IT was during a beach clean last week that we noticed them – first a dead guillemot, washed up on the sand, then another dead bird, further down a beach, and yet another, so decayed it was hard for us to tell what it was.

MINISTERS are at the centre of new row over a failure to engage over public sector pay disputes as police officers consider industrial action in rejecting a "derisory" flat £565 annual pay rise after the sanctioning of train drivers getting increase...

SCOTLAND has lost more than 27,000 manufacturing jobs during the pandemic, leading to fresh concerns about the green jobs revolution in Scotland.

A DEDICATED space to address Scotland’s role in empire, colonialism, and historic slavery should be created and led by a new organisation as well as tackling racism are among the key recommendations of a report submitted to the Scottish Government.

Earth Blox has completed its first round of external funding as it seeks to break into new markets for its earth observation technology.

By Ian McConnell

THE UK Government’s refusal to adopt EU plans for a universal charger is bad for consumers and the environment, the SNP’s Foreign Affairs spokesman has said.

By Scott Wright

By Scott Wright

Getting Scotland’s transport infrastructure right is the key to unlocking sustained economic growth.

PATIENTS in Glasgow are facing waits of up to two years for routine osteoporosis scans amid a shortage of radiographers.

THE Scottish Government’s rejection of new gene-editing legislation has been criticised by farmers and scientists.

Scottish housebuilder Avant is set to bring more than 300 homes to Edinburgh after receiving planning permission from the council for a new £71 million development.

A medical spin-out from the University of Strathclyde is preparing for expansion after signing a lease on new office and laboratory facilities.

FOR a lesson on just how rotten politics is, look to America. Politics has broken America. It’s now perfectly normal to discuss the death of American democracy, or Republican states seceding from the union, or even some contemporary version of a ci...

Farming

Punk pioneer Dame Vivienne Westwood has expanded her flagship Scottish store in a show of confidence for Glasgow's battered retail sector.

THOSE of us who lived through the 1960s and 70s are well aware of the issues around inflation and pay policy. In both these decades we had variations of statutory and voluntary incomes policies primarily driven by the pressure to reduce the high infl...

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

Wordle's tougher and more challenging cousin, Quordle is a daily headscratcher. Here are some tips to help you crack the puzzle and the answer when you give up!

What is today's Heardle? Some hints to help you guess the song and artist. Plus the answer for when you've given up!

It might not have quite the same wow factor as gazing heavenwards at the Michaelangelo masterpiece for real.

I WONDER what happened to Natasha and Verushka, the two nice girls in Kyiv who painted me orange?

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on cancelled flights June 14 2022

IT should not come as a surprise that Audit Scotland is to have its budget slashed at a time when its role has never been more necessary; identifying inefficiencies in order to free up money for supposed priorities.

GLASGOW writer Denise Mina is impressed with the dust jacket for the American edition of her novel, Confidence. She admits the colour scheme makes her “laugh out loud with its glorious audacity”

LIZ Truss has accused the EU of overreacting to the UK Government’s plans to unilaterally override the Northern Ireland protocol.

Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed the unemployment rate for those aged 16 and over between February and April this year was 3.2%

Mark Diffley, Director of the polling firm The Diffley Partnership, said that support for either camp as “statistically a dead heat”.

A MAN fell 15 metres during Harry Styles’s concert in Ibrox Stadium on Saturday, this is just the latest tale of someone suffering injuries at a music concert.

What is today's Framed? Some hints to help you guess the movie. Plus the answer for when you've given up!

Several Scottish spots have been named among Tripadvisor's winners of its 2022 Travellers’ Choice “Best of the Best” Things to Do Awards.

Aldi has become the first UK supermarket to launch ice cream for dogs and to celebrate they are sending vendors to Scotland.

Court of Appeal judges have rejected a last-ditch legal bid to block the first flight due to relocate asylum seekers to Rwanda under a controversial UK Government policy.

High schools in Dundee face the threat of wider industrial action amid a dispute over plans to remove principal teacher posts.

SCOTTISH independence would weaken NATO by “removing part of its nuclear defence,” Ben Wallace has told MPs.

A Glasgow boatyard has delivered what is said to be the world's first fully recyclable working vessel as it prepares to expand sales globally creating hundreds of jobs.

The competition regulator has announced it will carry out a “short and focused review” of fuel prices.

FIVE former ministers from across the political divide have called on the SNP Government to back the North Sea oil and gas sector – while Westminster has been urged to pledge support for carbon capture technology.

CHILDREN’S charities and the Liberal Democrats have hit out after millions of pounds earmarked for closing the attainment gap were spent on so-called 'campus cops'.

NICOLA Sturgeon and Patrick Harvie will launch the first in a series of papers setting out a new prospectus for independence tomorrow.

By Ian McConnell

A Scottish castle featured in the hit series Outlander reopened to the public on Monday after a year-long closure.

SCOTCH whisky and gin producer Eden Mill has agreed a new partnership with the Lawn Tennis Association – its first sponsorship outside Scotland.

The UK economy has shrunk for the second month in a row in April prompting further recession fears.

THE PRIME Minister has admitted “a lot of teething problems” with controversial plans to send refugees to Rwanda – ahead of a second legal case to block the move.

POLICE are carrying out arrests of members of a human blockade outside the UK nuclear weapons base in Scotland.

LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer is being investigated by Parliament's sleaze watchdog over allegations he broke rules on registering outside earnings, gifts, benefits and hospitality.

SNP transport minister Jenny Gilruth and former Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale have tied the knot at a ceremony in Fife.

BREXIT backing multimillionaire Arron Banks has lost a libel action against a journalist who accused him of lying about his relationship with the Kremlin