THE historic Scottish housebuilding business of Mactaggart & Mickel Group has been acquired by peer Springfield Properties in a deal worth nearly £50 million.

The SNP’s former chief whip, Patrick Grady, was last week suspended by Parliament

By Ian McConnell

AN SNP MSP is facing questions over her alleged “extremely inappropriate” role in the Patrick Grady affair that has caused turmoil in the party’s Westminster group.

A SCOTTISH distiller has been granted planning permission to refurbish a 200-year-old mill.

IT was a relief to hear a loud and clear note of caution last week from the Treasury Committee on the UK Government’s pursuit of an “international competitiveness” objective for financial sector regulators following Brexit.

A SCOTCH whisky business has announced plans for a major investment in Scotland including new headquarters, a whisky museum housing a world-famous collection and a hotel.

A fresh sex education row has broken out after a poll suggested many Scottish pupils think health and wellbeing lessons are a waste of time.

A HIGHLY contagious Covid variant which has spread rapidly in the US now appears to be on the rise in Scotland.

NICOLA Sturgeon says she’s a lot calmer now thanks to HRT, which is welcome news. But she must be pure ragin’ over the RMT. After throwing money at Scottish train drivers to save newly-nationalised ScotRail from a summer of strikes, now she gets ...

SCOTLAND without art would be a barren place. That’s why this summer I’m supporting Scottish Contemporary Art Network’s campaign #ArtUnlocks. The campaign encourages people across Scotland to visit their local galleries, take part in artistic a...

THE Westminster Government has claimed rail worker pay demands will worsen inflation. But pay rises have been well below the inflation rate, so they can’t be fuelling it. Instead, inflation has been driven by Covid-related supply chain disruptions,...

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Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

Move over Wordle, you can now shake things up with its music spin-off Heardle.

IT is an iconic species of Scotland, recognised as a symbol of the country’s habitat around the world and often referred to as “the king of the fish”.

A CONSENSUS is emerging that, as foretold in this column, an unenviable choice now faces the Scottish Government.

AFTER President Clinton left office, he set to work on his memoirs. As did Barack Obama, and almost every incumbent of the Oval Office of the past few decades. These typically turgid tomes were often followed by their wives’ accounts, offering a st...

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on a National care Service June 22 2022

THE Roman Empire’s collapse is said to have begun when its territory was flooded by barbarians from the north.

The rate of inflation rose again in May, remaining at 40-year highs and deepening the squeeze felt by households across the UK, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said.

Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) leader Mick Lynch kept his cool during questioning from Ms Burley

Services will still be limited on Scotland’s rail network on the days in between planned strike action, ScotRail warns

BORIS Johnson is facing a fresh ethics row after Downing Street refused to deny the Prime Minister discussed finding his wife Carrie two high-paid jobs.

Uniswap is a community governed decentralised (DEX) platform launched in November 2018 by crypto entrepreneur Hayden Adams, CEO of Uniswap Labs. The open-source, censorship-resistant protocol is built on the Ethereum blockchain to provide liquidity a...

The rate of inflation rose once more in May, remaining at 40-year highs, the Office for National Statistics has said.

SIR PATRICK Stewart has urged MSPs to back Liam McArthur’s assisted dying bill.

IAN Blackford MP has issued a statement of apology over the Patrick Grady sexual harassment case following a meeting in the Commons with his group of MPs.

SNP MP Patricia Gibson has been cleared of sexual harassment.

The Scottish Police Federation’s governing body has announced it has rejected the offer of a £565 pay increase.

SNP ministers have been warned that £1.3bn of public funds risk being diverted from frontline services under ambitious plans unveiled to set up a National Care Service.

SCOTS ministers met yesterday to discuss contingency plans as nationalised ScotRail services are cut by nearly half on Wednesday - the day after the first of three 24 hour strikes which marks the biggest rail stoppage for a generation.

A three-year-old girl, who was a passenger, was taken to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital for treatment.

A Highlands estate has had its general licence revoked for three years following evidence wild birds were killed "illegally".

The Alchemist has announced a second bar and restaurant in the Scottish capital as part of a £1.5m investment push.

THE SCOTTISH Government has been accused of letting their “constitutional obsession” get in the way of science, during a fierce debate on new gene editing laws.

Scotland's transport minister has urged her UK counterpart to find the “political willing" to bring an end to the rail dispute causing mass disruption across the network, as bosses at ScotRail warned travellers that services will be impacted until ...

THE UK transport secretary has warned of new action laws to curb the impact of strikes - as railway services across Scotland the rest of the UK were crippled by industrial action by Network Rail staff.

THE SNP minister responsible for overseeing the Ukrainian resettlement ‘super sponsor’ scheme has admitted that refugees are being sheltered in hotels for “too long”.

Picket lines will be in place outside of all secondary schools on June 22 - with schools remaining closed to most pupils.

Professor Alice Sullivan, head of research at the UCL Social Research Institute, suggested that proposals to make the process for trans people to obtain a gender recognition certificate easier could have “unintended consequences”, including “er...

NICOLA Sturgeon is to set out her 'routemap' to  a second independence referendum next week.

A total of 18 people have contracted monkeypox in Scotland, according to Public Health Scotland (PHS).

The investment house is being acquired for £10.7m

THE new Meadowbank Sports Centre will open to the public next month, the City of Edinburgh Council and Edinburgh Leisure have announced.

ANAS Sarwar has defied Keir Stamer’s command not to join RMT picket lines.

ELIXIR Distillers, the independent Scotch whisky blender and bottler, has acquired Tormore Distillery from Pernod Ricard, owner of Chivas Brothers.

NATIONALISED ScotRail has warned that train services will be disrupted for the rest of the week as UK-wide strike action begins by Network Rail staff.

HUMZA Yousaf has been accused of “gross negligence” after the number of patients waiting too long in Scotland’s A&E units rose again.