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Cortnë releases her debut single Lungs on 14 April. Picture: Elle Mackay

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Juan Alegria has left Rangers to join a former club. (Photo by Paul Devlin / SNS Group)

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Finland joins Nato: What country is and isn’t a member state including Ireland, Sweden & Turkey

Finland joins NATO: What country is and isn’t a member state?

Finnish, Nato and US flags during a Nato foreign ministers' meeting at the Alliance's headquarters in Brussels. Picture: Johanna Geron/AFP via Getty Images

Finland hands over documents to become Nato member

Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin has graciously conceded defeat in national elections (Picture: Frederick Florin/AFP via Getty Images)

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Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin's government applied to join Nato last year.

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Finland to teach Brits how to be happy on all-expenses paid trip to luxury Finnish resort

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Tourists feed seagulls in front of the Presidential palace in Helsinki, Finland. The country was named the happiest nation in the world for the sixth year in a row.

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Ice hockey fans celebrate in Helsinki, after Finland's team won the Winter Olympic Games gold medal last year (Picture: Antti Aimo-Koivisto/Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty Images)

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Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has said Russian soldiers suffering “almost First World War levels of attrition – as he gave an update on the UK’s response to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

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Workers attempt to make safe a residential building partially destroyed by shelling on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine (Picture: Sergey Bobok/AFP via Getty Images)

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Startup Grind Scotland team with Scotland-based tech entrepreneurs at the Sibelius Monument, Helsinki

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Glen Kamara has withdrawn from the Finalnd squad - adding to Rangers' injury problems. (Photo by Craig Foy / SNS Group)

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Nick Murray, Janani Prabhakaran, Euan Cameron, Carolina Melendez and Dec McLaughlin.

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Finland's Glen Kamara (left) in action against Montenegro during this week's Nations League match. (Photo by SAVO PRELEVIC/AFP via Getty Images)

Glen Kamara racism case dropped by UEFA as Rangers star opts against complaint

Glen Kamara has found game-time limited at Rangers this season.

Kamara admits to confidence dip over lack of Rangers starts

UEFA have opened an investigation of alleged racist abuse directed towards Glen Kamara. (Photo by MIKKO STIG/Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty Images)

Glen Kamara: UEFA investigation into alleged racist abuse of Rangers ace

Celtic's Sead Haksabanovic was subbed after 32 minutes of Montenegro's Nations League clash with Finland. (Photo by Alan Harvey / SNS Group)

Celtic suffer 4th injury concern with star subbed after 32 minutes

Scandinavian countries like Sweden and Finland have taken to using heat pumps instead of gas boilers to a far greater extent than the UK (Picture: Olivier Morin/AFP via Getty Images)

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Vladimir Putin

Putin 'failing on all of his military strategic objectives' in Ukraine

Rangers midfielder Glen Kamara is attracting interest from Nice.

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Funding support will help strengthen Scotland's inward investment activity

Prime minister of Finland Sanna Marin holds a press conference in Helsinki, Finland, Friday Aug. 19, 2022. Marin apologized Wednesday Aug. 24, 2022 after the publication of a photo that showed two women kissing and posing topless at the official summer residence of the country's leader. (Roni Rekomaa/Lehtikuva via AP, File)

Finland’s PM Sanna Marin apologises for ‘inappropriate’ pictures at residence

Finland's Prime Minister, Sanna Marin, holds a press conference amid controversy over videos showing her dancing at a party (Picture: Roni Rekomaa/Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty Images)

Problematic attitudes towards politicians who dare to dance – Scotsman comment

Euro 2022's 'group of death' is most definitely Group B. Credit: Getty Images

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Philip Short has written a comprehensive biography of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Going back to pen and paper gave Laura Wadell a different relationship with words, the author writes. PIC: Pixabay.com

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Ukrainian soldiers unload a destroyed Russian tank to install it as a symbol of war in central Kyiv. Picture: AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky

Finland says Russia is cutting off its natural gas supplies

Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson waits for Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Harpsund, the country retreat of Swedish prime ministers, to discuss the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Picture date: Wednesday May 11, 2022.

Sweden joins Finland in seeking Nato membership

Finland's prime minister, Sanna Marin (left), and its president, Sauli Niinistö, announcing Finland would apply for Nato membership. Photograph: Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva/AFP/Getty Images

Finland confirms application for Nato membership

Finnish PM Sauli Niinisto says his country will decide to join NATO

Finnish Prime Minister tells Putin his country 'will join NATO'

A Finnish soldier stands on top of his tank during the Arrow 22 military exercise with UK, Latvian, Estonian and US forces in Finland this month (Picture: Alessandro Rampazzo/AFP via Getty Images)

Finland in Nato would bring spirit of 'sisu' to defence of democratic ideals

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Finnish soldiers take part in a military exercise in Finland, held with troops from the UK, Latvia, Estonia and the US, earlier this month (Picture: Alessandro Rampazzo/AFP via Getty Images)

Finland and Sweden should already be treated as Nato members – Scotsman comment

A pro-Russian convoy drives with flags on their cars through Helsinki, Finland, on May 8, ahead of Victory Day on May 9 in Russia, which commemorates the Soviet Union's defeat of Nazi Germany in World War Two. Picture: Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty Images

What will Russia do if Finland and Sweden join Nato?

Prime Minister Boris Johnson (left) and Finland's President Sauli Niinisto, at a press conference at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland.

Finland’s leaders in favour of applying for Nato membership

UK military personnel boarding an RAF Voyager aircraft at RAF Brize Norton

8,000 British troops set for biggest deployment to Europe since the Cold War

Sweden and Finland joining Nato provides more of a security dilemma than it does a security solution (Picture: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Sweden and Finland eye the Nato option, but it’s a security dilemma for the West

Pipes laid near Lubmin, Germany, were meant to transfer Russian gas from the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which has been suspended following Russia's invasion of Ukraine (Picture: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

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People burn their electricity bills as a protest against high energy prices in Turkey.

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Drinking Scotland's tap water evokes its wealth of gifts from nature (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

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Carl-Johan Eriksson of Mjallby AIF has joined Dundee United, subject to international clearance. (Photo by David Lidstrom/Getty Images)

Second Finland international for Dundee United

Laura Waddell has been told to expect temperatures as low as minus 20 on her writer's retreat in Finland (Picture: Steve Parsons/PA)

Writer's retreat in snowy Finland is a grand adventure – Laura Waddell

Glen Kamara has once again impressed for Rangers this season.

Six EPL clubs credited with Kamara interest

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The introduction of a deposit return scheme has turned into a constitutional argument.

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