The Rollin Drones, a dynamic bagpipe pop band known for their innovative fusion of traditional Scottish tunes with contemporary music, captivated audiences at Tartan Week events in the US at the beginning of April ..read more

The biggestbusiness threat from Artificial Intelligence is to ignore it completely, aleading expert has warned at a roundtable hosted by law firm CMS ..read more

The MP, who is originally from Irvine, is also accused of making a late-night call to an aide demanding money ..read more

Martin Redfern seems obsessed with Nicola Sturgeon (Letters, 17 April), and the “manufactured grievances” with Westminster were validated this week by the head of the civil service in Scotland, John-Paul Marks, who told MPs on Tuesday that UK ministers had flouted the Sewel Convention, which dictates that Westminster does not legislate in devolved matters without the consent of the Scottish Government, “on a number of occasions” in recent years. He also said that the controversial Internal Market Act, the devolution-busting legislation which helped scupper the deposit return scheme, had change ..read more

“What is clear is that Scottish businesses remain resilient and optimistic” – Alan Shanks, head of Scotland at Addleshaw Goddard ..read more

Ethiopia is facing a famine which could surpass that of the 1980s ..read more

SNP ministers have been accused of an “abject humiliation” as a legal climate target is set to be officially scrapped today ..read more

A time-bending rock opera set in 16th-century Scotland could be amazing or go spectacularly wrong but that’s all part of the fun of the Fringe ..read more

The SNP has prioritised its own political fortunes over the ability of councils to fund basic services for far too long ..read more

Policy-makers need to understand that the laws of supply and demand govern the property market, writes David Alexander ..read more