DAVID Cameron got it right yesterday when, speaking on television, he described the Queen, whom he met on a weekly basis when he was prime minister, as the world’s greatest public servant.

IT was quite the crowd that gathered in the Throne Room at St James’s Palace on Saturday to proclaim the new sovereign.

Let’s go in close. To the small details. Like the King trying to deal with two giant parchments, a big fancy inkpot, and a tray of pens, all of which had been placed on a table smaller than a fold-down tray on an economy flight to Zante. It irritat...

YOU can’t escape the thought that the Queen would have detested this festival of fake grief. Four days have elapsed since her death last Thursday, but what ought to have been a solemn period of reflection in keeping with the dignity and restraint s...

PLANS for a major park at a former gas holder have been withdrawn, while the application to renovate the industral landmark frame have been approved.

As the old saying has it, nostalgia isn’t what it used to be. You know the sort of thing: fruit and vegetables don’t taste like they used to; the summers were sunnier and the winters were colder; you never needed to lock your door (aye, right) an...

The Queen’s untimely death has given politicians time to reflect and adapt to the new priorities of Prime Minister Truss as outlined in her energy statement and first PMQs.

“It was a very, very different world back then,” Sandy Campbell recalls. “It was the early 1970s and jobs were aplenty, and the gap between rich and poor was nothing like it is today.”

THE head of Scotland’s biggest public sector union has told Nicola Sturgeon to end the “London blame game” over budget cuts and reform the country’s tax system instead.

Earlier this year, nearly £700 million was raised in the first Scottish offshore wind leasing round since the devolution of the management of offshore wind rights. A further £56m was secured last week for three projects near Shetland.

By Ian McConnell

AMIDST the sadness of these momentous days in history, time marches on regardless and one chronicler of how times change is language. Now hundreds of words have been added to a dictionary that chronicles the evolution of language. But would you use a...

The 5,000-year-old vessel was among a number of objects found along with human remains during the work on Kirkcaldy High Street in Fife in June 1980

The Queen’s coffin has arrived at the royal residence in Edinburgh after a six-hour journey from Balmoral

King Charles III will lead the royal family in a poignant procession behind the coffin of his mother when it travels to an Edinburgh cathedral to allow the public to pay their respects.

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FIRST Minister Nicola Sturgeon will have an audience with King Charles on Monday, ahead of a motion of condolence at the Scottish Parliament.

PRINCE William has promised that he and Kate will serve the people of Wales with “humility and great respect.”

ONE of Scotland’s oldest pubs, The Griffin in Glasgow, was this week bought by Isle of Skye Brewing Company owner Kenny Webster, signalling his first move into the licensed trade.

PROTESTERS booed during the Proclamation to mark Charles's ascension to the throne.

FORMER Rangers chairman Paul Murray has said that shareholders remain interested in a controversial bid to part-own the club by a firm fronted by an American businesswoman despite being sued over allegations surrounding the purchase.

Two of the greatest lifelong loves of the Queen were horses and dogs.

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THE flux of party political life at Westminster and Holyrood has been stopped as the country mourns the passing of the Queen and sees the constitutional torch pass to Charles.

WHEN Aimee King noticed that her 18-month-old son Corey was quieter than usual on Christmas Day last year, she initially suspected that he was feeling "overwhelmed" by a recent house move and the day's festivities.

As the momentum of a Ukrainian counteroffensive mounts on various fronts, Foreign Editor David Pratt in Mykolaiv speaks with one soldier who has been facing off against the Russians since 2014

It would have been a  'deep wrench' for the Queen if Scotland had voted yes to independence in the 2014 referendum, according to a leading historian.

A team of six cyclists set off today to take on the iconic North Coast 500 in support of the charity set up in memory of Manchester Arena victim, Eilidh MacLeod.

Historians love umbrellas, though not the sort you see blown inside out by the wind and stuffed into bins. These ones are different: names which can be used to define, categorise, delineate and otherwise organise the societal, technological and polit...

By Christine Lang

Despite being common, migraine is often still misunderstood - especially when it comes to children.

As the Great British Bake Off returns to our screens on September 13, the new contestants will no doubt be desperate to get a Hollywood handshake.

Brimming with mischief, crashes and ice, Danielle de Wolfe learns about The Grand Tour: A Scandi Flick from presenters Clarkson, Hammond and May.

Jennifer Lopez is rarely seen without them and it's rumoured even Kate Middleton, the new Princess of Wales, has used hair extensions on occasion to boost her enviable mane.

The Stone of Destiny will be moved from Edinburgh Castle to London for the coronation of the new King, it has been confirmed.

Sinn Féin has ruled out taking part in the Accession Proclamation ceremonies.

KING Charles will make the monarchy more “Scandinavian,” Gordon Brown has said.

THOUSANDS lined the streets of Aberdeen, Dundee, and Edinburgh, and gathered at the side of the A90, as the Queen left Balmoral for the last time and began the journey to her final resting place.

Queen Elizabeth II's coffin will be transported from Balmoral to Edinburgh today. See the route.

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King Charles III is proclaimed at the Accession Council in the state apartments at St James’s Palace in London. He will also hold his first Privy Council ahead of an expected announcement confirming the length of national mourning.

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HEARD the story about the woman who sent her partner to buy a two bedroom flat in Glasgow and he came home with an uninhabitable, money pit of a villa in Dunoon?

BILLY Connolly once said that no people are more in love with the tartan and shortbread tin idea of Scotland than the Scots themselves.

THE plight of one of Scotland's oldest family businesses took centre stage at new Prime Minister Liz Truss’s first PMQs for a moment this week.

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Queen Elizabeth's funeral will take place on Monday, September 19 at Westminster Abbey in London, it has been confirmed.