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Brexit: 'Democratic disaster' as hundreds of EU nationals denied a vote

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Author Judith Kerr. Picture: Christian Czako

Judith Kerr dies: Children's author passes away aged 95

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Prime Minister Theresa May survived an eve-of-election coup attempt by her party

Brexit: Theresa May pulls key legislation but tries to hold on

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HMS Queen Elizabeth anchored in the Firth of Forth. Picture: PA

HMS Queen Elizabeth: captain flown off ship amid ongoing row

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EU elections: Labour outspends rival Scottish parties on Facebook adverts

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EU elections: Party leaders join Scots at the polls to elect MEPs

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EU elections: Don’t let this be a sad day for democracy – leader comment

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Forgotten Ian Rankin scripts for supermarket sitcom and crime drama found in archive gifted to nation

Arts and culture

Kirkwall Airport is one of the six airports affected. Picture: Ken Walton/creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

6 Scottish airports close due to air traffic controller strike

Transport

Lomond Court Care Home, where Mr McConnell resided.

Care home chain fined £270k after Scottish OAP died mistaking chlorine tablets for mints

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Delta to fly year-round between Edinburgh and New York

Transport

HMS Queen Elizabeth leaving the Firth of Forth. Picture: TSPL

HMS Queen Elizabeth leaves the Firth of Forth

Transport

Contract bans islanders from getting priority to ferry travel

Transport

Kirkwall Airport is one of the six airports affected. Picture: Ken Walton/creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

6 Scottish airports close due to air traffic controller strike

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HMS Queen Elizabeth lowered her pole mast to fit under the bridge en route to Rosyth. Pic: Katielee Arrowsmith/SWNS

Aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth to sail out of Forth on Thursday morning

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OAP who shot partner and her daughter had guns returned by police

Crime

Ateeq Rafiq died when his neck became trapped in a seat at Vue Cinema, Star City in Birmingham.

Missed safety checks led to death of cinema-goer whose neck was crushed under seat

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Ian Rankin has sold more than 20 million books around the world since the first Inspector Rebus novel was published in 1987.

Ian Rankin donates personal letters from JK Rowling and Iain Banks to the nation

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Geoffrey Rush arrives for the UK film premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, at the Vue Westfield in west London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday May 12, 2011. Photo credit: Ian West/PA Wire

Geoffrey Rush collects record damages in actress claim defamation

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Aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth to sail out of Forth on Thursday morning

Transport

Children play on Portobello Beach as Scotland enjoys its hottest day of the year. Picture: Phil Wilkinson

Scotland records hottest day of the year

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Wednesday 15 May could be the hottest day of the year so far. Picture: John Devlin

Scotland set to sizzle in temperatures hotter than California on Wednesday

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Portobello beach during a heatwave

Soaring temperatures set to bring Scotland's hottest day of the year

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It could snow across parts of Scotland. Picture: Jonathan Bird/Network Rail/PA Wire

Arctic blast to hit Scotland during first bank holiday in May

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Trump impersonator plots Fringe comedy on campaign against Scots hotel takeover bid

Film and TV

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon casts her vote in European elections

Brexit: 'Democratic disaster' as hundreds of EU nationals denied a vote

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Ian Rankin was at the National Library today to discuss the donation of a vast personal archive dating back to 1972.

Forgotten Ian Rankin scripts for supermarket sitcom and crime drama found in archive gifted to nation

Arts and culture

Lowe murdered his partner Christine Lee and her daughter Lucy in 2014.

OAP who shot partner and her daughter had guns returned by police

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Trump impersonator plots Fringe comedy on campaign against Scots hotel takeover bid

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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon casts her vote in European elections

Brexit: 'Democratic disaster' as hundreds of EU nationals denied a vote

Politics

Police officers have been left "stretched" by the new national set-up

Scots police and firefighters left "stretched" by new national set-ups

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Nicola Sturgeon cast her vote in Glasgow today. Picture: PA

EU elections: Party leaders join Scots at the polls to elect MEPs

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Political parties across the UK spend thousands on Facebook advertising

EU elections: Labour outspends rival Scottish parties on Facebook adverts

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UN report on eye-watering poverty in UK is a wake-up call – Jamie Clark

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Young Scottish nationalists and unionists are joining forces to call for a People's Vote or second referendum on the UK's EU membership (Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty Images)

Why Brexit is uniting Scottish nationalists and unionists – Ailie Ross-Oliver

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Tommy Sheppard is the SNP MP for Edinburgh East

EU elections: Why the Brexit crisis is going to get worse – Tommy Sheppard

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Pupils have been given permission to skip school again tomorrow for another climate change protest. Picture: Ian Rutherford

Freddie Starr ate my notes and other stories – John McLellan

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Trump impersonator plots Fringe comedy on campaign against Scots hotel takeover bid

Film and TV

Ian Rankin has sold more than 20 million books around the world since the first Inspector Rebus novel was published in 1987.

Ian Rankin donates personal letters from JK Rowling and Iain Banks to the nation

People

Pic: BrewDog

BrewDog are giving away free Punk IPA in Edinburgh - and this is how you can get it

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French tourist Lily Mika, 26, has made an appeal to find her lost camera that she left at a rest stop near Sligachan, Skye last week - which is packed full of topless photos of herself.

French tourist's appeal after camera full of topless snaps lost on Skye

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The image in a close in Leith

'Banksy' pro-EU artwork appears in Edinburgh

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'Banksy' pro-EU artwork appears in Edinburgh

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The ancient medieval stronghold of the Lords of the Isles at Finlaggan on Islay has been reconstructed in virtual reality to reveal how Scottish clan chiefs lived 600 years ago. Picture: University of St Andrews

Video: Inside the medieval home of Scotland's Lords of the Isles

Environment

The late Jambi, a Sumatran tiger. Picture: TSPL

Edinburgh Zoo's Jambi the tiger dies

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There have been more than 14,000 callouts relating to rats in Glasgow since 2016 (Photo: Shutterstock)

The most rat-infested streets in Glasgow revealed

Health

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Missed safety checks led to death of cinema-goer whose neck was crushed under seat

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UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston hears from Scottish school children (Picture: Bassam Khawaja)

UN report on eye-watering poverty in UK is a wake-up call – Jamie Clark

Columnists

Woman spent more than two years with titanium clip up her nose after NHS Lothian surgical blunder

Scottish woman spent more than two years with titanium clip up her nose after NHS Lothian surgical blunder

Health

General Assembly of the Church of Scotland: Youth representatives and their supporters held a silent protest against the rejection of a call for the church Investors Trust to divest from oil and gas companies by the end of 2020

‘Silent protest’ by young members against Kirk’s fossil fuel move

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General Assembly of the Church of Scotland: Church of Scotland Military Chaplains 'Front row - Senior Military Chaplains Ven Clinton Langston, Moderator Rt Rev Colin Sinclair, John Ellis QHC, Scott Shackleton, Rear Admiral Jim Higham

Selection of forces’ chaplains to be streamlined to avoid delays

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Exit poll hints at Dutch EU election result

World

Geoffrey Rush arrives for the UK film premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, at the Vue Westfield in west London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday May 12, 2011. Photo credit: Ian West/PA Wire

Geoffrey Rush collects record damages in actress claim defamation

World

Indian Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters wearing masks of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi dance as they celebrate on the vote results day for India's general election. BIJU BORO/AFP/Getty Images

Indian PM wins second term after 600 million votes counted

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Chiara Cotronei and Nicola Goldmann, both SMP youth committee members, holding signs in Chichewa, saying . Muli Bwanji meaning 'how are you' and Ndili Bwino meaning 'I am well, thank you'. It is a very friendly greeting that you will hear used a lot in many parts in Malawi.

Chiara Cotronei: Scotland-Malawi partnership means finding long-term solutions together

Health

Obituaries More Obituaries >>

Obituary: Iain Macmillan CBE, former president of the Law Society of Scotland

People

Austrian auto racer Niki Lauda in 1975 (Picture: AP)

Obituary: Niki Lauda, Formula 1 racing legend who came back from horrific injuries to new successes

People

George Argent in his element, en route to Tenom, Malaysia, in 2007

Obituary: George Argent, Rhododendron expert nicknamed ‘Edinburgh’s Indiana Jones of botany’

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Elisabeth Fraser in 1997, as she campaigned against the closure of Royal Bank of Scotland's 'Ladies' Branch in Princes Street, Edinburgh (Picture: Ian Rutherford/TSPL)

Obituary: Elisabeth Fraser, author and seeker of spiritual truths who campaigned to save the Ladies Branch of RBS

People

Micky Steele-Bodger in 2000 (Picture: Neil Hanna)

Obituary: Micky Steele-Bodger, veterinary surgeon, England rugby internationalist, selector and administrator

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