THE long-overdue introduction of video assistant referees (VAR) to the World Cup finals this year had, one or two minor grumbles aside, been considered a resounding success.Until, that is, the England match against Tunisia in the Volgograd Arena last
DAVID Mundell was accused of playing with his iPhone while “stabbing the Scottish Parliament in the back” over the transfer of devolved powers post Brexit in a stormy emergency devolution debate. SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford urged the Scottish
SO Prime Minister May has now made it crystal clear that the choice she seeks is a bad deal or no deal, with the UK Parliament having no say on any other options and the Scottish Parliament having no say at all. The bad-deal option results in no
PROPERTY developers must be rubbing their hands in glee at the prospect of a prime site becoming available in central Glasgow. Let’s disappoint them, and demand that the Mackintosh School of Art be rebuilt. Few buildings can have been studied so closely
GLASGOW Taxis is launching a new environmentally-friendly vehicle. The new electric black cab will have zero emissions output. The new vehicle also has power sockets and Wifi and will charge customers a lower fare. A back-up petrol generator
NEW photos reveal more of the devastating damage from the blaze at the Mackintosh School of Art - including damage to nearby Reid Building. The damage to the stone of the art school, and to the ABC arena, is extensive.
A SCOTTISH tech company has revealed record annual results for 2017-2018.SHE Software has maintained its rapid growth over the past 12 months, continuing the 60% per annum growth rate of the past three years and seeing revenues fast approach £4 million.The
SOUTH Queensferry is hosting its biggest outdoor beer and music festival.Ferry Brewery, the first brewery in South Queensferry since 1851, is set to launch the inaugural Ferry Fest event due to demand from its Lothians-based monthly beer and music event
REGARDLESS of one’s political persuasion, last week was a dreadful one for the Westminster Government from a Scottish point of view as it was accused of not listening and treating Scotland with contempt. This has not been on just one issue, but
Emmeline Pankhurst: The Making of a Militant BBC4, 7.30pm A HIGHLIGHT of the TV month was Michelle Keegan’s face when she realised the part Emmeline Pankhurst played in her distant relative’s life. If that episode of Who Do You Think You Are? proved
FOR many years the story of the suffragettes has been told from a London perspective, with the impression given that all the action took place down south. In this centenary year of the vote finally being given to women, moves have been made to
FORMER TV presenter John Leslie has gone on trial accused of putting his hand down a woman's trousers as they danced at her hen night. The woman, who can not be identified, was on the hen party at Atik nightclub in Edinburgh last June when the
Cows and Co was set up 20 years ago by Stuart McLennan and Mark Calendar after a discussion about how to add value to the milk price dairy farmer Mark received. This led to a partnership with Appleby Creamery boss Maurice Walton, with the creamery
I WAS genuinely moved to read the column written by former Daily Record editor Murray Foote, in which he wrote of his conversion from supporting the Union to supporting independence for Scotland. As the man responsible for the infamous Daily Record
ONCE more, Twitter proves that it’s hostile to men. Not the platform itself, but the women who use it as a place to intimidate blokes with insecurity complexes.With politicians to berate and expertise to quibble, the social media platform is exhausting
TWO rare Scottish wildcats born at Edinburgh Zoo may help provide a lifeline for the species. The kittens will join a conservation breeding programme which experts hope will save the species from extinction in the wild through future re-introductions
FOLLOWING the major blaze at the Glasgow School of Art and ABC, Police Scotland have announced which roads will remain closed. For the forseeable future, a cordon will remain in place that affects Sauchiehall Street, Hill Street, Dalhousie Street
THE Scottish Health Secretary said the announcement of £2 billion for the NHS in Scotland from an overall £20 billion investment in the health service in England has "not stood up well to scrutiny". Prime Minister Theresa May announced the additional
FIRE chiefs are confident they will discover the cause of the blaze which engulfed Glasgow School of Art. Eight appliances remained at the scene on Monday following the fire, which broke out in the historic Mackintosh Building at around 11.20pm
This is one of those days, usually following a tragedy, where every paper lines up and splashes on the same story. The fire at the Glasgow School of Art and ABC is the main focus of (almost) every national paper in Scotland today. The Daily
POLICE Scotland is launching a two-week gun amnesty in a bid to stop firearms falling into the hands of criminals.Anyone who has a firearm or ammunition without a valid certificate can take it to one of 43 police stations from today until Sunday, July
CULTURE Secretary Fiona Hyslop has said fire service investigations into the cause of the Glasgow School of Art blaze should be allowed to progress before any decision about holding a public inquiry is taken. She told the BBC’s Sunday Politics
GLASGOW School of Art’s Mackintosh building can be rebuilt, according to at least one expert ... but an insurance specialist has warned the next few days will be key to its future.Professor Miles Glendinning, director of the Scottish Centre for Conservation
HOLYROOD faces falling short of an independence-supporting majority after the 2021 Scottish Parliament election, according to a new poll. The Panelbase survey of 1021 people living in Scotland indicates that the SNP could win 56 seats, seven fewer
THE foundation that has been hailed as the “missing link” in the battle for independence is set to begin dishing out funds to grassroots campaigners, just a fortnight after The National revealed that it had started with £120,000 in the bank. The
IT was the last time they set up camp before a victory, but since 1746 the exact location of the Jacobite Army camp before the Battle of Falkirk Muir has been lost. Now the first survey of a potential site for the lost camp is planned for the first
A STAFF member at a high school is set to become the first Scottish woman to complete a marathon swim of Scotland’s three longest freshwater lochs. Caroline Connor, 45, who works at Peebles High School, has already swum the 22-mile length of Loch
THE Scottish Government will receive a £2 billion boost as a result of UK Government’s additional investment in the NHS, David Mundell has said. Health Secretary Shona Robison said extra funding was welcome, but warned that Prime Minister Theresa
TORY rebels could collapse the Government, former attorney general Dominic Grieve has said. Interviewed yesterday he made clear pro-Europe Conservatives did not intend to back down in their clash with Prime Minister Theresa May over how much say
IAN Blackford will today use a House of Commons debate to make the case for emergency legislation to prevent the “power grab” on Scottish devolution. He is due to use a debate in the Commons to reiterate calls for the Prime Minister to halt the
NEW laws which could ban plastic microbeads in personal care products are to be examined at Holyrood. The Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee is set to look at legislation that would stop their use in such items across Scotland.The materials
TWO important initiatives are set to transform the way that people are educated about film with Scots leading the way.The Film Education Journal – the world’s only journal dedicated to exploring film education – will be launched on Wednesday, and from
AN Australian app that lets users rent parking spaces is becoming popular in Scotland. Kerb has been described as “Airbnb for parking” where homeowners or businesses can rent out their spare spaces to make extra cash – and drivers can use the app
Willie Sullivan, senior director, ERS Scotland and Campaigns, writes about the Democracy 21 conference taking place in Glasgow next weekend MODERN democracy has lasted for little more than a moment in the history of humans. As a system its resilience
HOLDERS Newtonmore retained the cottages.com MacTavish Cup when they defeated Kinlochshiel 2-1 at Inverness’s Bught Park on Saturday in a match played in heavy rain that at times made for tricky underfoot conditions. However, the final was never
THE Scottish Government will receive a £2 billion boost as a result of UK Government’s additional investment in the NHS, David Mundell has said.Health Secretary Shona Robison said extra funding was welcome, but warned that Prime Minister Theresa May’s
THE Tory MP who single-handedly blocked the criminalisation of upskirting in England and Wales has said the “vulgar, humiliating and unacceptable” act should be outlawed. Sir Christopher Chope said he was acting on a long-held principle that has
PRESSURE was growing last night for answers to questions surrounding the fire which caused millions of pounds worth of damage to the Glasgow School of Art’s famous Mackintosh building at the weekend.Chief fire officer Alasdair Hay, of the Scottish Fire
SCOTLAND’S sporting stars of the future are being assisted by tens of millions of pounds from the Scottish Government’s CashBack for Communities scheme, with the largest sums going to football to assist the nation’s hopes for a return to the European
IT is a picturesque village nestled in the foothills of the Guilleries and Montseny mountains in the northern Catalan county of Osona – and Viladrau turned tartan at the weekend as The National came to town. The Estelada and the Lion Rampant shared
ANOTHER £20 billion a year must be fired into the UK defence budget to meet the resurgent threat from Russia, MPs say. Westminster’s Defence Committee says a new deal providing extra funds is the “only solution” to resurgent threats from Moscow
PLAYERS from 20 different countries laced their boots for a football contest with a difference.While the World Cup plays out in Russia, Scotland staged an international competition of its own yesterday as the Refugee Festival 2018 Football Tournament
‘WHAT do you do when democracy fails you?” sang The Proclaimers back in the 1980s. The SNP Westminster contingent answered that question in style when they walked out of the House of Commons last week. They took a stand. What you don’t do is shrug
MORE than 1000 people attended a Yes rally in Edinburgh on Saturday where the talk among the crowd was dominated by the SNP “walk out” at Westminster and influx in the party’s membership by more than 7000 amid the UK’s handling of the Brexit Bill.
DEBIT card payments overtook the number of those made by cash for the first time last year, a trade association has said.There were 13.2 billion debit card payments in 2017 – eclipsing the 13.1bn payments made in cash, according to UK Finance.The body
LABOUR frontbenchers are willing to meet Donald Trump when he visits the UK next month, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry said yesterday. Thornberry repeated her claim that the US president is an “asteroid of awfulness”, and said she had
THE House of Lords totally fails to represent swathes of the UK because a high proportion of peers are from London and the south-east and east of England, the head of the Electoral Reform Society (ERS) has said. MPs will debate a petition in Westminster
ONE in five British festival goers has been sexually assaulted or harassed at an event, a study has found. Campaigners said the figures, believed to be the first of their kind, should be a wake-up call for the industry to start treating sexual
