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Reform Scotland: Think-tank outlines ‘immediate priorities’ for Nicola Sturgeon’s replacement as FM

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Think-tank outlines 'immediate priorities' for incoming FM

A report has condemned Nicola Sturgeon’s 'poor relationship' with the business sector.

Friends of the Earth Scotland: Climate protests planned in Glasgow and Edinburgh on ‘day of action’

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Climate protests expected across Scotland in 'day of action'

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Scottish Government: Councils to receive £50m funding to revamp play parks

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Councils set to receive £50m funding in bid to revamp play parks

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Nicola Sturgeon holds back tears in final speech as Scotland’s First Minister

Scotland

Nicola Sturgeon holds back tears in final speech as Scotland's First Minister

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Murder investigation launched after woman found dead in house on Mothers Day in Fishcross

Edinburgh & East

Murder investigation launched after pensioner found dead in house

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Dog dies of brain damage after ‘negligence from staff’ at Glasgow groomers

Dog dies of brain damage after 'negligence from staff' at groomers

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Fresh appeal to find man who went missing while camping with friends

North East & Tayside

Fresh appeal to find man who went missing while camping with friends

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Ben Jenkins attempted to murder former partner after repeatedly stabbing her at Tesco in Rutherglen

Man repeatedly stabbed former partner as she worked in Tesco

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RACE TO BECOME FM

Next First Minister: Kate Forbes, Humza Yousaf and Ash Regan want to replace Nicola Sturgeon

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Kate Forbes says chances of running for SNP leader again ‘highly unlikely’

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Forbes says chances of running for SNP leader again 'highly unlikely'

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Nicola Sturgeon chairs last ever cabinet meeting as Scotland’s First Minister

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Nicola Sturgeon chairs last ever cabinet meeting as First Minister

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Humza Yousaf and Kate Forbes insist SNP is united despite resignation of Peter Murrell over membership row

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SNP candidates insist party remains united despite resignations

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Martin Lewis confirmed as regular co-host on STV breakfast show Good Morning Britain

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Martin Lewis named as regular co-host on Good Morning Britain

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Seven people remain in hospital after US Navy ship tipped over at Imperial Dock in Leith

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Seven remain in hospital after US Navy ship tipped over in dry dock

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Nicola Sturgeon holds back tears in final speech as Scotland’s First Minister

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Nicola Sturgeon holds back tears in final speech as Scotland's First Minister

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Scotland Tonight: Surgeon and keen runner Gareth Jones on being diagnosed with prostate cancer

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Prince William thanks British troops for ‘defending our freedoms’ on surprise trip to Poland

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William thanks troops for ‘defending our freedoms’ on Poland trip

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Boris Johnson: ‘People who think we were partying during Covid lockdown don’t know what they’re talking about’

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Boris Johnson insists partygate pictures show 'essential' work events

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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon apologises to mothers forced to give up babies for adoption in Scotland

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Nicola Sturgeon apologises to mothers forced to give up babies for adoption

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Major incident leaves 35 injured as ship topples at dry dock in Leith, Edinburgh

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Major incident leaves 35 injured as ship topples in Edinburgh dock

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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer follows Rishi Sunak in publishing tax return summary

Keir Starmer follows Rishi Sunak in publishing tax returns

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Humza Yousaf most popular among SNP voters but Kate Forbes leads among Scottish public, poll finds

Kate Forbes 'most popular SNP candidate among Scottish public'

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From working at home to alcohol on trains: How did the coronavirus lockdown transform life in Scotland?

How did Covid lockdowns transform life in Scotland?

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As-it-happened: Nicola Sturgeon faces final First Minister’s Questions ahead of last speech

As-it-happened: Nicola Sturgeon's final FMQs and tearful last speech

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Third of workers ‘would rather quit than lose right to home working’ on anniversary of Covid lockdown

Third of workers 'would rather quit than lose right to home working'

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Nicola Sturgeon to face final First Minister’s Questions

Nicola Sturgeon to face final First Minister’s Questions

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Test to detect pre-eclampsia in pregnancy recommended for use in Scotland

Test to detect pre-eclampsia in pregnancy recommended for use

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Silence for those lost during Covid pandemic to be held in Glasgow’s Pollok Park on third lockdown anniversary

Silence to be held in honour of third Covid lockdown anniversary

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Nicola Sturgeon criticised as MSPs publish Ferguson Marine ferries fiasco report

Sturgeon criticised for 'premature' ferries announcement

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Latest in Glasgow & West

Man taken to hospital after ‘serious assault’ in Johnstone town square

Man taken to hospital after 'serious assault' in town square

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Sean Lochrie jailed after suffocating girl, four, while high on cocaine in Paisley, Renfrewshire

Man high on cocaine suffocated four-year-old girl in brutal assault

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Kiltwalk: Scotland captain Andy Robertson’s charity AR26 to benefit from STV Children’s Appeal

Andy Robertson's charity to benefit from Kiltwalk fundraiser

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Glasgow’s historic Mitchell Library to undergo repairs for subsidence

Historic Mitchell Library to undergo repairs for subsidence

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The sensational murder trial of Scottish socialite Madeleine Smith accusing of poisoning French lover

The sensational poison murder trial of socialite Madeleine Smith

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Man dies after ‘medical matter’ in Glasgow university campus

Man dies after falling ill on city university campus

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Rolls Royce and Ferrari stolen from outside Glasgow house as probe launched

Rolls Royce and Ferrari stolen from house as probe launched

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Man checked over in ambulance after crashing into Glasgow car dealership

Man treated in ambulance after crashing into car dealership

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Missing 12-year-old Jamie-Lee Harvie from Ayr traced ‘safe and well’ in Irvine after week-long search

Missing 12-year-old traced 'safe and well' after week-long search

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Latest in Edinburgh & East

Fire crews battle blaze after car catches fire outside petrol station in Edinburgh

Fire crews battle blaze after car catches fire outside petrol station

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Arrest made over assault after man’s body found at house in Oakley in Fife

Arrest made over assault after man's body found at house

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Fourteen still in hospital after US Navy ship toppled in dry dock in Leith

Fourteen still in hospital after US Navy ship toppled in dry dock

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Serial rapist Tyrone McLuckie sexually assaulted and abused women in Leven, Fife

Serial rapist strangled and punched women during campaign of abuse

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Dock worker describes moment ship tipped in dry dock in Edinburgh as ‘so scary’

Dock worker describes moment ship tipped over as ‘so scary’

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Edinburgh Filmhouse would need ‘restructure’ to continue as cinema, councillor claims

Edinburgh Filmhouse would need 'restructure' to continue as cinema

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Stock car racer Marc Fortune who killed veteran John King in A92 crash in Fife jailed

Drunk stock car racer who killed Royal Navy veteran in crash jailed

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Major rescue operation as ship tips after dislodging from dry dock in Leith, Edinburgh

Major rescue operation as ship tips after dislodging from dry dock

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Emergency services close roads after fire breaks out at former Kitty’s nightclub in Kirkcaldy

Emergency services close roads after fire breaks out at former nightclub

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Latest in North East & Tayside

Police probing theft of three puppies following ‘positive line of enquiry’

Police probing theft of three puppies following 'positive line of enquiry'

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Pop icons Busted announce 20th anniversary reunion tour set to come to Aberdeen’s P&J Live arena

Noughties pop icons Busted to bring reunion tour to Scotland

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Schoolchildren win business award named after Aberdeenshire student who died of brain cancer

Business award handed out in honour of student who died of brain cancer

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Missing Glasgow man whose disappearance described as ‘out of character’ seen getting off train in Perth

Man whose disappearance is 'out of character' seen getting off train

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Wet Leg and Lewis Capaldi to play main stage of Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Dundee as Sunday line-up announced

Wet Leg and Lewis Capaldi to play main stage of Radio 1's Big Weekend

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Cyclist taken to hospital after being struck by car at junction in Perth

Cyclist taken to hospital after being struck by car at junction

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Police launch appeal after Dundee community defibrillator stolen

Appeal launched after defibrillator donated to community in will stolen

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Woman reveals thieves broke into Aberdeen home on Mother’s Day and stole three puppies

'Thieves broke into my home on Mother's Day and stole three puppies'

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Aberdeen driver who ‘took selfie on way to tanning salon’ hit with points and fine by road police

Driver who 'took selfie on way to tanning salon' hit with fine

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Latest in Highlands & Islands

Elderly woman who died in hospital following crash in Walls, Shetland named by police

Pensioner who died in hospital days after Shetland crash named

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ScotRail services in Highlands between Inverness, Wick and Lochalsh cancelled after train strikes fallen tree

Rail services cancelled after train hits fallen tree amid high winds

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Leap Without Limits: Strategy launched at Inverness Leisure Centre to get people into gymnastics

'We're bending over backwards to get more people into gymnastics'

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Scottish Highlands: SSE invests £100m in biggest UK hydro scheme for 40 years

Biggest hydro scheme in UK for 40 years receives £100m funding boost

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Highland and Islands airport pay dispute ends as Unite the union members accept deal

Highland and Islands airport pay dispute ends as union accept deal

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South Uist: Islanders vote against mass culling of all red deer on 93,000-acre estate

Islanders on South Uist vote against mass culling of red deer

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Emergency services shut A96 after two-car crash near Inverness Airport

Emergency services shut A96 after two-car crash near airport

3 days ago

Extra CalMac ferry service added to Clyde and Hebrides network costing Scottish Government £9m

Scottish Government paying £1m a month for extra ferry to join network

3 days ago

Closure of Stornoway nursery An Cotan Childcare Centre threatens to force parents to leave Isle of Lewis

Nursery closure could force NHS staff off Scottish island, parents warn

4 days ago

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Bernard Ponsonby: Is SNP heading for civil war after Forbes, Yousaf or Regan replace Sturgeon

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The SNP is heading for a civil war - can it be stopped?

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Isle of Gigha: What’s happened since community bought land where Murder Island was set?

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What's happened in 21 years since community bought their island?

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Expectation on Scotland grows after encouraging Six Nations

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Expectation on Scotland grows after encouraging Six Nations

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Scotland Tonight examines the reality of temporary accommodation for homeless in Edinburgh

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'I'd be more comfortable in prison' - bleak reality of temporary homes

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Sky confirms plans to cancel football show Soccer AM after 28 years on air

Sky confirms plans to cancel football show Soccer AM after 28 years

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This Is Going To Hurt and The Responder lead in BAFTA 2023 TV nominations

This Is Going To Hurt and The Responder lead in BAFTA TV nominations

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Gary Lineker tweets about ‘fibs’ after Johnson’s partygate defence published

Lineker tweets about ‘fibs’ after Johnson’s partygate defence published

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Gwyneth Paltrow to appear in US court over ‘hit and run’ at Deer Valley ski resort in Utah

Gwyneth Paltrow to appear in US court over 'hit and run' at ski resort

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Marvel star Samuel L. Jackson spotted in Livingston for ‘secret project’

Samuel L. Jackson spotted in Scots town for 'secret project'

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KT Tunstall wows with Spice Girls’ Mel C surprise on last night of UK tour at Glasgow’s SEC Armadillo

KT Tunstall wows with Spice Girls surprise on last night of UK tour

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Mimi Webb and Jonas Brothers to join Lewis Capaldi and The 1975 for Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Dundee

Jonas Brothers to join The 1975 for Big Weekend in Scotland

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Bruce Willis celebrates 68th birthday with family following dementia diagnosis

Bruce Willis celebrates 68th birthday following dementia diagnosis

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Andrew Lloyd Webber ‘devastated’ as he reveals son is critically ill with cancer

Andrew Lloyd Webber reveals son is critically ill with cancer

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Latest in Sport

Caledonia Gladiators aim to make Scotland ‘a basketball nation’

Caledonia Gladiators aim to make Scotland 'a basketball nation'

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Simon Ferry and Open Goal to end partnership with Broomhill FC after year at Lowland League club

Open Goal and Simon Ferry to depart Broomhill after one year

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European Super League developers say new plans could benefit Celtic and Rangers

Super League developers say new plans could benefit Celtic and Rangers

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Ryan Porteous: I’m hungry for more caps after making Scotland debut

Ryan Porteous: I'm hungry for more caps after making Scotland debut

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Andy Murray suffers first-round exit to Dusan Lajovic at Miami Open

Andy Murray suffers first-round exit to Dusan Lajovic at Miami Open

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Scotland’s Kyle Coetzer retires from playing cricket to take up coaching role

Kyle Coetzer retires from playing cricket to take up coaching

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Kilmarnock boss Derek McInnes calls for competence from SFA referees using VAR

Kilmarnock boss McInnes: 'I want competent refereeing, not apologies'

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Liam Kelly: Craig Gordon interested to see who replaces him in goal for Scotland

Liam Kelly: Craig Gordon keen to see who replaces him for Scotland

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Catriona Matthew named Great Britain and Ireland captain for 2024 Curtis Cup

Catriona Matthew named Great Britain and Ireland's Curtis Cup captain

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Latest in Politics

Scottish Government bans Chinese-owned app TikTok amid cybersecurity fears

Scottish Government bans TikTok amid cybersecurity fears

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Kate Forbes vows to scrap controversial fishing ban plans if elected First Minister

Kate Forbes vows to scrap controversial fishing ban plans if elected FM

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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak publishes tax returns after pressure

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak publishes tax returns after pressure

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Windsor Framework: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Northern Ireland Brexit bill passes despite Tory rebels

Sunak's Northern Ireland Brexit bill passes despite Tory rebellion

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Boris Johnson could have stopped Covid lockdown parties but didn’t, Downing Street official tells MPs

Johnson 'had opportunity' to stop lockdown parties but didn't, MPs told

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PMQs live: Rishi Sunak faces questions from MPs ahead of Boris Johnson partygate grilling

PMQs live: Rishi Sunak faces MPs ahead of Boris Johnson grilling

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Nicola Sturgeon set to apologise to unmarried women in Scotland forced to give babies up for adoption

FM expected to apologise to unwed mothers forced to give up babies

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Kate Forbes is a ‘religious fundamentalist’ who is ‘obsessed with sex’, SNP MP John Nicolson suggests

SNP MP suggests Forbes is a 'religious fundamentalist obsessed with sex'

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Lorna Slater faces questions over deposit return scheme amid row over £300,000 salary for company chief

MSPs in row over £300,000 salary for deposit return scheme chief

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Westminster Abbey: Visitors allowed to walk on spot of King’s coronation – but only in socks

Shoes off as visitors allowed to stand on King's coronation spot

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Bank of England raise interest rates to 4.25% after shock increase in inflation

Interest rates rise to 4.25% after shock increase in inflation

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Bank of England expected to raise interest rates after shock increase in inflation

Interest rates expected to rise after shock increase in inflation

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Boss of British Gas owner Centrica sees pay increase fivefold to £4.5m as profits soar

Boss of British Gas owner sees pay increase fivefold to £4.5m

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Cat survives five-mile trip under bonnet of car on school run in Kent

Cat survives five-mile trip under bonnet of car on school run

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Energy import bill more than doubled to £117bn in UK last year, Offshore Energies UK report finds

UK's energy import bill 'more than doubled to £117bn last year'

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Inflation shot to 10.4% in surprise jump after vegetable price hike

Inflation shot to 10.4% in surprise jump after vegetable price hike

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Heinz partners with Absolut to sell jars of pasta alla vodka sauce at Waitrose

Heinz and Absolut to launch jars of pasta alla vodka sauce

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Tesco Clubcard rewards scheme value to be cut – when will change be made?

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Today's Top Stories

Reform Scotland: Think-tank outlines ‘immediate priorities’ for Nicola Sturgeon’s replacement as FM

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Think-tank outlines 'immediate priorities' for incoming FM

Friends of the Earth Scotland: Climate protests planned in Glasgow and Edinburgh on ‘day of action’

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Climate protests expected across Scotland in 'day of action'

Scottish Government: Councils to receive £50m funding to revamp play parks

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Councils set to receive £50m funding in bid to revamp play parks

Nicola Sturgeon holds back tears in final speech as Scotland’s First Minister

Scotland

Nicola Sturgeon holds back tears in final speech as Scotland's First Minister

Murder investigation launched after woman found dead in house on Mothers Day in Fishcross

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Murder investigation launched after pensioner found dead in house

Dog dies of brain damage after ‘negligence from staff’ at Glasgow groomers

Dog dies of brain damage after 'negligence from staff' at groomers

Fresh appeal to find man who went missing while camping with friends

North East & Tayside

Fresh appeal to find man who went missing while camping with friends

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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer follows Rishi Sunak in publishing tax return summary

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Keir Starmer follows Rishi Sunak in publishing tax returns

Humza Yousaf most popular among SNP voters but Kate Forbes leads among Scottish public, poll finds

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Kate Forbes 'most popular SNP candidate among Scottish public'

From working at home to alcohol on trains: How did the coronavirus lockdown transform life in Scotland?

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How did Covid lockdowns transform life in Scotland?

As-it-happened: Nicola Sturgeon faces final First Minister’s Questions ahead of last speech

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As-it-happened: Nicola Sturgeon's final FMQs and tearful last speech

Third of workers ‘would rather quit than lose right to home working’ on anniversary of Covid lockdown

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Third of workers 'would rather quit than lose right to home working'

Nicola Sturgeon to face final First Minister’s Questions

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Nicola Sturgeon to face final First Minister’s Questions

Test to detect pre-eclampsia in pregnancy recommended for use in Scotland

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Test to detect pre-eclampsia in pregnancy recommended for use

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Martin Lewis confirmed as regular co-host on STV breakfast show Good Morning Britain

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Martin Lewis named as regular co-host on Good Morning Britain

Seven people remain in hospital after US Navy ship tipped over at Imperial Dock in Leith

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Seven remain in hospital after US Navy ship tipped over in dry dock

Scotland Tonight: Surgeon and keen runner Gareth Jones on being diagnosed with prostate cancer

'I thought it was cheap running shoes... turned out it was cancer'

Prince William thanks British troops for ‘defending our freedoms’ on surprise trip to Poland

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William thanks troops for ‘defending our freedoms’ on Poland trip

Boris Johnson: ‘People who think we were partying during Covid lockdown don’t know what they’re talking about’

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Boris Johnson insists partygate pictures show 'essential' work events

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon apologises to mothers forced to give up babies for adoption in Scotland

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Nicola Sturgeon apologises to mothers forced to give up babies for adoption

Major incident leaves 35 injured as ship topples at dry dock in Leith, Edinburgh

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Major incident leaves 35 injured as ship topples in Edinburgh dock

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Hollywood smiles at Brendan Fraser’s Glasgow dentist as actor wins at Oscars

Hollywood smiles at Brendan Fraser's dentist as actor wins at Oscars

Camera crews spotted in St Andrews as filming of The Crown’s sixth series for Netflix under way

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Camera crews spotted as filming of The Crown's sixth series under way