Hunt for memorial service gunman, housing vs data centres, ‘stockpile food’ clickbait headlines + a new members’ club for small dogs

Summerhall demolition threat, Bruntsfield bike shop saved but owner 'heartbroken' over Canonmills closure, new £12 tourist fee at St Giles' Cathedral + revamp for narrow Morningside Road pavements

Thousands join Great Scottish Run, fire at city centre pub, man found dead in Cardonald, millions spent on council staff sick pay + Gorbals street sign misspelled

Abu Dhabi will threaten Britain over a football team. Britain will not threaten Abu Dhabi over Darfur.

Sagal Abdi-Wali is promising ‘hope’ in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. But the Starmerite machine that made her spent years trying to destroy it.

Car flips outside train station, George Square South closure extended, Glasgow Caledonian University strikes continue, pregnant woman refused accommodation + hundreds support first Hampden

New events series for Ross Bandstand, Leith shop ceiling collapse drama, Portobello bar The Espy is not closing + Tom Kelly's monthly Water of Leith wildlife update

Soho House investigation, Heaven nightclub protected, Leyton Orient new stadium update, Barbican ghost tours + 10 best new theatre openings

100+ artists and businesses face eviction, The Skinny magazine is rescued, two councillors blocked from re-election bid + EICC to host People's Emergency Briefing community screening

Terminal V reveals new location, The Skinny saved, council workers still in the dark over pay, Graeme Dott sentenced + Nelson Mandela statue time capsule

There was something for almost everyone. Andy Burnham's speech at Labour conference was what most of the party's voters were hoping for. It ...

Reform promises older voters that the state pension is safe. Around the party, people shaping its economic thinking are considering a very different settlement.

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Oxford St pedestrianisation date, 15,000 homes hit by water outage, plan to end e-bike ‘Wild West’ + Black History Month events

Uni boss claims students are being 'weaponised', North Bridge overnight closures, decision on hotel plan for former Scottish Widows HQ + new saunas for South Queensferry

The Thistle medical emergencies rise, Springburn Ladbrokes fire, Great Scottish Run road closures, new Merchant City hotel opens + swans move to new home

Healey named the damage done by deindustrialisation. His remedy still leaves economic power largely where it is.

Putin has spent two decades turning Russian power into a story of Russian reaction. Lavrov keeps the sequence intact: whatever Moscow does, somebody else is made to have acted first.

Connor Tomlinson’s attack on a refugee route for Afghan women exposes a familiar bargain in traditionalist gender politics: male authority is celebrated until male violence has to be explained.

Water outage in five boroughs, Waterloo bridge closure fear, Ladbroke Grove murder hunt, ‘Buses for London’ confirmed + the TfL staff sprucing up stations

Five-weeks of uni strikes begin today, MP to quit over ageism and sexism, Southside community centre reopening + new music series at Brown's of Leith

Recycling centre fire, council pauses fire and rehire plan, community objects to student block, memorial garden reopens + Glasgow graffiti on Egyptian pyramid

From 28 Years Later to Trainspotting and the Olympics opening ceremony, Danny Boyle has plenty of credits that have been celebrated over the years.

A 74-page plan for maritime security proposes 5,000 paid staff, an armed intervention unit and central control of devolved assets, while absorbing or duplicating capabilities that already exist.

Rupert Lowe calls Restore Britain a party of free speech. In Holborn and St Pancras, that principle seems to stop where opposition begins.

Restore Britain did not create the decline it feeds on. It has learned how to turn it into a politics that hears your grievances.

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This month saw 48,753 votes cast in 20 local authority contests. All percentages are rounded to the nearest single decimal place. 11 council...

That sounds like a Father Brown short-story title, but is not.

Have your say on new West London Orbital Overground route, climbing returns at The Arch, angry neighbours want cash from Spurs + rare ‘death bloom’ at Kew Gardens

New £2.66m arts fund opens for bids, Leith restaurant closing after 17 years, awards for Kebabish & St John’s Curry Club + local professor on the neuroscience of defeating dementia

City drugs deaths rise and services closed, Creative Scotland invites new CCA bids, dispersal zone to continue, Govan park revamp begins + new champagne bar opens

‘Shouldn’t Manchester be doing better? Isn’t that, like, the whole thing about Manchesterism?’

I called Daniel Thomas a domestic terrorist. I was wrong. The proscription of Palestine Action helps explain why that mistake matters.

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Once again, Donald Trump threatens Iran with 'annihilation.' That's supposed to be an actionable offense

The Conservative Party is the party of privilege. It exists to defend inequality, and to foster inequality. It's its raison d'etre . Since ...

South London gang war scoreboards exposed, Barbican revamp, privacy pushback against camera glasses + the trending haircuts at LFW

Thousands refused temporary accommodation, Celtic title party arrests reaches 50, AI traffic lights expansion, Unite the Clans defends Nazism + Paolo Nutini supports charity festival

Airport expansion branded 'climate vandalism', Cowgate driver admits cyclist attack, Waterloo Place closure concerns + 'How to Build a City' talk tomorrow