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The scheme give councils discretion so they can help as many people and businesses as possible.

Applications invited for Storm Babet support funding

Applications are now being invited from residents and businesses whose properties were impacted and ...
Scotland's terrible Pisa results show 'Curriculum for Excellence' isn't working
The focus of Scotland’s school curriculum on skills and well-being, rather than the acquisition of s...
Stephen Flynn, the SNP's Westminster leader. Image: House of Commons/UK Parliament/Press Association.

UK immigration plan 'absurd, ignorant and will wreck the economy'

Stephen Flynn says areas such as hospitality, tourism, care and the NHS will be hardest hit by the home secretary’s new plans
Government pledges to do ‘all it can’ as councils warn of bankruptcy riskAlistair Grant
Alistair Grant
Lorna Slater told to 'go back to the drawing board' on recycling bill
Last week a Holyrood committee criticised the government for a lack of financial planning on its Cir...
Israel-Gaza: 'There is no safe place in Gaza'
Humanitarian organisations warned they have run out of tents for refugees from Gaza...
Chair of the Cairngorms Tourism Partnership, Xander McDade receives the award in Brussels

Cairngorms National Park recognised with prestigious sustainable tourism award

Jude Innes, the great great granddaughter of George Innes who opened the book shop with his brother John in 1879.

Sadness as historic St Andrews bookshop J&G Innes set to close after 144 years

Sir Keir Starmer said Margaret Thatcher set loose Britain’s 'natural entrepreneurialism'. Picture: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Sarwar defends Starmer's comments about Margaret Thatcher in Telegraph article

The trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI has been revealed.

GTA VI: What you need to know about release date, location and more

The 13 most popular breeds of dog in the UK

The Scottish Government aims to ensure 95 per cent of patients presenting at an A&E department are seen within four hours, but currently just 63.2 per cent are seen within that timeframe.

Could one Scottish health board hold the key to fixing the NHS's A&E crisis?

Students during a class. Ben Birchall/PA Wire

Huge decline in Scotland’s performance in Pisa world education rankings

Future Scotland

Glasgow-headquartered Iomart is a cloud computing and IT managed services business providing hybrid cloud infrastructure, network connectivity, security and digital workplace capability.

Iomart 'very much on front foot' as Glasgow cloud firm seals latest takeover

Dr Calum Ross is a research associate in Heriot-Watt’s school of engineering and physical sciences.

Heriot-Watt researcher nets £1m in bid to scale up next-gen optical fibre tech

Bioliberty has secured a £435,000 boost from the Biomedical Catalyst, national innovation agency Innovate UK’s flagship grant funding mechanism. Picture: Ryan Blackwood.

Pioneer of robotic glove to aid stroke patients grasps funding boost

Transport

Young men, alcohol and high spirits can be a fatal combination on winter roads Karyn McCluskey

The hilarious names of Scotland's gritters and how to track them

Exclusive A9 dualling: Three mega contracts to speed up completion considered

The snow-covered peak of Beinn Eighe and the mountains of Torridon are reflected in Loch Droma near Ullapool, Wester Ross. Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Snow and ice warning after temperatures plummeted to -12.5C in parts of Scotland

Controlling short-term lets and growing tourism economy is a balancing act Scotsman comment

Edinburgh Airport has been owned by GIP since 2012. (Photo by Lisa Ferguson/The Scotsman)

Edinburgh Airport ‘to be put up for sale by Christmas’

The 20ft-high bund built to protect the Old Military Road after it was engulfed by a landslide in 2020. (Photo by John Devlin/The Scotsman)

Landslide-prone A83’s emergency diversion route upgrade to start within weeks

Crime

Val Pitt is a Partner, Horwich Farrelly

Incredible tales from the Scottish courts - Val Pitt

Minister for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care Michael Matheson arrives ahead of First Minster's Questions (FMQ's) at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh.

How to save a reputation​​​​​​​ - Kirsteen MacDonald

Vicky Crichton is Director of Public Policy, Scottish Legal Complaints Commission

No complaints for most after mediation is tried - Vicky Crichton

Robin Dunlop is an Associate, Thorntons

The best way to build bridges with rail giant

Weather

Do you hate cold mornings as much as I do? Maybe Finland has the answer Laura Waddell

Road users are being warned of icy conditions as the Met Office issued snow and ice yellow alerts for large areas of Scotland, England and Northern Ireland amid plummeting temperatures. Picture: Owen Humphreys /PA Wire

Snow and ice alerts issued for large parts of Scotland amid travel warning

Snow is expected to fall in Scotland this week.

First Scottish snow of winter 2023 and white Christmas odds

A hydrogen filled balloon is used to replicate the sun

Why low-carbon 'blue' hydrogen could solve decarbonisation dilemmas

Politics

Party politics is getting in way of tackling housing emergency Barrie Cunning

Thatcher wouldn't think much of Starmer's stance on private school fees John McLellan

Heat pumps like this one on a house near Oslo are commonplace in Norway and other Scandinavian countries (Picture: Petter Berntsen/AFP via Getty Images)

Heat pumps are new battleground for those opposed to climate change action

Cleverly's immigration crackdown is about politics, not the national interest Scotsman comment

Analysis Keir Starmer did not praise Margaret Thatcher, but it was still damaging

Gone are the days of turning up at A&E with a broken bone, or an illness - A&E is now increasingly reserved for people who need resuscitated

Prioritisation may be the only way the NHS will survive the winter

Cornton Vale women's prison (Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA)

Trans prisoners with history of violence could still be housed in female jails

Coronavirus

Amanda Croft, interim chief executive of NHS Forth Valley, and Janie McCusker, chair of NHS Forth Valley, ahead of the the public session. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

'Ageing population' contributing to issues at 'stage four' health board

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan departs following his appearance at the UK Covid inquiry. Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Khan tells UK Covid inquiry 'lives could have been saved' amid Cobra snub

Solicitor Aamer Anwar with Caroleanne Stewart (left) and Pamela Thomas (right) and relatives of the bereaved from the Scottish Covid Bereaved group. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Ambulance drove off leaving Covid patient 'slumped' over gate, inquiry told

Opinion

The first use of 'rizz' to mean 'charisma' is credited to Kai Cenat, seen accepting the YouTube Streamer of the Year award (Picture: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Dick Clark Productions)

Got rizz? Oxford University Press's word of the year may be refudiated soon

Health Secretary Michael Matheson turned down an offer from the UK Government to help cut Scottish NHS waiting lists (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Sickening response to UK's offer to help Scottish patients

​Ed Monaghan is a non-executive director at Perceptive Communicators​​​​​​​

Don’t wait for a crisis to call in your communications team - Ed Monaghan

Is brandy the next big thing?

The Whisky Exchange picks a surprising drink as part of its 2024 trends

Darling and Douglas-Hamilton represented the best of British politics Christine Jardine

People

Delaine Le Bas will be among the artists involved in the Glasgow International visual art festival when it returns in 2024. Picture: Iris Ranzinger

Glasgow’s biggest visual art celebration to scale back for 10th edition in 2024

Francis McKee has been director of the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow for the last 18 years.

Venue boss warns Glasgow is facing arts ‘blackout’ unless cuts trend is reversed

Fiona Campbell is chief executive of the Association of Scotland’s Self-Caterers.

Edinburgh’s festivals: Tourism chief warns of exodus of short-term let operators

James Smith. Picture: contributed

Tributes to 84-year-old who died in Edinburgh house explosion

Henry Kissinger pictured in September 1972 (Picture: Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Scotsman Obituaries: Henry Kissinger, controversial US diplomat

Snow in Glasgow at the weekend. There are fears that if Britain has a really hard winter we will will struggle to provide power

Scotsman Letters: Time for Britain to burst free from net zero trap

National Grief Awareness Week: Christmas is the hardest time Gaby Soutar

Obituaries

Lord Douglas-Hamilton at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.

Scotsman Obituaries: Rt Hon Lord Selkirk of Douglas, ex-Scotland Office minister

Manager Terry Venables at a training session of the England national football team in 1996 (Picture: Phil Cole/Getty Images)

Scotsman Obituaries: Terry Venables, English football player turned manager

Joss Ackland poses during a portrait session in 2007 (Picture: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Scotsman Obituaries: Joss Ackland, screen star who honed skills at Pitlochry

Environment

A capercaillie hen (pic: Getty Images/iStockphoto)

New report calls for end to certain predator control measures on grouse moors

Yang Guang and Tian Tian are loaded onto a China Southern cargo plane at Edinburgh Airport. Photo: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Farewell Yang Guang and Tian Tian as Edinburgh Zoo's pandas leave for China

Building work on the new nuclear reactor at Hinkley Point C Power Station in Somerset. Image: EDF/SWNS.

Scottish Greens accused of being ‘out-of-step’ in opposing nuclear power

Concern is growing about the failure of the international COP climate change summits to stop the rise of greenhouse gas emissions (Picture: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

COP28 must end three decades of failure to tackle carbon emissions

COP28 a bloated sham that risks condemning future generations Bill McGuire

The sea eagle was reintroduced to Scotland in 1975 and has since made a promising comeback (pic: Gemma Wearing)

New award-winning film follows the complex comeback of the sea eagle

Loch Lomond. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Ministers accused of ‘jeopardising the future’ by cutting environmental budgets

UK News

The Queen's Gallery at Holyrood. Photo: Google

The Queen’s Gallery at Holyrood to change name following King’s accession

'Rizz' has been named Oxford word of the year after Tom Holland helped it to go viral. Picture: AFP via Getty

Rizz named word of the year by leading lexicographers

Local people’s response to Lockerbie bombing moved me to tears Stephen Jardine

Alistair Darling's political life provided honourable lessons for all Brian Wilson

The scene on Baberton Mains Avenue, Edinburgh, after an 84-year-old man has died following an explosion at a house on Friday night. Picture: Lesley Martin/PA Wire

Man, 84, dies after explosion destroys Edinburgh house

World Aids Day is marked on December 1 (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)

HIV is now a manageable condition like diabetes, yet stigma and ignorance remain

World

A picture taken during an organised tour by Yemen's Huthi rebels shows the Galaxy Leader cargo ship, seized by Huthi fighters in November. The group attacked another two cargo ships in the Red Sea today.

British-owned ship hit by missile launched by Iranian-backed rebels in Red Sea

Gaztelugatxe island, near the Spanish Basque city of Bermeo, on the coast of Biscay.

Basque recruiter aims to create ‘brain drain’ in Scotland’s renewables industry

Palestinians in the hospital in Khan Younis mourn relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip. Picture: Fatima Shbair/AP

Israel intensifies offensive after end of week-long truce

The traditional Christmas market at Kleber square in Strasbourg, north eastern France, was targeted in 2018.

World Explained: Why are Christmas markets targeted by terrorists?

King Charles III meets with Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, president of the United Arab Emirates - which holds the Cop28 presidency - at Expo City in Dubai on the opening day of the UN climate summit. Picture: Andrew Matthews/Getty Images

UN Cop summits are ‘imperfect’ but 'all we’ve got' to tackle climate warming

Tourists enjoy a beach in Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic.

International tourism has almost rebounded to pre-Covid levels, report says

Read This

A fare dodger who posted tips on TikTok about how to avoid paying for train journeys has been caught and fined more than £700 Picture: East Midlands Railway / SWNS

TikTok fare dodger fined - after telling followers not to buy tickets

Craig Gillett, 61, as Santa, runs Santa's Grotto Frome alongside his sister Clare Perry, 59, Mrs Claus but is facing eviction over planning permission Picture: Santa's Grotto Frome / SWNS

Santa faces eviction from grotto over planning permission row

Editorial chiefs from across local publishers have sent a strong message to the BBC about its expansion

Analysis BBC must abandon the plan to elbow its way into local journalism