PRESSURE is mounting on a Scottish-based oil firm to rule out working with Israel to extract gas from Palestinian waters … Source

IF you have been keeping tabs on your weekly shop last year, you would have seen several items have skyrocketed in price, including chocolate. Source

ONE of the sharpest criticisms levelled at the 2014 Yes campaign remains the accusation that an independent Scotland would face a chaotic scramble to secure trade and financial arrangements on day one … Source

AFFORDABILITY has become the dominant political issue in the United States. It is the issue that looks likely to determine elections, fracture political coalitions and shape how people understand their own lives. Source

A round-up of our October 2025 print edition front pages. …

Findhorn Bay Arts founder Kresanna Aigner has been awarded an MBE in recognition of her service to Moray. …

One casualty has been assessed by paramedics after a housefire in Elgin, firefighters have confirmed. …

The latest polls show us a close glimpse of voter intentions for the Scottish election in May. This is the Scottish Holyrood projection based on @FindoutnowUK polling of 1000 people: It would result in the following seats: SNP 62, Reform 23, Labour 13, Conservatives 9, Greens 14, and the Lib Dems 8. This would mean […] Source

ALL Eurostar services have been cancelled from London St Pancras because of disruption in the Channel Tunnel … Source

MINISTERS have been urged to protect Scotland’s waters by pausing the licensing of new salmon farms. Source

There’s a new wave of hyper-nostalgia for a mythical ‘Britain’ that needs addressing, because it’s based on a number of false, and often rotten assumptions, as the state decomposes in itself and its adherents become hysterical in rancid bigotry. Here’s Rupert Lowe, the leader of something called ‘Restore Britain’ (and a figure too toxic and […] Source

The Sula Sgeir gannet hunt, or “guga hunt,” is a centuries-old Scottish tradition where men from Ness (Isle of Lewis) sail to the uninhabited island of Sula Sgeir in August to harvest young gannets (guga) for food, a practice licensed by NatureScot and considered culturally significant, though animal welfare groups call it cruel and argue […] Source

A BELOVED Scottish bakery has submitted £20 million plans to expand its operating base as part of a bid to double its number of outlets. Source