Opinion

Cora Felton (Phyllis Logan) is 'The Puzzle Lady' in the new Channel 5 crime drama Murder Most Puzzling (Picture: Channel 5)

You'll be left puzzled by the new crime drama where Prue Leith meets Taggart

Britain's Simon Yates holds the trophy after winning the Giro d'Italia cycling race, in Rome, Sunday, June 1, 2025. (Gian Mattia D'Alberto/LaPresse via AP)

Secrecy involved in council funding helps no one - Iain Whyte

You have to be careful where you put your feet these days

Under cover of darkness, I stumbled into a cunning trap - Susan Morrison

Miles Briggs MSP

Time to end Sheriffhall roundabout saga - Miles Briggs

Health app warning - loud music is bad for your fellow passengers!

Susan Morrison: Now hear this – not everyone loves your music choice on the bus

Gregor Poynton MP for the Livingston Constituency

Gregor Poynton MP welcomes Labour’s Transformative Infrastructure Strategy – war...

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We’re keeping our Balloon afloat for a 40th anniversary - Karen Koren

Inside FCC Environment's Millerhill Recycling and Energy Recovery Centre

Waste not, want not at Millerhill - Sue Webber

Fine companies when no work is being done on a blocked road

Time to end no work roadworks - Sue Webber

Big Noise participants perform at Wester Hailes

Support for culture is music to my ears - Ian Murray

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Making Edinburgh a good place to live - Jane Meagher

Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP delivers a speech. Picture: Andrew MacColl/Shutterstock

A future Liberal vision of Scotland in 2050 - Alex Cole-Hamilton

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Israel must stop their cruel slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza - Steve Cardownie

Rescue workers evacuate an injured woman from a multi-storey residential house destroyed by a Russian strike in Kyivyesterday. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukrainians remain defiant against Russian aggression - Steve Cardownie

The Government plans to withdraw Strategic Priorities Grant funding from journalism, media studies and publishing courses this year

Why the Government needs to 'save quality journalism education' Amber Allott

Gregor Poynton MP with the Secretary of State for Defence, John Healey MP on a visit to the Linburn Estate.

Gregor Poynton MP condemns plan to evict disabled veterans from Linburn estate
Gregor Poynton, Labour MP for Livingston, has condemned as “completely unacceptable” a decision by Sight Scotland Veterans to evict disabled veterans and other vulnerable residents from the charity’s Linburn Estate in West Lothian.
John Erskine

Scottish Green Party co-leader Lorna Slater

Scotland is stuck, fixing a broken political system - Lorna Slater

First Minister John Swinney during his speech on national renewal and prevention, at the Imaging Centre of Excellence (ICE) at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow. Photo: Robert Perry/PA Wire

Reforms to help put Scotland’s public services back on track - Angus Robertson

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A sad farewell to Sir Geoff Palmer - Angus Robertson

LifeCare’s dedicated staff team with volunteers, room-bookers and hub-goers

Lifecare add to community life - Angus Robertson

Rachel Reeves delivering her spending review in the House of Commons

Pressure on Labour to deliver promised change Ian Swanson

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Susan Dalgety: Treating strokes faster can save lives – Scotland gets funding cu...

The Princess Royal held a Charities Forum at Buckingham Palace

Charity doesn’t begin at home but where it is needed most - Susan Dalgety

Avalanche Records in Waverley Mall, Edinburgh

Avalanche is getting ready to move on to bigger things - Kevin Buckle

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg talks to journalists as she arrives at Stockholm Arlanda Airport outside Stockholm, on Tuesday. (Anders Wiklund/TT News Agency via AP)

Principled young Greta Thunberg is an inspiration for all ages - Vladimir McTavi...

Hugh Bonneville stars as DCS Brian Boyce, attempting to track down the Brinks-Mat loot in the new series of BBC drama The Gold (Picture: BBC/Tannadice Pictures/Ana Blumenkron)

The Gold review: Second time around proves to be better than the first

Lothian Bus

Gregor Poynton MP urges Scottish Government to take decisive action to protect j...
Gregor Poynton, Member of Parliament for the Livingston constituency, has today written to the First Minister of Scotland, John Swinney, and the Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Fiona Hyslop, urging them to take immediate and decisive action to safeguard the future of bus manufacturer Alexander Dennis and the livelihoods of its workers.
Ben Clarkson

Haggis, the internet-famous pygmy hippo calf at Edinburgh Zoo, has been introduced to dad Otto

Susan Morrison: Visayan warty pigs and pygmy hippos – what could be cuter?

Foysol Choudhury MSP visits an ELREC bike maintenance session run by Gerry Timoney, cycle officer at Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre

Active travel a step in the right direction

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Council secrecy over Christmas events casts a shadow - Iain Whyte

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Susan Morrison: It’s time to celebrate my new pension riches – at Leith Gala Day

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Currie green group gets results - Sue Webber

Plans for the Exascale computer to be based at Edinburgh University were first announced in October 2023

Spending Review a big boost for Scotland - Ian Murray

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Festival madness time, but I wouldn’t be anywhere else - Fiona Duff

Outline designs have been submitted to West Lothian Council for the new Winchburgh station

Maybe it’s time to attract private investment into our rail network - Sue Webber

An artist's impression of the proposed Sheriffhall roundabout flyover

Greens hijack Sheriffhall project - Sue Webber

City of Edinburgh Council depute leader Mandy Watt

Taking big steps towards solving housing emergency - Mandy Watt

Contalmaison Cairn, France, honouring the 16th Royal Scots, McCrae’s Battalion who died on July 1, 1916

Honouring a little piece of Scotland in a not so foreign field - Steve Cardownie

Leith Gala Day is an annual event on Leith Links and marks the beginning of the Leith Festival. But unlike previous years, today’s event saw heavy rain

Come and join the fun of the week-long annual Leith Festival - Steve Cardownie

Willy Barr, manager at the Citadel in Edinburgh, has long fought against cuts to youth work services

Youth work is key to tackling rise in violence - Alex Cole-Hamilton

Carer figures.

Caring for Scotland’s carers - Angus Robertson

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (centre), Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar (right) and Ed Miliband, Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary (left), during a visit to St Fergus Gas Terminal, a clean power facility in AberdeenshirePicture: Jeff J Mitchell/PA Wire

The signs from Labour are more welfare cuts in Spending Review - Angus Robertson

Scottish Green Party co-leader Lorna Slater

Courage on the seas, silence on our shores over Gaza - Lorna Slater

Matthew Goode and Jamie Sives in the Calders area of Wester Hailes, for the dramatic opening scene of Department Q on Netflix

New era for Scotland's screen sector - Angus Robertson

Hamilton prompts rethink of assumptions about 2026 Holyrood elections Ian Swanson

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Scots from these two cities could be earning big bucks from their driveways

Pulp in Glasgow

Review: Pulp in Glasgow was a perfect blend of chatter and theatrics

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Public servants and their inflated salaries - Susan Dalgety

Around 1000 people attended a meeting in Gyle Park at the height of the pandemic on plans for a low traffic neighbourhood scheme in East Craigs

We need to get better at listening - Ed Thornley

Liz McAreavey, CEO, Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce

Immigration is an economic imperative - Liz McAreavey

Definitely Oasis

Ready-made Fringe excuse - Vladimir McTavish

Robbie Williams took Murrayfield by storm, says top fan Susan Dalgety

He's the one! - Susan Dalgety

You pay extra for anything other than the smallest item of baggage (Picture: Adobe)

Flying? Better pack your canoe - Vladimir McTavish

Avalanche Records is 'actively speaking' with the Waverley Centre’s owners about how the shop could expand

Move could deliver Avalanche of change - Kevin Buckle

What's underneath the tarpaulin on the North Bridge? asks Susan Morrison

Playing find the bus stop up the bridges - Susan Morrison