SHARES in Royal Bank of Scotland owner NatWest Group surged more than seven per cent in morning trading after revealing plans to return hefty amounts of cash to investors.

A SUSTAINABLE coffee company has started shipping beans to Scotland from Colombia by sailboat.

SCOTTISH Gas owner Centrica’s chief executive has defended bringing back dividends for shareholders amid the sprialling energy crisis.

“I am grateful to fate for three gifts: to have been born a woman, from the working class and an oppressed nation. And the turbid azure of being three times a rebel,” wrote the Catalan poet, Maria Mercè Marçal. It’s this line that inspired th...

CROSS-BORDER services will not reach three major Scottish cities tomorrow as the nation is hit by a one-day train strike.

USERS have complained of detours of up to 180 miles as lifeline ferry services were thrown into a third day of turmoil after a safety issue with an ageing CalMac ferry.

UNIONS have warned that they have a mandate to disrupt the operation of over 1200 schools across Scotland after thousands of local government workers voted for strike action in a pay dispute.

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A SEARCH in the picture archive for "women & exercise" throws up a smorgasbord of stereotypes.

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When Josh Moncrieff was diagnosed with the condition at 18, doctors said it was the worst case they had ever seen in someone so young.

DURING the recent short-lived heatwave, the only thing that rose faster than the temperatures was the hyperbole being spouted by experts and politicians about the weather.

IS the Lord Advocate’s journey to the Supreme Court a fool’s errand? If the non-consequential referendum she is arguing for occurs, it will be boycotted by those who cannot face the unpleasantness of another campaign and vote. Most of us didn’t...

JUST when the Labour leadership can look to reap the political benefits of daily blue-on-blue in-fighting with the Conservative leadership contest, what happens: acrimony breaks out on the left to remind everyone just how much of a divided force the ...

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.

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.

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on leadership race July 29 2022

HAVE you noticed? Whenever there’s a Tory leadership debate, there’s this great big elephant in the room – large, grey, wearing a Union flag waistcoat – but the candidates never say a word about it.

SHE is one of the best-selling music artists of all time who has sold more than 100 million records. Now Shania Twain has shone a spotlight on the condition that nearly claimed her career - Lyme disease.

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Across the UK, 40,000 Communications Workers Union (CWU) engineers and call centre workers within the company have walked out

Scientists warned that the UK’s extreme temperatures were higher than climate computer models predict

RISHI Sunak has said the Union is "under real risk” as he ruled out granting Nicola Sturgeon the independence referendum she wants to hold in October next year.

THE SCOTTISH Government is taking inspiration from an American city once synonymous with drugs crime with a shift away from prosecuting simple possession offences.

Not unlike Dundee and Glasgow, Barcelona once had an “epidemic” of drug-related deaths.

ANGELA Constance has admitted there is “much more to do” in Dundee to curb a soaring number of drug deaths in the city.

SCOTTISH jeweller ROX has announced expansion plans which will see the brand open its first store in London.

SCOTLAND’s Drugs Policy Minister has called on the UK Government to stop “criminalising some of the most marginalised and vulnerable individuals” after the country remains the drug deaths capital of Europe.

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A new women’s community custody unit, believed to be the first in the UK, is set to open in Dundee.

SCOTLAND has effectively decriminalised possession of hard drugs like heroin and crack cocaine. But is this going far enough? If drugs are a health problem should they not be legalised, regulated and taken out of the hands of drug gangs?

The NHS in England is shutting down its gender identity clinic for children after a review found that it failed vulnerable under-18s.

The UK government has been urged to intervene ahead of the energy price cap hike in a bid to limit the pain of crippling energy bills.

BORIS Johnson has intervened in the Tory leadership race with a thinly veiled dig at Rishi Sunak, mocking the former Chancellor for his U-turn over cutting VAT on energy bills.

A former nurse is to become principal at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) in what is thought to be a national first.

UK ministers are being urged to escalated efforts to secure the release of a Scot facing the death penalty in India after he was formally charged with conspiracy to commit murder.

ONE of Scotland’s most senior trade unionists has quit Labour following the party's decision to sack transport minister Sam Tarry after he joined a picket line of striking rail workers.

Scotland's annual number of drug-related deaths reached 1330 in 2021 - dropping by just nine since 2020.

BAE Systems has said HMS Glasgow, the Royal Navy’s first Type 26 frigate, is set to enter water for the first time.

SCOTTISH ministers have been accused of “failing” in their national mission to tackle the country’s drug deaths crisis after 1,330 people lost their lives in 2021.

SHELL has posted record second quarter profits totalling $11.5 billion (£9.5bn).

YOU can pretty much put a bet on anything happening in politics. The next UK Government being a Labour/SNP coalition (9-1); Angus Robertson becoming First Minister of Scotland (2-1); even which television show Boris Johnson might appear on (Dancing o...

I should like Robert Burns, I really should. From where I’m sitting right now I can see the hill that inspired his poem “O, Were I On Parnassus Hill”. Burns would see it on his way home from Dumfries-shire and knew it meant it wouldn’t be lon...

SCOTS train services are set to be hit by a new one-day strike involving train drivers - as the nation was hit by a UK-wide strike yesterday that meant less that one in ten of normal ScotRail services were operating.

NEARLY two in three Scots councils face being hit by strikes that could close hundreds of schools and nurseries if sanctioned industrial action over staff pay goes ahead.

The retail arm of ScottishPower, which has launched the biggest recruitment drive in the company’s history, suffered a 60 per cent collapse in profits in the first half of this year as it continued to absorb the cost of higher wholesale energy pric...

A RECENT holiday offered the opportunity for a break from the world of business news. But one particular story was impossible to avoid.