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The first celebrity has been banished from the Celebrity Traitors after a heated roundtable – here is who it was

Sinn Féin and People Before Profit elected representatives have received letters from police probing alleged criminal offences in the ongoing parading dispute in Portadown

AS Thomas Kerr points to European burqa bans to justify introducing similar restrictions in Scotland, experts have warned that the legislation in Denmark has left Muslim women fearful of public spaces and legitimised Islamophobia.

A DEBATE on Reform UK's proposal to introduce a ban on face coverings descended into confusion at Holyrood after MSPs rejected an attempt to extend proceedings to allow more members to speak

AN SNP councillor is looking to ban a new far right group dubbed “Scotland’s version” of the Patriot Platform from holding military-style training sessions on Glasgow Green ...

THE story of how parents, teachers and campaigners transformed Gaelic education in Glasgow over four decades is set to be told on one of the biggest stages in Scottish culture

WOMEN have gathered outside of the Scottish Parliament in protest of Reform UK's bid to ban face coverings in public places – with a particular focus on the burqa

HUNDREDS of IPSO complaints appear to have been submitted against The National by members of a Scrabble club in Tel Aviv.

BUSINESSES near St Enoch agree there's a problem in the area; they agree on how to fix it, but some still think the BBC documentary blew things way out of proportion

Andy Burnham has said he would be monitoring the situation closely amid reports a woman died fom the plague in Russia

PUPILS at a Highlands school held an “exciting” live conversation with an astronaut on board the International Space Station (ISS) as part of a school project

THE eviction of an 87-year-old from her home in Madrid has sparked a 'truly historic' snap election - but is housing becoming a bigger issue around the world

A criminal investigation into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is ongoing despite the search warrants that allowed police officers to raid two of his properties being ruled unlawful, the High Court has heard

AN SNP MSP has defended plans to give the Scottish Greens a platform at the party's annual conference amid backlash from members ...

JOHN Swinney has drawn applause from Labour MSPs after accusing the Scottish Reform leadership of seeking to divide communities with calls for a burqa ban

A YOUNG audience member challenged Reform UK Scotland depute leader Thomas Kerr over wealth inequality during a heated exchange on Debate Night

A FORMER Alba candidate is suing the defunct party in an employment tribunal ...

Coronation Street and Still Game actor Eric Potts, 61, pleads guilty to making 83 indecent images of children in Lancashire and faces a prison sentence.

ONE man has been arrested following a far-right protest in Glasgow involving people wearing balaclavas ...

A HISTORIC Scottish island believed to have sheltered Bonnie Prince Charlie following his defeat at the Battle of Culloden has gone up for sale for almost £1 million.

A SERVING member of the Royal Navy has been charged with spying for a foreign country, police said.

THE UK has withdrawn staff and their families from its consulate in East Jerusalem after Israel said it would be closed in retaliation for the Government’s trade ban with illegal West Bank settlements.

A NINE-YEAR-OLD girl has died following a crash involving two vehicles on a road in the Highlands.

Train services are being cancelled this morning amid an ongoing incident.

A 19-YEAR-OLD man has been charged in connection with the death of a 21-year-old man following a disturbance in Glasgow city centre.

The Archdiocese of Glasgow has released plans to cut half of their churches in a major restructure prompted by "two few people and two few priests"

I often wonder how much the average person knows about Palestine beyond the horrors that have unfolded there over the past three years.

ROADS have been closed and emergency services are in attendance amid an ongoing police incident at Parkhead Cross in Glasgow

HUNDREDS of students and staff members at Edinburgh University have called for the institute to “immediately divest” from companies they allege are complicit in the genocide in Gaza ...

A STAND-OFF between Orange Order members and residents in Portadown has been described as “now bigger than the Garvaghy Road”

Paul Ferris, the notorious Glasgow underworld figure, has died aged 62.

A SCOTTISH charity are calling for "greater institutional transparency" following figures that reveal nearly 70 per cent of suspended police officers are facing violence against women probes

THE SNP says Ireland's € 10-a-week welfare payment increase shows what is possible when independent countries control their own future

THE Irish premier is facing further calls to help bring an end to the “dangerous and lingering limbo” of the Drumcree dispute, as Sinn Féin’s leader called for direct intervention to the issue

ARMY insiders have spoken out against an AI-powered rebrand of a new regimental logo which “looks like some tourist tat”

THE Tories will face an uphill battle to win the public round to their plans to tear up Scotland’s devolution settlement, pollsters have predicted.

CONCERNS have been raised over the emergence of a new far-right group which is being dubbed “Scotland’s own version” of the so-called Patriot Platform ...

AROUND 200 University of Edinburgh staff and students have taken part in a protest against the institution's "complicity in genocide" in Gaza on the anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel

HUMZA Yousaf has sparked backlash from figures in the independence movement after suggesting the UN could help to broker a deal to break the “impasse” between Holyrood and Westminster.

TWO Holyrood committees are preparing to “dig into the details” behind planned hyperscale data centres

A TORY pledge to take powers away from Scotland is not really an offer to Scottish voters at all.

A HIGHLAND company has been served with a £32,000 penalty after a Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) investigation.

A 19-year-old man has been arrested following a fatal early-morning disturbance which took the life of Daniel Colrain in Glasgow's Royal Exchange Square.

REFORM UK have been accused of orchestrating a "whitewash" after their internal probe cleared senior figures involved in a donations scandal.

JOHN Swinney has hit out at Tory plans to review and strip the Scottish Parliament of powers if they win the next General Election ...

KEMI Badenoch has claimed the new leader of Scottish Labour “actively supports” a second independence referendum.

RUTH Davidson has suggested that Labour are opening the door to Scottish independence without a referendum ...

INDEPENDENCE from Canada could be on the table again for Quebec after a party which campaigned on the promise of a new referendum took power for the first time in over a decade.

TORY plans to review and strip the Scottish parliament of powers if they win the next General Election have been condemned as “nonsense” ...

FORMER SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford has identified one of his key regrets from his time in frontline politics.