RANGERS fans say they and the club have been unfairly maligned over the ugly scenes that marred the celebrations of their first premier league title in a decade with allegations the levels of condemnation were politically motivated.

A former Loretto pupil today tells of a ‘Lord Of The Flies’ environment at the boarding school, claiming he and others suffered long-lasting mental health issues due to a sickening litany of violence, abuse, humiliation and degradation carried ou...

Dominic Cummings has claimed the government originally intended to let coronavirus spread through the country in an attempt to build "herd immunity".

SERIOUS concerns have been raised that the risk of covid transmission will increase if reopening workplaces is not managed properly including ongoing enforcement of public health and health and safety legislation.

Ian Blackford has claimed Scottish Secretary Alister Jack should fight back or resign over a “damaging” free trade deal with Australia which would threaten the future of Scottish farmers.

Shiny black and with its classic – if a little dumpy – lines, chrome bumper and gleaming wing mirrors, Wayne Campbell’s Morris Minor glides extremely quietly through the doors of his Glenrothes garage.

I TRY to avoid writing about “the culture war”. It has very little to do with culture for a start, and the war is largely conducted by sanctimonious creeps on Twitter. However, sometimes the human casualties of these absurdist conflicts cannot...

SAFETY fears have been raised over the home of Britain's nuclear weapons on the Clyde as managers have slashed firefighter numbers alongside a 'failure' to provide promised safety equipment.

The lead singer of Eurovision winners Maneskin has denied suggestions he was taking drugs during the broadcast.

Tributes have been paid to the “kind and compassionate” Barra teenager who was killed in the Manchester arena terror attack at the age of 14.

Scotland’s future electricity supplies are being put at risk due to failures by ministers to fully explore the consequences of relying on renewable energies.

The United Kingdom scored 'nil points' and finished dead last in a crushing defeat in the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest.

Police dispersed more people for Covid breaches this week than any other seven day period since the beginning of the pandemic.

Glasgow City and the City of Edinburgh has the lowest percentage of people vaccinated in Scotland.

A LETTER arrived in the post box on the wall outside my front door the other day – a handwritten envelope. Inside a was a beautiful card with an image of a rambling rose flowering in a wild meadow on the cover.

As clothing giants H&M and Primark announce they will resume Myanmar orders for the first time since February’s military coup, Foreign Editor David Pratt examines what it means for ethical trading, sanctions, and due diligence over human rights and...

Organisers at Glastonbury have apologised after technical issues disrupted the festival’s five-hour ticketed livestream event.

A study by Public Health England has found that the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine is 88% effective against the Indian variant after two doses.

Prince William is on the second day of his Scottish tour.

The Scottish Government is working to resolve a security glitch after reports that people may be able to edit their Covid vaccination status certificate.

Germany is imposing a ban on incoming travel from the UK to limit the spread of a new coronavirus variant.

There have been 270 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

Former BBC director-general Lord Hall has resigned as chairman of the National Gallery saying continuing in the role “would be a distraction to an institution I care deeply about”.

GAELIC policy in Scotland will soon outlive Gaelic communities, experts have warned, as they called for an urgent change of approach.

The Duke of Cambridge has told how Scotland is the source of his saddest but also his happiest memories, as he gave an opening address at the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

Parents claim they were forced to remove their children with additional support needs from a Glasgow primary school.

WHAT do you do if you’ve left your country’s borders open to variants, squandered £37 billion on a test and trace system with “no clear evidence” that it has cut infections, and consistently failed to ensure that vulnerable people have th...

UNION leaders have ruled out pursuing equal pay claims for a pay disparity that has resulted in nurses earning four times less than dentists for administering Covid vaccinations.

The Scottish Government’s “dithering and delay” on proposed gender recognition reforms has helped create a “toxic environment” for transgender people, union leaders have insisted.

A FOUNDING partner of a finance firm which advised Craig Whyte over his disastrous takeover of Rangers, and went on to become an administrator when it financially imploded has denied knowledge of an "end game" for the club to go bust as it faced�...

AS members of the Scottish Cabinet take up their roles, we should all welcome them. Just as it is the duty of individual councillors, MSPs and MPs to represent all their constituents, whether they supported their candidacy or not, it is the role o...

My Croft HomesSNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford provoked much laughter at PMQs by introducing himself as a “member of Scotland’s crofter community”. The Edinburgh-born former banker, who also styles himself as a “humble crofter”, was ...

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TO be fair to John Swinney, he scarcely craved the education remit in the first place. When told in 2016, his instinctive private reaction was: “But I do the money!”

PRESSURE is mounting on the Scottish Government to do more to address the country’s ferries debacle, as CalMac’s depleted fleet stands out as the cause again of yet more backbreaking costs to Scotland’s islands communities and businesses.

We stared at the rock-hard, small potato when it came out of the microwave. “What did you put it in at, Miriam?” I asked as she poked and prodded it without any give.

The village of Netherton was uncovered in North Lanarkshire during work to upgrade the M8, M73 and M74 Improvements

TWO hundred years ago there was no such thing as a professional nurse.

JOURNALISTS abide by unwritten rules that govern how they view themselves and what they believe to be the primary function of their trade. I’m about to break one of my own: until now, I’ve never backed or signed a petition. They risk undermini...

Under existing and extremely challenging circumstances, Gaelic public bodies will soon outlive Gaelic communities. This outcome, despite over a generation of official Gaelic promotion, is analysed in our recently published Scottish Affairs article...

WHEN Conservative MP Robert Adley warned against the dangers of privatisation he held up a British Rail timetable – " a wonderful book" – explaining that it allowed passengers (and freight) to travel smoothly from Wick to Penzance on a single tic...

What's it like to lose a Scottish Cup final? Well, according to John O'Neil, there is no lasting scar tissue.

I can understand why people are saying Callum Davidson should have been the manager of the year instead of Steven Gerrard, particularly if he does go on today and adds the Scottish Cup to the League Cup, but that’s the nature of these awards given ...

SCOTTISH tourism leaders have said bookings cancellations because of ferry disruption is costing individual businesses tens of thousands of pounds as a further wave of service call-offs has placed more pressure on the sector’s summer reopening.

A man is in a critical condition in hospital following an attempted murder in Ayrshire

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The BBC should consider paying compensation to whistleblowers who raised concerns about the way its interview with Diana, Princess of Wales was obtained, a senior Tory MP has said.

NEVER was a telly man. It was always the pictures for me. I was brought up in a Glasgow where all the men looked like James Cagney and wanted to be John Wayne.

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