18+ hour, 33+ min ago   (1046+ words) THE Scottish Government has been warned against pursuing an “unwinnable and deeply damaging” cuts agenda amid mounting speculation about an early Westminster election. There is growing expectation that Andy Burnham could go to the polls as early as next spring…...

18+ hour, 26+ min ago   (1277+ words) SOME friends and I decided we wanted to get away for the summer between leaving school and starting university, so I stuck a pin in a map and found Nairn. We got jobs in the Royal Marine hotel, learned silver…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (502+ words) A WESTMINSTER committee has opened two inquiries into the funding of political parties in Scotland and the role of the country’s top prosecutor, reportedly with an eye on investigating how Peter Murrell embezzled funds from the SNP. The first investigation…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (656+ words) THOUSANDS have signed a fresh petition demanding a second referendum on Scottish independence after Andy Burnham set out the conditions for one, with an email being sent straight to the Prime Minister's inbox. Around 23,000 Scots had already signed the so-called…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (712+ words) CATRIONA Clark’s spirited defence of First Minister John Swinney (Letters, Sep 9) is remarkable for the points in my original letter that she simply fails to address. Ms Clark also resorts to no comment on the results of the recent Edinburgh…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (587+ words) WHY did Andy Burnham say that Scotland could get an independence referendum on “exactly” the same terms as an Irish border poll? It seems clear that he said it because it is what he believes. And that is fair enough....

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (903+ words) AS a Scot, it embarrasses me to say this, but the Scottish Government’s new Programme for Government, published last week to much fanfare, is absolutely riddled with errors. Putting the inadequacies of the content aside, the workmanship is shoddy, substandard…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (522+ words) ED Miliband said he “regrets” Israel’s response to a ban on trade with illegal settlements in the West Bank, but insisted it was “the right thing to do”. The Foreign Secretary’s announcement of the ban triggered a diplomatic row, with…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (602+ words) SUPERMARKERTS in Scotland should be made to sell affordable healthy ready meals rather than price cap a list of essential items which could be “never-ending”, a nutrition expert has said. Professor Lindsay Jaacks, based at Edinburgh University, has argued for…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (306+ words) GARY Oldman has fuelled fresh speculation that Amazon has selected his Slow Horses co-star Jack Lowden for the role of the next James Bond. The Oscar-winning actor was asked about Lowden’s chances of becoming the next 007 during an interview with…...