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Mcavoy’s premiere
Glasgow actor James Mcavoy and his wife Lisa Liberati attend the London Gala for his directorial debut ‘California Schemin’ at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square last night
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Moon shot: Stunning ‘Earthset’ captured by Artemis crew
This incredible image of the Earth ‘setting’ below the lunar horizon was captured from the Orion spacecraft at the far side of the moon. Aboard, crew members Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen have travelled further from...
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MOD urged to award Faslane contract to Scottish shipyard
The UK government has been urged to directly award a new defence contract to a Scottish shipyard to “rejuvenate” it after decades of “difficulty and uncertainty” and resist sending the job overseas. GMB Scotland has called for the Navantia yard in...
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Heir force: Royals turn out at traditional Windsor service
The Prince and Princess of Wales arrive with their children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, for the Easter Service at St George’s Chapel, in Windsor Castle, with the rest of the royal family. Kate was attending the traditional...
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Ear we go: Easter flower girls
Hope Richardson, right, and Maeve Graham Bowers sporting their bunny ears among the flowering daffodils in the grounds of Bowhill House near Selkirk, which is once again running its much-loved Easter-themed events for the next fortnight, with brand-new...
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Scandal-hit council strips SNP members of extra cash
SNP councillors have been stripped of extra payments in the wake of the scandal over disgraced former council leader Jordan Linden. North Lanarkshire Council passed a motion yesterday which said it was “inappropriate for any Member of the North...
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Up on the catwalk: New V&A show
Model Lucia Fairfull wears one of Vivienne Westwood’s personal dresses at a preview of ‘Catwalk: The Art of the Fashion Show’ at the V&A Dundee, which opens tomorrow
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Offord rejects ‘toxic’ label as rival parties round on Reform
Reform’s leader in Scotland has insisted his party is “running a positive campaign” after facing a “barrage” from his political rivals over accusations his party is spreading divisionaheadoftheholyrood election next month. Malcolm Offord came under...
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Fight for power: North Sea future is focus in Holyrood race
Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch visits the Well-safe Protector Oil Rig at Aberdeen’s South Harbour yesterday. The Tory chief is campaigning to ‘Get Britain Drilling in the North Sea,’ saying that increasing the UK’S oil and gas production could...
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Glasgow gong: Dwyer’s comedy win
Comedian Amanda Dwyer said she was “over the moon” after being named winner of the 2026 Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award yesterday.
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Hannibal lecture: Cox on election and Farage
Dundonian film and TV star Brian Cox – the first actor to play the role of Hannibal Lecktor in the movie Manhunter – is in Scotland to address today’s Believe in Scotland pro-independence rally in Edinburgh and took time out to speak to The Scotsman
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‘Unprecedented’ ferry crisis with eight vessels out of use
Calmac has warned of widespread disruption across the west coast and islands caused by an “unprecedented” situation with eight of its major ferries either out of action or undergoing repairs. The latest nightmare for the operator is affecting routes...
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School’s out: Now for the election
First Minister John Swinney after the final First Minister’s Questions of the current parliamentary session with fellow SNP MSPs in the Scottish Parliament's Garden Lobby
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Warning food inflation is set to double by the summer
Households could face spiralling food inflation within months – adding £150 to the average annual grocery bill – if disruption caused by the Iran war persists, experts have warned. The conflict in the Middle East could result in food inflation more...
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Waiting times crisis in NHS ‘may take 200 years to fix’
The lack of meaningful improvement in tackling the crisis across Scotland’s hospitals means it could take centuries before waiting times are reduced to the levels seen a decade ago, according to the leading body of emergency medicine...
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Horse power: St Andrews hosts annual beach polo battle
The University of St Andrews Polo Club, wearing navy, play against the University of Manchester Polo Club, wearing purple, in their annual beach match on the West Sands, St Andrews, Fife. After playing six chukkas Manchester won the match 7-5.
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Demands for PM to act now as bills soar
Sir Keir Starmer has been urged to convene an emergency four nations summit after it was forecast household energy bills could jump by £332 a year in July following the escalation of conflict in the Middle East. It came as motorists were warned...
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Exit: Sturgeon makes last speech
Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon delivers her last speech in the Scottish Parliament during the final debate for the Children’s Bill yesterday
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Demands to put the right to end-of-life care into law
A leading end-of-life and hospice charity has warned SNP ministers that people diagnosed with a terminal illness are being “written off ” by Scotland’s health and care systems. The alarm raised by Marie Curie Scotland comes after MSPS rejected Liam...
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Assisted dying law is voted down by MSPS
◆ Holyrood’s ‘most profound’ decision ends in defeat for Lib Dem MSP Mcarthur’s bill by 69 to 57, with Gray abstaining ◆ Disappointed Mcarthur claims many of those who voted against the legislation would later ‘come to regret it’ ◆ Emotional...
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It’s good to talk: Clarke drops contract hint on school visit
Scotland head coach Steve Clarke with pupils at Kirklandneuk Primary School in Renfrew, where he announced his squad yesterday for the forthcoming pre-world Cup friendlies against Japan and Côte d’ivoire. He also revealed he would be open to discussing...
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To be or not to be: Author O’farrell joins Oscars hopefuls
Irish author Maggie O’farrell – who lives in Edinburgh – attends last night’s 98th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood rocking a striking veil. Hamnet, based on her novel, was up for eight awards, including Best Actress for star Jessie Buckley and Best...
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Top medical bodies oppose bill to legalise assisted dying
campaign to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill Scots has been dealt a blow with psychiatrists and pharmacists voicing their opposition to the plans. While the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Scotland said it “remains neutral” in principle,...
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Dunblane families 30 years on: We must never forget
The sister of a five-year-old girl killed in the Dunblane atrocity has said “we cannot let people forget” what happened and warned that UK gun laws are “at risk” 30 years on. Ellie Crozier’s sister Emma was one of the 16 children murdered along with...
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Festivalline-up:ourcritics’choices
The internationally acclaimed Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is to take up a residency at the Edinburgh International Festival for the first time to mark the departure of director Nicola Benedetti’s husband Wynton Marsalis from his role as artistic...
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Good sport: Hazel’s honour
Long-serving TV sports presenter Hazel Irvine, from St Andrews was yesterday made a Member of the Order of the British Empire by the Princess Royal during an investiture ceremony at Windsor
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Iran war: More evacuation flights as strikes continue
Shepherd boys inspect an unexploded Iranian projectile that landed in a field near Qamishli, eastern Syria, yesterday as the conflict sparked by the US and Israeli attacks on Iran continued. Britons trapped abroad began to arrive home while Sir Keir...
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Iran war: Trump says Starmer is ‘no Churchill’ in new blast
An EA-18G Growler prepares to launch from the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in support of Operation Epic Fury in the Middle East. Donald Trump has said he is not happy with the UK after it did not initially allow the...
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Tower block lockdown: Arrest after two injured
Edinburgh neighbourhood was plunged into lockdown yesterday after a stabbing incident which saw tower block sealed off. Police issued a warning to residents in the Calder area of Edinburgh at around 9am to stay indoors following 999 calls...
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Thousands of UK nationals stranded as Iran hits back
An unprecedented operation is under way to support thousands of British nationals in the Gulf as Iranian missile strikes rock the Middle East. The Foreign Office is understood to be working on plans for potential evacuation routes in case airspace in...
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Scots Labour woes deepen with slide to fourth in poll
Anas Sarwar has told Scots to “hold your nose” and vote Labour to remove the SNP from power – despite a dire byelection result and a damning poll overshadowing his crucial party conference. In a “direct plea” to voters ahead of May’s Holyrood...
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Well plaid
Designers Ruth Duff and Carmen Masson at the Lovat Mill in Hawick as it celebrates 200 years since a lucky misreading gave Tweed its name. The tale goes that a London cloth merchant examining some of the durable woollen cloth already popular in the...
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Police apology for failings as shotgun killer found guilty
Police Scotland has apologised to the family of a murdered man for initally treating his death as “non-suspicious”, despite the fact he had sustained dozens of injuries from shotgun pellets. David Campbell, a former head gamekeeper, was sentenced to a...
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Dame Anne breaks the mould
woman has been elected as chancellor of St Andrews University for this first time in its 600-year history. Dameannepringle,described asa“trailblazingdiplomat”who was formerly British ambassador to Moscow, won a majority of support in an election also...
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Starmer crisis deepening as Mandelson arrested by Met
Peter Mandelson has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office in what Conservatives have branded as “the defining moment” of Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership. The former US ambassador remained under police questioning long into the night...
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Iwin
I Swear star Robert Aramayo poses with his Leading Actor and EE Rising Star Baftas after last night’s awards ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Jessie Buckley scooped the Leading Actress award for her performance in Hamnet.
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Watchdog to investigate SNP’S flagship wind projects
Scotland’s spending watchdog has launched an investigation into the SNP’S flagship Scotwind projects amid fears the £750 million raised from leasing the seabed has been “frittered away” to balance the books. Audit Scotland has begun “early scoping...
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‘The law must take its course’ says King Charles after Andrew arrest
Andrew Mountbatten-windsor became the first senior royal in modern history to be arrested when he was taken into custody yesterday on suspicion of misconduct in public office. The King’s brother was held on his 66th birthday following allegations made...
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Joint honours
Garreth and Nicola Wood – a former Miss Scotland – co-founders of Kids Operating Room, were both made Members of the Order of the British Empire by the Princess Royal
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Rev Jesse Jackson
Tributes from across the political divide were paid yesterday to the Rev Jesse L Jackson, a protege of Martin Luther King Jr and a two-time US presidential candidate who led the civil rights movement for decades after Dr King’s assassination, after his...
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Robert Duvall, 1931-2026
Godfather star Robert Duvall has died at the age of 95. The Hollywood actor – who won an Oscar for Tender Mercies – died “peacefully” at his home, according to a statement by his wife Luciana Duvall. The statement, shared on his Facebook page,...
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Gold rush
Team GB’S Matt Weston and Tabitha Stoecker celebrate winning gold in the skeleton mixed team final in Cortina, on day nine of the Winter Olympics in Italy. Weston already has an individual skeleton gold medal from friday. Yesterday also saw Charlotte...
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Matt Weston celebrates after winning gold in the men’s skeleton at the Cortina Sliding Centre – Great Britain’s first medal of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics
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Reverse ban on new oil and gas, says Blair’s think tank
Sir Keir Starmer’s government should axe the windfall tax on oil and gas firms and reverse its ban on new licences for North Sea drilling, Sir Tony Blair’s think tank has said. In a scathing new report, it argues Labour’s clean power plan is “leading...
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Consolation
Team GB’S Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson hug after their free dance routine in Milan last night, which saw them drop from fourth to seventh and miss an ice dance medal
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Time for reflection
Edinburgh based artist Runkun Sun, who is originally from Beijing, is pictured inside the Giant Kaleidoscope at the Camera Obscura & World of Illusions in Edinburgh, ahead of the Chinese New Year celebrations which began last night and mark the start...
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Sarwar’s gamble
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has gambled his political future by telling Sir Keir Starmer he should resign as Prime Minister. Mr Sarwar became the party’s most senior politician to call for Sir Keir to go in a hastily arranged Glasgow press...
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Cool customer
Bruce Mouat delivers a stone during a match that saw him and his playing partner, fellow Scot Jennifer Dodds, claim victory for Team GB over hosts Italy in the curling mixed doubles on day two of the Winter Olympics. The 9-6 win saw the pair finish top...
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Winning strings
Harpist Rachel Groves beat five fellow finalists to be crowned BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2026
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Return to Scotland Street
I am sitting in Sir Alexander Mccall Smith’s study on the first floor of his house in Merchiston and he is telling me about a story he’s written. I have known him for a quarter of a century, and we are friends: I have never met anybody kinder. So I...
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Tributes to Jim Wallace – ‘one of the architects of modern Scotland’
Tributes have been paid to “one of the architects of modern Scotland” following the death of former deputy first minister Jim Wallace at the age of 71. Lord Wallace, who served as Holyrood’s first ever deputy first minister, was undergoing a procedure...
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Mingyang tables ‘Plan B’ if turbine decision drags on
Chinese wind turbine firm Mingyang has drawn up a “Plan B” of sites in continental Europe if the UK government blocks plans to open a flagship factory in the Highlands. The admission the firm could walk away from investing in Scotland comes after...
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Grieving family ‘vindicated’ by scathing university probe
mother of a student who took his own life after being wrongly told he could not graduate has said she has been vindicated by an independent report. A watchdog called in to carry out a review at the University of Glasgow following the death of Ethan...
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Reform vows to slash Scots tax in first Holyrood pledge
UK will align income tax with England and then cut it by a further 1p immediately if it wins the Holyrood election despite a £2 billion price tag, the party’s new Scottish leader has claimed. Malcolm Offord, in his first keynote speech since being...
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Service for the King
King Charles III, Queen Camilla and Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, attend the Sunday morning church service at St Peter’s church in Wolferton, on the Sandringham
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Traitors’ reward
Stornoway’s Stephen Libby and fellow traitor Rachel Duffy celebrate with host Claudia Winkleman after splitting £95,750 for winning the latest series of The Traitors last night
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Rabbie’s return
A lost portrait of Robert Burns by artist Sir Henry Raeburn is on display at the National Galleries in Edinburgh after being found during a house clearance in Surrey last year
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Tariff U-turn as Trump claims Greenland ‘deal’
US President Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland yesterday. He later claimed in a social media post he had dropped plans for tariffs on European allies after talks with Nato chief Mark Rutte resulted in the ‘framework’ for a deal on...
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Ice Kate-ing
A slightly-apprehensive looking Kate took to the ice yesterday to try her hand at curling as the Prince and Princess of Wales visited the National Curling Academy in Stirling to meet Team GB and Paralympics GB curlers ahead of the Winter Olympics in...
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Trump tariffs ‘devastating’ for Scottish industries
Trump’s threat to impose additional tariffs on the UK would be “devastating” for Scottish industries with the key whisky sector already scaling back production given pressure on exports to the US. Mr Trump said he would impose 10 per cent tariffs from...
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Only connect
Trad rockers Skerryvore perform during the first weekend of the Celtic Connections music festival in Glasgow, where other acts included US country legend Emmylou Harris
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Farage urges defectors to get in touch ‘within days’
Nigel Farage told potential Holyrood defectors to get in touch “within the next few days” if they want to jump ship as he announced a former Tory minister will be Reform’s leader in Scotland. Malcolm Offord intends to retire from the House of Lords to...
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SNP mounts mansion tax raid as higher earners set to be hit
More than 100,000 higher earning Scots will be dragged into higher tax bands as a result of the SNP’S pre-election Budget, with those owning properties worth more than £1 million set to be hit by a “mansion tax” in future years. SNP Finance Secretary...
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Widespread disruption to travel continued across Scotland as melting snow turned to floodwater and heavy rain brought key roads to a standstill. Yellow weather warnings remained in place for most of the country until this morning, with high winds and...
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Cauld Reekie
The capital’s Calton Hill dusted in snow with the Edinburgh cityscape beyond and the Pentland Hills in the distance. Parts of Scotland continued to face disruption yesterday
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Fresh calls for military aid as major incident declared
of schools will be closed for a third day today amid “one of the biggest snow events of the last 20 years” as one local authority declared a major incident and fresh calls were made for military assistance to support communities worst affected by the...
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