The Anglo-Saxon “haleg montah” meaning “holy month” is also mentioned, a likely candidate for sure in medieval Scotland. Then there is the Scandinavian “hoggo-nott” meaning “yule”. However, I think we ...

One of the delights of my year is my annual Scottish Sportswomen of the Year column that is fast becoming a regular feature as Hogmanay approaches. What’s been so interesting over the past few years ...

SO bigly has the world changed in the last eight years – so battered into submission have we been by the pandemic, conflicts, climate change and the rise of the right – it is difficult to recall the ...

Councils across Scotland have broken the law that ensures the homeless including children and pregnant mothers \re given some kind of roof over their heads nearly 19,000 times over six years. The ...

The past 12 months have seen the globe rocked by conflicts and major shifts in power, but as the new year beckons, Foreign Editor David Pratt ...

Ash Regan has written to Elon Musk urging him to build a new Tesla 'gigafactory' in Scotland. The electric car company, which was founded in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, opened ...

Tributes have been paid to a “much loved” football player who died in hospital after an alleged assault at York railway station. Married father-of-one James Hitchcock, 32, suffered life-threatening ...

A plane veered off the runway, hit a fence and caught fire at an airport in southern South Korea, killing at least 62 people, emergency officials said. The National Fire Agency said the fire was ...

A 33-year-old woman and 36-year-old man are due to appear before a district judge at Downpatrick Magistrates’ Court on Monday.

Cabinet minister Lucy Powell told the PA news agency that Westminster “definitely had a perception” of a poor working culture but a new cohort of MPs presents an “opportunity to establish better ...

Chrissy Teigen has hailed her husband John Legend as the “soul” of their home as they celebrated his 46th birthday in London. The American model, 39, marked the occasion by sharing a photo to ...

The CrowdStrike outage – which caused massive disruption in the NHS, transport, banking and wider infrastructure – means the state of global IT supply chains became one of the big tech talking points ...