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Review ordered after child’s death linked to pigeon droppings at Glasgow hospital

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Former Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill. Picture: Steven Scott Tyler

Alex Salmond case: Kenny MacAskill calls on SNP Chief Executive to stand down

Politics

First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon is due to meet Theresa May today. Picture: ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP/Getty Images

First Minister warns Theresa May must drop hardline Brexit stance

Politics

Chef Andrew Fairlie at the Gleneagles Hotel. Picture Robert Perry

Tributes paid to Andrew Fairlie after top chef dies

Lifestyle

Parliament to introduce proxy voting after outrage over treatment of pregnant MP

Politics

Tributes flood in for Andrew Fairlie, “one of UK’s finest chefs”

News

Poll: Two-thirds of Scots believe Brexit makes independence more likely

Politics

Robert Burns: 10 places you can visit with a link to Scotland’s national bard

News

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The 'recumbent stone circle' when it was initially discovered. Picture: Aberdeenshire Council/PA

Ancient stone circle in Aberdeenshire revealed to be modern fake

Lifestyle

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

Politics More Politics >>

A poll found 69% of Scots believe Brexit will make independence more likely

Poll: Two-thirds of Scots believe Brexit makes independence more likely

Politics

The National Museum of Scotland has agreed to return two Native American skulls from Edinburgh to Canada.

Scotland to return Native American skulls to Canada

Politics

Tulip Siddiq, MP for Hampstead and Kilburn, with her newborn son Raphael Mujib StJohn Percy Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire

Parliament to introduce proxy voting after outrage over treatment of pregnant MP

Politics

Former Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill. Picture: Steven Scott Tyler

Alex Salmond case: Kenny MacAskill calls on SNP Chief Executive to stand down

Politics

Jeanne Freeman launched the review. Picture: John Devlin

Review ordered after child’s death linked to pigeon droppings at Glasgow hospital

News

First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon is due to meet Theresa May today. Picture: ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP/Getty Images

First Minister warns Theresa May must drop hardline Brexit stance

Politics

Campaigners for IndyRef2 on the streets of Glasgow in July 2018. Picture: John Devlin

BBC Scotland to screen 2014 referendum documentary on brand new channel

News

CBI warns no deal Brexit could cost Scotland £14 billion a year

Politics

Calls for health taskforce to tackle ‘silent killer’ of high blood pressure

Politics

Concerns raised over huge rise in Airbnb properties across Scotland

Politics

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

Politics

Transport More Transport >>

The first train reaches Euston. Picture: Serco

New Caledonian Sleeper trains complete first London trial run

Transport

Plane'Interior'jet'seats

Flights resume at Glasgow Airport after heavy snow

Transport

40 firefighters are at the scene. Picture: George McLuskie

40 firefighters tackle 300-tonne waste blaze in East Lothian

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 urges government to stop stalling over air tax cut

Transport

Person struck by train in Glasgow

Transport

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

Education More Education >>

Dave Gornall with his daughter, Abby, who learned violin at school along with her brother

Music tuition ‘has to stay free’, councils told

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

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

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

A group of walkers head along the West Highland Way near Ben Nevis. (Picture: Robert Perry)

How Scotland can create a network of world-class walking routes – Jonny Hughes

Opinion

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

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

Health More Health >>

In 2013 at least 250 dead babies cremated at Mortonhall Crematorium in Edinburgh were buried in secret. Picture: Greg Macvean

New cremation rules in wake of baby ashes scandal

News

Jeanne Freeman launched the review. Picture: John Devlin

Review ordered after child’s death linked to pigeon droppings at Glasgow hospital

News

Blood pressure has been labelled a silent killer.

Calls for health taskforce to tackle ‘silent killer’ of high blood pressure

Politics

Lucy Mulvagh, Director of Policy and Communications, Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE)

Lucy Mulvagh: We must recognise that childhood trauma can affect someone’s whole life

News

Daisy Dinwoodie is a spokeswoman for the charity.

Charity warns mothers are ‘desperate’ after cut to breastfeeding support

News

There are increasing concerns over levels of childhood obesity.

Children as young as six undergo hip surgery related to obesity

News

Ageing is a natural process but years of infirmity are not inevitable, researchers have discovered (Picture: Durrant/Daily Express/Getty)

Ageing: Scientists may on the brink of a breakthrough – Sue Armstrong

Opinion

Calton Hill sunrise walk to banish Blue Monday pain

News

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

Opinion

Inquiry call in wake of pigeon infection linked to hospital deaths

News

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

Health

UK More UK >>

Olivia Colman in The Favourite (Atsushi Nishijima/Fox Searchlight Films via AP)

Olivia Colman among British Oscar nominees

UK

Tulip Siddiq, MP for Hampstead and Kilburn, with her newborn son Raphael Mujib StJohn Percy Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire

Parliament to introduce proxy voting after outrage over treatment of pregnant MP

Politics

Chef Andrew Fairlie at the Gleneagles Hotel. Picture Robert Perry

Tributes paid to Andrew Fairlie after top chef dies

Lifestyle

Bananas can be slippery things (Picture: Dave Hamburgh)

Paul Wilson: The problem with ‘mainstream’ supermarkets

Opinion

Theresa May unwilling to give ground on Brexit plan

Politics

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

Politics

#MeToo: Dinosaur generation has to realise society is changing – Kevan Christie

Opinion

Why my kids want to watch Prince Philip drive around in a field – Aidan Smith

Opinion

Opinion More Opinion >>

Comment: Lack of personal brand can hit your firm’s value

Opinion

Bananas can be slippery things (Picture: Dave Hamburgh)

Paul Wilson: The problem with ‘mainstream’ supermarkets

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

Lucy Mulvagh, Director of Policy and Communications, Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE)

Lucy Mulvagh: We must recognise that childhood trauma can affect someone’s whole life

News

Pork is eaten in many forms around the world ' and as a lean meat packed with vitamins and minerals, it's ideal to add to healthy eating diet

Dr Laura Wyness: Leaning towards a nice bit of pork? Go out and buy some chop-chop

Opinion

Football presenter Alex Scott, seen with Louis Saha at the Women's World Cup draw, may be boring, but so are her male colleagues in the studio (Picture: Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)

#MeToo: Dinosaur generation has to realise society is changing – Kevan Christie

Opinion

Fake stone circles?! Who’d be an archaeologist? – leader comment

Opinion

Why my kids want to watch Prince Philip drive around in a field – Aidan Smith

Opinion

Ageing: Scientists may on the brink of a breakthrough – Sue Armstrong

Opinion

How Scotland can create a network of world-class walking routes – Jonny Hughes

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

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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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Lucy Mulvagh, Director of Policy and Communications, Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE)

Lucy Mulvagh: We must recognise that childhood trauma can affect someone’s whole life

News

Pork is eaten in many forms around the world ' and as a lean meat packed with vitamins and minerals, it's ideal to add to healthy eating diet

Dr Laura Wyness: Leaning towards a nice bit of pork? Go out and buy some chop-chop

Opinion

Andrew Paterson is a Partner with Murray Beith Murray

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

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

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