Further drama has unfolded in the battle for the Scottish company founded by former Scottish rugby international winger Bill Gammell

The Scottish Government has redacted key findings from a report assessing progress towards £1.5 billion of public sector savings by 2028-29.

Headteachers have told MSPs that unfilled vacancies and a shrinking supply pool make the Scottish Government's pledge to cut weekly class contact time from 22.5 to 21 hours effectively undeliverable without a credible recruitment plan.

John Swinney’s plan to merge SEPA, NatureScot, Zero Waste Scotland and potentially Scottish Forestry has sparked union fears over job cuts.

Lindsays managing partner Andrew Diamond discusses growth, SMEs and future mergers after the Scottish law firm's latest deal

A strike over job cuts at the largest grain distillery in Scotland begins on Monday, with a trade union saying the plant will be brought to a 'standstill'

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) have taken to the picket line in protest over a £140m savings initiative they fear could result in up to 1,800 redundancies.

A transatlantic tale of Scotland's musical past

Police Scotland has launched a new advert as part of efforts to tackle a “national emergency” of violence against women and girls.

Scottish charity Kids Operating Room enables one million children’s operations through 136 paediatric theatres in 39 countries, with an ambitious 2035 target.

Firefighters tackle a building fire on Springburn Way, Glasgow, near Springburn Shopping Centre, on Sunday, September 27. Road closed; centre unaffected.

Scottish Labour leader Michael Marra used his debut UK Labour conference speech to urge delegates back an emergency motion condemning Glasgow City Council's bid to fire and rehire up to 25,000 non-teaching staff over a collapsed equal pay deal.

Arrests have taken place outside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool after protestors held up signs referencing Palestine Action, in what Amnesty International called a 'shameful' attack on free speech

A new MRP from More in Common projects the SNP would win 27 Scottish seats at a general election, with Labour taking 18. Nationally, the model points to a hung parliament, with Andy Burnham's party the largest on 250 seats.

St Andrews Links is increasingly focusing on licensing, partnerships and brand development as it seeks new sources of growth beyond visitor golf

A U.S Navy warship has been hit by a missile and sunk off the coast of Scotland as part of a joint military operation

Deputy First Minister Jenny Gilruth has confirmed she personally told Glasgow City Council to pause fire and rehire plans affecting 23,000 staff — contradicting earlier claims from Justice Secretary Neil Gray that the crisis was a matter for local ...

Iran says it has seized a U.S underwater drone in the Strait of Hormuz, after Donald Trump rejected a peace proposal

Christine Jardine, MP for Edinburgh West since 2017, says she was told she was too old to stand again and calls the attitude 'quite sexist'. Sources say she was forced out by an ally of Scottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton.

A pensioner was airlifted to hospital after crashing on the A74 near Lockerbie

Scotland is on course for its biggest shake-up of local government in a generation — but the Deputy First Minister won't say how many council jobs could go.

A student from Palestine is looking to find a sponsor as he risks losing out on his place at a Scottish university

A shamed top neurosurgeon faces jail after he committed a 'predatory' sex attack on a woman at a nightclub

New pay plans from Glasgow City Council could see domestic abuse workers have their salaries cut by £11,000 per year, with Assist staff warning of the impact

Andy Burnham has branded masked immigration protests 'unacceptable' and warned they are creating fear on British streets.

Villagers have been evacuated from their homes near RAF Fairford following the arrest of several men on suspicion of explosives offences, police said

McCloud pension scandal: SPSO rejects a probe into teacher’s alleged SPPA maladministration and misleading pension communications.

Scotland’s drug deaths rose 11% to 1,133 in 2025, with cocaine linked to a record 589 fatalities and nitazenes implicated in 22%, as experts warn.

Men like Scotland’s irrelevant First Minister when they want to channel their ageing hippie ten years after everyone else has gone through it' says our columnist Kevin McKenna

The Carnegie Education Fund wants to support those from low-income backgrounds seeking to study at Master's level.

“We were founded in 1901 by Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish-American philanthropist, as the first of the Trusts that he set up when he was starting to divest his massive fortune, having famously said that 'the man who dies rich dies disgraced.’

Andy Burnham preaches control and devolution but eleven years after Labour MSPs called the UK-Scottish party relationship dysfunctional, it's the Prime Minister, not Michael Marra, who still holds Scottish Labour's fate in his hands.

Raasay’s ‘Walter McMitty’: how Scott Peake’s fake island identity unravelled, and the Hebridean island’s turbulent history, feature in a new book.

Aussie-honed rockers who cruise the Highway to Hell

A member of a Westminster committee which is to probe party political funding following Operation Branchform wants Nicola Sturgeon and her estranged husband Peter Murrell give evidence to the inquiry.

Theatre Review: Wallace - A Musical, The Pavilion, Glasgow. Four stars

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Review: Two Doors Down, OVO Hydro Even if you are only visiting, you will quickly learn about haggis and square sausage.

Work starts on 36 new council homes for social rent in Wallyford, East Lothian. Built by McTaggart Construction, the development is due to complete in 2028.

The Edinburgh Bookshop's Marie Moser tells us why Scottish reading habits are changing - and why romance and fantasy are having a moment

S. Collins & Son in Muirhead has won Bakery Product of the Year for its traditional sausage roll, made using a family recipe perfected more than 40 years ago.

Scottish police supported an Orange Order parade on Garvaghy Road, Northern Ireland, Scottish Greens to call for a review of the deployment agreement.

Anti-immigration and counter-protests drew around 30 people each to Aberdeen on September 27 over plans to house up to 149 asylum seekers, with police present.

Cancer Research UK says Scotland’s most deprived areas face 28% higher cancer rates, with 4,100 cases linked to deprivation each year, mainly lung cancer.

Man charged after dolphins were disturbed off Portknockie on June 27. Police Scotland will report the case to the Procurator Fiscal, as investigation continues.

NHS Grampian declares critical incident as extreme pressure hits A&E at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and Dr Gray’s Hospital, with ambulance diversions possible.

Scottish Greens call for a £3.54m Dolly Parton library fund to provide books and unstaffed libraries in primary schools and tackle declining literacy.

Nine Scots receive Scottish International Education Trust fellowships in Autumn 2026 awards, supporting study and internships in Geneva, Boston and Sarajevo.

Four people were taken to hospital after an A1 crash at Innerwick on September 26, with one passenger seriously injured. Police Scotland seeks witnesses and dashcam footage.

"Family-run" UK haulage company CVH Transport Services is set to close after 53 years, having fallen into liquidation.