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The recent job losses at Alexander Dennis and Syngenta’s Grangemouth site should be a wake-up call for both the Scottish and UK Governments.

The course will feature authors including Christopher Brookmyre

Ilia Belov, 23, was sentenced to 18 months of supervision, 300 hours of unpaid work, and was placed on the sex offenders register for 18 months

Some smart chef needs to start a Scottish version of the Pudding Club in the Cotswolds

Professor Christine McCourt said there was ‘a great potential to learn from people's experience’

Camden Council leader Sagal Abdi-Wali won the by-election.

Kemi Badenoch’s conference rhetoric fails to impress reader

Episode 4 of Celebrity Traitors will arrive tonight - here’s what time it’s on and where you can watch live.

Emergency crews were called to the fire at a premises on North Muirton Industrial Estate on Thursday

The Scottish Government is being warned that a ‘dreadful winter’ awaits.

Stephen Kerr’s comments have caused uproar among civil servants

Projects look certain to be scaled back in atmosphere of uncertainty

Medieval thinker John Duns Scotus was once known as ‘the Subtle Doctor’, but is now mostly remembered in a very different way

Given the state of Scotland and the need to make massive public sector savings, John Swinney and his ministers have more than enough to do

Performers said the late timing of this year’s Fringe hit ticket sales

Rape Crisis Scotland said there needed to be a ‘proper timeline for implementation’

Staff member raised concerns about ‘corruption’ and ‘misuse of public funds’ at Historic Environment Scotland

NLS spent £8 million on new acquisitions last year

Here is the full Celebrity Traitors series 2 line up - including who is a Traitor or Faithful and which stars are alive, dead or banished.

Conservatives call for a ban on the face coverings which are now a common site on city streets

Stephen Flynn’s appearance at the transport committee had been met with derision

If we are deliver a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, politics by slogan is the last thing we need, writes Alistair Carmichael

A new venue has been announced for Edinburgh’s Hogmanay celebrations

A polycrisis of trust is threatening to wreck vital institutions at home and abroad but decisions over fracking and hyperscale data centres show mainstream politics can respond to public concerns effectively

Accounts of how wolves transformed Yellowstone national park in the USA grabbed the imaginations of millions, but the real story is more complicated and less dramatic

Presiding Officer Kenny Gibson has asked the parliament to consider paying committee chairs more money.

Michael Marra said Scotland faces ‘inertia, confusion and delay’

Chief constable confirms review into Alan Greer offending is underway

Glasgow-based airline had said removing discount for islanders would not reduce demand

BBC broadcaster tells court he was attacked while he was a pupil at Edinburgh Academy

Police are appealing for information about the crash

Stand Up To Racism accuses party of ‘weaponising women’s lives’

Here’s when you can find out which star will be the first to be banished during episode 3 of The Celebrity Traitors.

Daniel Colrain, 21, suffered serious injuries in the incident in Royal Exchange Square

The high-profile Labour MSP has strongly denied the claims, describing them as a ‘work of fiction’

Ross Moran said impact “felt like a tsunami had gone through my spine”

NHS staff rose to the challenge of giving a former cancer patient her voice back after most of her tongue had to be removed

Ministers must act quickly to slow the rate of decline in the oil and gas industry and accelerate the development of renewables

Warnings have been issued by the industry body that Scotland’s chance to lead the world on floating offshore wind is “time-limited”.

Falkirk East and Linlithgow MSP Martyn Day said Andy Burnham had “gone into hiding on the issue”.

Alex Cole-Hamilton said the videos had a ‘serious message’ but critics called them ‘deeply misleading’

Floods to be prevented and habitats restored on the Water of May in Perthshire

The Conservative leader is personally popular, but her party is not.

It is time to move on for architect Roderick James

The family of Ethan Brown say Glasgow University’s failures were ‘catastrophic’

A reader says Scotland produces more than enough energy of its own without nuclear power

Gary Gray says identity check requirements and statutory filing obligations should be monitored and managed proactively

In straitened times, a universal income cap on welfare should be introduced

Deryck McEwing explains how he found real help after he becoming ill from drug use and rough sleeping

In the US, election results increasingly reflect the wealth of the few, not the will of the many, and the UK must snap out of its current complacency, writes Henry McLeish