Police have recovered human remains during an investigation into a house fire in Gardenstown. …

Alaa Abd El-Fattah Is Free: Family Celebrates Political Prisoner’s Release in Egypt Egypt’s best-known political prisoner, Alaa Abd El-Fattah, was granted a presidential pardon on Monday and has reunited with his family after spending most of the last 12 years in prison. The writer and political dissident was a leading voice in the 2011 Arab […] Source

A 31-year-old who was “art and part” in a robbery and assault has been jailed. …

The memory of a stalwart Highland League volunteer has been commemorated in a very special way. …

A HISTORIC building in the heart of Glasgow city centre has been put on the market for over £11.47 million … Source

GLASGOW’s Ho Lee Fook, a bit of a hole in the wall street-food outlet opposite the iconic Barras market, has developed quite the cult following … Source

HIGH street chain Bodycare will disappear from UK high streets after administrators announced the closure of its remaining stores … Source

The Bagpipes: A Cultural History, Richard McLauchlan, Hurst and Company, £20. Review by Vivien Williams Richard McLauchlan’s The Bagpipes: A Cultural History sets out to do something both audacious and overdue: to present the story of the bagpipes not as a narrow antiquarian subject, but as a sweeping cultural history that bridges myth and fact, […] Source

SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn has called for changes to Westminster’s oil and gas regime. Source

WHISKY distillery chiefs have called on the UK and Scottish governments to keep up the pressure on Donald Trump on tariffs after the US president departed the UK with no sign of an improved deal emerging. Source

Hopes for a new party of the Left in Britain appear to have broken down as splits appear just as they attempt to launch. One simple element of disagreement is the very nature of the project and its structures. How democratic should it be and how should it be organised? Some groups, such as the […] Source