ON behalf of the nation’s media I’d like to apologise to Scotland’s pupils, or at least the ones who have been through the exam mill recently.

Energy bills could rise in advance of an expected increase in October, the UK's energy market regulator has said.

SCOTS nurseries could go out of business as it emerged nearly half of councils in Scotland are yet to decide on the hourly rates they will pay childcare providers when the academic year starts next week.

The thing about an Action Plan is that it all depends on what action you actually take and that’s how we should judge the latest one from the Scottish Government. The Action Plan this time is aimed at better helping people who’ve left the Armed F...

Crown Estate Scotland has opened a new leasing process for smaller-scale offshore wind projects, as well as larger ones for the electrification of oil and gas platforms.

AN independent fund management and financial advice firm has announced its second acquisition in Scotland in a matter of weeks as it pushes forward its expansion plans.

THE recent sale of the famous Ubiquitous Chip in Glasgow’s west end generated much media coverage and comment.

Midwives at a Scots maternity unit have been left “frightened” to go to work because of an unusual and sustained spike in abusive behaviour from the public.

Armed attacks which led to the death of one man and left several others injured have shocked a Highlands community “to its core”, SNP MP Ian Blackford said.

AS Scottish secondary pupils receive their SQA results this week your front-page article says it all (“Somerville: No guarantee on hitting attainment-gap target”, August 9).

BREWER Innis & Gunn is tapping into Scots’ penchant for sherry with a new limited-edition beer, The Original: PX.

TOUR operator TUI, the UK’s largest, has declared it is on track to deliver a summer close to 2019 as it reported its first broadly break-even quarter since the pandemic took hold and posted underlying earnings of €48 million compared with heavy ...

A REFURBISHED building in Glasgow has bolstered the city's supply of Grade A office space.

Farming

Around 37 years ago, Jenny Matthews was a student at Edinburgh College of Art, where her teacher, Ann Oram, told her: “Always plough your own furrow.”

In the first of a series of dispatches from Ukraine, Foreign Editor David Pratt takes stock of a war that is now almost six months old

Poet Lennie Pennie, the woman behind the online phenomenon of Scots Word of the Day, on the courage of domestic abuse survivors

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on Raymond Briggs August 11 2022

MUCH gibberish is doing the rounds about how politicians of the past were just as useless and corrupt as politicians of today. While politicians have always been a rotten bunch, in it for themselves, it’s a struggle to see how someone like Harold W...

Taking the biscuit

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.

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!

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

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

SOMETIMES it’s the little things which matter. The SNP peddle a well refined cocktail of illusions to woo the electorate.

RISHI Sunak has publicly discussed losing the Tory leadership race, a tell-tale sign that he is bracing himself for defeat.

A man has been arrested in connection with three incidents in Skye and Lochalsh which saw four people taken to hospital.

PUBS and restaurants premises have seen “strong market interest” in Scotland in the first half of the year, according to a new agency review.

A SEAFRONT business situated close to Leven Links Golf Club in Fife has been put up sale as the deals market in the Scottish hospitality sector continues to heat up.

NICOLA Sturgeon has said she doesn’t think she will ever speak to Alex Salmond again.

LIZ Truss looked like she had “swallowed a wasp” after hearing Nicola Sturgeon had twice appeared in Vogue magazine, the First Minister has revealed.

Three linked incidents on the Isle of Skye and Dornie sparked a major police response on Wednesday morning.

NICOLA Sturgeon has admitted she may not lead the SNP into the next Holyrood election, saying she will decide whether she is still the right person “nearer the time”.

A GROUP of Scottish Conservative MSPs are demanding a Scottish Government summit over a ferries crisis which has been linked to food rationing in shops on Scottish islands and people sleeping in their cars.

Waste workers in 15 councils are to strike over what a union described as a "pitiful" pay offer.

The UK's largest conservation charity has called for a moratorium on the release of gamebirds amid an "unfolding catastrophe" affecting wild birds.

The UK Government has published its full case for stating Holyrood does not possess the power to stage a second independence referendum.

A NEW bakery that specialises in custard tarts is to open tomorrow in the west end of Glasgow.

Born: November 12, 1938.

Police Scotland officers are at the scene and confirmed closures from Inchyra Road to Boness Road.

Author and illustrator Raymond Briggs, best known for 1978 classic The Snowman, has died aged 88.

Gas and electricity bosses are to hold crisis talks with Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi and Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng on Thursday morning.

A number of mail deliveries and collections could be "shut down" over four days as more than 115,000 postal workers walk out in a pay dispute. 

SCOTS householders already owe £86m to energy suppliers, two months before bills are set to soar by more than 80%.

By Scott Wright

IS polio back?

Staff at the University of Dundee are to take industrial action for the second time over a pensions dispute, it has been confirmed.

On paper Paul Higgins isn’t the ideal casting for a theatrical adaptation of This Is Memorial Device, the novel by David Keenan which gathered up awards and influential fans in 2017. To give the book its full title, which might provide the uninitia...

STRUAN Stevenson (“We face a Russian winter – and it could get worse, August 9) fails to explain why energy-rich Scotland is suffering fuel poverty as part of the Union, with consumers paying the highest standing charges in the UK and our renewab...