MINISTERS have been warned that lives are being put at risk through a crisis in Scotland’s fire service which has seen nearly 1000 jobs already go in the past ten years and hundreds more expected with planned real term cuts over the next five years...

MINISTERS have come under fire for ignoring specialist decision-making as it emerged they overturned nearly all decisions on building developments made last year by the agency it tasks with protecting the nation’s heritage and half of those made by...

It tells the story of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and was intended as a gift to every child in state-funded primary education.

It started as a demolition derby and turned into a weird version of The X Factor for Margaret Thatcher tribute acts. In this fractious Tory leadership contest it looks as if the top clone, the Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, has won the votes of elderly...

IAN Brooke still looks over his shoulder when walking along a street when his husband takes his hand.

Alison Walker's mother no longer recognises her.

"If someone had told me when I was diagnosed that I'd be feeling this way, and in remission, I'd have bitten their hand off," said Allan McLean.

To mark the 25th anniversary of the day the White Paper on Scottish devolution was presented to the House of Commons, former First Minister Henry McLeish writes exclusively on its significance and why the occasion was his colleague Donald Dewar’s �...

DURING this week’s searing heatwave, one stark comment stood out. It came from Tim Stock, who, having witnessed his family home of 60 years go up in flames, said: “It was like a scene from the Blitz.”

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

Picturesque locations such as the Cairngorms may be easy on the eye, but hidden from plain sight is what conservationists call the ‘escalator to extinction’. And now, botany experts Dr Aline Finger and Martine Borge are not only highlighting this...

"This is a different way of treating cancer, and it provides an answer for patients in whom there really might not be any good options."

“I’M no psychic,” modestly asserts David Bone (Letters, July 17), but then his crystal ball “sees” an election on the horizon, and tells him that one of the only two parties big enough to form a Westminster government, is at best, a “feve...

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

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

Hints and answer for today's Wordle

IT was a series that took viewers behind the scenes at one of Scotland’s largest holiday parks that captivated audiences, drawn to the stunning coastal scenery that also featured.

Taking the biscuit

The money shot

Although the Foreign Secretary is, by quite some considerable distance, the most popular of the two candidates with party members, it is Rishi Sunak who is winning the race for Holyrood endorsements.

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

Weaver is the newest word game on the block - if you are struggling with today's brainteaser here are some hints to get you to the end. And the solution if you give up! WARNING: There's a mild swear word in today's solution.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said the expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an “extraordinary” situation that now qualifies as a global emergency.

Only nine services will operate each hour when Network Rail staff walk out next week.

Rishi Sunak admitted to being the underdog in the Tory leadership contest as he took aim at the “forces that be” backing rival Liz Truss.

The Red Arrow team is set to perform in a display at the Making Waves Festival in Irvine, North Ayrshire. 

The speed limit on the Queensferry Crossing will be reduced to 50mph outwith peak times during the cleaning.

EVERY generation has its Maggie Smith. Some know her best as Professor McGonagall of Harry Potter fame; others as the Dowager Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey.

THE legislation has been hanging over Holyrood for five years with a pledge to simply bring Scotland “in line with international best practice”.

THERE comes a time in many people’s lives when they reach the Age of Allam. That’s Allam as in Roger, as in the star of the moreish new crime caper, Murder in Provence (STV, Sunday).

THE labour crisis foisted upon the United Kingdom by a Brexit based largely it seems on fantasy has been described as possibly the biggest own goal of the debacle.

By Ian McConnell

UK Government plans for tougher penalties for drug possession could lead to “significant risks” for vulnerable Scots, Scotland’s drug policy minister Angela Constance has said.

The SNP is to submit an application to intervene in the Scottish Government’s Supreme Court case on an independence referendum.

Climate activists staged a "die-in" protest in Glasgow after a heatwave brought record-breaking temperatures to the UK.

Russian missiles have hit Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa, just hours after Moscow and Kyiv signed deals to allow grain exports to resume from the southern city.

Police officers worked more than one million hours of overtime last year.

FOR political parties, leadership contests can be cathartic. They can refocus the party upon core aims, facilitating a rediscovery of common purpose.

IT IS a historic garden which dates back to 1675 when it was originally laid out by Sir Alexander Seton, a retired Court of Session judge in the reign of James VII.

Engineering giant Weir Group has appointed two new non-executives to its board of directors as it looks to make mining "smarter, more efficient and sustainable".

The sale of a Glasgow restaurant to a UK pub chain is a "wake-up call" that smaller, independent businesses are"dwindling away", a sector leader has said.

Bank of Scotland owner Lloyds Banking Group is among half-a-dozen that have most recently fallen foul of UK regulators for failing to keep customers properly informed.

DID doctors in Scotland get a pay rise, or a pay cut this week?

By Tzoulianna Leventi  

GAELIC means nothing to me. Sure, I quite like deciphering the occasional bilingual road sign. And, hey, sorry, I have a terrible habit of lugging in to folk speaking the language as I try to figure out what they’re saying. Cue some funny looks in ...

Most people would opt to spend the last years of their lives in their own home if they had the good fortune to remain well enough to do so.

IAN R Mitchell (Letters, July 21) uses the spurious suggestion that Glasgow should show support for its twin city, Rostov-on-Don (a decision was in fact taken by Glasgow in February to sever the connection) as an excuse to smear the Ukrainian regime.

From a sly feminist horror to Scotland's rock stars of the future, our pick of the arts

Irresponsible and fantastic – the never-ending wonder of the Scott Monument

HEY, hey, I’m on my way! And why shouldn’t I be singing?