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IRAN “categorically rejects” it had any involvement in the suspected RAF Fairford bomb plot, its London embassy said

GB News has sparked fury after a guest suggested all asylum seekers should be 'castrated' during a live broadcast

A nationwide £2 bus cap must be implemented "immediately" to help families manage rising fuel prices – the Scottish Greens have said

Speakers were allegedly talked over by delegates more interested in awaiting the appearance of a Prime Minister who never actually turned up

THE UK chancellor said "nothing" to reassure the public on the cost of living crisis during his conference speech, the SNP have said

Higher prices at the pumps and condemnation from leaders?

Nigel Farage is in Scotland on Monday – as two major polls show support for Reform UK plummeting north of the Border

A Paisley pub has called last orders for the final time

A woman has been found guilty of animal welfare offences after failing to look after her “morbidly obese” horse

Scotland's former deputy first minister will return to the public eye with a new job hosting live events across the country

TWO separate projects which could create 180 green energy jobs at the Port of Montrose in Scotland’s north east have been hailed as a “strong vote of confidence in the sector” by the First Minister

Conservationists have celebrated a 'major milestone' in efforts to save the critically endangered Scottish wildcat

ROD Stewart has announced his "last ever tour" as he bids farewell to 60 years on the road

The BBC has edited episodes of sketch comedy series Horrible Histories to meet its guidelines for children’s programmes

SHABANA Mahmood will announce the reopening of a scheme to resettle refugees in the UK, which will prioritise Afghan women and girls and Palestinians, as she says “fairness” is at the heart of her vision for the Home Office

COUNTER-TERROR police are understood to be investigating whether Iran is linked to a suspected terror plot at a military airbase used by US bombers

AVANTI West Coast services will be under public ownership from March next year, Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has announced

PROTESTERS who blockaded a road in Portadown to stop an Orange Order parade have mostly dispersed after being told by a community leader that a fresh process to address the dispute was being initiated

SNP members have launched a new internal pressure group demanding the party “reprioritise its core mission” of Scottish independence ...

A STAND-OFF in Northern Ireland has continued through the day and into the evening, with Orangemen waiting at Drumcree Church around a mile from the road waiting to commence their march

THE Scottish Government has been urged to review a policing agreement that reportedly saw 200 Police Scotland officers deployed to Northern Ireland to support policing around a sectarian march

NORTHERN Ireland’s first minister Michelle O’Neill has been accused of “breaking the law” by her actions on the Garvaghy Road

SANDIE Peggie’s sex and gender beliefs “had no bearing” on the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) union’s decision to refuse her request for legal support, a tribunal has heard ...

DRONE and AI technology is now being used above Scotland's busiest railway station, with filming taking place to train AI models

HUNDREDS of people are to risk arrest in Liverpool this weekend, calling for Andy Burnham to lift the ban on Palestine Action

Pope Leo has warned that a “paradise of machines” risked undermining humanity as he opened a trip to France by posing fundamental questions about what it means to be human in the age of artificial intelligence

COUNCIL bosses in Glasgow “feel sick” about their plans to fire and rehire 23,000 workers across the city, a spokesperson for the authority has said.

ABOLISHING the Scotland Office, more powers over immigration, new anti-racism measures following the rise in the far-right, and calls for a detailed new economic case for independence are all proposals on the SNP’s conference agenda ...

Child hit by car on Dalmarnock Road in Glasgow's East End.

Plans have been lodged to transform the site of a former gin distillery in Dumfries and Galloway into an animal sanctuary

The Scottish Government has called on the UK Government to take 'immediate action' to end homelessness

Far-right activist Daniel Thomas – known to his supporters as Danny Tommo – has pleaded not guilty to criminal damage after he allegedly slashed a boat in the English Channel with an emergency responder on board

Seven areas of Scotland are experiencing 'significant water scarcity' according to a new report by the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa)

AN investigative news outlet has reportedly been blocked from attending the Labour Party conference next week – for the third year in a row

AN IRANIAN man arrested after allegedly trying to enter the naval base which houses the UK’s nuclear deterrent will face no proceedings, prosecutors have said.

AN SNP group has accused Labour of creating a "discriminatory" pay scheme after Glasgow City Council announced plans to dismiss and rehire around 23,000 workers under new contracts

GB Energy has been branded a 'money-pit' and accused of 'draining taxpayers' cash' after recording a loss in its first year.

ASH Sarkar has branded the behaviour of far-right activists “small penis behaviour” during a fiery clash over immigration and racism on BBC Question Time.

GLASGOW City Council and unions must “get around the table” to resolve a pay dispute in which thousands of staff are to be fired and rehired, a minister has said.

A West Fife restaurant has closed permanently after less than two months in business due to “intimidation and threats” faced by employees.

SEVERAL protests broke out in New York City on Thursday demanding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be arrested the “minute” he enter the UN General Assembly.

All staff at Glasgow City Council are to be told they are to be “dismissed” and issued with new contracts to impose a controversial new pay and grading scheme.

A senior member of management from the University of St Andrews has admitted there are issues at the institution following accusations of 'anti-Scottish classism'

A RYANAIR flight bound for Scotland was forced to make an emergency landing at Manchester Airport with just “minutes of fuel left” after it had to abort three separate landing attempts ...

SCORES of delegates at the United Nations have walked out during Benjamin Netanyahu's speech in protest as the Israeli prime minister branded them as “moral cowards” ...

A MOTORCYCLIST has died after failing to stop for police in Edinburgh ...

THE world’s first fully community-owned distillery has filed for administration ten years after thousands of people backed the business due to “substantive” legal issues and a “challenging” whisky market ...

JOHN SWINNEY says Scotland's drug death figures "would've been worse" without The Thistle consumption facility

John Curtice has given his verdict after a new poll showed Labour failing to reach a majority in Westminster

REFORM UK are calling for a vote of no confidence in drugs minister Maree Todd after figures this week showed drug deaths in Scotland had risen in the last year and are among the worst rates in Europe ...