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The Advertising Association Scottish conference will hear a keynote speech from ex-Prime Minster Gordon Brown

Advertising just can’t be ignored - John McLellan

Brian Coane, chair of the Advertising Association, Scotland, says: 'The summit will be the perfect occasion to reflect on the period of political change.' Picture: contributed.

Lead Scotland advertising summit prepares for return in Edinburgh

Thousands of jobs are at risk as retailer Wilko confirms collapse.

Wilko ‘could be saved’ by rival discount chains according to experts

TV presenter Fiona Phillips has announced that she has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease

We can and must do better as we approach the cusp of a dementia epidemic - Susan...

Hutchison Vale Community 2012 Blacks won the prestigious Copa Costa Brava youth tournament.

Hutchison Vale 2012s enjoy Copa Costa Brava success

Tory ministers will not be happy with the new ‘no plus-one’ rule for King Charles III coronation - Credit: Getty Images

Tory ministers in uproar after major king’s coronation rule change

Protesters gather at a Protect The Right To Strike rally in Glasgow on Wednesday

Readers' letters: There's nothing selfish about taking strike action

Poorer Scottish households receive £25 a week for each child under 16

Readers' letters: Scotland's record on child poverty is better than England or W...

Tom Nairn, pictured at home last year, has died at the age of 90

Tom Nairn was one of Scotland's greatest public intellectuals – Angus Robertson

Gordon Brown’s Vow helped secure a ‘No’ vote in 2014

Readers' letters: Scots will be harder to scare next time

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has produced proposals for extensive constitutional changes across the UK (Picture: Danny Lawson/PA)

Brown's constitutional plan could strengthen Scotland’s position – Ian Swanson

Former prime minister Gordon Brown, Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer and Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar

Readers'letters: Labour is offering Scotland very little

Readers' letters: Starmer and Brown light a damp squib

Keir Starmer needs to fully commit to abolishing the House of Lords and should also back proportional representation (Picture: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Labour's constitutional reforms are welcome but there's one glaring omission

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Labour leader Keir Starmer arrive for a press conference about The Commission on the UK’s Future report (Picture: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Brown's plan to save Union actually makes indy case – Angus Robertson

Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart is in the running for the best fiction book prize at Scotland's National Bookl Awards. Picture: Pako Mera

Contenders for Scotland’s ‘Book of the Year' honour revealed
Former prime minister Gordon Brown, artist Alison Watt and Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart will compete for Scotland’s ‘Book of the Year’ crown.

Keir Starmer ruled out an independence referendum in Sunday’s interview

Keir Starmer hammers final nail into Labour's coffin in Scotland - readers' lett...

UK Cabinet ministers yesterday (either that or horror film fans dressed as zombies in Helsinki) (Picture: Mikko Stig/AFP/Getty Images)

As Tory horror film massacre claims Truss, will Boris return from dead?

Gordon Brown's plans for devolution are unlikely to see Scotland's economy transformed, says John McLellan (Picture: Jane Barlow)

The SNP is right about Gordon Brown's big devolution plans – John McLellan

Where Art I? - Edinburgh Sketcher, 15 August 2022

Readers' letters: Brown’s plan lets companies off hook

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been an advocate of a federal system in the UK for some years (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA)

Tory and Labour plans to save the Union are pie in the sky – Angus Robertson MSP

The then Scottish Secretary Donald Dewar (right), with Henry McLeish as they launched the Scottish Labour's 'Yes, Yes' devolution referendum campaign in 1997 (Picture: Chris Bacon/PA)

Labour needs to stop parroting SNP attack lines – John McLellan

AMAZON charity coalition  - Back (from left) John Boumphey, (Amazon UK Country Manager,  Rt Hon Gordon Brown,, Pauline Buchan (Manager of Cottage family Centre), 
Front - Simon McMahon, and  Ben Robertson -  Amazon Dunfermline.

The project giving Amazon surplus goods to Scots families in need

Bus fares in Scotland should be capped at #2 says a Gordon Brown thinktank

Bus fares should be capped - your views online

NatWest recently reported a big swing to the black as it moves closer to full private ownership again.

Government no longer majority owner of RBS parent NatWest in 'milestone' moment

Former prime minister Gordon Brown has called for a special tribunal to bring Vladimir Putin to justicce.

Ukraine Crisis: Putin could end up in dock over invasion, says Gordon Brown

BP chief executive Bernard Looney has spoken out against a windfall tax on the oil and gas industry to help people struggling with high energy bills (Picture: Daniel Leal/AFP via Getty Images)

Oil industry appalled by idea of helping people as profits soar – Susan Morrison
The Chancellor is aghast. Fuel bills are coming in that make it look like we have taken up home steel smelting.

Crime writer Val McDermid. Picture: John Linton/PA Wire

Val McDermid responds to Raith Rovers decision not to play Goodwillie

Val McDermid, the famous Scottish crime writer, has claimed that she was ‘lied to’ by a Raith Rovers board member in the signing of David Goodwillie (Photo: David Empson/Shutterstock).

'I was lied to about Goodwillie', says McDermid

Private rented homes will be subjected to new rules as part of the Levelling Up agenda (image: NationalWorld)

Landlords could be forced to upgrade '800,000 homes' under new Levelling Up Whit...

Keir Starmer would have had plans in place for the cost of living crisis

Johnson has been slow to act on the cost of living crisis - Readers' Letters

Edinburgh Council leader Adam McVey does not have the same profile as directly elected mayors of Manchester and London (PIcture: Ian Georgeson)

Why Edinburgh should have a directly elected Lord Provost – Susan Dalgety

Readers' letters: What’s the point of Labour in Scotland?

Prince William attended the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland as Lord High Commissioner, the Queen's representative - and the Duchess of Cambridge joined them.
During the week the couple made a series of visits, including a nostalgic return to St Andrews, where they met at university.
And William proved  big hit with elderly residents at Queen's Bay Lodge on Milton Road East, where 96-year-old Betty McGee asked him for a kiss.
Picture: Andrew O'Brien

Review of the Year 2021, part two

Tram works at York Place.  Picture: Jane Barlow

Why is tram inquiry report taking so long

Everything you need to know about the Winter Fuel Allowance, including who's eligible, how it works and how to claim (Image credit: Getty Images/Canva)

What is the Winter Fuel Allowance and who's eligible to claim?

Councillors are set to cut the speed limit in a bid to prevent accidents at one of the busiest roundabouts in the area.

Speed limit cut at crossroads to busy West Lothian roundabout

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on a recent trip to Edinburgh. PIC: Phil Noble/Getty.

A letter to Prince William: Please don't be misled by Unionists - Helen Martin

Maize rations being delivered in Malawi. Boris Johnson's bid to cut foreign aid is a stain on Britain's reputation around the world, argues Ian Murray MP.

PM puts our reputation - and lives - at risk across the world - Ian Murray

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge who may be asked to spend more time in Scotland under plans reportedly drawn up by palace officials to bolster the Union. Issue date: Sunday June 6, 2021. Pic: Chris Jackson/PA

Prince William and Kate to spend 'more time in Scotland' to boost Union

Speedy Linlithgow motorists fail to obey 20mph signs

Gordon Brown with Dr Hector Chawla     Picture: Alex Hewitt

Former PM Gordon Brown backs calls for new eye hospital

Gordon Brown has called for the mass vaccination of the world to be the primary focus of the G7 summit (Photos: Getty Images and Shutterstock)

UK and other wealthy countries should help pay for global vaccination, Gordon Br...

The Glasgow band are donating all their new album profits to children's charities across Scotland and the world (Photo: John Devlin).

Fratellis will donate album profits to Scottish children’s charities

Schools are blighted by a culture of micromanagement, teachers overloaded with bureaucracy, and councils that act as a 'brake' on innovation (Picture: Danny Lawson/PA Wire)

Education is stagnating as know-it-all leaders refuse to change – John McLellan

Gordon Brown has waded into the Sturgeon Versus Salmond row.

Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond row 'bringing country down', says Gordon Brown

Anne Laing with Princess Alexandra, who opened the Eye Pavilion in 1969, when she returned to mark its 25th anniversary

Everything on one site so crucial for eye care

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown picture: PA

Gordon Brown publicly confirms his vote for new leader of Scottish Labour Party

Gordon Brown and and Dr Hector Chawla   Picture: Alex Hewitt/Writer Pictures

Top eye doctor condemns scrapping of new hospital

Marcus Rashford  (Photo: Jon Super - Pool/Getty Images)

Kirkcaldy youngsters question Marcus Rashford in star's first Scottish event

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

PM responds to potential SNP ‘wildcat referendum’

The UK risks becoming a “failed state” unless it makes reforms to the Union, former prime minister Gordon Brown has warned.

Gordon Brown: UK risks of becoming ‘failed state’

A person uses the Scottish Government's Covid-19 app. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell

'I tested positive for Covid, but none of my contacts were phoned'

Starmer leads way for greater devolution - your views

An anti-G8 protester dressed as a clown stands by a fence near Gleneagles hotel

Scots ministers feared 'hardcore' G8 protesters would bring havoc to Scotland

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