Scotland’s bard praised it for its “honest men and bonny lasses” and for generations of Scots, a trip to Ayr with its long sandy beach and charming town centre was a grand place to visit.

A mother who killed her three-year-old son, dumped his body in a suitcase and claimed that he was missing has been freed from jail after less than seven years.

​Over 30,000 tonnes of waste put out every year for recycling in Scotland end up being burnt in incinerators and causing climate pollution, according to an investigation by The Ferret.

Hey, pal – fancy 75 quid in yer pocket, nae questions asked? Just vote for me on May 6. Cheers.

The First Minister said the people of Scotland must decide their future.

THERE is “probably no good evidence” for long-term use of antidepressants but very little research into how patients can discontinue treatment safely, according to one of the academics behind a major new review into the drugs.

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar showed off his dance moves when he came across an outdoor class while out campaigning for the Holyrood election.

Planned with military precision, it was to be a royal event unlike any the Scottish capital had seen before, packed with ceremony, celebration and crowds.

For years Victoria Robb lived with the nagging concern that breast cancer might run through her family.

Although the travel restrictions and hairdressers have reopened, April 26 remains a key date for many with a host of restrictions easing in Scotland.

Police dispersed more people for Covid breaches this week than any other seven-day period since the beginning of the pandemic.

A court battle between the UK and Scottish Governments over Indyref2 while the country seeks to recover from the ravages of the Covid pandemic would be the “most scandalous dereliction of duty in modern British and Scottish history,” Jack McCo...

Scotland has one of the most successful computer games industries on the planet - in fact, we basically invented the entire sector - and lockdown has only made the boom get bigger. Yet, why do we never talk about it? Is it the Scottish cringe? Are...

MINISTERS face potential legal action by Scotland's night-time industry which is trying to avoid collapse as it emerged some 19,000 staff have already been cut and 1000 licensed premises have shut due to the Covid crisis.

THE Scottish Catholic Church's humanitarian charity has charged the government of acting unlawfully over foreign aid cuts.

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THE SNP has announced plans to incorporate more UN treaties into Scots law despite UK Government legal challenges pending on one such bill already.

THEY were among the worst war time disasters in maritime history with the loss of hundreds of lives.

A PROJECT helping children and families in Scotland to lead a better life has been given a major funding boost to allow it to develop its services over the next three years.

As ultranationalist Israelis' clash with Palestinians the historic city is once again in the news. But as Foreign Editor David Pratt reports, it’s the struggle for control of East Jerusalem that is the real fault line the world must watch out fo...

TUCKED up in the west coast of Scotland lie the Outer Hebrides.

I HAVE huge respect and admiration for medical science – it is that, after all, that is keeping me alive. Evidence-based clinical practice is crucial to the advancement of treatments. Our NHS is built upon effective and proven treatments to bene...

IT WAS while listening to my father’s partner one afternoon at the surgery in Stirling that I first became aware that some patients would try to engineer a few days off duty by deception.

The Bay City Rollers – Rollerworld: Live at the Budokan. Released – 2001.

Reclaim the streets for pedestrians

Ten places to take the kids now that Scotland has reopened, from treetop challenges to trampoline centres

Police believe the answer lies within the local community

Enquiries revealed the vehicle is using a false registration

There have been 177 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

WILLIE Rennie has cast doubt on whether an SNP majority in the next Holyrood parliament would be a "legitimate" mandate for a second independence referendum.

TWO in three Scots who are close to retirement do not have the pension savings to sustain their planned income, a new study has warned.

Following May's Scottish election, will the Lord Advocate's role fundamentally change? 

ROAD closures are in place around Loch Lomond after a surge in visitors led to “indiscriminate and dangerous” parking in the area.

NICOLA Sturgeon has condemned the “stench of sleaze” around the Conservative UK government which she said is “becoming quite overpowering”.

A fire crew said it came under attack, after it was called to put out a fire in a West Lothian village.

WILLIE Rennie has always been a pathological optimist about elections. The Scottish Liberal Democrat leader can’t help assuming the best as polling day nears.

Children have been frustratingly “left behind” in the Covid-19 vaccine programme, a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has said.

Former attorney general Dominic Grieve has launched a blistering attack on Boris Johnson, saying he must explain how the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat was paid for.

With months of good beer-gardening time already lost to lockdown, Monday's reopening of select beer gardens across the country means Scots will be out in force whatever the weather.

HAULIERS in the Scottish islands are not surprisingly “through the roof” after ferry services were decimated amid a series of breakdowns.

Scotland’s role in the battles of the Great War cost the country more than 105,000 men. In all, around 750,000 Scottish men fought in World War I.

FROM the beginning of the Covid vaccine rollout, the issue of virus transmission has loomed large as the major unanswered question of clinical trials.

Magnet fishing is now allowed on Scottish canals, in what is being described as a "UK first."

The latest weekly coronavirus figures have been released, highlighting hotspots of Covid-19 per 100,000 of the population and the risk in each neighbourhood.

POLITICIANS are an odd lot, but a "favourites" playlist on a YouTube account linked to Alba MP Neale Hanvey still managed to raise eyebrows this week.

A Glasgow minister has said efforts to tackle Scotland's drug death crisis can't wait until Nicola Sturgeon secures independence and has full policy control.

ITS grand staircase and corridors were built wide to accommodate the bustle of Victorian skirts while more famous patrons in later generations included a prince, rock royalty and Hollywood movie stars.

A group of Hebridean islands have come together to demand two dedicated ferries over each of two routes which would help replace the "elderly" 32-year-old MV Lord of the Isles - the most-travelled vessel in the CalMac fleet.