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A former Labour deputy leader has joined a controversial US tech firm which has links to Israel's genocide in Gaza and has assisted ICE operations

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump is being sued for £800,000 by a company founded by a former MI6 spy at a Scottish court ...

Former staff and certain creditors of the collapsed beer company BrewDog’s retail arm will not get a penny of unpaid wages after retail collapse

A GREEN MSP is looking forward to returning to Holyrood after successful surgery to help treat a “debilitating and painful” medical condition ...

THE SNP have gained a seat on South Lanarkshire Council after the party won a by-election last night ...

Joe Black Coffee Roasters is set to close after 76 years in business, having entered voluntary liquidation.

A HOUSEBUILDING firm in East Lothian has collapsed into administration, leaving a number of homes “part-complete,” with lawyers having to call in security to “gain access” to the site ...

TWO more men have been arrested in connection with the death of a man in West Lothian ...

A SCOTTISH man who has spent nearly nine years in a jail in India without conviction has been granted bail, his family has said ...

THE University of St Andrews has beat the likes of Oxford and Cambridge to be crowned the best university in the UK ...

GIVEN that its programme this year includes robotic sculptures that follow shoppers around Glasgow’s Buchanan Galleries, an amazing drone choir performing in a former swimming pool and a sound artist turning plants into collaborators creating ambient elec…

The SNP and the Scottish Greens have been urged to unite with a new Westminster strategy with the sole aim of achieving independence

ONE million people who were unable to vote in the 2014 independence referendum must have the right to decide their future, and the UK Government cannot stand in their way, Scotland’s Deputy First Minister has said ...

A SUMMIT organised by King Charles in Scotland with the world’s biggest AI companies in attendance has been condemned as a “secretive” meeting that excluded local communities ...

The Scottish Labour leadership race is coming to an end, with today the last day for members to cast their votes ...

WHILE MSPs voted on a moratorium on data centres in the Scottish Parliament, a heated debate was held between the developers behind the plans for a “hyperscale” AI data centre and a united local community in Falkirk ...

A Unionist summit organised by the Orange Order has flopped after just a handful of people turned up

ROSS Greer has hit out at what he called “confusion” over the Scottish Government’s position on a moratorium for hyperscale data centres after yesterday’s Holyrood vote ...

A Scottish council has issued a vote of no confidence for six male councillors who voted to allow a rapist taxi driver to keep his operating licence

The new leader of Glasgow Council has hit out at Thomas Kerr’s comments about Govanhill ...

Glasgow’s £2m Elfingrove Christmas event at Kelvingrove has been cancelled less than 24 hours after tickets went on sale, with refunds promised

A RAPIST former police sergeant preyed on a colleague while she was asleep, it can be revealed

JOHN Swinney has suggested that Reform’s leader in Scotland Malcolm Offord is afraid of the prospect of Scottish independence ...

THE owners of a store in Glasgow have been left “saddened” after thieves allegedly broke into their warehouse ahead of the highly anticipated release of the Pokémon 30th anniversary set ...

Human rights experts commissioned by the UN’s top human rights body say they have found 'reasonable grounds' to believe the United States committed war crimes in two strikes in Iran

Scotland will only receive 'pocket change' from a new GB Energy fund to help communities across the country set up their own green energy supplies

The Scottish Government may need to consider compulsory redundancies if it is to meet its target of reducing the public sector workforce, an economist has warned

WORKERS at a Scottish whisky distillery are set to strike after alleging “appalling” treatment from management, bringing production at the site to a “standstill” ...

The Irish president has revealed that she spoke with First Minister John Swinney about the 'importance of self-determination' during their meeting in Edinburgh

A MAN has been rescued in Loch Lomond after he fell and was knocked unconscious after hitting a rock ...

IRELAND will not participate in the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest in Bulgaria, broadcaster RTE has confirmed.

THE Canadian Prime Minister has said “Europe and Canada are stronger together” after US president Donald Trump said allowing the country to be an EU associate would be a “hostile act” ...

The Irish president has been awarded the Royal Society of Edinburgh's 'highest honour' during her visit to Scotland

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed evidence of an early medieval jewellery workshop and a stone ring in a 1500-year-old churchyard in Glasgow ...

Scottish Labour’s two leadership contenders must answer the 'basic question' of how Scotland can democratically leave the United Kingdom, the SNP have said

SCHOOLS in six council areas in Scotland are at risk of closure as a union ballots for strike action over changing conditions ...

Unionists have been left fuming after John Swinney used pro-Irish unification language following a meeting with the Irish president

ALL of Glasgow Subway’s services have been suspended, with passengers forced to get off trains during rush hour this morning ...

A former Police Scotland officer has been convicted of numerous sexual offences, including rape

A radio station has dropped Ed Sheeran’s music after “the reaction from our listeners” to the decision to remove Macklemore from his tour over comments the rapper made about Gaza.

THE new leader of Glasgow City Council has backed calls for a temporary pause on housing asylum seekers in the city, warning that local services are struggling under an unsustainable burden

GB Energy has been branded a 'complete failure for Scotland' after files revealed fresh details about the company's activities north of the Border

ALMOST 600 climate scientists, health professionals and conservationists are making fresh calls for Prime Minister Andy Burnham to reject applications for new drilling licences for the Rosebank oil field in the North Sea

'SHOCKING' details around royal family funding arrangements have been laid bare in a fresh report.

OFFSPRING from one of the world’s rarest trees has found a new home in Scotland, thanks to an international team of conservationists racing against time to stop the species from disappearing

THE Scottish Government must tell the public how it will use the £755 million generated by the ScotWind project, a watchdog has said

THE Scottish Greens have reacted angrily after MSPs failed to back their bid for a moratorium on AI data centres, accusing the SNP, Labour and LibDems of "blocking" their motion.

STEPHEN Flynn launched a blistering attack on Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay during a Holyrood debate on sanctions against Israel, urging him to reflect on calling him a "coward" while Israeli military pilots bomb civilians across the Middle…

CAMPAIGNERS may be welcoming MSPs' decision to pause AI data centre development until national planning guidance can be implemented, but this story is far from over.

MSPs have rejected an outright moratorium on AI data centres, instead backing a pause on planning and consent decisions until the Scottish Government publishes national planning guidance