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A major artist is set to play a huge gig in Scotland next year after announcing the release of a new album

POLICE Scotland will provided more resources and specially trained officers to tackle firework-related crimes in the run-up to Halloween and Bonfire Night ...

SCHOOL attendance across the country has dropped after hundreds of hoax bomb threats were made in Scotland and Northern Ireland this week ...

PLANS for a new Tesco supermarket and petrol station for the Isle of Skye have been submitted ...

THE UK Government have just approved Jackdaw, a new gas field in the North Sea – but will it make our bills any cheaper?

A SECOND Labour MP has been suspended from the party while he faces an investigation about a taxpayer-funded Covid-19 business loan ...

A MANHUNT has been launched after a gun was fired at a house in East Ayrshire in a “targeted attack” ...

THE UK Government has been accused of “climate vandalism” and committing a “devastating betrayal of our children’s future” by approving the Jackdaw gas field, the Scottish Greens have said.

THE decision to approve the Jackdaw gas field will help bring “stability and certainty” in the country’s energy sector after “many years of difficulty” the Scottish Government has said ...

THE JACKDAW gas field has been - rejected/approved - by the UK Government, after months of speculation about its future

THE SNP’s invitation to Believe in Scotland (BiS)and the Greens to join a panel discussion on achieving Scottish independence at their party conference could be a pivotal moment for the movement

A GLASGOW man with alleged links to a loyalist paramilitary group offered to arrange murders for money while having connections to Britain’s anti-migrant protest movement, an Al Jazeera investigation has claimed

COMMUNITIES in the north-west Highlands have warned they could be effectively “cut off” from Inverness as a key road faces months of closures during construction of a wind farm

THE perpetrators behind hundreds of hoax bomb threats targeting schools across Scotland and Northern Ireland may never be identified, experts have said, warning the operation could have been carried out “quickly and easily” by just one person

POLICE Scotland have issued a fresh statement addressing the hoax threats made to a number of schools across the country

The adult social care sector “cannot be allowed to enter the next pandemic in such an unprepared state” inquiry finds

SCOTLAND'S data centres “would absolutely” be on a “target list of any hostile nation”, a military expert has warned ...

A BIG decision looms in the world of oil and gas.

Martin Lewis has warned Ofgem's proposed Market Stabilisation Charge could make cheaper energy deals more expensive if wholesale prices fall

More than £11,000 has been raised to help the families of a man who died and two others missing following the disappearance of a fishing boat off the coast of Lewis

Moving the BBC Scotland channel online is “wholly unacceptable”, Scottish Culture Secretary Mairi McAllan has said

MANY Scots don’t need to travel far to see the benefits of public control over bus services.

A GARVAGHY Road residents representative has hit out at the media over reports that dissident republicans could have used firearms against police during the Drumcree stand-off

CUTS to BBC Scotland are due to “London-based overlords” who have no desire to cater to people north of the Border, the SNP have alleged ...

TWO firms based in Motherwell have announced they will close resulting in more than 200 jobs being lost as bosses plan to move manufacturing to other countries ...

A REGION in Scotland has been named one of the world’s best destinations to visit for 2027 by National Geographic ...

BBC Scotland will be among three broadcast services to close down from next year, meaning the loss of 10 jobs at the channel, it has been confirmed ...

THE King, the Queen and the Prince and Princess of Wales have been targeted by fresh protests during the Sultan of Oman's state visit to the UK

LABOUR have refused to rule out imposing a coalition ban on the Scottish Greens, The National can reveal.

PLANS for a major refurbishment of public toilet facilities to the tune of hundreds of thousands of pounds have been given the green light by councillors.

A 55-YEAR-OLD man has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after a man forced entry to a home and assaulted him ...

A FERRY route between Aberdeen and Iceland is being examined after officials from both countries met to discuss the proposal, it has emerged ...

JOHN Swinney has hit back at the bosses of a major bus firm, saying that comparing him to a dictator over plans to bring buses back under public control was “more than a bit ludicrous” ...

DRINKS giant Diageo has admitted responsibility for a toxic pollution incident that is estimated to have killed “thousands” of fish in Moray ...

Chios Airport on Chios, Greece’s fifth-biggest island, will be closing down for four months, with all flights suspended.

REFORM UK’s leader in Scotland has hit out at an MSP who suddenly quit the party, accusing them of “squatting” in parliament.

ANDY Burnham has rejected former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's call for an independent inquiry into the UK Government’s complicity in the Gaza genocide.

AN ITALIAN restaurant company that served customers in Edinburgh for almost a decade has fallen into liquidation ...

BBC drama The Young Team films in Govan, starring Jakob James Smith, Connor Newall and Scot Greenan, adapting Graeme Armstrong’s novel about gang violence.

UNEMPLOYMENT in Scotland has fallen in the last quarter, according to the latest figures ...

VOTERS in Canada’s oil-rich Alberta province have overwhelmingly backed remaining in Canada ...

COMMUTERS heading into Glasgow are facing long delays on one of Scotland’s busiest motorways following an early morning crash ...

THE face of a man who died on the Roman frontier in Scotland almost 2,000 years ago has been revealed in a facial reconstruction carried out ahead of a major exhibition.

THE Indian market represents a “golden opportunity” to Scottish food and drink businesses, John Swinney has said ahead of a trade mission to the country.

IN Kyiv last week, amid power outages, loss of water and air raid sirens, city life continued in the sunshine.

A damning new United Nations (UN) report could force news organisations to confront their own failures in accurately reporting on the scale and reality of the atrocities committed by Israel

THE SNP conference is over – but that doesn’t mean everything’s done and dusted ...

An article headlined “Scots language centre director resigns after payment row” was published on October 29, 2025

SEVEN people have been taken to hospital following two separate crashes on major Highland roads just over an hour apart.

A SCOTTISH businesswoman has said she was detained by Israeli authorities and deported after being banned from entering Palestine ...