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Scots urged to ask these 5 questions to GPs

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Offenders have to disclose crimes long after leaving prison.Picture: John Devlin

Ex-offender backs plans to reduce conviction disclosure time

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Scottish links with Malawi get £150k funding boost

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DNA to be used in tracking wildlife criminals

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DJ Avicii dies aged 28

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53 Commonwealth leaders back Charles as their head after Queen

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Testing P1 pupils causes “stress and anxiety”

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Ofcom green-light new BBC Scotland channel

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Actor sentenced for impersonating a police officer

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Sir Anton Muscatelli: Britain needs a Brexit reality check

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Clr Lewis Ritchie was accused of sexual harrassment. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Scandal-hit councillor Lewis Ritchie under fire for no shows

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A currency exchange sign at the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland near the village of Killeen. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

EU ‘annihilates’ Theresa May’s plan to avoid hard Irish border

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Vladimir Putin has a choice to make (Picture: AFP/Getty)

UK could do more to put pressure on Putin’s ‘gangster regime’, says MP

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The oil and gas industry has suffered in recent years

SNP accused of ‘disowning’ Scotland’s oil and gas sector

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Scots are being urged to their GPs a series of five key questions.

Scots urged to ask these 5 questions to GPs

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A new Gaelic school has opened in Portree, the largest town on Isle of Skye. Picture: Donald MacLeod

Row over £10m Gaelic school opening on Isle of Skye

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Michelle Goldberg: Right to offend is part of free speech

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Leader comment: Theresa May’s Brexit fudge turns sour

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Leader comment: Wake up! Pills are not a panacea

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Revealed: Scotland’s postcode lottery of council tax rises

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An extended delay to MV Clansman's repairs has triggered CalMac's vessel shortage. Picture: CalMac

Widespread CalMac disruption to last till end of May

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Norwegian Air has blamed air taxes in halting two of its three US routes from Edinburgh. Picture: Ian Georgeson

Alastair Dalton: Airlines still expanding despite their tax moans

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Scotrail passengers tweeted the company asking for the heating to be turned off on trains

Scotrail passengers rage as heating left on during hottest day of year

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Trams could soon be coming down Leith Walk. Picture: Ian Georgeson

Leith councillor launches campaign against tram extension

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Record year for air passengers at Highlands and Islands airports

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Vehicle fire on M8 at Livingston adds to rush hour delays

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A new Gaelic school has opened in Portree, the largest town on Isle of Skye. Picture: Donald MacLeod

Row over £10m Gaelic school opening on Isle of Skye

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There is still a stark gender divide among students in Scotland when it comes to choice of courses

Women pick medicine in Scottish university gender divide

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The child was stuck in the elevator at the Glasgow Science Centre

Boy trapped in escalator on school trip after shoe ‘gets stuck’

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Students in Scotland are choosing certain degrees above others.

Most and least popular first degrees in Scotland revealed

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Some subjects have costs assocaited. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Claim ‘school isn’t free’ as pupils miss out on subjects due to costs

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State school education should be free for all (Picture: Getty)

Leader comment: The scandal of state school fees

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Graduates urged to see HR in a new light

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Bound to succeed – getting youngsters and employers outdoors together

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The robot teacher aimed at primary aged kids

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Rates hike for private school nurseries ‘is discrimination’

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The Firth of Forth is frequented by lots of different bird species; puffins, gannets, fulmars, guillemots and razorbills being among the most common. Picture: Ian Georgeson

Overfishing and Beast from the East blamed for sea bird deaths

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Scotland's population has grown by six per cent in the last 20 years. Picture: John Devlin

Brexit fears as migration into Scotland falls after EU vote

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Peter Pearson: John Muir’s ways more important than ever

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‘Magic’ mushrooms to boost Caledonian Forest restoration

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Charlotte Johnson: Botanics pushes the boat out with shoreline exhibition

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Green MSP calls for UK Government to revisit onshore wind subsidy

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Doctors warn that health services in Scotland are "deteriorating"

Doctors warn that health services in Scotland are "deteriorating"

Scots are being urged to their GPs a series of five key questions.

Scots urged to ask these 5 questions to GPs

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Dr Catherine Calderwood, Scotland's chief medical officer, wants patients to ask their GPs about the risks and benefits of proposed treatment

Leader comment: Wake up! Pills are not a panacea

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Margo MacDonald led previous bids to change the law. Picture: Esme Allen

Fresh bid to legalise assisted suicide for the dying in Scotland

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MSPs have backed a call to change the law.

MSPs back safe room for addicts in Glasgow to take drugs

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Willie Rennie. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Willie Rennie slams government over perinatal mental health

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If you want to be like John Travolta on the dancefloor, you are probably old

Jim Duffy: The seven top signs you are getting old

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‘Brain health index’ can predict the aftermath of having a stroke

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Fancy dress runners urged to reconsider ahead of ‘hottest Marathon’ ever

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Report reveals ‘extremely murky goings-on’ at NHS Highland

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Holyrood urged to back safe drug injection room in Glasgow

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A currency exchange sign at the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland near the village of Killeen. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

EU ‘annihilates’ Theresa May’s plan to avoid hard Irish border

Politics 336
Vladimir Putin has a choice to make (Picture: AFP/Getty)

UK could do more to put pressure on Putin’s ‘gangster regime’, says MP

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This is what the inside of a plug looks like (Picture: Getty)

Jane Bradley: Don’t be smug if you can change a plug

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Brussels doesn't seem to like British fudge (Picture: AFP/Getty)

Leader comment: Theresa May’s Brexit fudge turns sour

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Stephen Jardine: Was social media goldrush for fools?

Opinion 1

53 Commonwealth leaders back Charles as their head after Queen

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Peter Pearson: John Muir’s ways more important than ever

Opinion 1

Sir Anton Muscatelli: Britain needs a Brexit reality check

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BBC Scotland studios in Glasgow. Pic by John Devlin

John McLellan: New BBC Scotland channel may send news providers the way of Toys R Us

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The energy providers have taken the opportunity when we're thinking about better weather to hike their prices for gas and electricity, so now would be a good time to switch. Picture: Getty

Martin Lewis: Compare before paying Big 6 prices

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John Sturrock

John Sturrock: Nelson Mandela, master of mediation

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Former US first lady Barbara Bush (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

Michelle Goldberg: Right to offend is part of free speech

Opinion 8
This is what the inside of a plug looks like (Picture: Getty)

Jane Bradley: Don’t be smug if you can change a plug

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Brussels doesn't seem to like British fudge (Picture: AFP/Getty)

Leader comment: Theresa May’s Brexit fudge turns sour

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Tim Martin, founder of JD Wetherspoon.

Stephen Jardine: Was social media goldrush for fools?

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Leader comment: Wake up! Pills are not a panacea

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Family: Janet Christie’s Mum’s the Word

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Alastair Dalton: Airlines still expanding despite their tax moans

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Brian Wilson: Windrush scandal echoes Scots’ slave trade shame

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Vladimir Putin has a choice to make (Picture: AFP/Getty)

UK could do more to put pressure on Putin’s ‘gangster regime’, says MP

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Former US first lady Barbara Bush (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

Michelle Goldberg: Right to offend is part of free speech

Opinion 8
The site of the alleged attack. Picture: AFP/Getty Images

“Possibility” Russia tampered with Syria attack evidence

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Queen asks Commonwealth to put Prince Charles in charge

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Donald Trump retweets convicted Scottish forger in Stormy Daniels row

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Scots Tory MP accused of ‘trivialising’ dictatorship of Saddam Hussein

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Tweets on Salmond's programme "not from audience", Ofcom says

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Russia considers banning Scotch whisky imports in diplomatic row

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Drilling ship called to help search for Scots boys’ pirate ship

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PETA have asked for a plaque to be placed at the site of a former salughterhouse

PETA ask Council for permission to place plaque ‘in memory of cows’ at slaughterhouse site

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Here’s how you can get 25% more Tesco Clubcard points for the entire year

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Lionel Richie shows his support for St Johnstone. Picture: Contributed

Lionel Richie shows support for St Johnstone ahead of Perth gig

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John Sturrock

John Sturrock: Nelson Mandela, master of mediation

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Scots-born John Muir was a tireless campaigner for the preservation of wild spaces in the United States and his legacy lives in on the hundreds of articles and books he wrote in his lifetime

Peter Pearson: John Muir’s ways more important than ever

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The shoreline at Granton

Charlotte Johnson: Botanics pushes the boat out with shoreline exhibition

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Artist Mary Maclean

Obituary: Mary Maclean, artist, lecturer, Outside Architecture founding member

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Popular TV presenter Dale Winton (Picture: David Giles/PA Wire)

Obituary: Dale Winton: Broadcaster and game show host

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Liz McNab with John Smith (Picture: Hamish Campbell)

Obituary: Liz Macnab, political campaigner whose enthusiasm for life made her friends everywhere

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Former US first lady Barbara Bush has died at the age of 92. Picture: AP

Obituary: Barbara Bush, former First Lady, wife of one president, mother of another, literacy campaigner

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Tributes paid to ‘well-loved’ Dale Winton as TV star dies aged 62

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Julian Assange. Picture: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty

Julian Assange subjected to torture, claims friend Pamela Anderson

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Lionel Richie shows his support for St Johnstone. Picture: Contributed

Lionel Richie shows support for St Johnstone ahead of Perth gig

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The presenter spent last week filming in Scotland with colleagues Richard Hammond and James May for their Amazon Prime series The Grand Tour. Picture: SWNS

Jeremy Clarkson urges Scots to forget about independence

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TV star Ant McPartlin is due to appear in court charged with drink-driving. Picture: John Stillwell/PA Wire

Ant McPartlin due in court over ‘drink-driving collision’

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