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Leonie Rae Gasson was awarded £84,555 by Creative Scotland for her moving image installation project Rein. Picture: Julie Howden

Creative Scotland defends film project Rein as 'experimental performance art'
Quango praises ‘track record’ of Rein director Leonie Rae Gasson

Forth Ports’ Capital Cruising business welcomed 149 vessels in 2023. Picture: Peter Devlin

235,000 passengers to visit Edinburgh, Fife and Dundee amid record cruise season

The trees have been lost at the Lost Forest on the Kinrara estate, west of Aviemore

BrewDog's million tree Lost Forest sees half planted now dead

The Sandyford clinic in Glasgow. (Photo by Clare Grant)

Humza Yousaf has not ruled out restricting puberty blockers

Analysis: Smattering of applause as Yousaf sets out union pitch

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Taylor Swift revealed the new album while accepting an award during the Grammys.

Explainer Taylor Swift announces new album The Tortured Poets Department

A masterclass from Teddy Lee at last year's Festival

Edinburgh Seafood Festival returns to St James Quarter

Police were inundated with hate crime complaints in the first week of the new legislation

Number of hate crime complaints drops by 75 per cent in week two of new law

Skydivers include (l-r): Evie Brown, Audrey McKenzie, Lauren Marshall and Scott Whyte.

Watermans taking the plunge for charity

First Minister Humza Yousaf with Scottish Green co-leaders Lorna Slater and Patrick Harvie at an independence march in Edinburgh. Image: Lisa Ferguson/National World.

Scottish Greens and Alba could split the pro-independence SNP vote

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar speaking at the STUC conference in Dundee. Image: Andrew Milligan/Press Association.

Anas Sarwar calls for UK arms sales to Israel to be stopped

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Leonie Rae Gasson was awarded £84,555 by Creative Scotland for her moving image installation project Rein. Picture: Julie Howden

Creative Scotland defends film project Rein as 'experimental performance art'

MV Glen Rosa at the Ferguson Marine shipyard. Image: John Devlin/National World.

Economy secretary to meet with unions to discuss Ferguson Marine future

Meghan Gallacher, MSP for Central Scotland and deputy leader of the Scottish Conservatives. Image: Lisa Ferguson/National World.

Tories demand answers on puberty blockers as SNP under pressure over Cass review

Aberdeen have appointed a new manager, with Jimmy Thelin due to take over in June.

Aberdeen confirm Thelin appointment as Cormack reveals stiff Elfsborg resistance

Transport

One of the Jacobite's last 2023 season services crosses the Glenfinnan Viaduct in October. (Photo by Charlotte Graham)

‘Harry Potter’ Jacobite steam train ‘breaks down’ on first trip of season

Laura Laker on National Cycle Network route 7 near the Drumochter pass in the Highlands. (Photo by Laura Laker)

Scotland’s promised ‘active freeways’ cycle routes ‘on the back burner’

Ferries crisis: Here’s why Ferguson Marine and CalMac chiefs were fired

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Future Scotland

The UK attracts more financial technology - fintech - investment than the rest of Europe combined.

Funding, scaling up, diversity: The challenges facing UK fintech businesses
“There is an extremely vibrant ecosystem of fintech innovators across all four corners of our nation.”

Arleen Arnott of KPMG UK says: 'It is clear from this survey that AI is becoming a key part of the day-to-day running of financial services firms.' Picture: contributed.

Leaders at finance firms encouraged to embrace AI that could 'transform' sector

Professor Mercedes Maroto-Valer with colleagues in the lab.

Heriot-Watt backs new £18m centre to drive UK's green industrial revolution

Sarah Baylus, Swen Vincke and David Walgrave who won Best Game Award with Baldur's Gate 3 at the Bafta Games Awards. Image: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

The Bafta Games Awards 2024 winners including Scottish game Viewfinder

The investment will be seen as a significant vote of confidence in Glasgow-based Clyde Hydrogen and its ground-breaking technology.

Pioneering start-up secures £1m funding to revolutionise hydrogen energy sector

Crime

Second wave of super-strong heroin is set to hit Scotland Tom Wood

Salman Rushdie has expressed concern about the growing acceptance of restrictions on freedom of speech (Picture: Ilya S Savenok/Getty Images for The Center for Fiction)

Salman Rushdie is living proof of the importance of free speech

Family of mother who died trying to save her baby in Sydney a 'beautiful human'

A 'Hate Hurts' billboard in Glasgow (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Around £400k was spent by SNP ministers on the 'Hate Hurts campaign'

An image of the Union Canal in Edinburgh. Picture: Scott Louden

Boy, 6, finds Japanese samurai sword in Scottish canal

Police are treating Yousaf and me differently over hate complaints. Why? Murdo Fraser

Politics

With two years to go, Yousaf already appears to have run out of steam

As a new Scottish Parliament session begins, it feels like SNP politicians can’t wait for the sum...

West must help Israelis and Palestinians escape the cycle of violence

Prolonged conflicts can entrench a cycle of hatred and violence

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Toppling Iran's tyrants would sever head of snake behind many Mid-East conflicts

The Iranian regime is helping some of the major players in conflicts across the Middle East, such as Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, Hamas and Hezbollah

Multiple forms of prejudice can create a problem bigger than sum of its parts

Rosie Baruah

Analysis As Holyrood returns, can Humza Yousaf move on from a bruising recess?

The First Minister faced a flood of terrible front pages over his controversial hate crime law

Scotland's world-leading universities are at risk because of SNP incompetence

For more than a decade, the SNP have presided over an education system in decline

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Weather

An RNLI lifeboat. Image: Steve Parsons/PA Wire

Young paddleboarders rescued as Storm Kathleen causes widespread disruption

Weather warnings for high winds have been issued for Saturday

Warnings of winds up to 70mph as Storm Kathleen rolls in

Coronavirus

A Scottish doctor who now practises medicine in Australia says the government cannot blame the Covid pandemic for the crisis. Image: Peter Byrne/Press Association.

Scottish doctor who left the NHS says governments cannot blame crisis on Covid

Sturgeon's politicking and Johnson's weakness may have damaged Covid response Paul Wilson

Exclusive Michael Matheson asks for extension as iPad report publication looms

Former first minister Alex Salmond. Picture: PA

Alex Salmond claims WhatsApp message deletion was not policy while he was FM

Opinion

Retired consultant paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass presented her Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People last week (Picture: Yui Mok/PA)

Readers' Letters: MSPs must resign after Cass Review on NHS gender services

Similar to the Post Office, although not so long in gestation, it seems that those who we elect to keep us all safe and in good health have let us down yet again.Scotsman Letters

Last year's Hidden Gem award winner was Gavin's Mill

Nominate your favourite hidden gem in the 2024 Scran Awards

Findlay Anderson is head of corporate, Gilson Gray

Investment for energy sector is picking up steam again - Findlay Anderson

Glasgow hosting Commonwealth Games again is a Willy Wonka idea

Aidan Smith

People

Exclusive Salman Rushdie to take part in rebooted Edinburgh International Book Festival
New strand of McEwan Hall events revealed

Exclusive Edinburgh Festival Fringe chief demands crisis summit to secure funding support

The Apprentice Boys of Derry takes part in the annual Relief of Derry march on August 14, 2021 in Derry, Northern Ireland. An affiliated club in Inverness plans to hold a parade on Saturday but is meeting resistance. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

Apprentice Boys of Derry meet resistance ahead of Inverness parade

US singer Taylor Swift performs on stage during a concert as part of her Eras World Tour. Image: Getty

How Tortured Poets Department star Taylor Swift became a billionaire

Joan Hills mixed with the likes of Francis Bacon and Yoko Ono

Scotsman Obituaries: Joan Hills, Scot at forefront of underground art scene

Obituaries

Peter Higgs visiting the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, where the existence of the Higg's boson particl was confirmed (Picture: CERN Geneva/PA Wire)

Obituaries: Peter Higgs, physicist who gave his name to the Higgs boson particle

George was ordained as a Church of Scotland Minister in 1948

Obituaries: George Wilkie, founding member of the Iona Community

Jim Dunbar painted watercolour landscapes en plein air in all weathers (Picture: Robert Perry/Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour)

Obituaries: Jim Dunbar, teacher and former president of the RSW

Louis Gossett Jr was lauded for his work but never found his way on to Hollywood's A-List (Picture: John Sciulli/Getty Images for Amnesty International USA)

Scotsman Obituaries: Louis Gossett Jr, star of An Officer and a Gentleman

Environment

A fisherman casts a line on the River Tay. Scottish Water has been accused of covering up the release of wet wipes, sanitary pads and other sewage litter into the river in Perthshire. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Water giant accused of ‘covering up’ release of wet-wipe sewage into river
Scottish Water has been accused of covering up the release of wet wipes, sanitary pads and other “disgusting” sewage litter spilling into the River Tay in Perthshire.

Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater need to show they are more serious about climate change (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Are Greens still Green? And if so, are they help or hindrance to climate fight?

Tourism boats gather as teams compete on the third day of the 37th America's Cup preliminary regatta in Spain. Picture: Josep Lago/AFP via Getty Images

Sailing events could harm marine life, Scottish research shows

Working with landowners is key to tackling Scotland's extinction crisis Deborah Long

UK News

Analysis After licensing arms worth nearly half a billion to Israel, UK is under pressure

Sunak calls for ‘calm heads’ amid fears of Israeli retaliation for Iran attack

Members of the Up Helly Aa 'Jarl Squad' parade through the streets of in Lerwick, Shetland Islands in January. The event is widely used to promote Shetland as a tourist destination. Meanwhile, budgets to manage visitors on the ground have been cut. (Photo by ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Scottish islands call for 'fairness' as tourism budgets cut amid visitor boom

Labour's Douglas Alexander lost to the SNP's Mhairi Black in the 2015 general election (Picture: Lesley Martin/AFP via Getty Images)

Westminster's wannabe 'Comeback Kids' are worthy of everyone's respect

SNP may need to ditch ‘one more heave’ approach to independence Stewart McDonald

Politicians can't scream 'bigot' at parents worried about puberty blockers now Susan Dalgety

World

Former US President Donald Trump waves as he departs Trump Tower for Manhattan Criminal Court

Donald Trump’s history-making hush money trial begins in New York

New South Wales police gather outside the Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Sydney's western suburb of Wakeley (Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP)

Man arrested after reported stabbing at church in Sydney

Explainer Who are Iran's proxy forces, and did they help attack Israel?

Salman Rushdie (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)

Sir Salman Rushdie says he had a dream about being attacked

Lord Cameron has warned against escalation

David Cameron urges Israel against escalation amid fresh calls for calm

Why Iran’s miscalculated attack offers an opportunity Scotsman comment

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The Foreign Office has issued a new travel warning about increased risk in 18 countries including popular holiday destinations. (Photo: AFP via Getty Images)

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Omaze Million Pound House Draw Cornwall winner Rose Doyle with husband Tony outside their new home.

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An artist's impression of Titanic on her maiden voyage.

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