THE dream of buying a house is further away for more people in Scotland as figures show mortgage approvals have slumped to an 11-year low while interest rates soar.

SHAME on you, television, for that whole Matt Hancock, I’m a Celebrity carry-on. You let us down, you let yourself down, and you made a shedload of money. Normally I would say nothing could erase the stain of your disgrace, but here comes Simon Sch...

Nearly half of Scotland’s species are in decline, but the situation can be turned around with action to preserve natural habitats, a report reveals.

Len Pennie fronts up to some of the misconceptions surrounding the Scots language and its place in modern Scotland.

With the FIFA World Cup now well underway, a football analogy seems fitting.

HIBERNIAN and Hearts have both powered to profit in the wake of unprecedented lockdown, and have robust backing from benefactors and fan shareholders.

THE backers of Scotland’s football clubs range from fund managers to fan shareholders.

It's advertised as a three-year-old blended Scotch.

Royal Bank of Scotland owner NatWest has offered more then 90 per cent of its 41,500 staff in the UK a pay rise and one-off cash sum to help them cope with soaring prices.

A fond farewell

John Lewis will develop around 1,000 new homes across three communities

Ardbeg sold a rare cask for £16m earlier this year.

A MINISTER has admitted his government is decades behind progress needed to decarbonise buildings and has insisted that independence would allow Scottish consumers to reap the economic benefits of net zero.

EXACTLY five years ago, Scotland’s then-Health Secretary Shona Robison set out the Scottish Government’s ambition to “increase the number of GPs by at least 800 over ten years”.

He has been cited as an influence by politicians including Gordon Brown, Barack Obama and Margaret Thatcher.

RETIRED healthcare workers and volunteers should be drafted in to help care for patients at home or in emergencies as part of efforts to bolster the NHS, a leading cancer specialist has said.

ANGUS MacEachran (letters, December 2) suggests that Lady Susan Hussey should be “given a break” because of “the huge changes that have occurred during the lady’s lifetime and to which she has adapted”.

IN social media’s chi-chi battlefields, squads of artisan ninjas are constantly seeking their next targets. Lately, they’ve been coming for those who dare to express themselves in anything but establishment English.

IN these trying times - or even at the very best of times - how much would you fork out for Christmas dinner, even if it contained gold carrots? Against the backdrop of the cost-of-living crisis, some celebrity chefs are asking eye-watering prices fo...

I AM disturbed. Let me finish. I am disturbed by the state people get themselves into at the football. What is it getting out of, readers? Correct: hand.

THIRTY-ONE minutes, we say in amazement as we head back out onto Glasgow’s Kilmarnock Road in good time to get home for – da-dah-dah-dah – the start of Strictly.

World’s a stage

He was talking ahead of what at least one Fleet St tabloid billed as a rematch between St George and the Dragon.

POLITICIANS in search of a cheap round of applause – a not uncommon occurrence – can generally rely upon three little letters.

The countdown to Christmas is on so tick off your Quordle puzzle and be one step closer to the big day.

Hints and answer for today's Wordle 532, December 3.

Scotland has seen eight cases of Group A Streptococcus in children under 10 as further deaths from the bacteria are confirmed south of the border.

A former SNP councillor has been jailed for six years for sex attacks involving teenage boys.

LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer has insisted Scotland would undergo “change within the United Kingdom” if he becomes prime minister.

Scotland's Highlands and Islands communities could be in for more travel chaos as staff at 11 regional airports back industrial action.

A former pupil who was abused at one of Scotland's top private schools has been awarded £450,000 in damages.

The leadership of the SNP has failed the movement.

One of the last finished paintings of Glasgow’s street children by celebrated Scottish artist, Joan Eardley, is set to go under the hammer with fine art auctioneers Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh next week.

NICOLA Sturgeon has been urged to refer herself for investigation over claims she failed to properly-record a meeting with the former boss of Ferguson Marine.

FORMER UK health secretary Sajid Javid will not stand again as an MP at the next general election.

Councillors on Scotland's largest local authority have been issued with a life-saving kit which could help prevent fatal drug overdoses.

A Holocaust denier being held on remand in Scotland has admitted he expects to spend at least “five years or more” in prison if France’s extradition request is successful.

Sunny Govan is an uncut diamond in Scotland's radio firmament.

A FAMOUS groundbreaking former residential house run by women for women in Glasgow is one of two historic buildings in the city brought to market.

ECO-friendly heat pumps are set to cost Scots less than fossil fuels boilers for the first time as ministers offer grant funding for climate-compatible heating systems.

OBSERVED from a distance, the rustic red corrugated metal-clad gables and steeply pitched roofs of Ceangal House could easily be mistaken for agricultural farm buildings – a response that would delight architect Iain Monteith of Glasgow-based firm ...

The stalwart of Scotland’s family business sector often seems like a man of relatively few words

Local councillor Samantha Dixon re-won the seat for Labour in the early hours of Friday morning.

SCOTLAND'S budget deficit will be around £2,000 per person higher than the whole of the UK by 2027-28, due to declining North Sea oil and gas revenues, an economic think tank has warned.

I LIKE the past – it’s often where the truth is – so I urge you to check out an old clip of Billy Connolly from the 1980s that the BBC has put online to mark the comedian’s 80th birthday. It’s a wonderful example of long-haired, witty wisdo...

MELANIE Finlay has been keeping a close eye on the plummeting temperatures. For the mother-of-one living with terminal cancer the cold could kill her.

Scottish engineering giant Weir and financial services group abrdn are among those set to join the UK's largest quoted companies, making 2022 the biggest year for changes on London’s top index since the great financial crisis.

Around 40 per cent of the 10,000 inhabitants of Barga in north-east Tuscany can claim Scottish heritage

WEALTHIER patients should be charged a fixed fee for GP consultations "in a bid to reduce demand" on overstretched practices, a group of family doctors has said.

Retailing giant Next has teamed up with the founder of collapsed fashion chain Joules to rescue it from administration in a deal that will save about 100 shops and approximately 1,450 jobs.