Villagers have been evacuated from their homes near RAF Fairford following the arrest of several men on suspicion of explosives offences, police said

McCloud pension scandal: SPSO rejects a probe into teacher’s alleged SPPA maladministration and misleading pension communications.

Scotland’s drug deaths rose 11% to 1,133 in 2025, with cocaine linked to a record 589 fatalities and nitazenes implicated in 22%, as experts warn.

Men like Scotland’s irrelevant First Minister when they want to channel their ageing hippie ten years after everyone else has gone through it' says our columnist Kevin McKenna

The Carnegie Education Fund wants to support those from low-income backgrounds seeking to study at Master's level.

“We were founded in 1901 by Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish-American philanthropist, as the first of the Trusts that he set up when he was starting to divest his massive fortune, having famously said that 'the man who dies rich dies disgraced.’

Andy Burnham preaches control and devolution but eleven years after Labour MSPs called the UK-Scottish party relationship dysfunctional, it's the Prime Minister, not Michael Marra, who still holds Scottish Labour's fate in his hands.

Raasay’s ‘Walter McMitty’: how Scott Peake’s fake island identity unravelled, and the Hebridean island’s turbulent history, feature in a new book.

Aussie-honed rockers who cruise the Highway to Hell

A member of a Westminster committee which is to probe party political funding following Operation Branchform wants Nicola Sturgeon and her estranged husband Peter Murrell give evidence to the inquiry.

"Family-run" UK haulage company CVH Transport Services is set to close after 53 years, having fallen into liquidation.

Edinburgh MP Christine Jardine has announced she will step down at the next general election.

Concerns are growing for a missing Cardenden man who was last seen in the early hours of Friday morning.

A Lanarkshire electronics firm has been vandalised for a second time by pro-Palestine activists over its alleged links to arms manufacturers

Smoke can be seen across much of Glasgow after a fire at a recycling centre

A man has been charged after allegedly attempting to kill a cyclist with his car in Aberdeen

Award-winning Harris stickmaker David Broadbent has spent decades crafting shepherds' crooks and walking sticks. Now he fears a centuries-old Scottish tradition is at risk from cheap imports, changing farming practices and a lack of new makers.

Police seized £200k of cocaine from a driver in Aberdeen after making a traffic stop

Residents oppose plans for a 314-bed student block on Glasgow’s St George’s Road, warning demolition of The Q Club, PureGym and studios will harm the community.

The Health and Safety Executive has refused to release the safety report for the Princes Street building which burned down this summer, citing an ongoing investigation.

The billionaire Issa brothers are bidding to rebuild collapsed Scottish hydrogen truck firm HVS after acquiring its assets and intellectual property.

Campaigners for community-led housing have called for public sector support and cooperation to help address the housing crisis across Scotland.

Research by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) found 75% of Scottish high schools don't have enough teaching assistants.

Civil service managers could face cuts under Scottish Government reform plans despite claim officials told staff recruiting directors remains a priority.

Scotland's public sector needs major reform. Ivan McKee has the vision, but does he have the authority to make the toughest decisions?

Glasgow HSCP confirms staffing for a new £1.2m specialist service is still unknown as campaigners warn £2m cuts could leave vulnerable people in unsafe conditions.

Liquidators have been appointed to a Scottish property company founded nearly three decades ago

The president has told voters to vote like he is on the ballot, but that’s precisely what worries Republicans who are distancing themselves from him writes Foreign Editor David Pratt

Rising government bond yields across the world have implications for savers and investors

The investigation into ground movement beneath homes in Coalsnaughton that lead to dozens of families losing their properties has spread to other sites, it has emerged.

Rural and island communities are being left behind in a £1.4 billion rollout of the most advanced broadband and mobile services, UK and Scottish ministers have been warned.

A Scottish video game studio founded by a former Grand Theft Auto producer has entered administration, following the troubled launch of its first game

Scottish Government admits it does not know how many stroke patients are missing out on thrombectomy because treatment is unavailable.

Laced Europe Ltd, a popular online marketplace for buying and selling trainers, is set to close down after 11 years, having fallen into administration.

Police have released images of six males officers believe can assist with ongoing enquiries into a serious assault in Edinburgh.

A “special” Gorbals church is undergoing a major “difficult” change as a much loved Catholic order is withdrawing from the parish.

Prestwick Airport revealed it has received more than 4,200 comments in support of reinstating the route, last operated by Ryanair in 2011

A court was today told of the massive £600,000 fraud plot of the brother of race-hate killer Imran 'Baldy' Shahid.

Several homes have been evacuated due to a "disturbance" in Govan.

A housing association has pledged to provide 8,000 homeless people and families with a property to live in by 2032.

Sandie Peggie’s sex and gender beliefs “had no bearing” on the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) union’s decision to refuse her request for legal support, a tribunal has heard.

Frustrated Kilwinning councillor Donald Reid has hit out at North Ayrshire Council, claiming their revamped Cunninghame House headquarters are “not fit for purpose”.

A former DP World Tour commercial manager says golf must make its career opportunities more visible to women who have not followed an elite playing pathway

A petition calling on politicians to support a community run, not-for-profit, ferry company has received huge support from near and far.

A unique ferry at the centre of a dispute between the community and a neighbouring landowner has broken down this week, escalating the financial concerns of those who run the service.

The Pyramids of Giza on the outskirts of Cairo in Egypt stand as some of the most iconic and enduring monuments in human history.

Scotland's emergency heating oil scheme has paid out just £2m of a £10m fund in six months, prompting sharp criticism from MSPs and MPs who warn that island communities most affected by fuel poverty are still being shut out by eligibility rules.

A man who hid a camera inside a can of deodorant to spy on a child was jailed today for 18 months.

Three perverts who committed what experienced police officers described as among the most "violent and disturbing" child abuse images they had seen have been jailed for a total of seven years.

Dundee City Council is facing a budget shortfall of nearly £13 million next year.