The Erskine pensioner’s family blasted Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board bosses.

The Prime Minister faced immense pressure to remove the whip from Tamworth MP Chris Pincher.

More than 3000 Scottish students will work or study overseas as the UK Government scheme replacing a popular European Union exchange initiative enters its second year.

SINCE we have a mo, let’s have a quick good news/bad news session. Good news: Boris Johnson has been ousted from office. Bad news: an even bigger eejit has replaced him.

and the experience is not sugar-coated. After months of 16-hour days, punctuated by on-off lockdowns, the strain begins to show, not least on Toni who has to learn, from scratch, how to run a professional kitchen. When Fogle returns a year later what...

New sources of funding will need to be found to ensure Edinburgh holds onto its ‘world-leading’ festival city crown, according to a new blueprint.

It was a weekend of celebration across the country, said to have reduced the usually poised and stoic Queen to tears as she noted the flag-waving crowd of thousands outside Buckingham Palace ahead of her final balcony appearance.

A LEADING academic on retail studies has hammered home the need to radically reform Scotland’s business rates system, branding it a “historical anachronism”.

SCOTTISH business was described as taking a stoic position on Indyref2 when plans were first formally announced.

A growing debt crisis is arising as sharp rises in energy and food bills are causing a significant fall in real incomes for Scottish households, a new report has warned.

WHEN the notorious serial killer William Burke was hanged in Edinburgh’s Lawnmarket on January 28, 1829, the spectacle attracted around 20-30,000 onlookers.

By David Clark

By Ian McConnell

“COVID is airborne”.

IT has been clear for some time that a political impasse has been reached on the question of a second independence referendum. It is also clear that this is not particularly healthy for our politics. Whether one is a supporter of independence, a supp...

LOOKING back at The Blue Nile’s recorded career – 33 songs on four exquisite albums, released between 1983 and 2004 – it’s notable that their piano and keyboards linchpin, Paul Joseph (PJ) Moore, never had what he terms a writer’s role.

THE buzz surrounding the arrival of John Byrne’s new play is almost as vibrant as the album covers the Scots polymath designed for pop star Gerry Rafferty.

Dance for all and a paranoid android

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.

Here are some tips to help you crack today's Quordle and the answer when you give up!

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on Nicola Sturgeon’s Indyref2 plan on Saturday, July 2, 2022.

WRITERS dice with death if we discuss the weather, especially a week before publication. But here goes. Nearly all of Scotland is short of water, with the east, and especially south east, pretty dry. Even the centre of the country, spreading at least...

THIS is a column at about a place you probably do not care about. Hey, you may never even have heard of Karakalpakstan. I don’t blame you if you have not: the Central Asian republic, after all, rarely makes the news.

The Wee Hurrie

IN private, mischievous moments, I would occasionally refer to him as the “Grand Canyon”, a limp play upon his name.

HALIFAX has found itself embroiled in a row over badges, telling customers they can close their accounts if they disagree with staff wearing pronouns on their lapels.

IN the myriad of responses following Nicola Sturgeon’s referendum proclamation three themes have emerged. They characterise the major fault-lines in Scottish politics.

WITH more and more of us travelling to Portugal on holiday, I thought we should take a look at some of the vine-related delights that await us there. For most people, Portugal is about one thing only: port. The non-fortified wine sampled on our journ...

Anyone for tennis?

Ear Ear SCOTTISH Labour spindoctor Oliver Milne was a tabloid hack in a previous life, and old habits die hard. After briefing the press corridor at Holyrood about Nicola Sturgeon’s Indyref2 plans on Tuesday, he spotted the FM’s spinner arriving ...

Strawberries are the food of love in this tender poem of passion set in Glasgow’s West End on a sultry summer’s day. It is one of the most popular compositions by Edwin Morgan (1920-2010), Scotland’s first official national poet and an inspirin...

The Body Coach is bringing PE with Joe to Scotland offering the chance to take part in real life and grab a selfie with the man himself – here’s how to get tickets.

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

The Highway Code warns pedestrians have priority over vehicles when they cross the road.

A crackdown on price promotions for junk food could be extended to include items such as garlic bread, pies, quiches and crispbreads.

Scotland has 282 Munros – mountains with a height of at least 3,000 feet – and reaching the summit of them all is considered one of the ultimate feats in hiking.

Island life could be under threat if young residents continue to struggle to get access to housing, it has been claimed. Islanders in the Western Isles say they face having to leave to find homes, and work, on the mainland.

Scientists have detailed the origins and diversity of every known mineral on Earth.

Rare wild pigeons extinct in most of the world have been discovered living in remote parts of Scotland and Ireland.

The most senior official of newlynationalised ScotlRail is earning between £175,000 and £180,000, it has been revealed.

From castles to cathedrals, they are features of Scotland’s past and landscape that help draw millions of visitors to the country each year, keen to explore its rich tapestry of architecture and history.

THE SNP has claimed independence will allow Scotland to escape the "catastrophic impact " of Brexit amid a suggestion Nicola Sturgeon’s strategy could be her last roll of the dice.

A TORY MP accused of drunkenly groping two men has had the whip suspended from him after resigning from his position in the UK Government.

A STRING of top names have joined the line-up of a major Scottish spirits festival spanning ten days.

A further seven cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in Scotland since last Sunday.

A delay to hearings for the inquiry investigating issues at two of Scotland’s newest hospitals is “disappointing”, Labour said.

COUNCILLORS in the capital will formally “express interest” to the Scottish Government about the city becoming a test authority to set up a buffer zone around an abortion clinic.

Two other people are being treated for serious injuries.

IRELAND's deputy Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said the Conservative Government faces the risk of "breaking up" the UK over its actions to over-ride part of the Brexit deal.