Scotland is at a crossroads – should it remain as a region of a stagnant, Brexit-bound UK economy – or step out confidently into an independent future? Last week the Scottish government published a report on how an independent Scotland can build a strong economy, one that is fairer,…

A KEITH ex-army man's Everest Base Camp trek, inspired by his wife's two cancer battles, has raised £2600 for a local cancer charity. …

A CAIRNIE man has been sentenced at Elgin Sheriff Court for having a ninja-style kunai knife and a kitchen knife in Elgin. …

A BUCKIE man was sentenced last week for verbally abusing and threatening a 16-year old boy. …

GROWING Scotland’s hydrogen sector could provide the country with its “greatest industrial opportunity since oil and gas”, Energy Secretary Michael Matheson has insisted. Source

It’s a form of delirium. Memory loss and the failure to process events into sequence is the sign of a degeneration in mental capacity, and yet here we are. After the debacle of Liz Truss, we are presented by the idea of the return of Boris Johnson to the position of Prime Minister. This requires […] Source

Quan Nguyen was the Scottish Coordinator of the COP26 Coalition. Here he reflects on lessons learned about protest and movement building in the shadow of COP26. This time last year , we were getting ready. I remember the police threatening us with arrest for holding a banner at Glasgow Central, where hundreds of climate activists […] Source

As Britain spirals into chaos that has run out of words to describe it, Liz Truss disappears. In desperation at her party conference, she turned to one of the many phantoms in her head and coined an interesting concept: the antigrowth coalition. In the beleaguered Prime Minister’s head such a coalition spans an unlikely grouping […] Source

TESCO has put the price of a meal deal up for the first time in over a decade, with the change set to come into force in days. Source

SCOTLAND’S first commercial gold producer has announced that “substantial progress” has been made towards mining more than 20,000 ounces of gold a year. Source

  Polling by YouGov has indicated that if a snap general election were called, the SNP would be the official party of opposition in Westminster following a crushing defeat for the Tories.  This is based on opinion polling for the UK and Scotland which shows Labour would win 529 seats…

SCOTLAND’S governments must make it clear how businesses will be supported as a recession looms, the Scottish Chambers of Commerce Source

  Clearly, there are no direct comparisons between the way Jamaica became part of the British Empire and Scotland. Many British businesses and individuals participated in the slave trade and huge profits were brought back. Scotland’s participation in that trade has only recently begun to be acknowledged . Nevertheless, Scotland has…