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Veterans march through Edinburgh on Remembrance Sunday. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell

Remembrance Day should also be about survivors like N Ireland veterans
The mostly elderly veterans of the Northern Ireland Troubles are deeply concerned about the prospect of vexatious prosecutions
Murdo Fraser

Scots are being warned that power cuts could be caused by threats other than winter storms and across the entire nation

Scots warned about power cuts caused by 'new and dynamic threats'

Scottish Labour leader Michael Marra

Scottish Labour leader backs rejoining EU in change of position

Stephen Kerr MSP

List MSP calls for the Holyrood list voting system to be overhauled

Andy Burnham sought to reassure people ahead of the Makerfield by-election that he was not another chancer from the Labour/Conservative uniparty who says one thing and does another. Picture: Christopher Furlong

Why Andy Burnham's EU policy fails his own 'Makerfield Test' Brian Monteith

A plane takes off from Edinburgh Airport. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Fresh condemnation of Edinburgh Airport must lead to real change Scotsman comment

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Edinburgh High Court sign

High Court cases to double as Crown braces for 'significant' pressure

High Court indictments are expected to double from 110 to 240 a month before reducing to a new norma...

John Swinney urged to provide clarity on flagship bus pledge

The Confederation of Passenger Transport said it ‘remains unclear’ what the First Minister meant

First Minister John Swinney lays a wreath during the Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the Stone of Remembrance outside the City Chambers in Edinburgh

Swinney hits back at 'disgusting' Tories over Remembrance Sunday X row

The First Minister said the party’s claims were ‘categorically false’

Readers Letters: It's a case of skyway robbery at Edinburgh Airport

Scotsman Letters

Labour calls on SNP to enhance energy bills support from Westminster

Scottish Labour want the SNP government to enhance help with energy bills offered by the party’s col...

SNP warned council services 'facing decline' without budget cash boost

Scottish councils have warned the SNP government that there is ‘little left to cut without communit...

Scottish Independence

Prime Minister Andy Burnham (left) has spoke with John Swinney over the phone.

‘Agree to disagree’, Andy Burnham tells John Swinney on independence

John Swinney has claimed the SNP could cut energy bills by one third with Scottish independence

John Swinney to launch SNP's election campaign with independence push

Scottish independence supporters march through Glasgow.

Reeves accused of 'astonishing arrogance' over indyref2 call

Jeremy Corbyn MP

Your Party could back Scottish independence, says Jeremy Corbyn

Scottish independence supporters on the march

Exclusive Angus Robertson: Everyone asks about independence when I'm overseas

Swinney's independence plan branded 'not sensible' by expert

Pro-independence protesters hold up Scottish National Party (SNP) emblems as they join a march organised by the grassroots organistaion All Under One Banner

John Swinney hints at independence referendum 'precedent' legal bid

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The drug checking facility has opened in Glasgow.

Scotland's first drug checking facility opens its doors

Mohamed Al Fayed

Woman 'was trafficked to the Highlands and assaulted by Fayed brother'

Donald Trump listens as Nigel Farage speaks during a Make America Great Again rally in Goodyear, Arizona, in 2020. Picture: Brendan Smialowski

Trump's midterm election disaster is bad news for Reform and Tories Christine Jardine

The Grangemouth refinery closed last year

Exclusive UK Gov urged to 'hurry up' Grangemouth clear up to attract investment

Reform UK Scotland deputy leader Thomas Kerr

SNP killing working-class people in ‘genocide’, says Reform deputy

Kenny Gibson became Holyrood’s presiding officer in May (Andrew Cowan/Scottish Parliament/PA)

'Insufficient evidence of wrongdoing' in Gibson bullying complaints

Peter Murrell and Nicola Sturgeon’s house was searched by Police Scotland

Murrell case shows Police Scotland has no political bias, says chief

Lord Advocate Ruth Charteris is head of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) in Scotland

Exclusive Crown faces cutting victim service and support for unsolved cases

The SNP is spending £2.7 million over two years giving a free school bag to every P1 child in Scotland

Looming £6m cut to prosecution service shows SNP has wrong priorities Scotsman comment

The Liberal Democrats said the crisis in A&E departments is ‘quite literally lethal’

Almost 600 deaths linked to 'lethal' A&E waits in Scotland this year

Working from home suits many people, but it can be lonely. Picture: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds

The problem with strike action by civil servants over home working Scotsman comment

When the National Grid cannot cope, energy producers are paid by consumers to stop producing electricity. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell

Tide is turning against climate absolutism about oil and renewables John McLellan

'Choisir La France' was the slogan used by French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, of the Front National party, since renamed as National Rally, in 2017. Picture: Aurelien Meunier

SNP's ‘Choose Scotland’ slogan has alarming connotations Brian Wilson

The three favourites to win the Democratic Presidential Nomination.

Democratic Presidential Nominee Odds: The 10 leading candidates

Information Commissioner David Hamilton

Information chief's verdict on SNP public sector reforms: 'Don't'

Firefighters tackle wildfires in the Cairngorms.

SNP says it has no plans for a dedicated wildfire helicopter

Tax on Scotch whisky is set to increase in February

Exclusive Whisky duty increase will reduce deaths, say health campaigners

Nigel Farage, arguably the chief architect of Brexit, campaigned for Donald Trump ahead of the 2016 US presidential election. Picture: Jonathan Bachman

A decade on, why it could be game over for Trump, Brexit and populism Scotsman comment

Reform UK Scotland leader Malcolm Offord, left, and deputy Thomas Kerr

MSPs reject 'racist' Reform UK motion on 'banning burqas'

Union and European Union flags. PIC: PA

UK 'more at risk' after rejecting EU demand to join defence fund

Even ardent Remainers know the SNP's Brexit stance makes no sense Murdo Fraser

First Minister Humza Yousaf will rally against Brexit during an address in London.

Humza Yousaf accuses Labour and Tories of being in denial over Brexit