Paintings are paintings, immutable things which stay pretty much unchanged save for the odd clean-up job from a gallery restoration team if the works are of museum quality.

Ann Carrigan Weir, 55, died at home on January 6 2021

Built in the early 19th century for diplomat Sir Robert Liston, Millburn Tower is one of Edinburgh's most distinctive historic buildings

Sandie Peggie alleges her trade union, the Royal College of Nursing, refused her legal support in the long-running changing room dispute with NHS Fife and Dr Beth Upton.

The flight was met by police on the runway

The new facility, developed by Rossie Young People's Trust, involves a partnership with Dundee and Angus College.

Standards Commission for Scotland faces a National Records of Scotland probe after 24 councillor case files were destroyed.

The ‘unsuitable’ label initially applies to accommodation that does not meet basic health and safety standards and later to most hotels, B&Bs and hostels.

Kibble has found that 14% of the young people it cares for have a diagnosis of autism, far higher than the rate found across the wider pupil population.

Guinness World Records, the global authority on record-breaking achievements, has officially recognised a 78-year-old Scottish grandmother with the Guinness World Records title for 'oldest Fortnite streamer on Twitch (female)'.

A gap exists between training and policy on the use of AI in schools and the frequency with which teachers and pupils are exposed to it.

Scottish ministers remain unable to enforce office attendance targets as Ivan McKee insists trade unions will not control hybrid working policy.

New analysis of 2025 Pisa results shows Scotland's most deprived 15-year-olds trail the most advantaged by three and a half years in maths and science, piling fresh pressure on a government that made closing the gap its defining mission a decade ago.

A liquidator has been appointed to Ayrshire holiday company Frasers Travel

More than 100 leading chefs and hospitality businesses in Scotland are supporting a cut in VAT

Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum is exporting the UAE's digital governance model to Africa, Asia and the Caribbean through identity and education platforms.

Police Scotland have made 36 arrests in the “biggest and most co-ordinated” operation the force has ever carried out to target alleged human trafficking.

UK wine retailer Novel Wines has closed down after entering voluntary liquidation.

The Catholic Church in Scotland could reduce its number of dioceses by merging two or more, under new plans

A former teacher has been found guilty of abusing children over a period of nine years

A new £2.66m visitor fund will support efforts to ensure all Edinburgh residents can have 'meaningful' cultural experiences in their neighbourhood.

Uber say they are getting ready to start working in Fife after a bid for a taxi operating office licence was controversially progressed.

Sandie Peggie, suspended after a changing room confrontation on Christmas Eve 2023, told a Dundee employment tribunal the RCN left her without legal support and she faces losing her income by January 2027.

Less than half of technology firms started in 1986 will still be "thriving in a very different world”, estimates the boss of Glasgow life sciences business R-Biopharm Rhône as it marks its 40th anniversary

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A family-run Scottish distribution firm has been taken over by a multi-billion German company

An award-winning museum is to publish a definitive new guide to one of Scotland's most remarkable prehistoric landscapes.

It’s a very familiar pattern for big firms to make big promises to local communities, but end up causing big problems instead, Scottish Green MSP Patrick Harvie writes.

The United States and the United Kingdom have successfully fired a heavyweight torpedo from an underwater drone off the coast of Scotland in a proof-of-concept test

Pensioners are calling for a £14,500 State Pension after a petition passed 23,000 signatures. The Government has rejected the proposal.

A former nightclub site on Sauchiehall Street with permission for more than 70 flats is on the market.

Budget airline Ryanair has launched its Winter 2026 schedule from London and the UK, under which it will offer 435 routes.

A British surveillance plane which took off from Scotland spent several hours flying close to the Russian and Belarusian borders, as Poland accused the former of violating its airspace

Police probing a rare crime on a remote Scottish island have released a CCTV image.

UNISON warns lives could be lost after Glasgow health chiefs back £2m cuts to specialist addiction and complex needs services as drug deaths rise 11%.

Undersea tunnels linking Scottish islands could soon no longer be a pipe dream

A much-loved pilgrimage walking route through the Scottish Borders has received global recognition after it was included in a 'travel Bible' for the first time.

St Andrews Links Trust ended 2025 with £52.4m in cash, appointed global agency CAA to grow its brands, and is preparing for major new investment projects

Edinburgh and Lothians East MSP Kayleigh Kinross-O’Neill said the plans were “out of touch” following a summer of wildfires and heatwaves.

The world's first community-owned whisky distillery has announced it plans to enter administration, after a series of financial and legal troubles

A new landscape hotel and 24-cover restaurant is to open in Argyll and Bute in November.

Three people have been charged after Police Scotland uncovered the UK's first known nitazene lab in Patna, Ayrshire, amid serious organised crime inquiries.

Pelagia Shetland has posted a rise in turnover and profit

Constable Bethany Scott said the crimes had a significant impact on victims

According to Dr Irvine, only 19 students in total are enrolled on the 11 English and Scottish Literature programmes that are set to close.

Creative Scotland says its 'preference' is to sell or transfer ownership of the former Third Eye Centre and CCA building in Glasgow.

Motorists are being urged to avoid this stretch of the motorway

Pawel Sowa is the head chef of the GEAMAIR restaurant at the Craigellachie Hotel in the heart of Speyside.

Blair Atholl, Dundee, Loch Lomond, Plockton and Oban have been named as 'dupes' for some of Europe's most popular travel hotspots as part of a new ScotRail travel map.

Plans for holiday lodges described as a 'blot on the landscape' have been given the go ahead on appeal after councillors welcomed the venture.