As a student, I spent several summer holidays working with youngsters in community projects in the Torry area of Aberdeen. One of the youthful regulars was Barney Crockett, later to become the city’s Lord Provost.

Are we heading for an early General Election? The odds rose dramatically this weekend.

A SENSE of despair quickly settles when well-intentioned, middle-class types come together to fret about inequality. These conversations all follow a similar trajectory. First comes an initial horror at the latest disclosure around deprivation or the...

MY first thought is: it doesn’t look like a prison. There’s a corridor painted in cheerful primary colours. The communal area has the air of an airport lounge or hotel reception. And pasted on the walls are inspirational words in confident capita...

By Scott Wright

Britain detonated its first nuclear weapon 70 years ago today.

THE acquisition of European oil and gas assets by private equity funds has accelerated, new analysis shows.

The Scottish Tory leader will tell delegates of his plans to deliver "a rent to own" scheme

Fears are growing that the cost-of-living crisis will lead to surging student drop-out rates, as colleges scramble to ensure learners do not freeze or starve during winter.

Going without essentials like food and heating is now "endemic", a leading charity has warned, as the biggest study of its kind laid bare the "heartbreaking" struggles Scots on lower incomes are facing.

Scotland’s foremost business figures have urged the Scottish Government to allow entrepreneurs and business experts the space to help boost businesses at all levels.

Given questions about its impact on the national debt, inflation and the strength or otherwise of the pound sterling, it's fair to say the welcome for new Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s so-called mini-Budget has been less than universal.

Armageddon, idiotic, bonkers . . . these are just some of the words being used to describe the UK’s mini-budget and subsequent furore in the markets. Speaking on the Go Radio Business Show, Sir Tom Hunter said: “My goodness, even the IMF have giv...

IT is our new PM's boast that she is set upon boosting growth in the UK.

Unison is balloting health workers in Scotland after the 5 per cent increase offered by Health Secretary Humza Yousaf was rejected

The 10th Annual Meeting of the FUE Europe Society was held on September 15-17 in Athens, where speakers from all over the world participated and discussed all the new trends, methods and techniques to treat hair loss.

By Andrew Fraser

SINCE 2016, I have been CEO for the ahe Eric Liddell Community, a charity established in 1980 in honour of Eric Liddell, the Scottish sporting icon immortalised in the film Chariots of Fire and the subject of a number of books, including Sally Magnus...

BRITS often regard it as the balm to soothe all that ails us. Now, on the 70th anniversary of tea rationing ending in the United Kingdom, the benefits of a simple cuppa are still emerging decades on.

IT was one of those typical dreich, downpourish and doom-laden Glasgow afternoons, and reader Paula Johnson found herself in a west end clothes boutique when a pale, red-haired woman walked in, huddled beneath an umbrella.

The Chancellor’s tax U-turn shows the “utter ineptitude” of the UK Government, Scotland’s First Minister has said.

The Chancellor scrapped the move in the face of a rebellion within his own party

RESEARCHERS have called for a new strategy to support and strengthen the media in Scotland.

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Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

Are you about to give up on today's daily Quordle? Let us give you a nudge in the right direction.

SHARES in the pub giant that owns Glasgow’s famous Horseshoe Bar fell sharply this week after it highlighted deep challenges facing the hospitality sector.

Jacob Rees-Mogg has been chased and heckled by protesters in Birmingham where the Conservative Party Conference is getting under way.

UP even earlier for the Sunday politics shows because nothing stops the TV coverage of the London marathon starting on time. Not even a Prime Minister’s make or break interview.

Video footage circulating on social media showed a man shouting at the Duke of York on the Royal Mile.

Former Cabinet minister Michael Gove has delivered a damning assessment of the mini budget and Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng must address the multiple "mistakes".

PAYMENTS to energy firms to switch off mainly Scottish wind farm turbines because they produce too much power have cost bill-payers approaching £1bn in just over five years and are expected to soar to £500m a year.

MINISTERS intervened to ensure tycoon Jim McColl’s Ferguson Marine, which is at the centre of Scotland’s ferry building scandal, got a contract for another lifeline vessel raising fresh concerns over the firm being given unlawful preferential tre...

By Paul Dobson

By Kathleen Nutt

The Tennessee trio are back with their first new music in five years.

A Northern Ireland minister who was previously a strident Brexit supporter has apologised for his former "ferocious" stance on negotiations with the EU.

By Kathleen Nutt

The incident is alleged to have happened at Clydebank Shopping Centre around 9.10am on Saturday.

Andrew Bowie has said a possible plan to cut benefits to fund tax reductions for the richest is “not a good idea”.

The climate crisis is such a global emergency that measures to address it should be funded directly from general taxation, according to a new report.

Social justice minister Shona Robison warned public spending cuts from the UK government could mean difficulties across all public services.

The Prime Minister provoked a fresh row at the start of the Tory conference by saying the income tax cut was a ‘decision the Chancellor made’.

A man has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after a crash involving two motorcycles on the A82 in Argyll.

FACE it, this week’s Icon is tongue in cheek. I’m going out on a limb to pull your leg, making no bones about ribbing you.

AS top global analysts grapple with the UK’s new monetary theory “collapsing the economy”, fresh ways of dealing with the looming cost-of-living crisis must be explored.

The pontiff made his strongest appeal yet on the seven-month war as he addressed the public in St Peter’s Square in Vatican City.

LIZ Truss has not ruled out cuts to universal credit and other welfare benefits as she faces a growing backlash against the Conservative's budget.

Scotland’s First Minister visited St Albert’s Primary in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow on Friday.

Liz Truss acknowledged mistakes over the mini-budget but said she is standing by her tax-cutting plan as she refused to rule out public spending cuts.