A JAPANESE company is preparing to build a large factory in the Highlands to make sub-sea high-voltage cables. Source

TWO big developments for Eurofighter Typhoon fleet. …

A SCOTTISH airline will launch a new route next month. Source

THE bridge will reopen in October. …

A cruise based on Loch Lomond has been recognised as the best in the country in a national award. Source

BUCKIE Community Hub has been handed a five-figure boost to help it battle the effects of the cost of living crisis locally. …

Prezzo has said it will shut two of its Scottish restaurants which have been hit hard by soaring costs and changes to customer habits, as 46 venues shut across the UK. Source

  Who do you want to represent Scotland internationally – unelected peers or democratic representatives?  Who has the right to represent Scotland’s interests abroad? Is it elected representatives such as Angus Robertson – or unelected Conservative donors such as ‘lord’ Malcolm Offord? Many will ask – what possible right does…

THE First Minister will call for the Scotch whisky industry to be treated fairly when he meets Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London. Source

It’s tempting to think that the feeling of collapse, inertia and hopelessness is confined to proponents of self-determination, but it’s a far wider malaise. Have a thought too for Elon Musk and Humza Yousaf both who are experiencing their own versions of “rapid unscheduled disassembly” and needing to employ some hasty deflective euphemisms. Yousaf has […] Source

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As the grovelfest gets nearer some of the peasantry are revolting … one such is maverick filmmaker, music producer and troublemaker Bonnie Prince Bob.  Louder than War said of his coronation special release: “A take down of the new monarch by this Scots rabble makes the Pistols’ God Save The Queen sound like a tame […] Source

Welcome to the New Brave World, where the residents lustfully peep into their tiny, wee squares. These glimpses into the world are forever leaving an imprint on the other citizens’ minds, full of craving and flesh, exposing all that is to expose. Please see me, love me. The gaze. Yet, the moaning, flexing and stretching […] Source

THE future of the UK’s most important business lobbying group is in peril after a number of high-profile firms cut ties with it amid a sexual misconduct scandal engulfing the organisation. Source