23 m. ago Popular Scottish product to go in sale in Spain for first time

A POPULAR Scottish product has gone on sale in Spain for the first time. Cheese made in Scotland will be available in the European country after a recent deal involving the Scottish Dairy Growth Board, Scottish Development International and Spanish importer Iber Conseil. The plan - backed with £20,000 of investment from the Government's Brand...

Politics

48 m. ago Explosion on Polish railway was ‘unprecedented act of sabotage’, says PM – Europe live

Donald Tusk says ‘worse fears confirmed’ over damage on route used to ferry aid deliveries to UkraineIn further comments after his visit to the site of the incident this morning, Poland’s prime minister Donald Tusk called it “an unprecedented act of sabotage aimed at the security of the Polish state and its citizens.”“An investigation is under way. Just like in previous cases of this kind, we will catch the perpetrators, regardless of who their backers are,” he pledged. Continue reading...

Events

65 m. ago Madeleine McCann suspect's camp guarded by women with chilling four

Christian Brueckner, 49, is the prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann and has been spotted in a woodland 'camp' area that has been dubbed the 'Maddiesville' due to the number of missing children posters

Politics

69 m. ago Chief prosecutor reassures Scots sex abuse victims after Supreme Court judgment

Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC has said that sex abuse of women and children was “the single greatest challenge our justice system faces”.

Events

85 m. ago Autistic children at greater risk of going missing in ‘hidden crisis’, charity warns

Missing People says autistic young people may be more vulnerable to disappearing and at higher risk of harm, as psychologists call for urgent tailored support

Events

2 h. ago Government to make major statement to nation in Parliament at 3.30pm as criticism grows

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will lay out a series of reforms to the asylum system in the House of Commons on Monday aimed at making Britain a less attractive destination for illegal migrants

Politics

2 h. ago Dozens of schools in Australia and New Zealand shut after play sand recalled over asbestos fear

Closures follow laboratory results confirming traces of tremolite and chrysotile asbestos in several sand products widely used in early-learning classrooms

Politics

2 h. ago John Updike: A Life in Letters review – the man incapable of writing a bad sentence

Friends, enemies and lovers animate more than 60 years of the author’s remarkable correspondence John Updike had the mind of a middling middle-class postwar American male, and the prose style of a literary genius. Such a lord of language was he that even the notoriously grudging Vladimir Nabokov afforded him a meed of praise. A reviewer, musing on the disproportion between the style and content of Updike’s fiction, likened him to a lobster with one hugely overgrown claw. It was a comparison Updike was to remember – for all his bland urbanity, on display from start to finish in this mighty volume of his letters, he could be prickly, and did not take slights lightly.As a novelist he aimed, as he once put it, to “give the mundane its beautiful due”. Apart from a few rare and in some cases ill-advised ventures into the exotic – the court at Elsinore, Africa, the future – his abiding subject was the quotidian life of “ordinary” Americans in the decades between the end of the second world...

Politics

3 h. ago American football club take on Christmas cycling challenge in aid of Wishaw church's toy drive

Clyde Valley Blackhawks, who play their home games at the town's Belhaven Park, will be getting on their bikes for a 24 hour ‘cycle’ to Lapland while raising funds for Wishaw’s Pathway Church toy drive to help children across the region.

Sport

3 h. ago No jobs... and no incentive to keep one in Labour's Britain: Parents left in tears by childcare costs say they'd be better off with no job

Parents with young children are finding it more beneficial to stay at home and claim benefits - or live off their partner's income - as crippling childcare costs consume their entire salary.

Society

3 h. ago Holyrood election 2026: 'I will not fight dirty', says Scotland's only Reform MSP

Graham Simpson says he ‘won’t indulge in that kind of behaviour’ despite criticism of Reform UK advertising during the Hamilton by-election.

Politics

4 h. ago Rape victims in Scotland will be protected when giving evidence, says lord advocate

Supreme court ruled ‘rape shield’ laws to limit intrusive cross-examination may breach men’s right to fair trialScotland’s most senior law officer has moved to reassure victims of sexual abuse that they will be protected after a supreme court ruling warned that Scottish laws designed to limit intrusive cross-examination could be breaching men’s right to a fair trial.In a strongly worded statement, the lord advocate, Dorothy Bain KC, said: “I would like to make clear that I understand sexual abuse inflicted upon women and children to be the single greatest challenge our justice system faces. Continue reading...

Events

7 h. ago Former Strictly star Anya Garnis fears Home Office mistake could leave her family homeless

Anya Garnis, who shares two young children with her husband Sunna Van Kampen, recently tried to rent a property in Devon, but she was rejected from doing so because of a Home Office blunder

Society

7 h. ago Without genuine reform to improve pitiful public sector productivity in next week's Budget, any hope of a return to economic prosperity will be crushed: ANDY HALDANE

It is scary season, and nowhere more so than at His Majesty's Treasury where - following a week of pre-Budget turmoil - they are fighting all manner of financial demons.

Economics

8 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Greece signs deal to supply gas to Kyiv over ‘difficult’ winter

Agreement comes as Volodymyr Zelenskyy starts European tour aimed at shoring up Ukrainian energy supply and defences. What we know on day 1,363See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageGreece has signed a deal with Ukraine to supply US-origin liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the country amid the crippling of its energy infrastructure from Russian strikes. Sunday’s agreement came as Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Athens at the start of a European tour aimed at shoring up Ukraine’s defences and energy supply ahead of winter. The deal – to run from December until March 2026 – “marks an essential step in strengthening regional energy cooperation and European energy security”, said a joint statement from the Ukrainian president and the Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, after they met. The deal would make it possible to “support Ukraine in the midst of a difficult winter”, they said. The deal came as Ukrainian energy infrastructure was damaged by Russian drone strikes overnight into Sund...

Economics

8 h. ago No jobs... and no incentive to keep one in Labour's Britain: Parents left in tears by childcare costs say they'd be better off with no job graduates struggle as youth unemployment spirals

Parents with young children are finding it more beneficial to stay at home and claim benefits - or live off their partner's income - as crippling childcare costs consume their entire salary.

Society

8 h. ago Schools close in New Zealand after play sand recalled over asbestos fears

Six coloured sand products recalled in New Zealand after testing in Australia found asbestos in similar itemsMultiple schools have temporarily closed in New Zealand and hundreds of education facilities are seeking advice from officials after asbestos was detected in several brands of widely used coloured play sand.Last week, the ministry for business, innovation and employment confirmed a voluntary recall was under way for two brands of coloured sand sold in New Zealand, after testing in Australia found asbestos in similar products. Continue reading...

Politics

9 h. ago Adult star guilty of decapitating her children’s dad as she was having affair with own stepson who she secretly married

A LAS Vegas adult actress has been found guilty of murder after she decapitated her ex-husband while secretly married to his son. Devyn Michaels, 47, was convicted of killing former husband and realtor Johnathan Willette, 46. His headless, chemically-doused body was discovered at his Henderson home on August 6, 2023. Willette's horrified mother found him...

Society

9 h. ago Princess Beatrice opens up on feeling ‘incredibly lonely’ after baby daughter’s premature birth

The daughter of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson gave birth to her daughter several weeks premature

Politics

9 h. ago 'My children were five and six when I was diagnosed with aggressive cancer'

Amy cherishes every moment with her children

Science