A DISTILLERY has donated £1 million to the local community for their “patience” after the world record sale of a “vanishingly rare” single malt cask to a mystery collector. Source

A weird thing is happening as the Tories choose our Prime Minister. The media coverage is increasingly Americanised with talk of the ‘Deputy Prime Minister’ stepping in and there being ‘no hurry’. But the stranger thing is the way this is now being portrayed as a general election itself.  The electorate are just Tory MPs […] Source

The rush to replace Boris Johnson has started. Without pause for breath or to learn anything from the chaos of the past six months the media breathlessly asks us: “Who would you prefer to become Prime Minister before the next General Election? Tom Tugendhat, Ben Wallace, Liz Truss, Jeremy Hunt, Rishi Sunak, Sajid Javid, Dominic […] Source

SOME people will remember that 167 people that were killed on July 6, 1988 in Scotland’s North Sea when the Piper Alpha platform exploded. Source

ONE of the leading craft breweries in the UK has launched a new bar in Edinburgh after a successful crowdfunding campaign. Source

THE price of offshore wind power has fallen to a new record low, as the UK Government announced 11 gigawatts of winning bids for various renewable technologies. Source

THE University of Strathclyde has awarded their funding prizes for start-up businesses in their annual entrepreneurship event. Source

MARK Logan, formerly a top executive at online travel company Skyscanner has been appointed to the role of Scotland’s first chief entrepreneur. Source

The enervating spectacle that has been going on for about six months bloomed into full-farce yesterday. The Johnson debacle displayed all of the pure elements of a broken Britain: rolling broadcast media coverage dissecting everything but saying nothing; an inert and lifeless opposition mouthing in desperation in the background; a constitution that creates no checks […] Source

A £1 million fund will help Scots cut their energy bills and avoid carbon monoxide poisoning. Source

COLLEGES in Scotland need change to ensure more students graduate and the sector is financially stable in the long term, Scotland’s Auditor General has said. Source