News

Top Stories

UK Government accused of 'sabotage' over Scotland's deposit return scheme

Where does Scotland's deposit return scheme go from here?

The derelict Ayr Station Hotel had been served with a dangerous buildings notice because of its poor condition. Picture: N Hackett

Fire breaks out at former Scottish rail station hotel

Kinloch Castle, the Grade A Listed Building on the Isle of Rum, which the Scottish Government has been unable to sell and lies in a state of slow decay. PIC: NatureScot.

Castle at the heart of island's future as millionaire speaks out on failed sale

Smoke billows behind buildings in southern Khartoum. Picture: AFP via Getty Images

Scot who led rescue of Britons fleeing Sudan war reveals ‘harrowing stories’

A couple survey Slains Castle in Aberdeenshire. Picture: VisitScotland

Surge in North America visitors to Scotland recorded

Labour reportedly want to block all new oil and gas developments in the North Sea

Labour would block any new North Sea oil and gas developments if in government

Caitriona Balfe as Claire Randall and Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser from Outlander. A church connected to the series has gone up for sale. Picture: Starz!/Kobal/Shutterstock

Church popular with Outlander fans for sale as private developers loom

Celtic fans are seen during the Cinch Scottish Premiership match between Celtic and Aberdeen at Celtic Park. Picture: Ian MacNicol/Getty Images

Ten people arrested during Celtic celebrations as one seriously injured

Capital Theatres has released a flythrough digital animation giving an artist’s impression of the redevelopment of the King’s Theatre in Edinburgh

Succession star Brian Cox voices video flythrough of King's Theatre revamp

Charities say more affordable homes need to be built to help manage Scotland's housing crisis.

Over 300,000 people on social housing waiting lists in Scotland

First Minister Humza Yousaf visits Nova Innovation. Picture: Fraser Bremner - Pool/Getty Images

Racism and sexism at Police Scotland down to failures of leadership

Future Scotland

The winners of the 21st round of the Scottish Edge competition. Picture: Sandy Young Photography

Scottish Edge gives £1.4m lift to 24 firms with high-growth potential: full list

There are 'some great success stories coming out of Scotland' in terms of IoT, says Mr Winstanley. Picture: contributed.

Interview: Paul Winstanley, chief executive of innovation centre Censis

From sole traders to billion pound companies, this Glasgow-based digital marketing company has been helping businesses for over a decade

Ad Feature Why handing over your online marketing is good for business

Transport

CalMac is being punished for Scottish Government's own failings (Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images)

Ferries scandal gets worse with fines for CalMac and millions for consultants

Hebridean Isles should have returned from annual maintenance in February. Picture: Mn28/Wikimedia Commons

CalMac ferry disruption to continue under at least end of June

Work continues on hull 802 at the Ferguson Marine shipyard (Picture: John Devlin)

Building second ferry to same design as Glen Sannox is a huge risk

Ferguson Marine Limited is a shipbuilding company whose yard, located in Port Glasgow on the Firth of Clyde in Scotland, was established in 1903. It is the last remaining shipbuilder on the lower Clyde and is currently the only builder of merchant ships on the river.

Transparency demanded around secretive lawyer-led ferry contract probe

Trams to Newhaven is due to open in Edinburgh in June

Date revealed for passengers on new Edinburgh tram line

Glasgow City Council transport and environment convener Angus Millar said it was vital that cars were included in the low emission zone restrictions. Picture: John Devlin

All you need to know about driving into Glasgow's low emission zone from June 1

A poster for the Engine Off, Every Stop campaign in London

Watch out entitled drivers, further curbs are coming - Alastair Dalton

Crime

Tina Turner's decision to leave her abusive husband Ike Turner and her 1984 memoir helped break the silence about domestic violence (Picture: Frederick R Bunt/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Susan Dalgety: Violent porn turning sex into an expression of contempt, not love

Personnel at Barragem do Arade reservoir, in the Algave, Portugal, where searches took place this week as part of the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Picture: Yui Mok/PA Wire

How a 48-year-old murder case in Canada could bring McCann hope

The attack on the Capitol sparked the biggest police investigation in US history. Picture: Brent Stirton/Getty Images

Convicted US Capitol rioter set to arrive in Scotland later this year

New recruits to Police Scotland swear an oath 'to do their duty with fairness, integrity, diligence and impartiality' (Picture: Robert Perry/PA)

Police Scotland should be institutionally opposed to prejudice – Scotsman

Weather

Scenes at Ayr beach as the temperature rises across Scotland

Warning of 'very high' wildfire risk as weekend could mark hottest day for 2023

Beyonce will performs in Edinburgh this weekend (Photo by Buda Mendes/Getty Images)

Weather forecast for Beyonce's BT Murrayfield concert

A drought at Threipmuir Reservoir in the Pentland Hills, near Edinburgh, following a long, hot summer in 2018. This view is looking across part of the deeply-cracked reservoir bed which would normally be under water.

Why our hottest summer days could soon be much hotter

View of Oia, a beautiful village on the island Santorini in Greece.

Is the Mediterranean now getting too hot for Scots to summer holiday?

Politics

A shopper walking through the aisle of a Tesco supermarket. The UK Government wants to encourage supermarket to place a price cap on basic food items such as bread. Picture: Yui Mok/PA Wire

Plans for supermarkets to introduce price cap on basic food items such as bread

Former finance secretary Kate Forbes

Forbes seeks 'urgent' Kinloch Castle poll as millionaire condemns failed sale

Edinburgh father Sam McCahon says he struggled to find somewhere to live because so many properties are now holiday lets.

Calls to overhaul the council tax system to free up more housing

Former prime minister Boris Johnson, flanked by his then-Chancellor Rishi Sunak. Picture: PA

The media and woke blob are running Britain and I'm proud to be a part of it

First Minister Humza Yousaf has said he is committed to meeting the survivors of Fornethy House

Survivors of alleged abuse at Fornethy House say they are not being listened to

Boris Johnson is furious with the Prime Minister and believes he's been stitched up.

Analysis: Inside Tory civil war as Boris Johnson strengthens Rishi Sunak's hand

Asylum seekers make up a fraction of overall immigration into the UK (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Here's the truth about immigration that the Tories must face up to

Coronavirus

Cats can contract Covid from humans

Warning as Scottish study shows cats can contract Covid from their owners

Being a carer can be a full-time job (Picture: Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Many carers are living in poverty and struggling with their own health problems

Boris Johnson broke his own Covid lockdown rules, then lied about it (Picture: Alberto Pezzali/pool/Getty Images)

Covid lawbreakers Ferrier and Johnson should both face recall elections

Opinion

An ice cream van with blue sky above. Picture:StockCube/Adobe

Mr Whippy on a beach in Northumberland: my summer has started - Gaby Soutar

The area around Loch Maree, near Ullapool, pictured in 2009, is not usually subject to concerns about water scarcity (Picture: Getty Images)

Scotland has too little rain? In May?! – Scotsman comment

SNP Independence Minister Jamie Hepburn says more Scexit policy papers will be published.

Readers' Letters: Why should Scots pay for SNP plot to break up UK?

The gravestone of Christian Brydie, who died in 1655, and her husband James Carstairs in St Andrews Cathedral (Picture: Susan Morrison)

Gravestones can help bring the people of the past back to life – Susan Morrison

Mum's the Word. Pic: Adobe

Janet Christie's Mum's the Word – why the internet’s not all filth

People

MarineFest, a five-day celebration of all things related to the sea, will kick off at the Scottish Seabird Centre in North Berwick on World Ocean Day, 8 June. Festival-goers can also watch this year's nesting puffins using the centre's wildlife cams or take a boat trip to nearby islands. Picture: Nicol Nicolson

Festival to showcase Scotland’s seas and celebrate World Ocean Day

A rescuer putting out a fire in a building as a result of falling debris after a massive drone attack mainly targeting the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. Picture: Pavlo Petrov/State Emergency Service of Ukrai/AFP via Getty Images

Kyiv hit by largest Russian drone attack since start of war

Phillip Schofield: Schofield denied rumours of a relationship during 2020 investigation, ITV says

Schofield denied rumours of a relationship during 2020 investigation, ITV says

Andy Rourke at an event in New York City in 2022 (Picture: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

Scotsman Obituaries: Andy Rourke, quiet man bassist of The Smiths

Youssef Mikhaiel and his partner, Sarah Bradley, at Queen's Park Stadium in Glasgow, before his detention.

University graduate detained as number held in Dungavel soars threefold

Sleeping Beauty Salon reception

Spa Spy: Sleeping Beauty Salon, Edinburgh

The launch of Forth Bikes, Scotland’s largest e-bike scheme took place in June 2019 at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert

Forth Bikes scheme closes

Obituaries

Tina Turner performing on stage at London’s Wembley Stadium in July 2000 (Picture: Michael Stephens/PA Wire)

Scotsman Obituaries: Tina Turner, US singer whose career spanned six decades

Jimmy Oliver described himself as a 'paraffin oiler'

Scotsman Obituaries: Jimmy Oliver, the last lighthouse keeper at Kinnaird Head

Claire Lamont's insights into the Romantic period were unmatched

Scotsman Obituaries: Claire Lamont, expert on Scottish author Sir Walter Scott

Environment

Members of the Knoydart Foundation outside the community pub (Knoydart Foundation)

Knoydart community reject government 4G mast plan as 'disproportionate'

Surveys on An Teallach show the impacts of heavy footfall from walkers and the increasingly extreme Scottish weather, which are speeding up erosion and causing damage to mountain habitats. Picture: OATS

Climate change, hillwalkers and Brexit take toll on Scottish mountains

Slater accuses UK Government of 'utter disregard for devolution' over DRS plan

Herring gulls are watching us and learning what's good to eat (Picture: Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds made real? Herring gulls are watching us...

Sam Petrie, Hayley Dorian and Naomi Brehm from the Wild Sea Women swimming group get ready for a dip in the sea at Seaburn beach in Sunderland -- the women have been taking part in a unique study which sought to identify biological changes in the body caused by exposure to cold water. Picture: David Wood

Scottish women sought for study into health benefits of cold-water plunge

First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf has been urged to appoint a junior minister to support the rural affairs portfolio (Andy Buchanan/PA)

Humza Yousaf urged to appoint extra help for 'immense' rural affairs portfolio

The scheme, designed to offer young people the opportunity to train across the firm's supply chain, will be rolled out on all future consented onshore wind farms.

Vattenfall wind farm programme to create 50 Scottish apprenticeships

UK News

Glenlee has been moored beside the Riverside Museum since 2011. Picture: John Devlin

Historic Glasgow tall ship Glenlee may have to introduce admission charges

Labour leader Keir Starmer seems to have changed his mind about immigration (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Tories are set to lose power but Labour are out of touch with reality

People wait at a road block as smoke rises from a wildfire near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, on May 6, 2016 (Picture: Cole Burston/AFP via Getty Images)

Wildfires are pushing peatlands towards terrifying climate change tipping point

Boris Johnson should focus on addressing the substance of the new Partygate allegations against him (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Populist attacks on UK institutions are unconservative and dangerous

The scene after a car collided with the gates of Downing Street

Man arrested after car crashes into gates of Downing Street

A Black Lives Matter protest in 2020 at the Melville Monument, which holds the statue of Henry Dundas (Lisa Ferguson)

What is institutional racism and what does it mean for Police Scotland?

World

Mars bars have been given a new look as the chocolate bar ditches its traditional plastic wrapper for more environmentally friendly paper packaging. Picture: Mars Wrigley/PA Wire

Mars bars given new paper packaging as chocolate bar loses plastic wrapper

A damaged residential building in Dnipropetrovsk region, which was targeted by Russian forces earlier this week.

One killed and 15 injured in Ukrainian hospital attack

Demonstrators take to the streets of the capital Tehran in September last year, following the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody (Picture: AFP via Getty Images)

UN role for Iranian diplomat is a green light for more torture and killing

The conversation, on Twitter Spaces, with Elon Musk, was hit by technical problems.

What will Ron DeSantis’ ‘Great American Comeback’ mean for the Republican party?

Filipino children often work long hours to complete homework tasks.

Why is a Filipino politician trying to ban weekend homework?

Children in a small boat in the English Channel are rescued after their vessel's engine broke down (Picture: Sameer al-Doumy/AFP via Getty Images)

Far-right Tories are not telling the truth about asylum seekers – Talat Yaqoob

Read This

King Charles III tribute to Tina Turner during Changing of the Guard

Phillip Schofield. (Photo by Dave J Hogan/Getty Images)

ITV confirm fate of This Morning after Phillip Schofield confession

Food-price inflation is an increasing problem for many people

Supermarkets urged to price cap certain foods on voluntary basis