Scottish News

A man has been airlifted to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary after hurting himself in a fall during a punk festival on Cramond Island.

Street trials star Danny MacAskill has told how he is finding it easier to be back performing tricks in his Edinburgh Festival Fringe show than walking around with a fracture and a torn ligament in his knee.

IT began as their dream day, soulmates Chris and Avril Mallon married in front of friends and family.

I still feel like a six-year-old girl who just wants to hug her mum and make everything OK, writes Hayley Matthews.

Scotland has resisted the trend towards right-wing populism and ‘identitarianism’, but still needs to face up to racism wherever it exists.

As long as we have Catholic schools, it’s not unreasonable to have church representatives on council education committees, writes John McLellan.

Scotland’s attitudes to race is decades behind England’s, our national poet has warned.

Crime writer Ian Rankin has complained that Edinburgh Festival crowds and barriers have turned the centre of the city into “Wacky Races”.

Edinburgh in August is crying out for a faux restaurant just like Vice writer Oobah Butler’s ‘The Shed’ – and he’s in town, writes Stephen Jardine

Babies born in the poorest parts of Scotland can expect to die 13 years before those in the richest areas if they are male and 9.6 years earlier if they are female. But with political courage, it does not have to be like this, writes Brian Wilson.

OUTSIDE the National Piping Centre’s thronged Street Café, someone is sporting a T-shirt bearing the slogan “Bagpipes – putting the ‘Fun’ back in Funeral”. It’s a witty manifestation of what is often a very serious business, as Glasgow becomes a drone-centred universe during Piping Live!, the city’s week-long count-down to today’s World Pipe Band Championships on Glasgow Green.

The death of a man found injured in a Glasgow close is being treated as murder.

Pupils in Edinburgh will be authorised to miss school for climate strikes only once a year after a decision by the city council.

A Scot has become the first Briton to complete the Alpine Trilogy, a trio of the hardest rock climbs in Europe.

Jeffrey Epstein’s death was suicide? A lone gunman killed JFK? 9/11 was achieved by 19 hijackers armed like 80s football casuals? Some things are too hard to believe, particularly for damaged indivudals raised on a litany of lies about Santa and heaven, writes Kevan Christie (a Fife commuter who’s become convinced the Queensferry Crossing is actually an alien spaceship).