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Brexit: Theresa May survives bid to force her from office

General Election

Nicola Sturgeon speaks to journalists outside Westminster

Brexit: Nicola Sturgeon promises independence timetable in 'weeks'

Politics

Michelle Thomson. Picture: JP

Former MP Michelle Thomson has rejoined the SNP

Politics

Midlothian Council wants to hear your views on ambitious plans to potentially turn Midlothian Snowsports Centre at Hillend into an all-year-round, multi-activity leisure development.

50mph zipline ride among plans to boost Hillend leisure facilities

Edinburgh, Fife & Lothians

Minibus driver dies in crash with HGV on A90 near Perth

News

New Ghostbusters film to be released in 2020

Celebrity

Aviva insurance apologises to William Scott’s grieving family over payment

Edinburgh, Fife & Lothians

Brexit: David Cameron doesn’t regret calling referendum

General Election

Allegations that Alex Salmond sexually harassed two women have been followed by an outbreak of civil war between two factions in the SNP. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty Images

Nicola Sturgeon insists job not on the line over Alex Salmond row

Main players

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

Politics More Politics >>

Prime Minister Theresa May has survived a bid to force her from office

Brexit: Theresa May survives bid to force her from office

General Election

Police Scotland has postponed plans to cut 300 officers in 2019/20

Police Scotland facing budget 'misery'

News

Scottish independence supporters march in Glasgow. Picture: John Devlin

WikiLeaks mocked for bizarre poll on Scottish independence

Politics

Nicola Sturgeon speaks to journalists outside Westminster

Brexit: Nicola Sturgeon promises independence timetable in 'weeks'

Politics

An artists' impression of how Destination Hillend may look. Picture: Midlothian Council

Plans revealed to transform Hillend ski slope into multi-activity centre

Politics

Recruitment and retention into some parts of the social care sector remains a challenge. Picture: Esme Allen

Care homes in Scotland struggling to recruit staff

Health

Alex Salmond speaking outside the Court of Session in Edinburgh after it ruled that the Scottish Government acted unlawfully regarding sexual harassment complaints against the former first minister

Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond agree to co-operate with Holyrood inquiry

Politics

Sorry Salmond saga has no winners – Steve Cardownie

Opinion

More than £1.1m of Edinburgh residents’ overpaid council tax being withheld

UK

Brexit: David Cameron doesn’t regret calling referendum

General Election

Brexit: David Mundell faces fresh calls from SNP to resign

General Election

Transport More Transport >>

A general view of Prestwick Airport. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

No timescale for Prestwick Airport to pay back Government loans

Transport

Cairnryan Ferry Terminal, Dumfries and Galloway. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Higher fares could be introduced on Scottish ferries to manage tourists

Transport

Robert Keenan at Musselburgh with one of the new Hitachi trains. Picture: Jon Savage

Insight: Blame the wrong kind of trains for ScotRail woes

Transport

Railway staff at Edinburgh Waverley are going on strike after accusing a contractor of breaking promises about improving their "lousy" accommodation. Picture: JP Licence

Edinburgh Waverley station staff to go on strike

Transport

The Flying Scotsman is returning to Scotland

Transport

Woman dies after crash involving three vehicles

Transport

School bus crashes into house in Coatbridge

Transport

ScotRail performance officially improves despite hundreds of cancelled trains

Transport

Education More Education >>

Education secretary John Swinney. Picture: John Devlin

John Swinney defends pay offer to striking college lecturers

Education

A puppy seized from an illegal farm

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

Opinion

Bees have been the subject of a four-year study into pollinators by the University of Edinburgh

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

Environment

Increasing numbers of parents are teaching their children at home amid frustration over cuts to mainstream education.

Home schooling soars as parents react to cuts in the classroom

Education

Teachers raised a number of concerns in letters sent to the Scottish Government. Picture: PA

Teachers cite assaults and high workloads in letters to Nicola Sturgeon

Education

EIS general secretart Larry Flanagan.''Picture: EIS/ Alan Richardson

Scotland’s largest teaching union recommends ballot over strikes

Education

Dr Iliyan Stefanov, Head of Student Services, Queen Margaret University

Iliyan Stefanov: Increase in student mental health issues means support must be efficient

Opinion

Rosanne Cubitt: Enduring conflict more upsetting for kids than a well managed separation

Opinion

Scottish council looks to shorten school week, close two schools

Education

FMQs: Severely autistic Scottish child’s help slashed under cuts

Education

Morven Chisholm and Marie Montondo: Looking forward to addressing issues affecting Scotland and further afield

Opinion

Environment More Environment >>

Dr Aaron Davis undertaking research on Arabica coffee in South Sudan

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

Environment

The moon will be completely submerged within the Earth's shadow. Picture: Getty

Blood Moon 2019: Everything you need to know

Environment

Birds of prey like this golden eagle have been fully protected since the 1950s ' but some grouse moors appear to be following a 'zero tolerance' approach to predator species

Duncan Orr-Ewing: Game estates must stop preying on our raptors and follow the law

Opinion

Roddy Gow OBE, Chairman and Founder, The Asia Scotland Institute

Roddy Gow: Younger generations won’t settle for the systems we have created

Opinion

New Minimalist movement seeks to end our obsession with ‘stuff’ – Jonny Hughes

Opinion

Scottish anglers ‘optimistic but realistic’ as 2019 season opens

Environment

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

Environment

Free bookshop aims to reduce volume of titles dumped in landfill

Lifestyle

Health More Health >>

William Scott

Aviva insurance apologises to William Scott’s grieving family over payment

Edinburgh, Fife & Lothians

Recruitment and retention into some parts of the social care sector remains a challenge. Picture: Esme Allen

Care homes in Scotland struggling to recruit staff

Health

Environment secretary Roseanna Cunningham says up to 300 tonnes of clinical waste has stockpiled at two Scottish HES sites

Hundreds of tonnes of clinical waste piled at Scottish sites

News

Hard-working staff at NHS institutions can naturally feel emotional about the results of an inspection if they are poor

Eddie Docherty: The key is in the room – rather than fear change, staff can embrace it

Opinion

Renters in the private sector had significantly higher CRP levels than home owners with a mortgage

Levels of stress linked to the type of housing accommodation in UK

Health

Life-extending breast cancer drug approved for use in Scotland

Life-extending breast cancer drug approved for use in Scotland

Health

Critics to the withdrawal of the therapy point to Heston Blumenthal's use of liquid nitrogen on TV

Verruca and wart patients forced out of GP surgeries

News

Drugs trial offers new hope for Edinburgh MS sufferer

Health

Air pollution exposure linked to increased risk of miscarriage, study suggests

News

Clinical waste from Scottish health boards shipped to Shetland

News

Marks and Spencer launches vegan shoes and accessories

Retail

UK More UK >>

Prime Minister Theresa May has survived a bid to force her from office

Brexit: Theresa May survives bid to force her from office

General Election

Nicola Sturgeon speaks to journalists outside Westminster

Brexit: Nicola Sturgeon promises independence timetable in 'weeks'

Politics

The authority has also earned interest on the unclaimed money - up to �3,000. Picture: PA Wire

More than £1.1m of Edinburgh residents’ overpaid council tax being withheld

UK

A scene from the original Ghostbusters movie, starring Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd

New Ghostbusters film to be released in 2020

Celebrity

Bids on Katie Price’s pink Barbie car hit £66k on eBay

News

Theresa May’s Brexit deal suffers worst defeat in British political history

Politics

Blood Moon 2019: Everything you need to know

Environment

British charity worker among 14 dead in Nairobi militant attack

World

Opinion More Opinion >>

Jim Duffy says that for people like him, home brewing made easy by tech may be just the ticket. Picture: Ian Howarth.

Jim Duffy comment: How you can hop to it – with hi-tech home brew

Opinion

Alex Salmond faces the media after last week's Court of Session hearing. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA

Sorry Salmond saga has no winners – Steve Cardownie

Opinion

Pro-Brexit supporters hold up placards outside parliament on the day of the 'meaningful vote'. Picture: AFP/Getty

Theresa May’s Brexit plan leaves a great deal to be desired – Brian Monteith

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

Birds of prey like this golden eagle have been fully protected since the 1950s ' but some grouse moors appear to be following a 'zero tolerance' approach to predator species

Duncan Orr-Ewing: Game estates must stop preying on our raptors and follow the law

Opinion

St Peter's Seminary has become a place of secular pilgrimage for writers, artists and others but the Catholic Church can't even give it away (Picture: Stephen Mansfield)

Scotland faces loss of a modernist masterpiece – Martyn McLaughlin

Opinion

Having, or somehow acquiring, an Irish grandmother seems to have become suddenly popular (Picture: George Pickow/Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty)

Alexander McCall Smith: All this talk about British identity is turning people Irish

Opinion

Scottish women are being left out of film boom – Brian Ferguson

Opinion

Jim Sillars: SNP’s ‘cult of personality’ led to tragedy engulfing party

Opinion

Brexit: The Scotsman calls for second referendum – leader comment

Opinion

Donald Trump’s wealth is no reason to denounce him – Alastair Stewart

Opinion

World More World >>

A member of Kenyan special forces shouts at the media to go back after his wounded colleague was carried into an ambulance. Picture: AP Photo/Ben Curtis

British charity worker among 14 dead in Nairobi militant attack

World

Donald Trump is said to be America's richest ever president but almost all of them were wealthy (Picture: Carlos Barria/pool photo via AP)

Donald Trump’s wealth is no reason to denounce him – Alastair Stewart

Opinion

Firefighters extinguish a fire after the explosion of a bakery on the corner of the streets Saint-Cecile and Rue de Trevise in central Paris. Picture: AFP/Getty Images

Two dead, multiple injured after huge ‘gas explosion’ rocks central Paris

World

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Picture: David Mareuil

Brexit: Japan’s PM offers ‘total support’ to Theresa May’s deal

General Election

Lady Gaga apologises for R Kelly duet and plans to remove song

News

Man caught licking doorbell for hours is arrested

News

Video: Federal shutdown passes three weeks

World

Donald Trump may spark new space race with China – Martyn McLaughlin

Opinion

Odd More 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

A woman suffered chemical injuries after being mistakenly prescribed erectile dysfuntion. Picture: John Devlin

Scots woman ends up in A&E after being prescribed erectile dysfunction cream for dry eye

Odd

Friends of the Scotsman More Friends of the Scotsman >>

A puppy seized from an illegal farm

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

Opinion

Birds of prey like this golden eagle have been fully protected since the 1950s ' but some grouse moors appear to be following a 'zero tolerance' approach to predator species

Duncan Orr-Ewing: Game estates must stop preying on our raptors and follow the law

Opinion

Hard-working staff at NHS institutions can naturally feel emotional about the results of an inspection if they are poor

Eddie Docherty: The key is in the room – rather than fear change, staff can embrace it

Opinion

Obituaries More Obituaries >>

Broadcaster and lecturer Ronald Sawdon has died at the age of 91

Obituary: Ron Sawdon, lecturer and broadcaster who was familiar face on Grampian Television

Obituaries

Engineer Eugeniu Iordachescu has died at the age of 89. Picture: AFP/Getty

Obituary: Eugeniu Iordachescu, Romaninan civil engineer who saved churches from bulldozer

Obituaries

Tom Leonard writer at Glasgow University as the Literary trio are appointed to creative writing chair at the university'Picture ALLAN MILLIGAN date taken 31st May 2001 (electronic image)

Obituary: Tom Leonard, radical writer who championed Glaswegian vernacular in his poetry

Obituaries

Hearts legend Freddie Glidden has died at the age of 91

Obituary: Frederick ‘Freddie’ Glidden, Hearts captain who lifted the Scottish Cup in 1956

Obituaries

Celebrity More Celebrity >>

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

News

Linlithgow Palace - one of 19 locations on a new interactive map based on the Mary Queen of Scots film. Picture Michael Gillen

Mary Queen of Scots map launched in new tourism campaign

Celebrity

Hugh Grant arrives for the UK film premiere of "Florence Foster Jenkins" (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images)

Hugh Grant appeals for help after script stolen from car

Celebrity

Brian Melville, 68, was Andy Murray's first coach, from when the dual Wimbledon champion was aged seven. He is pictured here at Dunblane Sports Club.' Picture: John Devlin

Andy Murray: Dunblane thanks its ‘shining star’ who brought hope

Tennis