Scottish News

Some commentators have suggested the forthcoming Edinburgh Central SNP candidate selection process is a proxy contest about the future leadership of the SNP, but I am fully behind Nicola Sturgeon, writes contender Angus Robertson.

One in five small firms in Scotland could close or radically change their business model due to difficulties in recruiting EU workers, a new report has found.

Scotland's commitment to global fair trade  has been called into question after recent years saw a "dramatic decline" in sales and concerns the Government is not taking it seriously enough.

Safety for kids must come first even though I don’t support taking all the risk out of contact sports, writes Angus Robertson

Classical ballet is designated as having a skills shortage, making it easier for overseas dancers to migrate to Britain, but the UK Government is refusing to treat Scotland, which also needs migrants, in a similar way, writes Ian Swanson.

A Scottish local authority has apologised after an adult drag act with the stage name FlowJob was invited to speak at a primary school event marking LGBT History month.

It is the new feature film about a rebellious band of Scottish choir-girls that hardly anyone wanted to know about for two decades.

New research shows the fossil fuel industry has been deliberately and accidentally producing vast amounts of methane, which is 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas, writes Dr Richard Dixon.

Gordon Brown has backed a senior MSP's "exciting plans" for Scottish Labour as voting opens among members to decide who will become the party's next deputy leader.

Across the world, there have been almost 79,000 confirmed cases of the Covid-19 strain of coronavirus since the outbreak began in December last year.

Will Scotland’s policy of a presumption against short prison sentences be reflected in the latest figures, asks Karyn McCluskey.

Extradition cases – like those involving Julian Assange, Clara Ponsati and Meng Wanzhou – are hitting the headlines more often than in the past, amid concerns over apparent politicisation of the process and what could be a form of legal imperialism, writes Dr Paul Arnell.

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Aberdeen boasts the UK’s only hydrogen hire cars, but if you consider the cost – against their longer range and faster charging than electrics – then it’s easy to see why there aren’t more.

More than 90 per cent of Edinburgh’s schools are now involved with the city’s festivals in some way, new research has revealed.