LAST Thursday, Boris Johnson proclaimed his Government had a “plan for a stronger economy that has all the makings of the strongest and most prosperous in Europe”.

LAST year, New Zealand announced it planned to become the first country to ban the sale of tobacco to its next generation, with legislation that is due to be passed this year. And when one country starts out on a type of smoking ban generally a whole...

A GROUP OF MPs have criticised UK ministers for failing to acknowledge the unique position of airports in connecting people in Scotland by failing to give adequate support to recover from the pandemic.

By Scott Wright

Shares in iomart tumbled yesterday following a slip in full-year revenues and profits at the cloud computing company, which is eyeing up acquisition targets as it looks to return to growth.

A GLASGOW mural thought lost after decades of searching failed to find any trace of it, has been rediscovered and brought back to the city of its birth.

By Scott Wright

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By Ian McConnell

IT is a courageous moment to launch a referendum campaign, in the midst of a global energy price shock, a UK cost of living crisis, and a European war. But Nicola Sturgeon has made her bed and now she has to lie in it, however uncomfortable the mattr...

ARTIFICIAL intelligence is more reliable in diagnosing acute heart failure than current blood tests alone, according to new research.

I FIND that the layout of the QWERTY keyboard makes it an easy mistake to type the letters SNO when I intend to type SNP. Which is ironic at this time, since the latest “relaunch” of the SNP's independence project seems to increasingly resemble t...

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

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!

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on Indyref2 June 15 2022

THE radio DJ Liz Kershaw could not hide her fury when she was recently axed from her show. “I got sacked from @BBC6Music,” she tweeted, “because they don’t want women over 60.” The renowned broadcaster, who will be 64 next month, is second ...

WHEN I was a young law student, some 30 years ago, the free speech advocates I admired were the civil liberties lawyers of the centre-left. Their target was the Thatcher government. Whether her ministers were chasing Peter Wright through the world’...

THE debate over Scottish independence is hotting up again, which inspires Ian Noble from Carstairs Village to describe the chasm that exists between the fierce Angles from the South and the doughty Northern Celts.

Five people have been taken to hospital following a fire in a tenement in Edinburgh.

Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said he would “boycott” an independence referendum if it is held illegally.

All migrants have been removed from the plane, Government sources have said

An expert has questioned whether the Government and council representatives will be "honest about their own past record" after they were announced as “co-conveners” of efforts to revamp Scottish schooling.

BORIS Johnson has suggested lawyers representing refugees were “abetting the work of criminal gangs” as court hearings were held to avert the first flights sending asylum seekers to Rwanda.

Russia has sanctioned dozens of UK journalists who they claim have contributed to the "deliberate dissemination of false and one-sided information” amid the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

It is the former crofter's cottage and boat store on the shores of Loch Fyne that has been turned into an acclaimed restaurant.

NICOLA Sturgeon has accepted an independent Scotland would have a hard trade border with England under her plans for the country’s future.

Swiss watch giant TAG Heuer has opened its first stand-alone botique in Scotland in partnership with family-owned jeweller Beaverbrooks.

FERRY services on one of Scotland's busiest crossing have had to be cancelled due safety issues.

Hate crime charges relating to sexual orientation and disability increased last year, according to new figures.

A head teacher I interviewed a few years ago at a Glasgow school that had a high percentage of pupils from the most deprived postcodes in Scotland said that one of her first endeavours on taking over the school had been to introduce a uniform policy ...

A REQUIREMENT for trans people to live in their gender for three months before obtaining a gender recognition certificate is “unnecessary”, an academic has told MSPs.

ANGUS Robertson has been stopped from making a statement to Holyrood on a fresh independence drive after being reprimanded by the Presiding Officer.

MINISTERS have been urged to deal with 'depressing' and 'deteriorating' morale within the Scottish Ambulance Service, with nearly four in five considering leaving the service.

AN SNP minister has admitted that the number of drug deaths in Scotland are “still far too high” despite £250m being spent on trying to curb the trend.

BORIS Johnson has insisted his position on allowing another referendum on Scottish independence “remains unchanged”.

PATRICK Grady has apologised for making an "inappropriate physical advance to a junior member of SNP group staff."

The Scottish Government has published its first in a series of papers in support of independence ahead of a planned second referendum in 2023.

NICOLA Sturgeon will set out plans to hold a second referendum on Scottish independence without the UK Government giving permission that are legally sound.

An outbreak of monkeypox in the UK has delayed a defence report for the trial of MP Margaret Ferrier who is accused of putting people at risk by travelling with coronavirus symptoms.

SCOTTISH property company HFD has sold an industrial property in Hamilton in a deal worth around £2.5 million.

NICOLA Sturgeon has insisted Scotland is "even more prepared for independence than we were in 2014" as she set out her Government’s first key document setting out the case to build a "wealthier, fairer Scotland".

THE NUMBER of patients waiting more than four hours in Scotland’s A&E was at its second highest level since records began, according to the latest figures.

A Scot suffering from long Covid is hopeful a pilot scheme under one health board will prevent fellow patients from "falling through the cracks".

THE Scottish Government is today launching the first in a new series of papers that will form an “updated independence prospectus” ahead of a planned second referendum.

UK unemployment unexpectedly rose during the three months to April but take-home pay continued to shrink as inflation eroded real wages.

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.