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RAF Scampton could be transformed into housing for asylum seekers - but locals aren’t happy

Row as historic RAF base could be used to house 1,500 asylum seekers

Martin Lewis is urging all mobile phone users to check their contracts (Photo: ITV)

Martin Lewis bags role as regular co-host on Good Morning Britain

Floods in low-lying Bangladesh are getting worse as sea levels rise because of global warming (Picture: Mamun Hossain/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate change is a disease of the here and now – Scotsman comment

Match of the Day anchor Gary Lineker was asked by the BBC to step back from presenting their flagship football highlights program, Match of the Day, until they agree on a social media policy. Lineker, a former England international football player and previous winner of the prestigious Golden Boot award, tweeted his own views on the government’s Stop Small Boats policy provoking a row over the impartiality of freelance BBC TV presenters.

BBC licence payers, not Lineker, robbed of freedom of expression David Montgomery

According to some, the UK Government told people to 'stay home' for political reasons during the Covid pandemic (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Covid inquiry's slow pace has created an information vacuum

Rishi Sunak talks to local business leaders during a visit to a Coca-Cola factory in Lisburn, Northern Ireland yesterday (Picture: Liam McBurney/WPA pool/Getty Images)

New figures show 54% of people in the UK would vote to remain in EU

King Charles will meet with Ursula von der Leyen, Buckingham Palace has confirmed. Credit: Getty Images

King Charles criticised for decision to meet Ursula von der Leyen

Palliative care should be improved before we consider assisted dying, a reader says

Readers' Letters: There should be no need for assisted dying

Are Scotland's leaders letting down the elderly when it comes to keeping them safely warm in the winter? (Picture: Adobe)

Readers' Letters: Politicians let down elderly as winter bites

Oil giant Exxon's own research into climate change dating back to the 1970s was highly accurate (Picture: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

Fossil fuel companies still knowingly putting humanity at risk – Joyce McMillan

Trans rights demonstrators attend a rally in Buchanan Street, Glasgow, on 21 January (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Politicians wrong to pose by extreme placard

Rishi Sunak needs to do better than his target to cut inflation (Picture: Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty Images)

Sunak's inflation pledge may sound good, but he needs to try harder

Rubbish lies strewn along Edinburgh's South Bridge (Picture: Ilona Amos)

Politicians' bin strike blame game will not impress voters – Scotsman comment

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon should have condemned all the behaviour outside the Perth hustings, says Brian Monteith

Beware of politicians palming us off with their questionable actions

The cost-of-living crisis will frame the politics of the winter

Politicians floundering to solve cost-of-living crisis

Boris Johnson emerges from a VX4 vertical aerospace aircraft at the Farnborough International Airshow last month (Picture: Frank Augstein/WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Paralysis in Downing Street in face of multiple crises must end

Boris Johnson announced his resignation last month (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

What ethical standards should we hold politicians to?

Nicola Sturgeon speaks on Scottish independence. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Readers' letters: Scotland's changing democratic face post-independence

Boris Johnson made everyone around him want to be a worse human being (Picture: Clemens Bilan/pool/Getty Images)

Johnson must be last Prime Ministerial poster boy for toxic masculinity

Nicola Sturgeon responds during First Minister's Questions at the Scottish Parliament

Readers' Letters: Politicians need to get out into the real world

Pictured from left to right are NFUS vice president Robin Traquair, president Martin Kennedy and policy chief Jonnie Hall outside the Scottish Parliament this week.

Union group highlight critical farming issues during Holyrood lobbying trip

The oil and gas industry is facing calls for a windfall tax following unexpected record profits derived from the increase in oil and gas prices but critics say more tax will harm investment in transformative green energy projects and securing domestic energy supply. PIC: Pixabay.

North Sea oil and gas has duty to pay windfall tax, claims Sarwar

Scotland does not have enough nurses to work in hospitals without using expensive agencies – just one contributory factor in the ‘cost-of-living crisis’. Picture: Getty Images

Cost of governments to blame for cost-of-living crisis - Brian Monteith

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon insists transparency is important to her government (Picture: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Scotsman Letters: Politicians have no right to keep facts from us

The Spirit of Britain (top) passes the Pride of Canterbury (middle) and the Pride of Kent (bottom) as it arrives at the Port of Dover, in Kent, after completing further sea trials as P&O Ferries prepare to resume Dover-Calais sailings for freight customers.

P&O Ferries ship Pride of Kent inspected for fourth time

New Twitter owner Elon Musk reckons the platform currently inhibits free speech (Picture: Britta Pedersen - Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Twitter takeover is not a win for free speech

The Queen celebrated her 96th birthday last week in her Platinum Jubilee year.

'Thank holiday' could become a permanent honour to the Queen

Tories may pay a high price for farming betrayal - Andrew Arbuckle

Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor, said 'additional' funding would be forthcoming to devolved nations

Analysis: Treasury's funding intervention has the whiff of 'playing politics'

The motto 'People Make Glasgow' was seen by migrants as example of the welcoming and open nature of Scottish people (Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images)

Migration: how Scotland sees itself and migrants experience it – Marcus Nicolson

Nicola Sturgeon receives a Covid booster vaccination in Glasgow earlier this month (Picture: Russell Cheyne/pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Why a public inquiry into Covid is now more urgent than ever – Scotsman comment

Mairi Gougeon MSP, the Scottish Government's Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs & Islands, Peter Smith of Roderick James Architects and Stuart Goodall in the Zero Carbon House.

Zero carbon house shows it's time for timber - Stuart Goodall

A protest march in Pretoria, South Africa, calling for more Covid vaccines to be made available (Picture: Phill Magakoe/AFP via Getty Images)

Omicron is price of developed world's betrayal of human rights – Susan Dalgety

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Co-leader of the Scottish Green Party Patrick Harvie at the 2023 Scottish Green Party Spring conference (Pic: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

SNP leadership: Greens’ clearest signal yet they wouldn’t work with Kate Forbes

A pothole near the Fairy Pools in Skye. Picture: Liam Cousins

‘Crater-like’ Skye potholes threaten fatal crashes – tourism body SkyeConnect

John Lewis'' flagship store in the St James Quarter, Edinburgh (Pic: Michael Gillen)

John Lewis: Retail guru Mary Portas warns John Lewis it has ‘let go of its soul’