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Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills Shirley-Anne Somerville has warned councils they will face financial penalties if they fail to hire new teachers.

Councils to face financial penalties if teacher numbers don't rise

Teachers are set to strike in specific areas, targeting SNP ministers and a Green MSP.

Teacher strikes to 'escalate' as SNP ministers to be personally targeted

Man arrested in connection with disappearance of 11-year-old girl

Health Secretary Humza Yousaf’s wife ‘terminates legal action against nursery'

What evidence did BBC chairman Richard Sharp give around loan to Boris Johnson?

Fringe venues warn event will 'wither away' without short-term lets rethink

National Care Service 'sailing perilously close to the wind'

Three British nationals missing in Türkiye earthquake

What Rishi Sunak's Cabinet reshuffle is meant to achieve

Analysis: Will the gender row damage Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP?

Alex Salmond brands Gender Bill 'self-indulgent nonsense'

Coronavirus

When will US borders open to UK travellers?

Which countries have seen the highest total Covid cases so far?

Here's how to get your vaccine certificate in Scotland

Crime

Rapist ex-police officer David Carrick jailed for at least 30 years

Drug treatment orders are controversial but can have a dramatic effect

Andrew Innes guilty of murdering Bennylyn Burke, 25, and two-year-old Jellica

Jury told to convict Andrew Innes of murdering Bennylyn and Jellica Burke

Weather

When does Spring start 2023, when do the clocks go forward, why do they change?

How common are quakes and tsunamis in Europe?

When is the next full moon? Dates for all full moons in 2023 and their meanings

80mph winds on way for Scotland as yellow weather warning issued

Opinion

Why ministers must heed drink sector concern over alcohol advertising ban

Is the rock-and-roll band set to become extinct? – Aidan Smith

How fish farms can help save salmon from becoming locally extinct – Jon Gibb

Wait for justice over infected blood scandal should not have been so long

Readers' Letters: Pointless puppets dancing to Sturgeon’s tune

Obituaries

Scotsman Obituaries: Kit Hesketh-Harvey, writer and cabaret performer

Scotsman Obituaries: Sylvia Syms, star of classics Ice Cold in Alex and Victim

Scotsman Obituaries: Barrett Strong, singer-songwriter behind Motown's first hit

UK News

When is Easter 2023 Scotland? When are the bank holidays this year?

Too many politicians in denial about crisis of capitalism – Stewart McDonald

Sam Smith is hurting no one but has become a target of culture war bigotry

Greenwood case should not lead to anonymity for the accused

Starmer must be more radical if he's to heal broken Britain – Joyce McMillan

Energy crisis is creating a breeding ground for political extremism

World

What is Bard AI? Google unveils ChatGPT rival to be released in ‘coming weeks’

Turkey earthquake: Where is Türkiye? Is Türkiye the same as Turkey?

President Zelensky to visit Brussels to meet European leaders

Turkey Syria earthquake: Rescuers search for survivors after quake kills 4,800

Death toll rises following 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Turkey and Syria

Church of Scotland moderator says 'door is open' to South Sudan peace

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