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Humza Yousaf pledges to learn lessons from early release killing

Politics

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. Picture: John Devlin

Scottish independence blueprint absent from SNP conference

Politics

The Royal Bank of Scotland was named the worst for customer service on current accounts in the report. Picture: PA

Revealed: The ‘worst’ banks in the UK for customer service

Personal Finance

Scots growth is now ahead of the UK

Scots economy outstrips annual UK growth

Politics

Westminster terror crash suspect named as Salih Khater

UK

Michelle Mone blasts ‘SNP moron’ MP after criticism of daughter’s reality TV stint

News

Scotland’s baby box immortalised in Edinburgh’s Museum of Childhood

News

Brexit travel insurance hike could leave holidaymakers out of pocket

General Election

Pictures: SNS Group

Scottish football transfer LIVE: Rangers close in on target, Rodgers on Boyata, Jack boost

Premiership

Joyce McMillan: Festival visa problems show perils of ‘hostile’ UK
Joyce McMillan

Politics More Politics >>

Scots growth is now ahead of the UK

Scots economy outstrips annual UK growth

Politics 3

Unemployment has reached a 40-year low across the UK

Unemployment in Scotland drops as EU workers leave UK

News 600

Lady Michelle Mone stood up for her daughter's stint on Channel 4's Born Famous. Picture: PA Wire

Michelle Mone blasts ‘SNP moron’ MP after criticism of daughter’s reality TV stint

News 9

Flags fly outside the Shell Exploration and Production offices in Aberdeen. The company has marked 50 years of production in the North Sea energy sector. Picture: PA

Shell plans 50 more years in the North Sea as energy sector looks to the future

Energy 256

Holidaymakers to places like Ibiza could be hit. Picture: Wikimedia

Brexit travel insurance hike could leave holidaymakers out of pocket

General Election 73

Theresa May's Government is leading Britain into the hardest of hard Brexits (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Thomas Cole: The UK Government is hell-bent on crashing the economy

Opinion 16

There is considerable agreement across the political spectrum on how education in Scotland could be improved (Picture: Steven Scott Taylor)

Ruth Davidson: SNP dithers over education as Higher pass rate falls

Opinion 28

Scottish independence blueprint absent from SNP conference

Politics 328

Gordon Brown warns of growing child poverty crisis

Politics 6

Health Secretary urged to address shortage of radiologists

Politics 12

Poll: Most Scots never pray and only attend church on special occasions

News 80

Transport More Transport >>

ScotRail fares will have increased by nearly 7 per cent over the latest two rises. Picture: John Devlin

ScotRail commuters to be hit with 3.2 per cent fares rise

Transport

The collapse, which saw a vast stretch of the A10 freeway tumble on to railway lines in the northern port city, was the deadliest bridge failure in Italy for years, and the country's deputy transport minister warned the death toll could climb further. Picture: AFP/Getty

Genoa bridge collapse: At least 35 killed and dozens injured

World

Scotsman transport correspondent Alastair Dalton tries out one of the electric bicycles that will be able for hire in Edinburgh from next year. Picture: Jon Savage

Electric bikes scheme planned for Glasgow

News

The road was initially scheduled for completion in spring this year

£745m Aberdeen bypass moves closer as seven-mile stretch opens to motorists

Transport 48

Bid to introduce Scotland’s first workplace parking levy

News 330

Leader comment: Any help for city centres is welcome

Opinion 1

Edinburgh urged to adopt Danish segregated bike lanes to boost cycling

Transport 23

Poll shows support for fully devolved Scots rail network

Politics 82

Education More Education >>

There is considerable agreement across the political spectrum on how education in Scotland could be improved (Picture: Steven Scott Taylor)

Ruth Davidson: SNP dithers over education as Higher pass rate falls

Opinion 28

Half of young people in the UK said they would like to own an electric car. Picture: Getty

Scots scientists’ battery breakthrough could revolutionise electric cars

Tech 70

More than 135,000 pupils in Scotland found how they had done in their exams yesterday. Picture: PA Wire

Letters: Ignore the gloomy assessments, Scotland has highly educated population

Your Say 30

Edinburgh University. Picture: Ian Georgeson

Scottish Government drive to help deprived students ‘flawed’

Politics

The SNP's management of education under Swinney and his predecessors has been to deny, dissemble and distort the true picture of what is happening in Scottish schools, says Brian Monteith. Picture: Stuart Nicol

Brian Monteith: ‘Education failure’ will be the Nationalist epitaph

Opinion 342

Stein knew a lot about football, but would admit he didn't know who'd win the next Old Firm game

Kevan Christie: Thinkers from Socrates to Jock Stein knew wisdom of saying ‘I don’t know’

Opinion

Iain Gray reckons John Swinney should be called to account for a "catalogue of failures". Picture: TSPL

Iain Gray: Call Swinney to account for catalogue of failures

Opinion 18

Labour calls for investigation into exam results trend

Politics 1

Bus contracts row leaves Midlothian schoolchildren in ‘limbo’

Edinburgh, Fife & Lothians

New show explains Brexit to four-year-olds

UK 10

Brian Wilson: Does Scotland actually care about education?

Opinion 148

Environment More Environment >>

Richard Dixon: 50 years of climate change denial

Opinion

Labour's plans match Holyrood's first interim target of a 56 per cent emissions reduction by 2020. Picture: Ian Rutherford

Scottish Labour unveils zero emissions plan and slams ‘timid’ approach

Environment 31

Many estates are delaying the start of the season. Picture: TSPL

Grouse shooting season being hit by extreme weather, campaigners say

News 11

Duncan Thorp, Policy and Communications Manager, Social Enterprise Scotland

Duncan Thorp: Money talks – and it can help make the world a better place

Opinion 2

Sam Gardner: It’s not just Highland Games feeling global warming’s heat

Opinion 18

Adam McVey: Give Edinburgh the power to tax tourists – it can make our city a better place

Opinion 2

White-tailed sea eagle chicks flying in Orkney for first time in 150 years

Environment 20

Kenny MacAskill: Climate change’s threat to humanity is crystal clear

Opinion 35

Health More Health >>

One of Scotland's baby boxes is to be preserved in the Museum of Childhood. Picture: PA Wire

Scotland’s baby box immortalised in Edinburgh’s Museum of Childhood

News 1

Men who took part in the study said the term 'male nurse' should be scrapped. Picture: Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock

Calls to rebrand Scottish nursing as gender neutral

News

A Steady Steps Class which is for people who have had falls and/or are in fear of falling.

Amy Fastier: Steady as you go – helping the elderly beat falls

Opinion

Fiona McGrevey, the National Autistic Society Scotland

Fiona McGrevey: Many people with autism could be homeless

Opinion

Vaping is increasing in popularity, with three million regular users in the UK

E-cigarettes may be causing similar lung damage to regular smoking, study finds

News

Energy drinks are often mixed with alcohol

Mixing energy drinks and alcohol ‘worsens effects’ of drinking

News 2

Nicole Chahal and her husband Don with their children from left Nahla 6, Jude 2, and Tariq 5. Picture: SWNS

Heartbroken mum says pothole car accident killed her unborn baby

News

New ovarian cancer medicine approved for use by NHS Scotland

News

Aidan Smith: Harry Kane just won the cup for competitive childbirth

Opinion 1

Four in five Scots adults ‘pressured into drinking alcohol by friends’

News 7

Scottish Labour unveils zero emissions plan and slams ‘timid’ approach

Environment 31

UK More UK >>

The Royal Bank of Scotland was named the worst for customer service on current accounts in the report. Picture: PA

Revealed: The ‘worst’ banks in the UK for customer service

Personal Finance 1

Police recover the car driven by a 29-year-old man, who is a UK national, who was arrested on suspicion of preparing an act of terror. Picture: Victoria Jones/PA Wire

Westminster terror crash suspect named as Salih Khater

UK 13

Theresa May's Government is leading Britain into the hardest of hard Brexits (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Thomas Cole: The UK Government is hell-bent on crashing the economy

Opinion 16

A Steady Steps Class which is for people who have had falls and/or are in fear of falling.

Amy Fastier: Steady as you go – helping the elderly beat falls

Opinion

Fiona McGrevey: Many people with autism could be homeless

Opinion

Martyn McLaughlin: Upper class voices have taken over telling us stories

Opinion 2

Willie Rennie: ‘Will of the People’ must be heard on final Brexit deal

Opinion 15

Alan Bairner: The true ‘home’ of football is not Scotland or England

Opinion 1

Opinion More Opinion >>

Jim Duffy shares the secrets of Amazon's appeal. Picture: Ian Howarth.

Jim Duffy comment: Amazon is a Prime suspect for retail monopoly

Opinion

Having a trade means a job for life, says Zoe Hume. Picture: contributed.

Comment: Apprenticeships make pipe dreams into reality

Companies

Theresa May's Government is leading Britain into the hardest of hard Brexits (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Thomas Cole: The UK Government is hell-bent on crashing the economy

Opinion 16

There is considerable agreement across the political spectrum on how education in Scotland could be improved (Picture: Steven Scott Taylor)

Ruth Davidson: SNP dithers over education as Higher pass rate falls

Opinion 28

A Steady Steps Class which is for people who have had falls and/or are in fear of falling.

Amy Fastier: Steady as you go – helping the elderly beat falls

Opinion

Fiona McGrevey, the National Autistic Society Scotland

Fiona McGrevey: Many people with autism could be homeless

Opinion

Old Harrovian Benedict Cumberbatch and old Etonian Eddie Redmayne with former state school pupil Keira Knightley (Picture: Fraser Harrison/Getty)

Martyn McLaughlin: Upper class voices have taken over telling us stories

Opinion 2

Willie Rennie: ‘Will of the People’ must be heard on final Brexit deal

Opinion 15

Leader comment: Time to be soft on victims, tough on criminals

Opinion

Alan Bairner: The true ‘home’ of football is not Scotland or England

Opinion 1

Ian Swanson: Second Brexit referendum would divide UK but is worth risk

Opinion 188

World More World >>

The collapse, which saw a vast stretch of the A10 freeway tumble on to railway lines in the northern port city, was the deadliest bridge failure in Italy for years, and the country's deputy transport minister warned the death toll could climb further. Picture: AFP/Getty

Genoa bridge collapse: At least 35 killed and dozens injured

World

Actress Rose McGowan, right, with writer Afua Hirsch at the Edinburgh International Book Festival yesterday. Picture: Greg Macvean

Rose McGowan labels Harvey Weinstein a ‘de-facto cult leader’ protected by Democrats

Edinburgh festivals 1

Italian authorities say that about 10 vehicles were involved. Picture: AP

22 dead after road bridge collapses in Genoa

World

Architect Tony Kettle with his original design concept. Picture: Ian Rutherford

Architect hits back in row over Russian tower

Lifestyle

Nasa delays mission to sun due to last-minute technical problem

Tech 1

Holidaymakers forced to evacuate after flash floods sweep France

News

Susan Dalgety: Trump gives billions to US victims of his trade war

Opinion 6

Sam Gardner: It’s not just Highland Games feeling global warming’s heat

Opinion 18

Odd More Odd >>

Grandmother Freda Jackson, 81,s demanded a full refund from Thomas Cook after a 'disaster' trip to Benidorm. Picture: Centre Press

UK tourist complains after holiday to Spain ruined by ‘too many Spaniards’

Odd 61

Matthew Brackley, age 27, outside the Tesco in Cambridge where he had an altercation with the security guard. Picture: SWNS

Topless man thrown out of Tesco ‘for being too fat’

UK 39

Aileen MacKellar, 65. claims she was thrown of Tesco for being Scottish - after being mistaken for a banned shopper with the same accent. Picture: SWNS

OAP humiliated by Tesco staff for ‘being Scottish’ wants apology ‘not vouchers’

UK 21

Aileen MacKellar was mistaken for someone already banned from store.

Scots grandmother ‘humiliated’ in English Tesco after being ‘thrown out for being Scottish’

Odd 106

Friends of the Scotsman More Friends of the Scotsman >>

A Steady Steps Class which is for people who have had falls and/or are in fear of falling.

Amy Fastier: Steady as you go – helping the elderly beat falls

Opinion

Fiona McGrevey, the National Autistic Society Scotland

Fiona McGrevey: Many people with autism could be homeless

Opinion

Tragicomedy masks on red velvet

James Robson: Comforting to know that comedians still take on the tough job of tackling taboos

Opinion 1

Obituaries More Obituaries >>

Dr John Keith Brown

Obituary: John Keith Brown, inspirational child neurologist at Edinburgh Sick Children’s Hospital

Obituaries

Legendary Scotsman columnist Albert Morris has died at the age of 91

Tribute: Albert Morris, Scotsman columnist and Edinburgh institution

Obituaries 1

Joel Robuchon, who has died at the age of 73, reached a record total of 32 Michelin stars in 2016. Picture: AFP/Getty

Obituary: Joel Robuchon, master chef who revolutionised the stuffy world of French haute cuisine

Obituaries

Charlotte Rae in 2014. Picture: Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP

Obituary: Charlotte Rae, much-loved cast member of The Facts of Life and Diff’rent Strokes

Obituaries

Celebrity More Celebrity >>

Gail Porter cries as she wears a wig for the first time in 13 years

News

Idris Elba has teased fans that he might be taking the James Bond role. Picture: Getty Images

Idris Elba hints at James Bond role with cryptic social media message

Celebrity 1

The Rock surprises the audience. Picture: Youtube

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson surprises Scots amputee charity with message

News

David Tennant, Picture: PA Wire

David Tennant slams Donald Trump ‘on behalf of the Scottish nation’

News 152

Chuckle Brothers, Barry (left) and Paul, as the veteran entertainer Barry Chuckle has died at the age of 73. Picture: PA

Barry Chuckle, one half of the Chuckle Brothers, has died aged 73

UK 3