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CORONAVIRUS contact tracers in Scotland’s capital are paid thousands of pounds less than colleagues elsewhere in the country, the Sunday Nat...

FOOD and drink exports have plummeted by more than £62 million per week in just three years, House of Commons Library analysis shows.

OIL and gas have a role to play in the UK’s transition to net zero, according to the industry body OGUK, as the country faces a stark choice...

MAGICIANS call it misdirection. Pickpockets too. Keep your audience’s attention fixed on what your right hand is doing, and they won’t notic...

SCOTLAND'S GDP could be cut by a massive £9 billion by 2030 due to Brexit, the SNP have said.

TO help it develop its new 10-year National Strategy for Economic Transformation, the Scottish Government has been consulting widely. Workin...

SCOTS could be hit with a £1 billion tax bombshell to fix the Tories’ social care failures in England, the SNP have warned.

EVERY Ikea store in the UK is experiencing shortages of around 1000 product lines as a direct result of Brexit, reports say.

A WHITE House press secretary has won praise after shutting down a male reporter who asked questions about Joe Biden’s support for abortion...

A VIOLENT extremist who stabbed and injured six people in an Auckland supermarket has been shot dead by police, authorities in New Zealand s...

"A TREMENDOUS sense of mourning accompanied by an indescribable rage” was how former Texas state senator Wendy Davis described her feelings...

A TERRORIST who conspired to abduct and behead Western hostages for the so-called Islamic State is facing spending the rest of his life behi...

NICOLA Sturgeon is being urged to give Scots a “clear message that it’s safe to go back to work” as part of efforts to boost the country’s e...

LATER this month I will be returning to Iraq. The timing of my trip to the country could not have come at a more resonant moment as US forei...

THE city of New York has declared a state of emergency due to “brutal flooding” after being caught by the tail end of Hurricane Ida.

PRICES in shops look set to rise according to new statistics reveal from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) which warned of further disrupt...

WITH a four-day week backed by the vast majority of Scottish workers, and initial plans for a trial in place from the Scottish Government, i...

IRELAND is taking over the presidency of the United Nations (UN) Security Council.

TORY ministers have rejected a joint plea from the UK’s devolved parliaments to reverse cuts to “lifeline” welfare payments.

I HAVE written about Afghanistan a few times lately but this week I do so again as there has been no let-up in the heartbreak for Afghans on...

"IT cam wi’ a lass and it will gang wi’ a lass,” King James V said on his death bed, foreseeing the end of the Stuart dynasty.

I CAN’T recall exactly when Scottish ministers began to use superlatives to garland their aspirations. They like to reach for the Moon when...

THE mortality rate for Scots in the most deprived areas is almost twice as high as it is for those in the most affluent communities – with t...

DOMINIC Raab did not deny that there is a campaign to oust him as UK Foreign Secretary as the senior Tory hit back at criticism of his depar...

CONSUMERS have been urged to be aware of new scams on the rise as national ScamWatch week gets underway.