You’re not voting in a normal General Election. The landscape has changed completely and is rapidly changing further before your eyes. Just as you are living through a rapid climate deterioration – the consequences of which you dare not even imagine – so too the political realities you have been used to all your life […] Source

JOBS for bankers, not engineers. At heart GBE is an investment bank … Source

The 17-year-old had been last seen in Elgin on Sunday (June 23). …

Brexit and indyref 2 were among a range of issues under the spotlight when a general election hustings was held in Cullen. …

LABOUR’S proposals for GB Energy remain unclear and will not tackle “unfairness” in the energy market, Scottish Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes has said … Source

NOVEL charts amazing life of 18th century stage star. …

ALDI has announced a new collaboration with a Scottish-based brewery which will offer beer lovers the chance to try six unique new brews. Source

A STUNNING 15-mile beach which is part of a 9000-acre estate on the popular NC500 route has hit the market with a local community organisation considering a buyout … Source

A HISTORIC Scottish church with planning permission for change of use to a restaurant or venue space has been put up for sale. Source

THE timing could not have been better. As a fire raged at an electronic waste facility near Paisley, campaigners piled up electronic waste outside the Scottish Parliament as part of a push for stronger circular economy legislation. Source

The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht Review, edited by Susan Dalgety and Lucy Hunter Blackburn, Constable Press £22.  Review by Gemma Clark Some years ago in Glasgow, I was approached by a man who was giving away free copies of religious texts. He caught my eye and seemed perfectly pleasant, so I spoke to him for […] Source

After the Swiss game I was hassled for saying the euphoria was misplaced, that we hadn’t played THAT well and that the defence was still terrifying. Well, I was right. Steve Clarke has been carried forward by a back-catalogue of success that has masked a tired, uber-cautious and stilted approach that can be read and […] Source

Watching the election coverage is like watching a Mirror World where whole chunks of reality are missing. Some entire political subjects are ruled out in advance – others are mislaid or ignored as being ‘off the map’ of acceptable discussion. You are left with banality and a discourse of subjects often nothing to do with […] Source