Hundreds of children have been diagnosed with malnutrion in Scots hospitals and health services, figures show.

MARK Gray (letters, September16) tells us that “the events of the past week have made the people of Scotland proud to be Scottish”.

FOR all that the films feature the glories of the natural world captured by cutting-edge camera technology, there’s a whiff of the old school variety show about Sir David Attenborough’s series, the latest of which is Frozen Planet II (BBC1, Sunda...

Joking aside, Michael Palin, former Python, actor, world traveller, would like you to know something. These days, he tells the camera at the start of his latest adventure, he needs a doctor’s letter to go abroad.

SCOTTISH councils have warned that legal net zero targets will not remain on track without authorities "being “empowered, resourced and supported” more effectively by SNP ministers.

By Ian McConnell

Sir Tom, who is emeritus professor of history at Edinburgh University, revealed he was a contributor on the broadcaster's live television coverage

THE businesses that provide us with essentials from food to clothing to the fabric of our homes are in a race against time to prepare for an unprecedented power price surge next month.

Not long after it was built a new railway station was added to accommodate the tens of thousands of visitors who were arriving in the small mining village in North Lanarkshire from across the UK.

By Tim Wishart

UK outsourcing and professional services group Capita has agreed to sell its payments division to Access PaySuite, a division of UK software company Access Group, in a deal worth £150 million, writes Kristy Dorsey.

By Scott Wright

AFTER two and a half years of Covid and the evolution of ever-more infectious strains of the virus, it might seem improbable that anyone could have avoided it.

IT seems counterintuitive to begin an article by advising you not to read it, but I’m about to discuss some pretty serious things, and if you’d rather avoid the topic of suicide for whatever reason, then I’d advise you to turn the page.

Scots Word of the Week: blue blanket

Lobster bisque please, orders up Frankie, anxious to get this seafood show finally under sail now that Jim has floated in from the city’s south side.

STILL they come, the mourners, the spectators, the slow-shuffling procession along the side of the Thames, the line stretching out to the crack of doom.

FOR years they have marched, en masse, against the powers in Madrid. Now, instead, their anger is aimed at those in Barcelona. Catalonia’s grassroots independentistes took to the streets last weekend for their annual national day protest, La Diada.

SOME say they are useful, aesthetic, methodical, and help sentences be understood. Did you notice the Oxford comma in that opening line? Well, do not tell the new health minister as it transpires she cannot abide them.

WHEN thinking, as I do daily, about that staff member in an Edinburgh Sainsbury’s who, years ago, always laughed in my face, I’ve begun to wonder if it was to do with trousers.

Very crafty

New research into an almost 6,000-year-old farm at Balbirdie in Aberdeenshire has revealed that its workers did not use manure to boost their crops

If you're not a fan of the hit games Wordle or Heardle then maybe try the movie spin-off Framed.

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

Amid heavy rain across the UK in recent months, driving conditions have been far from ideal.

MYSALE has called on shareholders to turn down an approach by Mike Ashley's Frasers Group to buy control of the Australian online fashion marketplace.

A Scottish independence festival planned in Glasgow for the day before the Queen's funeral is to go ahead in a scaled despite being postponed to next month over public order concerns.

TRIPADVISOR has blocked all new reviews of the Scots chippy whose owner celebrated the Queen's death with champagne after an influx of fake offensive criticisms.

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LIZ Truss’s first Tory conference as party leader and Prime Minister is due to be hit by rail strikes.

The Conservative Party conference is likely to be hit by the strikes.

The risk of nationwide school closures has increased after teachers overwhelmingly backed strikes in a dispute over pay.

A bank holiday has been declared for the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth.

SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT-owned CalMac Ferries Ltd has amassed over twice as much in performance fines over its running of west coast ferry services in one year than its first nine years in charge.

THE Commons Speaker has barred the official Chinese delegation from the Queen’s lying in state because of Beijing’s sanctioning parliamentarians who criticised it.

AN Edinburgh city centre coffee shop is hailed its new 'immersive experience' as part of a relaunch after repeated closures.

A SCOTTISH Government music education programme which aims to put "music at the heart of children and young people's lives and learning" has been plunged into crisis after having all its funding put on hold.

LIKE, I imagine, a great many others, when the Palace announced the Queen was being kept comfortable at Balmoral and that her children were heading north to gather at her bedside, my thoughts turned to my own grandmother.

By Ian McConnell

THE events of the past week have made the people of Scotland proud to be Scottish.

Scottish energy group Parkmead is pressing ahead with drilling at its Skerryvore field in the UK North Sea some seven years after first announcing its intention to do so.

A SCOTTISH shipyard is "to deliver first-class frigates" to Poland after securing two new warship contracts.

JOHN Lewis has revealed it slumped to a £99 million half-year loss as it said it opted to “forgo” profit to help staff, customers and suppliers through the cost of living crisis.

EXCESS deaths from non-Covid illnesses have overtaken those caused by the infection for the first time since the pandemic began, amid spiralling pressures on the NHS.

Elderly Scots who fund their own residential care have seen an astonishing 100% rise in costs in one Scottish city, new data shows.

SHARES in The Hut Group, in which Sir Tom Hunter has a stake, plunged as the e-commerce retailer reported record revenue of £1.1 billion while it continues to be loss-making.

We've said goodbye to a number of people in the public eye in 2022, including Meat Loaf, Ronnie Spector and Barry Cryer.

HUNGER is neither royalist nor republican. Hunger doesn’t think, it destroys. Hunger doesn’t wait for an invite, it arrives when it wishes and stays as long as it wants.

A man accused of murdering a woman and their three-year-old son was “scrubbing” his company car when a worker went to his house to retrieve it, a court has heard.

DC Singh Signs New Deal With Premier Football Club