The best hotel in Scotland has been chosen after more than 500,000 people submitted responses rating their experiences across the globe. Source

LESS than half of Elgin drivers pass their practical test according to new research. …

Nick Kuenssberg, one of Scotland’s best-known business figures and the father of BBC journalist and presenter Laura Kuenssberg, has died at the age of 80 Source

“It would also look at preventing the introduction of the concept of the “15-minute city” – where essential amenities are always within a 15-minute walk.” – Rishi Sunak The latest spasm of invented grievance and badly disguised conspiracism is a hybrid of post-covid paranoia and the recently invented defence of the ‘war on the motorist’. […] Source

A FAMILY-run business in Bridge of Weir has revealed it is selling up after 142 years. Source

A SCOTTISH firm has succeeded in taking legal action against a business which was copying its designs. Source

Naomi Klein in conversation with Gemma Milne at the Edinburgh launch of her new book Doppelganger a Trip into the Mirror World. Lighthouse Books write: “This is a book for our age and for all of us; a deadly serious dark comedy which invites us to view our reflections in the looking glass.It’s for anyone […] Source

ONE of Scotland’s leading businessmen has died aged 66. Mohammad Ramzan, chairman of United Wholesale Grocers Limited, passed away at his residence in Pakistan on Wednesday morning. Source

Union hits out at Scottish Government and councils. …

THE health board issued an update on dental services in the region to Moray MSP Richard Lochhead. …

PORTGORDON Primary has been praised as a "friendly, warm and welcoming school" by inspectors. …

Gordon Brown is obviously a very clever man. But why is there something so strange about his widely lauded proposals today? (How do we raise trillions of dollars to fight the climate crisis? The answer is staring us in the face).They seem to operate in a world with no history or power, or relations between […] Source

Did you wonder where you’d gone? Scotland is here given the Atlantis treatment by Midshipman and human-labrador Ben Fogle. Despite being one of the signatories pleading Scotland to ‘stay‘ in 2014* (along with luminaries such as Kirstie Allsop, John Barrowman, Dickie Bird, Gyles Brandreth, Ronnie Corbett, Tracey Emin, Toms Holland and Hollander, Sir Bruce Forsyth, Rod […] Source