The Sandie Peggie employment tribunal enters its second day of closing arguments in Dundee. After the nurse's team set out their case yesterday, NHS Fife and Dr Beth Upton’s lawyer Jane Russell KC will continue to deliver their submission.

Scottish Labour MSP Mercedes Villalba will not seek re-election in 2026 following a row over candidate selection in Dundee.

Direct flights between Aberdeen and Riga will return next year after they were cancelled earlier in 2025.

Ministers will have to more than triple affordable home building each year to meet Scotland’s housing needs, experts have warned, as the country grapples with a deepening housing emergency.

Education chiefs are looking to axe the blanket provision of free transport for all Inverclyde children attending additional support needs schools - sparking a furious response from parents.

The 44-year-old man who was arrested in connection with the sexual assault of a child at a campsite has now been charged.

A planning application was submitted to carry out works on the outside of the OVO Hydro in Glasgow.

Police Scotland has been urged to improve the uniforms worn by officers after a review found several kit items were ill-fitting and of poor quality.

The Rest and Be Thankful remains shut more than 24 hours after it first closed with more inspections to take place this morning.

Hundreds of jobs are feared to be at risk as plans can be revealed to shut down Scotland's only oil refinery, part-owned by the Ineos Group, the petrochemicals giant controlled by billionaire tycoon Sir Jim Ratcliffe.

Ministers have come under fire for not doing enough to save the Grangemouth oil refinery -  after blocking moves to divulge what it had done to protect it from closure.

Why has one in five Scottish small businesses been forced to cut services to customers?

'Historic exporting high' for Scotland hailed as 15,000-plus jobs created or safeguarded

UK house prices have fallen unexpectedly, with a mortgage 'barrier' flagged

Investors have proven jittery in recent weeks, but like the internet AI is here to stay

Close to 5% of police officers in Scotland will become eligible for retirement by next summer, sparking new concerns about the state of the service

Scotland has seen a fall in drug deaths with the lowest recorded since the number was registered in 2017.

Campaigners have challenged Edinburgh Council’s claim that no secondary school toilets need physical changes to comply with a landmark legal ruling

The Sandie Peggie employment tribunal resumes in Dundee today, with closing submissions expected from her legal team. Ms Peggie, a nurse suspended after objecting to sharing a changing room with a trans colleague, claims harassment and discrimination...

Health outcomes in Scotland are falling behind. Reforming NHS structure, culture and funding is now urgent, experts argue.

Senior clinicians have warned Scotland’s NHS faces collapse without major reform — including potential charges for services.

Sandie Peggie's lawyers were ordered to redact information that used Dr Beth Upton's 'deadname' in official legal documents.

Listed Scottish facility declares finance deal puts it in "strong position" to explore "avenues for growth"

The Scottish Government has been accused of favouritism towards 'one-off' sporting events like the Commonwealth Games.

A landmark shopping centre and housing development is to be marketed for sale

The lawyers said NHS Fife had turned a “simple dispute about whether a single-sex changing room for women needs to exclude all men, or only some” into an “extraordinarily tangled” legal row.

This year celebrating the 25 anniversary of his cook school, chef Nick Nairn is reflecting on the business’s evolution from a basic kitchen masterclass to a thriving educational hub.

There was so much drama at Anas Sarwar's speech it was hard to concentrate on what Scottish Labour leader would do if he was First Minister.

Scotland’s heavy indoor festival that lauds everything loud and distorted sets up camp in Glasgow’s Woodside Halls, with assistance from venue favourite The Hug and Pint.

A 28-year-old man has been jailed for the attempted murder of an 84-year-old in Inverness.

Naomi Cunningham, the barrister acting for Sandie Peggie in the employment tribunal against NHS Fife and Dr Beth Upton, has concluded her legal argument. Here are the key points.

A man is in custody in Slovakia after allegedly kidnapping a teenager and taking her to Scotland with him

Anas Sarwar was asked if the Holyrood toilets were safe after it emerged at least five MSPs along with journalists and staff could be potential victims of alleged secret toilet recordings in Parliament.

​A Clydebank high school teacher is facing several allegations, including "grabbing and pushing" a pupil and being homophobic

Nelson Mandela and Glasgow have been closely linked since he was given the freedom of the city in 1981

Police Scotland has been ordered to pay close to £50k to two officers who were discriminated against on the basis of sex

A teenager left a fellow college student with a bruise to the brain in a horror classroom mallet attack.

The new operator takes on a hotel established by the business of a leading merchant banker and is added to a growing portfolio

First Minister John Swinney said he was “absolutely horrified” by reports alleging a hidden camera had been placed in the toilets at the Scottish Parliament.

Protests outside hotels housing asylum seekers are “completely unacceptable”, Scotland’s First Minister has said.

English rock band Def Leppard have announced a UK and European tour with a date in Glasgow included.

Dr Beth Upton is the second respondent in the ongoing legal case involving nurse Sandie Peggie at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy and NHS Fife.

Argyll and Bute Council officials are being asked for their opinions on a planned upgrade to Oban Ferry Terminal

A paedophile pensioner from Greenock has been found guilty of a catalogue of depraved sexual offences involving two children

A leading expert in international law has warned the UK and others could be held liable as accomplices to genocide due to their support for Israel

A CalMac ferry being built to serve the isle of Islay will reportedly be delayed again, having been due to enter service last year

A Christmas Eve clash between Sandie Peggie and a trans women Dr Beth Upton has become a test case over NHS policy, single-sex spaces and gender-critical beliefs

A group of MSPs have demanded a national action plan to tackle the housing emergency one year on from the Scottish Government making the crisis declaration.

The congregation of St Patrick’s Church in Anderston have been told they are to move

Alarm has been raised over the disappearance of almost 90,000 private rental properties since before the Covid pandemic as Scotland deals with over 40,000 homelessness applications a year in a housing emergency.