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Ian Blackford standing down as SNP Westminster leader in the House of Commons
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Ian Blackford standing down as SNP Westminster leader
Nicola Sturgeon facing MSPs at First Minister’s Questions
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Nicola Sturgeon facing MSPs at First Minister's Questions 
Scottish national care service plans fail to set out detailed start up costs
Scotland

Scottish national care service plans fail to set out start up costs 
Alister Jack: ‘Work ongoing to review Civil Service following Supreme Court case’
Politics

'Work ongoing to review Civil Service' following Supreme Court case
Scottish Prison Service criticised for moving trans woman Katie Dolatowski to Cornton Vale, Stirling
Glasgow & West

Prison service criticised for moving trans woman to Cornton Vale
Two-day strike continues by Royal Mail postal workers in dispute over pay and conditions
Scotland

Two-day Royal Mail strike continues in dispute over pay and conditions 
Public health study warns Christmas shoppers of bacteria on self-scanning checkouts and handrails
Scotland

Are supermarket self-scanning checkouts and handrails making you sick?

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Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt researchers to use AI and robots to detect UTIs faster in Scottish care homes
Edinburgh & East

Robots and AI 'could help identify UTIs in care home residents faster'
Edinburgh police investigate attack on woman at Calder Road city bypass flyover
Edinburgh & East

Police investigate attack on woman at city bypass flyover
‘Terrified’ cat found dumped in crate outside petrol station in Leith
Edinburgh & East

'Terrified' cat found dumped in crate outside petrol station
Childhood best friends who reunited after 60 years lived minutes apart in Linlithgow
Edinburgh & East

Childhood best friends who reunited after 60 years lived minutes apart
Three areas of Scotland make list of Time Out’s Best Places in the UK to Visit in 2023
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Edinburgh & East

Three Scottish destinations make Time Out's Best UK Places list 
Volunteers behind memorial statue for child miners in Midlothian win prestigious award
Edinburgh & East

Volunteers behind memorial statue for child miners win prestigious award
Edinburgh Airport set for £1.6m redevelopment of pickup and dropoff zone
Edinburgh & East

Edinburgh Airport set for £1.6m redevelopment of pickup and dropoff zone

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Scottish children ‘failed by inaction on poverty’ from governments at Holyrood and Westminster
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Children 'failed by poverty inaction' from UK and Scottish governments
150 years of Scotland v England: Six memorable matches between the Auld Enemy
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Football

Scotland v England at 150: Six of the best Auld Enemy matches
Scotland ‘will have turkeys for Christmas’ despite ‘unprecedented’ bird flu outbreak
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Scotland

Scotland 'will have turkeys for Christmas' despite bird flu outbreak
Iconic view: Luxury Forth Bridge home goes on market for £1m
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Edinburgh & East

Iconic view: Luxury Forth Bridge home goes on market for £1m
James McAvoy ‘scunnered’ by racial and sexually explicit abuse hurled at female co-stars in Glasgow
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Entertainment

James McAvoy 'scunnered' by abuse hurled at female co-stars in Glasgow
Clock-ticking on ‘crisis-hit’ Scottish childminding sector as more than third leave profession
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Scotland

Clock-ticking on 'crisis-hit' childminding sector as more than third leave profession
Rescued turkey winds up ‘at dinner table, not on it’ in PETA Christmas advert to be shown in cinemas
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Scotland

Rescued turkey winds up 'at dinner table, not on it' in Christmas ad

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Scot who lost wife of 30 years weeks after cancer diagnosis facing first Christmas alone
Glasgow & West

'My wife died weeks after cancer diagnosis - I'm facing Christmas alone'
Scotland Tonight: Scots author Jenny Colgan brands critics of romantic fiction ‘sexist’
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Romantic fiction critics are ‘sexist’, says Scots author Jenny Colgan
Doddie Weir obituary: The Scotland rugby giant who stood out from the crowd
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Doddie Weir: The Scotland rugby giant who stood out from the crowd