Dundee and Tayside

The exhibition The Fashion Show: Everything But The Clothes, which has been curated by fashion writer and editor Iain R Webb, is at V&A Dundee until January. Picture: Julie Howden

Visual diary of fashion industry opened for new V&A Dundee exhibition

Glasgow's low emission zone is bounded by the M8, River Clyde and High Street/Saltmarket. Picture: John Devlin

All you need to know about driving into Glasgow's new low emission zone

Scottish university projects funded by the US Defence Department include research into drones, explosives, and helicopters. Picture: AFP/Getty

Revealed: Scottish universities receive £34m in Pentagon funding

Author Chris Carse Wilson, from Newport, Fife, runs in Glen Coe, the inspiration for his debut novel Fray, which he wrote in secret on the bus to and from work at V&A Dundee. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Fray: The debut novel written on 10-minute bus journeys to work at V&A Dundee

Three people were killed in the Carmont derailment in August 2020. Picture: RAIB

New safety gear added to ageing ScotRail fleet involved in fatal Carmont crash

FlixBus UK managing director Andreas Schorling said an outdated view of coach travel remained. Picture: FlixBus

FlixBus announces expansion in bid to become Scotland’s biggest coach operator

Leonie Bell checking out Louise Gray ensemble Pic: Michael McGurk

V&A Dundee Tartan show: staff's favourite exhibits

Brian Cox as Logan Roy in the final series of Succession.

Succession: Brian Cox on the show's huge plot twist and the Logan Roy ‘mystery’

Trans rights activists hold a rally in Edinburgh. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Group blames 'trans activists' for event cancellations

RMT Scottish organiser Mick Hogg described the Scottish Government's public sector pay policy as a "blatant attack on free collective bargaining". Picture: Robert Perry/PA

RMT threatens ScotRail with another ‘summer of discontent’ over pay limits

The RRS Discovery, which was built in Dundee in 1901, will be part of the city's Art Night event in June. Picture: Eric Lynn

Historic vessels to get starring role in Dundee’s late-night art festival

The Scottish Greens said the review could be crucial in improving rural bus services. Picture: Ninian Reid/Skye 5/Wikimedia Commons

‘More affordable’ bus fares to be condition of Scottish Government funding?

V&A Dundee's new exhibition Tartan runs from 1 April till 14 January. Picture: Michael McGurk

Scotland's biggest celebration of tartan unveiled at V&A Dundee

Alan Cumming wore tartan to pick up his OBE at Buckingham Palace in 2009. He decided to hand back the honour several months ago. Picture: Dominic Lipinski

Alan Cumming hails power and ‘subversive’ nature of tartan

RMT members protesting outside Glasgow Central Station in September. Picture: John Devlin

ScotRail paid £6.5m compensation after Network Rail strikes cancel 40,000 trains

John McLeish, chair of the Scottish Tartans authority, V&A Dundee curator James Wylie and tartan historian Peter MacDonald have a close look at the Glen Affric tartan. Picture: Alan Richardson

Research reveals Scotland's oldest tartan was found in Highland peatbog

Fifty Pitches Road road in the Cardonald area of Glasgow. Picture: Potholes Make Glasgow

Why does Scotland have so many potholes and what is causing them?

The bumper order includes a deal for 50 iconic JCB backhoe loaders.

JCB seals record £87.5m order with Perth-based plant hire firm

Ten of ScotRail's fleet of 25 Inter7City trains were damaged at the peak of the problem. Picture: SNS Group

ScotRail inter-city fleet hit by failure to equip them to cope with autumn

Loganair chief executive Jonathan Hinkles said many business travellers understood the importance of supporting a route to keep it operating year round. Picture: Loganair

Future Flight: Loganair's ‘very difficult message’ over year-round flight fares

Sistema Scotland has secured an additional £1.5 million from the Scottish Government.

After funding cuts turmoil, culture sector needs to be treated with more respect

The period marks the first full financial year under Lesley Larg, who became managing partner of Thorntons in June 2021. Picture: Sandy Young Photography

Scottish legal heavyweight rebounds from Covid with double-digit growth

The SNP pledged in 2011 to complete dualling of the A9 between Perth and Inverness by 2025 (Picture: John Devlin)

SNP's A9 dualling pledge failed. Will its plans for car travel fare any better?

The Caledonian Sleeper franchise is due to end on June 25. Picture: Serco

Caledonian Sleeper expected to be nationalised by Scottish Government

Gordon Buchanan

Gordon Buchanan shares 30 years as a wildlife filmmaker on his anniversary tour

Only ten miles of the 80 miles to be upgraded have been finished since the SNP pledged to complete dualling of the A9 between Perth and Inverness after it came to power 16 years ago. Picture: John Devlin

A9 Perth-Inverness dualling could take till 2050 – construction industry

Writer and director James Price has been dubbed The Springburn Scorsese. Picture: Grant Keelan

The Springburn Scorsese: Writer-director James Price on his full-length drama

Closure of the Edinburgh-Fife line over the festive season to enable preparations for electrifying the route were postponed at late notice by transport minister Jenny Gilruth. Picture: Michael Gillen

Rail chiefs' safety fears over ministers’ move to delay vital track work

House of the Binns Pic: National Trust for Scotland

Top Scottish visitor attractions for 2023

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Scotland's best restaurants with rooms to visit in 2023

The single-carriageway section around Dunkeld is expected to be among the last to be dualled. Picture: John Devlin

Ex-SNP cabinet secretary demands ministers ‘come clean’ over A9 delays

Serco's Caledonian Sleeper franchise will end seven years early in June. Picture: Jeff Holmes/Shutterstock

Serco reveals it has lost £69m running Caledonian Sleeper

Liz lochhead will be among the leading writers appearing in Pitlochry Festival Theatre's Winter Words festival next month.

Liz Lochhead, Denise Mina and Ricky Ross to appear at literary festival

Work by the artist Zadie Xa featured in a previous edition of the 'Art Night' festival when it was staged in Walthamstow, in London. Picture: Matt Rowe

Art Night: Dundee set to be transformed for late-night celebration of visual art

Musician Alan Rankine has passed away at the age of 64.

Tributes pour in after death of Scottish musician Alan Rankine

The rain warning will be in force from 3am to 6pm on Friday but subject to change. Picture: Met Office

Scotland’s weather: Heavy rain warning for Friday with snow risk

Rory Stone of Highland Fine Cheeses

Scottish food and drink winners of 2022

Tom Cruise on the roof of the carriage during the filming of Mission Impossible 7. Picture: Angie Childs

Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible 7 stunt rail carriage Scots restaurant plan

The Hebridean Celtic Festival was named Scotland's event of the year at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards. Picture: Colin Cameron

Winners of 20th MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards revealed

All but one of this year's 13 deaths on the A9 between Perth and Inverness have been on single carriageway sections. Picture: John Devlin

Slow A9 dualling progress as deaths rise causes SNP 'considerable discomfort'

The Scots Trad Music Awards will be returning to the Caird Hall in Dundee on Sunday.

Landmark anniversary for Scots Trad Music Awards will reflect vibrant scene

Some 70 miles of the A9 remain to be dualled between Perth and Inverness (Picture: John Devlin)

Realistic timescale for A9 dualling needed as 2025 unfeasible – Alastair Dalton

The Police Scotland figures reveal a huge disparity between fatality rates on single and dual carriageway sections of the A9 between Perth and Inverness. Picture: John Devlin

A9 Perth-Inverness single carriageway deaths outnumber dualled sections 20 to 1

A fire broke out in Dundee city centre on Saturday evening. Picture: Niall Campbell/PA Wire

Large blaze destroys old furniture store in Dundee city centre

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), in the garden of No 10 Downing Street. Picture: Fox Photos/Getty Images

Why Sir Winston Churchill's exit from Dundee was far from a disgrace

The Scots Trad Music Awards will be returning to the Caird Hall in Dundee next month.

Contenders revealed for 20th Scots Trad Music Awards

The SNP has committed to complete dualling of the A9 between Perth and Inverness by 2025. Picture: Transport Scotland

New safety improvements for A9 ahead after worst death toll for 12 years

Lumo launched in October 2021 as LNER's first direct Edinburgh-London competitor. Picture: John Devlin

Edinburgh-London operator Lumo among Britain’s most complained about train firms

Artist Rachel Maclean has created an upside down abandoned toyshop installation for Perth High Street.

Artist Rachel Maclean reveals ‘abandoned toyshop’ for Perth High Street

Logan Stewart, Ava Kiddie, Hannah Webster and Hamish Patterson from Claypotts Primary in Dundee helped launch the new plastics ehibition at the V&A. Picture: Mi chael McGurk

Paradox of plastic’s impact on the planet explored in new V&A Dundee exhibition

Japanese architect Kengo Kuma designed the V&A Dundee museum of design. Picture: John Devlin

Architect Kengo Kuma on 'new life' for Dundee’s V&A and its waterfront

The Scottish Fashion Festival will return with an awards ceremony and runway catwalk show at the V&A Dundee museum. Picture: Julie Howden

Centuries of textile making to be celebrated at Scottish Fashion Festival

The six-mile Luncarty-Birnam section opened last year is one of only two dual carriageway stretches opened since the SNP pledged to complete dualling between Perth and Inverness. Picture: Transport Scotland

Ministers must be more honest about A9 dualling completion - Alastair Dalton

The A9 death toll increased this year despite average speed cameras on its single carriageway sections between Perth and Inverness. Picture: Peter Jolly

A9 death toll reaches its highest for 12 years

AMTE Power was founded in 2013 and is a leading developer and manufacturer of lithium-ion and sodium-ion battery cells for specialist markets. Picture: Rob Lacey

Dundee battery 'mega factory' moves step closer with signing of key contract

Just three bottes of a 48-year-old Dalmore whisky have been produced under the partnership with V&A Dundee.

V&A Dundee joins forces with The Dalmore whisky to create collectible bottles

Paul Hourston, who uses the name Doric Dad on social media, has been named Scots Media Person of the Year in the Scots Language Awards.

'Doric Dad' social media star among those honoured at Scots Language Awards

Emma White Pic:BBC/Twenty Twenty/Paul Husband

Interview: BBC All That Glitters' Scottish contestant, Emma White

Scotland's crisis-hit NHS service has struck deals worth more than £14m with companies controlled by Lord Ashcroft.

Billionaire Tory donor’s firms paid millions by Scottish Government

A warning to staff in the Caledonian Railway's 1921 Vigilance Movement booklet, showing a similar issue to that which led to the death of George Michie. Picture: Railway Work, Life & Death project

‘Appalling’ historic Scots rail worker casualty toll in new memorial archive

V&A Dundee will be staging a major celebration of tartan with a new exhibition due to open in April.

Nationwide appeal underway over Scotland's biggest ever celebration of tartan

Restaurant Review: Hospitalfield House, Arbroath

Avanti West Coast operates between Glasgow, Edinburgh and London Euston

New 34.8C Scottish temperature record set in Borders

Dennis the Menace stands in front of a giant sign erected at Dundee Law renaming the city of Dundee to Beanotown to mark the start of the Dundee Bash Street Festival, which celebrates the city's comic book heritage. Designers have taken their inspiration from the famous Hollywood sign, the sign is six-metres high by 38-metres long and will be seen from around the city and across the Tay for the duration of the festival. Picture date: Friday July 15, 2022.

Giant ‘Beanotown’ sign unveiled over Dundee to mark city’s comic heritage

Dundee saw the equal largest population fall among Scottish cities. Picture: John Devlin

Covid reverses long-term population trend to boost rural Scotland over cities

The seven-figure investment will also be a boost to the fortunes of Perth, transforming a three-storey B-Listed building.

£1m training and treatment facility brings smile to Scotland’s dental sector

Artist Swapnaa Tamhane was commissioned by V&A Dundee to create new work inspired by the links betwen Dundee's jute industry and India and Bangladesh. Picture: Neil Hanna

V&A Dundee turns spotlight on colonial past of city's jute industry

The Caledonian Sleeper's Club Car could be used as part of potential train charters. Picture: Jeff Holmes/Shutterstock

Caledonian Sleeper charter plan to whisk wedding parties to the Highlands

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The damage done by a wild fire at Tentsmuir (Pic: Forestry and Land Scotland)

Ranger assaulted for asking someone to put out campfire

A computer generated image issued by Transport Scotland of the proposed debris flow shelter

£470m road shelter planned to shield A83 Rest and Be Thankful from landslides

English rock band Wolf Alice are the subject of Michael Winterbottom's film 'On The Road'.

Five must-watch documentary movies set in the world of popular music