Former Cabinet minister Michael Gove has delivered a damning assessment of the mini budget and Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng must address the multiple "mistakes".

PAYMENTS to energy firms to switch off mainly Scottish wind farm turbines because they produce too much power have cost bill-payers approaching £1bn in just over five years and are expected to soar to £500m a year.

MINISTERS intervened to ensure tycoon Jim McColl’s Ferguson Marine, which is at the centre of Scotland’s ferry building scandal, got a contract for another lifeline vessel raising fresh concerns over the firm being given unlawful preferential tre...

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The Tennessee trio are back with their first new music in five years.

Scotland’s First Minister visited St Albert’s Primary in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow on Friday.

Liz Truss acknowledged mistakes over the mini-budget but said she is standing by her tax-cutting plan as she refused to rule out public spending cuts.

Hedge fund managers, who stood to gain from the fall of the pound, reportedly egged him on to press ahead with tax cuts.

Clashes between supporters of two Indonesian football teams in East Java killed at least 147 fans and two police officers.

CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save iconic Glasgow tower blocks from demolition have pledged to remain in their homes.

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Professor David Wilson has spent his career face to face with Britain’s most terrifying killers. His work has taught him one groundbreaking truth: serial murderers choose victims which society sees as disposable, they kill the people we don’t car...

FOR many, Boris Johnson’s boosterish premiership was always a car crash waiting to happen but after less than a month, as millions of mortgage and pension-holders fear for their financial futures, Liz Truss’s premiership has already become one.

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NICOLA Sturgeon apparently has said that she has not seen any evidence of criminality in the procurement and construction of the two ferries at Ferguson Marine, adding that coming to such a conclusion was "not her job". However, it is the job of the ...

They have become an accepted, and in some cases, only method of seeing a doctor.

It isn't the bag - yet - and there's the ever tricky issue of Scotland. But could Keir Starmer be the next British Prime Minister?

The network helped more than 174,500 people across Scotland with almost 640,500 issues.

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The letter claims Kwasi Kwarteng’s package is “a huge gamble on public finances and the health of our economy”.

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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Campaigners took to the Buchanan Street steps as energy bills and mortgage costs soar.

Kharkiv region governor Oleh Syniehubov said the convoy was struck in the Kupiansy district.

Scotland’s answer to Route 66, the North Coast 500, has been named the best road trip in the UK in a new poll of 2,000 drivers.

At least 30 people have been confirmed dead, including 27 people in Florida.

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

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.