A chemical company has been fined £100,000 after one of its workers suffered “serious burns” … Source

easyJet has announced the launch of a new winter route from Glasgow to a major European city … Source

AN ambitious restoration plan to save a cafe which is regarded as the “home of Harry Potter” has been announced … Source

The idea of supporting Palestinian statehood among the world’s western nations appears to be growing. French President, Emmanuel Macron has made a statement that he will recognise Palestine – in September. Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese also announced possible recognition of Palestine ‘at the right moment’, provided it is demilitarised and that Hamas have no […] Source

ON June 6, 40 community groups across Scotland sent a letter to First Minister John Swinney requesting a moratorium on uncontrolled wind farm developments, because they enrich the corporate and foreign government owners, impoverish the Scottish people and scar the land. On July 30, they got a letter back from Swinney in which he tells them to piss off. Source

Scotland is the nation that invented everything, except itself. Now we are at an Interregnum, an idea from Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks in which ‘[t]he crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear’. In Scotland, this means […] Source

Great podcast on sexism in Scottish music and media and the history of girl bands … Source

The city as a human right, the city as a space of resistance, the city as a place of anonymity and citizenship have long been ideals of the Left. See “New municipalism” and Fearless Cities. But the city is increasingly a place that obsesses the far-right, no more manifest than Donald Trump’s seizure of Washington […] Source

A “loving husband, stepdad and grandad” who died in a crash with an ambulance on the A98 has been named as Alistair J Stewart from Ardersier. …

Members of the public are being warned that much of the Highlands and Moray will be at “very high risk” of wildfires over the next few days. …

A 42-year-old man who robbed shops in four towns has been sentenced. …

While the official government of the U.K. is caught up in the fear-based mentality of scarcity and austerity, ordinary people are quite happily tending the seeds of a much happier and healthier society. As the Labour party threatens to sell off allotments in their ideas of a ‘realistic’ economy, groups in Fife are demonstrating how […] Source

THE announcement by EnergieKontor regarding Ballach Wind development near iconic Glen Affric arrived with a confusing bang. On August 6 the German company wrote to community councils saying it had submitted its planning application for 20 mega-sized turbines to the Scottish Government in July after consulting with the community and refining its plans. Those “refinements” are certainly not obvious and it is doubtful they have changed anything at all after public “feedback”. Cherry-picked viewpoints, misty visuals and turbines not much larger than cows all serve to try and downplay what will be a catastrophic impact for so many. Source

TOP Formula 1 driver Charles Leclerc has been pictured wearing a bespoke kilt as part of a collaboration with a Scotch whisky brand … Source