20 years of Franz Ferdinand in their own words

THE number of NHS workers on the receiving end of violent assaults at work has risen by over a third since before the pandemic.

A TENANTS group fighting to save their demolition threatened homes are today launching an appeal for volunteers to launch an occupation.

If you didn’t know what was going on, it would look very strange indeed. A big group of people who’ve just arrived from the other side of the world are gathered round an ordinary looking gate. They’re all taking pictures of it. Some of them are...

By Scott Wright

The Prime Minister’s COP-in on climate change has raised plenty of scathing comments about the Conservative party’s consistent track record of U-turns, but industry executives are far more agitated that Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt are ...

A LONDON-based company has submitted a planning application to The Highland Council for a £25 million biogas plant at a wartime airfield.

CHRISTMAS is but weeks away but there is little reason to be cheerful. The outlook for the economy and for public spending is positively wintry.

WHEN David Johnstone was diagnosed with a sarcoma after months of back and forth with doctors telling him not to worry about a grapefruit sized mass it turned his world upside down.

Accountancy firm BDO has moved into a new 8,000sq ft office in Glasgow as part of ongoing plans to expand its team.

WHEN it comes to waiting times in the NHS, the gulf between what happens on paper and what happens in reality has never been wider.

By David Thomson

IT is often said that the only certainties in life are death, taxes, and people being nasty in the comments sections of newspaper articles.

WITH the arrogance that we have come to expect from SNP representatives and members, Deirdre Brock, SNP MP, tried to patronise Penny Mordaunt, Leader of the House of Commons: "She might not know that there are… seven countries…in the EU [that] st...

CROSSED arms and holding some bread next to a sideboard and his stuffed great dane Cecil, Horst P. Horst’s ‘Andy Warhol In His ‘Factory’, is one of the great portraits of the iconic American visual artist.

For one weekend in May every year, the ‘Wee Red Toon’ of Kirriemuir quadruples in size as AC/DC fans gather from all corners of the globe for three days of rock ‘n’ roll concerts in celebration of the life of the iconic rock ‘n’ roll band...

By Jenni Steele

Explosive entertainment

A TV interview with an able-bodied male-born finance worker who identifies as a woman who is paralysed from the waist down has sparked controversy in Norway.

REMEMBER, remember … it’s the fifth of November. It seems hard to believe that the fireworks season is here already, so swift has the year been, but it is indeed Bonfire Night and Scotland has risen to the occasion to light up the night sky and b...

The ground-breaking women who pioneered photography and documentary filmmaking in Scotland are celebrated in an exhibition in Edinburgh this month

PICTURE this. It’s been two-and-a-half hours of hard driving just to get to the start of this single track road. And now it’s really pitch black. Rain swirls insanely. Not one but a brace of large and pointy-horned stags looms up, ghostly white a...

I’M SWAPPING tales about the Open University with its Scottish director Susan Stewart and she tells me about the unlikely Tory champion who helped save it for the nation. “I’m amazed the Tories didn’t try to privatise it,” I tell her. “Ay...

IT took him two days. But Jair Bolsonaro this week eventually admitted his time as president of Brazil was coming to an end.

IN politics, it is seldom the case that future forecasts generate a unanimous verdict. More commonly, a governing party will summon up portents of delight while their opponents paint word pictures of Stygian gloom.

Postered missing ALEX Salmond’s Alba party was very proud of its new billboard blitz this week. Posters declared “Enough is Enough. It’s time for independence" over a gallery of unionist foes centred on, er, Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss. New PM...

The head of a 74-year-old Glasgow charity that provides hot meals and companionship for lonely older people has admitted funding uncertainty is giving him "sleepless nights" amid increased demand for their services.

RSPB Scotland and more than 40 other environmental groups have pleaded with Scottish Secretary Alister Jack to do what he can to stop government plans to scrap European laws.

Described as a game for 'cinephiles and casual movie watchers alike' it is inspired by the worldwide popular guessing games. 

Like many other crypto projects before it, HEX has promised to be a revolutionary new crypto project ever since it launched at the end of 2019. It was seeking to do so through ultra-fast transactions and an interface that was extremely user friendly....

Here are some hints and tips to help you crack the Quordle from November 5.

Hints and answer for today's Wordle, 504.

SCOTRAIL Will only run a “skeleton service” on Saturday despite strikes being called off.

Elon Musk is turning Twitter into a conspiracy hell, but which Scottish politicians will pay to play on his social media platform?

THE public has still not been given the full facts on the CalMac ferries fiasco, the chair of the committee which grilled Nicola Sturgeon today has said.

SIR GAVIN Williamson has been accused of sending "threatening messages” to a female Tory MP.

THE speed with which the Tories have managed to embed in people’s minds the notion that more austerity is an inevitability is way beyond dispiriting.

FORMER governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney has doubled down on his claim that Brexit was always likely to “add to inflationary pressure” and has devalued the pound.

By Scott Wright

Accountancy firm BDO has moved into a new 8,000sq ft office in Glasgow as part of ongoing plans to expand its team.

Fans of the 2003 Christmas classic Elf will be amazed to see Buddy the Elf played by Will Ferrell return to screens for the festive season in Asda’s new Christmas advert.

THE optics though. After days of deserved condemnation for her use of militant language regarding the UK migrant crisis, Suella Braverman arrived at Manston migrant camp by Chinook.

A Scottish research team working on ways to grow meat in a laboratory has secured a fresh investment of £11 million that will be used to extend its technology from cows and pigs into other species.

By Scott Wright

Loganair has unveiled multi-million-pound deals as it moves to complete the “renewal and future-proofing” of its fleet by 2023, with wholesale change of aircraft operating on its Highlands and Islands routes.

By Karen Peattie

Construction has been brought forward to "meet high demand"

ONE in seven Scots are not confident they can afford to feed their families, a YouGov poll suggest.

THE COST of living crisis is hitting Scotland's attempts to tackle climate change - as people prioritise cutting household costs before being environmentally friendly.

OVER 200,000 Scot homeowners will see their mortgage payments rise by an average of £1700 a year in the space of ten months after the the Bank of England hiked the base rate of interest to 3%.