A growing number of passengers are dodging the Scottish Government’s hotel quarantine system by flying from other airports in the UK, Scottish Labour has said.

Alister Jack is to claim the UK's coronavirus vaccine programme is the "envy of the world" and a "truly astonishing achievement".

SCOTTISH author Alexander McCall Smith reckons he writes five novels a year – but readily admits he does have a tendency to lose count of them.

THE SNP has been accused of having “neglected and mistreated” Scotland’s local councils – amid a warning local authorities have faced real-terms cuts to their non-ringfenced budgets of approaching £1 billion over an eight-year period.

WAKING up on Mother's Day there will be someone missing for the Honeyman family as it is exactly one year since they lost their beloved mother to covid.

Four people have been arrested for public order offences and breaches of coronavirus regulations at a vigil in memory of Sarah Everard in Clapham, the Metropolitan Police said.

Data on how many fines Police Scotland have handed out during the pandemic since they were given the power to break up parties.

by Sandra Dick

MINISTERS are under increasing pressure to deal with a cladding crisis in Scotland as it emerged that over 100 local authority high rise buildings have potentially deadly cladding four years after the horrifying Grenfell Tower blaze that claimed t...

MINISTERS are facing a new legal clash with fishermen who say they face losing their livelihoods after being banned from an area of Scotland to protect an endangered fish.

It doesn’t look controversial at first. But look a little bit closer. In places, the words are hard to read – they’re a bit faded after a couple of hundred years of Edinburgh wind and rain – but you can just about make them out. “Here ar...

Since the Middle Ages, Scots have been entertaining themselves during the long winter nights with a dialectical tradition called “flyting”. This is a form of conversation in which you knowingly subject your friend or colleague to verbal violence ...

HAPPY, smiling and together - this was the Gillans as a family of five for their last Christmas just over a year ago.

THE SNP’s Westminster leader has called on Boris Johnson to do “everything we can politically and diplomatically” to ensure Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is returned safely as she faces a fresh court appearance.

Back in 1966, a nine-year-old me went to the Mayfair Cinema in Shawlands to see a film called Fantastic Voyage. It told the fantastical science-fiction story of a submarine and crew shrunk to microscopic size, injected into the body of an injured ...

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has passed the 400,000 Covid-19 vaccinations milestone.

In small communities, stories are often told in asides and whispers. When the boat, the Ben Lomond arrived near the shores of the Isle of Lewis in May 1952, rumours began immediately. They were still circulating when I was growing up on the island...

Met Police constable Wayne Couzens has appeared in court.

More than 600 people have been confirmed to have tested positive for Covid-19 in Scotland during the past 24 hours.

The SNP is planning to mobilise a cyber army of activists to campaign across the internet ahead of May's Holyrood election.

Police in Dunfries and Galloway are appealing for information to trace a missing 72-year-old woman.

HAD Scotland’s new Hate Crime legislation been operational the Royal Family might have had a problem this week. Following claims by Meghan Markle that the colour of her child had been an issue in the Windsor household, Police Scotland might have...

WESTMINSTER has a “very clear duty of care” to protect Scottish civil servants involved in the Salmond row and MPs must ensure Scottish Government officials operate in an impartial and appropriate way, Liam Fox, the former UK Cabinet, has insi...

LET us reflect. Let us look back in anxiety, frustration and fear at the past 12 months. Let us recall that it is a year to the day since covid first ended a life in Scotland. Let us mourn the lives lost then and since.

Police constable Wayne Couzens, 48, is charged with kidnapping and killing the 33-year-old marketing executive

Edinburgh is already renowned for its castle and enchanting architecture, so it comes as no surprise that the capital has started to flourish in the lucrative arena of filmmaking.

VACCINATING healthcare workers against Covid significantly reduces the risk that other people within their household will become infected.

The organiser of an online vigil for Sarah Everard hopes to hold an in-person event as soon as it is safe to do so.

After the first coronavirus case was confirmed on March 1 2020, Saturday marks one year since Scotland’s first death linked to the virus.

INTERIOR decor is not really my thing. I’ve no aesthetic judgment in such matters and, besides, can’t be bothered putting in the work. When I buy a house, I accept the decor I’m given. Well, that’s not strictly true, but it takes me ages b...

THIS Mother’s Day many with mothers in care homes will be feeling the misery of barely having seen,their mums in a year. In spite of easing of restrictions and new government guidance, many will suffer the heartache of not being able to see them...

WELL, that was quite a week, wasn’t it?

Homes have been evacuated in Milnathort after reports of an unexploded bomb.

A Scottish ice skater is hoping to make history by becoming the first British professional to win Dancing on Ice since the reboot of the show.

Sixteen children and teacher Gwen Mayor were murdered by gunman Thomas Hamilton when he opened fire on a gym class at Dunblane Primary School on March 13 1996.

Events have been planned across the UK, including in Edinburgh and Glasgow, to pay tribute to Ms Everard

Serving police constable Wayne Couzens, 48, was charged on Friday evening with kidnapping and killing the marketing executive

The latest weekly coronavirus figures have been released, highlighting hotspots of Covid-19 and the risk in each neighbourhood.

This Covid year has been a year of loss, of precious hours spent together with mothers, for so many. Distances have stretched, care homes have closed doors and the digital has replaced hugs and touch.

FEARS that Britain’s Covid vaccine could be causing blood clots has led multiple European countries, and even Thailand, to suspend its rollout this week.

As imagined by Brian Beacom

THE reality of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s hard Brexit hit with a jolt with the first significant export figures of the year.

MUSEUM bosses have warned the continued impact of the coronavirus pandemic risks jeopardising collections, endangering historic buildings and "devastating staff".

Proposals for post-lockdown catch-up classes are a “non-starter” and the focus should instead be on providing one-to-one or small group support to pupils, according to senior primary school staff.

RUTH Davidson will insist Scotland has passed "peak Nat" as she addresses the Scottish Conservative conference today.

Great grandfather George Dakers had tested negative for covid on three separate occasions while he was being treated in Glasgow Royal Infirmary last year.

A national day to remember those who have died during the pandemic, and to show support for everyone who has been bereaved, has gained support from the Scottish Government.

It is twelve months on from what was to become with beginning or heartache and grieving for many families.

Members of the public found a 33-year-old man lying injured in a road in Edinburgh yesterday evening.

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