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SNP heavyweights: There is no appetite for a second independence referendum

Politics

Scotland is set to see blizzard conditions over the next couple of days

Blizzard conditions expected in Scotland amid snow and ice warnings

News

View over house to Loch Tuath and Isle of Ulva in the distance. Picture: Contributed.

Hundreds apply for new life on this remote Scottish island

Travel

Allegations that Alex Salmond sexually harassed two women have been followed by an outbreak of civil war between two factions in the SNP. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty Images

Poll: Handling of Alex Salmond case damages SNP’s credibility

Politics

Stars of Mary Queen of Scots spotted having pint in Glasgow pub

Lifestyle

Ancient stone circle in Aberdeenshire revealed to be modern fake

Lifestyle

Theresa May unwilling to give ground on Brexit plan

Politics

Lesley Riddoch: Direct your rage at Westminster, not the EU

Opinion

Powers in sectors such as agriculture and fishing will come to Holyrood

Scotland facing ‘new devolution’ as fresh post-Brexit powers come to Holyrood

Politics

Lesley Riddoch: Direct your rage at Westminster, not the EU
Lesley Riddoch

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Allegations that Alex Salmond sexually harassed two women have been followed by an outbreak of civil war between two factions in the SNP. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty Images

Poll: Handling of Alex Salmond case damages SNP’s credibility

Politics

Theresa May and her husband Philip May attend a Sunday church service yesterday in Aylesbury. A group of MPs are expected to present a bill on Monday which could allow Brexit to be delayed if Parliament does not approve an EU withdrawal agreement. Picture: Getty

Theresa May unwilling to give ground on Brexit plan

Politics

EU citizens hold up a banner after lobbying MPs to guarantee their post-Brexit rights at the Houses of Parliament in London. Picture: PA

Home Office ‘risks new Windrush scandal’ as EU citizens face registration

Politics

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has proposed delaying Brexit by a year and holding a series of Citizens' National Assemblies (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Brexit: Forget Theresa May’s plan, Gordon Brown has the answer – Jim Gallagher

Opinion

The Question Time audience cheered when Isabel Oakeshot said Brexit negotiations should end

Lesley Riddoch: Direct your rage at Westminster, not the EU

Opinion

Powers in sectors such as agriculture and fishing will come to Holyrood

Scotland facing ‘new devolution’ as fresh post-Brexit powers come to Holyrood

Politics

Theresa May and her husband Philip May attend a Sunday church service at the weekend

Leader comment: No deal is unthinkable but the clock is ticking

Opinion

Brian Monteith: Here’s what should happen to the Tory plotters

Opinion

Ann Stewart: Be prepared for some types of property tax increases

Opinion

Brexit: Jeremy Corbyn spoke to Hamas and IRA, but won’t talk to Theresa May – Christine Jardine

Opinion

SNP heavyweights: There is no appetite for a second independence referendum

Politics

Transport More Transport >>

Motorcyclists only account for 1% of total road traffic, but account for around 18% of road deaths. Picture: Ian Rutherford

Brenda Mitchell: Judgment to lift hearts of all motorcyclists

Opinion

Edinburgh Airport boss Gordon Dewar says the SNP's passenger duty plan should be debated at Holyrood. Photograph: Michael Gillen

Edinburgh Airport boss urges government to stop stalling over air tax cut

Transport

Person struck by train in Glasgow

Transport

Police check a van (left) for clues following the death of Craig Bruce (right). Picture: contributed

Edinburgh Bypass death: Police seeking help from two HGV drivers

Transport

Ministers urged to act on call for eye tests for older drivers in wake of duke’s crash

Transport

Prince Philip’s crash no reason to ban older drivers – leader comment

Opinion

Near miss with ‘white drone’ at Glasgow Airport revealed in UK report

Transport

Here's the most popular car colour in Scotland

News

Education More Education >>

Yvonne Gordon said film-making should be on the curriculum alongside subjects such as drama and music. Photograph: Neil Hanna

Scottish schools urged to teach film as part of curriculum

Lifestyle

Campaigners David Gould, Gemma Gerber, Viviana Kennedy, Jill Grady and Niamh Breakey. Picture: John Devlin

Scotland’s last all-girls state school faces scrutiny over policy

Education

Professor Colin McInnes comes face to face with a life-size marble portrait of James Watt. Picture: John Devlin

Glasgow Uni plans year of events to mark anniversary of James Watt’s death

Education

Dunfermline High School. Picture: Google

Dunfermline High School pupils fall ill after ‘taking tablets’

Education

An independent panel tasked with devising a 'code of practice' to address concerns over information sharing has told Deputy First Minister John Swinney it is struggling to do this. Picture: Andrew Cowan

Named Person plan suffers new blow as panel reveals ‘challenges’

Politics

The large and extremely fragile periodic table was contained in a stash of rolled up teaching charts

World’s oldest classroom periodic table found at St Andrews University

Education

The Scottish Government has pledged to widen access to universities

Record number of poorest Scots studying at university full-time

Education

John Swinney defends pay offer to striking college lecturers

Education

The SSPCA: We keep saying it, but the public keep doing it – stop buying farmed pups

Opinion

City bees need ‘pest plants’ like nettles to survive, find Scots scientists

Environment

Home schooling soars as parents react to cuts in the classroom

Education

Environment More Environment >>

The five star Gleneagles resort is one of Scotland's best known hotels

Wind turbines to be built near iconic Gleneagles Hotel despite objections

Environment

Visitors could soon be visiting Scotland for 'wellness' therapies. Picture: Contributed

‘Wellness’ trend forecast to shake up Scottish tourism industry

Environment

Patrick Harvie says the government should take the lead in sustainable investment. Picture: John Devlin

Data sparks alert on investment in green projects

Business

An artist's impression of a planned nuclear power station at Wylfa on Anglesey in north Wales. (Picture: PA)

Brian Wilson: Why ditching nuclear is bad for climate change, good for Putin

Opinion

Scottish business leaders to attend Waste to Wealth event

Business

Coffee extinction: how will we cope? – leader comment

Opinion

Coffee at risk if no action taken to save wild plant species

Environment

Blood Moon 2019: Everything you need to know

Environment

Health More Health >>

Colleagues Jemma Nisbet and Orla McCrory. Picture: Greg Macvean

Calton Hill sunrise walk to banish Blue Monday pain

News

Police officers need to be part of a team for the sake of their mental health, among other reasons (Picture: Ian Georgeson)

Spare a thought for police facing drug-crazed violence while being filmed – Tom Wood

Opinion

The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and Royal Hospital For Children (in foreground). Picture: John Devlin.

Inquiry call in wake of pigeon infection linked to hospital deaths

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Roz Paterson, pictured with her family, is pinning her hopes on raising enough money to pay for Car-T cell therapy. Photograph:' Greg Macvean

Insight: How the NHS decides what drugs it will and won’t pay for

Health

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow.

Two patients dead after pigeon poo infection outbreak at Glasgow hospital

News

Control measures were immediately put in place at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow after two cases were detected. Picture: John Devlin

Infections by pigeon droppings investigated at Glasgow hospital

News

The Queen's 97-year-old husband escaped without serious injury when his Land Rover Freelander collided with a Kia as he pulled out of the Sandringham Estate onto a main road.''Picture: Haydn West/PA Wire

Ministers urged to act on call for eye tests for older drivers in wake of duke’s crash

Transport

Fears staffing shortages may derail £100m government cancer plans

Politics

Ex-NHS Tayside boss given inflated payout to ‘avoid any tribunal’, MSPs told

News

How many hours can you legally work in Scotland?

Health

What is haemochromatosis - and what are the symptoms?

News

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Theresa May and her husband Philip May attend a Sunday church service yesterday in Aylesbury. A group of MPs are expected to present a bill on Monday which could allow Brexit to be delayed if Parliament does not approve an EU withdrawal agreement. Picture: Getty

Theresa May unwilling to give ground on Brexit plan

Politics

EU citizens hold up a banner after lobbying MPs to guarantee their post-Brexit rights at the Houses of Parliament in London. Picture: PA

Home Office ‘risks new Windrush scandal’ as EU citizens face registration

Politics

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has proposed delaying Brexit by a year and holding a series of Citizens' National Assemblies (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Brexit: Forget Theresa May’s plan, Gordon Brown has the answer – Jim Gallagher

Opinion

The Question Time audience cheered when Isabel Oakeshot said Brexit negotiations should end

Lesley Riddoch: Direct your rage at Westminster, not the EU

Opinion

Duke of Edinburgh: woman injured in crash ‘surprised’ at no call from Philip

UK

Spare a thought for police facing drug-crazed violence while being filmed – Tom Wood

Opinion

Brexit: Jeremy Corbyn spoke to Hamas and IRA, but won’t talk to Theresa May – Christine Jardine

Opinion

‘Don’t sell stories on me’ - Gemma Collins rants at Jason Gardiner during Dancing on Ice

Celebrity

Opinion More Opinion >>

Participants hard at work during last year's 16-week TechX Pioneer accelerator programme. Picture: Contributed

Comment: Innovative start-ups are shaping the future of oil

Energy

Events like Turing Fest do a tremendous amount of good for the Scottish economy, says Cultivate's Andy Robinson. Picture: Contributed

Comment: Community is vital to develop Edinburgh’s tech hub

Opinion

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has proposed delaying Brexit by a year and holding a series of Citizens' National Assemblies (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Brexit: Forget Theresa May’s plan, Gordon Brown has the answer – Jim Gallagher

Opinion

The Question Time audience cheered when Isabel Oakeshot said Brexit negotiations should end

Lesley Riddoch: Direct your rage at Westminster, not the EU

Opinion

Theresa May and her husband Philip May attend a Sunday church service at the weekend

Leader comment: No deal is unthinkable but the clock is ticking

Opinion

Andrew Paterson is a Partner with Murray Beith Murray

Andrew Paterson: New Year resolutions should include visit to your lawyer

Opinion

Dominic Grieve

Brian Monteith: Here’s what should happen to the Tory plotters

Opinion

Kate Donachie: Get ready for more fraud as Scots courts award damages despite dishonesty

Opinion

Brenda Mitchell: Judgment to lift hearts of all motorcyclists

Opinion

Ann Stewart: Be prepared for some types of property tax increases

Opinion

Spare a thought for police facing drug-crazed violence while being filmed – Tom Wood

Opinion

World More World >>

Nancy Pelosi was scheduled to visit US troops in warzones. Picture: Alex Wong/Getty Images

Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi’s tit-for-tat antics as shutdown continues

World

Pro-European Union protesters take part in a rally in front of the Greek parliament. Picture: Milos Bicanski/Getty Images

The country with more reasons to quit EU than UK which is staying – Paris Gourtsoyannis

Opinion

The Oasis of the Seas is returning to port early after an outbreak of norovirus (Picture: Matt Cardy/Getty)

Cruise ships are getting bigger and fancier, but I just don’t like them – Jim Duffy

Opinion

Drinking coffee has soared in popularity in recent years

Coffee extinction: how will we cope? – leader comment

Opinion

British charity worker among 14 dead in Nairobi militant attack

World

Donald Trump’s wealth is no reason to denounce him – Alastair Stewart

Opinion

Two dead, multiple injured after huge ‘gas explosion’ rocks central Paris

World

Brexit: Japan’s PM offers ‘total support’ to Theresa May’s deal

General Election

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Giant 30ft-wide sinkhole appears in Scottish field

Odd

Bird Box is one of Netflix's most succesful films.

Youtube updates guidelines after ‘Bird Box challenge’ videos

Odd

A fatberg is pulled out of a Scottish sewer. Picture: Scottish Water

Fight against sewer-blocking fatbergs takes a step forward

Environment

The White Collection bridal shop window with a mannequin in a wheelchair. Picture: Beth Wilson/PA Wire

Bridal boutique praised for wheelchair wedding dress display

UK

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Andrew Paterson is a Partner with Murray Beith Murray

Andrew Paterson: New Year resolutions should include visit to your lawyer

Opinion

Kate Donachie is a managing associate in the insurance and risk team at Brodies LLP.

Kate Donachie: Get ready for more fraud as Scots courts award damages despite dishonesty

Opinion

Motorcyclists only account for 1% of total road traffic, but account for around 18% of road deaths. Picture: Ian Rutherford

Brenda Mitchell: Judgment to lift hearts of all motorcyclists

Opinion

Obituaries More Obituaries >>

Poet Mary Oliver, left, with journalist Maria Shriver (Photo by Frederick M Brown/Getty Images)

Mary Oliver

Obituaries

Robin Russell

Obituary: Robin Russell, internationally recognised consultant physician and gastroenterologist

Obituaries

Angus Russel

Angus Russel

Obituaries

David Arthut

Obituary: David Arthur MBE, headmaster and co-founder of the Scottish Samaritans

Obituaries

Celebrity More Celebrity >>

‘Don’t sell stories on me’ - Gemma Collins rants at Jason Gardiner during Dancing on Ice

Celebrity

Edinburgh lottery winner Jane Park.

Edinburgh lottery winner Jane Park in talks to appear on Love Island

Celebrity

Actor Windsor Davies, appearing in the television series 'It Ain't Half Hot, Mum' in 1974. Picture: Chris Ware/Keystone/Getty Images

Ain’t Half Hot Mum actor Windsor Davies dies, aged 88

Celebrity

A smiling Anthony McPartlin (left) and Declan Donnelly arrive at Britain's Got Talent auditions at the London Palladium. Picture: PA

Ant and Dec reunited for Britain’s Got Talent auditions

Celebrity

Ant McPartlin will return to work on Friday for this year's Britain's Got Talent auditions. Picture: Matt Crossick/PA Wire

Ant McPartlin set to return to Britain’s Got Talent auditions this week

Celebrity