The first day back behind desks for pupils has been pushed back at a Skye primary school in order to provide support for a community "still reeling" from a tragedy.

Parts of Scotland have been hit by travel disruption which are to be battered by rain this morning.

Workers have suffered a record real-term pay drop as prices soar, new figures have confirmed.

LIZ Truss has said she would give MSPs more legal protection to speak out at Holyrood if she becomes Prime Minister.

By Scott Wright

A LEADING North Sea oil and gas firm has underlined how much money international financiers are making in the area even as it revealed the windfall tax may have little impact on it.

By Scott Wright

Scotland Loves Local Glasgow Gift Cards worth £105 each are starting to arrive at 85,000 homes across the city.

Starting hormone replacement therapy after the age of 60 "may be detrimental" for heart and brain health, according to a Glasgow specialist.

By Ian McConnell

By Ian McConnell

By Kristy Dorsey

MILLIONS of pounds earmarked for NHS dental care in Scotland went unspent last year despite huge treatment backlogs because dentists “cannot afford to work” within the current system.

Farming

AROUND 2pm last Saturday I commenced the unhappy experience of passing a kidney stone.

OUR corner of Scotland has not been troubled with heatwaves. In recent days, when the sun occasionally blinked through, our variable climate increasingly seemed like a blessing rather than a misfortune.

PSYCHIATRISTS always listen carefully to the metaphors people use. Symbolic language is a map to the soul, after all. Tune in to phone-in shows today and you’ll hear folk saying they feel "beat up", they "can’t take any more punishment", they’r...

LAST year, I worked for a social enterprise, helping unemployed people find jobs. Every day I’d strap on my headset like a pilot without a plane and settle in for a sometimes-turbulent stream of phone calls. One day, I chatted to a man who had just...

WHEN counting the casualties left by the pandemic, we must not ignore the anxiety it induced in many people, and especially children. At NYCOS (National Youth Choir of Scotland) we work closely with children and experience how much anxiety affects th...

Is it last orders for the disposable barbecue?

Bog awful

THERE has been plenty of talk in recent years about how bottom-trawlers and scallop dredgers are wrecking our seabed. Yet despite Scottish Government reviews, protection is still just a promise, not an actuality.

A MEXICAN stand-off?

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

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.

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!

NICOLA Sturgeon has sent “a message of solidarity” to Sir Salman Rushdie after he was stabbed on stage at an event in New York state last week.

THURSDAY’S bin strike in Edinburgh looks set to go ahead after Unite rejected a “paltry” 3.5 per cent pay hike from council leaders.

ANAS Sarwar has spoken out about the “anti-social” and “bitter” relationships between Scottish political leaders behind the scenes.

CELEBRITY chief Gordon Ramsay is set to open his first Street Pizza restaurant brand outside London in Scotland.

A man has been stabbed to death in a side road near London’s Oxford Street.

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The 'bivalent' vaccine, developed by Moderna, is effective against the original coronavirus strain but also the more dominant Omicron variant. 

A leading teaching union has warned further outbreaks of Covid-19 when pupils return to schools continue to be a "significant issue of concern".

PROPOSALS for a further net zero housing development at a brownfield site in the Scottish capital have been granted approval by city planners.

SIR KEIR Starmer has defended Labour’s £29bn plan to keep bills low over the winter, insisting it is “robust and costed”.

An Edinburgh road has been closed off after a bin lorry hit a block of flats.

THE owner of the ClydeUnion Pumps engineering facility in Glasgow is selling off land at the Cathcart site to raise cash to reinvest in the business, it was announced this morning.

ONE of the things Amanda Thomson loves about old words she has found for nature is how they “make the ordinary that we wouldn’t notice extraordinary again”.

POLITICS begins a return to normal today when Sir Keir Starmer reveals how Labour would tackle the energy bill crisis. (Spoiler: freeze the cap at current level of £1971).

SEVEN weeks after Nicola Sturgeon targeted October 2023 as the date of a second referendum, the campaign has, thus far, been curiously subdued. The First Minister – how can I put this kindly? – has adopted a relaxed approach to the approaching st...

Gordon Brown has the right answer – nationalise energy. But his suggestion is only a temporary move and comes way too late.

THE HEAD of Glasgow-based energy firm ScottishPower has told ministers they must double family support for soaring energy bills - as calls have been made for the prioritisation of domestic oil and gas production to stop charges soaring further.

Glasgow could host the Eurovision Song Contest next year which is good news – and bad. It’s exciting – and depressing. The greatest fear must be that our shady politics will spoil it, or, in the words of Abba’s 1974 winning song: the history ...

By Scott Wright

LABOUR will extend the windfall tax on oil and gas companies to pay for a £29bn emergency cost of living package, Sir Keir Starmer has announced.

SCOTLAND’S mid-market private equity investment has topped pre-pandemic levels with more than £2 billion spent in the first half of this year, according to the new analysis.

Gunshots were reportedly heard in a residential street in Ayrshire in one of three linked incidents being probed by Police Scotland.