ALEX Salmond has said Scotland should borrow “as much as we possibly can” while dismissing the SNP’s economic plans as mere “motherhood and apple pie”.

THE fiddler brought his slow lament to a close as the church sat silent and expectant.

Welcome to our Covid-19 live blog, bringing you all the latest updates from across Scotland.

The latest lockdown protection levels have been revealed as Nicola Sturgeon announced Scotland's plans to move out of lockdown.

Is Boris considering a snap poll on independence with the date, question(s) and eligibility decided by himself?

WEDDING catering firms have accused the Scottish Government of 'pure discrimination' because of a ban on marquees that does not apply to pubs and restaurants.

ELECTIONS on the horizon and on the Sunday shows it was questions, questions everywhere, and not a straightforward answer to be had.

SCOTLAND’S deficit has ballooned to £40billion, more than eight times the limit set for EU membership, because of the pandemic and declining oil revenue, the UK's leading economic thinktank has found.

PRIMARK stores in Glasgow reopen today for the first time this year.

WHEN the possibility of Rangers going the entire Premiership campaign without losing a game and becoming “Invincibles” first started to be mentioned towards the end of last year, it drew a predictable reaction from many of a Celtic persuasion....

Scotland's Primary 1 testing regime is an unreliable “postcode lottery” that distresses children, produces little useful information and undermines parent choice, critics have warned.

THE UK Conservatives seem intent on making a better case for Scottish independence than the SNP.

GOOD news, my fellow voters.

Road movie Nomadland won the top prize at the Oscars, where director Chloe Zhao made history.

SCOTLAND takes its first significant step in lockdown easing today with the reopening of hospitality, gyms, non-essential shops and indoor attractions such as museums, galleries and libraries.

ITS CONTRARIAN approach pushes it towards the less favoured investments in good time for a turnaround in fortunes, it is claimed.

IT was built with a bequest of £5000 from Elizabeth Duncan and now more than 150 years on the benefactor has been featured on a mural to marks her contribution.

THE lawyer for the family of Emma Caldwell's family – still seeking justice 16 years after her death - has damned the Crown Office as "unbelievably cynical and cruel" in a coruscating letter to Scotland's most senior prosecutor.

By Ian McConnell

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THE European Super League debacle has shown that the customer is always king, listeners to the Go Radio Business Show with Hunter & Haughey heard yesterday.

Name: Karen Gibb.

SCOTTISH companies still have a long way to go before business can claim to be truly diverse north of the Border with some – not all – making gestures which are yet to be “converted into tangible actions and results which benefit our communi...

By Mike Merritt

IN what would have been her 60th year, the spotlight is intensifying once again on the late Princess Diana as Netflix announce a musical based on her life will premiere on its platform later this year, with a new Hollywood movie in the works.

It’s the Oscars tonight, which is good news for insomniacs because it’s likely to run through to breakfast.

Brew the coffee, strike out the amphetamines and the matchsticks for the eyes, discard the cilice (watch the spikes don’t blind the dog) – it’s the night of exquisite and prolonged torture for dedicated film-worshippers throughout the world.

A SCOTS castle has been sold for just over the price of an average house.

FOUR Scottish solicitors, all formerly directors of Macdonald Henderson, have joined forces to launch a new legal firm based in Glasgow.

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THE SNP have demanded “full disclosure” in the growing row over whether Boris Johnson improperly benefited from Tory donations to refurbish his Downing Street flat.

SKYLINES can be like hairdos. One small change, a lick, a curl or a spike, and it can seem that the whole character is changed – the alteration the only thing one’s eye is drawn towards. That’s particularly so, when, like the new W Hotel in ...

SCOTTISH Labour leader Anas Sarwar has insisted he is  “absolutely tough enough” to deal with Nicola Sturgeon.

ScotRail has condemned a fifth day of strike action by conductors over an increase in overtime payments.

A CALL has been made to increase the tax on alcohol bought in Scots off-licences and shops, while giving a break to pubs and restaurants to helps save the hospitality industry.

A fresh survey of voting intentions and the popularity of party leaders suggests the SNP is on course to win a five-seat majority at Holyrood

​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.

WHAT to say about Sir Billy Connolly, surely Britain’s best-loved comedian? That esteem has only deepened with the courage and humour with which he has faced those illnesses which make life such a pain in the bahookey just when you’re thinking...

Brian Beacom

NICOLA Sturgeon has confirmed that independence would create a physical border with England and raise “all sorts of issues” and “practical difficulties” for trade.

International Trade Secretary Liz Truss said she had been assured the rules for ministers had been fully complied with

Everyone in Scotland will be able to access rapid coronavirus testing, even if they have no symptoms, from Monday to help find cases that might be missed.

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.

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.

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