AND the winner in the contest to be Britain’s Next Prime Minister will be ... named after the break. A six week break, during which Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss will tour a country of 67 million people to garner the votes of 160,000-plus Conservative ...

AND so, after three chaotic years, Boris Johnson has finally left the despatch box. His parting quote from Terminator 2 hinted at a mad dream of one day returning to prove his critics wrong.

Boris Johnson chose to finish his last Prime Minister’s Questions with a quote from Terminator 2 – “hasta la vista, baby” – but let me remind you of something else the Terminator said in that movie: “It’s in your nature to destroy yours...

Salmon producer Loch Duart has been repeatedly forced to turn business away this past year as it grapples with acute labour shortages that have beset Scotland’s food and drink sector in the wake of Brexit.

UK ministers have been warned Scotland is missing out on a “bonanza of secure jobs in green energy” by a failure to be more ambitious about scaling up renewables.

AN independent fund management and financial advice firm has hailed its acquisitive expansion into Scotland and signalled further growth.

A STRIKE involving Scots firefighters is looming after an angry response to a  2% pay increase offer during the cost of living crisis.

North Sea independent Serica Energy, which is in a buyout standoff with smaller rival Kistos, has quadrupled production from a 24-year-old BP well as it further bolsters its defences against a takeover.

By Rob Watts  

Farming markets

SHOCKING television pictures of wildfires from Greece to Portugal to the UK, a stark climate change message, underline the fact that Brexit took us out of the European Union, but we’re still part of Europe in a wider sense.

AND then there were two. Yesterday, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss emerged victorious in the final ballot of Conservative MPs. It’s now up to around 160,000 Tory members to decide the question of who should become our next prime minister.

WHETHER Tweedledum or Tweedledee becomes the next Prime Minister, there will be no genuine attempt by the Westminster Government to seriously consider the wishes of the people of Scotland. The desire to build a close trading relationship with our Eur...

By Karen Peattie

By Karen Peattie

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The number of 12 to 15-year-olds using BBC One and BBC Two for news has dropped from 45% five years ago to 24% now

Sports bosses have announced that Quidditch will be known as Quadball

Douglas Ross has not backed either Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss in the race for Number 10

A Tory frontbencher uses lines from the national poet Robert Burns to brand the SNP argument for independence as ‘thin gruel’

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

Daily word ladder game, Weaver, brings the original format of an age-old puzzle, into the 21st century.

NICOLA Sturgeon is “taking the UK government for fools,” over a second independence referendum, a Labour peer has claimed.

LIZ Truss will go head-to-head with Rishi Sunak to become the next prime minister after Penny Mordaunt was dramatically dumped out of the campaign to replace Boris Johnson.

MAJOR construction work at Scotland’s first artificial surf park, leisure and staycation facility, Wavegarden Scotland, has started today at Ratho, near Edinburgh.

By Ian McConnell

By Ian McConnell

BORIS Johnson’s successor has been urged to “get their house in order” after inflation soared to 9.4 per cent – putting more pressure on squeezed household budgets.

BORIS Johnson channelled Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator in his final session of Prime Minister’s Questions, leaving MPs with the words, “Hasta La Vista, baby.”

AROUND 100 jobs are to be created at a new anti-drone hub in Scotland designed to help meet the growing demand for laser weapons which target small attack drones.

A SCOTS rock star has said the country could be a more peaceful nation through meditation after revealing he turned to the technique after a struggling with mental health issues.

A £1m reward is being offered for the person responsible for the safe return of a lost briefcase belonging to an executive of one of Scotland's oldest companies that contains scientific papers that he says could bring "vast amounts of wealth" to Sco...

Scottish retailers did a decent turn in June even though sales values were boosted by inflation, but there were continuing signs of caution among shoppers as prices continue to rise.

By Ian McConnell

The SNP’s deputy Westminster leader is under renewed pressure to say what she knew about goings-on at a scandal-hit college after documents revealed major procurement problems were not properly addressed over several years, despite being flagged t...

THE Tory leadership race has a bit of everything—good, bad and ugly. One can watch and admire, as new talent emerges.

THOSE who are tempted to dismiss God as a fairy-tale should look to the Outer Hebrides. Tourists and islanders who find themselves stranded when a Sunday ferry does not depart are being encouraged to believe the cause of the problem is not engine fai...

A LONG Covid sufferer has opened up about how he is learning to live with the after effects of the virus two years on and is searching for an answer to when he will ever get a break from it.

IT is a role which he once described as being in his bones, but for actor Douglas Henshall he will be walking away from the much-loved character of DI Jimmy Perez.

Analysis By Gavin Mochan  

LAW firm Shoosmiths has hailed record full year financial results.

By Ian McConnell

IF we needed a reminder about the emptiness of modern politics, the Boris/Tory leadership show has once again demonstrated where we are. As it happens, as far back as John Major replacing Margaret Thatcher, we can already see the emptying out of poli...

IT'S as much a part of summer as rain and flood warnings. As soon as the temperature rises above 30 degrees, everyone starts talking about climate change. Then as soon as the temperatures return to normal everyone stops talking about it again. Only t...

IT is good to see that the Supreme Court will consider if Scotland’s elected parliament can authorise a mandated, advisory plebiscite on our future standing, or if we are subordinate to the parliament in the south, with its long English tradition o...

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

If you have tried and loved Wordle, Quordle should be your next go-to brain teaser.