A local council has moved towards permanently closing a rural school which has been mothballed for nearly two years. …

A rapper has “robbed” the bank of Scotland’s only Wild West town for a music video. …

The 30-year anniversary of the formation of a well-respected battalion has been marked. …

Ten years after the independence referendum of September 18th 2014 we live in a society run by political technocrats. You can call Alex Salmond anything you like – and many do – but  he was never a technocrat. What is strange about September 2024 is how similar it looks, politically, to 1997. A new “New Labour” […] Source

Edinburgh has a profusion of community garden projects injecting energy and optimism into marginal areas in the city. This article looks at a selection of these projects through the lens of  the ‘anarchist’ ideas of communal association.  The lockdown revealed many disparities in our society. One was the very different lockdown experiences had by those […] Source

LOCALS have spoken out after a planned resort development in Balloch was pushed back … Source

A video that has been circulating on social media shows the store filled with smoke as members of the public continue to shop. Source

GOODS trade between the UK and EU has declined and is predicted to only get worse due to Brexit red tape on British businesses, a study has warned … Source

THE UK’s oil and gas industry has made “significant progress” towards its emissions reduction targets, according to a new report … Source

SCOTTISH Labour minister Michael Shanks has been accused of blanking climate campaigners who pleaded with him to pull out of an oil and gas conference featuring major polluters … Source

The National are publishing a book reflecting on where we are now, ten years on, what happened and what’s next: “As we mark the passing of a decade since a vote that changed Scotland forever, a top selection of writers consider three questions of crucial importance for the independence movement: Where we’ve been, where we […] Source

Pride in Moray chairman David Harrison was pleased with the turnout for the third annual LGBTQ+ festival. …

Officers have arrested two men, aged 23 and 24, after an incident which saw both receive hospital treatment. …