Opinion

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...

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

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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

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

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
As a Leither “born and bred” I am delighted to devote some space to the forthcoming 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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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
There is a growing recognition across Scotland’s business community that immigration is not just a social or political issue – it 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

Matt Allwright in the Doorbell Detectives studio, a 'cross between a hay barn and a GP's waiting room' (Picture: BBC/Objective Media Group t/a Purple Productions)

Doorbell Detectives review: Boredom punctuated by moments of terror

A mother and daughter argue.

How can family conflict be resolved?

Edinburgh’s Judith Ralston, the former opera singer is now a weather presenter for BBC Scotland

Judith needs to have a word with the weather - Susan Morrison

Ewan Aitken, CEO Cyrenians

Maybe what matters can’t be counted - Ewan Aitken

The changes to George Street will see the current parking down the centre of the street removed, buses rerouted, the pavement widened and the carriageway become a 'cycle street'

City building a debt mountain - Iain Whyte

Reform UK has suggested the Barnett Formula and block funding grant from Westminster should go to be replaced with more tax powers for the Scottish Parliament

Obvious how little Reform UK understands Scotland - Sue Webber

Gordon (Kieran Hodgson) enrages Cathy (Doon Mackichan) with his impression on her in Two Doors Down

Helping create the magic - Karen Koren

An artist's impression of the proposed Sheriffhall roundabout flyover

Junction upgrade no further forward - Sue Webber

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks during a visit to BAE Systems in Govan, Glasgow, to launch the Strategic Defence Review (Picture: Andy Buchanan/PA Wire)

Unique role in national security - Ian Murray

The £20 million investment at Riccarton Campus is essential as universities are under so much financial pressure, says Sue Webber

Possibilities boggle the mind - Sue Webber

An Edinburgh council officer said the ‘process is ongoing, but we expect it to be concluded shortly’

Questions asked over festive contracts - Steve Cardownie

The University of Edinburgh's Old College

University funding no longer fit for purpose - Alex Cole-Hamilton

As well as emails and texts scammers also operate through the post

All the hallmarks of a classic scam - Steve Cardownie

Criminals involved in the recent activity have been using Sur-Ron type e-bikes

No threat to wider community - Paul Grainger

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Scottish Green Party co-leader Lorna Slater

Scottish Government turns its back on nature and communities - Lorna Slater

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Farage and his party are dangerous charlatans - Angus Robertson

Festival-goers basked in the sun at the Meadows Festival 2024

The Meadows Festival at 50 - Angus Robertson

A new generation of armed drone

Nato needs to prepare for attack - Angus Robertson

Harold Wilson was prime minister from 1964 until 1970 and from 1974 until 1976. Picture: Central Press/Getty Images.

How Harold Wilson helped shape modern Britain By The Newsroom

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