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Scotland

3 June 2024

  • Left to right: Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, Scottish National party leader John Swinney, STV’s political editor Colin Mackay, Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross and Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton

    SNP says Scottish Labour is rewriting party’s spending plans in TV debate

    John Swinney claims Anas Sarwar not keeping to Rachel Reeves’s constraints on NHS, schools and renewables funding as leaders clash
  • People holding umbrellas walk along a busy pavement on the Royal Mile in rainy Edinburgh

    May and spring were warmest on record in UK, Met Office says

    Season’s high temperatures come despite wettest spring since 1986 and the sixth wettest on record
  • An urban square in front of a grey stone Victorian institutional building, given extra colour by a mix of leafy trees and mural art on different walls and buildings

    Summerhall’s sale could devastate Edinburgh’s arts scene, say creative leaders

    Arts hub described as heart of city’s fringe advertised for redevelopment after benefactor outvoted on family trust

2 June 2024

  • John Swinney speaking under a stage banner reading 'SNP for Scotland'

    John Swinney says SNP facing its biggest challenge for years

    Leader launches party’s election campaign as polling suggests it will pay high price for recent woes
  • Open water and bog mosses in the ecologically vital region of the Flow Country in Forsinard, Scotland.

    Scotland’s remote land of bogs and bugs in line for world heritage status

    A decision from Unesco on giving the peat-rich Flow Country the same standing as the Great Barrier Reef is just weeks away
  • A girl with ginger hair looks to her right.

    The big picture
    The big picture: Robbie Lawrence’s search for the tartan spirit

    The photographer’s shot of girls at the Highland Games was taken during five years visiting traditional gatherings

1 June 2024

  • Taylor Swift iin an orange dress, playing a guitar and singing into a mic.

    Scottish Swifties ready for Edinburgh leg of Taylor Swift’s Eras tour

    More than 200,000 fans will descend on Murrayfield, with new ice-cream flavour and evening classes part of buildup

31 May 2024

  • Claire Emslie scoring her second, and Scotland’s third, goal of the night at an empty Hampden Park.

    Scotland Women rout Israel in qualifier delayed by protester chained to goal

  • Composite image of Tom and Richie Parry

    Father and son in Scottish Highlands probably died from fall, police say

  • Keir Starmer in front of the words Change and Scottish Labour

    Starmer admits he flew by private jet to clean energy jobs rally in Scotland

  • Sarwar with folder in hand and two colleagues on either side of him

    Scottish Labour leader says Diane Abbott should be allowed to run in election

30 May 2024

  • A composite photo of the faces of John Yuill and Lamara Bell

    M9 crash victim endured ‘almost incomprehensible’ suffering – inquiry

    Police Scotland heavily criticised in report on 2015 incident near Stirling where Lamara Bell lay injured in car for three days
  • John Swinney pouring milk into a coffee cup with a man stood behind him

    SNP deletes TikTok election campaign video featuring sexually explicit song

    Pretty Girls Walk by Big Boss Vette was used by the party as it promoted its policies on the platform
  • Composite image of Tom and Richie Parry

    Tributes paid as bodies found in search for father and son in Scottish Highlands

    Tom Parry and son Richie, 12, are believed to have died after going missing while on a hillwalking trip

29 May 2024

  • Close-up photos of Richie and Tom Parry

    Man and son, 12, missing after hillwalking in Scottish Highlands

  • Michael Matheson sitting in the Scottish parliament

    Suspension for ex-minister who claimed £11,000 roaming bill on expenses

28 May 2024

  • Heather Hunter

    Other lives
    Heather Hunter obituary

    Other lives: Occupational therapist who specialised in helping children and young people and went on to be a senior lecturer Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
  • Labour Party deputy leader Angela Rayner.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Police to take no further action over Angela Rayner allegations – as it happened

    No further action will be taken after a thorough investigation into Tory allegations, Greater Manchester Police say
  • Lawrence Whalley

    Other lives
    Lawrence Whalley obituary

    Other lives: Professor in mental health at Aberdeen who conducted ground-breaking research into age-related cognitive decline

27 May 2024

  • SNP leader John Swinney in Burntisland, Scotland, 25 May 2024.

    The SNP’s woes are a boost for Starmer. But he’s not promising the change Scotland wants

    Dani Garavelli
    Labour is posing as the great catalyst, but so far there is little evidence it has the bold policies to deliver on this pledge, says journalist Dani Garavelli
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