AFTER mocking Willie Rennie for only having four MSPs, Nicola Sturgeon this week told Holyrood she would be truly humble despite having 60 more.

HUNDREDS of vulnerable people with conditions such as severe dementia were moved from hospitals to care homes without due consent at the start of the pandemic amid “endemic poor practice” and confusion over the legal rights of adults with inca...

PROPERTY financiers have told of "betrayal" after revealing they made a £14.185m bid for key Rangers assets before a sale for £5.5m to Charles Green's Sevco consortium after the club went into administration.

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

DECLUTTERING, or the act of chucking stuff out, made it all the way to the top tier of the Scottish Government yesterday when Nicola Sturgeon embraced her inner Marie Kondo and for once delivered a reshuffle worth noting.

THE Home Office is determined to deport the two men freed after a successful protest in Glasgow last week.

AFTER a tempestuous couple of years in international markets, the outlook is beginning to look a good deal calmer for one of Scotland’s most famous exports.

I AM not exactly a fan of football but the beautiful game is so inbuilt into Scottish culture that even I am aware that Rangers have come a long way – from lower leagues – waited a long time and worked hard to win whatever trophy it was they�...

THE CalMac ferries debacle is hampering islands’ industries recovery out of coronavirus amid claims that freight haulage is more busy than before the pandemic and passenger vessel disruption threatens tourism’s fightback.

WEST of Shetland oil pioneer Hurricane Energy is facing an attempted boardroom coup after a dissident investor launched a scathing attack on the company.

Glasgow has the potential to lead Scotland by creating a Copenhagen-style city-wide district heating system powered by the Clyde.

Glasgow is among a world-first clinical trial to test whether a third booster vaccine could protect people against Covid-19 and its variants.

Plans to build 5,500 new homes across Scotland by 2026, “one of the largest affordable housebuilding programmes in the UK over the next five years”.

IS an explosion of wind from an audience member at the opera appropriate? This is not idle or abstract musing. I raise the issue with admittedly tangential reference to Prime Minister’s Ques-tions.

When Nick Gardner could no longer care for his wife due to her worsening health, he felt like life was over.

IT’S surely a symptom of our brief lifespans – or perhaps the sick joke of a creator god, if you’re religiously inclined – but humanity proves itself time and again to be incapable of thinking of the future; of doing what’s in our own be...

People in Scotland who missed their vaccine appointments have been urged to come forward for a jab, as part of a drive to protect the vulnerable from the Indian variant.

Deaths from Covid among younger people in Scotland are outnumbering those among the over-65s for the first time since the pandemic began.

THOSE of us who heaved a sigh of relief following the solid rejection of independence in the 2014 referendum may have hoped for a few years of respite from the separatists.

SCOTTISH businesses’ overall confidence is at its highest since 2014, in terms of their optimism about economic prospects facing them in the coming year relative to conditions in the past 12 months, a survey has revealed.

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An 87-year-old man has died following a two-vehicle crash near a library in Orkney.

THE prestigious Conde Nast Traveller magazine has named Glasgow as the UK's best city break destination, describing it as the place that could "steal your heart in 2021".

Urban Jungle Bloggers Igor Josifovic-Kemper and Judith de Graaff show how houseplants can help you imagine you're on holiday.

People can order test packages online for home delivery by following details on the Scottish Government’s website.

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More hotels along Scotland’s answer to America’s Route 66 have been snapped up in a multi-million-pound spending spree.

NETWORK Rail is being jettisoned as the control and ownership of the nation's rail tracks, stations and signals and track is being brought under a new body named Great British Railways as part of sweeping reforms.

ANNOUNCING her reshuffled Cabinet, Nicola Sturgeon said it "combines experience with new arrivals and fresh faces".

NICOLA Sturgeon's reshuffle cements the return of one of her oldest allies in the SNP, Angus Robertson.

Amber has always been something of a confusing stop-go colour.

Work has started on 40 new affordable homes for social rent on the outskirts of St Monans, a coastal village in Fife.

Police investigating the apparent firebombing of Celtic Chief Executive Peter Lawwell's home say they are hunting a man seen near the property early this morning.

I fear Swinney has been sold a pup with the biggest ministerial brief in modern democratic history.

By CALLUM CHOMCZUK IN March the Home Office published a new immigration plan it said would improve the fairness and efficacy of the system. However, the reality is these proposals may end up exacerbating the "hostile environment" experienced by peop...

Steve Clarke has named his Scotland squad for the European Championships this summer.

Scots travelling abroad will now be able to obtain a record of vaccination status.

NICOLA Sturgeon has unveiled her new Cabinet after a wide-ranging reshuffle saw the departure of two long-serving ministers.

When is a mob TOTALLY a mob? When they are dressed in Rangers scarves riding a horse statue and singing songs about Irish Catholics being a blight on modern society.

The First Minister has announced her new cabinet as the SNP Scottish Government takes shape.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are to tour Scotland and celebrate people who have “gone above and beyond to support their communities” during the pandemic, Kensington Palace has said.

THE company that owns and operates Glasgow’s well-known Lorne Hotel has gone into administration.

A mosque in Glasgow is operating as a vaccination centre 12 hours a day, to immunise younger adults amid the Covid outbreak.

By Ian McConnell

IT may be unfashionable to point out but football can create really joyous occasions. Take last Saturday’s FA Cup Final at Wembley with 21,500 people in the stadium, an intimation that normality is again conceivable.

THE devastating aftermath of the 'petrol bombing' on Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell's home have been revealed in new pictures.

FIRST, they came for the right-wing lecturers, and we said nothing, in fact we cheered. Then they came for the liberal lecturers and then, of course, they came for the students.

The Scottish Government has reported no new coronavirus deaths in the last 24 hours.

The link between healthy teeth and heart disease is not widely known and more should be done to educate the public, a leading dentist has said.

THE TRAFFIC light policy for foreign holidays has been accused of descending into "farce" with the government and companies issuing conflicting advice about where travellers can take a holiday.