PLANS to develop a huge whisky facility at a former military site on the outskirts of the Scottish capital have been unveiled.

THERE is one man who bears heavy responsibility for the current farce playing out at Westminster, and it is not Boris Johnson.

DOWNING Street has condemned plans for major rail strikes planned for later this month as "selfish" and "an act of self-harm" as ScotRail warned it may not be able to run any services in any walk out.

HAVE you a good eye for an investment? The First Minister reckons she has.

ONE of the UK’s largest community-led nature and climate projects based in Scotland has received a £1m public money boost - described as a "major gamechanger".

STATE-CONTROLLED CalMac has been warned that it faces costly legal challenges over 'unlawful' proposals to charge users for cancelling a booking.

Recruitment firm Eden Scott has predicted it is on course to return to pre-pandemic staffing levels as it rebounds from its first loss-making year since it was set up in 2003.

A PIONEERING Scottish company has linked with one of the oldest family-run healthcare firms in the UK to create a new dissolvable wipe product.

When the Scottish Government launched its policy on minimum pricing for alcohol, the aims were clear. Alex Salmond said it would tackle the scourge of alcoholism on Scottish society and families. Nicola Sturgeon said it would reduce the significant h...

A BID to transform the Glasgow region into a green freeport will place Scotland “at the forefront of global trade and decarbonisation”, business leaders have insisted.

IT is unlikely to be well received by green campaigners. But recently announced tax breaks look to have ensured that investment in North Sea oil and gas extraction continues to be attractive for energy companies – despite the introduction of a wind...

By Ian McConnell

SCOTLAND could have what is claimed will be its first plastic-to-hydrogen power plant by late next year now plans are approved.

CANCER patients will face increasingly long waits for life-saving scans and diagnoses within four years according to a report which forecasts that Scotland’s NHS is headed for a growing shortfall of radiologists.

I WOULD like to add some balance to the criticism of the Tory leader in Scotland, Douglas Ross, for having u-turned and even double u-turned in relation to the conduct of the Prime Minister (“Ross accused of doing a ‘donut’ as he calls for the ...

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By Christine Vennard

IT’S with great trembling and much tribulation that I come to confirm rumours of the return of the 1970s to be true. Bellbottoms – the antichrist of fashion – seem to flap from around every corner.

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on football train woes June 9 2022

CALM down, readers, it’s only Prime Minister’s Questions. Oh, you are calm?

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A six-month review by Ofgem has been published following the storm which brought trees down across Scotland and England

House prices in Scotland are expected to keep climbing despite a fall in the number of buyers

THE Scottish Government is being forced to manage the economy with "one hand tied behind our back," the SNP's finance secretary has said.

Campaigners have launched a legal bid to put a stop to UK Government plans to send asylum seekers and refugees to Rwanda.

Transport minister Jenny Gilruth declined to apologise to the Tartan Army after nationalised ScotRail told fans they will have to leave the Scotland’s first Nations League fixture before the game ends if they want to get home.

By Ian McConnell

Deputy presiding officer Annabelle Ewing had to call for "calm" after a row erupted whether transport secretary was "abdicating responsibility" in the continuing row over the ScotRail dispute.

YouGov has denied blocking the release of a poll that was “too positive” for Labour.

SCOTLAND'S answer to the Mercury music prize is to move from its previous Edinburgh home to Stirling.

EDINBURGH is facing a “crunch point” because no new office space is under construction in the city centre, despite a strong rise in demand, a prominent property firm has declared.

PLANS for a pioneeering £20m facility to turn waste plastic into hydrogen in Scotland have been approved.

LABOUR peer George Foulkes has urged Boris Johnson to stop the Scottish Government spending money on a future independence referendum.

A workman who dumped 51 tonnes of tyres on waste ground has been jailed for 11 months.

Former Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein is facing two criminal charges of indecent assault against a woman in London in 1996.

Across the UK, 321 cases of monkeypox have now been detected with the vast majority being found in England. 

You begin to experience flashes of Ted Striker, the sweating pilot on Airplane: but not in a funny way.

BIRD flu is “intensifying fast in Scotland,” the RSPB has warned, with reports of thousands of dead or dying birds.

A world-leading specialist has been named as the Scottish Government's new chief scientist for health.

TOURISM chiefs have underlined the importance of the Scotch whisky industry to its recovery from the pandemic, as a new campaign was launched by the country’s biggest distiller.

A Scottish dental business has acquired its third practice after securing six-figure bank backing.

Members of the public were urged to avoid the area surrounding Buchanan Bus Station.

BORIS Johnson has been accused of trying to cling to power despite Unionist leaders and politicians in Scotland refusing to back him as he was labeled a “lame duck Prime Minister”.

More than £1 million is owed by thousands of Scottish families unable to pay for school meals, a charity has revealed.

A Glasgow firm making self-watering origami plant pots from waste polypropylene has been named the country's best new business of the year at the inaugural Scotland StartUp Awards.

IT is not taxing to decide whose version of what has caused the chaos affecting passenger air travel for people in the UK is the most credible.

TED Baker has seen its shares drop by more than a fifth after the frontrunner to take over the fashion chain pulled out of the process.