Moldova should be "equipped to Nato standard" to guard against potential Russian aggression, the Foreign Secretary has said.

Combined sewage overflows, which are designed to release untreated sewage in times of extreme rain, are less monitored in Scotland than in England, with only 10%of them monitored here, compared to 80% in England.

FEBRUARY 2022, Seafield sewage treatment works, a vast construction of pools and pipes at the edge of the city, where Edinburgh meets the Firth of Forth.

WHAT a difference a lockdown makes. Normal People, an adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel, had us swooning. Oh how we luxuriated in the long, pause strewn conversations as first love blossomed in all its glory.

MIINISTERS have come under fire for failing to sanction a new emergency ferry as one Scots island which has suffered three months of disruptions since the start of the year has been hit yet again.

CONSUMERS have been faced with "shocking" price hikes of more than 20 per cent on hundreds of popular items over the past two years which are putting increasing pressure on household budgets.

THE First Minister has been accused of “peddling ScotRail spin” over the cuts to services, as calls are made for urgent action to fix staffing shortages.

A FORMER rail company director has raised concerns over the continued use of the model of train involved in the Stonehaven crash, calling for speed limits to be introduced for the trains until they are removed from service.

SCOTLAND’S key export markets are under threat from all sides now.

Boris Johnson is being urged to explain why he met with Sue Gray to discuss her partygate report on lockdown-breaching parties in Downing Street.

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A FEW years ago, I had one of the strangest legal tussles of my journalism career.

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AWKWARD, I’m thinking, as that magazine-beautiful tower of Bucatini Carbonara on my plate turns into springy hosepipes of hell, uncoiling in mid air, lashing slo-mo gobs of orange yolk and parmesan skyward, before heading in every single direction ...

IT was “money and ethnic votes”. It is nearly 27 years since Jacques Parizeau said the words that would come to define him and, for some, his cause.

BY chance, I happened to be searching online for details about a past figure in the British theatrical world.

IS 'obesity' a racist word? An American dietician believes it is and wants the term banished from conversation, replaced by ‘people in larger bodies’.

THE Scottish Nationalist MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South, Mhairi Black, likes to make the most of her visits to the House of Commons. On these occasions her vivid interventions are shared widely as she flays the Conservative Government with vit...

WHEN, as she nationalised rail services last month, the First Minister declared it “a new beginning”, we doubt that she, or anyone else, had quite this in mind. From next week, ScotRail will cut around a third of its services – some 700 weekday...

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One of the world’s most famous hairdressing brands is to move out of Glasgow.

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GERMAN infrastructure investor DWS has won the takeover battle for Stagecoach, writes Scott Wright.

Public health expert Devi Sridhar reassured Scots that the monkeypox spike"isn't like Covid in early 2020". 

EIS has elected a woman as its general secretary for the first time in its 175-year history.

ANAS Sarwar looks “shifty” after Scottish Labour entered into council partnerships with other parties despite a pre-election pledge not to, Nicola Sturgeon has said.

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has commissioned its first electric powered fire appliance.

SERVICE cuts with nationalised ScotRail mean the last trains one major city will leave before Scotland's World Cup play-off with Ukraine starts.

NICOLA Sturgeon has discussed “shared challenges” Scotland and Northern Ireland face during a face-to-face meeting with Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill.

NHS Borders has been working to limit the spread of the bacterial infection after a number of children were affected at Cherrytrees nursery in Hawick.

LAST Sunday, just a handful of hours after yet another far-right terrorist opened fire on innocent strangers in Buffalo, New York, intent on murdering people solely because they were black, I was chairing an event in Glasgow on how - or rather ‘if�...

THE PRIME Minister has vowed not to censor names of people involved in the partygate affair if they are contained within the Sue Gray report.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) confirmed the first case of monkeypox on May 7.

Here is a look at some of the last ScotRail train times amid the temporary cuts in Monday to Friday services. 

NICOLA Sturgeon is to hold face-to-face talks with the Sinn Fein leader Michelle O’Neill today.

A Dundee branch of the climate activists labelled the 'DunDeeFlators' have targeted vehicles in the City Quay area of the city.

The ClearScore Group has unveiled a significant investment in Edinburgh to build an "open banking centre of excellence".

THE door of a Glasgow bank has been smashed to pieces.

THE Yes movement split over whether to join Nato if Scotland  becomes independent has deepened, with the Greens accusing an alliance member of behaving as badly as Russia in Ukraine.

AN islands council has called on ministers to solve a new lifeline ferry fiasco which has left one island without a ferry service, another route dropped and a reduced service on one of Scotland's busiest services.

FOLLOWING a crash in the the crypto currency market, investors are now worrying about what is about to happen in the much-hyped market in nonfungible tokens, or NFTs. While no one is saying a full collapse is happening, the market is cooling – and ...

TENS of thousands of Scots workers from rail staff, cleaners and binmen to care workers, school staff and teachers could go on strike this summer in pay disputes that could bring the nation to a standstill for months.

IT WAS the perfect storm of industrial disputes, rising inflation and fuel shortages which became known as the Winter of Discontent.

A WAVE of state-controlled ScotRail service cuts brought about by a train drivers dispute could last to 2024 because new recruits are not being trained up quickly enough.