SCOTTISH Conservative leader Douglas Ross has backed JK Rowling in a row over trans rights.

One of the most striking things Nicola Sturgeon said in her speech to the SNP conference the other day was that the idea of a UK partnership of nations was being undermined by “aggressive unionism” including full-frontal attacks on devolution and...

Miriam Margolyes’ outburst on the Today programme may be the only honest reaction we get to the slow-motion car crash that is British governance, as Conservative shades of grey fill the airwaves and the chance of real debate and any good crisis bot...

It’s difficult to keep pace with all those threatening strike action. In fact, it might be easier to list those who haven’t threatened to withdraw their labour.

LAST week, around the same time I was interviewing Roz Foyer, head of the STUC, it was being announced that her counterpart in England, Frances O’Grady, was to be appointed to the House of Lords.

IT was set up as lockdown venture when the physiotherapy business operated by Peter Crawford closed as Covid restrictions gripped.

Edinburgh's world famous Hogmanay street party will make a comeback after three years - but with a reduced capacity and an increase in ticket prices.

Kyiv city mayor Vitaliy Klichko said the central Shevchenko district of the capital had been hit.

A pensioner has died in hospital after a two-car crash in Orkney.

The First Minister is to set out the economic case for an independent Scotland on Monday in the latest independence paper.

A man has been killed in a suspected gas explosion in central Scotland.

Sir Mark Rowley was speaking after a heavily critical review found some staff are getting away with criminal behaviour and misconduct.

Jeremy Hunt to make emergency statement to stabilise the market

A new £1 million research project has launched in Edinburgh to develop cost-effective technologies for the production of hydrogen from agricultural and animal waste.

NEARLY one in five over 65s is at risk of malnutrition, according to research by a Scottish charity which warns the cost of living crisis will make the problem even worse.

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IT was a place close to his heart and a charity which he had helped to raise vital funds for.

TO steady the sinking ship, Jeremy Hunt has taken over as Chancellor, being seen as a safe pair of hands who brings with him a reputation for confidence, gravitas and competence, his ministerial record having no obvious blemishes to suggest skeletons...

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IT’S fitting that actor Robbie Coltrane will be remembered for his turn as Hagrid, the hirsute and hulking pal of Harry Potter, for he had a giant-size talent, which included perfect comic timing.

AS Kwasi Kwarteng flew home to the UK to meet his fate, his flight was the most tracked in the world. Have you been joining in with the tracking trend?

Why not lace up your walking boots, explore the great outdoors , and be part of our exciting new series of hiking events – Cancer Research UK’s Big Hike.

The monarch will meet families resettled in Aberdeen as part of an ongoing programme in the city.

The American consulate in Edinburgh is on the hunt for an official tartan as it celebrates 224 years in the Scottish capital, and is asking members of the public for help making the decision.

The blaze broke out as nationwide protests over the death of a young woman in custody entered a fifth week.

Keith Bruce Herald Benedetti EIF The Edinburgh International Festival will have a particular focus on its audience in the next five years, but new director Nicola Benedetti is planning no great change in the structure of the event.

Described as a game for 'cinephiles and casual movie watchers alike' it is inspired by the worldwide popular guessing games. 

With the Edinburgh Christmas market set for a return in November 2022, here is everything you need to know about this year's event

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

Whether you've aced the music spin-off Heardle or you've got the film version Framed beat, it might be time to raise the stakes. 

HOW long can she last? Across the Sunday papers and politics programmes a clock was ticking ever louder on Liz Truss’s premiership.

A EUROPEAN supplier to Scotland's whisky industry this week unveiled plans to consolidate its operations in this country at a new £36 million "superfactory" in Lanarkshire.

Peter Tobin's ashes have been scattered at sea after no relatives came to claim his body.

THE SCOTTISH Green Party has paused a debate on the future roles of party leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater.

Sir Bruce Pattullo, CBE, FRSE

AFTER two years of remote events, a charity race held to honour a woman murdered in Glasgow's Southside is returning to the park where her body was found.

A SCOTTISH man detained in India for five years will go on trial next month to face conspiracy to murder and terrorism charges.

An £800m scheme to create a Clyde shipbuilding revolution and solve Scotland's ferry crisis with a fleet of 50 catamarans has been revealed by a group led by a leading shipbuilding expert and entrepreneur.

THE costs of fixing crumbling hospitals in Scotland’s NHS has nearly doubled to over £1.5bn in the space of just five years leaving some of Scotland's busiest hospitals in a 'high-risk' state, it can be revealed.

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New album Return of the Dream Canteen was released on Friday.

Whether it’s beside the sea, in the shadow of a mountain, looking down a misty glen there’s something for just about every taste.

TO a fringe meeting at the SNP conference in Aberdeen organised by STV Studios. It’s being chaired by the ever-loquacious Angus Robertson whose sprawling ministerial remit includes Culture. It’s a pleasant, if self-congratulatory event featuring ...

THE Scottish Greens have voted to suspend ties with the Green Party in England and Wales.

TRAITOR! You’d be a peculiar Labour leader if nobody ever called you that. In that particular, small “t” sense, perhaps it’s most associated with this week’s Icon, a man who slithered too close to the Tories and who, though no roué, had a ...

IT was a gift to the city nearly 90 years ago to celebrate cultural exchanges that existed at the time and reveals nothing about the atrocities committed less than a decade later.

Glasgow residents are being urged to keep their windows closed as fire crews tackle a large blaze.

LORNA Slater has today unveiled a new £2.9m funding package to promote Scotland's natural environment.

A group of activists have poured milk onto shop floors across the UK in a call for a plant-based future.

About one in three calls to the NHS 24 mental health hub went unanswered over the course of a year, figures show.