How are you today? You know, after the First Minister’s big announcement? Yes, these things do happen and, undoubtedly, what is for us will not go by us. But really, how are you “in yourself”?

Just off the M8 in Glasgow, there’s a massive place called the Blochairn Materials Reclamation Facility. It’s as glamorous as it sounds. At the door there’s a pile of rubbish that’s usually about 20ft high and inside there’s a conveyor belt...

By Ian McConnell

It was Gandhi who said: “A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.”

THE Scottish hospitality industry has warned that operators face a “cliff edge” when the current relief from business rates ends next month, amid fears that spiralling costs will lead to a surge in business failures.

A DISTILLERY “sustainably powered by the water from the River Ness” is set to open its doors later this year.

WHEN will the housing market begin to exhibit the effects of the economic malaise the UK finds itself in?

Scotland's largest health board is facing a multi-million compensation bill for botched deliveries on maternity wards.

By Rosemary Gallagher

By Rosemary Gallagher

IF, as expected, Nicola Sturgeon's quest for an indisputably legal referendum fails and, for the first time, she commits her movement into a General Election that is, for her, explicitly and categorically a "de facto" referendum ("Sturgeon’s dramat...

Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie has told of his delight at performing in the Glasgow park where he played football as a youngster.

What is today's Framed? Some hints to help you guess the movie. Plus the answer for when you've given up!

Wordle's tougher and more challenging cousin, Quordle is a daily headscratcher. Here are some tips to help you crack the puzzle and the answer when you give up!

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

Move over Wordle, you can now shake things up with its music spin-off Heardle.

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on police goodwill June 30 2022

FOR pity’s sake, Scottish politicians, stop lying. Stop sneering. Stop insulting. Try talking. Try being honest. Listen. Think. Engage. We’re not in a civil war. Act like adults.

Phoney fella

IT WAS the House of Cards without the Joker at Prime Minister’s Questions, as Boris Johnson was away amusing the lieges in yonder Europe.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced plans for a second vote on the issue on October 19 2023

A former SNP MP who embezzled almost £25,000 from two pro-independence groups is due to be sentenced.

A Scottish Conservative MSP has criticised the UK Government for excluding transgender people from the proposed ban on conversion therapy, branding the move as “indefensible”.

I HOPE Nicola Sturgeon is ready for the booing. If SNP activists at the party’s conference in October are consistent, they will try to jeer her off stage and give her de facto referendum plan the heave-ho.

Doctors in Scotland will have to spend years apologising for the failings of the NHS, a leading trade union boss has warned.

Baby boxes are particularly important amid the cost-of-living crisis, the children’s minister has said ahead of the fifth anniversary of the scheme.

Exceptional two-bedroom mid-terrace home comes on the market in Willowbrae​

A CONSTITUTIONAL expert has torpedoed the SNP’s strategy for independence – warning “there’s no such thing” as holding a de facto referendum.

SCOTTISH ministers are unlikely to meet their own targets to tackle child poverty with the cost of living crisis making the amition harder, independent experts have said.

LABOUR is demanding the Lord Advocate delivers an urgent statement tomorrow before Holyrood goes into recess after claiming the Scottish Government has “left the big questions unanswered” over its independence plan.

NOT for the first time, they both seemed to be reading from the same script. Both Scottish Labour and the Scottish Tories have been waiting eight years for yesterday’s announcement by Nicola Sturgeon that she’s seeking to hold an independence ref...

A HISTORIC Scottish legal firm has hailed a string of new appointments from the same law company.

Members of the group Just Stop Oil spray-painted their logo on the walls and floors of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. 

By Ian McConnell

A major recruitment drive is hoping to bring more family doctors to Scotland from other parts of the UK and elsewhere.

JOHN Swinney has told MSPs that he is overhauling his new harassment complaints procedure to give it “greater transparency” after concerns that findings against ministers are being withheld from the public.

POLICE officers are removing “all goodwill” and only work overtime if ordered to do so amid an ongoing pay dispute.

Queen Elizabeth has met with Nicola Stugeon during her annual trip to Scotland today.

A UK Government minister has accused Nicola Sturgeon of “appeasing the hardliners” in the SNP after restarting a push for independence as the Tories were warned not to “blocks Scottish democracy”.

Biffy Clyro's frontman has said being awarded an honorary degree at a Glasgow-based university is “the stuff of dreams”.

We want to know how you would vote in a second independence referendum if it takes place on October 19, 2023.

The rumour mill has been grinding out a line that the Tories might abandon or kick into the long grass plans to

Two men, aged 57 and 53, from Glasgow, were charged with excise duty fraud after being arrested and interviewed by the officers.

THE capital of the Scottish Highlands is to welcome a new £6 million whisky distillery and brewery which will be "sustainably powered by the water from the River Ness".

Scottish ministers would have a mandate to begin independence negotiations with the UK Government if the SNP win a majority of seats in Scotland at the next General Election, John Swinney has said.

THE SCOTTISH Government's independent climate advisers have warned that plans to meet legal targets will be missed without more co-operation with Westminster by SNP ministers.

A SCOTTISH company has raised £1.6 million to help push forward a product that could boost the manufacture of new therapies.

By Scott Wright

A MAJORITY of Northern Irish voters support the Northern Ireland protocol in the Brexit deal signed between the UK and the EU with backing growing for the measure, according to a new poll.

Expert advice can boost ambitious Scottish firms’ chances of substantial investment, explains AAB’S Brian McMurray