ALOK Sharma, the Cabinet minister who led last year’s COP25 climate summit has said he will resign if the new prime minister is not fully committed to the net zero agenda.

SCOTLAND’S justice system is failing the victims of upskirting after stark new figures revealed that only a handful of cases have been reported to the Crown Office.

One of Scotland’s top cancer experts is considering moving a major research project abroad amid political turmoil and warnings that a Brexit-linked impasse over EU funding will starve universities of talent.

By Ian McConnell

It needs to be stressed just how remarkable this Conservative leadership race really is. A party that is routinely accused of being racist and sexist has almost completely obliterated the pale, stale, male from contention.

THE political heat is on and the fear for Liz Truss’s loyal supporters is that the chances of her becoming prime minister number 56 are beginning to melt away. Desperation is beginning to follow.

Back Off Scotland is a group of ordinary young women who have had enough of fundamentalist Christians staging protests outside abortion clinics. They have persuaded Nicola Sturgeon to back their campaign for exclusion zones around healthcare faciliti...

Personal insights on stories from across the world by Foreign Editor David Pratt

CLARK Cross's "charity should begin at home" (Letters, July 10) is a sad old clichéd line. It's a challenge to my support for asylum seekers in Scotland (Letters, July 3).

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AN AMBER weather warning of extreme heat could be extended to cover more parts of Scotland, the government has said.

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

THE way Andy Wightman views the land is different from how most of us see it. As we sit in front of his log cabin in the woods and take in the view, all I see is the steep plunge of vegetation. But Wightman also sees something else.

Former MSP and land rights campaigner, Andy Wightman has expressed his disappointment at Scottish Government's consultation for a new Land Reform Bill, published on July 4, saying, “that the opportunity has been missed to enact more fundamental cha...

BRIGHTON. By day it is fun, sea, and seriously silly property prices. After dark it would give Sodom and Gomorrah a run for its money, or at least that’s the way the place was presented in Night Coppers (Channel 4, Tuesday). Imagine what it would b...

Burberry has become the latest upmarket brand to report struggling sales in China, raising further concerns about the future of what is arguably the world’s most important luxury market.

Well that’s an odd choice for an opener, thought your previewer as she looked at the line up for the The South Bank Show (Sky Arts, free to view, Wednesday, 10pm).

By Ian McConnell

One of Scotland’s top scientists was suspended from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) after a complaint from an individual about whom he allegedly made an insulting remark.

FIRST Minister Nicola Sturgeon has set the scene on how Scotland’s natural resources could be better managed in future in the next instalment of a series of independence papers.

ANSWER me this. Did you feel just a tiny bit sorry for Boris Johnson this week when he summoned up his best brave face and told fellow MPs he would demit office with his tousled head held high?

Trendy tonic water brand Fever-Tree has been hit by glass and labour shortages that have jacked up shipping costs to the US.

IN the race of the Omicron sub-variants, BA.5 has outcompeted its rivals.

THEY think it will just go away. English Tories, and maybe some of their Scottish colleagues too – seem to believe that demand for independence will just evaporate.

SEVERAL analyses have begun to form since Nicola Sturgeon made her latest independence pledge. All of them agree there is virtually no chance of the UK Supreme Court ruling that Holyrood can legislate on its own for a new independence referendum. Mor...

By David Thomson

I CAN'T be the only person who was haunted by the videos shown last night (July 14) on Channel 4 News of a sweet little Ukrainian girl from the city of Vinnytsia, a central city far from the front line of the fighting in the Donbas.

By Jayne Stynes

IF I earned a pound for every time someone tells me I have the best job in the world, I really would have. A travel writer: the dream job. Swanning around the world from First Class to hot tub, Cristal in hand, occasionally getting my feather quill p...

YES, several political commentators claim I’ve been a little difficult to read of late – that Anna Karenina, and Nicola Sturgeon’s legal challenge, are simpler to comprehend – but bear with me, I’m sure I can explain myself.

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Shiver me timbers folks, it was world Rum Day last week and I missed all the fun. Anyway, there’s nothing to say we can’t splice the mainbrace this week, especially as Scotland seems to be on a mission to compete with the Caribbean for dominance ...

The Horizontal Oak: A Life in Nature

words & pictures: Diana Potter & Donald Erskine

Cancellations, delays and lost baggage are setting a chaotic theme for overseas holidays this summer. Unsurprisingly, a trip to the airport now fills most people with dread.

NOW, you may think we’ve nothing to concern our pretty little heads over. You may be the type to dismiss Britain’s £2.3 trillion debt, the political detritus left by the soon-to-be-ex Prime Minister, the global warming crises . . . Oh, and letâ€...

Nissan is growing its electric car line-up with its new Ariya. Ted Welford gets behind the wheel to see what it's like

YOU may well have heard of the ‘Outlander Effect’. But the extent by which it is making a deep impression on Scotland’s tourism industry is staggering.

Sitting Pretty

THE SWEET REMNANTS OF SUMMER

Ann Kay is retired and lives in West Dunbartonshire and revealed: “The main character in my story, Lily, experiences isolation because of her personal circumstances. Many people have become more isolated due to the pandemic so I wanted to explore t...

Franco Manca, Stockbrdge, Edinburgh

Roger Allam has played a wealth of characters in his time, from Prime Minister Henry Pelham in Pirates Of The Caribbean to Peter Mannion in The Thick Of It. Hollywood blockbusters sit alongside contemporary crime dramas in his resume.

THE RAILWAY CHILDREN RETURN (PG)

As she releases her first solo book, Ixta Belfrage speaks to Prudence Wade about the power of fusion food.

Container-grown food can be very tasty. It needn’t matter whether you’re using heritage or modern varieties: the secret is good fruit-ripening sunlight for releasing sugars, good compost and regular feeding to top up compost nutrients.