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Artists appointed to help Aberdeenshire communities reflect and heal

Aberdeenshire Council’s Remembering Together initiative has appointed a team comprising a musician, ...

2023 Inspiring Aberdeenshire winners announced

The winners of Inspiring Aberdeenshire 2023 have been announced....

Rosebank is a disaster for climate change and economy

The oil industry is rapidly shedding jobs and Britain risks losing hundreds of thousands of new ones in the renewable sector to other countries, writes Conservative MP Chris Skidmore

Reports shows stark warning over ongoing loss of species

Ilona Amos

Analysis How will drilling Rosebank affect bills, energy supplies and climate?

Westminster’s decision to allow drilling to go ahead at the massive Rosebank field, around 80 miles ...

Ukraine war: mixed signals among Kyiv’s allies hint at growing conflict fatigue

Ukraine’s recent successes on the battlefield are almost certainly not enough to dispel the growing ...

Braverman's anti-refugee campaign may lead to bonfire of human rights Laura Waddell

Exclusive Harvie criticised for cycling projects ‘drowning in bureaucracy’

Why Scotland's renewable energy schemes are being delayed for years Sam Gardner

Rishi Sunak's energy policies are damaging the fight against climate change while doing little to improve energy security (Picture: Justin Tallis/WPA pool/Getty Images)

True energy security will only be delivered by clean renewable energy

Professor E Mary Smallwood was perhaps destined for an academic career after her intellectual talents were spotted in childhood

Scotsman Obituaries: Professor E Mary Smallwood, classical historian and author

DJ Alexander Chief Executive David Alexander

New ‘death tax’ proposal will push silent majority to the limit - David Alexande...

Kimberley and Craig Turnbull with Sophia who will be two next month. Pic: Michael Gillen

Marathon effort for Ronald McDonald House Glasgow

Future Scotland

From left: Neuranics CSO Kia Nazarpour, CTO Hadi Heidari, and CEO Noel McKenna. Picture: Stewart Attwood.

Funding boosts for Glasgow-based healtech start-up and Edinburgh fintech firm

From left: Mark Mountford, Victoria Mackie, Paul Reid, and Rebecca Christensen of Trickle. Picture: Stewart Attwood.

Seven-figure boost for Edinburgh-based workplace productivity start-up Trickle

Grzegorz Marecki, co-founder and chief executive of Continuum Industries: 'We have an exciting and important opportunity to accelerate the march of the infrastructure industry into the digital age and make a lasting impact for people and the planet.'

Edinburgh AI specialist gets £8 million boost to tackle energy planning delays

Transport

Exclusive Inside the Queensferry Crossing as you’ve never seen it before

The Scottish and UK governments are a national embarrassment Euan McColm

Rishi Sunak visits a Land Rover plant in Warwick in July for an announcement about a new electric car battery factory (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

SNP shouldn’t have just accepted Sunak’s delay of new petrol car ban

An autonomous bus on the M8 heading towards Edinburgh on September 14. (Photo by Alastair Dalton/The Scotsman)

Scotland's world-first autonomous buses: Wear your seat belt! – Alastair Dalton

Amy Norton, a real estate partner at UK law firm CMS. Submitted picture

Ad Feature Get active travel moving in the right direction for Scotland's tourism sector

After an Avanti West Coast train was cancelled mid-journey, passengers experienced a very long journey (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

HS2 a distant prospect as 'low-speed one' takes passengers on 11-hour journey

James Nokise said he was among “hundreds” of passengers ordered off an Avanti West Coast train at Preston

Comedian describes 'insane' 11-hour journey to Edinburgh

Crime

Hogg claimed he was wrongfully convicted of the attacks in Dalkeith

Crown Office admits ‘mistakes made’ in trial of rapist spared jail

Angela Constance

Radical legal reforms 'not a blunt tool aimed at increasing convictions'

If veteran prison governor still believes in rehab, so should we Karyn McCluskey

Lucy Letby is accused of murdering seven babies and trying to kill a further 10. Credit: SWNS

Lucy Letby to face retrial on allegation she tried to murder baby girl

Weather

Yellow warnings for wind and rain have been issued by the Met Office as Storm Agnes bears down on the UK

When does Storm Agnes hit Scotland, as yellow wind warning issued for rain

A team of plant scientists would like to turn this science “fiction” into reality by using light-based messaging to communicate with plants. Picture: SWNS

Can we talk to plants and warn them about dangers?

Rebecca MacDonald and Chris Oram pictured under the Northern Lights which appeared during their wedding on Monday. PIC: Michael Carver Photography.

Bride and groom captured under Northern Lights as 'everything aligns'

The tradition of changing the clocks in Britain dates back to over a century, here’s what you should know.

Explainer When do the clocks go back in 2023 and why do we change them?

Politics

Tourist tax on cruise ship passengers is absolutely justified Kenny MacAskill

Rishi Sunak, seen visiting the Shell St Fergus gas plant in Peterhead in July, needs to demonstrate that his new pathway to net-zero emissions is credible (Picture: Euan Duff/WPA pool/Getty Images)

Rosebank decision adds to concerns Sunak doesn't take climate change seriously

A ballot box/

2014 No voter to fight to be SNP candidate for Falkirk

Campaigners take part in a Stop Rosebank emergency protest outside the UK Government building in Edinburgh Photo: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Humza Yousaf accuses UK government of 'climate denial' over Rosebank

Fergus Ewing arrives for the meeting. Picture: Conor Matchett

SNP no longer stands up for Scotland claims Ewing as he is suspended from party

Fergus Ewing suspended from SNP for one week after disciplinary meeting

Councillors rejected plans to make cuts to the school bus service in Falkirk. Pic: File image

Councillors reject plans to cut school bus services

Coronavirus

Aamer Anwar (centre), lead solicitor for the Scottish Covid Bereaved group, speaks outside the UK Covid-19 Inquiry at Dorland House in London. Picture: Belinda Jiao/PA Wire

Lawyer calls for return to masks, free tests amid 'dangerous feeling of deja vu'

Travellers at Edinburgh's Waverley Station. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Passenger numbers on ScotRail services soar close to pre-pandemic levels

What are Covid symptoms in 2023?

Opinion

The cover of Football Grounds of Britain, by Simon Inglis - this edition was published in 1996, just as many stadiums were being rebuilt, or lost forever.

Passions: Why football stadiums are often more interesting than the game itself

How Scotland's minister for tenants’ rights is driving up rents Murdo Fraser

Scots meet the Grim Reaper three years earlier than people in England, according to new figures (Picture: Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images)

Scotsman Letters: Scots are progressively dying under the SNP

A vision of a net-zero world in 2050 and how we got there

The actions we need to see now will impact how we travel, how we build and heat our homes, how we farm and manage land and whether we keep subsidising actions that are undermining life on the planet, according to Mike Robinson, chair of Stop Climate Chaos Scotland

Manifesting climate action to benefit people and the planet

People

Aberdeenshire Council’s Coastal Communities Challenge Fund has awarded grants to 13 projects

Host of projects benefit from Coastal Communities Challenge funding

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Lathallan School Pipe Band entertain the crowds

Lathallan School Mini Highland Games makes a triumphant return

Claudia Winkleman, Carolyn Carrington, General Manager Golf View Hotel & Spa, Marc Gardner, General Manager Oban Bay Hotel, Jodie Wilson, Commercial Director Crerar Hotels, Chris Wayne-Wills, CEO Crerar Hotels, Alison MacLeod, Marketing Director Crerar Hotels, Joanna Whysall, General Manager Balmoral Arms, Niall o’Shaughnessy, General Manager Loch Fyne Hotel & Spa, Nic Ross, Fairtree, Joe Beste, Fairtree and Simon Numphud, Managing Director AA Media

Crerar Hotels named AA's 'Hotel Group of the Year'

Nearly completed: One of the glass panels needs to be replaced on the bandstand.

Lessons learnt from Drummers Corner project

Gayle Hunnicutt at Heathrow Airport in 1975, on her way to film in Israel (Picture: Peter Cade/Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Obituaries: Gayle Hunnicut, 'sexpot' American actress who flourished in Britain

Paul Zerdin and his sponge family Pic: Steve Ullathorne

Interview: ventriloquist Paul Zerdin

Obituaries

Stuart Sellar unveils the plaque bearing his own name - W S Sellar - on locomotive 37175

Obituaries: Stuart Sellar, railwayman and photographer

David Jones ran for Great Britain at the 1960 Rome Olympics, winning a bronze medal

Obituaries: David Jones, British sprinter who enjoyed trophy-laden career

John Cairney first played Robert Burns in There was a Man at the Traverse in 1965

Obituaries: John Cairney, actor best known for solo performances as Robert Burns

Environment

Successive pledges have been made to ban the most damaging fishing methods from sensitive seabed areas to preserve important habitats and species, but nine years after Scotland’s network of marine protected areas was first created, bottom-trawling and dredging are still allowed in more than half of the sites. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Ministers blasted over delays in banning destructive fishing in protected sites

First Minister Humza Yousaf. Image: Robert Perry/Press Association.

Rosebank: Humza Yousaf criticises move as 'the wrong decision'

Climate campaigners say they are prepared to take the UK Government to court

Controversial Rosebank oil field is given the go-ahead

Donald Trump, who thinks climate change is a 'hoax', likes Rishi Sunak's approach to the problem (Picture: Tom Pennington/Getty Images)

After Donald Trump backs Rishi Sunak's climate plans, will David Icke be next?

Yousaf must learn from Sunak about unachievable climate plans John McLellan

Former prime minister Gordon Brown who has said that states which banked 'staggering' profits from the high price of oil last year should pay a global windfall levy to help poorer nations in the fight against climate change. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Gordon Brown: States that reaped 'staggering' oil profits should pay global wind...

UK News

The remains of the township of Achblair. Woodland is now being cleared in a bid to preserve the heritage site. PIC: Strathglass Heritage Society.

Remains of Highland township that vanished from the map found in woodland

The judge's ruling adds to the mounting legal woes faced by Donald Trump. Picture: Brandon Bell/Getty

Judge finds Donald Trump liable for 'false valuation' of Scottish golf resort

Clachan Church by Loch Broom, where the last communion was held before the Hector voyage. PIC: Creative Commons.

Emotional search for Highland ancestors 250 years after the Hector sailed

Media tycoon Jimmy Lai, pictured in June 2020. He was arrested two months later over his support for Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests (Picture: Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images)

When will Sunak stand up for detained Hong Kong democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai?

Sir Geoff Palmer, who headed the steering group which recommended a national museum of slavery and empire for Scotland, said progress was being made on the proposal at government level. PIC: Phil Wilkinson.

Scotland's national slavery museum needs to progress 'at greater speed'

Dear Rishi, net-zero technologies can help reduce the cost of living Christine Jardine

World

U.S. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy speaks to reporters in Statuary Hall at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. McCarthy said he hopes to bring a House vote on a continuing resolution to fund the government this Friday.

What is the US Government shutdown and when will it happen?

Firefighters check the damage in an event hall in Qaraqosh, also known as Hamdaniyah, after a fire broke out during a wedding, killing at least 100 people and injuring more than 150.

More than 100 people killed in fire at Iraqi wedding

Striking WGA (Writers Guild of America) members picket with striking SAG-AFTRA members outside Paramount Studios earlier this month in Los Angeles, California.

Hollywood writers' strike set to come to an end after five months

Andrei Medvedev, claiming to have deserted Russian mercenary group Wagner, and his lawyer Brynjulf Risnes listen during Medvedev's trial at the District Court in Oslo in April.

Wagner group defector caught allegedly trying to return to Russia

Mark Sabah and Chloe Cheung of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, with MSP Jeremy Balfour at the Scottish Parliament.

Hong Kongers tell Police Scotland stories of persecution

The transfer of Italy's top wanted mafia boss, Matteo Messina Denaro (centre) from the Carabinieri police station of San Lorenzo in Palermo, following his arrest in his native Sicily in January. Picture: Italian Carabinieri Press Office/AFP via Getty Images

Mafia mastermind Matteo Messina Denaro dies in hospital

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The scene near the Whitgift shopping centre in Croydon, south London after a 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death on Wednesday morning. (PA)

School pays tribute to pupil, 15, stabbed to death in Croydon

Report reveals air travel hacks including cheapest days for flights