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| Westminster sketch: Wibbles, wobbles, jabbers and a ‘cordial’ confession at PMQs

Word game Weaver is an ideal alternative for Wordle and Quordle fans. Picture: Canva

Weaver word game: Cheats and answers for August 17 puzzler
Weaver is the newest word game on the block - if you are struggling with today's brainteaser here are some hints to get you to the end. And the solution if you give up!

Rishi Sunak during a Q&A with students at Richmond Sixth Form College

Catriona Stewart: PwC is doing more than Rishi Sunak to level up education
PITY poor Rishi Sunak. Alright, don't pity him. Merely observe the indignity of being Rishi Sunak and spending every day overshadowed by Liz Truss.

MV Sea Beaver embarks on research cruise

Vicky Allan: Will we finally protect our wrecked seabeds in the name of blue carbon?

Scottish Water’s Mugdock reservoir at Milngavie, part of the utility’s success story

PREMIUM Brian Wilson: Scotland's water success should point the way ahead for energy

PREMIUM Neil Mackay: The political parties are useless. In this class war, the people are on their own

Where would we be without the wonderful Martin Lewis?

PREMIUM Natasha Radmehr: You've got to love Martin Lewis, the angel who is now focused on saving lives

Performers from the National Youth Choir of Scotland

Christopher Bell: How music can help children on the post-Covid path to recovery

The author’s digital ‘double’ scanning process

Agenda: How our creative tech sector could be on track to take centre stage

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon meets Basil Brush

Alison Rowat: Sturgeon & co - enough attention seeking at the Fringe, get back to the day job

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and journalist Iain Dale at the Fringe.

PREMIUM Kevin McKenna: Sturgeon's about to start the referendum campaign. Boom boom!

PREMIUM Lesley Riddoch: We must tackle the real problem in this crisis: privatisation

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon during the Cop26 summit in Glasgow

PREMIUM Mark Smith: The shady politics of bringing Eurovision to Glasgow

ScotRail plans to replace nearly three quarters of its carriage fleet by 2035. Picture: Colin Mearns

Scotland’s rail plans open up new opportunities for SMEs

RMT general secretary Mick Lynch on a picket line of his members

Agenda: Why picket lines should be supported

Johnson's baby powder will be made with cornstarch from next year

Issue of the day: Global sales of Johnson & Johnson baby talc to end

PREMIUM Doug Marr: We ignore the lessons of 2011 at our peril

Susan Egelstaff End of an era as tennis prepares to bid farewell to a giant of the sport - Susan Egelstaff

An impassioned Martin Lewis appearing on BBC current affairs programme Sunday Morning

Martin Lewis: millionaire prophet of doom or the people’s champion?

Middle-aged man catching mosquitoes biting him outdoors in summer. The concept of summer outdoor recreation.

Scottish icons: the midge, vicious little beasties that bite you in the Cairngorms

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - SEPTEMBER 21: Thousands of pro-independence campaigners march through Edinburgh on September 21,2013 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The rally is the second of three large marches held in the run up to next year's referendum for

PREMIUM Russians try to lure Scots to ‘summit of separatists’

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and journalist Iain Dale during

PREMIUM Iain Macwhirter: Has the energy crisis finally convinced Scots to go it alone?

Scots Word of the Week: Leerie

A gamekeeper during the grouse shooting season

PREMIUM Neil Mackay's Big Read: The 'Glorious' twelfth sees 250,000 animals killed so 300,000 grouse can be shot

PREMIUM Settle on Sunday: Nicola Sturgeon has to be careful what she wishes for...

PREMIUM Settle on Sunday: Sturgeon needs to be careful about who she wishes for in Tory leadership battle

Brian Donnelly: How London fund manager's Scottish takeovers impact Scotland

PREMIUM Brian Donnelly: How London fund manager's Scottish takeovers impact Scotland

Herald View: Aid to Scots families struggling with fuel poverty can’t wait until new PM moves into No10

Herald View: Aid to Scots families struggling with fuel poverty can’t wait until new PM moves into No10

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon

PREMIUM Nicola Sturgeon's week: Why what goes on in the Ladies, doesn't need to stay in the Ladies

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on the energy companies’ soaring profits

Camley’s Cartoon: Energy company profits soar

Meg Thomas, Head of Research, Policy and Participation, Includem

Agenda: How do we ensure today’s children are not the fatalities of the future?

Dave Allan pictured in his garden at home

Dave Allan: The joys of writing about gardening

Move over rage quitting, “quiet quitting” is the latest workplace phenomenon

Picture: Getty

Robert McNeil: World of work rocked by epidemic of “quiet quitting”

President Donald Trump, right, with Rep. Matt Gaetz. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik).

PREMIUM David Leask: Why court victory on abortion could backfire for America’s populist right

The attainment gap has widened

PREMIUM Kevin McKenna: Could we even trust the SNP to spend any new money wisely?

Dorothy Bain QC lord advocate

PREMIUM Brian Taylor: Stand by for an independence referendum. Eventually. Probably

'I, Joan' has sparked a 'woke' row for presenting Joan of Arc as non-binary

Issue of the day: 'Woke' row as new play portrays Joan of Arc as non-binary

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and journalist Iain Dale during

Neil Mackay : If FM does quit, what will it mean for Yes movement?

Steven Hammell has immediately set his sights on new signings after landing the Motherwell job on a permanent basis.

Graeme McGarry Steven Hammell has a heck of a job on his hands at Motherwell, but he was right choice to take it on

Catriona Stewart: Fetishising past hardships is no way to tackle the energy crisis

Catriona Stewart: Fetishising past hardships is no way to tackle the energy crisis

Donald MacLeod: Magical summer nights at the Kelvingrove Bandstand

Donald MacLeod: Magical summer nights at the Kelvingrove Bandstand

Serena Williams this week announced her impending retirement with a verbal volley about how being female has held her back

Andy Maciver: Sorry, Serena, but we’re not all the same, and we shouldn’t want to be

The grouse shooting season gets under way today, August 12

Agenda: Why a successful grouse season is vital for rural Scotland

A plaque near The Tobacco Merchant's House in the Merchant City on June 9, 2020 in Glasgow. The city played a key role in the international slave system during the 18th and 19th centuries, when merchants and traders made enormous fortunes by trading

John McNaught: Glasgow's history may be unpalatable but it's wrong to airbrush it

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss before taking part in the BBC Tory leadership debate, Our Next Prime Minister

PREMIUM Michael Settle: Tories seem more interested in internal feuds than cost of living crisis

Making your own butter is a TikTok trend as the cost of the kitchen staple surges in stores

Issue of the day: Are you making your own butter?

Pupils have put years of disruption behind them and returned to the examination hall

Alison Rowat: So, First Minister, you asked to be judged on your results?

Mark Smith: Another “Action Plan” from the Scottish Government. But is it good enough?

Mark Smith: Another “Action Plan” from the Scottish Government. But is it good enough?

Iain Macwhirter: Don't refuse to pay energy bills. They'll get you in the end

Iain Macwhirter: Don't refuse to pay energy bills. They'll get you in the end

Thousands of Canadians rally in Montreal 27 October 1995 in a bid to persuade citizens of Quebec not to secede from Canada. Picture: Andre Pichette/AFP/Getty Images)

What Quebec can teach us about Scotland’s future if SNP’s independence gambit fails

Devastation in Ukraine

PREMIUM David Pratt in Ukraine: It’s hard to comprehend this level of destruction

Agenda: Beware planned changes in debt recovery rules

Poet Lennie Pennie has the popularised the Scots language online with her Scots Word of the Day on Twitter @Lenniesaurus

Lennie Pennie: I didn't understand the power of these survivors until I met them

1933: Hunger marchers on their way to a rally in Hyde park. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images).

PREMIUM Neil Mackay: Independence or the Union? The politician who challenges the economic system will decide Scotland’s fate

A protestor wearing a gas mask runs to throw a tear gas canister fired by army personnel during a protest seeking the ouster of Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe amidst the ongoing economic crisis on July 13, 2022 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

David McKay: Chemical-reliant farmers can’t go cold turkey

The unfinished Glen Sannox Caledonian Macbrayne ferry in the Ferguson Marine shipyard in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde.

Guy Stenhouse: From ferries to universities to public sector strikes, SNP is sowing seeds of decline