While there isn't much to pay on below-average house purchases, a £400,000 home (twice the average price) carries a £13,350 ...

First Minister, John Swinney, has appointed Dr Peter Mackay as Scotland’s fifth Makar . The person in this position takes the lead in promoting poetry nationally, as well as producing work relating to ...

WHILE recently awaiting a change of tyres and a MOT certificate for my car I sought refuge from the cold in a local public house. A ...

More than 20,000 small Scottish firms have been lost since the Covid-19 pandemic, according to evidence to the Scottish Covid ...

A LEADING Scottish lawyer has announced that he has joined the Alba Party. Mike Dailly, who is currently the principal solicitor at the Govan Law Centre, said he made the choice to help ensure “Alex ...

Substitute days occur when bank holidays fall on a weekend (when most people have time off) and are moved to the nearest weekday. This will happen with St Andrew's Day in 2025, seeing the bank holiday ...

Support for the “vital and precious” institution of the NHS will be at the heart of the upcoming Scottish Budget, John ...

Arguing that the UK has failed to fulfil its obligations to prevent genocide, he concluded that "the United Kingdom as a ...

Most prisoners in Scotland serving less than four years will from next February onwards be released after serving 40 per cent ...

A prominent nationalist says Scots are turning from the Scottish Nationalist Party to Nigel Farage's Reform UK.

Judges at the Supreme Court are considering how exactly women are defined in law, in a case which could have an impact on ...

Britain's lawmakers voted Nov. 29 in Parliament to legalize assisted suicide for the terminal ill in England and Wales.