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Nicola Sturgeon will visit Catalonia to ‘strengthen relationship’

Politics

The company behind the tidal turbine praised the turbine's 'phenomenal' result.Picture: ScotRenewables

Orkney tidal turbine generating ‘phenomenal’ results

Tech

Britain's opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, FILE)

Jeremy Corbyn ‘very confident’ of gaining SNP seats in next election

General Election

Scots are now among the most prolific users of green energy in Europe, beating renewable powerhouse nations like Denmark and Germany. Picture: John Devlin.

Scots fourth in European green energy usage league

UK

Scotland’s film and TV industry worth almost £100m

Lifestyle

Virtual clinics for NHS patients in Scotland

News

SNP’s £350k action plan to get parents to help at Scottish schools

Politics

Sam Gardner: Scotland has limitless amounts of renewable energy

Opinion

Darren McGarvey: Michelle Mone just a pawn in TV poverty porn debate

Opinion

Sam Gardner: Scotland has limitless amounts of renewable energy

Politics More Politics >>

Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi talks during an interview at her residence in Yangon in this May 25, 1996 file photo.

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to be stripped of freedom of Edinburgh

Politics 43

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon meets with the President of Catalonia Quim Torra at Bute House. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Nicola Sturgeon will visit Catalonia to ‘strengthen relationship’

Politics 222

Britain's opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, FILE)

Jeremy Corbyn ‘very confident’ of gaining SNP seats in next election

General Election 59

Waves off Tiree show the potential power that could be turned into electricity (Picture: Donald MacLeod)

Sam Gardner: Scotland has limitless amounts of renewable energy

Opinion 13

John Swinney has set out the new educational measures. Picture: John Devlin.

SNP’s £350k action plan to get parents to help at Scottish schools

Politics 112

Scots are now among the most prolific users of green energy in Europe, beating renewable powerhouse nations like Denmark and Germany. Picture: John Devlin.

Scots fourth in European green energy usage league

UK 265

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond. Picture: AFP/Getty

SNP warn Chancellor not to treat North Sea as a ‘cash cow’

Politics 47

David Mundell urges warring Tory factions to unite around Brexit plan

News 47

Seats in Scotland vital for Labour election win, says Jeremy Corbyn

Politics 85

Darren McGarvey: Michelle Mone just a pawn in TV poverty porn debate

Opinion 132

Leader comment: The NHS is crumbling before our eyes

Opinion 25

Transport More Transport >>

RMT members are angry they are paid less than drivers for working on "rest days". Picture: SWNS

ScotRail ballot threatening "massive disruption" signalled

Transport

Firefighters were on the scene''Picture: John Devlin

Major delays on Erskine Bridge after van catches fire

Transport

The British Transport Police are appealing for information.

Woman sexually assaulted on train between Bathgate and Edinburgh

News

The BTP is to be integrated into Police Scotland

Demand for answers over controversial rail police merger

Politics 11

Story of construction of Edinburgh-Glasgow rail line sounds familiar

Transport 6

First of upgraded high speed trains arrives at Haymarket depot

News

Hire cost revealed for new Edinburgh bike scheme

News 13

Alastair Dalton: Cyclists and pedestrians need help learning to share space

Opinion 68

Education More Education >>

John Swinney has set out the new educational measures. Picture: John Devlin.

SNP’s £350k action plan to get parents to help at Scottish schools

Politics 112

Picture: Bill Harrison/geograph.org.uk

School asbestos incident ‘forgotten’ about for days

Education 11

Picture: Almost two-thirds of Scots would back the establishment of community schools with no religious observance, according to a new survey. David Davies/PA Wire

Community schools with no religious observance ‘backed by 60% of Scots’

News 84

P1 testing is said to be 'counter-productive'

Teacher union backs parents’ boycott of tests for P1 children

Education 13

John Swinney was meant to be Nicola Sturgeon's safe pair of hands for the education brief. Picture: John Devlin

Dani Garavelli: Is he bovvered? John Swinney must try harder

Opinion 50

Children are taught how to cook healthy meat dishes.

Scotch meat still top of the class

Promoted content

15 per cent want immigration to rise. Picture: Jane Barlow

Two-thirds of Scots teenagers don’t want immigration to rise

Politics 950

John Swinney under fire for ‘hypocrisy’ over private school tax advice

Politics 23

John Swinney: No ‘morale crisis’ among Scots teachers

Education 193

Retaining decomissioned North Sea oil rigs could help at-risk corals thrive

Environment 6

SNP’s bid to generate £5m that sparked major political row

Education 7

Environment More Environment >>

The biggest recycling centre is to open in West Lothian.

UK’s largest recycling plant opens in West Lothian

News 2

Conservationists release Golden Eagles in the South of Scotland''''in the first of a series of groundbreaking translocations. Picture: Laurie Campbell/PA Wire.

Golden eagle chicks released in ‘groundbreaking’ relocation project

News

Waves off Tiree show the potential power that could be turned into electricity (Picture: Donald MacLeod)

Sam Gardner: Scotland has limitless amounts of renewable energy

Opinion 13

Discarded contact lenses usually end up in wastewater treatment plants where they are processed along with sewage. Picture: File Image

Ilona Amos: Flushing contact lenses contributes to a global disaster

Opinion 4

Scientists eavesdrop on disappearing sea trout

Environment 3

Turning waste into green profits

Promoted content

Farmer hits out at Scottish Natural Heritage over illegal beaver release

Environment 14

Ian Gatt: Scheme tips the scales towards healthy fisheries

Opinion 2

Health More Health >>

The biggest recycling centre is to open in West Lothian.

UK’s largest recycling plant opens in West Lothian

News 2

Shirley Ballas surprises project in Glasgow with major award''for Breast Cancer Care app, BECCA. Picture: Mark Ferguson Gibson

Breast cancer survivors get Strictly lesson as health app wins award

Glasgow & Strathclyde

A note left on an ambulance in Leicester. Police: East Midlands Ambulance Service/PA Wire

Ambulance plea after rude note left on vehicle

UK

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is investing in digital health.

Virtual clinics for NHS patients in Scotland

News 1

Scottish Labour MSP and mesh campaigner Neil Findlay (L) with Elaine Holmes (R) who had a mesh implant. Picture: Johnston Press

Mesh implant procedures should end in Scotland, report says

News 3

Mike Staley - Lord Sir DJ MOG - at Radio Stafford

Colin Leslie: Mental health issues get a good airing on Radio Stafford 103

Opinion

Discarded contact lenses usually end up in wastewater treatment plants where they are processed along with sewage. Picture: File Image

Ilona Amos: Flushing contact lenses contributes to a global disaster

Opinion 4

Leader comment: The NHS is crumbling before our eyes

Opinion 25

Michael Parkinson wrong about Billy Connolly’s brain, says his wife

Lifestyle 12

BMA Scotland chair quits after frustration with staff shortages

News 5

Care in crisis: Edinburgh has no cash to cover rising need for home care

Business 14

UK More UK >>

The company behind the tidal turbine praised the turbine's 'phenomenal' result.Picture: ScotRenewables

Orkney tidal turbine generating ‘phenomenal’ results

Tech 6

A note left on an ambulance in Leicester. Police: East Midlands Ambulance Service/PA Wire

Ambulance plea after rude note left on vehicle

UK

Scots are now among the most prolific users of green energy in Europe, beating renewable powerhouse nations like Denmark and Germany. Picture: John Devlin.

Scots fourth in European green energy usage league

UK 265

The number of children in Scotland hospitalised for asthma attacks surges when they return to school after the summer holidays, according to new analysis by Asthma UK. Picture: TSPL

Child asthma attacks surge 70% on return to classroom

UK

Darren McGarvey: Michelle Mone just a pawn in TV poverty porn debate

Opinion 132

Colin Leslie: Mental health issues get a good airing on Radio Stafford 103

Opinion

Shona Thomson: Making the big screen big again

Opinion

Ilona Amos: Flushing contact lenses contributes to a global disaster

Opinion 4

Opinion More Opinion >>

There is no set formula for becoming an employer of choice, but there are always areas to improve upon, says Marion Forbes. Picture: Contributed

Comment: Four ways to become an employer of choice

Opinion 2

Adam McVey says the tourist economy is not just 'for tourists'

Adam McVey: We’re working to ease Edinburgh’s growing pains

Opinion

Waves off Tiree show the potential power that could be turned into electricity (Picture: Donald MacLeod)

Sam Gardner: Scotland has limitless amounts of renewable energy

Opinion 13

Darren McGarvey: Michelle Mone just a pawn in TV poverty porn debate

Opinion 132

A separate inheritance tax regime for Scotland could present further challenges, says Colin Henderson. Picture: Contributed

Comment: Closing inheritance tax ‘loopholes’ could be counterproductive

Opinion 6

Mike Staley - Lord Sir DJ MOG - at Radio Stafford

Colin Leslie: Mental health issues get a good airing on Radio Stafford 103

Opinion

Shona Thomson is an award-winning curator/producer and founder of A Kind of Seeing, akindofseeing.co.uk

Shona Thomson: Making the big screen big again

Opinion

Ilona Amos: Flushing contact lenses contributes to a global disaster

Opinion 4

Aidan Smith: Jaws vs The Meg reminds me cows are deadlier than sharks

Opinion

Leader comment: The NHS is crumbling before our eyes

Opinion 25

Paris Gourtsoyannis: Canada removes statue to Scots-born founding father

Opinion 11

World More World >>

Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi talks during an interview at her residence in Yangon in this May 25, 1996 file photo.

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to be stripped of freedom of Edinburgh

Politics 43

Aidan Smith: Jaws vs The Meg reminds me cows are deadlier than sharks

Opinion

In his first speech as Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt will risk embarrassment for his hosts by sounding the alarm over Russian interference in foreign elections in an address on US soil. Picture: TSPL

Hunt uses first speech in US to attack Putin’s ‘malign behaviour’

Politics 5

Paris Gourtsoyannis: Canada removes statue to Scots-born founding father

Opinion 11

British tourist rescued 10 hours after falling from cruise ship in Croatia

World 2

Man shot by police after knife attack near Barcelona

World 1

Scottish Government to open new office in Canada

News 39

Former UN chief Kofi Annan dies aged 80

World 9

Odd More Odd >>

The DeleAlli challenge has been sweeping the country. Picture: Twitter/@spursofficial

What is the Dele Alli challenge and how do you do it?

Odd

Generic picture of roadworks. A driver spent 12 hours looking for his car after it was moved.

Driver spent 12 hours looking for car in Edinburgh after Scottish Power move it for roadworks

News

The operation was made at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee

Doctors remove contact lens from woman’s eyelid after 28 years

Odd

Morris's Steakhouse in Largs. Picture: GoogleMaps

Scottish restaurant owner’s steak house ‘haunted by the ghost of his mum’

Odd 3

Friends of the Scotsman More Friends of the Scotsman >>

Mike Staley - Lord Sir DJ MOG - at Radio Stafford

Colin Leslie: Mental health issues get a good airing on Radio Stafford 103

Opinion

Shona Thomson is an award-winning curator/producer and founder of A Kind of Seeing, akindofseeing.co.uk

Shona Thomson: Making the big screen big again

Opinion

Jacqueline Cook is Head of Planning at Davidson Chalmers

Jacqueline Cook: Unique needs lead to new island laws

Opinion 5

Obituaries More Obituaries >>

Vicky Reilly

Obituary: Vicky Reilly, Dundee schoolteacher, a refugee from Hitler and Stalin, via Siberia and Africa

Obituaries 1

Flt Lt Ronnie Mackay

Ronald Mackay

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

Celebrity More Celebrity >>

Celebrity Big Brother: Hardeep Singh Kohli in Scottish independence row

TV & Radio 9

Jamie Docherty by the Bridgeton bandstand. Picture: John Devlin

Insight: Bridgeton fears yet another ‘poverty porn’ TV show

News 263

Danny Cipriani is due to appear in court accused of assaulting police during an incident at a Jersey nightclub. Picture: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

Rugby star Danny Cipriani in court over ‘police assault’ at nightclub

News

Screengrab photo taken from an episode of Loose Women on ITV of TV presenter and former model Gail Porter, who broke down in tears as she unveiled her new wig, the first one she has worn on television since first losing her hair to alopecia 13 years ago. Picture; PA

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 3