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A SCOT locked up in a Barcelona prison for more than a month without trial will have to wait to find out if he is to be granted temporary...

A CONSORTIUM of research partners could pave the way for better connectivity in remote and rural areas by creating a new commercial model...

AN SNP MP will present a bill to Parliament today aiming to ban the unfair issue of scalping in the video games marketplace.

THE Brexit process has descended into chaos since the beginning of the year. Leaving Europe was always going to be difficult but the unbe...

YESTERDAY folk in England and Wales were filling in their census forms. Not so in Scotland. Quite sensibly, the Scottish Government has p...

SHOPPING baskets are not what they used to be. You generally have to queue for one nowadays and then lather it in disinfectant.

WITH the saga of the so-called “Salmond Inquiry” becoming really tedious – and providing fertile resource for Unionists and nay-sayers –...

AN independent Scotland would “undoubtedly” be financially viable – although it would face challenges in the early years.

SOMETIMES, sadly, it takes a grisly headline for an otherwise largely ignored crisis in a country to be noticed by the rest of the world....

WE heartily agree with Lesley Riddoch that “May’s election requires more vision than just independence” (March 18). Independence, or fede...

THE SNP’s shadow attorney general Angela Crawley has written to the Foreign Secretary urging him to intervene to secure the freedom of a...

AT last an elite member of the capitalist class has finally admitted what anyone with a scintilla of intelligence has always known; trick...

IN her column in yesterday’s paper (“May election must be about more than securing indy, we need a vision”), Lesley Riddoch called for a...

GUIDING principles for Scottish Government investment in private industries are to be published after a string of problems, the Government’s...

WILLIAM Aitken, the Scot held in a Barcelona jail for a month after Brexit​ because authorities decreed him a “flight risk” is due to app...

ECONOMIC experts have warned that the country could be in for a “sharp dose of austerity” after announcing they had found a £4 billion ho...

SPAIN’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said he is ready to talk about the future of Catalonia through “political and democratic routes” wi...

NORTH America’s first Gaelic medium school is to open in a former convent in a $2 million investment in Scottish culture, it has been con...

A SURVIVOR of the Park Inn attack has urged the UK Government to give asylum seekers the right to work.

SCOTTISH academics have teamed up with a major international supplier to the semiconductor industry to create a direct route to market fo...

CRIMINAL proceedings have been launched against the National Westminster​ Bank (NatWest) under alleged failures to comply with money laun...

‘GETTIN old ain’t for sissies”, quoth the formidable and admirable Bette Davis. Neither is just living through the 21st century. Covid, B...

STV saw its figures slump in the year of Covid with the pause in filming because of the pandemic hitting revenue from its studios divisio...

SO there I am, minding my own breakfasting business, when three billion quid sails past my kitchen window.

TENS of thousands of jobs could be created if Scotland reformed its land ownership and use, giving people, communities and the nation the...