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  1. Bonfire Night: The Highland Tradition of Setting Fire to Money in the Rain
  2. Ellis O’Connor Captures the Sea, Storms and Memories of the Hebrides
  3. Rumbledethumps: Scotland’s Most Wonderfully Named Supper
  4. The Letters Scotland Put to Sea: St Kilda’s Remarkable Floating Post Office
  5. The National Library of Scotland’s Remarkable Map Time Machine
  6. Scotland Records 703 Probable Suicide Deaths as New Figures Expose Persistent Inequalities
  7. Scotland Passes 100,000-Hectare Peatland Restoration Milestone — But More Than a Million Hectares Remain Degraded
  8. One of Britain's Rarest Moths Records Its Best Year Yet in a Remote Highland Glen
  9. New Scottish Transport Figures Reveal Stark Divide Between Rural and City Passengers
  10. Scottish Water’s £3.6 Billion Investment Programme Faces Rising Delays, Regulator Finds
  11. Independent Review Finds Gaps in Inspection and Records Across Council’s 1,558 Structures
  12. Skye Communities Offered £5.46 Million as Major Electricity Line Replacement Advances
  13. Scottish Ship Repair Firm Expands Mobile Engineering Service Worldwide
  14. Scottish Government Cites £23 Billion AI Opportunity, but Economic Gains Remain Projections
  15. Edinburgh Food Company Secures £160,000 to Develop Cricket Protein Production
  16. £38,466 Award Will Help Gairloch Community Newspaper Replace Printing Equipment
  17. UK Introduces Law to End New North Sea Oil and Gas Licences
  18. Scottish Councils May Add Two In-Service Days Before Curriculum Overhaul
  19. M8 Closures on Two November Weekends Prompt Glasgow Airport Travel Warning
  20. Highland Estimates It Needs 31,848 Homes Over 20 Years
  21. £250.9 Million Spent on Monklands Hospital Project as NHS Prepares a New Design
  22. The Marriage Half
  23. Renfrew Bridge Closes for Months After Storm Floods Electrical Systems
  24. Iran Threatens Gulf Internet Cables If Its Infrastructure Is Attacked - INCLUDES VIDEO
  25. Private Firms Can Access Personal Data Supplied by Scottish Public Bodies, New Fraud Code Confirms
  26. BT’s Old Landline Network to Be Shut Off Across Scotland in January 2027 — Including Areas Without Mobile Signal
  27. Gaelic Halloween Fuarag: A Dish That Told Your Fortune
  28. Made Scotland
  29. Growing Up in Edinburgh Before the Internet: A New Memoir
  30. Scotland Approves £13 Million for Electric Coaches Built in China
  31. The Scottish Business Making Money From Unwanted Laboratory Equipment
  32. German Giant Takes Over Scottish Firm Ceres Holographics
  33. Scotland’s Cancer Campaign Reaches 1.2 Million as New Figures Reveal Gaps in Women Seeking Medical Advice
  34. Scotland Faces 16% More Illness by 2040
  35. Scotland Plans Fishing Restrictions Across 166 Marine Areas
  36. Nearly Half of Scotland’s Flowering Plant Species Are Declining
  37. Did Automated Shutoffs Make Scotland’s Power Crisis Worse?
  38. The Race to Turn Blood Into Powder: America's New Medical Research and Scotland's Forgotten Wartime Laboratories
  39. Pentagon Orders 90-Day Survival Planning for Major U.S. Military Bases
  40. Scottish Council and NHS Websites Went Dark Over a Software Flaw First Identified in 2024
  41. Scotland’s Councils Gain New Legal Protections Just as Government Proposes to Replace Them
  42. Aberdeenshire to Switch Off Streetlights at Mintlaw as AI Cameras Monitor Road Safety
  43. UK Plans Tough New Undersea Cable Laws Despite No Confirmed Sabotage in Scotland
  44. Storm Boelo: Around 45,000 Scottish Properties Still Without Power
  45. Spain Warns of Jihadist Calls for Attacks During Demonstrations in Four European Countries — But Were France and Italy Notified?
  46. Oil Spill Forces Beach Closures Across Three United Arab Emirates
  47. US Reopens Russian Fuel Trade as Three Diesel Tankers Head Across the Atlantic
  48. Scottish Scientists Connected Living Brain Cells to Computer Chips in 2009
  49. Sanctioned Russian-Linked Oil Tanker Sparks Emergency Alert in Storm West of Scotland
  50. UK Prepares for Emergency: What Could Go Wrong in Scotland, and Where?
  51. France Deploys 70,000 Police as Nationwide Protests Approach; Louvre and Major Museums to Close
  52. South Korea Asks North Korea for Military Talks as Dispute Grows Over Border Location
  53. Black Sea Drone Strike Sinks Cargo Ship Off Romania; One Dead, Three Missing
  54. New Zealand's Military Chief Resigns Over Undisclosed Relationship
  55. Washington Has Received No Response From North Korea on Proposed Trump–Kim Talks
  56. Four Palestinians Reported Killed in Separate Israeli Strikes and Gunfire in Gaza
  57. Egypt Weighs Military Support for Saudi Arabia as Yemen Conflict Escalates
  58. Powerful El Niño Brings Flooding, Deaths and Coastal Damage Across Latin America
  59. Millions of Cyberattack Attempts Follow Discovery of Critical PHP Security Flaws
  60. Nigeria Confirms First Ebola Case in About a Decade
  61. France Reports World's First Known Human Case of Shamonda Virus
  62. Taiwan Shuts Down as Powerful Typhoon Champi Approaches
  63. Magnitude 7 Earthquake Strikes Tibet: At Least 16 Dead, 65 Injured
  64. France, Fish and the Social Art of Knowing Nothing
  65. Hebridean Connections
  66. Clay Fragments May Link Two Scottish Hoards to the Same Bronze Age Makers
  67. The Iona Press That Sold Gaelic Poetry and Seaweed to Summer Visitors
  68. Scotland’s Care Alarm Upgrade Turns to Buildings Still Using Analogue Phone Lines
  69. Scotland’s Certified Heat-Pump Retrofits Fell 29% in First Half of 2026
  70. The Unfinished Boarding Lift for Scotland’s Island Flights
  71. Scotland’s Plan to Bring Hospital Evidence Into Road Safety Has Entered a Second Year
  72. Scotland's Landfill Ban Meets the Limits of Ferries and Incinerators
  73. Scotland's Seabird Rescue Confronts Gaps in Island Protection
  74. Jackdaw Cleared to Produce Gas Off Scotland After Fresh Climate Assessment
  75. Scotland’s Factory Shuffle: Who’s Packing Up and Who’s Moving In?
  76. ScotWire Beta Version 2: Scotland’s Public Service Updates, Closer To Hand
  77. Dundee Sunshine Cake
  78. Microsoft Quits UK Data Centre Over Grid Delays as Scotland Faces Its Own 9.7GW AI Power Queue
  79. Scotland’s NHS West Would Inherit 74% of the Most Deprived Neighbourhoods
  80. Two Killed in Plane Crash Near Loch Lomond as Air Accident Investigators Begin Inquiry
  81. Scotland’s NHS Overhaul: Secret Planning, Sweeping Changes and No Published Price Tag
  82. Police Assess Election Spending Records of Nine Reform UK Candidates as Party Admits Errors
  83. Underwater Search for Two Missing Lewis Fishermen Paused Due to Sea Conditions
  84. From Wireless to Wi-Fi: Scotland’s Century of BBC Licence Fees as Westminster Considers Charging More Streaming Households
  85. Starlink’s Treatment of Scotland: Good Enough to Pay, Not Important Enough to Locate
  86. Magazine Day and the Halloween Tree
  87. The Scottish Play That Cost a Minister His Pulpit: The Douglas Affair of 1756
  88. Thornton Faces Five-Month Bridge Closure as Bus Routes Divert from Monday
  89. Four Giant Tidal Turbines Planned for Orkney Could Generate Electricity Equivalent to 85% of Island Households
  90. Glasgow Drone Firm Flies 14km Round Trip to Offshore Wind Farm
  91. Bread, Broth and Solitary Confinement: Life Inside Scotland's Victorian Poorhouses
  92. From One Minibus to Public Ownership: D&E Coaches Takes Over Stagecoach's Caithness Operations
  93. Scottish Water Is Rebuilding the Landscape Around Scotland's Drinking Water Reservoirs
  94. 58 Fish Rescued from Airdrie Stream as £8.6 Million Sewer Works Get Underway
  95. Scotland's Neighbours Are Still Trusted, but Fewer People Are Meeting Each Other
  96. Rats Force Historic Stromness Town Hall to Close, With Reopening Delayed Until January
  97. More Than 300,000 Scottish Premises Have No Gigabit Broadband and No Commercial Rollout Expected
  98. Smart Scotland: The Digital Web Government is Building Around You
  99. Police Scotland Reconsiders Facial Recognition Six Years After Holyrood Committee Found It Unfit for Use
  100. Scotland's Great Government Redesign Has a Blind Spot: The Microsoft Bill