AN independent watchdog has praised the Scottish Government for the implementation of its flagship free childcare expansion policy. …

In the news 50 years ago this week. …

The news 50 years ago this week. …

Billy Connolly’s song Sergeant, Where’s Mine? applies to Scotland and renewable energy. Scotland is energy rich, yet more than half of Scots are fuel poor. Source

Co-op Funeralcare has announced plans to offer a new form of burial as a sustainable alternative to traditional burials or cremation. Source

THE deposit return scheme (DRS) court battle has shown how “unsoundly based and lost in its own ridiculous complexity,” Alex Salmond has said… Source

IAN Murray is excited. Sir Keir promises to make the UK a green superpower on the back of Scotland. He pledges to create hundreds of thousands of Scottish jobs, lower the highest energy bills in the UK, provide energy security and tackle climate change with his new green superpowers. Does anyone seriously believe that if Scots vote Labour, nirvana will arrive? Source

NIGEL Farage has said he has been left unable to open a UK bank account because of his political opinions. Source

Anyone who has lived through New Labour; Starmer’s posturing; the endless Royal deaths, marriages, coronations, Jubilees and divorces; the Johnson debacle; or Gordon Brown’s endless Federalism wheeze; will recognise the Parody Britain described by Tom Nairn. When Tom Nairn wrote of the UK as a “changeling Kingdom of Thatcher, Major and Blair — a parody […] Source

New whisky bar and outdoor seating area overlooking Ben Rinnes. …

A teenager and her family have thanked rescuers for saving her life after she was swept out to sea at Nairn. …

Social enterprises in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray can now apply for a share of a £2 million funding pot designed to support the third sector. …

PLANNING permission is being sought for what developers describe as a “trailblazing” onshore windfarm in central Scotland … Source

“Scotland is a poor country, one of the poorest regions of Europe. Yet with its similar population and resources, it should be as rich as Ireland or Denmark … The reason is simple: that for the past century the Scottish economy has been allowed to lapse by being run from England in England’s interest”. This […] Source