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  1. A Wee Bit of Cooking
  2. Scotland's Medicine Supply Chain: What NHS Procurement Records Reveal About Overseas Dependence, Fuel Shortages and War
  3. Scotland Helped Pioneer Nuclear Power. So Why Does it Oppose New Reactors?
  4. Crime is Rising but Scotland Cannot Say Who is Responsible as Immigration Protests Spread
  5. Clutter is Just Something You Haven’t Lived Long Enough to Need Yet
  6. Scotland Is Spending Hundreds of Millions on Culture While its Endangered Crafts Are Fighting Over £43,000
  7. Transport Scotland Has Promised to Reverse Biodiversity Loss While Building Some of Scotland’s Largest Road Schemes
  8. Scotland’s Climate Plan Did Not Account for the Fossil-Fuel Emissions of Its New Data-Centre Boom
  9. South of Scotland Has a £31.8 Billion Investment Pipeline, Much of it Still Conditional
  10. Scotland Planned to Shrink the Public Workforce - Instead It Grew, Leaving Deeper Reductions Ahead
  11. When the Commercial Bus Stops, the Council Inherits the Problem
  12. Rules Stop Scottish Communities From Selling the Energy They Generate Locally
  13. EU Regulators Examine Oracle Licensing as Scotland Builds More of Government Around the US Technology Giant
  14. The Global Investment Funds Behind Scotland’s Ports and Airports
  15. Scottish Data Centres Are Seeking 9.7GW of Grid Capacity While Ofgem Moves to Create a Demand Register
  16. Scotland’s Public EV Chargers Are Leaving ChargePlace Scotland and Eight Councils Prepare a 20-Year Private Concession
  17. Scottish Government Moves From Hybrid Target to Mandatory Attendance with Staff Reporting Oracle Check-Ins
  18. Why Scotland Still Has the Tattie Holidays Long After Children Left the Potato Fields
  19. Ministers Say They Cannot Require Compensation for Fishers Displaced by Energy Projects
  20. Sexual-Crime Cases Reaching Scotland’s High Court Take a Median 2 Years 11 Months
  21. Why Wings Over Scotland Is Taking the SNP Referendum-Fund Decision to the Court of Session
  22. Conservatives Plan to Override Holyrood on Nuclear Power, Targeting Powers Scotland Has Held Since 1999
  23. Scotland’s 2027–28 Budget Faces a £772 Million Reconciliation
  24. Scotland’s New Damp and Mould Law Began on 6 October
  25. Bluetongue Zone Goes Nationwide in Scotland as H5N5 Returns to Lewis
  26. NHS Scotland Orders New Disclosure System for Staff Interests
  27. Artificial Intelligence Is Coming for Humanity, Just After It Finishes This Email
  28. The Highland Scots Who Opposed Slavery in Colonial America
  29. Public Money, Private Shortlist: CMAL Will Not Name the Shipyards Bidding for Scotland’s Next Lifeline Ferry
  30. Following a Global Climate Agenda: Scotland’s £2 Buses to Push Travel Away From Cars
  31. When Scotland Made Christmas a Working Day: Yule Customs That Survived
  32. Electricity VAT Falls to Zero on 1 October, Yet Ofgem’s Typical Dual-Fuel Cap Rises £60
  33. Scotland's Digital ID: ScotAccount Uses Experian, Cifas and Biometric Checks
  34. The EU Antimicrobial Restriction on Brazilian Meat Is Now in Force. Great Britain Still Allows Brazilian Beef
  35. After Scotland Lost Hundreds of Bank Branches, Shared Hubs Are Building a Different Network
  36. Scotland’s Wastewater-Drug Monitoring Decision Returns to View After Nitazenes Reach 247 Deaths
  37. Great British Energy Had No Direct Employees in March. By September It Had 55
  38. COSLA Tells Ministers Council Reform Must Be Agreed, Not Imposed
  39. Highland Sends Two More Short-Term Let Control Areas to Scottish Ministers
  40. Scotland Has a 32.8GW Battery Pipeline as Ofgem Proposes a Financial Test for Grid Places
  41. New Report Proposes Moving Scotland’s School-Education Functions Out of 32 Council Authorities
  42. Scotland Has No Compulsory Sale Order — and England’s Six-Month Empty-Home Reform Does Not Apply Here
  43. Scotland’s 3G Pitches May Lose Up to 1,772 Tonnes of Microplastic a Year as New Sites Are Still Funded
  44. Scotland Knows the Pesticides It Uses, But Less About Where They Go
  45. Your NHS Records, Tissue and DNA: When Scotland Can Share Them, and How Companies Can Profit From Their Use
  46. Oracle Invokes Force Majeure on Major US Project While Scotland Is Moving Government Into Oracle
  47. The Pothole Tea Club
  48. Scotland’s Lost Citizens: 1,133 Drug-Use Deaths in 2025 as John Swinney Declares a Public Health Emergency
  49. Scientists Will Search for the Peat Moss That Survives Drought
  50. PFAS Detected at Nearly 90% of Scottish Surface-Water Sites Sampled by SEPA
  51. Accessible Trains, Inaccessible Stations
  52. About £104 Million of July’s Grid Constraint Bill Was Assigned to Scotland. One Scottish Workaround Saved an Estimated £39 Million
  53. ScotWind’s Scottish Commitments Rise to £25.6 Billion as Scotland’s Share of Project Spend Falls to 29%
  54. Who Gets the Fuel First? Inside Scotland’s Plans for a Serious Supply Shortage
  55. Scotland’s First Drug-Checking Service Opens in Glasgow — But Home Office Licence Restricts Who Can Use It
  56. Labour Joins SNP and Greens as Holyrood Votes 84–18 for Scotland’s ‘Right to Decide’
  57. Scotland’s Forgotten Dead: The Strange Things the Records Say Really Happened
  58. John Swinney Signed Scotland’s Local-Integration Reform in 2011. Now He Is Redrawing the System
  59. The Great Consolidation of Scotland’s Public Bodies
  60. How an Anglo-Saxon Coin Reached the Edge of the Norse World
  61. Scotland’s Supermarket Promotions Change on 1 October
  62. Air Traffic Control Failure at Prestwick Disrupts Flights Across Scotland
  63. Inside the Digital Kiosks Moving Onto Scotland’s Streets
  64. Northern Scotland Enters a Week of Nuclear Security and Military Training
  65. Three Hours Without My Phone Nearly Brought Down the Household
  66. The Little Wooden Boxes Scotland Sent Around the World
  67. £105m Broadband Build Reaches New Aberdeenshire Communities as Scotland Tries to Close Its Rural Fibre Gap
  68. £50 Billion Behind the Tax Argument: What Is Really at Stake in the North Sea
  69. Strike at Europe’s Largest and Oldest Grain Distillery in Scotland Puts Diageo Restructuring Under Pressure
  70. Autumn Rain Returns but Eastern Scotland’s Rivers Remain in Significant Water Scarcity
  71. Scotland Moves 35 Beavers to New Homes as 22 Are Killed Under Licence
  72. The Scottish Roots of the Sixth-Largest Trade Book Publisher in the United States
  73. From LitterCam to Digital Warden: Inside the Company Behind Scotland’s New Roadside AI Cameras
  74. Waiting for the School Sea Bus: Ulva’s Run to Mull
  75. Five Thousand Tonnes, One Ship: Islay’s £1.1m Road Plan Hits Dry Dock
  76. Scotland Has 219 Cladding Assessments Under Way: Only 16 Are Complete
  77. North Ronaldsay Faces Winter on Diesel as Power Cable Replacement Slips to Spring 2027
  78. Shetland Expected £700,000 From Viking Wind Farm. It Now Expects £550,000
  79. Highland Council Asked to Pause Health and Social Care Integration Review
  80. NHS Scotland Awards New £100,000 Contract for Pelvic Mesh Removal
  81. Westminster Set India Trade Terms as More Than Half of Scotland’s £3bn Trade Projection Flows From India to Scotland
  82. Scotland, Wales and Ireland’s Nationalist Movements Join Forces in Challenge to Westminster Rule
  83. Apparently, Backgammon is Fashionable Again
  84. Rainbow City Taxis Pledges £30,000 as Aberdeen Arts Centre Fundraising Passes £279,000
  85. A Grangemouth Factory Is Trying to Make Omega-3 Without Catching Fish
  86. In 2017, Scotland Had 61 Salmon Stocks Rated Good. For 2027, Only 22 Are Left
  87. Scotland’s Businesses Are Beginning to Worry More About Missing Customers Than Rising Costs
  88. The Famous Mr. Buchinger
  89. Scotland Preserved a Roman Monument for 1,500 Years. It Took One Landowner to Destroy It in 1743.
  90. Scotland Is Studying a Railway From Tweedbank to Carlisle. The Victorian Route It Would Follow Has Been Partly Dismantled for 57 Years.
  91. Edinburgh Is Preparing to Spend Up to £2.9 Billion on Its Next Tram Expansion
  92. Highland Councillors Were Asked on 9 September to Oppose a 173-Kilometre Power Line
  93. Scotland Is Rebuilding the Giant Highland Dry Dock Created for the North Sea Oil Age
  94. Scotland Is Becoming a Giant Battery
  95. One of Scotland’s New Grid-Stability Machines Has Changed Hands
  96. When a Publicly Backed Scottish Technology Company Fails, Who Keeps the Invention?
  97. Scotland Is About to Rewrite the Map of Its Public Bodies
  98. Scotland Plans 150,000 Apprenticeships. Parliament Has Reopened the Question of Where the Money Goes
  99. When Does a Visitor Become Taxable?
  100. Scotland’s Lost Kingdoms Left Their Art in Church Walls, Graveyards and Broken Stone