I AGREE with the headline and much of the analysis in Mark Smith’s article, “Tories’ Union Jack blitz will not achieve much in Scotland” (August 9).

SCOTLAND’S largest local authority has called in the police after around £300,000 was found to have been paid to a “deceased pensioner” in a “significant potential fraud” spanning decades.

FORMER Rangers chief executive Charles Green says the £6m he has won from from the Lord Advocate in a settlement over his claim for being maliciously prosecuted in the collapsed club fraud case will not adequately compensate for the damage done.

MINISTERS' financial support for the Scots company which manages the UK's highest railway which shut three years ago due to structural problems - has trebled in a year.

Wildflowers, weeds and plants that pop up when you leave a patch to grow wild can be put to good use, Hannah Stephenson discovers.

By Scott Wright

THE astounding degree of turbulence in the UK Government’s policy-making on international travel conjures up the image of weary, bemused airline passengers scrabbling around nervously for the paper bag in the seat pocket in front of them.

By Kristy Dorsey

By John-Paul Holden and Alistair Grant

THE OWNERS of Guidis restaraunt in Airdrie have shared their devastation following a huge blaze that has destroyed the building.

Prince Andrew has been seen arriving at Balmoral Castle a day after being sued in New York by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre.

KASH FAROOQ is inching ever closer to the world title he so desperately craves.

Railway staff will remember the victims of the Stonehaven rail crash one year on from the tragedy with “enormous sadness”.

A HUGE fire

THE preferred bidder for the old Royal High School building in Edinburgh is set to be unveiled following a new bidding process.

Right. First things first. The 2021 British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa was mince. Oh, sure, plenty tries in the warm-up games, but when it came to the Tests, the play was mostly dire. Exciting if you like muscle fests, but bereft of flair w...

A care home in the Scottish Highlands  has been banned from new admissions after a damning report found staff shortages had put residents at "significant risk".

SISTERS Reevi and Romi Mitchell might be more interested in spending their pocket money than saving it, but they are among the youngest members of a Glasgow credit union which this year is celebrating its 30th anniversary.

A landmark Edinburgh office block has been acquired by property investors in a £22 million deal that reflects confidence in the outlook for demand in spite of the shift to home working amid the pandemic.

By Ian McConnell

By Katy Haigh

TRADING technology firm Beeks Financial Cloud has said it is on course to record growth in revenues and profits in spite of the challenges posed by the pandemic.

By Scott Wright

DOGGER Bank used to be a land bridge to Europe before it was flooded by climate change around 6000 years ago. So it is fitting that “Doggerland”, now located beneath the North Sea, is in the forefront of the battle against modern climate change. ...

IF virtue-signalling were an Olympic sport then Nicola Sturgeon, after decades of dedicated training, would be in line for gold.

IN the days when he was in gainful employment, my husband had a desk in the Edinburgh office of his newspaper. Phoning the editor in Glasgow one day, he mentioned that he had not actually occupied this chair for the best part of a decade. To his boss...

THE Conservative Party manifesto for the December 2019 general election, which the Conservatives won with their biggest parliamentary majority since Margaret Thatcher’s day, committed the party to establish a Commission on the Constitution, Rights ...

The decision was made following discussions with colleagues.

The scam could cost victims thousands of pounds, six points on their licence and could affect job prospects.

The utter lack of self-awareness from the Tory party no longer surprises me.

THERE is a sense of excitement throughout Perthshire and St Johnstone stalwart Murray Davidson can feel it.

Christian Ramirez reckons he can force his way back into the USA squad if he continues his goal-scoring spree.

A nice, spicy summer breakfast which can be prepared in advance and kept in the fridge for up to a week.

GB News has announced plans to "supercharge" its political coverage with the launch of four dedicated programmes.

SNP ministers have been told to axe their “out of control road-building programme” worth £7 billion one day after a stark UN report warned politicians that immediate action is needed to avert climate catastrophe.

HERD immunity against coronavirus is mythical and unachievable, a leading panel of experts has said.

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ANTLERS OF WATER

MORE than 200 beavers have been culled in Scotland since they became a protected species.

CLIMATE activist Greta Thunberg now hopes to attend the COP26 conference in Glasgow after the UK Government agreed to vaccinate delegates.

MISSED waiting times in Scotland’s A&E wards have fallen back to their worst level since the start of the Covid pandemic.

A FORMER Conservative party leader has called on Boris Johnson’s Government to treat the drugs death crisis as a health emergency - warning that criminalising people is “trapping them in desperate cycles of dependence and crimes”.

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FORMER Rangers chief executive Charles Green has won over £6m from the Lord Advocate in a settlement over his £20m claim for being wrongfully prosecuted in the club fraud case.

CALMAC have brought in an emergency vessel after two days of service cancellations on one of Scotland's busiest ferry crossings.

This year's Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) results have been  published and show a decline in pass rates compared with last year.

You’ve probably noticed that there’s been a fair bit of rain over the last few days.

THE Lions’ tour to South Africa may have ended in failure, at least in terms of the result of the Test series. But there are several reasons to believe that, no matter the outcome of the matches that mattered most, it was still a significant succes...