WHEN he was a teenager, Guccio Gucci worked as a porter at The Savoy. Hotel legend has it that he so admired the beautiful people and things he saw there that he returned to Italy to make his own luxury goods. A century on, you can now stay in the Sa...

Imagine, if you can, that England won a major football tournament but hardly anyone spoke of it. There was no footage in the archives to replay endlessly, scant newspaper coverage, the lifting of the trophy only truly alive in the memories of those w...

Modesty blazing SNARKY scenes in the Holyrood chamber on Tuesday after publication of the first slice of the Scottish Government’s new independence prospectus. SNP Constitution Secretary Angus Robertson was in no mood to take a slagging from Tory S...

For Téa Trevarthen, school once felt like a “losing battle”.

SNP ministers are overseeing an "addictions crisis" amid concerns alcohol-related deaths are not being tackled with the same urgency as Scotland's record drug deaths.

By Scott Wright

It’s been slim pickings this past week for those of an optimistic bent as fears mount over the health of the UK economy, with suggestions that Britain is on course to reclaim the title of “the sick man of Europe”.

ALL eyes were on Glasgow when world leaders, environmentalists and activists descended on the city for COP26.

By Scott Wright

By Steven Cameron

IF the Covid pandemic has felt like a horror film at times, the endless proliferation of new Omicron sub-lineages is starting to resemble a franchise of tedious straight-to-video sequels.

AMID the correspondence about future pension funding for Scottish pensioners (Letters, June 15, 16 & 17), one of your readers compared current arrangements to a "Ponzi scheme". In fact, I would agree with that description, but only to a very limited ...

It was brought in to ensure that everyone, regardless of age or income, was entitled to 'free' personal care.

Radar: what's hot around Scotland this week

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What is today's Framed? Some hints to help you guess the movie. Plus the answer for when you've given up!

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

What is today's Heardle? Some hints to help you guess the song and artist. Plus the answer for when you've given up!

IF the event had been an artistic launch, this would have been just the prologue. A preface, a prelude, a preamble. At most, overture and beginners.

WHEN you witness the success of a campaign rooted in selfless conviction you feel almost privileged. Such events are so rare in modern politics that they elicit a sort of wonder and nostalgia: “So this is what the Labour Party used to look like.”

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on Lord Geidt’s resignation on June 18, 2022.

HE is a British icon whose interviews with the likes of Muhammad Ali and Sir Billy Connolly have become key moments of television history, but Sir Michael Parkinson is now in the midst of a 'woke' row.

Taxidi

FEW of the 3.6 million people who cast their votes on that emotionally charged day for Scotland – September 18, 2014 –would have dreamt that it would turn out to be a twice-in-a-generation exercise. All the more so when the result revealed that N...

By Sir Geoff Palmer

Words: Stephen Kershaw

The Royal Military Police has established no crime was committed.

Almost a dozen pools have been carried out for a number of organisations

Youth in revolt?

The Met Office has warned pollen levels are expected to skyrocket this week as temperatures soar.

BORIS Johnson’s former ethics adviser has said he quit because he “could not be a party to advising on any potential law-breaking”.

By Ian McConnell

A Scots local authority has been forced to close its spas due to supply chain issues.

NHS staff have been left "disgusted" after their tickets to see Ed Sheeran in Glasgow were cancelled just hours before the performance.

The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has issued an improvement notice to Babcock Marine Ltd after a battery change sparked an electrical incident.

UKRAINE’S culture minister has hit out at Eurovision Song Contest organisers after they abandoned plans to host the annual spectacular in the under-siege country.

It is time to put an end to the “exploitation of working people” and to no longer accept “broken economic systems”, delegates at a cost-of-living summit have heard.

Boris Johnson has made a second surprise visit to Ukraine to hold face-to-face talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky.

NHS staff have been left "disgusted" after their tickets to see Ed Sheeran in Glasgow were cancelled just hours before the performance.

BORIS Johnson is facing more anger from his own MPs after snubbing a high-profile meeting of his ‘red wall’ Conservatives.

A forensics expert who examined a vest worn by a police constable allegedly stamped on by Sheku Bayoh has told an inquiry she found nothing “of relevance or anything that looked like footwear” on it.

So let me say from the beginning that what follows isn’t intended to patronise.

MINERS arrested in Scotland during the 1984-85 strike have been pardoned after MSPs from all parties backed landmark legislation in Holyrood yesterday.

Ukraine could become a candidate for EU membership, the first step in a lengthy process to join the 27-nation bloc, after it was proposed by the European Commission.

NICOLA Sturgeon has called on the BBC to take next year’s Eurovision song contest to Glasgow.

THE SNP has claimed the top job at the umbrella organisation representating councils locked in a funding row with the Scottish Government.

HOME Secretary Priti Patel has signed an order to extradite Julian Assange to the US to face espionage charges for publishing classified government documents about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on WikiLeaks in 2010.

Headed by the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) and the Poverty Alliance, the summit will bring together more than 40 civic organisations.

Buses are being brought in to support lifeline services on one of Scotland's busiest ferry routes suffered a fourth day of disruption due to safety issues at a port.

Tesco bosses have warned they are seeing "early indications of changing customer behaviour" due to pressure on households from soaring inflation.