A FOUNDING partner of a finance firm which advised Craig Whyte over his disastrous takeover of Rangers, and went on to become an administrator when it financially imploded has denied knowledge of an "end game" for the club to go bust as it faced�...

WHAT do you do if you’ve left your country’s borders open to variants, squandered £37 billion on a test and trace system with “no clear evidence” that it has cut infections, and consistently failed to ensure that vulnerable people have th...

Parents claim they were forced to remove their children with additional support needs from a Glasgow primary school.

The Scottish Government’s “dithering and delay” on proposed gender recognition reforms has helped create a “toxic environment” for transgender people, union leaders have insisted.

Alison Rowat

TO be fair to John Swinney, he scarcely craved the education remit in the first place. When told in 2016, his instinctive private reaction was: “But I do the money!”

PRESSURE is mounting on the Scottish Government to do more to address the country’s ferries debacle, as CalMac’s depleted fleet stands out as the cause again of yet more backbreaking costs to Scotland’s islands communities and businesses.

We stared at the rock-hard, small potato when it came out of the microwave. “What did you put it in at, Miriam?” I asked as she poked and prodded it without any give.

The village of Netherton was uncovered in North Lanarkshire during work to upgrade the M8, M73 and M74 Improvements

TWO hundred years ago there was no such thing as a professional nurse.

JOURNALISTS abide by unwritten rules that govern how they view themselves and what they believe to be the primary function of their trade. I’m about to break one of my own: until now, I’ve never backed or signed a petition. They risk undermini...

Under existing and extremely challenging circumstances, Gaelic public bodies will soon outlive Gaelic communities. This outcome, despite over a generation of official Gaelic promotion, is analysed in our recently published Scottish Affairs article...

GAELIC policy in Scotland will soon outlive Gaelic communities, experts have warned, as they called for an urgent change of approach.

WHEN Conservative MP Robert Adley warned against the dangers of privatisation he held up a British Rail timetable – " a wonderful book" – explaining that it allowed passengers (and freight) to travel smoothly from Wick to Penzance on a single tic...

SCOTTISH tourism leaders have said bookings cancellations because of ferry disruption is costing individual businesses tens of thousands of pounds as a further wave of service call-offs has placed more pressure on the sector’s summer reopening.

Jeremy Paxman has revealed he has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.

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.

My Croft HomesSNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford provoked much laughter at PMQs by introducing himself as a “member of Scotland’s crofter community”. The Edinburgh-born former banker, who also styles himself as a “humble crofter”, was ...

AFTER 54 years of struggle against the illegal occupation of their country, Palestinians have turned a corner. “What is happening in Palestine is not complicated; it’s settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing.” That’s just one of the much-...

UNION leaders have ruled out pursuing equal pay claims for a pay disparity that has resulted in nurses earning four times less than dentists for administering Covid vaccinations.

ITS intention was to create a place for people to remember and reflect following the loss of loved ones to covid and for those affected by the pandemic.

Kayayei Sisters Accra, Ghana, Natalija Gormalova

There were a few “tra-la-las”, several acoustic guitars, long-haired chaps dressed up in bow ties and – the height of fashion – a very brown set.

THINGS I have learned from Radio 4 this week. The average age of the British farmer is 56 (according to The World at One on Wednesday). Medusa used to have tusks and sometimes even a lion’s mane as well as a writhing nest of snakes for hair (Nat...

The Eurovision song contest final will take place tonight for the first time in two years after the 2020 final was cancelled.

Animal rights protesters are blockading four UK distribution centres for McDonald’s which they say will impact roughly 1,300 restaurants.

Ox and Finch

Scotland's most pampered pooches in Scotland have been revealed.

THE divorce rate in China has plunged by 70 per cent, with a new “cooling off” policy said to be behind the dramatic fall.

Friends reunited

HAULAGE companies that spend millions of pounds on Scotland’s ferries each year have called for a complete overhaul of the system they say is stifling growth and heading for breaking point.

A GLASGOW restaurateur has paused the use of two temporary outdoor dining pods after residents raised complaints.

The club released a statement saying it was protecting the reputation of the individuals involved

POLITICIANS in Glasgow have united to pen an open letter to the Home Office, asking the department to "leave our neighbours alone".

Police Scotland have found “no criminality” in a video posted on social media which appeared to show Rangers players using sectarian language during their title celebrations.

BUSINESSES are "deeply disappointed and disillusioned" over the latest lockdown move for Glasgow, a Scottish business leader has said.

Scottish Government statistics have revealed that 414 positive coronavirus tests have been recorded since Thursday

MY second blue envelope arrived on Tuesday. Four days from now I’ll be double-vaxxed and as protected as I can be (give or take a couple of weeks). Perfect timing for the easing of lockdown, especially as I’m living in a level two area.

ALEX Salmond has warned independence is "gradually slipping off the political agenda" just weeks after the Holyrood election.

Glasgow has "not yet turned a corner" and will remain in Level Three for a further week.

IT seems like a lifetime ago now, over 20 years anyway, but I remember my company was pulled up in front of the then-feared, no messing, autocratic Glasgow Licensing Board to respond to complaints of public nuisance and disorder outside a nightclu...

The Tories approached the union the way a slightly psychopathic child might approach a new pet kitten.

The Scottish Greens have announced the key roles that their MSPs will take on in the next session of the Parliament.

Glasgow could be heading towards even tougher lockdown restrictions as cases “continue to accelerate”, according public health experts.

Paul Sweeney brands John Swinney a 'bit of a lame duck' in the latest episode of The Brian Taylor Podcast, joined by Alison Thewliss and Miles Briggs.

SCOTLAND'S colleges have a £54m black hole in finances which has widened by £23m in two years as the public services auditor warned of "long term implications" for their financial sustainability.

A QUANGO has been ordered to release the details of Covid deaths by individual care home after Scotland’s information watchdog criticised it over a “lack of transparency”.

BUSINESSES in Glasgow have been left “intensely frustrated” after the city was left stuck in level three of Scotland’s coronavirus restrictions today.

A police officer has been fined for breaching coronavirus rules after he was spotted in images among thousands of Rangers fans in Glasgow’s George Square.

THE question that sprang to mind when contemplating Boris Johnson’s “jabs, jabs, jabs” to “jobs, jobs, jobs” characterisation of his Government’s Covid-19 recovery plan was: “Where’s the beef?”.