THE Liberal Democrats are ideally placed to take seats off the SNP in next year’s Holyrood election because of the acute weakness of the other Unionist parties, Sir Ed Davey has claimed.

PERHAPS it was a sense of propriety that led the Yes movement to resist adopting a Project Fear approach to its 2014 independence campaign. More probable is that by preferring to project optimism and good cheer they would appeal to voters’ sunni...

ONE in five patients admitted to hospital with Covid since the start of August have been aged under 45, with teenagers among those requiring acute care.

On its 40th anniversary, 14 reasons why the West Highland Way, Scotland's first long-distance footpath, is so special.

IT IS said that the difference between winners and losers is that losers focus on winners, and winners focus on winning. There is much truth in this, in normal life. Not so, though, in Scotland’s interminable constitutional debate, where the opp...

One of the few benefits of lockdown was that it encouraged many of us to take up exercise in a way that we hadn’t previously. And with gyms and fitness centres closed, those who wanted to exercise couldn’t do much else other than pick up a pair o...

Ministers have been told they need to act “sooner rather than later” if they are to prevent a new surge in coronavirus cases.

I PAID, whisper it, £4.50 for a loaf of bread. I can already hear the derision: “Almost a fiver for one loaf? You’d never catch me doing that!” I fully appreciate that this price tag could be used as evidence that I’m a more-money-than-se...

A £20 MILLION plan to regenerate the historic Watt Brothers building in Glasgow city centre has been broadly welcomed by architecture experts, retail analysts and city leaders.

Boris Johnson is facing calls from the First Ministers of Scotland and Wales to call a meeting of the Government’s Cobra civil contingencies committee with the devolved administrations to consider the 'second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic'.

ANOTHER pre-season is here in the lower leagues and at 32 years old I’ve never felt better. I’m probably in better nick now than I’ve ever been.

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at the age of 87.

CELTIC nation governments have joined forces to demand "urgent intervention" to rescue the aerospace engineering and civil aviation sector following fears of 2,500 job losses in Scotland alone.

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I’M finding it harder and harder to keep my spirits up and the blue hours start earlier and last longer. Today it’s only 2pm and I’m plunged into despair.

PROFESSOR DAME SUE BLACK, FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGIST AND AUTHOR

AN ANTI-MASK group which opposes coronavirus policies and has been kicked off Facebook is to continue its protests in other parts of Scotland this weekend.

FIRST things first. The title of Ruth Davidson’s new Sunday-night show on LBC is terrible. An Inconvenient Ruth. Seriously? There’s trying too hard and then there’s the simply trying.

CELTIC nation governments have joined forces to demand "urgent intervention" to rescue the aerospace engineering and civil aviation sector following fears of 2,500 job losses in Scotland alone.

Roza Salih has launched her campaign to become the first refugee elected to the Scottish Parliament.

WHO would keep a diary? I kept one in my youth and am about to burn 12 volumes of it. Nothing but moanin’ and greetin’. Is that how I strike you? Someone who moans and greets all the time?

A police protection officer who was travelling with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has been suspended from duties after leaving his gun on a plane.

Medical experts have published new advice on how to spot the difference between the symptoms of coronavirus and the common cold.

FOUR years of domestic and foreign policy muddle and confusion, conveyed directly from the Oval Office by Twitter, have been topped by President Trump’s chaotic handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The violent Black Lives Matter protests have f...

Ahead of next month’s Startup Summit, brewery entrepreneur James Watt tells Kim McAllister about the Ellon-based company’s plans to defy the pandemic and tap into new markets abroad

Secret Scotland with Susan Calman

Robert Louis Stevenson never saw it illuminated by a canopy of fireworks or thrilled at the laser shows which spill out periodically from its ramparts – this photograph, shot by Ryan Buchanan from a Tattoo-less Esplanade, shows August’s My Light ...

By Ian McConnell

By the middle of the 1960s the abstract expressionist artist Philip Guston was struggling in his art and in his life. He was drinking too much, smoking too much, he had just become a father and yet was having extramarital affairs. He moved to Flor...

IT was nightly entertainment for youngsters chasing rats from the tenement back courts and closes in 1950s Glasgow.

Author Michel Faber has a new book out. Here, three previous works which have made the journey from page to screen