69 m. ago Scran Awards 2025: Nominate your favourite cocktail bar and hotel restaurant

The Scotsman’s Scran Awards will take place in June, and there are a few new categories in which to celebrate our wonderful food and drink industry.

Society

69 m. ago It’s wild garlic season. Again. But what are you actually meant to do with it?

Wild garlic? You mean that thing chefs go mad for every spring? Hannah Twiggs untangles the annual restaurant frenzy for Britain’s trendiest spring green – and finds out how to actually use the stuff without just making yet another pesto

Politics

69 m. ago Huge European city looks just like Costa del Sol but without crowds of tourists

Vlore in Albania looks like Spain's Costa del Sol and offers beautiful weather, idyllic landscapes and takes just over three hours to get to from the UK

Politics

69 m. ago 'I tried Tesco's viral Cinnamon Tear & Share Bun – here's my honest verdict'

Cinnamon bun lovers are being urged to get themselves to their nearest Tesco store after people praised the Cinnamon Tear & Share Bun for being so tasty, and one foodie has offered their thoughts

Politics

69 m. ago 7 Emmerdale spoilers as John exposes his past, Caleb gets to the truth and Anthony's body is gone

It's another week in the Dales as tensions continue to rise

Politics

2 h. ago ‘Everyone is breathing this’: how just trying to stay warm is killing thousands a year in the world’s coldest city

In Mongolia’s capital, Ulaanbaatar, coal fires heat almost every home. But as extreme weather drives families off the steppes into the city the air is becoming more deadlySteppes and the city: how smog has become part of Mongolians’ way of life – in picturesThe eldest child was away training for the army when his family died in their sleep. All six of them, two adults and four children, were poisoned by carbon monoxide gas seeping out from their coal-fired stove into their home in Ulaanbaatar in January, the coldest month in the world’s coldest capital city.Mongolians were touched by the tragedy but there was anger a month later when, during a two-day parliamentary hearing forced by a public petition against pollution levels, the government released figures showing there had been 779 deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning in the country in the past seven years. By 19 February, when a couple in their 40s were found lifeless in their bed, that number had risen to 811. Continue reading...

Events

2 h. ago ‘Magical realism’: how a fake Hindu nation tried to take over Indigenous land in Bolivia

Contracts show fictional country created by fugitive Indian guru would control vast swathes ‘with full sovereignty’Followers of a fugitive Indian Hindu guru on a mission to establish his own state are popping up across Latin America, offering hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy land in Ecuador, Paraguay and now Bolivia.At the end of last year, a representative of the Baure Indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon signed a “perpetual” contract leasing 60,000 hectares (148,260 acres) of their vast rainforest for $108,000 (£81,910) a year. Continue reading...

Politics

2 h. ago Prison reformers warn of fear and stagnation in Scotland's biggest jail

Howard League Scotland offers scathing verdict on of Barlinnie prison, three years before a new jail is due to replace it

Events

2 h. ago Russian fish 'sneaking into' chippies and supermarket fish fingers via sanctions 'loophole'

Scots Lib Dem MP Alistair Carmichael has urged action after findings that Russia is using third countries like China to dodge trade restrictions.

Politics

3 h. ago Liam Delap offers Manchester United £40m transfer solution to Ruben Amorim's biggest problem

Manchester United have a big problem when it comes to scoring, and the squad's expected goals (xG) explain why Ipswich Town star Liam Delap is a £40m transfer target

Economics

3 h. ago Brits warned as major passport change to happen in the UK in days

Brits in need of a passport renewal have been urged to act now - just hours before a new permanent price increase is rolled out to the nation

Events

5 h. ago Embittered burns surgeon dressed in camouflage tried to set fire to home of his doctor boss  

After trying to kill Graeme Perks, Peter Brooks was found on a park bench the next morning muttering about his 'life being ruined' and that he was 'going to be sacked from his job at the hospital'.

Events

5 h. ago China says it will not bow to US pressure after Trump threatens additional 50% tariffs – business live

Beijing vows to safeguard its interests after Trump promises steeper tariffs if China doesn’t retract planned countermeasures, as markets brace for further volatilityTrump threatens additional 50% tariffs on China over retaliatory leviesJapan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index has now risen 3%, AFP is reporting.The uptick comes after financial markets across the globe posted a third day of losses on Monday as investors worried that steep trade barriers around the world’s largest consumer market could lead to a recession. Continue reading...

Events

6 h. ago Man City youngster tells Pep Guardiola he wants to leave at end of season

Manchester City youngster Jacob Wright has been out on loan at Norwich since January and, despite previously pleas from Pep Guardiola, is keen to make the switch permanent

Politics

6 h. ago Matildas in ‘limbo’ as Football Australia’s coach search drags on

Steph Catley admits ‘it’s hard’ to play amid uncertainty over coachLyon coach Joe Montemurro is front runner for permanent roleMatildas star Steph Catley says she hopes Football Australia finds a permanent coach “sooner rather than later”, admitting players are “in limbo”. The Matildas have been without a full-time coach for eight months since Tony Gustavsson’s official departure on August 1 after the Paris Olympics.In their 11th game under caretaker Tom Sermanni, Australia defeated South Korea 2-0 at Newcastle’s McDonald Jones Stadium to claim their first back-to-back wins of the year. Continue reading...

Sport

8 h. ago Nearly 20,000 serious childcare incidents including deaths occurred in England's nurseries in the past five years, figures reveal 

Nurseries made more than 4,200 reports of serious childcare incidents in 2023-24, up by 40 per cent on 2019-20, with the figures suggesting a worrying rise in child safeguarding breaches.

Events

8 h. ago Trump says he will not pause tariffs as Starmer calls for ‘cool heads’

The Prime Minister said the UK had to ‘rise together as a nation’ in the face of a new era of global instability.

Politics

8 h. ago James Wilson learning harsh Hearts lesson as old head who's been there and done it offers advice

Wilson was shown a straight red for a lunge on Dundee Utd' Luca Stephenson but Craig Gordon is sure teen will bounce back

Politics

9 h. ago Meghan Markle offers free gifts to As Ever customers who bought products after they’d sold out

As Ever products sold out only an hour after the business launched

Politics

9 h. ago 'Dear staff, I'm sorry for the distress the rest of the day will bring. Goodbye, John': Love triangle headteacher's email before he attacked his deputy with 18in wrench

A married headteacher attacked his deputy with a heavy-duty wrench over a love triangle which involved a female colleague.

Events