Veterans

D-Day veteran Joe Cattini has died aged 100

One of Britain’s last D-Day veterans Joe Cattini dies aged 100

A £950,000 investment from the Scottish Government will help improve the health and wellbeing of older veterans in Scotland over the next three years.

Funding boost of £950,000 to support older veterans in Scotland

Poppies are projected onto the Falkirk Wheel as Scottish Canals and Poppy Scotland pay tribute on Armistice Day.

When is Remembrance Day 2022 and why do we wear poppies? Date of Armistice Day

The Storm Arwen review set out 15 recommendations for the Scottish Government and its partners.

New processes in place one year on from Storm Arwen

Lord Provost of the City of Edinburgh Robert Aldridge (left) joins Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Veterans Keith Brown MSP (right) and senior military personnel, as well as Falklands veterans and members of the wider armed forces community, to remember the 40th anniversary of the end of the conflict, during a parade and service of remembrance in Edinburgh. Picture date: Saturday June 18, 2022.

Edinburgh celebrates Armed Forces Day with city centre parade

US World War II veterans in Sainte-Mere-Eglise for the commemorations

Second World War veterans honoured on eve of D-Day anniversary

Katarina Horrox, Clinical Manager, Venture Trust.

Outdoor therapy helping young people and veterans to reconnect - Katarina Horrox...

Keith Brown was just 19 when he sailed to the South Atlantic with the Royal Marines.

Veterans organisations in Scotland to share more than £2 million of fresh funds

A previous service at the Scottish Korean War Memorial

Changing of the guard at the Korean War Memorial in West Lothian

Submariner Fred Bown, one of only eight survivors from the sinking of the K-17 during the Battle of May Island in January 1918. His testimony of the night, combined with new analysis of the submarine wrecks in the Firth of Forth, has led to fresh understanding of the naval disaster. PIC: Fred Bown archive.

Lost piece of submarine sheds new light on Battle of May disaster

Kevin Muldoon, from Glasgow, while serving with the Royal Corps of Transport during the 1991 Gulf war.

Gulf War veterans urge others to seek help, 30 years after conflict ended

Captain Sir Tom Moore, 100-year-old British Army veteran.

Scottish veterans more likely to lose a limb from diabetes than combat, study fi...

The vast JD Wetherspoon pub portfolio includes the Caley Picture House in Edinburgh.

Wetherspoons blasts Sturgeon's tiered system as 'extremely onerous'

Captain Sir Tom Moore, who raised millions for the NHS, was the first to receive a railcard

Veterans Railcard: eligibility and how to apply for military discount pass

The Red Arrows flew on to Prestwick. Pic: John Devlin

Red Arrows flypast over Edinburgh cancelled

Margaret Ramsay ahead of a community commemoration service in the grounds of Haig Housing in Edinburgh

VE Day celebrations go ahead despite lockdown

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This is everything you need to know about VJ Day and when it takes place in 2020

Mary Sim in her WAAF uniform.

Veterans’ stories told in video series released to mark VE Day

Arctic convoys battled horrendous weather and German attacks. Picture: Getty

Scots sea loch memorial for sailors on Arctic convoys planned

Merchant Navy crews who left Loch Ewe in the Highlands smash ice off their vessel as it heads up through the Arctic Circle to Russia during World War Two. PIC: Contributed.

Worldwide search for veterans of the Russian Arctic Convoys who set sail from Hi...

Tears for Dunkirk's doughty Scottish defenders

Medals hope for heroes left out in cold

Veterans’ tribute to Jellicoe Express

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UK Government accused of 'sabotage' over Scotland's deposit return scheme

Where does Scotland's deposit return scheme go from here?

The derelict Ayr Station Hotel had been served with a dangerous buildings notice because of its poor condition. Picture: N Hackett

Fire breaks out at former Scottish rail station hotel

Kinloch Castle, the Grade A Listed Building on the Isle of Rum, which the Scottish Government has been unable to sell and lies in a state of slow decay. PIC: NatureScot.

Castle at the heart of island's future as millionaire speaks out on failed sale