TRANSPORT minister Grant Shapps has warned that this week’s strikes by the RMT are ‘jeopardising the future of the railway itself.’

BORIS Johnson has told the UK to prepare for a "long war” in Ukraine.

Scotland’s national clinical director, Jason Leitch, has tested positive for Covid-19.

CRAWICK Multiverse may not contain Scotland’s oldest stone circles and earthworks but the magic and the drama of this landscape, created by revered land artist Charles Jencks, makes it an ideal spot to celebrate the summer solstice, 21st century st...

Why did Tory rebels hold their no-confidence vote before this week’s expected bloodbath at the Wakefield and Tiverton by-elections? It has puzzled Boris watchers. Perhaps they were worried that they might actually have won it if they’d waited.

NEARLY £50,000 was spent on staging Nicola Sturgeon's fanfare launch of a new ferry despite ministers knowing there were problems with it being ready for service - while five years on it remains unseaworthy, it can be revealed.

SCOTLAND'S biggest criminal defence lawyer group has warned that the entire criminal justice system is "in imminent danger of collapse" because of an impasse on legal aid payments which has led to a mass boycott of the duty solicitor scheme.

MINISTERS have spent less that £250,000 on dealing with 'dangerous' cladding across Scotland five years after the Grenfell tragedy as concerns surface that new code of practice means it will not be replaced, it has been revealed.

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Professor Angus Fletcher is a global expert on how the brain functions. In groundbreaking research, he has discovered that the way we teach children is hugely counterproductive. We need a complete overhaul of schools. He talks to our Writer at Large

A grey-haired woman with a bottle of Eldorado wine in her right, slippers on her feet and sitting in the mire of Paddy’s Market - it may seem an odd companion for the elegant beauty of a Renaissance masterpiece.

FOR all Boris Johnson’s masterful capacity to create bad headlines, there is an under-current of concern among the comrades; Keir Starmer isn’t cutting through with the public.

The deaths of journalist Dom Phillips and rainforest defender Bruno Pereira are a stark reminder of the sinister exploitation ripping across the Amazon basin in the name of profit. Foreign Editor David Pratt reports They are among the most isolated ...

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In the 1990s Portugal was in the grip of an opioid epidemic so intense that Lisbon was known as the heroin capital of Europe.

I NOTE your report on the latest state of the ferries crisis ("Documents reveal Scotland’s ferries crisis will cost a ‘quite staggering’ £1.5bn to resolve", June 12).

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

If you've had enough of the daily brainteaser, Wordle, shake things up with its music spin-off Heardle.

Wordle's tougher and more challenging cousin, Quordle is a daily headscratcher. Here are some tips to help you crack the puzzle and the answer when you give up!

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A thriller?

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has accused opposition parties of “running scared” of a debate on Scotland’s future.

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”.

By Scott Wright

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.

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

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.

By Steven Cameron

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.

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On Monday June 23 1952 – 70 years ago this week – a painting by the Spanish artist Salvador Dali went on display at Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum amid a din of conflicting opinions and raised voices from the disparate communities...

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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!

Twas a bit of a surprise to find out that there’s such a thing as Chenin Blanc day, but I guess the old girl deserves one for its tenacity at least. Its always been a curious grape with dedicated fans and lots of detractors, particularly when faced...

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Enjoying a later than usual strawberry harvest prompts me to plan for next year’s succulent goodies.

BACK in the Seventies and Eighties, we couldn’t get enough of fake breasts, Judy Plum wigs and support hose so thick they could easily turn the fan belt on a tractor.

The TV chef chats to Lauren Taylor about the humble wok, and why it's so important we use it correctly.

It's been an emotionally exhausting month for Joe Wicks. But, as he tells Abi Jackson, he's in a good place with lots to be excited about.

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