A recent report into the impact the cost-of-living crisis is having in Scotland has revealed that just over a quarter of the population (26%) have seen family relationships suffer due to financial pressures. Source

IS IT even December if you haven’t started decorating something, deep cleaning, moving furniture and writing lists upon lists of things to be done before Santa arrives? Source

As we reach the darkest point of the year who doesn’t need a story? This exceptional new project has just launched – it’s a collaboration between Transgressive North, Rectangle Design and TRACS. The website features 76 storytelling recordings (62 filmed recordings created by Transgressive North specially for the website, and 14 audio-only recordings selected from […] Source

THERE was plenty to be cheerful about for Moray Reach Out (MRO) when they held an informal 'Meet the Board' event at their Buckie HQ. …

A BUCKIE-based nurse has been presented with a prestigious national professional award. …

A LAIRD who lost £130,000 in a cryptocurrency investment has warned he may have to sell off parts of his estate. Source

SCOTLAND is leading the way in creating green jobs, according to a new report. Source

IN the Scottish cultural imagination, the work of whisky production invokes images of time-rich, work-shy highlanders. “We’ll mak our maut, we’ll brew our drink/We’ll dance and sing and rejoice, man,” is how Burns imagined the maltmen celebrating when the Deil took Source

As Scotland fans are reduced to the desperation of schadenfreude and Harry Kane memes, Neal Stewart asks Why can’t Scotland get to the World Cup semi finals? It’s a question that haunts the dreams of hard-bitten Scottish football fans like myself, especially when countries of a similar size make it in the way that Croatia […] Source

As the Troll from Trondheim brings some unheard-of seasonality to December, the year ends with a new surge of weirdness. Whether it’s the spectacle of the Tories championing new coal in 2022; or the Reichsbürger movement: the German conspiracy theorists who make America’s QAnon look like level-headed moderates; or the sight of Kanye West discussing […] Source

  The UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is announcing some high risk deregulation of the banking and finance sector. Once called “Big Bang 2.0” he is attempting to rebrand it “the Edinburgh reforms” by dint of traveling north of the border to make the announcement. These desperate measures are a response to the City of London’s […] Source

  BREAKING: A poll released this morning shows support for Scottish independence has soared to 56% in the wake of the UK Supreme Court’s ruling against a second independence referendum. These results demonstrate that the writing is on the wall for Unionism as a political project- the people of Scotland…