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Big crowds expected as Dundee V&A gears up for videogames exhibition

MacAskill was back in Edinburgh visiting all his old favourite haunts. Picture: Contributed

Scottish stunt cyclist Danny MacAskill promises fans ‘awesome’ Edinburgh Fringe show

The woman, who has terminal throat cancer, waited more than 11 hours to see a doctor. Picture: Google Street View

Health chiefs apologise to terminally ill Scottish woman who waited 11 hours for a doctor

Investigators say an electrical fault most likely caused the devastating fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. Picture: AFP/Getty Images

Notre Dame fire: Cathedral blaze ‘most likely caused by electrical short-circuit’

Bradley Welsh murder: Residents tell of shock after Trainspotting 2 actor shot dead

Crime

Alex McLeish sacked as manager of Scotland

Football

SNP must convince voters born outside Scotland to win IndyRef2, says Andrew Wilson

Scottish businesses hampered and weakened by ‘Brexit cloud’

Politics

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An FAI into the Clutha tragedy is under way. Picture: John Devlin

Clutha FAI: No smell of fuel at Glasgow crash scene, inquiry told

The buses have space for two bikes with two more to follow

Here's Scotland's first bus you can wheel your bike onto

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Here's Scotland's first bus you can wheel your bike onto

Barges moored on the Union canal will soon be joined by floating hotels.

Edinburgh Boatel plan set to go ahead on Union Canal

A380 arrives at Glasgow Airport.

Inside the gigantic Emirates' A380 'superjumbo' set to fly from Scotland

Transport

16/04/19'GLASGOW AIRPORT'The Emirates Airbus A380 arrives at Glasgow Airport for the first time.

Watch as gigantic Emirates Airbus A380 aircraft touches down in Glasgow

Transport

Climate activists on top of a Dockland Light Railway train at Canary Wharf station in east London. Picture: Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire

Climate protesters cause London chaos by climbing on trains

Environment

Crime More Crime >>

Bradley Welsh murder: Timeline surrounding Trainspotting 2 star’s fatal shooting

Sheku Bayoh

Sheku Bayoh: Policewoman who attended scene says man who died in custody 'was like a zombie'

Crime

Tributes are being laid at the scene

Bradley Welsh murder: Residents tell of shock after Trainspotting 2 actor shot dead

Crime

Irvine Welsh (right) has said goodbye to his "amazing friend" Bradley Welsh.

Bradley Welsh shooting: Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh pays emotional tribute after West End shooting

Crime

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Scotland Easter bank holiday weekend weather: Temperatures set to soar

The weather is set to be a mixed bag today, as forecasters predict sunshine and cloud throughout the day in most areas.

This is when temperatures will soar in Scotland as high pressure brings warmer weather

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Commuters make their way through April snow showers today in Livingston, West Lothian

Yellow weather warning issued for southern Scotland as snow arrives

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Tourists visiting Edinburgh Castle in the rain

Scotland records fifth wettest March on record

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Easter will be shortly upon us, but with the bank holiday weekend just around the corner what is the weather set to be like in Scotland?

Easter bank holiday weather forecast: This is what the weather is set to be like in Scotland

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Bradley Welsh murder: Timeline surrounding Trainspotting 2 star’s fatal shooting

£23m of work for Glasgow fit-out firm Linear Projects

Sheku Bayoh

Sheku Bayoh: Policewoman who attended scene says man who died in custody 'was like a zombie'

Crime

Andrew Wilson, the former MSP who produced the Growth Commission report for the SNP. Picture: PA Wire

SNP must convince voters born outside Scotland to win IndyRef2, says Andrew Wilson

Politics More Politics >>

SNP must convince voters born outside Scotland to win IndyRef2, says Andrew Wilson

Shriley-Anne Somerville

SNP minister tries to draw line under trans rights row

The SNP lead a minority administration in Glasgow. Picture: John Devlin

SNP councillor accuses party of bullying following resignation

The European Parliament in Strasbourg. Picture: AFP/Getty Images

Scotland’s main parties reveal candidates for European Parliament elections

Nicola Sturgeon. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Nicola Sturgeon criticised in leaked conversation on trans rights

Politics

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Notre-Dame shows need for places that bring us together – Ewan Aitken

Opinion

Extinction Rebellion campaigners bring North Bridge to a standstill. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

What I learned at the Extinction Rebellion protest – John McLellan

Opinion

Sarah Stone is Founder and Director of social value agency Samtaler

Sarah Stone: Forget singing, military wives are an untapped resource for businesses

Opinion

Slavery in a garment factory

Andrew Bevan: You, the consumer, are key in the fight to end slavery and convict criminals

Opinion

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Livingston FC announces vaping tie up - despite calls to clean up sports sponsorship

Bradley Welsh

Bradley Welsh: A tribute in pictures to Edinburgh boxer and Trainspotting 2 star

Design/Play/Disrupt opens at V&A Dundee on Saturday 20 April.

Big crowds expected as Dundee V&A gears up for videogames exhibition

Richard Madden arrives for the 76th annual Golden Globe Awards. Picture: Valerie Macon/AFP/Getty Images

Bodyguard star Richard Madden named on Time magazine’s 100 list

People

Emilia Clarke as Daenerys. Picture: PA Photo/HBO/Helen Sloan

Game of Thrones in numbers: More violence or nudity?

People

Environment More Environment >>

What I learned at the Extinction Rebellion protest – John McLellan

Opinion

Sun worshippers in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh. Picture: Lisa Ferguson/TSPL

Easter weekend heatwave to bring ‘deadly pollen bomb’ to Scotland

News

Climate protesters join Extinction Rebellion Scotland as they form a road block on the North Bridge. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

Extinction Rebellion is part of our capitalist system – Bill Jamieson

Opinion

A European wild rabbit

Britain’s first rabbit 1,000 years older than originally thought

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Notre-Dame shows need for places that bring us together – Ewan Aitken

Opinion

Design/Play/Disrupt opens at V&A Dundee on Saturday 20 April.

Big crowds expected as Dundee V&A gears up for videogames exhibition

MacAskill was back in Edinburgh visiting all his old favourite haunts. Picture: Contributed

Scottish stunt cyclist Danny MacAskill promises fans ‘awesome’ Edinburgh Fringe show

Pictured: James Adam, 1732 - 1794. Architect and designer, 1763 by Antonio Zucchi (1726-1795).

£480,000 portrait of famed Scots architect goes on display

From left, top row, David Traill; PC Kirsty Nelis; PC Tony Collins; Gary Arthur; Samuel McGhee (Bottom: left to right) Colin Gibson; Robert Jenkins; Mark O'Prey; John McGarrigle; and Joe Cusker'. The 10 were killed in the Clutha tragedy

No evidence of fuel contamination in Clutha helicopter, inquiry told

Crime

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Notre-Dame shows need for places that bring us together – Ewan Aitken

Opinion

Investigators say an electrical fault most likely caused the devastating fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. Picture: AFP/Getty Images

Notre Dame fire: Cathedral blaze ‘most likely caused by electrical short-circuit’

Slavery in a garment factory

Andrew Bevan: You, the consumer, are key in the fight to end slavery and convict criminals

Opinion

Crowds of clearly moved people took to the streets as Notre-Dame's roof was engulfed by fire (Picture: Kamil Zihnioglu)

Why we don’t love modern public spaces as much as Notre-Dame – Laura Waddell

Opinion

Obituaries More Obituaries >>

Obituary: David Brion Davis, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning historian, Yale emeritus professor

Obituaries

Sydney Brenner (Picture: Salk Institute For Biological Studies/Getty Images)

Obituary: Sydney Brenner, Nobel Prize-winning biologist who helped decipher the genetic code

Obituaries

Bibi Andersson with Ingmar Bergman in 1959 (Picture: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Obituary: ‘Bibi’ Andersson, actor in over 90 films, Swedish Film Institute best actress four times

Obituaries

Leonard Gray

Obituary: Leonard Gray, acclaimed Scottish painter whose work hangs in Duke of Edinburgh’s collection

Obituaries

Julia Lockwood in 1970. (Picture: Les Lee/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Obituary: Julia Lockwood, actress daughter of Margaret Lockwood

Obituaries