If there is a book dealing with great public relations disasters of our time, Raith Rovers has earned a spot in it.

IAN Murray is no fool, but he is a wind-up merchant. The Shadow Scottish Secretary enjoys a reputation as a staunch but impish champion of the Union, a reputation that has seen him, uniquely among Labour colleagues, hold on to a Westminster seat in S...

NICOLA Sturgeon is being challenged over an 'unlawful' move to allow people to choose their gender in this year’s census.

SCOTS researchers have launched an investigation over concerns that rain-soaked Scotland is increasingly being hit by drought.

ENERGY prices are set to soar by 50% today while the cost of compensating against drops in electricity generation has doubled in the space of two years to a record £2.65bn.

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A judge has hit out at a local authority’s “biased” and unreasonable disciplinary process which led to the unfair dismissal of the head of its leisure quango.

A SCOTTISH financial technology firm has hailed securing a second top tier customer in less than six months, upping its outlook for a second time since the recent launch of its latest product.

Whoopi Goldberg has been expressing her views on the Holocaust. The Nazi genocide of Jews wasn’t about race at all, she said, and had in fact involved “two groups of white people”.

Parent leaders have told the national exams body that Scotland’s young people deserve a “humane, responsive” assessment system.

When I joined the electricity industry around 25 years ago as a graduate mechanical engineer, I can vividly remember the creation of a small team of engineers that moved from coal generation to installing and operating wind turbines.

PLANTS are flowering a month earlier in the UK than they were a handful of decades ago, a new study has found. The report warns that this could place many species at "unprecedented risk" should the worrying trend – linked to climate change – cont...

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"As society continues to transition to cleaner energy systems, we have been experiencing greater demand...

GLASGOW-based Akela Ground Engineering has secured a new contract at an Aldi supermarket site.

AS the SNP Government tries to limit the fallout from the fire alarm fiasco it is responsible for a plan dreamed up in Westminster continues to add to the pressures facing householders.

NORTH Sea oil and gas heavyweight Harbour Energy is parting company with executive director Phil Kirk, who has played a big part in the growth of the business.

AS a 64-year-old life-long Raith Rovers supporter, I never thought I’d live to see the day when my team would be the leading story in all the national newspaper front pages. But, yesterday, there we had it, “Brown joins backlash after Scottish cl...

WITH regard to John Birkett’s review of the pitfalls of PR (Letters, February 2), I am obviously missing something, but am a little puzzled at how a proportional electoral system is able to benefit small parties “disproportionately”.

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SCOTTISH writer Val McDermid has said it would have broken her father's heart to see Raith Rovers signing David Goodwillie.

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on rising fuel bills and the ongoing Partygate fallout.

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THERE are some types of pain that the passage of time simply cannot soothe.

BREXIT has re-energised the campaign for independence but also “profoundly changed” what it must explain in any future referendum, according to a leading thinktank.

More Scots drank alone at home during the first national lockdown than in England, according to new research.

Events in the Winter Olympics 2022 have already begun, but the Opening Ceremony will be on soon.

The energy provider has opened a £2.5 million scheme to help households who are struggling to cope with soaring energy prices.

ROBBIE NEILSON insists John Souttar will remain committed to Hearts for the rest of the season after a January move to Rangers failed to materialise.

ALI CRAWFORD insists St Johnstone are only looking one way after climbing off the Premiership basement with their first victory in 13 outings.

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MSPS have agreed to freeze income tax rates for the next financial year despite worries that almost 70,000 Scots will pay more due to adjustments to bands.

CAMPAIGNERS, lawyers and MPs have called on the Justice Secretary to urgently review all coronavirus fines and prosecutions.

A THIRD MP has confirmed they have sent a letter of no confidence in Boris Johnson to the 1922 committee today.

SNP ministers are anticipating the Clyde metro project to cost up to £16bn - with details over the route and timescales potentially to be revealed after a crunch meeting later this month.

THE UK Government’s plans to level up the country have been branded a ‘rehash’ or former policies and an attempt at a power grab on devolved nations.

VAL McDermid has doubled down on her criticism of Raith Rovers for signing David Goodwillie and has claimed she was lied to by the club’s chief executive regarding the striker.

As the ruling Conservatives keep patting themselves on the back, they seem unlikely to listen

The new chair of the SNP’s drug deaths taskforce is confident legal barriers to setting up drug consumption rooms can be overcome as he insisted the facilities would not be a “free-for-all" or be a magnet for drug dealers after fears raised by a ...

LEIGH GRIFFITHS has rejected the offer of a permanent contract at Dundee, according to reports.

BORIS Johnson and Rishi Sunak have been dubbed the ‘Tory Thelma and Louise’ for “ driving the country off a cliff”.

HOLYROOD’S unionist parties massively increased their spending at the Holyrood election in order to stop the SNP winning an outright majority.

Ministers have been accused of wanting to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds on “chopping up” classroom doors as a Covid safety measure.

THE SECRETARY of State for Scotland has been challenged over his support for Boris Johnson and his government's plans to help Scots with the cost of living.

A LAW to force the Prime Minister to reveal whether he receives any fines from the police is to be introduced to the Commons today.

A FORMER government minister has joined the list of MPs to submit a letter of no confidence in the Prime Minister.

The value of Covid loan defaults could more than double the estimated £4.3 billion that may have to be written-off by the goverrnment due to fraud, a restructuring expert has warned, with Scotland likely to see more than £1bn of defaulted busines...