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IF the UK Government’s script had gone according to plan, the year of “Global Britain”, would be off to a roaring start by now.

SCIENTISTS are a step closer to being able to reverse the damage caused by motor neurone disease following a breakthrough discovery by researchers in Edinburgh.

It’s just past lunchtime and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is already thinking about tonight’s family dinner plans. “I think we’re going to have cauliflower steaks with cauliflower cheese - my son loves cauliflower cheese,” he tells me on the...

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You know me: I always focus on the positives, so I’ll start with two pieces of good news: Scotland has a new wildlife crime officer and there are plans for new laws on the breeding of dogs and cats. However, a YouGov poll has also shown that 80 ...

AT least the Tories and their Unionist glove-puppets in Scottish Labour are being honest when they insist that a referendum on independence must be a once-in-a-generation event. They don’t want Scotland to be an independent country and campaign ...

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With remote work looking set to remain the mandatory default for many months to come, concern is rising among employees anxious about a lack of training and career opportunities in the coming year.

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Our new year is still in its infancy, but already there are no shortages of challenges. A new virus variant returns us to the toughest of lockdowns, the ripple in the carpet that is Brexit has reached the wall, and the conclusion of populist polit...

THE Holyrood inquiry into the Alex Salmond case is reaching the proportions of farce. Not only have prominent witnesses "forgotten" dates and facts, and not only have the Permanent Secretary and the Lord Advocate stonewalled on legitimate questions. ...

The army will help set up 80 vaccine centres in Scotland.

Thousands of taxi and private hire drivers affected by the coronavirus pandemic are being offered a new grant to help with their fixed costs.

Often overshadowed by Scotland’s cities and Highland wildernesses, Perthshire is set for a spot on the travel map thanks to a £34m plan that will see the creation of a transport museum to rival Glasgow’s famed Riverside Museum.

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AIR pollution levels in Scotland remained within legal limits for the first time last year as a result of the pandemic's impact on our lives.

THEY are songs that were traditionally sung by sailors while performing laborious tasks on board large sailing ships, but sea shanties have moved with the times and are now going viral on social media.

INVALUABLE advice from Irish comedian Michael Redmond, who is based in Glasgow’s west end. He says: “Break the boredom of lockdown by standing on your ironing board and imagine you’re surfing down a 200ft wave crashing towards the shoreline....

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Monica Lennon has announced she is hoping to succeed Richard Leonard as the next leader of Scottish Labour.

The law for us kids in the 1950s and 1960s meant the local police. They walked their beats and turned up in awkward places. They knew everyone and took no nonsense. Worse yet, many were my father’s patients or in his St John Ambulance first aid cla...

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GLASGOW Airport this week warned of three material uncertainties “which may cast significant doubt” over its ability to continue as a going concern, as it reported a sharp drop in profits for the year before coronavirus struck.

Paisley no more… Fort William no more… Covidiots no more!

ST MUNGO and the robin is one the best-loved stories about Glasgow’s patron saint. Celebrated in Glasgow’s city crest, it tells how the young Mungo restored a dead bird to life after it had been killed by his classmates, who’d blamed him for...

As ITV's Dancing On Ice returns to our screens this January, Danielle de Wolfe speaks to the celebrity contestants battling it out on the rink.

There have been 1,341 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

THE UK Government has insisted the Scottish fishing industry is merely suffering “teething problems” despite apocalyptic warnings of closures across the fleet.