McGill’s, which is owned by billionaire brothers James and Sandy Easdale, have taken legal action against the Scottish Government after being rejected for zero-emission bus funding 🚨 Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

A man has been arrested in connection with a sexual assault at a Scottish music festival 🚨

Ann Widdecombe was attacked 24 hours before her body was found, the police understand 🚨

Veteran TV presenter Dermot Murnaghan has died, aged 68

It’s not that the serious task of indy means we must oppose the likes of Count Binface. It’s more that we’ve really lost something if we indulge in such elemental derision for representative democracy, writes Pat Kane ✍️

Six people, including three children, have been taken to hospital following a crash on the M8 on Saturday morning 🚨

Cuba has faced an island-wide blackout for the second time this week starting on Friday as the US blockade continues

England striker Harry Kane has drawn criticism after revealing he played golf with US president Donald Trump, a moment he described as a 'surreal experience'

Two women who have transformed women’s football in Scotland have been honoured with the first-ever dual Honorary Doctorate 👇

Building an industrial policy around nuclear militarism at the expense of job and growth-generating public investments is a recipe for steeper economic decline, writes Samuel Rafanell-Williams of the CND ✍️

Police are appealing for information after a fatal crash on the M74 🚨

The man who on Friday was arrested on suspicion of murdering former MP Ann Widdecombe has been released from custody 🚨

Tomorrow's front page: SNP offer to refund 'indyref' donations

NEW: Plans to turn a fire-hit former hotel site near Glasgow Green into flats have been given the go-ahead

LATEST: Restore Britain's Rupert Lowe - a usually prolific social media poster - is STILL silent on the outrage over his dismissal of the Dunblane massacre as 'one murder' www.thenational.scot/news/2...

The warning signs are no longer just signs, writes Xander Elliards. Fascists are organising openly, targeting minorities and those who disagree with them, and mobilising mobs on the back of lies. www.thenational.scot/news/2...

NEW: JK Rowling and other gender-critical campaigners have reacted furiously after a report from Amnesty International called them 'anti-rights' organisations The author has accused human rights group Amnesty of believing women don't deserve rights in response

NEW: Journalist Adam Boulton has been criticised for describing Ann Widdecombe as a 'spinster' and 'old maid' following her murder

Staff at Glasgow Caledonian University have voted to back strike action amid concerns that around 100 jobs are at risk

NEW: Politicians have been reacting following the arrest of a man in connection with the murder of Ann Widdecombe Reform UK's Nigel Farage says he will be pausing campaigning in the Clacton by-election

BREAKING: A 26-year-old white male has been arrested in connection with the murder of Ann Widdecombe The incident is not being treated as terrorism, police have said

STV will broadcast its last full news programme from the north of Scotland at 6pm this evening

Perth and Kinross councillors have unanimously approved a solar farm which will power 15,400 homes

EXCLUSIVE: The only Restore Britain politician in Scotland has responded to Rupert Lowe’s widely condemned comments about the Dunblane Massacre 👇

🔴Police are set to hold a press conference after announcing that a murder investigation has been launched into the death of Ann Widdecombe. How to watch 👇

🚨A manhunt has been launched for a "white male" believed to be responsible for the death of Ann Widdecombe, police have said 👇

BREAKING: A murder investigation has been launched into the death of former Tory minister Ann Widdecombe

Anonymous social media accounts are 'tapping into fears of communities', a senior police officer has said following disorder in Glasgow this week

Dumfries residents have been urged to drop their 'destructive negativity' about the town by the local provost

US president Donald Trump’s private plane has been spotted landing at Aberdeen Airport this morning

Andy Burnham has been told to 'do better' by campaigners after he apologised for Labour’s initial response to Israel’s genocide in Gaza

The UK public want Count Binface to beat Nigel Farage in the Clacton by-election, a new poll has suggested

Stand-up comic Jacob Hawley joins The National to discuss bringing politics into comedy in a crazy world, why Scotland fans should want England to lose at football, and why Edinburgh Fringe isn't the best place for Scottish talent 🎧

An innocent person has been 'forced from their home' after protesters gathered outside it in a case of 'mistaken identity'

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC would 'never' invest in young, up-and-coming talent now in the same way it did 10 years ago, a comedian who was on the forefront of the broadcaster’s expansion into podcasting has said

A famous anti-fascist slogan is among the newly discovered names and drawings left by the builders of anti-tank defences installed at a beach in Fife

A fox cub which spent nearly two days with its head trapped in a plastic bottle, suffering injuries that could have proved life-threatening, has been rescued by wildlife experts

Several former SNP councillors and local party officials have demanded a probe into the party’s former auditors for failing to spot Peter Murrell’s embezzlement

The SNP have offered refunds to anyone who donated to party fundraisers which were ostensibly to fight a second independence referendum

Due to a technical fault The National Podcast will not be broadcast today. Instead, we will publish a special edition recorded earlier this week. We will be back live with you on Monday. Thank you.

JK Rowling's support centre Beira's Place has been branded an 'anti-rights' group by Amnesty International 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

The date for the by-election triggered by Nigel Farage’s decision to quit as an MP has been confirmed

Glasgow City Council has hit out at the 'unacceptable' spreading of misinformation online that is 'damaging' local communities following claims that a care home was being turned into asylum accommodation

A group legal claim against the SNP over how a £600k indyref2 fund was spent is 'close to irresistible' and could see the party have to repay double the donations given to them, according to a legal opinion from one of Scotland’s foremost lawyers 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

It’s places like these which have enabled Glasgow to become one of Europe’s great cultural cities. Spaces for creativity which are inclusive, community-led and free of the worst aspects of commercialisation are critically important – they are our cultural infrastructure, Patrick Harvie ✍️

Reform UK have won a council by-election in South Lanarkshire

STV will broadcast its last full news programme from the north of Scotland this evening

Police have launched a criminal investigation into at least £500,000 of donations made to Reform UK by the mother of a convicted criminal who is at the centre of Nigel Farage’s donations scandal

Former Tory MP and Brexit MEP Ann Widdecombe, who also featured on Strictly Come Dancing, has died aged 78

🚨 Drivers at a haulage firm in Angus were left 'in tears' after losing their jobs following the closure of the business after almost 40 years