ASKING Niall Murphy to choose the ‘best’ Glasgow building is giving him an impossible task, he says.

Members of the RMT, Aslef and Communications Workers Union will demonstrate outside Edinburgh Waverley on Saturday to show ‘mutual solidarity’.

Liz Truss has admitted the Government caused ‘disruption’ of the markets, but insisted they were right to act.

The Prime Minister insisted Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng was right to act to get the economy moving.

The move has proven controversial in the tourism industry.

LIKE you, I have spent just a couple of hours in the company of Karen Pirie (STV, Sunday), telly’s newest women detective, but already I’m liking the cut of her jib.

There are wigwams in the centre of Toronto this weekend. The pyramids, their canvas splashed with colourful animal paintings, light up the grey concrete piazza in front of the city’s towering, brutalist 1960s council HQ.

These days, I suppose, we would be talking about the digital pound on your smart card rather than the pound in your pocket. But the effect is the same.

TELEVISION deals in two kinds of celebrities. There are the ones it sends on assignments stuffed with five star hotels and friendly faces around every corner. These are the kind of folk who make programmes such as Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy (...

The last time I wrote an article about the Scots language, the comments were a bit of a mixed bag. A few people dropped by to announce that they didn’t think Scots was a language, which was nice of them, and almost half of comments were removed by ...

A SUCCESSION of highly respected non-partisan economic experts were this week individually incisive on Prime Minister Liz Truss and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s unfunded tax cutting plan that would benefit the wealthiest individuals in the United Ki...

Is the much-maligned genre mounting a chart comeback?

A lecturer has been charged after an investigation into alleged theft from a college where detectives are assessing historical fraud claims.

A RETIRED nurse left blind by a treatable eye condition has criticised medication blunders and diagnosis delays for her ordeal.

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Priced out of the Glasgow neighbourhood he represents; a councillor has said the city’s rental market has now seen him reach “breaking point”.

ALAN TAYLOR is telling me a delightful story about the late Alan Rickman, which seems to define this acclaimed and revered English actor.

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LIFE expectancy in Scotland is falling and the number of people dying over the past six months has been 10 per cent higher than average.

A national rent freeze is the “first and minimum” step needed to bring Scotland’s undersupplied rental market under control, an MSP suggested.

AN Edinburgh-based legal technology firm has raised “substantial”seed funding to support the development of its app, writes Scott Wright.

Michael Blackmore likens becoming a doctor to being, "given the keys to the sweetie jar."

For whisky lovers, the packaging that holds their precious bottle – and the bottle itself, with its carefully designed contours, dimples, decanter-style elegance, in crystal clear or tinted glass, with richly coloured porcelain flagons in velvet ba...

DESPITE Gordon Brown’s efforts to separate the Bank of England from political control, the recent financial crisis reveals serious ongoing weakness not only in the management of interest rates and money supply at the Bank of England, but critically...

With a 2021 Grammy Award behind them and an incoming UK tour which winds up at Wembley Arena, sprawling jazz-funk collective Snarky Puppy have come a long way from their Texas origins

It isn’t just London enjoying a rebirth and remoulding of its jazz scene - Scotland is seeing a similar renaissance

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on the latest developments in the ferries fiasco on Saturday, October 1.

SIR Keir Starmer is a politician who knows all the angles. That’s because the angles are on his face… and they’re all right angles.

IN 2020, Eddie Izzard announced a desire “to be based in girl mode from now on”, claiming the pronouns “she” and “her”. Now a storm is brewing over the actor, writer and comedian’s political plans.

NORMALLY I go to a restaurant once, review it and never go back. When it’s been in the paper there’s no point returning because owners either ain’t too warm and welcoming or even worse, they are and think I’m looking for something for free.

No Dash Ash SNP Community Safety Minister Ash Denham didn’t endear herself to firefighters this week when she strolled in half an hour late to a Fire Service  event. One attendee, who didn’t have the benefit of a ministerial car, had got up at d...

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THE SNP has urged the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) to use the UK embassy in Tehran to assist and protect women protesting against Iran’s government.

SUICIDAL teens are being forced to take drastic measures to be seen by medical professionals, according to the testimony of a beleaguered healthcare worker.

IN-WORK benefits, the standard allowance in Universal Credit and support for disabled people could all be cut back as the UK Government aims to make efficiency savings.

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Start October off strong by ticking off today's Quordle word puzzle and keeping up your streak.

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

Here is everything you need to know about clock changes in the UK in 2022.

WHEN Norman Tebbit says “it looks more likely than not that in the not too distant future” there’ll be a United Ireland, you know a border poll is on its way. There’s growing certainty that Irish unity is becoming an historic inevitability.

A MILESTONE has been reached as a new school in Irvine that will be built to Passivhaus standards won planning approval.

A peaceful protest took place at the HQ in Glasgow over rising energy crisis.

A SNP MSP has criticised a hit BBC drama over its inaccurate portrayal of Scots law.

THE Archangels investment syndicate has generated up to £1.4 billion for the Scottish economy from its investments in the life sciences and tech sectors, new research shows.

Striking, massive in scale and prone to being demolished . . . Glasgow’s street art has become a celebrated part of its urban landcape and a tourist draw. Ann Wallace talked to one of its pioneers, Rogue One

TWO PROTESTS are being staged outside ScottishPower's Scottish headquarters today after concerns that nearly £7bn of dividends has gone to its foreign owners.

He suggested it could get a Tardis, go back in time and “undo the errors”.

HUNDREDS of thousands of Scots who do not qualify for Liz Truss's energy bills freeze because they use alternative fuels are to get just £100 towards their increased costs, it can be revealed.