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WHEN people think of Silicon Valley and the tech giants that have turned San Francisco into their personal playground, I imagine many pictur...

ROSEMARY Dickson imagined a comfortable retirement spent with friends in cafes, with the help of a state pension she worked hard to pay into...

I BREATHED a massive sigh of relief that Emmanuel Macron won the French election. Not because if I was French I would vote for him, but that...

The SNP has called for an emergency budget as polling reveals a majority believe the UK Government is not doing enough to tackle the cost-of...

OVER 400,000 workers across the UK have been lost to the workforce due to health factors such as long Covid, disruption to health care and d...

HISTORY experts have called for a human skull and thigh bone to be removed from an auction next month, branding the sale of the items “uneth...

HISTORY experts have called for a human skull and thigh bone to be removed from an auction next month, branding the sale of the items “uneth...

A P&O ferry travelling between Cairnryan and Larne is adrift off the Co Antrim coast.

NOT even the Greens are advocating that all of Scotland’s oil and gas wells be immediately plugged and abandoned, although some more devious...

A P&O ferry travelling between Cairnryan and Larne is adrift off the Co Antrim coast.

NUMBER 10 has suggested no new money will be provided to tackle the cost of living crisis in the coming months after Chancellor Rishi Sunak...

TWO newspapers – one Swedish, the other Finnish – are reporting that the governments of Sweden and Finland have agreed to submit Nato applic...

VOTERS will today go to the polls in the second round of the French presidential election, determining whether incumbent Emmanuel Macron or...

IT was in this week in 1728 that an Edinburgh merchant, William Hog or Hogg, asked his bank to allow him to take more money from his account...

THE Scottish trade union movement will push against inaction on the cost of living crisis from the UK and Scottish governments “without fear...

SUPERMARKETS across the UK have placed limits on how much cooking oil customers can buy due to supply-chain problems caused by Russia’s inva...

I WAS disturbed to read

THE former boss of the Scottish National Investment Bank was paid £177,500 after she left her post immediately rather than working her notic...

AS many as four in 10 people in Britain could fall into fuel poverty in October, energy bosses warned as they called for more support from t...

LAST weekend, a journalist was advising the Scottish Government to be honest about its mistakes and not to be defensive when challenged or c...

"HEEDLESS mogul tries to buy addictive menace.” It wouldn’t be hard to riff negatively, for many hours, about the news that Elon Musk is att...

IT’S the final day of operation for Cumbernauld’s HMRC office as it prepares to shut down for good – despite promises made by the Better Tog...

ONE important contributor to energy from Scotland which is being overlooked is pumped-storage hydro power which is virtually zero carbon, ca...

THE squeeze on households tightened in March as rapidly rising food and fuel prices sent inflation to another 30-year high, even before ener...