A 56-year-old man who sexually assaulted a teenage girl in a car has been jailed for 18 months. …

A care-experienced Moray 19-year-old has been celebrated for her “incredibly positive” influence on other young people. …

A farmer has been left “disgusted” after the apparent theft of her border collies. …

A HISTORIC Scottish hotel has gone into administration after more than 160 years trading … Source

We are profiling new and upcoming writers in fiction, short stories and poetry, in Scots, English and Gaelic. This is an extract from Colin Burnett’s Vendetta, from his Medium. Colin Burnett has written two novels, A Working Class State of Mind and Who’s Aldo. He’s written extensively for newspapers and has been nominated for Scots […] Source

DOZENS of people have been made redundant after a Dundee “institution” folded after 160 years … Source

Your timeline is awash with propaganda. So are your newspapers, so is your broadcast media. Not everyone knows this, or has time to do anything about it. Corporate media in Scotland is bland and uniform. It represents the same politics over and over again. Occasionally, you get a voice, out of the blue, like Gary […] Source

SCOTTISH firms look set to be hit by Donald Trump’s tariffs after Downing Street acknowledged the UK was unlikely to be spared … Source

“We’ve become a nation measuring out our lives in shopping bags and nursing our psychic ills through retail therapy.” (Mary Schmich, Chicago Tribune, Christmas, 1986) On returning home to Edinburgh, after my somewhat desultory wanderings afar for some years, I found some of its districts, historic and otherwise, crammed with charity shops. Most were squeezed […] Source

A SCOTTISH firm has landed a major deal to make a new range of Marks and Spencer crisps … Source

Millions of workers will receive a pay rise on April 1 when the statutory minimum rates increase in a move unions believe will help boost economic growth. Source

Home Bargains have multiple stores across the Highlands and Moray in Inverness, Tain, Dingwall, Aviemore, Nairn and Elgin. …

Carol Russell was reported missing on Tuesday morning. …

The 21-year-old’s attack left his victim unable to work for three weeks. …