PEOPLE living in the UK are 39 worse off than those in neighbouring countries, a think tank found this week – and campaigners argue ...

AN Aberdeen-based institute has launched a citizen science project to better understand the soil quality in Scotland ...

KENNY MacAskill has announced his decision to stand for the Alba Party leadership. The former MP for East Lothian has been serving as the party’s acting leader since the death of Alex Salmond but will ...

A CHILD psychotherapist working for an Edinburgh charity, who disappeared after being picked up by the Israel Defence Force (IDF) in war-torn ...

REJOINING the European Union is Scotland’s “best hope for a more prosperous future”, John Swinney is expected to say in a speech in Glasgow.

Don’t the tabloids and most politicians have an unending appetite for lurid “soft-touch justice” stories, routinely objecting to the sentences our courts hand down for being too short, repeatedly ...

A DEAL to allow Iceland to join the EU swiftly could pave the way for a relatively quick agreement for an independent Scotland, according to ...

KENNY MacAskill’s decision to contest the Alba leadership against Ash Regan triggers the party’s first leadership election in its five years ...

RENEWED questions over the fate of the Loch Lomond wallabies are being raised following the signing of a legal agreement for an island bought ...

SCOTLAND’S Finance Secretary has said the country is being “punished” for having a larger public sector due to the UK Government’s ...

WE do injustice to Gaza when we look for its poems, so let us not disfigure Gaza’s beauty,” says the Palestinian poet Mahmoud ...

AFTER more than 15 months of killing, the guns and bombs are expected to fall silent in Gaza this weekend. It goes without saying that such a respite is both welcome and should be embraced. Equally ...