Sat, 18th January 2025

Denis Law scored 30 goals for Scotland in 55 appearances.

Denis Law is Scottish football royalty - the most natural goalscorer
Law will be remembered as one of our greatest ever players

SNP ministers have been urged to rethink their plans

Thousands of hospitality venues 'left worse off' by Scottish Budget

Scottish independence supporters march through Glasgow in 2019

Once in a generation claim in 2014 was 'turn of phrase', says SNP MSP

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Breakish on the east side of the Isle of Skye. The workers' camp has been proposed for land to the east of the settlement. PIC: Richard Dorrell/geograph.org

Second workers camp for Scottish island puts "peaceful lives" at risk

Katie Allan and William Brown, also known as William Lindsay

"Katie was brutalised ... and saw only one solution - her death"

Traitors star Alex Oleksy.

The Scottish Traitors star who had to lie to his own wedding guests

North Sea oil and gas workers must see a genuinely just transition to a net-zero economy (Picture: Andy Buchanan/WPA pool)

North Sea union leaders' 'No Ban Without a Plan' campaign is working Brian Wilson

Keir and Victoria Starmer on the steps of 10 Downing Street the day after July's general election. How times have changed (Picture: Leon Neal)

Why it's clear Keir Starmer is preparing rerun of Tory austerity Stephen Gethins

A lynx on the prowl at the Sainte-Croix animal park in eastern France (Picture: Jean-Christophe Verhaegen)

Illegal reintroductions of species like lynx are surprisingly common George Holmes, Darragh Hare and Hanna Pettersson

Dr Jim Swire holds a copy of the verdict after the Lockerbie bombing trial in 2001 which convinced Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi (Picture: Michel Porro/Newsmakers)

How dare people criticise Jim Swire for seeking Lockerbie bomb truth Stephen Jardine

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Scotland’s private sector ended 2024 on a sour note after a sharp contraction in output.

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Fawlty Towers-style dining train to help spearhead rail tours revival

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Demi Moore poses in the press room with the award for best performance by a female actor in a motion picture - musical or comedy for The Substance during the 82nd Golden Globes on Sunday. Picture: AP Photo/Chris Pizzello

The 2025 Golden Globes winners in full

Puzzles

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Highlights

Author Paula Hawkins will appear at Granite Noir crime writing festival in Aberdeen next month, where she will talk about her new thriller, The Blue Hour, and introduce a showing of the film of her bestselling debut novel, The Girl on the Train.

Girl on the Train author Paula Hawkins' new Scottish thriller

First look at Ardbeg House as island whisky hotel opens for bookings

L-R_ Natasha Hoeberigs (Magenta), Job Greuter (Riff Raff), Jason Donovan (Frank N Furter), Lauren Chia (Janet).

Jason Donovan appearing in Scotland wearing fishnets and high heels

Lindsay and Ross from Bostock

The best bakery in the Lothians is getting bigger

Sorcha Groundsell stars in An t-Eilean (The Island), the UK’s first-ever high-end Gaelic drama series

Everything you need to know about the UK's first high end Gaelic drama

Susanne and Gaby Soutar at afternoon tea

I took mum to try Scottish hotel's afternoon tea - she gave it 9/10 Gaby Soutar

The stunning Scottish estate that has a fairy walk & snowdrop festival

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The Scotsman app brings you exclusive, quality news and analysis from The Scotsman, Scotland’s National Newspaper.

Scotsman Sessions

Just a few of the artists who have performed Scotsman Sessions

The Scotsman Sessions: links to numbers 1-400

Constant Vigier

The Scotsman Sessions #429: Constant Vigier

Jennie Lee: Tomorrow is a New Day

The Scotsman Sessions #428: Kit Laveri, George Docherty & Trish Mullin

David Luximon

The Scotsman Sessions #427: David Luximon

Business

Analysis ‘On a knife edge’ - can Britain’s economy avoid a recession?

Oil giant BP has announced a raft of job cuts

BP to axe 4,700 jobs globally amid cost-cutting drive

Sport

Sione Tuipulotu is one of Scotland's key players.

Scotland in huge Tuipulotu injury sweat as fears grow over captain

Glasgow Warriors skipper is nursing upper body injury

Frazzled Ewen Ferguson left feeling 'sour' by slow play warning

Scot stays in contention in Hero Dubai Desert Classic despite feeling day was ‘ruined’

Hibs Rudi Molotnikov celebrates his third goal of the season in the Scottish Cup fourth round win over Clydebank. Cr: SNS Group.

Boyle ensures there's no cup upset for Hibs 26 years on from Boghead

Hibs momentum continues as they coast past Clydebank in Scottish Cup at Easter Road.

How I became hooked on this strange, brutal, elegant game called rugby Lisa Simonis

Rangers make first January signing as Fernandes joins on loan

Lille defender joins for rest of season

Absent Van der Merwe's injury situation addressed ahead of Six Nations

Edinburgh taking no chances with key player for visit of Black Lion

Politics

Scottish Labour said the NHS needs a change of direction

Lives put at risk by 11,000 ambulance prank calls

Hospital wards must be safe places for women (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)

Shocking number of rapes in Scotland's hospitals is a crisis for SNP Susan Dalgety

Katie Allan and William Lindsay (Brown) died in Polmont

Polmont custody deaths could have been avoided, damning inquiry finds

David Anderson and the CT scan of Razan

Scots nurse saves Palestinian toddler with bullet lodged in neck

Edinburgh University. Image: Lisa Ferguson

Edinburgh University in stark financial warning as surplus drops

On a visit to Ukraine, Keir Starmer said 'we all want this war to end... but right now Putin shows no sign of wanting peace' (Picture: Sergey Shestak)

Trump's shadow looms large over huge Nato training exercise in Romania Scotsman comment

Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced plans to raise a windfall tax on North Sea oil and gas firms

BP job losses 'proof SNP and Labour turning backs on oil and industry'

Consultation was held into length of the school week. Image: John Devlin

SNP considers law on length of school week after 61% back move

Opinion

A coloured engraving by Sir William Hamilton of the 1767 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, viewed from Naples (Picture: Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images)

Heartbreaking find in Pompeii highlights dilemma when volcano erupted Scotsman comment

Scotland can position itself as a leader in green AI infrastructure thanks to its growing renewable energy sector

Now it's AI that’s ‘eating the world’ - and Scotland can take lead

Vanilla ice-cream

The Scottish nougat ice-cream wafer is being cancelled, oh no! Gaby Soutar

The gift card market was worth £7bn in the UK last year – a figure that is expected to rise to £9bn in 2025 (Picture: stock.adobe.com)

Martyn James: What to look out for when you go shopping with gift cards

Heritage and Retro

Bannockburn House has some rare and ornate plasterwork, in addition to a place in Jacobite history (Picture: Lisa Ferguson)

House where Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed should be saved if affordable Scotsman comment

Bannockburn House

Bonnie Prince Charlie house in survival battle - with buckets deployed

The Stone of Destiny at Westminster Abbey in London

Quest to find more than 30 Stone of Destiny fragments

Dunnottar Castle

Owner of Scottish clifftop castle struggles with visitor centre vision

Actor Connor Swindells as Colonel David Stirling in SAS: Rogue Heroes, the drama series from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.

The real SAS Rogue Hero who took elite fighters behind German lines

Fiona Lee is pictured with a stained glass window of Robert Burns inside St Michael's Church in Dumfries, which is seeking to raise £25,000 to protect and improve the building where the poet regularly attended Sunday service.

Church where Robert Burns attended Sunday service seeks £25,000

The newly released records are available from Registers of Scotland.

Birth records of iconic Scottish comedian among new released documents

Arts and Culture

The Maryhill Joyous Choir perform at the Celtic Connections Opening Concert

Celtic Connections Opening Concert review: 'unpredictably eclectic'

Mogwai

Album reviews: Mogwai | Rufus Wainwright | Rhona Macfarlane

The GRIT Orchestra returns to Celtic Connections on 18 January

Celtic Connections 2025: Jim Gilchrist picks his highlights

A Complete Unknown

Review: Chalamet's Bob Dylan biopic a 'frustratingly basic' offering

Geneva Lewis

SCO, Joseph Swensen & Geneva Lewis, Edinburgh review

Johnny McKnight as Stinkerbell in Peter Panto at the Tron

Johnny McKnight on the past, present and future of the panto dame

Edinburgh from below Arthur’s Seat, 1801, by JMW Turner at the RSA

Art reviews: Turner in January: Ireland’s Vaughan Bequest | RSW Annual

Education

Strathclyde University

Scottish university faces strike by staff over 'reckless cash grab'

Trade union says industrial action by staff ‘now firmly on the cards’

Calum Ross

There are a number of popular apps to help you learn everything from songwriting to playing the piano

Apple's 5 top-rated apps to help learn music or a new instrument

Music tuition has reached record levels in Scotland (Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Families 'devastated' as another Scottish council plans music cuts

Scottish education first as college fires up £1.8 million ‘vertical farm’

Scott Reid

Hay's Way

Belted Galloways are a native breed in Scotland being used for nature restoration projects

How the much maligned cow is making a comeback in Scotland

Inchconnachan was once the holiday home of speedboat-racing aristocrat Fiona Gore, Countess of Arran, who introduced a population of non-native wallabies that still roam free across the island

Kirsty Young's plans to develop island in Loch Lomond approved

Seven Gables is a characterful semi-detached house, situated in an enviable position overlooking Elie Beach

Inside the £1.4m 17th century house looking over a favourite beach

Health

Urgent warning to pet owners as dog chews linked to illness.

Urgent warning to pet owners not to feed dogs these chews from China

Blue Monday usually falls on the third Monday in January.

How to beat Blue Monday - tips to look after your mental health

A new study suggests that drinking a glass of milk every day may reduce your risk of bowel cancer.

The one thing you can do daily to reduce your risk of common cancer

The viral skincare trend involves rubbing a banana peel on your face, with influencers claiming it has a 'natural Botox effect'

Skin expert warns against trying this viral beauty hack

Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes and First Minister John Swinney.

What the Scottish Government will do in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic

Nine in 10 of those surveyed in Scotland said patient safety is being compromised

‘Devastating' nurse testimonies lay bare crisis in Scotland's NHS

I overcame my terror to join a running club - it's transformational Alastair Dalton

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Facebook still has billions of monthly active users but it is mired in controversy. Picture: Getty Images

Why the temptation to abandon social media is growing by the day Martyn McLaughlin

Sport Opinion

Rangers chief executive Patrick Stewart and manager Philippe Clement.

Rangers sword of Damocles hangs over Clement despite conditions
Stewart has his work cut out amid all manner of issues
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Ben Doak has emerged as one of Scotland's key players.

Doak's soaring value is good but status quo may be priceless for Scots

Exercise is a 'miracle cure' for many ailments, including mental ones, as Ian Johnston can attest (Picture: Justin Setterfield)

Obsessing about mental health is making Scotland's crisis worse Ian Johnston

Helicopter footage from Police Scotland shows youths throwing fireworks and other projectiles during public disorder in Edinburgh last year

How 1980s-style football violence has returned to Scotland Tom Wood

Obituaries

Sir Peter Graham pictured whilst commanding the 1st Battalion The Gordon Highlanders in Belfast ,1976-1978

Obituaries: General Sir Peter Graham, last Colonel of the Gordon Highlanders

John Mulvey saw local government as an important source of power

Obituaries: John Mulvey, former leader of Lothian Regional Council

Rugby Union

The Six Nations trophy will be up for grabs again this year as Ireland look to defend their title. (Photo by Craig Williamson / SNS Group)

AI predicts 2025 Six Nations winner - and where Scotland will finish

Edinburgh's Luke Crosbie was a tackling machine last weekend.

Edinburgh Rugby's tackling machine will be seeking out a reunion

Jack Dempsey returns to the Glasgow Warriors back row.

Driven Warriors welcome back Dempsey but Tuipulotu has 'niggles'

Wes Goosen is enjoying life at Edinburgh Rugby.

In-form Goosen breaks silence on future as contract runs down

Fergus Burke in action for Saracens against Northampton Saints.

'Privilege to play for Scotland' - new boy on Six Nations call-up

Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend has named a 37-man squad for the 2025 Six Nations. (Photo by Ewan Bootman / SNS Group)

Scotland name uncapped duo in Six Nations squad amid shock omission

Jack Mann is one of two uncapped players in the Scotland Six Nations squad.

Scotland call for the player who waited 720 days between games

Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend names his Six Nations squad on Wednesday. (Photo by Ross Parker / SNS Group)

What to expect from Scotland's Six Nations squad announcement

Ben Muncaster made his Scotland debut against Portugal in November.

Six Nations blow as Scotland forward ruled out for up to eight weeks

Cars

Drivers are supposed to use their indicators before turning.

Why don't drivers indicate? Here's the law about using your indicators

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The McLaren 570S is a 200mph supercar

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The 488 GTB is one of the most popular Ferraris among keen drivers

This £140,000 Ferrari could be yours for just 89p - if you're quick

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