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  1. Before GPS, Scotland’s Coast Was a Map Made From Castles, Churches, Chimneys and Hills
  2. Glasgow’s M8 Is Being Physically Lifted Off Its Supports This Weekend
  3. The Invisible Infrastructure Running Scotland’s Water Is Being Rebuilt for £230 Million
  4. Scotland Is Rebuilding the Gourock–Dunoon Ferry Link But Has Not Decided How Many Ferries to Build
  5. Glasgow Is About to Manufacture 100 Million Lasers a Year for the AI Economy
  6. Scotland’s Railway Was Built for Another Climate. £400 Million Is Now Being Spent to Keep It Running
  7. Wind Turbines Are Getting Too Big for the Roads. Scotland Is About to Try a Different Design.
  8. Scotland’s Peatlands Are Becoming Financial Assets
  9. For Generations Scotland Has Burned Its Moors. From 15 September, It Will Need Permission.
  10. Another Scottish Energy Company Is Being Sold Overseas
  11. Scotland’s £96 Billion Offshore Wind Pipeline Now Faces a Decision Made Beyond Scotland
  12. Scotland Has a Migration Map Now. It Shows a Country Moving in Different Directions
  13. Scotland Is Preparing to Change Council Tax After 35 Years of 1991 Property Values
  14. Scotland Is Preparing to Put Legal Price Ceilings on Food, Potentially Selecting Imported Food Over Scottish Food
  15. Scotland Is Building A Major Projects Office. What Will Change?
  16. When Your Cupboard Joins National Security
  17. Scottish Government Opens Consultation On National Performing Company For Traditional Music
  18. Third Just Transition Commission Established With Adaptation Remit Until 2031
  19. People’s Palace Refurbishment Moves Forward With Conditional Scottish Government Support
  20. Scottish Household Survey Records Tourism Support And Lower Local Involvement In Decisions
  21. Energy Prices Remain A Leading Concern For Scottish Businesses
  22. Scotland’s Onshore Economy Grew By 0.7 Per Cent In The Second Quarter Of 2026
  23. Scotland Moves Toward Compulsory Purchase Reform After 2025 Consultation
  24. Scotland’s GP Walk-In Pilot Expands To Forty Planned Or Operational Services
  25. Scotland’s Drinking Water Quality Fell Slightly In 2025 As Complaints Rose
  26. 60% of Scotland’s News Publications Controlled Outside Scotland and Only 8.5% of Scottish-Owned Titles in Google News
  27. Prince Harry and the Difficulty Of Coming Back After A Grand Exit
  28. Shortbread, Superstition And The Law: How Scots Married Before The Modern Wedding
  29. Scotland’s Prisons Hold More Than 8,600 People as Ministers Consider Sentencing and Release Reform
  30. Aviemore To Carrbridge Route Moves Closer To Planning Decision After Years Of Delay
  31. More Than A Third Of Great British Energy Staff Live Outside Scotland Despite Aberdeen Headquarters
  32. New 50MW Data Centre Rule Gives Ministers Sight of Scotland’s Biggest Projects, but Not the Whole Pipeline
  33. New Livestock Movement Laws Tighten As BSE And Bluetongue Hit Dumfries And Galloway
  34. Scotland Declined £20,675 to Restore Five Drug-Wastewater Monitoring Sites
  35. SEPA Plans to Stop Sending Draft Pollution Permit Decisions to People Who Object
  36. DataVita’s North Lanarkshire AI plan gets public backing as Flynn repeats disputed 3,400 jobs claim
  37. ScotAccount Brings Digital Identity Into Scotland’s Property Ownership System
  38. Ferguson Marine faces 70 Job Losses While Four Vessel Contracts Remain Unsigned
  39. More Than 1,000 Customers Connected to GoFibre Network Around Eyemouth
  40. China Is Making the Renminbi Easier to Use in Europe — What It Could Mean for Scotland
  41. Scotland, Rebuilt: What 81 Years of Progress Did, and Did Not, Solve
  42. Britain Will Keep Brazilian Meat Market Open as EU Restrictions Begin
  43. Nobody Move: He’s Calling Edinburgh
  44. NatureScot Challenges Wind-Farm Bird Model as Scotland’s Own Records Show 71 Raptor Deaths
  45. Bluetongue Reaches Four Scottish Premises as Vaccine Evidence Sharpens the Questions Ahead
  46. Two Scottish Hydro Schemes Fall Below Ofgem Financial Test as Regulator Weighs Consumer Risk
  47. Mackintosh’s Hill House Moves Towards New ‘Breathable’ Exterior After 120 Years of Damp
  48. Nearly One in Four Larger Manufacturers in Scotland Reports Impact From US Tariffs
  49. NHS Scotland Seeks Provider for £9m Online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Service
  50. Nearly £1bn of Glasgow Building Work Passes Through Service Missing National Response Targets
  51. ScotRail’s £83.8m Retail Contract Comes Into View After Troubled App Launch
  52. The Men Who Came to Take Lewis
  53. New Safety Guidance Issued for Nearly 500,000 Traditional Scottish Buildings
  54. Community Renewable Energy Fund Increased to £15m a Year
  55. £1.5m announced to support Gaelic in designated communities
  56. More than 8,800 households waiting for social housing in Highland
  57. Scotland revenues reach £98.3bn as fiscal deficit narrows
  58. A Country Without Tellers: How Scotland Lost Its Banks
  59. Some Scottish Sewer-Overflow Projects Move Into The 2030s As Regulators Question The Starting Line
  60. Bessie Bell And Mary Gray: The Evidence Behind Perthshire’s Plague Ballad
  61. Dunfermline’s Northern Link Road Moves Towards Planning As £70m Road Programme Takes Shape
  62. Scottish Bus Study Warns 2030 Electric Transition Could Push Rural Operators Out
  63. Scotland’s Power-Machinery Imports Jump 46% as Government Pushes Home-Grown Wind Manufacturing
  64. Scottish Government Said Wind-Farm Woodland Loss Was ‘Small’. FLS Says It Cannot Calculate It
  65. The £11 Million Rent Beneath Moray’s Wind and the 67 Turbines That Could Follow
  66. American Coffee and Other Emergencies
  67. Old Scottish Fisheries - A Scotland Once Described By Its Fish
  68. Scotland Delays Its Private-Jet Levy While Empty Private Jets Remain Beyond Reach
  69. War Exposes Scotland’s Dependence On English Supply Routes
  70. Scotland’s International Services Exports May Have Reached £19 Billion - But The Official Estimate Stops At 2023
  71. Scotland Looks To Displaced Care Workers To Add 45,000 Hours A Month
  72. Scotland’s Rivers In 1831: What A Remarkable Atlas Reveals About Two Centuries Of Change
  73. Scotland’s Elected Representatives, Counted: 1,407 Names Across Councils, Holyrood and Westminster
  74. Twenty Of Scotland’s 24 Community Energy Meetings Came From One Consultation
  75. Scotland Launches £15 Million Flood Fund After Years Of Delayed And Rising-Cost Schemes
  76. Highland Councillors Back New Controls On Holiday Lets
  77. The Two Water Systems Of Scotland
  78. Ministers Confirm Scotland’s 20GW Wind Ambition Was Not Mapped To Specific Areas
  79. Scotland’s Local Electricity Network Coordination Group Ended Without A Replacement
  80. Clothes Don't Make The Woman
  81. KEEK Launches To Give Scotland A Fairer Way To Be Found Online
  82. Scotland Promised Every Pupil A Device. Five Years Later, The National Account Is Still Incomplete
  83. Fourteen Councils Exceed Welfare Fund Budgets As Crisis Applications Rise
  84. Open Letter: Scotland Should Not Be Left Behind on Local News
  85. Edinburgh’s Official Statistical Portrait Leaves Crime And Homelessness Outside The Frame
  86. Land Control Leads To £13.85m Highland Housing Award Without Open Competition
  87. Scottish Company Ooni Takes On Global Kitchen Appliance Giants
  88. £1.52m Trial Will Test Whether Electric Aircraft Can Serve Highland And Island Routes
  89. The Children Who Leave Mull For School — And The Local Answer Scotland Has Not Yet Tested
  90. Montrose Skills Academy Aims To Turn Offshore Wind Growth Into Local Careers
  91. Aberdeenshire Restaurant Weeks Return For Third Year As Local Hospitality Campaign Continues To Grow
  92. North Sea Kittiwake Platform Enters Final Phase After 36 Years
  93. Glasgow-Based Tech Consultancy Named Among UK's Best Workplaces For Women
  94. What Will Happen To The Animals Caught In The Cairngorms Wildfire?
  95. Kinghorn Faces Permanent Bathing Warning As Pollution Source Remains Unresolved
  96. The TARDIS Is Now Scotland’s Most Reliable Form Of Public Transport
  97. North Ayrshire Council Faces Transparency Questions Over £1.17m Data-Centre Deal
  98. Ofgem Plans Tighter Controls On Dividends And Debt At Scotland’s Energy Networks
  99. Scottish Local Government External Debt Budgeted To Rise By £3.2 Billion
  100. Cairngorms Wildfire Declared Major Incident As Nethy Bridge Is Evacuated