IT'S four years since the now legendary "if you stop eating avocado toast, you'll be able to buy a house" maxim became a recognised part of the modern lexicon.

It was another period of disruption for CalMac's lifeline ferry services.

STATE-CONTROLLED ferry operator CalMac has come under fire for failing to listen and communicate as services are  “decimated”  for island communities as yet more delays were announced to the construction of new vessels.

It was the scene of an infamous battle which became known as Bloody Friday when more than 100 years ago thousands of workers fighting for a 40-hour week descended on Glasgow’s George Square.

HOLYROOD has launched an audit on the representation and participation of women in the Scottish Parliament in a push for more gender balance.

Omega Diagnostics is considering a £7 million fundraising that hinges upon “certain other corporate actions” currently being explored by the Scottish firm.

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THE Kuwaiti company that has made two bids to take over John Menzies has responded to the double rejection, saying it had offered a “compelling opportunity”.

The Johnson administration seems to be carrying on regardless, in the style of the most British of farces, declaring this week that Jacob Rees-Mogg had ...

CROSS-COUNTRY skier Andrew Musgrave was more mystified than at any time in his 13-year career by the way he slowed to ‘crawling’ pace in the Olympic 15km in Beijing.

THE butterflies in the stomach will be fluttering more than normal this weekend and Safyaan Sharif doesn’t even have a game.

ONCE upon a time in a parallel universe far, far away, somebody sat down and devised a strategy to kick start Scotland’s Covid economic recovery.

Investors in early-stage companies across Scotland have warned that new national security legislation could impact activity in the start-up sector.

Perhaps only rivalled by the incompetence and heartlessness of the current Tory Government, Brexit is the single biggest reason why the prospect of a second independence referendum is a possibility.

THE Scottish Government White Paper on independence talked of a bigger, better, fairer economy within the EU.

IT has been branded everything from "dead cat" designed to distract from partygate, to a gamble which "robs us of the most fundamental means of controlling the spread of this virus".

A plethora of crises engulfed the economy in Britain last year. One of the most acute of these concerned labour shortages, especially amongst hospitality workers and Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGV) drivers. Scotland was often affected as many other parts ...

One of the big questions about Scottish independence is how and when an independent Scotland could rejoin the European Union.

Regardless of independence, Scottish farmers are on a very different trajectory to those farming south of the Border, but lessons from Brexit should send a firm warning that any future friction at the Scottish Border will have grave consequences for ...

Hamilton Park has named its new leadership team to take over the reins from outgoing chief executive Vivien Currie, who is leaving to join Ascot Racecourse.

THIS may not be the fight Lee McGregor envisaged starting 2022 off with but nevertheless, he believes a win this evening will set him on the path to challenging for a world title in the very near future.

INDEPENDENCE would be “even more complicated” than Brexit for Scotland’s fisheries, an expert has said.

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AN Ayrshire windfarm will provide a boost to the Scottish economy worth more than £90 million in the development and construction phase and support hundreds of jobs, a study has found.

AS the row over the payment of state pensions should the disaster of independence come about continues, it is absolutely the time to revisit the complete work of fiction that was the Scottish Government’s White Paper on independence in 2013 prior t...

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

IF you have ever put a bowl of food down for your cat, only for them to turn their nose up in disgust and walk away, perhaps it’s time you took your pet out shopping with you. A high street store has ignited an argument after saying pet owners are ...

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on the £150 council tax discount

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A picture, we’re told, is worth a thousand words. If so, the one of Vladimir Putin sitting opposite Emmanuel Macron across a 45-feet long oval table in the Kremlin symbolised the gulf between Russia and Nato on Ukraine.

ARE you fond of cats? I am. I have one sitting in front of me now. She specialises in settling herself in awkward locations, like the 10cm strip of table between me and my computer. She’s wedged in there, purring beatifically and head-butting my fa...

Space-specialist agency collaborates with “Space University” to deliver a series of marketing advice clinics

A 19-page submission to the UN asks for the independent status of the EHRC to be reviewed

Workplace parking charges should be introduced as soon as possible in Glasgow to help the city meet a zero emissions target by 2030, population health leaders have said.

Here are the best deals on the market for the new Samsung Galaxy S22, S22+ and Ultra deals from EE, O2, Sky Mobile and more.

Nicola Sturgeon faces Douglas Ross and Anas Sarwar at First Minister's Questions before a Budget debate at Holyrood this afternoon.

JOHN McGLYNN admits that Raith Rovers vastly underestimated the response that would accompany the signing of David Goodwillie as the Championship club weighed up the move.

HEARTS defender Stephen Kingsley says his side’s 2-1 defeat at home to Dundee was ‘embarrassing’ as the full-back admitted that supporters were right to be angry as the full-time whistle rang out.

SCOTLAND head coach Gregor Townsend has ranked last week’s Calcutta Cup victory as a seven out of 10 performance and has insisted that his players have insulated themselves from the hype which has been stirred up by that result.

JOHN McGLYNN extended his deepest apologies to everyone hurt by Raith Rovers’ decision to sign David Goodwillie as the Kirkcaldy club’s manager vowed to build bridges with disappointed supporters.

The Met police commissioner has made a full statement issued by Scotland Yard

Police have issued an update on the missing Alice Byrne case and her brother has extended her family's thanks in public search efforts

How the four UK Nations compare in Covid restrictions as England gets ready to drop all remaining rules - inlcuding self-isolation.

SCOTCH whisky and gin distiller Eden Mill has formed a new board shortly after Edinburgh investment firm Inverleith LLP acquired a majority stake in late January.

NICOLA Sturgeon has condemned an "appalling and sickening" attack by West Ham's Kurt Zouma on one of his pet cats.

FINANCE Secretary Kate Forbes has warned that SNP ministers are “still awaiting the finalised” funding settlement from the UK Government despite the next financial year starting in just six weeks’ time.

THE CRISIS unfolding in Ukraine is now at its most dangerous moment, with the situation the biggest threat to Europe in decades, according to the Prime Minister.

NICOLA Sturgeon has said that proposals for footballers to undergo a fit and proper person test amid the David Goodwillie episode “merits further consideration”.