Scotland

Two people have been hurt in a two-vehicle crash on a rural road in Dumfries and Galloway. Emergency services were called to the collision at about 11:15 on the B7085 between Port William and Whauphill. The Scottish Ambulance Service confirmed one person had been airlifted to the Queen Elizabeth University …

The Scottish government set up a cladding remediation programme following the disaster, but has been criticised for its slow progress. Only £7m out of £97m received from Westminster via Barnett consequentials has been spent to deal with the issue. A report in February by the local government, housing and planning …

The Scottish Men’s Shed Association, external (SMSA) is the national support hub which helps local groups set up and run a Men’s Shed in their local communities across Scotland. The first started up in Westhill, Aberdeenshire in 2013 and there are now over 200 sheds across Scotland. Local branches of …

Ms Beaton was attending the Skye Live music festival and had left the venue to go to a pub to meet friends. She told BBC Naidheachdan: “When I got into the pub I wasn’t feeling very well and I was sick and started getting hives on my arm.” Her partner …

Many Scotland fans are looking forward to the Euros, with the first match taking place in Munich against Germany. So what do fans need to know ahead of the big game? One Munich resident who knows plenty about Scotland is Robert Ross, originally from Kirkcaldy. The 70-year-old has just retired …

Flip the table round, and it’s equally fraught at the foot. Believe it or not, it’s even closer. With a sole goal setting United and Accies apart, never has it been truer that every goal matters. Both sides tasted sweet victory in the post-split meetings between the pair, but Accies’ …

Parts of Inverness city centre that were evacuated following a gas leak from a freight train have been reopened to the public. The alarm was raised at about 10:30 and parts of the Eastgate shopping centre along with a nearby Morrisons supermarket were closed. All railway lines into the city …

Two women will stand trial accused of killing a shop security guard after they allegedly hit him with a Zimmer frame. Bill Ireland is said to have gone into cardiac arrest after struggling with Nicola Gordon and Teresa Orr at the Rejects store in Kirkcaldy on 6 January last year. …

Under the plan, children in primary school would spend 2.5 hours a week less in the classroom. Secondary students would have their weekly hours cut by almost two hours. A Scottish government spokesperson said: “The Scottish government is concerned at any suggestion of cuts to learning hours and is clear …

Ms Ashford said the sponsor team at the Scottish government was aware she was participating in the Harvard course. “I lead the wastewater workstream, so advising them that I would be out of the country in February and April 2023 was essential,” she told the committee. Ms Ashford said that …

Scotland currently has two national parks – the Cairngorms and Loch Lomond and the Trossachs – but it is more than two decades since a new one was created. A co-operation deal between the SNP and Scottish Greens in 2021 agreed to create “at least one” more over the next …

A man has been arrested after an alleged sexual assault in Aberdeen. Police said the report was made about an incident at Broad Hill – near Aberdeen FC’s Pittodrie Stadium – at about 22:00 on Sunday. The area was cordoned off as an investigation was launched. Police Scotland said a …

But, in a club statement, The Gordon Family said: “As a board, this was not a decision we made lightly but felt it a necessary one to move the team forward. “Although Nick and his coaching team worked tirelessly, their efforts didn’t deliver the results we had hoped for.” Assistant …

Bologna are the latest Italian club to scout Aberdeen midfielder Connor Barron, who is out of contract at the end of the season and could be signed for just over £500,000 in training compensation, but interest in the 21-year-old from Cagliari and Sassuolo is subject to them avoiding relegation from …

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Murray insisted earlier on this season that she had no plans to hang up her boots just yet but now admits it is a decision she has been thinking about for a while. “I had already been thinking about my retirement at the end of the season and was kind …

Agnes Dun, who lives on a farm near the village of Heriot, was hoping to return to work after maternity leave for her third child. She said: “This couldn’t have happened at a worse time. My daughter just started at Fountainhall and she loves it – she’s settled in really …

One Munich resident who knows everything about Scotland is Robert Ross from Kirkcaldy. The 70-year-old has just retired after many years playing the French horn in the Munich orchestra. He arrives to chat, clutching a saltire flag that his dad rescued from British legion in Kirkcaldy. He seems as proud …

Susan Bain, NTS manager for St Kilda, said the study warned that in the future the trust would face increasingly difficult challenges managing the archipelago. She said: “Warming sea temperatures are already impacting on the food chain for the hundreds of thousands of seabirds who breed here each summer, and …

MP John McNally said: “I want to ask these hotels to look seriously at what they’re associating themselves with. “They should stop these predators – hooded crows masquerading as peacocks – from using well-respected brands, thereby lending credibility to these organisations. “Increasingly young people are being tempted by cut-price treatments …