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FMQs: Nicola Sturgeon criticised again over Alex Salmond case

Politics

A stretch of road between Gilmerton and Sheriffhall remains closed. Picture: Traffic Scotland

Edinburgh City Bypass to remain closed during evening rush hour after body found

Transport

A screenshot from Scottish Labour's latest campaign video, with Tryfan mountain in the background

Labour shares vision for Scotland with view of Welsh mountain

Politics

The Scottish Government has pledged to widen access to universities

Record number of poorest Scots studying at university full-time

Education

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

Education

Doctors accused of ‘gaslighting’ Scottish mesh victims

News

Date set for MPs to debate Theresa May’s Brexit ‘plan B’

Politics

Nicola Sturgeon: Scotland at mercy of Westminster chaos over Brexit

Opinion

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Prime Minister Theresa May. Picture: AFP/Getty Images

Brexit: Theresa May meets other parties as Labour insists she rule out no-deal

Politics

Kenny MacAskill: Alex Salmond case shows agenda of Sturgeon’s inner circle
Kenny MacAskill

Politics More Politics >>

A screenshot from Scottish Labour's latest campaign video, with Tryfan mountain in the background

Labour shares vision for Scotland with view of Welsh mountain

Politics

The Scottish Government has pledged to widen access to universities

Record number of poorest Scots studying at university full-time

Education

Prime Minister Theresa May has survived a bid to force her from office

Brexit: Theresa May survives bid to force her from office

General Election

In response Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, told the Press Association the incident was 'continued censorship'. Picture: Getty

Youtube suspends adverts on Tommy Robinson’s account

Tech

Ruslan Boshirov, left, and Alexander Petrov appeared in an interview with the Kremlin-funded RT channel in Moscow, Russia in September last year. Picture: RT via AP

Kremlin-backed broadcaster to take Ofcom to court over ruling

TV & Radio

Andrea Leadsom.

Date set for MPs to debate Theresa May’s Brexit ‘plan B’

Politics

Nicola Sturgeon. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

FMQs: Nicola Sturgeon criticised again over Alex Salmond case

Politics

Police Scotland facing budget 'misery'

News

Facebook removes ‘misleading’ accounts linked to Russia

Politics

WikiLeaks mocked for bizarre poll on Scottish independence

Politics

Brexit: Theresa May meets other parties as Labour insists she rule out no-deal

Politics

Transport More Transport >>

A general view of the Edinburgh Bypass. Picture: Ian Georgeson

Body of man discovered on Edinburgh City Bypass central reservation

Transport

A stretch of road between Gilmerton and Sheriffhall remains closed. Picture: Traffic Scotland

Edinburgh City Bypass to remain closed during evening rush hour after body found

Transport

Billboards at Edinburgh Airport approach road. Pic: SEAN BELL.

New road layout at Edinburgh Airport to tackle traffic bottleneck

Transport

Police have launched an appeal for witnesses after a man was attacked with a bottle in Musselburgh. Picture: John Devlin

Boy, 6, injured after hit and run in Aberdeen

News

No timescale for Prestwick Airport to pay back Government loans

Transport

Higher fares could be introduced on Scottish ferries to manage tourists

Transport

Insight: Blame the wrong kind of trains for ScotRail woes

Transport

Edinburgh Waverley station staff to go on strike

Transport

Education More Education >>

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

Education secretary John Swinney. Picture: John Devlin

John Swinney defends pay offer to striking college lecturers

Education

A puppy seized from an illegal farm

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

Opinion

Bees have been the subject of a four-year study into pollinators by the University of Edinburgh

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

Environment

Increasing numbers of parents are teaching their children at home amid frustration over cuts to mainstream education.

Home schooling soars as parents react to cuts in the classroom

Education

Teachers raised a number of concerns in letters sent to the Scottish Government. Picture: PA

Teachers cite assaults and high workloads in letters to Nicola Sturgeon

Education

Scotland’s largest teaching union recommends ballot over strikes

Education

Iliyan Stefanov: Increase in student mental health issues means support must be efficient

Opinion

Rosanne Cubitt: Enduring conflict more upsetting for kids than a well managed separation

Opinion

Scottish council looks to shorten school week, close two schools

Education

Environment More Environment >>

Drinking coffee has soared in popularity in recent years

Coffee extinction: how will we cope? – leader comment

Opinion

Dr Aaron Davis undertaking research on Arabica coffee in South Sudan

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

Environment

The moon will be completely submerged within the Earth's shadow. Picture: Getty

Blood Moon 2019: Everything you need to know

Environment

Birds of prey like this golden eagle have been fully protected since the 1950s ' but some grouse moors appear to be following a 'zero tolerance' approach to predator species

Duncan Orr-Ewing: Game estates must stop preying on our raptors and follow the law

Opinion

Roddy Gow: Younger generations won’t settle for the systems we have created

Opinion

New Minimalist movement seeks to end our obsession with ‘stuff’ – Jonny Hughes

Opinion

Scottish anglers ‘optimistic but realistic’ as 2019 season opens

Environment

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

Environment

Health More Health >>

Charity shop donor Anne Wilson. Pic: Lisa Ferguson

‘Fuming’ Edinburgh charity shop donor claims items were binned straight away

News

Shaun Cregen, who was given an �18k bill from hospital.

Edinburgh man to get life-changing operation after being kicked out of hospital

News

William Scott

Aviva insurance apologises to William Scott’s grieving family over payment

Edinburgh, Fife & Lothians

Working time regulations ensure that employees are entitled to an 11 hour break between each work shift

How many hours can you legally work in Scotland?

Health

The genetic disorder is caused by a build-up of iron in the body which can lead to damage in many parts of the body

What is haemochromatosis - and what are the symptoms?

News

Eileen Baxter died after receiving a mesh implant to fix a pelvic organ prolapse. Picture: Contributed

Doctors accused of ‘gaslighting’ Scottish mesh victims

News

Dr Punam Krishan has heard many stories from healthcare professionals in Scotland about encountering discrimination from patients and colleagues (Picture: John Devlin)

Scotland needs to talk about racism towards NHS staff – Dr Punam Krishan

Opinion

Care homes in Scotland struggling to recruit staff

Health

Hundreds of tonnes of clinical waste piled at Scottish sites

News

Eddie Docherty: The key is in the room – rather than fear change, staff can embrace it

Opinion

Levels of stress linked to the type of housing accommodation in UK

Health

UK More UK >>

A screenshot from Scottish Labour's latest campaign video, with Tryfan mountain in the background

Labour shares vision for Scotland with view of Welsh mountain

Politics

Prime Minister Theresa May has survived a bid to force her from office

Brexit: Theresa May survives bid to force her from office

General Election

In response Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, told the Press Association the incident was 'continued censorship'. Picture: Getty

Youtube suspends adverts on Tommy Robinson’s account

Tech

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

Kremlin-backed broadcaster to take Ofcom to court over ruling

TV & Radio

‘Loan sharks’ nemesis: How credit unions put people ahead of profit’

Opinion

Brexit: Zombie Government must spring to life – leader comment

Opinion

Kenny MacAskill: On second Brexit referendum, don’t be fooled by talk of unrest

Opinion

Opinion More Opinion >>

David Alexander admits to 'being a late convert to the influence of the internet' but has found embracing it to be rewarding. Picture: Contributed

David Alexander comment: Learn to embrace a mix of clicks and bricks

Opinion

The Victoria Inn, Holkham Hall, Norfolk

The Victoria Inn, Holkham Hall, Norfolk, hotel review, Scotland on Sunday’s Do Not Disturb

News

Aileen Campbell, left, helps launch the campaign at Capital Credit Union in November

‘Loan sharks’ nemesis: How credit unions put people ahead of profit’

Opinion

Theresa May lost the vote on her Brexit deal. (Picture: AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Brexit: Zombie Government must spring to life – leader comment

Opinion

Demonstrators call for a 'People's Vote' on whether the UK should press ahead with Brexit (Picture: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty)

Kenny MacAskill: On second Brexit referendum, don’t be fooled by talk of unrest

Opinion

Nicola Sturgeon says Theresa May seemed to rehearse prepared lines during their 'intensely frustrating' meetings over Brexit (Picture: AFP/Getty)

Nicola Sturgeon: Scotland at mercy of Westminster chaos over Brexit

Opinion

Drinking coffee has soared in popularity in recent years

Coffee extinction: how will we cope? – leader comment

Opinion

Scotland needs to talk about racism towards NHS staff – Dr Punam Krishan

Opinion

Brexit: Here’s how we can escape this highway to hell – Bill Jamieson

Opinion

Jim Duffy comment: How you can hop to it – with hi-tech home brew

Opinion

Sorry Salmond saga has no winners – Steve Cardownie

Opinion

World More World >>

Drinking coffee has soared in popularity in recent years

Coffee extinction: how will we cope? – leader comment

Opinion

A member of Kenyan special forces shouts at the media to go back after his wounded colleague was carried into an ambulance. Picture: AP Photo/Ben Curtis

British charity worker among 14 dead in Nairobi militant attack

World

Donald Trump is said to be America's richest ever president but almost all of them were wealthy (Picture: Carlos Barria/pool photo via AP)

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

Opinion

Firefighters extinguish a fire after the explosion of a bakery on the corner of the streets Saint-Cecile and Rue de Trevise in central Paris. Picture: AFP/Getty Images

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

Lady Gaga apologises for R Kelly duet and plans to remove song

News

Man caught licking doorbell for hours is arrested

News

Video: Federal shutdown passes three weeks

World

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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

A woman suffered chemical injuries after being mistakenly prescribed erectile dysfuntion. Picture: John Devlin

Scots woman ends up in A&E after being prescribed erectile dysfunction cream for dry eye

Odd

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A puppy seized from an illegal farm

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

Opinion

Birds of prey like this golden eagle have been fully protected since the 1950s ' but some grouse moors appear to be following a 'zero tolerance' approach to predator species

Duncan Orr-Ewing: Game estates must stop preying on our raptors and follow the law

Opinion

Hard-working staff at NHS institutions can naturally feel emotional about the results of an inspection if they are poor

Eddie Docherty: The key is in the room – rather than fear change, staff can embrace it

Opinion

Obituaries More Obituaries >>

Broadcaster and lecturer Ronald Sawdon has died at the age of 91

Obituary: Ron Sawdon, lecturer and broadcaster who was familiar face on Grampian Television

Obituaries

Engineer Eugeniu Iordachescu has died at the age of 89. Picture: AFP/Getty

Obituary: Eugeniu Iordachescu, Romaninan civil engineer who saved churches from bulldozer

Obituaries

Tom Leonard writer at Glasgow University as the Literary trio are appointed to creative writing chair at the university'Picture ALLAN MILLIGAN date taken 31st May 2001 (electronic image)

Obituary: Tom Leonard, radical writer who championed Glaswegian vernacular in his poetry

Obituaries

Hearts legend Freddie Glidden has died at the age of 91

Obituary: Frederick ‘Freddie’ Glidden, Hearts captain who lifted the Scottish Cup in 1956

Obituaries

Celebrity More Celebrity >>

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

Celebrity

A scene from the original Ghostbusters movie, starring Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd

New Ghostbusters film to be released in 2020

Celebrity

Katie Price leaves Crawley Magistrates' Court after she was banned from driving for three months and fined �1,100 for driving while disqualified and without insurance on the A24 near her home in West Sussex. Picture: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire

Bids on Katie Price’s pink Barbie car hit £66k on eBay

News

Linlithgow Palace - one of 19 locations on a new interactive map based on the Mary Queen of Scots film. Picture Michael Gillen

Mary Queen of Scots map launched in new tourism campaign

Celebrity

Hugh Grant arrives for the UK film premiere of "Florence Foster Jenkins" (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images)

Hugh Grant appeals for help after script stolen from car

Celebrity