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  1. Livingston Recycling Firm Secures £3.5 Million Public Grant For Plastics Technology
  2. Balloch Castle Ash Shortlisted For UK Tree Of The Year After Surviving Storms, Disease And Crowds
  3. Tributes Paid After Councillor Paul Henke Dies Aged 76
  4. £27.8 Million Larkhall Leisure Centre Business Case Sent For City Deal Approval
  5. Spanish Galleon Replica to Open its Decks at Ayr Harbour
  6. Shetland Sets Terms For Developers But New Charter Relies On Voluntary Cooperation
  7. Scotland’s Digital Identity System Runs on Amazon Cloud
  8. Scotland’s Endangered Architecture Left Unmonitored For Two Years As Official At-Risk Register Remains Frozen
  9. Scotland’s Public-Sector AI Map Is Stored on Microsoft Cloud Outside Scotland
  10. £1.5m Tennis and Padel Centre to Open at Galashiels Academy in Early 2027
  11. Renfrewshire Establishes Annual Dolly Parton Day After Delivering 230,000 Children’s Books
  12. Officers Begin Daily Perth City Centre Patrols
  13. Orkney Dialect Takes Centre Stage at Kirbuster Farm Museum
  14. Norman Rendall Retires After 20 Years at Orkney Council Headquarters
  15. Public Grant Helped Bring Post Office Back to Motherwell After Three-Year Gap
  16. Arran Road Improvement Programme Under Way as Summer Closures Continue
  17. Scotland Produces 30 Million Tonnes of Construction Materials but Cannot Show How Long Supplies Will Last
  18. Scotland’s Energy Backlog Grows as UK Prepares to Favour Strategic Data Centres
  19. Kenneth Branagh to Defend Highland Estate from American Billionaire in New Paramount+ Drama
  20. Volunteers and Leaders Join Forces to Widen Opportunities for Youth
  21. Nolan Blockbuster Places Scotland’s North-east Coast Before Global Audience
  22. Gorebridge Couple Mark 60 Years of Marriage
  23. Inverclyde Offers Cash Grants in Attempt to Slow Population Decline
  24. George Square Reopening Delayed
  25. Caledonia Wind Farms Secure Consent for 140 Turbines in Moray Firth
  26. Glasgow Power Network Under Enhanced Monitoring Ahead of Commonwealth Games
  27. Scottish Ministers Disclose Scale of Opposition to Kintore–Tealing Power Line
  28. Legal Aid Reform Promises a Planned System but Does Not Guarantee Access to a Lawyer
  29. Cairngorms Wildfire Enters Second Week
  30. Burnham Closes Door on Scottish Referendum in First Call with Swinney
  31. Corran Ferry Infrastructure Works Move into Marine Phase
  32. Performers Rally Behind Aberdeen Arts Centre
  33. If the AI Bubble Bursts, What Happens to Scotland
  34. Mrs Gunn and the Postie Apocalypse
  35. SaxaVord Reaches Launch Point
  36. CoreWeave Wanted More Scottish Data Centres
  37. Highlands International Journeys to Lose Tax Exemption
  38. Amendment Would Criminalise Gaelic Language
  39. Liberton Fire Station Rebuild Begins in £10 Million Project
  40. The Quiet Charities Buying and Saving Scotland's Written History
  41. Drilling Milestone Brings Orkney's First Transmission Link Closer to Shore
  42. Data Centres Abroad are Leaving Scotland a Warning
  43. Eight Energy Decisions Scotland Cannot Afford to Ignore
  44. No Scottish Boat Won a Tuna Licence. Twenty-Nine English Boats Can Fish Scottish Waters
  45. Glasgow’s Anger Did Not Begin With an Online Rumour
  46. Mrs. Gunn's Not-So-Secret Garden
  47. Argyll’s Islands May Become Scotland’s Next Short-Term-Let Control Zone
  48. The Highlands Are Being Redrawn Before the Public Can Object
  49. Scotland’s Glens May Become Britain’s Energy Battery
  50. After 25 Years of Private Operation, Daldowie Returns to Scottish Water With a £460m Investment Question
  51. Scotland Put Back on Britain’s Nuclear Map
  52. Scotland Is Preparing the Rules for Cultivated Meat While Most Scots Say They Would Not Eat It
  53. Fifty Rural Mobile Masts Upgraded Across Scotland as Coverage Reaches Further into Remote Areas
  54. The Forth’s Lost Oyster Beds Are Being Brought Back to Life
  55. Island Livestock Resilience Cannot Stop at the Farm Gate
  56. The Galloway Feastival Growing in the Shadow of James Clerk Maxwell
  57. Aberdeen’s Oldest Bartender-Owned Spirits Brand Launches Vermouth
  58. Platforms, Piers and Quiet Crossings: A Dreamier Way Through Scotland’s Summer
  59. Waste Glass and New Homes: The Dumfries Firm Testing Scotland’s Housing Economy
  60. Estimated 579,814 Scots Waiting While Ministers Claim NHS Progress
  61. House Rich, Cash Poor: The Risk Inside Scotland’s Mansion Tax
  62. Lanarkshire AI Growth Zone Faces Questions Over Power, Land and Community Benefit Claims
  63. Mrs Gunn and the Secret Pink Toolbox
  64. If I Were Under Sixteen
  65. Mrs Gunn And The Village WhatsApp Group
  66. Sea Shanties, Sheepdogs And Strange Small Joys: Quirky Things To Do In Scotland This Summer
  67. Scotland’s Independent Bookshops Are Becoming Community Infrastructure
  68. How the Scottish Government Helped Price Scots Out of Their Own Land
  69. Foreign Influence, Scottish Democracy And Hunting For BlackCore
  70. Scots Are Right To Ask Who Watches The Watchers
  71. Scottish Children Sing Their Support As National Team Returns To World Cup Stage
  72. Parents Warned After Counterfeit Squishy Toys Seized In Aberdeen
  73. Starmer Is Opening The Back Door To Britain’s Devices In The Name Of Child Safety
  74. Scotland Was Warned. The Grid Bill Is Now Arriving.
  75. Two Days Left To Vote In The Scottish Bar And Pub Awards 2026
  76. The Wolves at Scotland’s Public Water Door
  77. The Paper Trail: Scotland’s Oil, Net Zero, Grid And Data Centre Transition, 1850 To 2026
  78. Scotland’s Data Centres And Grid Projects: A Council By Council Guide (Maps & Tables)
  79. My Internet Has Moved To London Without Me
  80. An Open Letter to Sainsbury's
  81. Coalsnaughton Crisis Puts Scotland’s Coalfield Housing Legacy Under Scrutiny
  82. Scots Scientists Turn Whisky Chemistry Into Motion for Microscopic Machines
  83. Scottish Ministers Admonished Over FOI Delay in Sturgeon Inquiry Papers Case
  84. Scots Asked to Search 700 Miles of Coast for One of Britain’s Rarest Insects
  85. Scottish EV Maker Munro Plans New Plant as Industrial Demand Grows
  86. Royal Bank Opens IP Lending Door for Scotland’s Creative and Tech Firms
  87. Scottish Farmers on Alert as Bluetongue Rules Hit Livestock Movement
  88. Scotland Moves Toward a Classroom Smartphone Ban
  89. Emergency Closures in Nairn After Sinkhole Investigation Disrupt Town Centre
  90. Modern Scot Responds: The Green Economy Headline Scotland Should Audit, Not Swallow
  91. Scotland Must Not Build a Digital Future It Cannot Escape
  92. The Cairngorms Farmer, the Carbon Land Rush and the Scottish Hillsides Being Bought for Offsets
  93. Fife Fights Back Against AI Data Centre That Could Use Power Equal to Half Scotland’s Homes
  94. Scotland's Space and Defence Sites Face Fresh Scrutiny After US Israel Technology Proposal
  95. Swinney Presses for Scottish Energy Powers as Household Bills Rise
  96. Glasgow Sets Out Land Plan for 30,000 New Homes
  97. Fife Homes to be Bought to Protect Tenants Facing Eviction
  98. Jean Fletcher Watson’s Quiet Gift Returns to View at Edinburgh’s City Art Centre
  99. Paper, Trees and Hyperscale Data Centres: Scotland’s New Environmental Questions
  100. Lab-Grown Meat is Not on Scottish Plates Yet, But the Food Fight Has Begun