THE polls are up and down in the Tory leadership race but on one prediction you can (probably) rely. Tonight at 9pm Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss will be in Stoke-on-Trent for the latest live televised debate.

One of the things getting me through this Tory leadership contest is the videos of Liz Truss being weird. You’ve probably seen the one in which she says importing cheese is a “disgrace”. The one at the school in which she’s grilled about Bori...

WHEN your musical preferences stopped evolving around about the mid-1980s, you’re not really in a position to offer critiques of much that’s happened since. If you were being polite, you might say that my tastes have been in a state of arrested d...

It seems we have become obsessed with all things associated with food and drink. If so inclined, we can binge on cooking programmes, hosted by a melange of interchangeable and smug TV chefs.

Is Boris Johnson’s reign almost over or will his spirit live on in the premiership of Liz Truss?

CURRENT levels of wildlife protection in Scotland's seas are too weak, with two in five Scots perceiving that the state of the nation's coastal waters have worsened in the past ten years, a new survey has found.

THE entire board of Scottish cricket's governing body has resigned on the eve of the publication of a review that is today (Mon) expected to find it institutionally racist.

A SCOTTISH aquaculture technology business has hailed a major link-up with a growing sustainable fish to sit alongside Scottish staples like salmon and cod.

LIFE has been moving fast for Steven Smith-Hay and Vault City Brewing, the Edinburgh-based company he co-founded in January 2018.

A SCOTTISH country house hotel with 29 bedrooms has been put up for sale

After recent political theatrics, one could be forgiven for thinking the Edinburgh Festival had kicked off early.

Community testing and treatment key to global hep c elimination efforts

Is Liz Truss the new Maggie or a Lib Dem mole?

AS a committed Scottish nationalist, I would like to offer Allan Carmichael (Letters, July 20) some of the information for which he is looking when he asks for someone to put the case for the Union.

A small telephone box, a grand historic house and a forest occupied by free-roaming hens dubbed Chicken Town will feature in a new festival of ‘making’, which celebrates the art, skill, beauty and satisfaction that comes with creating.

Lockdown robbed Jack Tobin of his love of water. His lifeline legacy will now help keep others safe.

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

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

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

Though the heyday of Clyde paddle-steamers is over, people can still go “doon the watter” at Glasgow Fair, thanks to the enduring and magnificent Waverley. The Clyde’s paddle-steamer era has a pedigree of more than 200 years, since Henry Bell�...

DEAR diary, can it really be 25 years since we first met Bridget Jones? Now the famous singleton is making a comeback.

THE Edinburgh Festival has not even begun, yet already the weird stuff is weirdening, for we learn that in the Bow Bar, in the city’s Old Town, a knight of the realm recently entered the premises.

Pictures posted by Greenock Coastguard Rescue Team on Facebook showed two tents partially submerged in water

The Farnes are an internationally-important habitat for 23 species

The programme is designed to tackle gender inequality at work

The Glen Sannox and the as-yet-unnamed hull 802; were originally due to be completed in 2018

RISHI Sunak has said he would ban all 30 of China’s controversial Confucius Institutes from the UK, including five attached to Scottish universities, if he becomes Prime Minister.

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!

Scottish ministers are facing calls for greater transparency after it was reported a metal tycoon under investigation for fraud paid just £5 towards the acquisition of a Highlands smelting plant – with taxpayers financing the rest of the £330mill...

A SCOTTISH building and home improvements business this week fell into liquidation, with all 51 staff made redundant.

THE lawyer representing two players at the centre of a Cricket Scotland racism 'scandal' has said that the board's resignation is "not enough".

The entire board of Cricket Scotland has resigned with immediate effect before the publication of an independent review that is expecte dto find that there is evidence of instituional racism.

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...

By Ian McConnell

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.

"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."

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...

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

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 �...

“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