MONDAY’S announcement from the UK Labour Government and the unveiling of the Strategic Defence Review was long overdue and served to remind Scots of just how far down the Westminster pecking order Scotland’s armed forces had fallen … Source

Planned border checks on fruit and vegetables imported into the UK from the European Union will be scrapped … Source

CalMac is a Scottish Government-owned lifeline ferry operator. Source

SCOTLAND must stop North Sea oil from being used to exploit citizens in Gaza, former first minister Humza Yousaf has said. Source

Deadline extended from next year to 2030. …

Pupils put on dance display to mark the decades. …

A retailer has edged closer to finding a new permanent premises after being displaced from its long-time home earlier this year. …

THE UK’s only female-founded wave energy company has secured more than half a million in funding to scale up it’s technology Source

Last week, Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh was charged with a terror offence by the Metropolitan Police. A member of the Irish band Kneecap, the Met allege that Óg Ó hAnnaidh, who performs under the name Mo Chara, waved a Hezbollah flag “in such a way or in such circumstances as to arouse reasonable suspicion that […] Source

WHISKY is one of Scotland’s most iconic products. It’s big business too, generating a whopping £7.1 billion last year for the UK economy Source

The desultory nature of Scottish and UK politics seems at a new low ebb. In a land where everything is for sale, all of Scotland feels like a Flamingoland. In Balloch, on the shores of Loch Lomond, the community has stood up against the developer to oppose plans for a gigantic theme park that has […] Source

A POPULAR hotel and wedding venue in Angus has been put up for sale for the first time in 20 years … Source

PRO-Palestine activists have targeted a business in Glasgow over its links to firms that supply weapon parts to Israel’s military … Source