RAILWAY chiefs have been warned they will have "blood on their hands" as they risk a new Stonehaven disaster by planning to slash critical maintenance tasks in half and staff in Scotland by over a quarter.

THE sentencing of a paedophile who was able to operate unchecked in karting for more than 20 years has prompted fresh questions about the safeguarding of children in the sport.

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A friendship with “no limits.” These were the words of Russian president Vladimir Putin back in February this year when he shook hands with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the opening of the Beijing Olympics shortly before Russia launched ...

POLITICAL reality returns with a bang this week following the royal hiatus as Liz Truss sets out in more detail how she intends to lift Britain out of its economic hole.

Mothers surviving on leftovers, parents losing so much weight their jeans can no longer stay up, children in filthy clothes, parents so shamed they consider suicide. Poverty campaigners reveal the full horror of what’s happening to Scotland’s poo...

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IT might be said that the eyes are the windows to the soul. But if you’re celebrity foot reader Jane Sheehan, the clues to a person’s emotional wellbeing and personality traits lie at the opposite end of the body: in the shapes of the toes and th...

With breathtaking views across Loch Sween and the Sound of Jura, the small village of Tayvallich is, not surprisingly, a magnet for tourists keen to take in the glorious west coast scenery.

There was barely a breath of wind to ripple the surface of the calm waters of Lerwick harbour – a peaceful precursor to the horrors that would soon unfold.

WHEN Nicola Sturgeon pushed the pause button on indyref2 in June 2017 the conventional wisdom was it was the “sensible thing to do”.

New research reveals that despite increases in both STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) university applications and employees joining STEM careers, the Government’s “levelling-up” target of reaching 200,000 by 2030 is “not likel...

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.

STATE-CONTROLLED CalMac have come under fire for forging ahead with a "draconian" plan to withhold refunds for customer cancellations despite telling islanders that they were doing away with the idea..

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

THERE have been countless times over the past 15 months when Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan feared they may have bitten off more than they could chew.

IT was Twitter, a platform awash with loathing and sanctimony, which brought me back into the orbit of Guy Grieve. I’d first encountered him two years ago while researching an article about the scallop wars raging on the west coast of Scotland. It�...

WHAT? Yes, I know as an arch republican, the John Lennon of Scottish politics in fact, I’ve been getting a little bit of grief this week, on account of not showing enough sorrow about the death of the Queen.

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.

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She may be a former US presidential candidate, but Hillary Clinton isn't above trying her hand at clown school or taking a tango lesson.

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.

We’re all buying next spring’s bulbs just now to plant in pots, for naturalising in grassland or in a border.

Last week, King Charles invoked a line from Shakespeare’s Hamlet in a moving message to his mother: “May ‘flights of Angels sing thee to thy rest’.” This weekend, on the eve of the Queen’s funeral on Monday, Shakespeare’s elegy, from hi...

Hundreds of people in line at Lambeth, south London, cheered and applauded as Charles and William emerged on Saturday afternoon

Police have named the 47-year-old man who was found dead under a motorway bridge near Bonnybridge.

THE poet John Keats claimed autumn is the “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”. Which is precisely the sort of thing a poet would say.

ALL changed, changed utterly? Well, I guess we’ll see, but, following the announcement of her passing on the evening of September 8, the death of the Queen ripped up broadcasting schedules over the last 10 days. You may have noticed.