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Fri, 25th September 2026

Lecturers and other staff attend a rally in Glasgow during strike action by the University and College Union in September 2023

Financial outlook of Scotland's college funding leaves future unknown
Auditor General paints bleak picture of bosses forced to take tough decisions over staffing and course provision

Royal Dornoch is regarded as one of the finest golf courses in Scotland. Picture: Raymond Davies/Getty

Exclusive World-famous Scottish golf club details plans for new course

The data centre dilemma: How Scotland can set its own path

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HM Naval Base Clyde (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

Ministry of Defence spending in Scotland hits record £2.5bn in year

fire distillery

GlenWyvis distillery files notice to appoint administrators

Ming Yang planned to build a factory in the Highlands

Exclusive UKGov has 'no detailed assessment' of China battery storage ownership

Scottish Labour leader Michael Marra at First Minister's Qustions

Analysis Michael Marra's punchy and grown-up brand of Labour at first FMQs test

Sky's docu-drama The Wargame sees former government ministers, including Michael Gove and Nicola Sturgeon, try to deal with a possible Russian attack (Picture: Justin Downing)

Warning signs of Russia-Nato war are multiplying. Britain must rearm Scotsman comment

An 1807 painting of Thomas Cochrane by Peter Edward Stroehling

Why Scotland's real-life Jack Aubrey deserves a statue in Edinburgh Peter Moore

A handwritten note in the window of Orkney's main post office, on Junction Road in Kirkwall, informed customers that it had closed

Orkney Post Office closure shows no lessons learnt from Horizon affair Alistair Carmichael

Following the closure of the Grangemouth Refinery with the loss of 400 jobs, more needs to be done to help the town recover (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)

Despite talk of major investment, Grangemouth risks being forgotten Barrie Cunning

John Devlin/The Scotsman 15/09/2026. Glasgow. HMP Barlinnie.

GV stock file image inside HMP Barlinnie.. View of E Hall.

HM Prison Barlinnie is the largest prison in Scotland. It is operated by the Scottish Prison Service and is located in the residential suburb of Riddrie, in the northeast of Glasgow, Scotland. It is informally known locally as The Big Hoose, Bar and Bar-L. In 2018, plans for its closure were announced.

Barlinnie is the largest prison in the country, receiving prisoners from the courts in the west of Scotland.

The prison houses male prisoners, remand and convicted of all sentence lengths. There is also a national top end for those in custody who are life sentence or long term prisoners, approaching a potential release date.

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Inside Barlinnie: How Scotland's largest prison is hanging by a thread

Sport

Hibs have appointed former KV Beveren head coach Marink Reedijk as their new manager

Hibs announce next manager as Reedijk brings seven key fundamentals

Easter Road club hire Dutch coach after impressing during interview process

Edinburgh Rugby boss on keeping Everitt and fending off the All Blacks

Struth opens up on summer of change and why club kept the faith

Darcy Graham was in fine try-scoring form for Scotland last season, including a double in the win over France in the Guinness Six Nations match at Scottish Gas Murrayfield.

Darcy Graham out until Christmas and will miss Nations Championship

Winger heads long list of Edinburgh Rugby injuries ahead of URC opener

'Volatile' MacIntyre deserves break heading into Dunhill Links defence Martin Dempster

Martin Dempster

Brown ready to fill number 8 jersey for Glasgow Warriors and Scotland

Versatile forward eager to take hybrid role to new levels following Jack Dempsey’s departure from Sc...

Pocognoli's first Scotland starting XI predicted as McBurnie gets nod

How Scotland could line up in Pocognoli’s first match in charge

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Meet Scotland's youngest lighthouse keeper in her 'whole new world'

Company Chordelia in Revel

The Scotsman Sessions #445: Company Chordelia

Crovie, nestled in the north-east cliffs in Aberdeenshire

I've walked round Scotland for over a year - this is my favourite spot

Sebastien Pocognoli could select, from left, John McGinn, Stephen Welsh, Robbie Ure and Andy Robertson in his Scotland squad on Tuesday.

Analysis Pocognoli's first Scotland squad and players we think might make it

Food and drink

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The soulful and mysterious restaurant that's opened in Edinburgh

Glenmorangie 50 year old whisky

Glenmorangie release 50 year old single malt in unique ceramic artwork

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All the Scottish winners at the AA Hospitality Awards 2026

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‘Exceptional’ Scottish speakeasy bar named among the best in the world

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The 'stylish' hotel and restaurant opening in East Lothian town

Business

Cabling milestone at giant wind farm that can power half of Scotland

“Persons with significant control” have until November 17 to confirm their ID (Picture: stock.adobe.com)

Don’t miss the ID verification deadline for UK directors

PF1 on-board computer system

Scottish space firm’s hardware takes a ride on German rocket

Cora Cooper

The Sustainable Shepherdess: We haven't reinvented the wheel

Ex-Tory cabinet minister Rory Stewart to address Scottish business conference

Dale Vince wants to raise CGT to fund an increase in the personal tax allowance (Picture: Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty)

Expect housing sector chaos if capital gains tax goes up

Arts news

The Ferry is set in Dundee.

Play to 'point spotlight' at county lines drug operations in Scotland

The play will be performed next year

Pilgrimage through Scottish Borders named one of the best travel trips

The route - which begins in Melrose, where St Cuthbert started his religious life in 650AD and ends...

Artworks by William McCance installed at Modern One, left to right: Drawing for Group from a Dream, 1928; Group from a Dream, 1928-30; Woman Resting (Agnes Miller Parker), 1924.

Coronation Street producer gifts art collection to Scottish nation

The collection is at Modern One

Traitors winner, Balamory star and Dr Who up for BAFTA Scotland award Jane Bradley

Jane Bradley

Sale of CCA building 'preferred' as Creative Scotland opens bids

The CCA fell into liquidation in February

Pictures reveal plans for renovation of Hugh MacDiarmid cottage

The cottage has been empty for more than three years

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Quick CrosswordTo test and hone your word skills

SudokuThe ultimate logic-based numbers game

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Scotsman Sessions

Just a few of the artists who have performed Scotsman Sessions

The Scotsman Sessions: links to numbers 1-400

Dave Hook and Kimberley Mandindo

The Scotsman Sessions #446: Dave Hook and Kimberley Mandindo

Company Chordelia in Revel

The Scotsman Sessions #445: Company Chordelia

The Yummy Fur

The Scotsman Sessions #444: The Yummy Fur

Readers Gallery

A lovely view of the Wallace Monument

September 2026: A selection of beautiful pictures from Scotland taken by our rea...

August 2026: A selection of beautiful pictures from Scotland taken by our reader...

Beautiful North Berwick

July 2026:A selection of beautiful pictures from Scotland taken by our readers

Heritage and Retro

£26m funding deal will help transform iconic 150-year-old Scottish hydro hotel

George Square in May 1954.

20 pictures of Glasgow George Square in the 1950s and 1960s

People at work unearthing the lost hamlet under Burdiehouse Burn Valley Park

Search for 'lost' hamlet of Edinburgh underneath city park

Unlike some Victorians, Robert the Bruce doesn't appear to have insisted that women were 'civilly dead' in relation to property matters (Picture: Culture Club)

Medieval Scots less sexist than Victorians? Old document suggests so Scotsman comment

Clava Cairns is a well-preserved Bronze Age cemetery complex features ring cairns, passage graves and standing stones.

Investigation into Clava Cairns vandalism as fire lit at ancient site

One of Edinburgh’s most iconic Art Deco buildings sold in £2.9 million deal

The 16th-century Bible translator William Tyndale depicted on the morning of his death in a 19th-century engraving (Picture: Print Collector)

William Tyndale, the forgotten architect of modern Britain Stephen Kerr

Arts and Culture

Soft Cell

Album reviews: Soft Cell | Carly Rae Jepsen | The Rezillos

Scottish books publishing in October

Insider's Choice: New Scottish books to look out for in October

Sunwook Kim

Sunwook Kim on playing Beethoven with the SCO

Bodhi Rae Breathnach as Margaret Dashwood, Daisy Edgar-Jones as Elinor Dashwood and George MacKay as Edward Ferrars in Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility review: 'swaps wit for grit'

Strawberries of St Triduana, 2026 by Craig Coulthard

Art reviews: This 26 | Fall Leaves Fall | John Byrne

Dave Hook and Kimberley Mandindo

The Scotsman Sessions #446: Dave Hook and Kimberley Mandindo

Victor Starsky as Calaf in rehearsals for Scottish Opera's Turandot

Victor Starsky on tackling Nessun dorma in Scottish Opera's Turandot

Education

Protestors take part in the Let Women Speak rally following the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act coming into force, outside The Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh on Saturday, April 6, 2024. (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

Police Scotland 'risks alienating women' with stance on sex and gender

For Women Scotland is calling on the Scottish Police Authority to discuss the issue of the force’s statement

Catriona Stewart

Catriona Stewart

Architecture is one of the most popular - and hard to get into - university courses.

Best Universities for Architecture 2026: Here are the top 10 in the UK

Senior education leaders gave evidence to a Holyrood committee

Warning 'value' of reducing class contact time 'impossible to know'

Top 11 Best UK Universities For Business and Management 2026 David Hepburn

Hay's Way

Residents of Orkney and Shetland saw internet and other services disrupted after a cable linking the islands to the UK mainland was damaged (Picture: Adrian Dennis)

Sudden closure of Orkney's main post office 'deeply concerning'

Sphagnum moss is a primary building block of northern peatlands and is unusual in that it has no roots or stomata - the tiny openings that help most plants regulate water loss.

The tiny moss that could help save peatlands from drought

Helicopter used during a wildfire to douse flames

Exclusive Single helicopter to be on standby in Scotland to tackle wildfires

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Simba’s new mattress could help hot sleepers stay cooler at night

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Cerulean Bloom introduced me to Sentier, but this is my new favourite

Bunches’ Autumn Sunrise bouquet combines warm yellow, orange, red and burgundy blooms for a colourful seasonal display.

Autumn flowers to bring seasonal colour into your home

Sport Opinion

Danny McGrain seen with John Barnes during a Celtic vs Liverpool legends charity match in 2006 (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)

Danny McGrain deserves all our best wishes after Alzheimer's diagnosis
Danny McGrain is one of the nicest people in football
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Team Europe’s Nastasia Nadaud celebrates her Solheim Cup singles victory on Sunday with Scottish caddie Michele Thomson at Bernardus Golf in Cromvoirt, Netherlands

Scottish golf needs new Solheim Cup poster girl like Hull or Woad

France's Antoine Dupont carries the trophy surrounded by the other captains at this year's Six Nations launch at Edinburgh Castle.

Abominable idea: why Six Nations USA plan needs nipped in the bud Graham Bean

GB&I captain Dean Robertson lifts the Walker Cup following his team’s dramatic victory at Lahinch on Sunday

Astonishing Walker Cup win deserves every award you can think of Martin Dempster