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‘Thousands of troops on standby’ as no deal Brexit planning steps up a gear

Politics

SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford speaking at the House of Commons.

‘Ship has sailed’ on soft Brexit compromise, SNP warns

Politics

Waiting time targets for cancer patients are not being met according to official statistics.

Scottish Government waiting time targets for cancer patients ‘not being met’

UK

Loneliness affects thousands of Scots.

New strategy to tackle loneliness launched by Scottish government

Politics

d Dr Jim Swire. Picture: S Scott Taylor/J P License

Lockerbie anniversary not emotional occasion, says victim’s father

News

SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford. Picture: PA Wire

Ian Blackford told ‘go back to Skye’ by Tory MP

Politics

The FCA plans could be in place by next December.

City watchdog unveils plans to ease burden on ‘overdraft prisoners’

Business

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Bodie the dog becomes the UK's first full-time avalance rescue dog.

Glenshee pooch becomes UK’s first ever full-time avalanche rescue dog

Inverness, Highlands & Islands

Research has found that shoppers are picking up less confectionery since the policy was introduced. Picture: TSPL

Removal of supermarket checkout snacks could help tackle obesity, study suggests

Retail

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Rumour Mill: Rangers to lose out on key target? | Hibs to sign midfielder | Ibrox flop finds new club

Premiership

Hibernian manager Neil Lennon

Neil Lennon: As a player Steven Gerrard was one of my heroes

Hibernian

Edinburgh head coach Richard Cockerill. Picture: Ross Parker/SNS/SRU

John Barclay in race against time for start of Six Nations

Edinburgh

Andrew Considine celebrates after scoring Aberdeen's fifth in their 5-1 win over Dundee.

Derek McInnes: Let’s make it four wins on trot against Hearts

Premiership

James Forrest is targeting a win against Motherwell tonight. Pic: Craig Williamson/SNS

James Forrest desperate to embark on run before winter break

Celtic

Manager Craig Levein, finance director Jacqui Duncan and owner Ann Budge at Hearts' annual meeting.

Craig Levein: I’ve failed to find system to end goal drought

Hearts

Celtic: 10 strikers Brendan Rodgers could sign in January
Joel Sked

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Florian Kamberi celebrates scoring against Celtic. Picture: SNS/Craig Foy

Celtic: 10 strikers Brendan Rodgers could sign in January

Celtic

Hearts manager Craig Levein has been given a further headache ahead of the club's trip to Aberdeen. Picture: SNS/Ross Parker

What next for Hearts after the embarrassing 5-0 loss at Livingston?

Hearts

Livingston striker Ryan Hardie (centre left) celebrates his second goal with his teammates. Picture: SNS

Five things we learned from the Scottish Premiership weekend

Premiership

Some of the crowd at Muirton Park for St. Johnstone v Aberdeen match. Pic: DC Thomson

Aidan Smith: Photographs from bygone era captured football at its best

Football

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John Devlin 31/07/2018. GLASGOW. Buchanan Street.''Campaigners stage protest over eviction of asylum seekers'Organisers branded Serco's operation to lock hundreds from their homes a "display of brutality" which is against Glaswegian values.'A demonstration took place in the city centre as hundreds of asylum seekers face being evicted from their homes in Glasgow.''Around 300 families, lone men and women could be forced on to the streets as private housing firm Serco plans to change the locks to their accommodation under a new programme code-named Move On.''Hundreds of campaigners held a rally at the Royal Concert Hall steps on Buchanan Street in protest over the 'inhumane' operation.'Organisers said: "Serco, who are the private housing firm who deal with accommodation for refugees, have deployed beyond disgusting tactics to displace people from their homes.''"This display of a brutality is not the values of the citizens of Glasgow and we are urging people to join our protest against this mass eviction."''Here'

How Home Office is blocking Glasgow’s efforts to provide true asylum – Martyn McLaughlin

Opinion

The Library of Birmingham, opened in 2013, is a building that screams civic ambition (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Why Birmingham may be a role model for Scottish cities – Chris McCall

Opinion

What could be scarier for the Prime Minister than the Ghost of Brexit Yet to Come?

A Brexit Carol: Theresa May haunted by three ghosts – Paris Gourtsoyannis

Opinion

Did COP24 president Michal Kurtyka's 'jump for joy' mask a lack of real action? (Picture: Janek Skarzynski/AFP/Getty)

Mary Church: Donald Trump and EU lead world astray on climate change

Opinion

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Music review: Paul McCartney, Hydro, Glasgow

Music

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David Moore of Fusion Whisky and Alex Bruce of Adelphi

The ‘Scottish Samurai’ of Asian whisky distilling to be honoured

Companies

Tom Kitchin announces opening date for new pub with rooms in Gullane

Food and Drink

Glasgow Christmas Market 2018: Everything you need to know

Food and Drink

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RBS names Katie Murray as new finance chief

Financial

An operator pictured in one of the control rooms at the Sellafield site. Picture: Contributed

Wood powers up with Sellafield nuclear work

News

Ron Taylor and Keith Barclay at a proposed site in Inverness. Picture: Trevor Martin

BGF in Highlands first with £5m care home investment

Companies

Executive chairman Audrey Baxter in front of a Francis Boag painting commissioned to celebrate the company's 150th anniversary. Picture: Contributed

Baxters profits rise as American arm posts rapid growth

Retail

Paul Winstalney (left) will succeed Ian Reid (right) as chief executive at Censis. Picture: McAteer Photograph

Censis appoints tech stalwart as new chief executive

Management

Barrhead Travel's Sharon Munro and Jacqueline Dobson. Picture: Malcolm Cochrane

Change at the top for Barrhead Travel

Media & Leisure

RBS names Katie Murray as new finance chief

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Iain Maciver and Anne Frater, descendants of the Iolaire tragedy, with Western Isles Convener Norman A Macdonald, at the memorial in Stornoway, which overlooks the site of the wreck of the HMY Iolaire. Picture: Lenny Warren/PA Wire

Wreath to be laid on Scottish wreck to remember 200 deaths

News

The bronze statue of Charles Rennie Mackintosh stands at the corner of St Vincent Street and Elliot Street in the Anderston district of Glasgow. Picture: John Devlin/TSPL

Statue of Charles Rennie Mackintosh can help Glasgow ‘move on’ from art school fire

Art

A map showing 18th Century New York Province where almost 500 islanders ended up on a promise of a better life. PIC: Creative Commons.

The Scottish islanders conned by a new life in New York

Lifestyle

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