NICOLA Sturgeon has “absolutely” failed young people in Scotland. – Bruce Adamson, retiring commissioner for children and young people, in a BBC interview … Source

“We have not delivered on Brexit… the Tories have let us down very, very badly”. Arch Brexiteer Nigel Farage’s words on Newsnight this week have caused tremors across the UK’s political landscape. Farage and his party UKIP were hugely prominent and influential in selling Brexit to voters. Scotland didn’t fall…

Back in 2013, seaweed wasn’t really a thing. I was driving up to Fife from Cornwall that September, white van full to the gun’ls with seaweed harvesting and monitoring equipment, towing my currach boat behind me. I’d had enough of Cornwall, too many sharp elbows, too white, too self-satisfied. I’d set up a community seaweed […] Source

SIX Moray High School's joined together for Moray Tennis Forum's first ever tennis festival. …

WETHERSPOONS is set to invest £4 million revamping an historic Scottish building “to the quality it was in days gone by” … Source

A PARKING charge will be introduced at Quarry Wood next month amid criticism the move will price locals out. …

Watching the stupid unfold from the stage at the National Conservatism conference we compiled our Top Ten of the stupidest things said at the new event that marks the convergence point of the Tory party with neo-fascism  … Straight in an No. 1 is Yoram Hazony … What is national conservatism? Before anything else, it’s […] Source

DRIVERS have been asked to avoid the area. …

In 2016 at a Sioux Center in Iowa, Donald trump famously said “I have the most loyal people – did you ever see that? I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” No we know it’s true. On Tuesday a New York jury ruled […] Source

Perhaps understandably there’s not a lot of hope about. In the post-Coronation melancholy, witnessing the repression of the most basic of our political rights, in the shadow of the shambles of Nicola Sturgeon’s departure, in the absence of any credible political alternative and having to bathe in the waters of a reactionary media pool, there […] Source

A new eatery is ‘opening soon’ at a former Glasgow pizzeria unit. Source

IF there has been one thing more than most keeping struggling families awake at night it has been the price of energy. The increasing number on the dial, with each passing revolution on the meter, means more worry and more stress to make ends meet. Source

IT is “mind-boggling” that the UK Government has not delivered on its own promises to support the delivery of key renewables projects in Scotland – despite calls from the industry, the SNP has said … Source

ROSEBANK. It’s a beautiful name. You see crimson blooms cascading down a rough-cast garden wall. Except, just beneath the petals and leaves, there’s the black bubble and haze of 500 million barrels of oil. Source