The speed limit on the Queensferry Crossing will be reduced to 50mph outwith peak times during the cleaning.

EVERY generation has its Maggie Smith. Some know her best as Professor McGonagall of Harry Potter fame; others as the Dowager Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey.

THE legislation has been hanging over Holyrood for five years with a pledge to simply bring Scotland “in line with international best practice”.

THERE comes a time in many people’s lives when they reach the Age of Allam. That’s Allam as in Roger, as in the star of the moreish new crime caper, Murder in Provence (STV, Sunday).

THE labour crisis foisted upon the United Kingdom by a Brexit based largely it seems on fantasy has been described as possibly the biggest own goal of the debacle.

By Ian McConnell

Police officers worked more than one million hours of overtime last year.

FOR political parties, leadership contests can be cathartic. They can refocus the party upon core aims, facilitating a rediscovery of common purpose.

IT IS a historic garden which dates back to 1675 when it was originally laid out by Sir Alexander Seton, a retired Court of Session judge in the reign of James VII.

Engineering giant Weir Group has appointed two new non-executives to its board of directors as it looks to make mining "smarter, more efficient and sustainable".

The sale of a Glasgow restaurant to a UK pub chain is a "wake-up call" that smaller, independent businesses are"dwindling away", a sector leader has said.

By Tzoulianna Leventi  

Bank of Scotland owner Lloyds Banking Group is among half-a-dozen that have most recently fallen foul of UK regulators for failing to keep customers properly informed.

DID doctors in Scotland get a pay rise, or a pay cut this week?

GAELIC means nothing to me. Sure, I quite like deciphering the occasional bilingual road sign. And, hey, sorry, I have a terrible habit of lugging in to folk speaking the language as I try to figure out what they’re saying. Cue some funny looks in ...

Most people would opt to spend the last years of their lives in their own home if they had the good fortune to remain well enough to do so.

IAN R Mitchell (Letters, July 21) uses the spurious suggestion that Glasgow should show support for its twin city, Rostov-on-Don (a decision was in fact taken by Glasgow in February to sever the connection) as an excuse to smear the Ukrainian regime.

HEY, hey, I’m on my way! And why shouldn’t I be singing?

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.

Move over Wordle, you can now shake things up with its music spin-off Heardle.

If you have tried and loved Wordle, Quordle should be your next go-to brain teaser.

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on the rise of Liz Truss on Saturday, July 23, 2022.

WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING (15)

I BOOK for 1pm, change plans twice, then find myself at a loose end and decide to chance turning up at the restaurant a whole hour early. I find Le Manager - I assume anyway - standing chatting outside the front door in the mid-day sun wearing the so...

Claire Spreadbury and her daughters head to King's Cross in search of fun for all.

THE CLIFF HOUSE

THEY were features of many a bedtime story and sparkled on screen in Disney classics for generations, but Disney is distancing itself rom the term ‘fairy godmothers’.

How To Be You: Simone de Beauvoir and the Art of Authentic Living

The areas of Scotland with high levels of colourless, odourless and tasteless radioactive gas have been revealed.

The most successful cryptocurrencies started as penny crypto. Bitcoin, for instance, only reached $1 in early 2011 but proceeded to grow its value by a massive 6 million percent by the time it hit its current peak 10 years later. ETH, the second most...

Cryptocurrencies are the most profitable investment class of the last decade. Today, the internet is rife with testimonies of individuals and institutions who became wealthy investing in cryptocurrencies. And some more tales of others who leveraged t...

Optimists expect the crypto market to be worth around $250 Trillion by 2030. But only a fraction of this will be taken up by Bitcoin. The larger chunk of this outsized market will be in the hands of altcoins. At the moment, though, most of these are ...

There currently are close to 20,000 cryptocurrencies today. The majority of these are yet to break parity with the dollar. In such a flooded crypto market, how do you determine the best crypto under $1 to buy in 2022?

Each day, tens - probably hundreds - of new cryptocurrencies hit the market. In effect, this has pushed the number of cryptocurrencies circulating in the market today past 20000. The reality is that the majority of these will never amount to anything...

Here are two interesting facts. Between early 2011 and late 2021, Bitcoin prices jumped from under a dollar to peaking above $64000 - rallying up 64000X in less than a decade. Ethereum posted similar gains when it rallied from $0.3 in 2015 to peak at...

Weaver is the newest word game on the block - if you are struggling with today's brainteaser here are some hints to get you to the end. And the solution if you give up!

On a global scale, cryptocurrency is a market that is gaining significant traction. This is confirmed by the explosion in new coins, trading activity, and institutional interests too. Of course, cryptos such as Bitcoin and Ethereum still dominate the...

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SCOTLAND’S drug policy minister has warned her new UK counterpart over passports potentially being confiscated from those prosecuted for possession offences.

The Co-op Group is to axe around 400 jobs as the retail and funeral firm blamed tough trading conditions amid "rising inflation".

James Watt

THE Scottish Government’s most senior law officer has published her written argument on whether Holyrood already has the power to stage an independence referendum.

THE UK and EU have moved closer to a Brexit-related trade war, with Brussels launching fresh legal action over the UK’s failure to comply with the Northern Ireland Protocol.

A LANARKSHIRE dental practice in the same ownership for 36 years has been sold to a local first-time buyer.

DESPITE one in two Scots saying they have been impacted by anti-social behaviour, half of the incidents are going unreported, according to new research.

The owner of Glasgow’s famous Horseshoe Bar has warned that surging inflation is harming trade across its UK pubs, with rising costs likely to persist “well into the next financial year”.

LIZ Truss’s declaration this week that raising taxes will “choke off” growth would have been almost funny.

SCOTGOLD, Scotland’s first commercial gold producer, could generate significant free cash flow of around £13 million a year for the current mine life of more than eight years, house broker Shore Capital has said.

FOR the third time in its rich history, Glasgow’s Subway – the city’s famous ‘clockwork orange’ – is undergoing a significant upgrade.