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A majority stake in Edinburgh Airport has been sold

Edinburgh Airport sale: Majority stake sold to VINCI in £1.27bn deal
Global Infrastructure Partners’ decision to retain 49% interest hailed as “big validation in airport’s progress”

The trees have been lost at the Lost Forest on the Kinrara estate, west of Aviemore

Exclusive BrewDog's million tree Lost Forest sees half planted now dead

Mairi McAllan. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Scottish Government to scrap key 2030 legal climate change target

JK Rowling. Picture: Stuart C Wilson/Getty Images

Humza Yousaf hits back at JK Rowling in row over misogyny law

Fergus Ewing

Fergus Ewing: Non-crime hate incidents are a ‘perversion’ of justice system

Latest news

MSPs on a Holyrood committee have been urged to increase the minimum unit price (MUP) on alcohol to 65p. Image: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

How much could alcohol cost in Scotland if minimum unit price rises?

Police at the scene in the Pitilie area on the outskirts of Aberfeldy, Photo: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

MP seeks clarity from police chief two months after murder on rural path

Passengers wait for their flights at the Dubai International Airport in Dubai on Wednesday. Dubai's major international airport diverted and cancelled scores of incoming flights as heavy rains lashed the United Arab Emirates, causing widespread flooding around the desert country

Scottish flights delayed indefinitely as Dubai struggles to cope with flooding

A flooded street following heavy rains in Sharjah. Dubai, the Middle East's financial centre, has been paralysed by the torrential rain that caused floods across the UAE and Bahrain and left 18 dead in Oman earlier this week.

In pictures: United Arab Emirates suffers heaviest rainfall ever

Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland Nicola Killean.

Scottish children's commissioner has no 'fixed view' on puberty blockers

David Crosby is ready for the ultra challenge.

Fife businessman swaps hard hat for running shoes in aid of CHAS

The Prime Minister criticised the SNP and accused them of trying to lock up the Harry Potter author.

SNP 'obsessing' over independence and trying to lock up JK Rowling, Sunak says

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Passengers wait for their flights at the Dubai International Airport in Dubai on Wednesday. Dubai's major international airport diverted and cancelled scores of incoming flights as heavy rains lashed the United Arab Emirates, causing widespread flooding around the desert country

Scottish flights delayed indefinitely as Dubai struggles to cope with flooding

Explainer What does the UK smoking ban mean for Scotland, and when does it start?

Police at the scene in the Pitilie area on the outskirts of Aberfeldy, Photo: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

MP seeks clarity from police chief two months after murder on rural path

Val McDermid, whose latest book, Queen Macbeth, is the latest in the Darkland Tales series. Pic: Lisa Ferguson

Val McDermid's new book kills the myths about Queen Macbeth

Transport

Empty Jacobite train for training not used for passengers – Alastair Dalton Alastair Dalton

Lothian managing director Sarah Boyd. (Photo by Lisa Ferguson/The Scotsman)

Edinburgh bus operator Lothian in weekend passenger boom

Motorists drive along a flooded street following heavy rains in Dubai.

Are Scottish flights impacted by Dubai severe flooding?

Forth Ports’ Capital Cruising business welcomed 149 vessels in 2023. Picture: Peter Devlin

235,000 passengers to visit Edinburgh, Fife and Dundee amid record cruise season

Future Scotland

Oban-based marine scientist Jessica Giannotti, who runs the local Crùbag textile studio, set up SeaDyes on the back of a research project she worked on with the Scottish Association for Marine Science which involved extracting pigments from seaweed

Eco dyes made from seaweed – available in every colour but always green
A new Scottish start-up is in the pink as seaweed yields a full spectrum of colours to create eco-friendly dyes that are always green.

An agreement by Hyundai to pursue opportunities for floating offshore wind power projects has been hailed as a "vote of confidence in Scotland" Photo: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

Floating wind farm manufacturing base set for Scotland in HD Hyundai deal

The UK attracts more financial technology - fintech - investment than the rest of Europe combined.

Funding, scaling up, diversity: The challenges facing UK fintech businesses

Arleen Arnott of KPMG UK says: 'It is clear from this survey that AI is becoming a key part of the day-to-day running of financial services firms.' Picture: contributed.

Leaders at finance firms encouraged to embrace AI that could 'transform' sector

Professor Mercedes Maroto-Valer with colleagues in the lab.

Heriot-Watt backs new £18m centre to drive UK's green industrial revolution

Crime

MSPs must not miss this chance to repeal the Hate Crime Act Murdo Fraser

Time to enshrine a right to a healthy environment in Scots law Richard Dixon

Motorists stop and wave as police cars pursue a white Ford Bronco, driven by Al Cowlings, carrying fugitive murder suspect OJ Simpson, during a 90-minute, slow-speed car chase in Los Angeles in 1994 (Picture: Jean-Marc Giboux/Liaison/Getty Images)

The night Oprah described OJ Simpson chase over the phone has stuck with me

Second wave of super-strong heroin is set to hit Scotland Tom Wood

Exclusive Police Scotland refuses to release hate crime training material under FOI

Salman Rushdie has expressed concern about the growing acceptance of restrictions on freedom of speech (Picture: Ilya S Savenok/Getty Images for The Center for Fiction)

Salman Rushdie is living proof of the importance of free speech

Politics

Scotland is ideally placed for floating wind turbine schemes (Picture: Miguel Riopa/AFP via Getty Images)

Floating offshore wind deal could be an important moment

Scotland must capitalise on the huge opportunities to build a globally significant renewable energy ...
Yousaf must ban puberty blockers or say why he thinks they're safe for children

The continued failure of Humza Yousaf to seriously address the use of puberty blockers despite th...

As Liz Truss promotes her new book, Ten Years to Save the West, she has endorsed Donald Trump (Picture: Carl Court/Getty Images)

Truss's book, Ten Years to Save the West, should be filed in the fiction section

Former Prime Minister Liz Truss should be ashamed, but instead she’s trying to make a comeback by embracing Donald Trump and the hard-right
As a former teenage smoker, I say Sunak is right to help us kick the habitLaura Waddell
Laura Waddell
Councils ‘stand on the brink of collapse’, warns senior trade unionist
Roz Foyer also says the Scottish Government would not have introduced a new income tax band if it ha...
David Cameron arrives in Israel for talks over Iran with Benjamin Netanyahu
Foreign secretary Lord Cameron has discussed the rising tensions between Israel and Iran...

Weather

An RNLI lifeboat. Image: Steve Parsons/PA Wire

Young paddleboarders rescued as Storm Kathleen causes widespread disruption

Weather warnings for high winds have been issued for Saturday

Warnings of winds up to 70mph as Storm Kathleen rolls in

Coronavirus

A Scottish doctor who now practises medicine in Australia says the government cannot blame the Covid pandemic for the crisis. Image: Peter Byrne/Press Association.

Scottish doctor who left the NHS says governments cannot blame crisis on Covid

Sturgeon's politicking and Johnson's weakness may have damaged Covid response Paul Wilson

Exclusive Michael Matheson asks for extension as iPad report publication looms

Former first minister Alex Salmond. Picture: PA

Alex Salmond claims WhatsApp message deletion was not policy while he was FM

Opinion

Nicola Sturgeon and Val McDermid share a love of books (Picture: Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Nicola Sturgeon is not disliked because she's a woman

So Nicola Sturgeon’s close friend and fellow secessionist, Val McDermid, believes the former first minister is criticised so robustly because she's a woman. Utter drivel!Scotsman Letters
Creating a neuroinclusive working environment is usually not a huge undertaking (Picture: peopleimages.com)

Employing neurodivergent talent is just the beginning - Emma Walker

Glasgow hosting Commonwealth Games again is a Willy Wonka idea Aidan Smith

We’ve forgotten the 'one cause behind all forms of social misery'Kate Copstick
Kate Copstick

People

Author Val McDermid. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Aye Write: 'Unexpected' donation allows nine 'pop-up' events to go ahead
Val McDermid, Damian Barr, David Nicholls and Alan Cumming to appear at Aye Write

Leonie Rae Gasson was awarded £84,555 by Creative Scotland for her moving image installation project Rein. Picture: Julie Howden

Creative Scotland defends hardcore sex film as 'experimental performance art'

Exclusive Campaigners warn access to Scottish culture is 'gravely at risk'

A keen fisherman, Ian Calcott was a pioneer of 'catch and release'

Scotsman Obituaries: Ian Calcott, journalist, author and salmon fisherman

Former prime minister Liz Truss criticised the former First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon.

Liz Truss claims Gender Recognition Reform led to Nicola Sturgeon resignation

Obituaries

Joan Hills mixed with the likes of Francis Bacon and Yoko Ono

Scotsman Obituaries: Joan Hills, Scot at forefront of underground art scene

Peter Higgs visiting the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, where the existence of the Higg's boson particl was confirmed (Picture: CERN Geneva/PA Wire)

Obituaries: Peter Higgs, physicist who gave his name to the Higgs boson particle

George was ordained as a Church of Scotland Minister in 1948

Obituaries: George Wilkie, founding member of the Iona Community

Jim Dunbar painted watercolour landscapes en plein air in all weathers (Picture: Robert Perry/Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour)

Obituaries: Jim Dunbar, teacher and former president of the RSW

Environment

Industry figures show that more than 183,000 solar panel installations were carried out across the UK last year.

Scottish Gas seals solar panel deal to save cash-strapped households up to 90%
Tie-up with Forster Group will enable Centrica-owned utility to install solar power and battery technology to any eligible customer for the first time.

Roger O'Reilly portrait

Scottish lighthouses, from Ardnamurchan to Tiree, feature in new book

A fisherman casts a line on the River Tay. Scottish Water has been accused of covering up the release of wet wipes, sanitary pads and other sewage litter into the river in Perthshire. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Water giant accused of ‘covering up’ release of wet-wipe sewage into river

Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater need to show they are more serious about climate change (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Are Greens still Green? And if so, are they help or hindrance to climate fight?

UK News

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Toppling Iran's tyrants would sever head of snake behind many Mid-East conflicts Struan Stevenson

The Apprentice Boys of Derry takes part in the annual Relief of Derry march on August 14, 2021 in Derry, Northern Ireland. An affiliated club in Inverness plans to hold a parade on Saturday but is meeting resistance.  (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

Apprentice Boys of Derry meet resistance ahead of Inverness parade

Analysis After licensing arms worth nearly half a billion to Israel, UK is under pressure

Sunak calls for ‘calm heads’ amid fears of Israeli retaliation for Iran attack

Members of the Up Helly Aa 'Jarl Squad' parade through the streets of in Lerwick, Shetland Islands in January. The event is widely used to promote Shetland as a tourist destination. Meanwhile, budgets to manage visitors on the ground have been cut.  (Photo by ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Scottish islands call for 'fairness' as tourism budgets cut amid visitor boom

World

Russian president Vladimir Putin will not be invited to take part in official celebrations to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day.

Vladimir Putin: Russian leader banned from France D-Day celebrations

West must help Israelis and Palestinians escape the cycle of violence Scotsman comment

Former US President Donald Trump walks out of the courtroom following the first day of jury selection at Manhattan Criminal Court on Monday.

What impact will Donald Trump's court case have on his campaign?

Former US President Donald Trump waves as he departs Trump Tower for Manhattan Criminal Court

Donald Trump’s history-making hush money trial begins in New York

New South Wales police gather outside the Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Sydney's western suburb of Wakeley (Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP)

Man arrested after reported stabbing at church in Sydney

Explainer Who are Iran's proxy forces, and did they help attack Israel?

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The Foreign Office has issued a new travel warning about increased risk in 18 countries including popular holiday destinations. (Photo: AFP via Getty Images)

New travel warning for 18 countries

Omaze Million Pound House Draw Cornwall winner Rose Doyle with husband Tony outside their new home.

Watch: Dinner lady wins £3million coastal home in prize draw

An artist's impression of Titanic on her maiden voyage.

Watch: Evidence suggesting Titanic sank due to freak weather explained

Cool your canine: 8 tips for cooling your hot dogs

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