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Edinburgh Airport boss pleads for tax cut to be cleared for take-off

Transport

The Question Time audience cheered when Isabel Oakeshot said Brexit negotiations should end

Dani Garavelli: Like a mob ready to take to the streets if thwarted

Opinion

Campaigners David Gould, Gemma Gerber, Viviana Kennedy, Jill Grady and Niamh Breakey. Picture: John Devlin

Scotland’s last all-girls state school faces scrutiny over policy

Education

Boris Johnson visits JCB HQ in Rochester on Friday to give his speech. Picture: Oli Scarff/Getty

Euan McColm: Toad chorus means we’ll all be ruined together

Opinion

Data sparks alert on investment in green projects

Business

Lights, camera, curriculum! Schools urged to teach film

Lifestyle

Mine’s a Guinness – poster reveals changing tastes in zoo promotion

Lifestyle

Sunrise Samaritans face dawn of Blue Monday

News

Sir John's comments come at the end of a week in which First Minister Nicola Sturgeon issued a rallying cry to supporters to 'get out there and make the case' for Scottish independence. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Brexit ‘has not moved minds’ on indyref question, says Sir John Curtice

Politics

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

Politics More Politics >>

Navid Saberi of Rezvan Habibimarand (left) and Mozaffar Saberi who have had an application to remain in the UK on human rights grounds refused by the Home Office. Picture: PA

Thousands urge Home Office to halt removal of Edinburgh-based Iranian OAP couple

UK

Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

Alex Salmond accuses Nicola Sturgeon of ‘rewriting history’

Politics

Sir John's comments come at the end of a week in which First Minister Nicola Sturgeon issued a rallying cry to supporters to 'get out there and make the case' for Scottish independence. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Brexit ‘has not moved minds’ on indyref question, says Sir John Curtice

Politics

Prime Minister Theresa May leaves from the rear of 10 Downing Street on Friday. Picture: Ben StansallAFP/Getty Images

SNP warns May must ‘fundamentally change position’ to solve Brexit

Politics

'The landscape surrounding alternative media and citizen journalism has changed,' says Jennifer Jones, co-organiser of Hacks/Hackers Scotland. Picture: John Devlin

MisinfoConX event to combat fake news heads to Scotland

Tech

Roz Paterson, pictured with her family, is pinning her hopes on raising enough money to pay for Car-T cell therapy. Photograph:' Greg Macvean

Insight: How the NHS decides what drugs it will and won’t pay for

News

Ken Macintosh, who became Presiding Officer in May 2016. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Ken Macintosh: Holyrood’s battle for people’s trust at 20

Politics

Euan McColm: Toad chorus means we’ll all be ruined together

Opinion

Dani Garavelli: Like a mob ready to take to the streets if thwarted

Opinion

Leader: Timely warning for Holyrood to win over the cynics

Politics

Scottish Labour calls for SNP to give up Salmond committee chair

Politics

Transport More Transport >>

Edinburgh Airport boss Gordon Dewar says the SNP's passenger duty plan should be debated at Holyrood. Photograph: Michael Gillen

Edinburgh Airport boss pleads for tax cut to be cleared for take-off

Transport

The Queen's 97-year-old husband escaped without serious injury when his Land Rover Freelander collided with a Kia as he pulled out of the Sandringham Estate onto a main road.''Picture: Haydn West/PA Wire

Ministers urged to act on call for eye tests for older drivers in wake of duke’s crash

Transport

Person struck by train in Glasgow

Transport

Police check a van (left) for clues following the death of Craig Bruce (right). Picture: contributed

Edinburgh Bypass death: Police seeking help from two HGV drivers

Transport

Prince Philip’s crash no reason to ban older drivers – leader comment

Opinion

Near miss with ‘white drone’ at Glasgow Airport revealed in UK report

Transport

Here's the most popular car colour in Scotland

News

Edinburgh Bypass death: Man named after body found on A720

Transport

Education More Education >>

Campaigners David Gould, Gemma Gerber, Viviana Kennedy, Jill Grady and Niamh Breakey. Picture: John Devlin

Scotland’s last all-girls state school faces scrutiny over policy

Education

Professor Colin McInnes comes face to face with a life-size marble portrait of James Watt. Picture: John Devlin

Glasgow Uni plans year of events to mark anniversary of James Watt’s death

Education

Dunfermline High School. Picture: Google

Dunfermline High School pupils fall ill after ‘taking tablets’

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

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

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

Opinion

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

Environment

Home schooling soars as parents react to cuts in the classroom

Education

Teachers cite assaults and high workloads in letters to Nicola Sturgeon

Education

Environment More Environment >>

Patrick Harvie says the government should take the lead in sustainable investment. Picture: John Devlin

Data sparks alert on investment in green projects

Business

An artist's impression of a planned nuclear power station at Wylfa on Anglesey in north Wales. (Picture: PA)

Brian Wilson: Why ditching nuclear is bad for climate change, good for Putin

Opinion

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

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

Environment

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

Health More Health >>

The Queen's 97-year-old husband escaped without serious injury when his Land Rover Freelander collided with a Kia as he pulled out of the Sandringham Estate onto a main road.''Picture: Haydn West/PA Wire

Ministers urged to act on call for eye tests for older drivers in wake of duke’s crash

Transport

Roz Paterson, pictured with her family, is pinning her hopes on raising enough money to pay for Car-T cell therapy. Photograph:' Greg Macvean

Insight: How the NHS decides what drugs it will and won’t pay for

News

Colleagues Jemma Nisbet and Orla McCrory. Picture: Greg Macvean

Sunrise Samaritans face dawn of Blue Monday

News

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow.

Two patients dead after pigeon poo infection outbreak at Glasgow hospital

News

Control measures were immediately put in place at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow after two cases were detected. Picture: John Devlin

Infections by pigeon droppings investigated at Glasgow hospital

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

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

How many hours can you legally work in Scotland?

Health

What is haemochromatosis - and what are the symptoms?

News

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

News

Doctors accused of ‘gaslighting’ Scottish mesh victims

News

UK More UK >>

Navid Saberi of Rezvan Habibimarand (left) and Mozaffar Saberi who have had an application to remain in the UK on human rights grounds refused by the Home Office. Picture: PA

Thousands urge Home Office to halt removal of Edinburgh-based Iranian OAP couple

UK

Boris Johnson visits JCB HQ in Rochester on Friday to give his speech. Picture: Oli Scarff/Getty

Euan McColm: Toad chorus means we’ll all be ruined together

Opinion

The Duke of Edinburgh has allegedly been pictured driving a new Land Rover without a seatbealt just 48 hours after the crash.

Duke of Edinburgh ‘pictured driving new Land Rover’ two days after crash

UK

Broken glass and car parts on the side of the A149 near to the Sandringham Estate where the Duke of Edinburgh was involved in a road accident. Picture: John Stillwell/PA Wire

Woman injured in Duke of Edinburgh crash ‘always wanted to meet a royal - but not in this way’

News

‘Stop dithering and scrap the backstop’, Boris Johnson tells PM

UK

Brian Wilson: Why ditching nuclear is bad for climate change, good for Putin

Opinion

Prince Philip’s crash no reason to ban older drivers – leader comment

Opinion

Vegans and meat-eaters: Why they need each other – Jane Bradley

Opinion

Opinion More Opinion >>

Query any transactions you do not recognise with your bank or credit card provider. Picture: Getty

James Walker: On the trail of mystery payments and debits

Opinion

Boris Johnson visits JCB HQ in Rochester on Friday to give his speech. Picture: Oli Scarff/Getty

Euan McColm: Toad chorus means we’ll all be ruined together

Opinion

The Question Time audience cheered when Isabel Oakeshot said Brexit negotiations should end

Dani Garavelli: Like a mob ready to take to the streets if thwarted

Opinion

Ken Macintosh, who became Presiding Officer in May 2016. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Leader: Timely warning for Holyrood to win over the cynics

Politics

The Buccleuch hunt in St Boswells. Picture: David Cheskin/PA

Robbie Marsland: Licence won’t stop fox hunting in its tracks

Lifestyle

The Postings shopping centre has been devastated by the growth in online trading

Bill Jamieson: Kirkcaldy’s sad tale of our Poundland nation

Business

The Amazon deal is one of tactics Apple is using to put a plaster on less than stellar iPhone sales, says McGrenary. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Comment: Apple deal clings to core base

Opinion

Comment: Forced land sales must start from a fair bedrock

Opinion

Jenny Ross: It’s time to tackle your tax return

Personal Finance

Forget bingo, here’s how elderly women can seize power – Susan Dalgety

Opinion

Brian Wilson: Why ditching nuclear is bad for climate change, good for Putin

Opinion

World More World >>

Nancy Pelosi was scheduled to visit US troops in warzones. Picture: Alex Wong/Getty Images

Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi’s tit-for-tat antics as shutdown continues

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

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

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Something worth looking into...

Giant 30ft-wide sinkhole appears in Scottish field

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

Friends of the Scotsman More Friends of the Scotsman >>

Lesley McLeod, CEO, Association for Project Safety

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

Opinion

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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 >>

Robin Russell

Obituary: Robin Russell, internationally recognised consultant physician and gastroenterologist

Obituaries

Angus Russel

Angus Russel

Obituaries

David Arthut

Obituary: David Arthur MBE, headmaster and co-founder of the Scottish Samaritans

Obituaries

John C Bogle has died at the age of 89. Picture: AP

Obituary: John C Bogle, founder of Vanguard Group who launched the first index mutual fund

Obituaries

Celebrity More Celebrity >>

Ain’t Half Hot Mum actor Windsor Davies dies, aged 88

Celebrity

A smiling Anthony McPartlin (left) and Declan Donnelly arrive at Britain's Got Talent auditions at the London Palladium. Picture: PA

Ant and Dec reunited for Britain’s Got Talent auditions

Celebrity

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

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

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