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A screenshot from one of the Red Ice videos uploaded to BitChute, in which white nationalist broadcadter Lana Lokteff describes Humza Yousaf and his family as "enjoying the fruits of a white society." Picture: BitChute

Police launch investigation into racist abuse and threats aimed at Humza Yousaf

First Minister Humza Yousaf (Photo by Robert Perry/Getty Images)

Deposit Return Scheme in ’grave danger’ warning from Humza Yousaf

Analysis of the Scottish Government's consultation on the proposed Land Reform Bill have been released (Katharine Hay/The Scotsman)

Land Reform consultation highlights little trust in Scottish Government

Michael Socha in The Gallows Pole

Period drama can be people in wigs pronouncing. Not The Gallows Pole

Phil Goff, High Commissioner fro New Zealand, on a visit to Edinburgh.

Why New Zealand looks to Westminster far more than Scotland

Coffee shops were places to do serious business in 17th and 18th century Britain (Picture: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

How coffee helped build modern Scotland (after playing a part in its ruination)

Tram line construction in Princes Street in September 2009. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Edinburgh Tram Inquiry: Why is it being held? What went wrong with the project?

The United Nations says both the Scottish and UK governments need to improve children's human rights. Image: Michael M Santiago/Getty Images.

UN says Scottish, UK governments need to improve children's human rights

The damage done by a wild fire at Tentsmuir (Pic: Forestry and Land Scotland)

Ranger assaulted for asking someone to put out campfire

Circular Economy Minister Lorna Slater

Lorna Slater's private Rum ferry cost taxpayers £1,200

The Inverness players celebrate their victory with manage Steve Paterson on the team bus back in 2000.

Saturday Interview: Big-time Charlie recalls night Super Caley humiliated Celtic

Future Scotland

The Glasgow venture was set up by Rebecca Pick and the company was a winner at the 2017 AccelerateHER Awards for female founders.

Glasgow entrepreneur behind lone worker safety alarm launches fund raise

Rhona Bree, who joins Equity Gap from Scottish Enterprise as a senior investment and portfolio manager, with Fraser Lusty, who becomes managing director.

Edinburgh investment syndicate Equity Gap unveils shake-up at top

'LiFi' is a mobile wireless technology that uses light rather than radio frequencies to transmit data. By harnessing the light spectrum, it is said to provide more reliable wireless communications with 'unparalleled security'. Picture: Malcolm Cochrane Photography

Edinburgh firm behind 'game-changing' light-transmitting tech in major US deal

Transport

Shipbuilding on the Clyde has a long and proud history (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA)

Ferguson Marine shipyard should not be damaged by flak directed at SNP ministers

An-uiridh, chaill 13 duine am beatha air an rathad. (Dealbh: John Devlin)

Bàs eile air an A9 – agus dàil air an obair a’ leantainn, le Murray MacLeòid

Hull 802 under construction at the Ferguson Marine shipyard in Port Glasgow in April with sister ferry Glen Sannox afloat behind. Picture: John Devlin

Troubled shipyard Ferguson Marine hails apprenticeship applications deluge

A computer generated image issued by Transport Scotland of the proposed debris flow shelter

£470m road shelter planned to shield A83 Rest and Be Thankful from landslides

Air travel can be stressful but abuse or attacks on staff are unacceptable (Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA)

Attacks on airport check-in staff are a symptom of a growing violence problem

ScotRail's remaining diesel fleets such as its 40-year-old Inter7City trains are due to be scrapped by 2035. Picture: SNS Group

Are SNP's other transport pledges more achievable than the A9? – Alastair Dalton

RMT members on the picket line outside Edinburgh's Waverley Station. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Here are the only trains running in Scotland today

Crime

Humza Yousaf said he was not shocked by the racist abuse and threats made against him (Picture: Fraser Bremner/pool/Getty Images)

We must unite in opposition to racists hurling abuse and threats at Humza Yousaf

Andrew Miller admitted abducting a young girl, then sexually assaulting her (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Young girl abducted by Andrew Miller may have saved her life when she escaped

Here is when ‘The Playing Card Killer’ is released on Netflix

FonAcab taxi - 'gun' threat video

Arrest made after footage shows taxi driver threaten passenger with ‘gun’

Weather

Scots are set to bask in the UK's hottest spring day of 2023. with the mercury expected to hit 25C on Wednesday -- but there will be a geographical divide, with the west expected to be as much as 10C warmer than eastern coasts. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Why this weekend is set to be so warm in Scotland as hottest day forecast

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

Politics

Would Labour leader Keir Starmer be able to reform the UK in a way that Gordon Brown could not when he was Chancellor and then Prime Minister? (Picture: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Independent Scotland must be a good neighbour to UK – Stewart McDonald

Many EU supporters are frustrated with Labour leader Keir Starmer over his dismissal of a return to the EU (Picture: Hollie Adams/Getty Images)

Brexit regret is growing and the campaign to rejoin the EU will come

Life after high political office can be tough, as Nicola Sturgeon is perhaps discovering (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Sturgeon can do more than talk about being a foster parent to help kids in care

Recycling schemes in other countries are not driven by a political desire to do things differently to England (Picture: Jonathan Pow/PA)

Deposit return scheme's fate is another fine mess, not a constitutional outrage

Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou is aware of the club's past with Inverness Caledonian Thistle.

'I'm not going to let it happen' - Celtic's Postecoglou on cup final caution

There was so much smoke from a wildfire at Cannich, near Loch Ness, this week that it could be seen from space (Picture: Scottish Fire and Rescue Service)

Greens’ macho critics are aged toddlers clinging to Big Oil's comfort blanket

The fear in the eye of this lamb seems obvious (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

A nation betrayed as UK backtracks on live animal export ban – Philip Lymbery

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

John Torode and Gregg Wallace, of Masterchef, are the Statler and Waldorf of TV cookery shows (Picture: PA)

How MasterChef has become a wonderfully reassuring British institution

View of Loch Lomond from Gouk Hill on The John Muir Way. Pic: K Dixon

Janet Christie’s – Walking back to happiness

If you’ve lost money as a result of the actions of a business or organisation you could bring a case through the small claims court

Don’t be afraid of the small claims court - Martyn James

Spartans goalkeeper Blair Carswelll celebrates with fans after the team's play-off victory against Albion Rovers (Picture: Sammy Turner/SNS Group)

Spartans FC: North Edinburgh’s very own field of dreams - Nick Freer

SNP MSP and Education Minister Jenny Gilruth (Picture: Ken Jack/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Verdict is in on Sturgeon's education ambitions

People

Frankie Dettori (right) reacts after placing tenth in the Betfred Derby with Arrest (Pic: Victoria Jones/PA Wire)

Frankie Detorri fails in bid for victory in his last Epsom Derby

The Tinderbox Orchestra will be appearig at the Edinburgh Central Library during this year's Fringe. Picture: Colin Hattersley

Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Stand-out shows in the global cultural celebration

Scarves and hats for sale outside ahead of the Emirates FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium (Pic: Nick Potts/PA Wire)

Scottish Manchester United fan’s £300 strike-hit trip to get to FA Cup Final

The exhibition The Fashion Show: Everything But The Clothes, which has been curated by fashion writer and editor Iain R Webb, is at V&A Dundee until January. Picture: Julie Howden

Visual diary of fashion industry opened for new V&A Dundee exhibition

Jim Brown at an event in 2019 (Picture: Charley Gallay/Getty)

Scotsman Obituaries: Jim Brown, American football star and civil rights activist

Morna Young is adapting the Lewis Grassic Gibbon novel Sunset Song for a new stage production.

Writer Morna Young to become first woman to adapt Sunset Song for the stage

Volunteers from Stonehaven RNLI outside the boat shed. (Pic: RNLI)

RNLI launch fundraising appeal as Stonehaven set for new lifeboat station

Obituaries

Brigadier John M Macfarlane served as Chieftain of the Gaelic Society of Inverness

Obituaries: John M Macfarlane, Army Officer and 1745 Association stalwart

May Storrie had an insatiable work ethic but a great sense of fun (Picture: Kieran Dodds)

Scotsman Obituaries: May Storrie CBE, businesswoman and tireless charity worker

Ranjit Kaur addressing a rally around 1990

Scotsman Obituaries: Ranjit Kaur, activist, magistrate and trade unionist

Environment

The projects promise to create new haulage routes away from busy villages, build passing places on narrow roads, upgrade existing fragile highways and promote the shipping of timber by sea. Picture: Creel Maritime Ltd

String of Scottish timber transport projects to benefit from £4m funding

Rebecca and her brother Tom when they were growing up at South Lodge (pic: Rebecca Smith)

Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside review

The fire at Cannich, which broke out several days ago, has been brought under control but firefighters remain on the scene. Picture: FLS

Highland wildfire under control but fire crews will stay until ‘safe to leave’

Droughts like this one in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan, in 2021 can force people to leave their homes (Picture: Hoshang Hashimi/AFP via Getty Images)

Increasing heat is already a factor in human migration – new study

Swedish climate activist and author Greta Thunberg, who made rose to fame when she began skipping school as a 15-year-old to protest each week against inaction on climate targets outside Sweden's parliament. Picture: Kim Jakobsen To

Climate activist Greta Thunberg to star at Edinburgh International Book Festival

A red rockpool near the New Aberdour Caves on the Moray First Coast. PIC: SEPA.

'Red rockpools' warning issued with dog walkers told to stay away

Smoke from the wildfire at Cannich, near Loch Ness, can now be seen from space. Picture: Scottish Fire and Rescue Service

Smoke from massive wildfire visible from space

UK News

A Russian soldier in the ruins of the Mariupol drama theatre, bombed in March last year despite a large sign saying children were sheltering there (Picture: Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images)

Putin's threats are unnecessary. We already know how terrifying he is

The check-in worker said some passengers got angry if their hand baggage was ruled too big or heavy, or their travel documents were questioned. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Airport check-in worker tells of horrific abuse by passengers

Union chiefs have demanded action over reports of violence

Airport check-in staff assaulted and abused by ‘thuggish’ passengers – GMB union

A former RNLI lifeboat is lowered into Martyn Steedman's camping site at Mains Farm in Thornhill, Stirlingshire (Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)

A holiday in a lifeboat that comes with a message for us all – Scotsman comment

Keir Starmer's foreign policy still lacks a coherent and well-formed structure (Picture: Yui Mok/PA)

Starmer must end his strategic silence on international affairs – Azeem Ibrahim

The cringeworthy Mike Kerr, lead singer of the band Royal Blood (Picture: Patricia de Melo Moreira/AFP via Getty Images)

Royal Blood, not the kids in the crowd, are supremely uncool – Euan McColm

World

Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a press conference at the European Political Community (EPC) Summit near Chisinau, Moldova. The semiannual summit was created last year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with the aim of bringing together a broader set of European leaders beyond the 27 members of the European Union.

Ukraine offers troops to help Moldova win back Transnistria

President Joe Biden says 'I got sandbagged' in talking about falling earlier in the day at the US Air Force Academy. Picture: AP

Is Joe Biden's ‘sandbagging’ a stumble too far for the octogenarian president?

People queue to receive food from AFAT - Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency in the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, last year. The Chernihiv region found itself on the frontline of Russia's invasion at the beginning of the invasion.

Russia used ‘starvation tactics’ on Ukrainian people, investigation claims

Canada will be the first country to print warnings on individual cigarettes.

Canada to become first country to print health warnings on individual cigarettes

Ben Roberts-Smith arrives at the Federal Court in Sydney in 2021. Picture: AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File

Victoria Cross holder found by judge to have committed war crimes in Afghanistan

NASA's Perseverance rover firing up its descent stage engines as it nears the Martian surface. Technology made by Scottish academics will be involved in the next mission to Mars. Picture: PA

Mars mission: Device built by Scottish researchers to be flown to Mars in bid to...

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