17 h. ago Fire stations, care homes and libraries get share of £10m for clean energy

Publicly-owned Great British Energy has awarded mayors grant funding to roll out projects such as solar panels on community buildings to cut bills.

Economics

26 h. ago Orange Order to meet SNP Government officials after accusing John Swinney of 'silence' over air gun attack

John Swinney described acts of violence against the Orange Order as "completely and utterly unacceptable".

Politics

37 h. ago French firm behind Edinburgh Airport blasted for banning cash for parking

Campaigners said it was hypocritical for the airport to only accept card payments given it's illegal for firms to go cashless in France.

Economics

37 h. ago ScotRail outsources complaints team to French firm despite being publicly owned by SNP Government

EXCLUSIVE: Employees at ScotRail's customer services team have claimed they are being treated like "second-class rail staff".

Politics

54 h. ago Scots hospice workers 'not getting a fair deal' on pay under SNP Government

Scottish Labour pledged hospice-based doctors and nurses would see their wages rise to NHS levels if the party won power at Holyrood.

Economics

61 h. ago Scots waiting up to a year for cancer treatment as patients 'not given best chance' by SNP Government

One patient living in the NHS Lothian health board area waited 393 days before beginning treatment in the first quarter of this year.

Science

3 d. ago Firefighter chiefs demand British water must be brought into public ownership

The Fire Brigades Union is demanding the move to help ensure they have enough clean water to safely tackle blazes.

Events

4 d. ago ‘Stop the excuses’ and recognise state of Palestine, SNP tells UK government

The party called on the UK Government to ‘use the power it has’ to help end the conflict in Gaza.

Politics

4 d. ago SNP's debt mountain as cost of Holyrood borrowing soars to record £500m a year!

Taxpayers will have to fork out an eye-watering £500 million a year just to service the spiralling debts run up by John Swinney's SNP government.

Economics

4 d. ago SNP 'hypocrisy' row deepens as Scottish Government investment quango hands £18m in grants to arms firms

An SNP quango has handed out £18.4 million to defence firms in the past five years, despite ministers claiming the Scottish Government does not fund companies involved in munitions.

Economics

5 d. ago Popular restaurant chain with 70 locations faces closures as owners put business up for sale

Partners Group, the private equity firm in control of French-themed restaurant Côte Brasserie, have announced an auction of the restaurant, Sky News reported.

Society

5 d. ago Young people don’t feel part of the EU – and they’re right | Francesco Grillo

Its remote, top-down structures need a fresh, citizen-led approach fit for the digital age. Let’s start by extending Erasmus to school-goersThe former Italian prime minister Mario Draghi produced his much-awaited prescription for how to reboot Europe’s economy last year. The Draghi report was rightly applauded as a rude awakening for a European Union that is far too complacent about its own obsolescence. Draghi concluded that an €800bn-a-year public spending boost would be needed to end years of stagnation. If Europe did not catch up with its rivals, he warned, it would face a “slow and agonising” decline.And yet, one ingredient was missing from Draghi’s recipe. In his nearly 400-page roadmap for rescuing the EU, the word “democracy” is mentioned only three times (once in the bibliography). By contrast, “integration” is used 96 times and “defence” 391 times. It’s true that Draghi’s report was explicitly devoted to the future of European competitiveness (and not more widely to the Eu...

Politics

5 d. ago NHS in Scotland 'stuck in analogue age' as health boards shell out millions on pagers

Labour claimed the continued reliance on the devices proved the SNP Government was failing to equip the NHS for the 21st century.

Science

5 d. ago Pubs in Scotland continue to struggle despite heatwave boost for businesses

EXCLUSIVE: Hospitality chiefs have called on the SNP Government to reform the business rates system which puts bars north of the Border at a "competitive disadvantage" to those in England.

Politics

7 d. ago East Coast bus strike will clash with Oasis gigs and Edinburgh Festival if drivers vote for industrial action

130 drivers reject two-year offer at publicly owned subsidiary of Lothian Buses

Politics

8 d. ago French president Emmanuel Macron claims France will adopt a 'firm' approach to the small boats crisis

The president and first lady Brigitte Macron were welcomed by the Prince and Princess of Wales as he arrived in the UK yesterday for a three-day state visit.

Politics

9 d. ago SNP Government forks out nearly £10m on 'free' bikes for children at £700 a pop

A Scottish Labour MP claimed "the one thing the SNP excel at is wasting our money" after the costs of the scheme were revealed.

Politics

9 d. ago 'Child marriages' in Scotland could be banned as SNP Government to look at raising age of consent

Scots can currently get married at the age of 16 without the approval of their parents or legal guardians.

Politics

1 week ago BlackRock tried private credit once before. Will this time be better?

The public markets giant now owns HPS. Its previous deal for Tennenbaum Capital Management has a troubled history

Politics

1 week ago John Swinney challenged to fix Scots NHS and schools with £5.8bn cash boost from Rachel Reeves

EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Reeves' recent Spening Review will hand SNP ministers billions more in funding by the end of the decade.

Economics