THE pound has fallen to its weakest level against the US dollar since 1985 amid fears the UK is heading for a lengthy recession. Source

SOARING oil and gas revenues from the North Sea could give arguments for Scottish independence a “boost”, experts have said. Source

THE Scottish Fire and Rescue Service is currently recruiting for full-time firefighters in the north-east of Scotland. …

SCOTLAND’S Makar Kathleen Jamie has written a new poem to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II after she passed away at Balmoral last week. …

Scotland should be Nation 148 out of the 193 UN member states supporting the statement initiated by Costa Rica in New York this week to attain and maintain a world without nuclear weapons. But we live in a constitutional monarchy in which we have no effective voice or choice. There is a growing global understanding […] Source

The desperation to over-project onto today’s events in Edinburgh are a sign of the fear in the British establishment. The repressive police management and the attempt to ascribe political meaning to the crowds lining the streets of the Old Town are signs of a real anxiety at the process we’re in the middle of. The […] Source

The Radical Independence Campaign (RIC) expresses its solidarity with all those protesting the imposition of an unelected King. We condemn the fact that protesters have been charged with breach  of the peace following the proclamation of Charles’ rule in Edinburgh, and demand an end to militarised policing preventing our communities from having their say. Last week, […] Source

ONE special meeting to invite civic head to send letter of condolence to King Charles III. …

Rumours began to fly after a post on the website Reddit on Saturday. Source

THE grandson of Winston Churchill, Rupert Soames, is to step down from his role leading Serco, a company that holds millions of pounds worth of contracts with the Government. Source

CINEWORLD has secured $785m from existing lenders after the company filed for bankruptcy in the United States earlier this week. Source

“LAST century’s limited ideas of capitalism and socialism are now outdated concepts, unable to address the problems of the 21st century.” Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp took my breath away with this sentence. Source

‘I’M a whisky romantic,” smiles Ardbeg manager Colin Gordon, as we gaze out the traditional dunnage warehouse towards the Atlantic. It’s hard not to feel romantic on a spectacular coast alive with otters and dolphins; lashings of whisky heritage too, and a coast that Source

  New Zealand gradually became independent of the UK in a slow and gradual manner – one tiny step after another until one day they basically realised they were an independent nation. So much so that they do not have an independence day, because no one really knows when it…