A French businessman has revealed plans for a newly formed airline to operate a regular service between Scotland and the north west of France.

It’s a general rule that if you don’t name a problem, you can’t tackle it. You can’t fix road accidents if you don’t mention cars. How can you sort a problem like the climate, without saying the words fossil fuels?

ENTREPRENEUR Sir Brian Souter is “extremely concerned” about the long-term impact of Covid-19

The latest data showing the impact of minimum unit pricing (MUP) was published in a report on Tuesday by Public Health Scotland

Day two of our series examining Who Owns Urban Scotland looks at the firms linked to tax havens own or operate Scottish theatres, music venues, pubs and bars.

WORKFORCE and vessel shortages brought about by work on new energy projects like wind farms could hamper plans for the £20bn decommissioning of 2000 North Sea wells  over the next decade, it has emerged.

URBAN road tolls are likely to be the most effective means for Scotland to cut car traffic in Scottish cities, as the Scottish Government aims to meet targets on climate emissions.

By Scott Wright

THE North Sea windfall tax hike announced last week has provoked outrage in the oil and gas industry that probably won’t inspire much public sympathy amid complaints the Government is making middle earners pay most for the UK’s debt problems.

MORE than a decade ago Rachael Paul would pass the Cononish site on her way to walk the nearby Ben Lui.

HOMEOWNERS have been warned over a mortgage “ticking time bomb” after it was revealed interest payments could double over the next year.

By Scott Wright

We've said goodbye to a number of people in the public eye in 2022, including Meat Loaf, Ronnie Spector and Barry Cryer.

Our series examining Who Owns Urban Scotland today looks at the risks to some of the nation's iconic cultural venues.

By Scott Wright

THE Scottish Government has said that it expects the NHS to take five years to "recover" from the pandemic. But some clinicians that fear the health service in its current form is in terminal decline - and will not survive.

I HEARD the story about Scotland’s NHS board chief executives pondering the possibility of better off people paying for their treatment via Kaye Adams’ phone-in on BBC Radio Scotland.

IS all our transport money to be spent on the A9 and A96? Doug Marr says in one breath that roads, not drivers, are dangerous and then in the next that it's difficult to conform to the 60mph speed limit and drivers are braking when they see a speed c...

LIKE all good fairytales, there’s a myriad versions of The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg. However, every telling compromises the same basic elements, and ends with the same stinging moral.

ELECTRICITY is a complex topic at the best of times. Last year, a YouGov survey found that around one-fifth of people in the UK do not understand how their energy bills are calculated. It’s not a stretch of the imagination to think that fewer still...

COULD a modicum of reality finally hit the SNP? Already, Humza Yousaf has said that a two-tier health system would be "abhorrent" ("1). It’s not ideal, but why? The SNP wants to make everything "free" or deploy the more inane term of declaring some...

AT the end of another COP – the 27th, in Egypt – we are once again left reflecting on what happens now. Specifically, we are left reflecting on how to turn words, of which there have been a lot, into accelerated action.

PARENTS are busy people, new parents especially so. There’s always a nose to wipe, a baby to change or a mountain of laundry to wash and fold. So it is particularly impressive that so many took part in the recent March of the Mummies protests acros...

Old-time joke

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on the NHS November 22 2022

POLITICIANS have blasted plans to allow MPs to claim their Christmas parties on the taxpayer.

People who would like to dip their toes into the crypto market, but are very well aware of its volatility, often choose to invest in cryptocurrencies with values under $1. This gives them more room to grow and reduces the risk, which seems to be a wi...

“When I presented at a clinic, I was in a very vulnerable state and feel that this was overlooked.”

IN the desperate battle to win the Autumn ratings war, ITV have sacrificed something of their integrity in casting the former health minister Matt Hancock in their flagship reality show I’m A Celebrity. Much admired for their robust coverage during...

Train your brain by putting your mind to November 22's Quordle word puzzle.

Hints and answer for today's Wordle 521.

Armed police discharged a firearm during an alleged hostage situation in Stonehaven, Police Scotland has confirmed.

THE "world's largest food services provider" said it reported record new business growth as demand for business and sports catering rebounded following the impact of the pandemic.

A SNP councillor was today thrown out of a meeting by an organisation campaigning against drugs deaths.

RISHI Sunak is considering blocking Boris Johnson’s plan to elevate four Conservative MPs, including Alister Jack, and loyal supporters to the House of Lords, it is being reported.

England have principles, but if you don't like them they have others.

A SCOTTISH geologist has been included in the prestigious 100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining.

Virgin Money, owner of the former Clydesdale Bank, saw its shares surge more than 10 per cent in early trading today after upgrading its earnings expectations for this year.

When the scheme is brought in, it should reduce carbon emissions by about 160,000 tonnes a year

WILL independence campaigners be left with egg on our collective faces when the Supreme Court rules on Holyrood’s planned advisory independence referendum this Wednesday?

TAKE a look at the picture. Typical statue wouldn’t you say? It’s of a man for a start. A man from long-ago, up high on a plinth. I assume the book is the Bible and I assume he’s about to give us a big old lecture; the finger is already raised ...

After 30 years and more than £160 million of investment in Scottish start-up companies, the Archangels network has seen the economic cycle turn a good many times. Though the current landscape is “concerning”, joint managing director Niki McKenzi...

This Black Friday 2022 we are running our best subscription offer, delivering four months’ access to the world’s oldest newspaper for a single pound.

Teachers in Scotland will take two days of targeted strike action next month in a dispute over pay, their union has announced.

Five teenagers and a 12-year-old have been charged following a fire at a derelict furniture store.

A Loganair flight from Belfast to Aberdeen was forced to make an emergency landing in Edinburgh on Monday after declaring an emergency.

HEALTH Secretary Humza Yousaf has insisted that the Scottish Government has "never contemplated" charging patients for care, amid reports that NHS leaders had suggested that wealthier people could pay for treatment.

A Scots university mired in a sexism scandal has appointed a female academic to oversee the medical school.

IT’S an exciting week ahead for us at Scottish Engineering, as in our capacity as manager of the Forth and Tay Offshore Cluster we will be hosting our first ScotWind supply chain event in conjunction with the Scottish Offshore Wind Energy Council.

Scotland is not simply in a worse position than other nations in tackling drug deaths, it is “moving in the opposite direction”, a charity has claimed.