The Lord Provost of Edinburgh is alleged to have spent £1,000 of taxpayer cash in a futile effort to meet pop superstar Taylor Swift. The singer-songwriter brought her Eras Tour to Murrayfield in June ...

Ardross Castle features prominently in the hit BBC show The Traitors but where in Scotland is it located, who owns it and can you stay in it?

Wild sauna. That's the name sometimes given for the mobile sauna boxes that have been popping up around Scotland. It's around three years since the first ever mobile sauna, Haar, was brought to ...

With streets apparently paved with gold, fabulous riches and dazzling wealth, in a golden age of exploration there were few cities on earth to ...

TV's big Hogmanay shows are like The Ramones - mostly the same each year. So here's what to watch and what to avoid ...

The precious few days between Christmas and New Year are, for most, the one time of the year in which it is acceptable to do as little as is ...

New research in Glasgow into health inequalities has highlighted the need to invest a larger share of resources into GP practices and ...

Edinburgh trio Young Fathers made history by winning their third Scottish Album of the Year award with the LP ‘Heavy, Heavy‘.

One of the delights of my year is my annual Scottish Sportswomen of the Year column that is fast becoming a regular feature as Hogmanay approaches. What’s been so interesting over the past few years ...

George Brown and Sons is synonymous with Leith. For two centuries, the family engineering firm has been based there forging, welding, cutting, drilling, and, most crucially, evolving its services to ...

The Anglo-Saxon “haleg montah” meaning “holy month” is also mentioned, a likely candidate for sure in medieval Scotland. Then there is the Scandinavian “hoggo-nott” meaning “yule”. However, I think we ...

The past 12 months have seen the globe rocked by conflicts and major shifts in power, but as the new year beckons, Foreign Editor David Pratt ...