Looking back in languor? Cullen in the north of Scotland.
Raphaël Chekroun
Holiday making accounts for almost a tenth of the British economy. Here’s how it might be impacted by a vote to leave the EU.
Pressing the flesh.
Jane Barlow/PA
Spoiler alert: we already know the winner.
Oxgangs Primary in Edinburgh ravaged by storm earlier in the year.
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The Private Finance Initiative was meant to be the solution to 21st century public buildings. Edinburgh’s school problems are far from unique, however.
Lots of balls.
GrEI
It made the headlines, but the numbers don’t add up.
Dublin mural.
Brian Lawless
The effects of the Dublin insurrection went much further than Ireland.
Fife no more.
Graeme McLean
Longannet, the last coal-fired power plant in Scotland, has closed. It might be good news for climate change, but it also signals major problems ahead.
Dunblane Primary reopening a few days after tragedy.
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The odds of recovering from a terrible experience are higher than you might think.
Lobbyists still welcome.
Stephen Finn
More and more countries are shining lights on lobbyists’ efforts to shape policy. For all the hope of a new politics after the Scottish indyref, the SNP government is offering a limp biscuit.
Puff the magic drag-in
Neil Lockhart
Scotland has just joined the growing list of countries getting tough on the vapes. Here’s why the libertarians should pipe down.
The heart of the matter.
KieferPix
Presumed consent is not the way forward.
This could come to blows.
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There’s something every Scot should know about those caterwauling pipes.
Sunset in Scotland?
DabartiCGI
But will the rigs stop pumping?
On yer bike, pal.
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If you want to buy a little piece of Scotland, you can’t actually own it. Thankfully, the rules are different in England and Wales.
No high-fives: Scotland’s new top cop taking his oath.
Andrew Milligan/PA
The Met’s fingerprints are all over the havoc a few hundred miles north.
Bard blood.
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Why Scotland should raise a glass to a certain Brummie Bill.
Looking for a more personal experience.
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One of the UK’s most senior nurses has been forced to apologise after publicly attacking professional practice. Here’s the case for the defence.
Teetering: Abergeldie Castle.
Russell Cheyne
Storm Frank has left one of the Queen’s neighbours in Aberdeenshire on the verge of collapsing into a river. Here’s what you do about it.
All together now …
Matthew Goodman
The great Scottish ode to the passing years may never have become a global hit had an Edinburgh lothario not changed the recipe.
William McIlvanney, 1936-2015.
Paul Ward
As the literary world says goodbye to the Big Man from Kilmarnock, his friend Gerard Carruthers remembers a writer at the heights of the British canon.
Holyrood’s main debating chamber.
Jane Rix
If Westminster and Holyrood don’t do the right deal over the Scotland Bill, here’s why they will be storing up more trouble for the future.