Kathleen Nutt

There’s no real difference in what motivates men and women to commit murder, according to one of the UK’s leading psychiatrists Dr Gwen Adshead. Women can be just as brutal as men, and if men were raised differently they’d be as less prone to v...

THE SNP has launched a new drive to encourage people in Scotland to register to vote ahead of plans to hold a second independence referendum next year.

There was jubilation in the nationalist movement on Tuesday after Nicola Sturgeon unveiled her new route map to independence. Some thought it was a brilliant legal coup, front-loading the Supreme Court with the draft independence bill. About time, sa...

A PROMINENT critic of Nicola Sturgeon has given his backing to her Indyref2 route map and said with a strong and united Yes campaign it could lead to Scottish independence.

Scotland’s film and TV industry is booming. Late last month new independent analysis showed it turned over more than £560m in business in the last year before the pandemic, 2019.

On a rocky ledge high above sea level and on one of Scotland’s most precious mountain landscapes, a tiny black and white visitor has settled into its summer home after a journey spanning thousands of miles.

THERE was no shortage of angry words aimed at Donald Trump last week.

“YOU’RE not going to negotiate when you have a gun on the table,” declared Maros Sefcovic, the top Eurocrat, after a majority of MPs this week backed in principle the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill.

COUNCILS have a “responsibility” to try to make the best of controversial freeport schemes to help their people, according to one of Scotland’s most senior local government officials.

It might be described a game of two halves: when the beautiful game kicked off in Edinburgh with women players in their white knickerbockers, blue jerseys and red stockings, a good-natured crowd gathered to witness the unusual spectacle.

War correspondent David Pratt is standing on a simple bridge that spans a dusty track on the outskirts of the town of Citluk in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

NICOLA Sturgeon's route map to Indyref2 came after years of rancorous debate inside the SNP about what to do should the UK Government continue to oppose a new vote.

NICOLA Sturgeon demands a referendum with her preferred timing, wording, franchise and other terms and conditions, so ensuring that in every way possible the approach taken favours the outcome she is seeking.

A Glasgow School of Art academic has described his “astonishment” after being shown the restoration of a part of the building considered its masterpiece.

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NICOLA goes to Vegas. Well, not literally, no. The First Minister much prefers the low, grey skies of Skye, the buzz of the familiar Highland mosquito to the buzz of glitzy Vegas neon. But now, here she is set to become an all-or-nothing gambler, the...

The architect and presenter tells Rachael Davis about the incredible projects on series two of Channel 4's George Clarke's Remarkable Renovations.

Dame Deborah James has died at the age of 40, her family have announced. The much-loved presenter of the BBC podcast You, Me And The Big C, and mum-of-two, raised millions of pounds for research through the Bowelbabe Fund before she died – and leav...

A TEENAGER has been rushed to hospital after he was struck by a car in the city's Southside.

THOUSANDS have taken to the streets of Glasgow today to take part in an Orange Walk.

Football legend Andy Goram has died at the age of 58 after battling cancer.

Scotland has continued to have the highest Covid infection rates in the UK as new variants of Omicron drive a new spike in cases.

Highly-pathogenic avian flu has been officially confirmed among seabird species on another island nature reserve prompting growing concerns among conservationists.

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.

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

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

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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.

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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...

WE need to talk about independence. More specifically, we need to talk about how we talk about independence.

As imagined by Brian Beacom

Berlin: Life and Loss in the City That Shaped the Century

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!