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Just like Teddy, young growing bodies and minds need their sleep (Picture: Tim Graham)

Scientists have made telling intervention in parent-child bedtime wars Scotsman comment

Scottish Green MSP Maggie Chapman has not apologised for her unjustified attack on the Supreme Court following its ruling about the definition of the word 'woman' (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)

MSP's attack on Supreme Court was straight out of Trump's playbook Scotsman comment

Handout photo provided by The Vatican of Pope Francis, who died on Easter Monday, lying in a wooden coffin dressed in red, with rosary beads draped across his hands

Prince of Wales and Prime Minister to attend funeral of Pope Francis

Presenter Gary Lineker, who has said he thinks the BBC wanted him to leave Match Of The Day. Picture : Ben Whitley/PA Wire

Gary Linker on BBC 'damage', leaving Match of the Day and regrets

The SNP has called for a unique Scottish visa

Exclusive SNP write to Anas Sarwar urging support for Scottish Visa Bill

Keir Starmer is getting ready to row back on Brexit, claims Brian Monteith (Picture: Sean Gallup)

How Keir Starmer is about to start unravelling Brexit Brian Monteith

In Pictures: Pope Francis

MPs and peers have called for Donald Trump to be blocked from addressing parliament when he visits the UK.

The push to stop 'bizarre' Donald Trump addressing UK Parliament

Participants take part in the Corgi Derby at Musselburgh Racecourse

In pictures: Fur flies at annual Corgi Derby at Musselburgh Racecourse

Bruce the dog proved to be a fan of cultivated or lab-grown meat and we humans should be too

My dog tried UK’s first lab-grown meat – and his verdict was emphatic Philip Lymbery

For trans people, the Supreme Court's ruling on the definition of a woman is a real problem (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)

Why Supreme Court gender ruling is a historic setback for trans rights Vic Valentine

Susan Smith, left, and Marion Calder, co-directors of gender-critical campaign group For Women Scotland, celebrate the UK Supreme Court's decision about the definition of a woman (Picture: Lucy North)

Supreme Court's gender ruling is a welcome injection of common sense Scotsman comment

Members of campaign group For Women Scotland which brought a case to the UK Supreme Court over whether trans women could be regarded as female for the purposes of the 2010 Equality Act (Picture: Lucy North)

Gender ruling is victory for women dismissed as 'bigots' by Sturgeon Susan Dalgety

The BBC and other media need to be careful how they report on people like Andrew Tate (Picture: Peter Macdiarmid)

How BBC is inadvertently helping Tate brothers become more famous Tom Wood

The net-zero agenda is damaging the profitability of the British Steel plant in Scunthorpe (Picture: Ryan Jenkinson)

Why it's time to tame power of unelected climate campaigners Brian Monteith

Baby Amy Isabel, seen on her father Angus Davidson's shoulder, was born after her mother, Grace Davidson, had a womb transplant (Picture: Womb Transplant UK)

I know first-hand why critics of first womb transplant baby are wrong Christine Jardine

Hashem Abedi was sentenced to at least 55 years in prison for helping source, buy, stockpile and transport the bomb parts (Credit: PA)

Manchester bomb plotter stabs prison officers

King Charles tries a sheep's milk cheese called Love Ewe at Tebay Services on the southbound carriageway of the M6 (Picture: Arthur Edwards)

Why electric cars will mean more motorway services like amazing Tebay Stephen Jardine

The UK Supreme Court is about to issue a legal ruling that may or may not agree with the statement that 'trans women are real women' (Picture: Jonathan Brady)

Why UK Supreme Court may be about to destroy lesbian identity Susan Dalgety

Blast furnaces in operation at the British Steel manufacturing site in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire

Government seeks control of British Steel in move to nationalisation

Former prime minister Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty. Picture: James Manning/PA Wire

Rishi Sunak's resignation honours list revealed as Tories win peerages

Scream star Rebecca Gayheart calls off divorce from Grey's Anatomy actor Eric Dane

Grey's Anatomy star reveals he is battling degenerative disease ALS

Farmers hold a tractor rally in protest at changes to inheritance tax on Edinburgh's city bypass (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)

Labour must realise farmers' tax complaints are more than rhetoric Scotsman comment

Winston Churchill, left, and US President Harry Truman, shortly before the former's famous 'Iron Curtain' speech in Fulton, Missouri, in 1946 (Picture: Fox Photos/Hulton Archive)

Trump's tariff a Brexit benefit? UK must escape its Eurosceptic prison Henry McLeish

Conceptual rendering of the new park. Picture: Universal Destinations & Experiences

Explainer Inside plans for the Universal Bedfordshire theme park

A selection of beautiful pictures from Scotland taken by our readers

New cars at Royal Portbury Docks, North Somerset

Starmer to back 'British brilliance' with support for car industry

California's Napa Valley is famous for its wines, but Donald Trump's tariffs could produce a Canada-style backlash against US products all over the world (Picture: David Paul Morris)

We all need to make a decision about boycotting US goods Christine Jardine

Donald Trump holds up a chart showing what tariff will be charged on imports from different countries around the world (Picture: Chip Somodevilla)

Starmer is making best of Trump's bad job (despite SNP's bad advice) Brian Wilson

Deaths of British couple in south France ‘treated as murder suicide’

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, following a small boat incident in the Channel at the weekend. Pic: PA Wire

Why counter-terrorism powers to stop migrant crisis is just the start Yvette Cooper

JK Rowling, who wrote the Harry Potter books in Edinburgh, has outspoken views on gender issues

JK Rowling stickers on campus ‘not transphobic’, tribunal told

The Vivienne Westwood building is inspired by tartan.

See images of new Vivienne Westwood building 'inspired by tartan'

Just Stop Oil has finally decided to stop throwing orange powder around (Picture: Ben Stansall)

Just Stop Oil? Just Stop the Net-Zero Madness, I say Brian Monteith

Primark boss resigns over 'immensely disappointing' behaviour

The King on a visit to Somerset House in London this week

King needed hospital observation due to cancer treatment side effects

Chancellor Rachel Reeves gives a press conference after delivering her Spring Statement to the Commons (Picture: Ben Stansall/WPA pool)

£10,000 worse off: Chancellor can't hide grim reality of UK economy Scotsman comment

A young boy play football in the street in the Govan area of Glasgow

Missed opportunity to tackle poverty and bolster public services Jamie Livingstone

The sun sets behind Burbo Bank wind farm and 'Another Place', an art installation by Anthony Gormley, at Crosby Beach on Merseyside

Public debate on net zero is finally opening up – this is a good thing Paul Wilson

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves leaving 11 Downing Street, London, for the House of Commons to deliver her spring statement to MPs. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Spring Statement 2025 RECAP: Rachel Reeves outlines spending cuts

Chancellor Rachel Reeves leaves 11 Downing Street on her way to deliver her Spring Statement to Parliament (Picture: Peter Nicholls)

Labour's response to financial crisis must not scapegoat 'scroungers' Henry McLeish

Rachel Reeves will make deliver the Spring

Explainer Spring Statement timings and what we should we expect for Scotland

Chancellor Rachel Reeves wants higher growth rates, but she's going about it the wrong way (Picture: Peter Cziborra/WPA pool)

Here’s how the Chancellor should go for growth – and why she won’t Murdo Fraser

Brexit has damaged import and export trade between the UK and the EU (Picture: Dan Kitwood)

Brexit is costing us £100bn a year. It's time to vote on rejoining EU Martin Roche

Former England manager Gareth Southgate has warned that ignoring the negative impact of social media, particularly on young men, is not an option (Picture: Ina Fassbender)

Southgate's lecture and Netflix's Adolescence are both must-watches Christine Jardine

In the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government was desperate to keep unemployment below three million, so encouraged people to claim disability benefit instead (Picture: Tim Graham)

Disability culture began when Thatcher tried to rig jobless figures Brian Wilson

The UK needs to increase its defence capabilities, but it's wrong to cut benefits to do so (Picture: Leon Neal)

German example shows UK didn't have to cut benefits to boost defence Stephen Gethins

Given the seriousness of our times, it may not be possible to retain the RAF Red Arrows display team, seen performing over Athens last year (Picture: Theophile Bloudanis)

Best in the world? Why the British Army makes US officials want to cry Stephen Jardine

A fire rages at the Hayes electricity substation near Heathrow (Picture: London Fire Brigade)

Heathrow shutdown shows how vulnerable UK is to an array of threats Scotsman comment

Russian President Vladimir Putin would like the EU to break up, but his war on Ukraine is pushing the UK back towards Brussels (Picture: Maxim Shemetov/pool)

How Brexit fan Putin is pushing the UK and EU closer together Stuart Nicolson

Edinburgh Airport travellers stranded after Heathrow Airport shutdown.

Airports must review resilience after 'unprecedented' Heathrow closure

National Express has suspended all its services to London Heathrow Airport due to a fire, which has caused the closure of the airport for the remainder of the day

Counter terrorism investigate cause of fire that closed Heathrow

All flights between Edinburgh and Heathrow have been cancelled

Consumer rights for cancelled Scottish flights due to Heathrow fire

A fire in a transformer in Nestles Avenue, Hayes, west London, which means Heathrow will be closed all day on Friday, March 21

Heathrow fire: How to share your travel story

A fire in a transformer in Nestles Avenue, Hayes, west London, which means Heathrow will be closed all day on Friday, March 21

Heathrow Airport shut due to fire as hundreds of flights affected

Prince William meets Estonian President Alar Karis in Tallinn, Estonia (Picture: Suzanne Plunkett/WPA pool)

Why Prince William's visit to Estonia is diplomatic rebuff to Trump Scotsman comment

Like these zombie enthusiasts, populists seem to keep coming back from the dead (Picture: Sean Gallup)

Populist right-wingers are turning into an undefeatable undead army Joyce McMillan

A new stamp to be issued later this month features the Loch Ness Monster (Picture: Royal Mail)

How Scotland's Loch Ness Monster is about to get the ultimate accolade Scotsman comment

The low turnout at the 2024 general election was a warning sign for democracy in the UK (Picture: Ian Forsyth)

Why a 'Bonfire of the Quangos' is crucial to defeating Reform UK Henry McLeish

Keir Starmer's flawed economic policies are undermining much-needed efforts to increase defence spending (Picture: Kirsty Wigglesworth/WPA pool)

How Keir Starmer is turning UK into second-rate European power Azeem Ibrahim

Kemi Badenoch should speak to the insurance industry about their rising costs as a result of increasingly extreme weather (Picture: Leon Neal)

Why Conservative leader is wrong about climate change Scotsman comment

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Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

Fail: Scotland misses climate target

Pro-independence protesters with Scottish Saltire flags (top) march for Scottish independence. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

Yousaf: Growing popular support for Yes the only way to Scottish independence

Nadine Dorries. Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

SNP MP cleared of bullying Nadine Dorries