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EXCLUSIVE: A Scottish university is set to offer 'free-housing' to attract more fee-paying students amid operational deficits of £10.5 million

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December 12, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Scotland Office in 'Pravda-style bid to control the media'
December 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
NEW: A documentary about Glasgow’s community resistance to a Home Office raid in 2021 will have its world premiere at a major international film festival in January

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December 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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December 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Pro-Palestine protesters have slammed Labour officials after they were 'manhandled' and 'aggressively' removed from a venue which was hosting Keir Starmer in Glasgow last week
December 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
It’s not just a set of world leaders that excludes the powerless Scots. This involves everyone. And politicians are fiddling while Europe burns, writes Lesley Riddoch ✍️

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December 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Lindsay Whittle, the Plaid Cymru MS who stormed to victory in the Caerphilly seat Labour had held for a century, has spoken of what he believes the future holds for Wales

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December 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
BREAKING: Edinburgh's Grassmarket is closed due a fire at a building on Heriot Bridge

Emergency services are in attendance and the public is advised to avoid the area
December 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
BREAKING: The UK Government has announced the first project for the Grangemouth site

The Government claims the project will create 130 direct full-time jobs at Grangemouth over the next five years
December 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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December 11, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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'The UK is letting these people die'
December 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Whatever practical difficulties the SNP may face in using the 2026 election to bring independence about, the prospects of the UK remaining united in the slightly longer-term are looking bleaker by the day, writes James Kelly ✍️
December 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Amu Gib is one of the Palestine Action-affiliated prisoners on hunger strike.
Today we are publishing an extract from their prison diary which covers the initial days of their hunger strike.
December 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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December 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Seven weeks ago, Plaid Cymru shook the world of UK politics in a way they hadn’t before, storming to victory in a seat Labour had held for a century and collecting more votes there than Keir Starmer’s party and Reform UK combined

December 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Grassroots football in Scotland is now ultimately being funded by Israel’s destruction of not only the same grassroots football in Palestine, but Palestinian society itself, writes Fraser Wilson ✍️

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December 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
A Scottish clinical psychologist is facing misconduct allegations over 'anti-trans' social media posts

The first day of the hearing took place on Wednesday

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December 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Voters are being asked to believe that a government which has embraced a market-led renewables model under devolution will transform into a public ownership state post-independence, writes Assa Samake-Roman ✍️

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December 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Jeremy Corbyn expresses his concern for the group of prisoners on hunger strike who are calling for the de-proscription of Palestine Action

Watch as he calls on the UK Government to make a statement 👇
December 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
BREAKING: Independence has taken a four-point lead while Labour support has dropped off in a new Ipsos poll

Story to follow
December 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
NEW: The UK Government is in 'moral retreat,' Amnesty International has said, after Keir Starmer urged Europe’s leaders to rehash how a major human rights treaty is interpreted in law

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December 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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December 10, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Energy shake-up 'would reshape the future of Scotland'
December 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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December 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Harassment, 'untruthful' evidence, and 'unusual' legal questions. Our reporter Xander Elliards looks at nine points from the Sandie Peggie ruling that the rest of the media has left out
December 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM