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Brexit chaos means ‘Scots are ready to leave the UK’

Politics

Catalan regional police clash with pro-independence protesters as the Spanish Cabinet meets in Barcelona last month (Picture: Josep Lago/AFP/Getty)

Scottish independence must be achieved calmly and legally – Joyce McMillan

Opinion

Parts of Scotland plunged to -10C last night. Picture: TSPL

Scotland endures coldest night of winter as temperature plummets

News

The former PM said MPs should force the Government to extend Article 50 and then give the public the final say on a renegotiated Brexit deal. Picture: Getty

Gordon Brown: Delay Brexit for a year to let ‘Citizens assemblies’ decide on issues

Politics

Prince Philip left ‘shaken’ by crash in which two women were injured

UK

Last chance for MPs to steer Brexit as May and Corbyn refuse to talk

General Election

Brexit: Article 50 ‘could be rescinded’ Hammond tells business leaders

Politics

Man dies following five vehicle crash in Moray

Transport

Average speed cameras on the likes of the A9 and A90 have changed driver behaviour. Picture: REX/Shutterstock

More average speed cameras ahead as A90 scheme sees drivers change

Transport

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

Politics More Politics >>

Alex Salmond pursued a judicial review of the process the Scottish Government used to investigate two complaints of sexual harassment made against him. He denies the charges

Scottish Labour calls for SNP to give up Salmond committee chair

Politics

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

SNP MP calls for Nicola Sturgeon to ‘trigger the gun’ on IndyRef2

Politics

Robert Keenan at Musselburgh with one of the new Hitachi trains. Picture: Jon Savage

Insight: Blame the wrong kind of trains for ScotRail woes

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

Catalan regional police clash with pro-independence protesters as the Spanish Cabinet meets in Barcelona last month (Picture: Josep Lago/AFP/Getty)

Scottish independence must be achieved calmly and legally – Joyce McMillan

Opinion

Remain has taken a 12 point lead

Brexit: Poll shows support for Remain at highest since referendum

General Election

Jeremy Corbyn speaks at St Mary in the Castle during a visit to Hastings in East Sussex yesterday, where he said his party was determined to get a deal. Picture: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire

Last chance for MPs to steer Brexit as May and Corbyn refuse to talk

General Election

Gordon Brown: Delay Brexit for a year to let ‘Citizens assemblies’ decide on issues

Politics

Record number of poorest Scots studying at university full-time

Education

Alex Salmond case: Anger after it emerges SNP MSP will lead parliamentary probe

Politics

Fears staffing shortages may derail £100m government cancer plans

Politics

Transport More Transport >>

Average speed cameras have cut casualties on the A9 since being introduced between Dunblane and Inverness in 2014. Picture: Katielee Arrowsmith/HEMEDIA

Drivers will just have to learn to love speed cameras – Alastair Dalton

Opinion

A general view of Edinburgh City Bypass.

Body found on Edinburgh City Bypass believed to be Midlothian man

Transport

Robert Keenan at Musselburgh with one of the new Hitachi trains. Picture: Jon Savage

Insight: Blame the wrong kind of trains for ScotRail woes

Transport

Potholes are among the most common reasons for complaints to councils. Picture: Ian Rutherford

Lanarkshire revealed as quickest to fill potholes

Transport

Man dies following five vehicle crash in Moray

Transport

More average speed cameras ahead as A90 scheme sees drivers change

Transport

Praise? For a council? About potholes?! Surely not – leader comment

Opinion

Body of man discovered on Edinburgh City Bypass central reservation

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

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

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 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

Environment More Environment >>

Alan Thornburrow. Picture: TSPL

Scottish business leaders to attend Waste to Wealth event

Business

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

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

Health More Health >>

Charity shop donor Anne Wilson. Pic: Lisa Ferguson

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

News

The Scottish Parliament's Cross Party Group on Cancer, which compiled the report, heard evidence that efforts to increase diagnostic capacity were being hindered by staffing levels. Picture: Getty

Fears staffing shortages may derail £100m government cancer plans

Politics

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

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

News

Labour MSP Jenny Marra said former NHS Tayside chief executive Lesley McLay (centre) had presided 'over a board in financial chaos'. Picture: Andrew Cowan

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

News

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

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

Opinion

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

Edinburgh, Fife & Lothians

Hundreds of tonnes of clinical waste piled at Scottish sites

News

Care homes in Scotland struggling to recruit staff

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

The Duke of Edinburgh was involved in the crash.

Prince Philip left ‘shaken’ by crash in which two women were injured

UK

Catalan regional police clash with pro-independence protesters as the Spanish Cabinet meets in Barcelona last month (Picture: Josep Lago/AFP/Getty)

Scottish independence must be achieved calmly and legally – Joyce McMillan

Opinion

Remain has taken a 12 point lead

Brexit: Poll shows support for Remain at highest since referendum

General Election

Gordon Brown: Delay Brexit for a year to let ‘Citizens assemblies’ decide on issues

Politics

Brexit: Article 50 ‘could be rescinded’ Hammond tells business leaders

Politics

Praise? For a council? About potholes?! Surely not – leader comment

Opinion

Brexit: Why Jeremy Corbyn must talk to Theresa May – leader comment

Opinion

Opinion More Opinion >>

'Special purchasers' would be in a position to profit handsomely from forced sales, says Alan Cook of Pinset Masons. Picture: Contributed

Comment: Forced land sales must start from a fair bedrock

Opinion

Average speed cameras have cut casualties on the A9 since being introduced between Dunblane and Inverness in 2014. Picture: Katielee Arrowsmith/HEMEDIA

Drivers will just have to learn to love speed cameras – Alastair Dalton

Opinion

Catalan regional police clash with pro-independence protesters as the Spanish Cabinet meets in Barcelona last month (Picture: Josep Lago/AFP/Getty)

Scottish independence must be achieved calmly and legally – Joyce McMillan

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

Lesley McLeod, CEO, Association for Project Safety

Lesley McLeod: From my Westminster bubble I helped create Brexit – and I am ashamed

Opinion

Left to right - Pam Scobbie , Steven Pearson , Shona McCarthy , Mark Gorman , Chloe Robertson , Alan McGarrie , Pauline Aylesbury , John Botia , John Denholm St Andrews Dinner

Graeme Atha: Marketing Society raises a glass to jolly good Fellows

Opinion

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

Praise? For a council? About potholes?! Surely not – leader comment

Opinion

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

Opinion

Brexit: Why Jeremy Corbyn must talk to Theresa May – leader comment

Opinion

Brexit: Jeremy Corbyn needs to learn lessons of 2015 SNP landslide – Paris Gourtsoyannis

Opinion

World More 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

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’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

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

News

Odd More 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

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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Lesley McLeod, CEO, Association for Project Safety

Lesley McLeod: From my Westminster bubble I helped create Brexit – and I am ashamed

Opinion

Left to right - Pam Scobbie , Steven Pearson , Shona McCarthy , Mark Gorman , Chloe Robertson , Alan McGarrie , Pauline Aylesbury , John Botia , John Denholm St Andrews Dinner

Graeme Atha: Marketing Society raises a glass to jolly good Fellows

Opinion

A puppy seized from an illegal farm

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

Opinion

Obituaries More Obituaries >>

Bob Wood pictured on the Rio Niteroi Bridge in Brazil in 1974

Bob Wood

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

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