1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (445+ words) A REFORM UK peer has admitted that an independence referendum could take place in 10 years" time. Malcolm Offord, a former Scotland Office minister who defected from the Tories last month, also refused to be drawn on the SNP"s plans…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (220+ words) A HIGHLAND village has been hit by a second earthquake in days. Locals in Acharacle on the Ardnamurchan peninsula in the Highlands reported hearing a "boom" on Sunday. The 1.6 magnitude tremor was recorded at 3.22am, with another 1.4 magnitude one felt in…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (602+ words) SCOTLAND electing an SNP majority and securing a mandate for an independence referendum would "make the world sit up and listen, John Swinney has said. Writing in the Sunday National, the First Minister argues that a second referendum on Scotland's…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago  (745+ words) A SCOTTISH snowboarder is training with Team GB with the aim of becoming the first athlete with motor neuron disease (MND) to compete at the Winter Paralympics. Davy Zyw, 38, from Edinburgh has been travelling across the world to compete against…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago  (1604+ words) IT does not seem like five minutes ago Scottish Labour were on a high on the back of a landslide General Election victory for the UK party. But as 2025 comes to a close, Anas Sarwar and his crew are in…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (662+ words) MORE than 300 earthquakes have been recorded in the UK in 2025, with the strongest in the Scottish Highlands, according to the latest data. Among the most active regions were Perthshire and the western Highlands, southern parts of Wales, and Yorkshire and…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (285+ words) NHS bosses have launched a full investigation and issued an apology after a body was wrongly released from a hospital mortuary to the undertakers " with the error only discovered after cremation had taken place. As a result of the blunder,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (476+ words) THE past is a foreign country, as the saying goes, and at least as far as Scottish opinion poll results are concerned, the independence movement has every reason to be thankful that we don't live in that strange land anymore....

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (715+ words) DOWNING Street has denied dodging scrutiny amid criticism of its decision to scrap traditional afternoon press briefings. No 10 conceded the changes would be "difficult" and kept "under review" but insisted they were necessary to "modernise" Government communications with the public....

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (1505+ words) I've always been kind of captivated by them. I saved up my money and went pony trekking one day, and that was it. From then, when I was about 11-years-old until I was about 16, I spent every day after school,…...