SCOTLAND’S rural communities are no longer phoning the police “as they have little confidence of a meaningful response,” the Scottish Police Federation has warned.

THE planet, said UN Secretary-General António Guterres, at the launch of yesterday’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, is on a pathway to global warming of “more than double” 1.5 degrees, an “unliveable world”.

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IT IS more than 20 years since the sacred Lakota Ghost Dance shirt was returned to descendants of the community of its origin.

Councils are being urged to hire more specialist teachers as the number of visually impaired young people soars and fears grow of a sight-related attainment gap in schools.

FOR many years I shared a bedroom with my mum. It was a council flat and had two bedrooms but my bedroom, the smaller one, was so damp as to be uninhabitable.

TED Baker saw its shares jump more than 14 per cent as it launched a formal sale process after rejecting a series of indicative takeover offers.

A leaving do was held for the former director general of the Cabinet Office's Covid-19 Taskforce Kate Josephs on December 17, 2020.

PARTS of Scotland are being warned snow could lead to travel chaos could lasting until this evening.

SCOTTISH brand Cairngorm Coffee has announced the appointment of a new co-owner and director as it sets its sights on turning over its first £1 million in 2022.

High-resolution satellite imagery has shown bodies have been lying in the open for weeks in the Ukrainian city of Bucha, as Russia denied it had committed war crimes.

SCOTTISH law firm Thorntons Solicitors has taken a step forward on workplace gender equality, a new report reveals.

NORTH Sea-focused IOG has seen its shares plunge five per cent as it faces challenges on a landmark gas field development, for which it won backing from US billionaire Warren Buffett

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By Ian McConnell

AS the SNP Government tries to make it look as if it will put real pressure on firms to deliver the green jobs ministers have failed to secure thus far, the EU has caused a potentially serious complication.

Elderly people in Scottish care homes are continuing to be “locked up” if they are deemed a close contact of someone with Covid, despite the UK government scrapping the rule in England.

SCOTTISH energy giant SSE has announced plans to produce hydrogen at a windfarm in the Highlands that could be used as an alternative to fuels such as petrol which entail higher carbon emissions.

By Ian McConnell

A row over the sale of land near the final resting place of outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor has led to national park officials stepping up enforcement action at the site.

THE town of Bucha will now sit in the history books alongside Katyn, Lidice and Srebrenica as yet another byword for atrocity.

I CAN'T help feeling that the news from Ukraine has gone beyond war crimes. Shootings in front of families, booby-trapping bodies, stealing humanitarian aid and deliberately targeting civilians and using them as human shields are crimes against human...

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TOMORROW will be the 40th anniversary of the dispatch of the Naval Task Force charged with, and ultimately successful in, liberating the Falkland Islands. Yet there are still plenty of people who will complain about “liberating” in that sentence,...

Nicola Sturgeon’s party are tipped to win the backing of 44 per cent of first preference votes

It was previously issued for 4pm on Tuesday to 11am on Wednesday however has since been expanded.

We've said goodbye to a number of people in the public eye in 2022, including Meat Loaf, Ronnie Spector and Barry Cryer.

The vast majority of people who test positive for coronavirus report cold-like symptoms however Brits are now complaining of a new sign of infection.

More than a hundred police stations have closed across Scotland over the past decade, it has been revealed.

By Ian McConnell

AN INDEPENDENT Scotland would back plans by the UN to limit the use of explosives in civilian areas.

SCOTTISH Labour support has reached its highest point since before the 2019 UK Election, suggesting the party could overtake the Conservatives, according to a poll published this evening.

VLADIMIR Putin has drafted 130,000 conscripts to the war in Ukraine as international outcry grows over the discovery of more shallow graves outside Kyiv.

ALL new residential and “high-risk” buildings above 11m in Scotland will be banned from using combustible materials, in tough new measures to be announced by the Scottish Government.

EXPERTS have warned that “immediate and deep emissions reductions” are now needed to avert climate catastrophe – including a rapid decline in the use of oil and gas in a blow to plans to ramp up North Sea production.

FORMER Better Together Campaign Director Blair McDougall has urged Nicola Sturgeon to take action against SNP members calling for the “execution of their opponents”.

BORIS Johnson’s close engagement with Estonia, Denmark and Sweden over Ukraine points to an independent Scotland having a similar important defence role, according to ex Labour advisor David Clark.

Scottish coffee brand Cairngorm Coffee Roasters has announced the appointment of a new co-owner and director.

COUNCIL chiefs have warned SNP ministers that more priority and funding must be focused on preventing extra strain on health services instead of continuing to pump “reactive” money into the NHS.

The number of people in hospital with coronavirus has once again fallen after reaching its all-time high.

THE European Union has announced a package it estimates to be worth 17 billion euros to help Ukrainian refugees.

FIRST Minister Nicola Sturgeon has condemned the violence at yesterday’s Old Firm match, describing it as “mindless, thuggish behaviour”.

THE SCOTTISH Secretary has said he believes a fixed link between Northern Ireland and Scotland will still be possible, when self-driving cars are widely used.

The enterprise hub at Edinburgh Napier, Bright Red Triangle, has launched a new start-up studio in the city centre.

FORMER SNP MP Natalie McGarry is in court today, charged with embezzling more than £25,000 from two pro-independence groups.

FINES have been issued to Downing Street staff for a gathering held on the eve of Prince Philip's funeral, it is understood.

DOUGLAS Ross has tested positive for Covid-19, it has been confirmed.

WHILE critics have accused the Home Office of not acting quickly enough to bring Ukrainian refugees to the UK, one Minister at least can claim to be making progress.

THE SNP has suspended an activist who said former Better Together Campaign Director Blair McDougall should be “swinging from a lamp post”.