

NOTABLE anniversaries do not stop with the jubilee and there is one due this coming weekend which brings back memories from my own political scrapbook. Far from pomp and circumstance, they are of an event held on the island of Eigg on June 12th 1997 ...

The Prime Minister has vowed to carry on despite more than two-fifths of his MPs declaring him unfit for the job.

The CMA provissional judgement alleges that the club and others fixed the retail prices of a number of Rangers-branded replica kits

Scots suffering the worst affects of alcoholism did not change their drinking habits once minimum pricing was introduced, with some of the poorest cutting back on food and energy so they could continue to buy drink, a study has found.

The Scottish First Minister will make the plea at talks taking place in Bonn where she will contribute by video address

The Prime Minister has cast the result of the poll as ‘an extremely good, positive, conclusive, decisive result which enables us to move on’

Tory MPs voted by 211 to 148 in support of the Prime Minister yesterday in the confidence vote

Scotland’s Home of the Year

THEY are among the most stunning and beautiful homes on Scotland, but out of the nine finalists there could only be one winner.

BORIS Johnson has won a vote of no confidence, but 41 per cent of his MPs voted against him.

BORIS Johnson has lost the Scottish Conservative party, with four out of the party's six MPs calling for him to be removed from post. 

PLANNING consent is being sought for the development of nearly 400 new residential apartments in Port Dundas, Glasgow.

Sottish Conservative Leader Douglas Ross was accused of "doing a donut" after he performed another u-turn over Boris Johnson's leadership.

A POLL of Tory party members by the influential ConservativeHome website has found a majority want MPs to remove Boris Johnson from office tonight.

BrewDog and Australian Venue Co (AVC) announced a new franchise deal today for Australia.

Three years ago tomorrow, nominations opened in the Tory leadership contest, as ten of the party's MP sought to replace Theresa May.

JACOB REES-Mogg has said Boris Johnson can stay in office if he wins by a single vote tonight despite previously demanding Theresa May quit after she won by 83.

BORIS Johnson has warned his MPs they will not be forgiven by their electors and only help the Tories’ opponents if they vote to remove him from office tonight.

Tory MP John Penrose has resigned as the government's anti-corruption tsar, saying the Prime Minister has "breached a fundamental principle of the ministerial code".

Douglas Ross's time as Scottish Tory leader is over unless he stands up to Boris Johnson, Labour's Anas Sarwar has said.

BORIS Johnson’s cabinet have taken to social media to express their support for the beleaguered Prime Minister ahead of a confidence vote by Tory MPs tonight.

ONLINE sustainable natural wool brand The Tartan Blanket Co. is to open its first bricks-and-mortar store this month.

TORY MPs who vote to keep Boris Johnson in office tonight will "be insulting everyone who made sacrifices during the pandemic," the Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has said.

Secretary of State for Scotland, Alister Jack has said he will back Boris Johnson in tonight's vote of no confidence.

A FORMER Tory minister has savaged Boris Johnson’s leadership failures and accused him of presiding over a “culture of casual law-breaking” in Downing Street.

The Isle of May, a wedge of volcanic greenstone rising up out of the Firth of Forth, is possibly best known for its birds. Over 285 species have been recorded there, including thirteen key species of seabird.

IT is a short trip from the pavement to the Great West Door of St Paul’s Cathedral. Barely a hop, skip and a jump compared to the 528-step hike to the dome. To Boris Johnson and his wife, however, it must have felt like an ascent of Everest when th...

MINISTERS are breaching the law on safe staffing by allowing the enlisting of students to fill gaps in nursing cover in the NHS in Scotland, a new investigation has found.

By Scott Wright