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The governments across the UK and local authorities should consider further reducing burdens, and extending supportive measures for the hospitality industry, to boost its fragile recovery from the pandemic, writes Audrey Ferrie. Many hospitality venues have been operating at reduced capacity, w

Police officers came to the rescue of seven baby squirrels whose tails were tangled together. A concerned citizen in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan rang 911 after spotting the troubled scurry of squirrels.

Nothing is so unworthy of a civilised nation as allowing itself to be governed without opposition by an irresponsible clique that has yielded to base instinct.

TLT has completed the sale of a 50MW battery storage project in Kintore near Aberdeen to SUSI Storage Development UK on behalf of ILI Energy Storage PLC (ILI), the clean energy development company. The transaction is the fourth battery storage sale TLT has completed for ILI Group in the last year, a

Reconvictions in Scotland have increased in the past year, going against the general downwards trend over the past decade. The reconviction rate, which is the percentage of offenders who are reconvicted in a year, was 28.3 per cent in 2018-19, which is a 1.9 percentage point increase from 26.4 per c

David Black considers the standard of moral perfection to which we hold figures from the past and the opportunity for self-aggrandisement it creates in the present. Glasgow University’s decision to remove the name of renowned geologist John Walter Gregory from one of its more mediocre campus b

Law firm Gilson Gray has taken over fellow Dundee law firm Baillie Shepherd as it pursues further growth in the city. The deal will see all Baillie Shepherd employees join the Gilson Gray team in Dundee, including directors Alan Baillie and Peter Shepherd along with well-known court solicitor Ken Gl

Tuesday 12 October 20215 pm – 6 pm This webinar will cover what steps must be taken to become qualified as a solicitor or advocate in Scotland and to become admitted to practice in New York.

Zoe McDonnell details new driving offences soon to find their way onto the statute book. It is highly likely that certain UK-wide driving laws will be changed in the near future. These changes include:

A Wick man has been fined for health and safety failings which left a worker with severe injuries. William Swanson, who traded as LTS Construction, pled guilty to a breach of working at height regulations at Wick Sheriff Court on 4 October 2021. He was fined £2,000

DLA Piper has announced the appointment of Allan Leal as a partner based in Edinburgh. Mr Leal has joined the firm’s finance practice from Burness Paull, where he has been a partner since 2018.

A new six-part Channel 4 series that blends drama with reality TV and competition in a single programme will begin tonight.

India's transport minister has promised to legislate to make ambulance sirens sound more pleasant and make car horns use only Indian instruments. Nitin Gadkari, the minister for road transport and highways, said he could replace ambulance sirens with a song he heard on the radio, The Hindu reports.

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error. Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts.

The victims of historical abuse at Celtic Boys Club are to take legal action in one of the first cases of its kind in Scotland. The class action case will see the club facing a claim of many millions of pounds in damages. There are around 25 people seeking damages from Celtic, which has said it was