ITHACA Energy, the oil and gas giant that plans to develop the controversial Cambo field west of Shetland, has been valued at nearly $3 billion as shares in the company debuted on the stock market this morning.

NICOLA Sturgeon has been accused of not “giving a straight answer” over whether she supports plans to open up a North Sea oil field.

Singer-songwriter kicks off his tour in Scotland.

CALLS have been made for increased monitoring as the amount of litter on Scots beaches soared by a 'staggering' 42%.

SERVICES to the Isle of Bute have been cancelled after a ferry developed two faults in one day.

MINISTERS have come under fire for a failure to properly consult and communicate with islanders and businesses over future ferry services as they seek to replace the nation's ageing and failing vessels which provide lifeline services to island commun...

THE SCOTTISH Government is to push ahead with plans to launch a deposit return scheme next August despite more than five hundred hospitality industry leaders calling for a pause.

A Scottish university spin-out company is looking to raise funding to further develop rotor technology that its founders believe could open up the wind turbine market to existing manufacturers across the country.

PERSIMMON has reported a fall in average selling prices and an increase in cancellations amid “real nervousness” in the housing market.

GIVEN the ruling Conservatives’ seeming penchant for pulling the wool over the electorate’s eyes on Brexit, it was heartening last week to hear some home truths.

IT was the envy of towns and cities across the country as Glasgow’s Golden Z lured shoppers to a retail experience like no other.

Glasgow's George Square ice rink makes a return this year as part of the city's Christmas celebrations.

A lack of sufficiently skilled electrical workers is threatening efforts to meet net zero targets safely, a leading trade body has warned.

IN an interview this week with Kay Burley on Sky News, Nicola Sturgeon talked enthusiastically about Scotland’s "leadership role" in climate matters. She claims that it was Scotland that put the issue of reparations for climate damage on the agenda...

A PREDICTION: the public inquiry into Scotland’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic will prove to be an extremely expensive way of telling us things we already know full well. When Lady Poole and four lawyers from the inquiry’s team resigned last ...

UNARMED young men and women are beaten with iron bars, sprayed with tear gas, maimed with birdshot and killed by gunfire. As the nationwide insurrection heads towards its seventh, bloody week, this is the unremitting reaction of the Iranian regime’...

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THIS time last year, Glasgow was swept up in the global sustainability circus known as COP26. We occupied the frontlines, challenging the greenwashing efforts of the UK and world’s biggest polluters, as well as running toxic tours to highlight Glas...

IT was one of the defining images of the Ukrainian resistance to Russian terror. In June, the beleaguered city of Odessa reopened its opera house for the first time since the invasion to host a grand concert. With a bill featuring Puccini, Rossini, V...

VIRGINIA Woolf once wrote; "Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works."

The former health secretary says he has received a lot of support over his appearance on the programme

Archbishop Conti passed away at the city’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital after a short illness

Scotland may be known the world over for its breathtaking lochs, dramatic mountains and stunning glens, but its also home to an abundance of magical sandy beaches scattered around its coastline that could rival those to be found in the Caribbean on a...

OVER the years I’ve watched António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General, make compelling appeals on climate. In 2017 he advocated that climate is the ‘defining threat of our time’, and this week stated that we must ‘co-operate or peri...

People living in the most deprived parts of Scotland are still most likely to report being teetotal, according to a report giving a snapshot of the nation’s health.

Hints and answer for today's Wordle, 508.

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

Train your brain by putting your mind to November 9's Quordle word puzzle.

There's nothing wrong with taking an interest but the news-as-entertainment fad may have gone too far.

Professor Alastair Fowler, CBE, FBA

SCOTLAND'S most notorious road is to shut yet again for two nights - for a new wave of maintenance works.

FINAL preparations are being made before HMS Glasgow, the Royal Navy’s first Type 26 frigate, enters the water for the first time.

PRIMARK owner Associated British Foods has pledged to freeze prices despite rising costs from inflation.

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Chris Evans has been named the 'Sexiest Man Alive' by People magazine.

Scotland has seen some of the strongest apartment rental price hikes in the past five years with Glasgow and Edinburgh up 51 per cent and 27% respectively, according to new research.

CHANCELLOR Jeremy Hunt looks set to hike pensions and benefits in line with inflation in next week’s budget.

Since starting work on site in 1999, the development has delivered more than 1,500 homes, either built or under construction. Around 250 of these are affordable family homes.

LOCAL residents and businesses are being invited to comment on proposals to develop 300 apartments on land on the site of the former ClydeUnion plant in Glasgow.

NICOLA Sturgeon may have broken the ministerial code in connection to the CalMac ferries scandal, a Tory MSP has claimed.

SCOTTISH Secretary Alister Jack has been nominated for a peerage by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, according to reports.

That Scotland is helping push loss and damages over the line, promising £5 million funding, is something of which we should be proud

Over the course of ten hours Peter Morgan’s royal drama features the implosion of several marriages, low dealings in high places, vicious squabbles over money, and at least one scene of Princess Margaret wearing an admiral’s cap at a jaunty angle...

SCOTCH whisky producers have proposed making use of commercial operators other than state controlled ferry operator CalMac saying that Scotland's ferry fiasco is "holding back" one of the nation's most famous drinks.

NORTH Ayrshire and Arran has been identified as the area in Scotland where people are most likely to struggle to access affordable food as calls are made for supermarkets to sign up to a 10-point plan to support consumers through the cost of living c...

A SCOTTISH hydrogen energy company is to deliver state-of-the-art refuelling infrastructure in Bavaria as part of an agreement with a major German engineering firm.

NICOLA Sturgeon has committed £5m of Scottish Government money towards reparations for the nations most impacted by climate change.

North Sea oil and gas industry leaders in Aberdeenshire have mounted a last ditch bid to avert tax increases, which may have been undermined by leading players in the area.

I KNOW I had a strong Australian accent as a child, not because I remember it but because I remember the affect it had on other people.

The company behind the Laphroaig and Bowmore whisky brands has said the island home of those Scottish distilleries will likely be next in line in its ongoing efforts to restore the country's peatlands.