Scottish Labour calls for emergency rent freeze to protect tenants struggling with cost of living

Liz Truss is no stranger to Scotland. The winner of the Tory leadership contest has made much of the fact she lived north of the Border during the 1980s.

Scottish Food & Drink Fortnight is an annual celebration of our best Scottish food and drink - and the chance for Aldi to showcase some of their favourite local producers.

Today marks National Cinema Day in the UK, celebrating one of the most popular hobbies there is. Cinemas all over the UK will be taking part in this celebration of everyone's love for films, and some cinemas have even slashed their ticket prices right down so that everyone can take part.

Gracie Abrams, Lennon Stella, and Maisie Peters. Now, four weeks later, she’s officially making a record.“I posted 45 seconds of the new song after writing it a couple of days before,” Gregson-MacLeod told BBC Radio Scotland.

The managing director of under-fire train operator Avanti West Coast has stepped down from his role, it was confirmed tonight. Phil Whittingham will leave his position on September 15 to 'pursue other executive leadership opportunities'.

West Lothian's two Scottish Cup first round representatives have discovered their opponents following this afternoon's draw.

A pub in Dunfermline that's "full of character" has just been named one of the best in the UK. The Commercial Inn took the top spot for Scotland and Northern Ireland and has been shortlisted as one of 16 finalists all in with a chance of winning the CAMRA’s Pub of the Year competition 2022.

A family from Edinburgh have been left 'flabbergasted' after they were forced to cancel their first holiday in years after their energy bills rose from £199 a month in January to a whopping £756 per month.

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Threave Rovers may be on their travels in the Scottish Cup tomorrow night but they’ll still be on familiar ground.

Kids aged 16 and under will get free entry to the game with both sides thanking the other for the agreement.

A councillor has said he was threatened with violence after asking someone to move their car.

Nicola Sturgeon has renewed calls for an energy price freeze as she warned of a “looming disaster” if the price cap rise comes into effect in October. The Scottish First Minister is to convene a crisis summit with the leading energy companies ahead of Ofgem’s latest energy price cap announcement which is due on on Friday.

Scotland is more likely to become independent if Liz Truss becomes prime minister, according to a new opinion poll across the UK. The Panelbase poll for the Sunday Times shows that Truss is almost as unpopular in Scotland as Boris Johnson.

A Conservative councillor in Falkirk says he is now backing Liz Truss to become the next Prime Minister because of her determination to "hold the Scottish Government to account".

Homes in rural Scotland that rely on heating oil instead of on-grid gas or electricity would benefit from Labour’s plans to freeze the energy price cap, Rachel Reeves has said.

Make no mistake, the cost of living crisis is a national emergency on the scale of the pandemic. People are facing the worst fall in living standards since the war. Millions of people are already struggling and it’s going to get worse as summer turns to winter.

The Scottish Conservatives have labelled comedian Jerry Sadowitz “abhorrent” after an alleged on-stage racial slur about leadership candidate Rishi Sunak. It’s claimed Glasgow comic Sadowitz referred to Sunak as a “p***” in a gag, and also exposed himself to a female member of the audience during a performance at the Edinburgh Fringe on Friday.

Labour is set to call for the energy price cap to be frozen at its current level of £1,971 as UK households struggle to pay their bills.

Bins could go a week without being emptied after refuse workers across 15 council areas in Scotland voted for strike action later this month.