A lifeboat crew’s donations aim to make it a merry Christmas for local families in need of support. …

Fresh out of yet another meeting about tackling the housing crisis? Tired of stakeholder community engagement seminars, bored out of your head with yet another housing survey, had enough of waiting for policy makers and legislators getting their act into gear as you see young families give up on promising lives and migrate to city […] Source

A village has come together to make an advent trail in the build-up to Christmas. …

A BAR known for housing Scotland’s largest collection of rum has announced the day it will close its doors in January Source

A government climbdown on the controversial farm tax has been welcomed but “still falls short of a full reversal”. …

THE Prime Minister has been branded “no cheer Keir” as a report shows that 90% of pubs will increase drink prices in response to Labour’s Budget. Source

BARCLAYS pressed the Home Office and the Scottish Government to crack down on Palestine Action before the group was proscribed, documents obtained by The National reveal. Source

Review of Trauma Industrial Complex: How Oversharing Became a Product in a Digital World. Darren McGarvey (Ebury) and Hounded: Women, Harms and the Gender Wars. Jenny Lindsay (Polity) by Peter Burnett. Days before the Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF) began in 2025 author Jenny Lindsay complained on her Substack and social media about not having […] Source

A historic award-winning hotel has entered administration – with 40 jobs at risk Source

The company behind TGI Fridays has filed to appoint administrators for the second time this month. Source

A review of the year, sort of. 2025: a quarter into the 21C. Here we are. Even the work of remembering, reflecting, or reviewing feels like an odd thing to do. Not subversive but somehow meaningful in a world where the torrent of crisis, ‘news’, violence, and corruption becomes a daily blur. In this tumult, […] Source

“Immorality and Unseriousness. These are the two defining traits of today’s leaders. Today it’s not the most capable who rise but the least scrupulous…” In the first of four 2025 BBC Reith Lectures titled ‘A Time of Monsters’, the Dutch historian Rutger Bregman asks what can be done to counter the moral decay of today’s […] Source

The decision to raise a formal objection was put forward by Councillor David Gordon. …

Moray Council has confirmed that fresh interment booking slots will not be available in the region for three weeks. …