SCOTLAND has signed a co-operation agreement with the UAE which is set to strengthen its international space industry links. Source

THE Alba Party have launched their “It’s Still Scotland’s Oil – use it or lose it” campaign, urging the Scottish Government to “get off the fence” and back North Sea drilling. Source

“What the hell is Richard Demarco doing?” Many have asked this question over the decades; now, he is asking it himself. He is asking it now because, after years of trying, he has finally found a permanent, secure home for his archive. This vast Gesamtkunstwerk (‘total work of art’) of artworks, photographs, documents, posters, and […] Source

The American novelist Sinclair Lewis famously said, “When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” This is true of Britain too. This week saw the release of something called Christian Fellowship for Reform, a bizarre hybrid of White Christian Nationalism and Reform’s rancid politics. A video featured […] Source

Caverslee Burn, In the Footsteps of Joan Eardley (Almost). The walk began well. The path was dry, dusty and wide. Sheep and cattle grazed amiably in the fields, and a lone hare galloped away at my approach until it disappeared into a drystane dyke. Or seemed to. Hares know a trick or two when it […] Source

Tougher rules could see those involved in anti-social behaviour lose their bus passes. …

Late Forres Friends of Woods and Fields chairman Nick Molnar leavers the charity’s 26 diverse acres of land. …

A 40-year-old man was twice caught selling drugs in Elgin. …

A HISTORIC Scottish inn is getting set to open its doors for the first time in three years and under community ownership Source

A SALMON giant has partnered with a local fishing association to investigate the long-term impact of a mass escape from one of its farms … Source

Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride, For and Against a United Ireland, Royal Irish Academy, £18. Reviewed by David McCrone We have become used to the parade of prejudices masquerading as analysis in much writing and journalism. It is refreshing, therefore, that two of Ireland’s best journalists have set out the cases for and against a […] Source

This past Saturday I stood outside Cameron Barracks in Inverness with more than two hundred others at the Highlands Against Hate counter-protest. Across the line the anti-immigrant turout who we’d come to stand against, was much smaller but the language they brought with them was loud, familiar, and telling. They stood behind banners reading “People […] Source

HOLLYWOOD mega-star Harrison Ford has taken an unexpected comic turn in a new advert for Glenmorangie, failing to pronounce the brand’s name – and at one point even his own … Source

CLIENTS of a historic law firm which closed in November say they are owed thousands of pounds by the business Source