I’M a builder – a bricklayer, specifically speaking, but, during a working lifetime on construction sites, I’ve done various other jobs as well as laying bricks. Donald John Trump never built a single damn thing in his life. He inherited shedloads of money plus contacts with corrupt officials, which enabled him to employ builders to build things. But Trump himself never built anything in his entire, useless life. Source

Inverness Sheriff Court heard that it was a ‘matter of forgetfulness’ that a 37-year-old took a knife to pubs. …

Moray family firm reaches milestone. …

An agreement has been reached on what could be the largest UK community benefits package arising from a wind farm development. …

All political parties are in trouble, for different reasons, but the Scottish Labour Party has it’s own special problems. It was very recently heralded as the solution to Labour, to Britain and the Union. The 2024 General Election result in which Labour won a landslide of  411 seats across the UK, with Scottish Labour winning […] Source

A SCOTTISH start-up has helped save lives through an app which pings real-time location data to emergency services during 999 calls Source

I spent the last few days hunting down an article that I needed to reference and realised that there’s such a vast bank of content on Bella’s archive that we need to find ways to make it easier to find. Plus, we want to showcase content that you might have missed in the last month. […] Source

Review of The Starmer Symptom, edited by Mark Perryman, Pluto Press, £16.99. Jim Sillars The 2024 election was a strange electoral beast. A Tory government despised and held in contempt by many was routed, but its main opponent, Labour, could not generate enthusiasm for what it had on offer, giving us the perplexing result of […] Source

A budget airline has gone into administration after axing all of its flights from a Scottish airport … Source

AN extra 100 oil and gas workers will be given access to tailored support to help them transition into the green energy sector. Source

THE former CEO of BAE Systems, the British Airways executive who oversees its lobbying team, the chairman of the Petrochemical giant Ineos and senior figures from the banking and privatisation industries are among the corporate bosses who’ve been put in charge of setting strategy for British government departments … Source

Police have recovered human remains during an investigation into a house fire in Gardenstown. …