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THE SNP have withdrawn plans to introduce licences for AirBnB-style short-term lets, but insisted that the legislation will be reintroduc...

IT was time of revolution. Looking back now, it’s hard to imagine that 10 years have passed. The day of February 17, a decade ago yesterd...

A SCOTTISH visa specifically targeted at designated areas could be an option to address the declining and ageing population in Scotland’s...

OUR revelation today that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth has successfully appealed her rates bill for her Scottish shooting estates is the l...

A HOST of small businesses in Ballater, nine miles from the Queen’s Balmoral estate in Aberdeenshire, are paying higher rates than Her Ma...

THE Queen has had her tax bill slashed by thousands of pounds for three Scottish shooting estates including Balmoral after making a succe...

THE United Nations is set to showcase an award-winning documentary produced by a professor based at one of Scotland’s universities.

SALES of alcohol per adult dropped by 6% in the early part of lockdown, a new study has shown.

ORIOL Junqueras, the leader of the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) has insisted that his and the other pro-independence parties should...

COUNCILS and businesses in Scotland are to receive a funding boost, Kate Forbes has announced.

THERE is fury around the world today after a pro-Catalan independence Spanish rapper was arrested after a police stand-off and taken to p...

JOE Biden has been urged to lift "damaging" whisky tariffs in a direct personal appeal.

REPUBLICANS in Catalonia have said they will open up a new chapter under their leadership to make amnesty possible for political prisoner...

EU citizens have been asked to share their experiences of how Brexit has changed their plans in the UK and how their local, national and...

THE polling stations had opened in Barcelona

AN independent Scotland would be warmly welcomed into the European Union by Danes, according to a former Danish government minister.

THE first coronavirus lockdown meant monthly air passenger arrivals to the UK plummeted from almost seven million to just over 100,000, n...

PRO-independence parties in Catalonia are poised to retain control of the Catalan government.

US president Joe Biden called for stronger gun laws as a Florida community remembered the 17 lives lost three years ago in the Parkland scho...

DIPLOMATIC missions in 110 places, Nato membership and close cooperation with Norway and Canada – this is how an independent Scotland sho...

The US Republican Party wants the world to believe that it was a “monstrous lie” that Donald Trump had inspired and in effect, ordered hi...

THIS week, we hit a major milestone: one million vaccines delivered. Scotland is racing ahead of the rest of Europe in our vaccination pr...

‘WHEN America sneezes, the world catches a cold.” It one of the hoariest old cliches of journalism and one that feels quaintly dated in t...

NOTHING is certain in politics but, as voters go to the polls in Catalonia this Valentine’s Day, they can be sure of one thing – there is...

IT has all the hallmarks of the uncertainty and rancour that brought about the ill-fated referendum of 2017 and the indications are, as v...