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Home Secretary James Cleverly unveiled new migration plans on Monday.

SNP claim NHS ‘not safe’ after UK Government unveil plans to slash net migration

The Home Secretary unveiled the controversial plans following pressure from Tory MPs.

The Queen’s Gallery at Holyrood to change name following King’s accession

The name will change next year...

Social Justice Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville. Image: Jane Barlow/Press Association.

SNP sets out plans for benefits in an independent Scotland

Social Justice Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville says the government could go further if it was independent

Tributes to 84-year-old who died in Edinburgh house explosion

Lucinda Cameron

Rizz named word of the year by leading lexicographers

Word popularised by Generation Z hailed by Oxford dictionary publishers...

Scotsman Obituaries: Henry Kissinger, controversial US diplomat

Henry Kissinger, diplomat and consultant. Born: 27 May 1923, Fürth, Germany. Died: 29 November 2023,...

Fiona Campbell is chief executive of the Association of Scotland’s Self-Caterers.

Edinburgh’s festivals: Tourism chief warns of exodus of short-term let operators

Darling and Douglas-Hamilton represented the best of British politics Christine Jardine

Cary Elwes and Brooke Shields in tartan tinselfest A Castle For Christmas (Picture: Mark Mainz/Netflix © 2021)

Passions: Christmas TV movies are the gift that keeps on giving

Analysis SNP braced for Pisa results amid mounting frustration within Scottish education

The hilarious names of Scotland's gritters and how to track them

A picture taken during an organised tour by Yemen's Huthi rebels shows the Galaxy Leader cargo ship, seized by Huthi fighters in November. The group attacked another two cargo ships in the Red Sea today.

British-owned ship hit by missile launched by Iranian-backed rebels in Red Sea

Snow in Glasgow at the weekend. There are fears that if Britain has a really hard winter we will will struggle to provide power

Scotsman Letters: Time for Britain to burst free from net zero trap

Future Scotland

Bioliberty has secured a £435,000 boost from the Biomedical Catalyst, national innovation agency Innovate UK’s flagship grant funding mechanism. Picture: Ryan Blackwood.

Pioneer of robotic glove to aid stroke patients grasps funding boost

From left: Rachel Curtis, CEO of Inicio AI, and Gillian Fleming, CEO of Mint Ventures, celebrate the tie-up. Picture: contributed.

Women-led angel group Mint Ventures bankrolls tech firm helping people in debt

The winners of the 22nd round of Scottish Edge, who share the £1.5 million prize pot. Picture: contributed.

In depth: Scottish Edge unveils 'bold, brave and brilliant' 22nd round winners

Transport

Exclusive A9 dualling: Three mega contracts to speed up completion considered

The snow-covered peak of Beinn Eighe and the mountains of Torridon are reflected in Loch Droma near Ullapool, Wester Ross. Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Snow and ice warning after temperatures plummeted to -12.5C in parts of Scotland

Controlling short-term lets and growing tourism economy is a balancing act Scotsman comment

Edinburgh Airport has been owned by GIP since 2012. (Photo by Lisa Ferguson/The Scotsman)

Edinburgh Airport ‘to be put up for sale by Christmas’

The 20ft-high bund built to protect the Old Military Road after it was engulfed by a landslide in 2020. (Photo by John Devlin/The Scotsman)

Landslide-prone A83’s emergency diversion route upgrade to start within weeks

Tourists enjoy a beach in Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic.

International tourism has almost rebounded to pre-Covid levels, report says

Road users are being warned of icy conditions as the Met Office issued snow and ice yellow alerts for large areas of Scotland, England and Northern Ireland amid plummeting temperatures. Picture: Owen Humphreys /PA Wire

Snow and ice alerts issued for large parts of Scotland amid travel warning

Crime

Val Pitt is a Partner, Horwich Farrelly

Incredible tales from the Scottish courts - Val Pitt

Vicky Crichton is Director of Public Policy, Scottish Legal Complaints Commission

No complaints for most after mediation is tried - Vicky Crichton

Minister for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care Michael Matheson arrives ahead of First Minster's Questions (FMQ's) at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh.

How to save a reputation - Kirsteen MacDonald

Robin Dunlop is an Associate, Thorntons

The best way to build bridges with rail giant

Weather

Do you hate cold mornings as much as I do? Maybe Finland has the answer Laura Waddell

Snow is expected to fall in Scotland this week.

First Scottish snow of winter 2023 and white Christmas odds

A hydrogen filled balloon is used to replicate the sun

Why low-carbon 'blue' hydrogen could solve decarbonisation dilemmas

There are cold days ahead.

Here's when it's offically winter - and when spring finally arrives

Politics

The Scottish Government is being told to increase council budgets. Image: Matt Cardy/Getty Images.

Warning Scottish councils could go 'bankrupt'

Building work on the new nuclear reactor at Hinkley Point C Power Station in Somerset. Image: EDF/SWNS.

Scottish Greens accused of being ‘out-of-step’ in opposing nuclear power

COP28 a bloated sham that risks condemning future generations Bill McGuire

Margaret Thatcher looking pensive at the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool in 1985. PIC: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Sir Keir Starmer criticised for praising Margaret Thatcher

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is attending the World Climate Action Summit in Dubai.

Rishi Sunak heads to Cop 28, but has he damaged Britain's voice?

Loch Lomond. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Ministers accused of ‘jeopardising the future’ by cutting environmental budgets

Alistair Darling's political life provided honourable lessons for all Brian Wilson

Coronavirus

Amanda Croft, interim chief executive of NHS Forth Valley, and Janie McCusker, chair of NHS Forth Valley, ahead of the the public session. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

'Ageing population' contributing to issues at 'stage four' health board

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan departs following his appearance at the UK Covid inquiry. Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Khan tells UK Covid inquiry 'lives could have been saved' amid Cobra snub

Solicitor Aamer Anwar with Caroleanne Stewart (left) and Pamela Thomas (right) and relatives of the bereaved from the Scottish Covid Bereaved group. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Ambulance drove off leaving Covid patient 'slumped' over gate, inquiry told

Opinion

Sturgeon and Yousaf should fund 'loss and damage' they caused back home Brian Monteith

Clare Dunne, Charlie Cox, Ciarán Hinds and Aidan Gillen in Kin. Picture: BBC/Headline Pictures

Passions: Why Irish crime drama Kin is my latest box set binge

Concern is growing about the failure of the international COP climate change summits to stop the rise of greenhouse gas emissions (Picture: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

COP28 must end three decades of failure to tackle carbon emissions

National Grief Awareness Week: Christmas is the hardest time Gaby Soutar

Do Humza Yousaf and colleagues at the Scottish Parliament represent value for the nation? (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers Letters: Essential services suffering because Scotland has too much gove...

People

The cast and creative team working on the stage play Same Team have paid regular visit to the Dundee Change Centre, which is run by Street Soccer Scotland. Picture: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

Scotland’s new play following the World Cup dream of homeless female footballers

Fisherman Donald Francis (DF) MacNeil has been honoured at the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards for the protest song The Clearances Again. Picture: Stephen Kearney

Na Trads: Fisherman honoured for protest song at Scottish music awards gala

Exclusive Entry fees on the cards for museums and galleries in Edinburgh

Dundee Design Festival wil be staged at the site of the former Michelin tyre factory next year.

Festival of design to be staged at home of former Michelin tyre factory

Lord Douglas-Hamilton at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.

Scotsman Obituaries: Rt Hon Lord Selkirk of Douglas, ex-Scotland Office minister

Fringe venue operator Greenside will be staging shows at the Royal Society of Edinburgh building on George Street from next August. Picture: Ryan Johnston

Fringe venue forced to make way for new festival HQ reveals George Street home

Entry fees could be introduced at the City Art Centre in Edinburgh, which usually only charges for tickets to major exhibitions, such as this year's Peter Howson show. Picture: Greg Macvean

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Obituaries

Manager Terry Venables at a training session of the England national football team in 1996 (Picture: Phil Cole/Getty Images)

Scotsman Obituaries: Terry Venables, English football player turned manager

Joss Ackland poses during a portrait session in 2007 (Picture: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Scotsman Obituaries: Joss Ackland, screen star who honed skills at Pitlochry

Anna Scher poses with her MBE after a Buckingham Palace Investiture ceremony in October 2013 (Picture: Sean Dempsey - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Scotsman Obituaries: Anna Scher, drama teacher who trained Kathy Burke

Environment

Yang Guang and Tian Tian are loaded onto a China Southern cargo plane at Edinburgh Airport. Photo: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Farewell Yang Guang and Tian Tian as Edinburgh Zoo's pandas leave for China

The sea eagle was reintroduced to Scotland in 1975 and has since made a promising comeback (pic: Gemma Wearing)

New award-winning film follows the complex comeback of the sea eagle

Scottish Engineering chief executive Paul Sheerin. Picture: Guy Hinks

Scottish engineers dismayed at UK government’s 'flip-flop approach' to climate

King Charles III meets with Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, president of the United Arab Emirates - which holds the Cop28 presidency - at Expo City in Dubai on the opening day of the UN climate summit. Picture: Andrew Matthews/Getty Images

UN Cop summits are ‘imperfect’ but 'all we’ve got' to tackle climate warming

COP28 must tackle shocking amount of carbon emissions from farming Philip Lymbery

The building is tucked away in the North Ayrshire countryside (pic: David Barbour)

Building developed inside Scottish ruin wins prestigious architect award

Global warming has led to a dramatic increase in wildfires in places like California (Picture: David McNew/Getty Images)

COP28 climate summit risks a descent into farcical greenwashing

UK News

Local people’s response to Lockerbie bombing moved me to tears Stephen Jardine

The scene on Baberton Mains Avenue, Edinburgh, after an 84-year-old man has died following an explosion at a house on Friday night. Picture: Lesley Martin/PA Wire

Man, 84, dies after explosion destroys Edinburgh house

World Aids Day is marked on December 1 (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)

HIV is now a manageable condition like diabetes, yet stigma and ignorance remain

Exclusive Attacks on Police Scotland could be ‘sign of things to come’

The evidence that Sunak is a terrible Prime Minister is starting to snowball Joyce McMillan

Alistair Darling, the epitome of a democrat, helped save economy and Union Scotsman comment

World

Gaztelugatxe island, near the Spanish Basque city of Bermeo, on the coast of Biscay.

Basque recruiter aims to create ‘brain drain’ in Scotland’s renewables industry

Palestinians in the hospital in Khan Younis mourn relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip. Picture: Fatima Shbair/AP

Israel intensifies offensive after end of week-long truce

The traditional Christmas market at Kleber square in Strasbourg, north eastern France, was targeted in 2018.

World Explained: Why are Christmas markets targeted by terrorists?

King Charles III meeting First Minister Humza Yousaf as they visit Heriot-Watt University Dubai Campus during the COP28 summit. Picture: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire

Which world leaders are due to speak at COP28?

Palestinian single mother Israa Aljaish with her mother Amal (left) and her daughter Marlin. Photo: PA

Palestinian mother living in Scotland ‘helpless’ as daughter, five, trapped in G...

Former Chancellor and Labour MP Alistair Darling dies aged 70

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Two men are being hunted by police after a man had a £28,000 Rolex watch stolen off of his wrist on a London street. (Credit: Metropolitan Police / SWNS)

Shocking clip shows £28k Rolex stolen from a man's wrist in attack

Part of the light trail at Warwick Castle

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