cotland outlined proposals on Friday to decriminalise the possession of all drugs for personal use saying it would help it tackle the worst drug death rate in Europe. The devolved…
LONDON (Reuters) -Former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Sunday she was innocent after being arrested and held for more than seven hours as part of a police probe…
Scottish nationalists picked Humza Yousaf to be the country's next leader on Monday after a bitterly fought contest that exposed deep divisions in his party over policy and a stalled…
Twenty-five people were injured when a ship came off its holding and tipped on its side in a dry dock in Leith, Scotland on Wednesday, the Scottish Ambulance Service said,…
LONDON, Nov 23 (Reuters) - The United Kingdom's top court ruled on Wednesday the Scottish government cannot hold a second referendum on independence next year without approval from the British parliament, dealing…
LONDON, July 3 (Reuters) - Voters in Scotland remain evenly split over whether or not they support independence from the rest of Britain, a poll published by the Sunday Times showed, days…
About 7:00 PM on December 21 in 1988, Pan Am flight 103, a Boeing 747 en route to New York City from London, exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. The plane had…
LONDON (Reuters) - The world's attention will be focused on Scotland for next month's climate summit, Queen Elizabeth told Scottish lawmakers on Saturday, adding that they would have an important…
Scotland and Northern Ireland added the Balearic Islands, Malta and some Caribbean islands to the travel green list. The following countries will be on the green list from 4am on…
Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon said she would push ahead with plans for a new independence referendum after results showed her party would win an election to Scotland's parliament,…
LONDON (Reuters) - The pro-independence Scottish National Party won the marginal seat of Edinburgh Central, one of their key targets in an election for the Scottish parliament which could determine the future…
Scottish independence supporters are calling Thursday's election the most important in the nation's history as they vow that if they win a majority in the devolved parliament, they will push…
LONDON (Reuters) - The ruling Scottish National Party pledged on Thursday to hold an independence referendum by the end of 2023, a step that could fracture the United Kingdom by…
LONDON, March 22 (Reuters) - Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was cleared on Monday of breaking a ministerial code of conduct in the way she handled sexual harassment complaints against…
LONDON (Reuters) - Scotland's top civil court dealt nationalists a blow on Friday by declining to rule that the Scottish parliament had the right to call an independence referendum without London's…
LONDON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Scottish nationalists on Thursday to stop talking "endlessly" about a new independence referendum, saying most people wanted to see Britain "bouncing back more strongly together"…
LONDON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - The Scottish National Party published a "Roadmap to Referendum" on Saturday, laying out plans for another vote on Scottish independence just as the United Kingdom…
A Scottish court rejected on Friday an appeal to overturn the conviction of a now-deceased Libyan man found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie plane bombing which killed 270 people. Abdel Basset al-Megrahi,…
LONDON, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Scottish nationalists are on course to win a record majority in elections for Scotland's devolved parliament that would start a new push for independence, an…
Scotland on Monday imposed the most stringent COVID-19 lockdown since last March and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would shortly impose tougher curbs in England to contain a…
LONDON (Reuters) - Scottish prosecutors will work with the United States after the unsealing of criminal charges against a third alleged conspirator in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight…
The Guardian - There will be a strict travel ban in law between Scotland and the rest of the UK throughout the festive period, and the five day Christmas window…
Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon said an independence referendum that could wrench apart the United Kingdom after Brexit should take place in the earlier part of the devolved parliament's next term,…
Pubs, restaurants and cafes in Scotland are being barred from selling alcohol indoors for more than two weeks, Nicola Sturgeon has announced. In areas with particularly high infection rates, all…
People in Scotland have been banned from visiting other households indoors, in tough new restrictions that go further than those announced for England. First minister Nicola Sturgeon said the COVID-19 restrictions would…
Nicola Sturgeon has revived plans for a possible second Scottish referendum on independence from the UK, pledging to publish draft legislation for a new vote before next May’s elections for…
Updated: Russian officials have expressed anger at the conclusions of the Parliamentary report, accusing the UK of taking a “leading role in Russophobia”. At the same time, they welcomed sections…
A miscarriage of justice may have occurred in the conviction of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi for the Lockerbie bombing, the Scottish criminal cases review commission has found, paving the way for a…
Former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond arrives at the High Court for his trial on rape and sex abuse charges in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain, 09 March 2020. Alex Salmond is…
Scotland on Tuesday was poised to become the first country in the world to make sanitary products free to all women. The country's devolved parliament is expected to pass its…
On her first visit to Brussels following Brexit, Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon insisted on Scotland's place in the European Union, as a sovereign independent state. Her remarks were made…
The Vale of Atholl pipe band leads the procession to the river at the opening of the salmon fishing season on the River Tay at the village of Kenmore, Perthshire,…
Update: Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has promised that the Scottish people "will get the right to decide our own future" after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson declined to allow…
Scotland must be allowed to hold another referendum on its place inside the United Kingdom following the crushing victory of the nationalists in the election, leader Nicola Sturgeon said on…
An independent Scotland is “within touching distance”, Nicola Sturgeon will tell a pro-independence rally in Glasgow on Saturday afternoon. Her promise comes as Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn insisted that a…
A second referendum on Scottish independence and one on the Northern Irish border issue have widespread support among voters on the UK mainland, a new poll suggests. A BMG survey…
The creatures behind repeated sightings of the fabled Loch Ness Monster may be giant eels, according to scientists. Researchers from New Zealand have tried to catalogue all living species in…
Boris Johnson has called for a renewal of "the ties that bind our United Kingdom" ahead of his first visit to Scotland as prime minister. During Monday's visit he will…
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Wednesday that Scotland should hold an independence referendum before the current Scottish parliamentary term ends in May 2021. Speaking at Holyrood, Scotland's devolved…
The day the UK planned to leave the EU, Scotland sent a message of love to its European partners. In a video titled "Europe, let's continue our love affair", a…
A number of former officers from communist East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, were interviewed by the Scottish prosecution service in connection with ongoing investigations into the Lockerbie bombing. The…
BBC: Glasgow's world-renowned School of Art has been gutted by another huge blaze, four years after part of the building was destroyed by fire. Flames ripped through the celebrated Mackintosh…
The Scottish parliament has voted against backing Theresa May’s key piece of Brexit legislation, paving the way for a constitutional crisis. Politicians at Holyrood refused to grant consent to the EU…