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A QUANTITY of petrol but no explosive devices were found in the vans that sparked a major security alert near an RAF base used by the US, police have said ...

JOHN Swinney has responded after Andy Burnham hit back at the First Minister’s prediction he would be the last Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

JOHN Swinney was the only living politician from a rival party mentioned in Andy Burnham’s keynote speech at Labour conference.

A COMMEMORATIVE plaque will be installed at Paisley Central Library to pay tribute to Dolly Parton and the work of her Imagination Library ...

PLANS to transform a Dundee sports bar into a mini golf attraction have been approved ...

THE Scottish Greens are calling for a moratorium on purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) in Glasgow amid falling international student numbers.

ANDY Burnham is on the edge of making “the same mistake” as Keir Starmer by seeking to “punish pensioners” by axing the triple lock, the SNP have claimed.

TWO concerts at the Royal Highland Centre in Edinburgh have been cancelled just days before they were due to be held ...

Plans have been submitted for an immense data centre campus in Dumfries and Galloway which, if built, would be the largest in the world

AN independent review into the roles and functions of the Lord Advocate and Solicitor General to ensure they “serve modern Scotland as effectively as they can”, has been announced by the Scottish Government ...

ANDY Burnham has used his Labour Party conference speech to announce a series of policy changes.

Michael Marra has said his aim is for Scottish Labour to win the next Holyrood election in five years' time, but he admitted they are a 'long way from that' at the moment

SCOTRAIL'S minimum fare scheme has led to a major fall in ticketless travel and a significant uptick in revenue, The National can reveal.

ANDY Burnham has rebuffed John Swinney’s prediction that he would be the “last” Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

ANDY Burnham has signalled the end of the triple lock as he unveiled new plans to fund a national care service.

The number of homes which began construction in Scotland is at its lowest level in more than a decade, new figures show

A FINAL-YEAR student whose dissertation has been disrupted by strikes at Glasgow Caledonian University has backed striking staff – saying redundancies would be far more damaging to students.

John Swinney will lead a trade mission during a visit to India in October alongside business representatives for Scottish whisky and salmon

A MEMBER of the House of Lords has been branded “pathetic” after stealing a journalist’s microphone and putting it in the bin.

REFORM UK have been forced to remove social media content after breaching Scottish Parliament rules during Nigel Farage’s visit to Holyrood ...

An industry body has warned there has been 'decades of underinvestment' in museums as a new report shows 17 per cent of organisations believe their facility is at risk of closure in the next 12 months

A DOCTOR Who episode generated entirely by AI “was pretty good,” BBC director-general Matt Brittin has said

FAR-RIGHT figures have reacted furiously after anti-migrant activist Danny Tommo was denied bail, despite him allegedly slashing a migrant dinghy with a knife.

SANDIE Peggie was suspended because of her conduct, not because of her sex and gender beliefs, a tribunal has heard ...

A SCOTTISH Labour MP and former minister has been branded an “idiot” after saying he would sack half of the NHS managers he’d met “in a heartbeat”.

Far-right agitator Daniel Thomas – known to his supporters as Danny Tommo – has been remanded into custody after he allegedly slashed a boat in the English Channel while an emergency responder was on board.

THE UK Government has almost trebled the number of arms exports licences covered under its partial embargo on Israel, it has emerged.

Irn Bru manufacturer AG Barr has estimated that it lost around £10 million worth of revenue due to disruption to deliveries and reduced product availability

Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott has been sentenced to seven years in jail after being found guilty of sexually abusing two primary school-age children

A LABOUR peer has demanded that his name be removed from a letter reportedly being used by a US woman who is at the centre of a legal battle with two community organisations in the Outer Hebrides ...

The Skinny magazine has been saved from closure after an arts charity acquired its publisher

ANDY Burnham will pledge to tackle the issues politicians “usually avoid” in his first leader’s speech at the Labour Party conference ...

THE main road in and out of Peebles was closed this morning after cash machines were ripped from a bank wall through the night ...

ANDY Burnham is reportedly set to signal the end of the pensions triple lock in his first leader’s speech at the Labour Party conference.

A LABOUR minister has been panned for “vile and deeply ignorant” comments about Glasgow schools ...

FORMER world snooker champion Graeme Dott is due to be sentenced after being found guilty of sexually abusing two primary school age children ...

‘GREEN” data centres in a Lanarkshire AI growth zone could run diesel generators in hot weather to meet higher power demand ...

THE media isn't in great shape ...

ALL jobs have been lost after a pioneering dental technology firm in Edinburgh fell into administration ...

REFORM UK will use some of the £72 million the party received from crypto billionaires for their branch in Scotland, Nigel Farage has confirmed ...

The BBC's move towards AI – including the possibility of using the technology to both make and present programmes – is a 'slap in the face' to journalists, a leading expert has said

NICOLA Sturgeon will teach women from around the world how to lead under pressure in a new masterclass launching next year ...

IT wouldn’t be the run-up to SNP conference if there wasn’t some form of internal strife over independence strategy ...

A REPORT setting out sweeping changes to Scotland’s education system is an “urgent call for action”, its author has said ...

CHRISTIAN protesters have staged a vigil outside the Labour Party Conference to urge the government to reject Rosebank

Pro-independence groups from Scotland, Wales and the island of Ireland have met to discuss how they can work together

A Scottish councillor has insisted he is still representing his constituents 'on the issues that matter most' despite living more than 200 miles from his ward

'Catastrophic' new images have exposed the devastating scale of destruction inflicted on Gaza by Israel's genocide

A SCOTTISH High School has paid tribute to one of its former pupils who has died whilst fighting for Ukraine in the east of the country

Nigel Farage has dismissed a new poll which suggests support for Scottish independence would rise significantly if he became prime minister