AN activist is angry that he has been charged with a race crime for displaying a banner reading ‘England Stay Out of Scotland’ to stop the spread of  Covid-19.

WILLIE Rennie has complained Douglas Ross has not “bothered to pick up the phone” about his plan for a Unionist coalition to deny the SNP a Holyrood majority.

CHOOSING the right estate agent to market and sell your home is arguably as important as choosing your next property when you consider the financial and personal implications of moving.

A NEWLY independent Scotland would face years of budget cuts and tax rises as it tried to get on top of a deficit that has ballooned since 2014, a leading think-tank has said.

YOU pretend to pay us and we'll pretend to work.

WHILE millions of people will be more focused than ever on just getting by in the very short term, amid the economic fall-out from the coronavirus crisis, two new reports provide a reminder of longer-term woe for many on the pensions front.

The use of blended and digital learning will have a permanent role to play in school communities after lockdown, Glasgow Council’s education director has signalled.

A SCOTTISH community which has been campaigning for more free-to-use ATMs is at the centre of a 'new model for high street banking' plan to boost access to cash which could be rolled across the UK.

BP has tripled first quarter profits after feeling the benefit of increased oil prices and the start of production from a big North Sea field.

PERHAPS those of us of a unionist persuasion are too negative about the result of another referendum on independence.

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

By Richard Heard

ONE of the few Holyrood seats never to have been won by the SNP, Dumfriesshire is a place where the constitutional debate gets real.

NHS whistleblowers have required counselling and medication and a quarter would not raise concerns again due to the stress and lack of support, a report found.

ONLY if you have ever played rugby can you really talk with sense about the difference between our sport and all the others.

SCOTTISH Tory leader Douglas Ross has been grilled about his commitment to equal rights after his past views on same-sex marriage were uncovered.

SOME care homes are still failing to provide basic visiting requirements despite coronavirus all but vanishing from premises across Scotland.

A WOMAN whose 75-year-old mother has been refused a place in a local nursing home because of her weight says it “screams discrimination”.

Scotland would have to make “difficult fiscal adjustments” in the years after independence, a new report has said.

As lockdown gradually lifts and we approach the end of school term, Skills Development Scotland credits a multi-partnership strategy for keeping Foundation Apprentices on course – physically and virtually – during the Covid-19 pandemic

SOME £4m has been 'wasted' over five years of failed temporary fixes to one of Scotland's key roads which has become plagued by landslides.

WITH the arrival of spring, walkers, cyclists and sightseers start appearing outside my windows.

CONSUMERS “flocked” to Scotland’s high streets on the first day of reopening of non-essential shops, the Scottish Retail Consortium has declared, with footfall on Monday up by 167 per cent on the same day last week.

THE construction of new purpose-built student accommodation has “paused for breath” in Glasgow, but the market continues to hold long-term appeal for investors, new research has found.

Shore up for a deep dive into Scotland’s unrivalled seafood scene, where delicious local produce is expertly prepared by elite chefs in the country’s finest restaurants.

The percentage of people who believe the AstraZeneca vaccine causes blood clots has nearly doubled since last month, but overall vaccine confidence is higher than it was at the end of 2020.

AS the song goes, what a difference a day makes. But in this case, it’s a year.

THE TREASURY cannot explain how it will manage declines in tax revenues worth £37 billion from fossil fuels as the UK shifts to a clean economy, MPs have warned.

So, what’s the prblm?

IT is a letter in which Bonnie Prince Charlie calls out his military strategist for his advice which could have changed the future of the Stuart dynasty.

By Ian McConnell

THE ongoing debate over the Boris Johnson/Dominic Cummings spat and refurbishment of the Prime Minister’s Downing Street flat continued to dominate the comment sections of the newspapers.

Military manoeuvres

Nicola Sturgeon will take on Douglas Ross, Anas Sarwar, Patrick Harvie and Willie Rennie in a live television debate on Channel 4 ahead of next month's Holyrood election.

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NICOLA Sturgeon has sought to make the row over Boris Johnson and sleaze her clinching argument in the Holyrood election, urging voters to show the Tories "they are not untouchable".

Channel 4 held a televised debate of Scotland's main party leaders ahead of the Scottish Election on May 6th.

The Channel 4 election debate saw party leaders clash over a second independence referendum.

“Remind me, how much is a pound of mince?” That, or a similar call, will have echoed round rehearsals for tonight’s Scottish election debates.

TONY Blair has said an SNP majority at the Holyrood election next week would not necessarily mean Scots want another independence referendum.

THE MP of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has called for the Government to "stand up to Iran" and bring her constituent home following her further jail sentence.

A Liberal Democrat MP has called for the ministerial code to be extended to party leaders in a bid to hold Alex Salmond to account for his involvement with Russia Today.

DOWNING Street has denied that the Conservative party funded the refurbishment of the Prime Minister's flat.

SCOTLAND’S FARMING future could be in strong, capable hands with the SNP, if it wasn’t for the prospect of a looming independence referendum and a blinkered approach to tree planting, which puts the future of the industry under threat.

SCOTTISH Labour has pledged to focus on delivering childcare expansion and use personal comeback plans to close the attainment gap.

Linton & Co, an independent speciality coffee and luxury brownie company since 2015, is opening a flagship café on the rooftop of Moorgarth’s Waverley Mall in Edinburgh.

Teenage girls who play football are at almost double the risk of concussion compared to boys, a Scots study has shown.

THE issue of executive pay cropped up at a shareholder event hosted by Royal Bank of Scotland owner NatWest Group last week – and strangely it was not in the context of excess.

At the weekend, one observer of the Johnson-Cummings saga said that talk of a leadership contest was "very premature" at this stage. 

THE Scottish Greens have unveiled plans to establish at least two new national parks in Scotland over the next five years.