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Letter from Scotland
We woke on Thursday morning to the sleet and snow at the tailend of Storm Franklin and to the news that war had broken...
Letter from Scotland
Storm Dudley blew in on Wednesday afternoon, as predicted by our new climate change weather schedule.
It was the third storm of the winter –...
Letter from Scotland
As our schools reach the half-term break, it’s a good time to reflect on how hard the royal road to learning has been in...
Letter from Scotland
Perhaps because we’ve got so much of it, we Scots have been slow to realise that the price of energy has to rise. So...
Letter from Scotland
This week I had my home fitted with two smoke alarms and a heat alarm, all interlinked. I was only just in time to...
Letter from Scotland
Where does Scotland stand at the beginning of census year 2022? We have come a long way since King Angus looked up into the...
Letter from Scotland
Who would have thought we would be entering another year riding out a fourth wave of Covid? And each wave seems bigger than the...
Scotland enjoy double success
Coach Iain Strachan believes that edging Ireland 2-1 in the women's indoor mini-series was a real bonus.
The Dundee-based playcaller used three different systems and...
Coronavirus – First Minister addresses the nation
Earlier on Tuesday evening the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, addressed the nation following an earlier statement to MSPs at The Scottish Parliament.
https://twitter.com/scotgov/status/1470849260258213897?s=20
This is...
Letter from Scotland
We’ve been mining coal since the 13th century and, without realising it till recently, polluting the planet with its noxious fumes.
But on Thursday morning,...
Letter from Scotland
We’ve had the first storm of the winter, Storm Arwen.
A week later, we are still recovering from its 90mph battering. In the North...
Coronavirus -omicron variant identified in Scotland
The Covid-19 omicron variant has been identified in Scotland with four cases in Lanarkshire and two others in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area.
The...
Letter from Scotland
Now that the world leaders have jetted home from the climate conference in Glasgow, we are being left to pick up the pieces.
The...
Letter from Scotland
As I stood watching the Armistice Day service at the Scott Monument in Edinburgh on Thursday, I tried to imagine the sense of utter...
Letter from Scotland
Halloween is a time of scary surprises. And as I wandered through my local woods scary visions of the future emerged from the fallen...
Invitation to dress up for Scotland’s biggest ever Hallowe’en party
BT Murrayfield is warming up to host Scotland’s biggest ever Hallowe’en Party – and everybody’s invited.
Fans will be able to watch the national men’s...
Letter from Scotland
Although autumn is a season in itself, it’s also a time of transition from the highs of summer to the depths of winter. And...
Letter from Scotland
The last time Scotland played host to a gathering of world leaders, 200,000 of us turned out to insist that they fulfil their promise...
We’ve got McGinn, Super Paul McGinn
Twelve years after making his debut for Queen’s Park and then plying his trade in the lower divisions with St Mirren, Dumbarton, Dundee, Chesterfield...
Letter from Scotland
On a walk over the Eildon Hills in the Borders last week, I came across a smart modern memorial to a very old poet,...
Letter from Scotland
We have been given another reminder this week that our grand western civilisation is really quite precarious. And isn’t it ironic that all our...
Coronavirus – drop in clinics for 12 to 15 year-olds open
Young people aged 12 to 15 will be able to get a COVID-19 vaccine at drop-in clinics across Lothian from Monday.
Mass clinics are set...
Letter from Scotland
You wouldn’t think a sensible remark like “Think twice before you call an ambulance” could cause a political row. But the Health Secretary Humza...
Letter from Scotland
After a week of warm, sunny days and then rain and mist, climate change has been on my mind.
Not just the UN conference in...
Letter from Scotland
The red berries on the rowan trees on my daily walk are, for me, the first sign of autumn.
Soon the fieldfare and redwings...
NHS medical and dental staff to receive a pay rise
The Scottish Government has announced a 3% uplift for some NHS medical and dental staff, which they say is in recognition of their efforts...
Scottish Government appoints senior health officers
Professor Alison Strath has been appointed as Chief Pharmaceutical Officer and Professors Graham Ellis and Professor Nicola Steedman have been confirmed as Deputy Chief...
Coronavirus – France moved off quarantine list
Passengers arriving from France ino Scotland will no longer need to quarantine if they are fully vaccinated under the latest review of travel restrictions...
Drug deaths in Scotland “heart-breaking”
Drugs Policy Minister Angela Constance described the increase in drug-related deaths announced on Friday as “heart-breaking”, and repeated The Scottish Government’s determination to work...
Letter from Scotland
In this second Covid summer, Scots have been rediscovering their own country. Holidaying at home for just a few days at a time has...
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