A craft brewery in Clackmannanshire is pumping £500,000 into an ambitious expansion plan, bucking the downwards trend of Scotland’s struggling beer industry

Bus manufacturer Alexander Dennis Limited is due to receive orders for more than 100 zero emission vehicles through a Scottish Government scheme

Reform UK have released their full regional candidate list for the Scottish Parliament election, featuring some familiar names

Wes Streeting has again accepted over £50,000 from a firm whose owner has longstanding links to private healthcare 🚨

Palestine Action hunger strikers have told of the lasting effects of their starvation as they spoke out for the first time since their release from prison

Scottish storytelling is being celebrated by the Great Tapestry of Scotland visitor centre with a new 'Ode to Jacobites' spotlight display

Dozens of flats are to be built on an old school site in Glasgow with three rooftop gardens featured in the designs 🚨

John Swinney has committed to banning LGBT+ conversion therapy in the first year of the next Holyrood term if the SNP are re-elected

Police and politicians have been urged to intervene after a series of 'anti-Muslim' demonstrations in Scotland saw protesters 'waving rats hanged from gallows' at local worshippers Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

Several city centre roads will be closed this week for a mystery film shoot in Edinburgh

NEW: A Reform UK candidate in Scotland is demanding an apology from a Scottish Labour councillor, accusing her of 'spreading dangerous misinformation about her living arrangements'

There are plans to construct a memorial to Queen Elizabeth I in Scotland using public money, but many feel this is inappropriate and that other women should be honoured instead Let us know who you would like to see a memorial of, and your suggestion might get in the paper! 👇

Police have attended more than 530 protests in Scotland since the start of the year, a Scottish Police Authority meeting has heard 🚨

LATEST: The UK Government has blocked a Chinese firm’s £1.5 billion investment in a Highland wind farm factory over security concerns

NEW: A pair of senior Conservative MSPs are 'jetting off' on a taxpayer-funded trip to Paris just days before they quit Holyrood Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

Construction is now under way for a 'world leading' mountain bike innovation centre in the Scottish Borders 🚵‍♂️

Watch as Greenpeace activists vandalise a massive oil vessel bound for the UK’s Rosebank field 👇 Campaigners have accused fossil fuel giants of 'war profiteering' as they move ahead with the project before it has full government approval

Wes Streeting has raised eyebrows with his claim that he has 'disappearing messages' on his phone, despite releasing texts he exchanged with Peter Mandelson

BrewDog had more than £550 million in debts when the firm was handed over to administrators earlier this month, it has emerged

Fashion designer Stella McCartney’s plans to build a 'modernist mansion' despite widespread public outcry have been approved by planners

Staff at the University of Edinburgh have demanded the institution ditches a deal with technology giant OpenAI over fears that it is 'unsafe' 👇

Reform's leader in Scotland has responded after we published the details of a vile homophobic joke he made, that was so bad he donated to an LGBT charity as an apology.

Scotland Yard have released the full transcript of Morgan McSweeney’s phone call to the police reporting his phone had been stolen

Keir Starmer has called out Kemi Badenoch’s hypocrisy as the Tory leader demanded the UK Government approve two new North Sea oil and gas sites

The Scottish Government’s final climate change plan has been widely criticised by environmental campaigners and opposition politicians

Watch as John Swinney warns Malcolm Offord's homophobic joke 'is a warning to this country of what is coming our way' as Reform starts its election campaign 🎥

Staff at Lush’s largest Scottish store are at risk of redundancy, as the cosmetic retailer aims to make £250,000 in savings amid a 'downturn' in profits

A new Senedd election polling spells disaster for Labour as Plaid Cymru’s Rhun ap Iorwerth is predicted to be in pole position to be the next first minister of Wales

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A major Danish renewables firm has announced plans to create 500 skilled jobs at a new £220 million factory in Scotland

A road freight transport company based in South Lanarkshire has fallen into the hands of liquidators over an unpaid tax bill

Malcolm Offord made a homophobic joke about the partner of the late pop star George Michael, for which he is facing calls to resign. We believe there is an overwhelming public interest in publishing the joke for people to decide for themselves 👇

Former Tory MP Crispin Blunt has pleaded guilty to possessing illegal drugs including cannabis and crystal meth

NEW: Greenpeace activists have vandalised a fossil fuel vessel heading to Rosebank Campaigners accused fossil fuel giants of 'war profiteering' as they painted 'they profit, we pay' on the ship's hull

Workers at 11 Scottish Government-owned airports will receive a bumper pay deal impacting more than 200 staff members

Scottish Labour have been slammed for running on 'watered down versions' of SNP policies ahead of the Scottish election 👇

Two men have been arrested in north-west London on Wednesday morning in connection with the Golders Green arson attack

Only Palestinians have the right to choose their representatives and define their future, and that cannot be achieved without ending the Israeli occupation of Gaza, writes Wesam Abo Marq ✍️

A Borders railway preservation centre has been forced to put the brakes on its offering to the public due to a shortage of volunteers 🛤️

UK inflation remained at 3% in the year to February according to official figures, but experts have set higher forecasts due the war in Iran

The sooner the Scottish electorate sends him away with his tail between his legs as they did in 2021, the better, writes Paul Kavanagh ✍️

If the electoral system that governs Westminster cannot serve Scotland’s interests because of how the arithmetic works, Scotland’s needs will always be subordinated to the marginal seat calculations of English electoral politics, writes Stuart Donald ✍️

To oppose those who would allow the UK to become either an accomplice or participant in further regional conflict is not simply a moral obligation, writes Coll McCail ✍️

Scotland's drugs crisis is directly costing the public purse 'up to £1 billion every year' – and the real economic cost of failing to tackle the issue could be around six times that, a new report has warned 👇

Polling guru professor John Curtice has given his verdict on the one key issue with Labour's Scottish election strategy ⬇️

Tomorrow's front page 📰 SNP slam Chancellor's 'total betrayal of working families'

A Reform UK Scotland candidate pledged to 'scrap Universal Credit' during her previous campaign for Labour ⬇️

Malcolm Offord is under heavy fire after reports that he told an extended joke which was so homophobic he was forced to pay an LGBT charity as part of an apology 👀

A Scottish sausage firm has been fined more than £50k after almost two millions litres of waste meant for the sewers instead polluted waterways ⬇️

Even the richest people in Scotland strongly support higher taxes on the wealthy, new polling has found ⬇️ www.thenational.scot/news/2...