Ciaran Jenkins , Scotland Correspondent

A fifteen-year-old Scottish composer is having her work performed this weekend at a festival run by the internationally renowned musician Sir James MacMillan. But she may be one of the lucky ones because the Cumnock Tryst festival in East Ayrshire is being held against a backdrop of cuts to music education across the country. In…

The family of a man who died in police custody say they are disgusted and disappointed after Scotland’s Lord Advocate ruled that no police officers would face prosecution as a result. 

Today the former SNP leader, Alex Salmond proffered his resignation from the party while he awaits an investigation into complaints about his behaviour when he was Scottish First Minister.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s release on Thursday after two and half years in a Tehran prison surprised her family and allowed her to be reunited with her daughter Gabriela.

The British people don’t trust the media and think most newspapers just turn out fake news – Jeremy Corbyn has claimed – as he set out his ideas for a shake-up of the news industry. The Labour leader told the Edinburgh television festival he wanted to reduce the power of “media bosses and owners” –…

Labour is ready and on an election footing. So says Jeremy Corbyn, as he continued his tour of Scotland, declaring that Scottish voters would kick the Conservatives out of Downing Street. But the Labour leader wouldn’t say whether he thought Britain would be better off outside the European Union.

Promising an “industrial renaissance”, the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has begun a four-day visit to Scotland, aimed at reviving the party’s fortunes north of the border. Mr Corbyn said a Labour government would put more public investment into key industries and create more jobs, but would that involve clashing with the European Union over state aid rules? We have been to…

It’s meant to be a celebration of literature and artistic freedom, but at least a dozen authors who were supposed to feature at this month’s Edinburgh International Book Festival have had difficulties securing visas from the Home Office, including writers from Africa and the Middle East. Festival organisers said they’d been forced to go through a “Kafkaesque”…

From the statue of Cecil Rhodes in Oxford to the confederate statues in the U.S., there’s a growing debate about the removal of monuments dedicated to controversial men. But in Edinburgh, rather than removal, the council has agreed to add more details to one of its most prominent statues – Henry Dundas – and his…

Theresa May meets Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, in Edinburgh. 

Well, how’s it going down with mortage holders? Traditionally any hike is bad news for those with variable rate deals. Our Scotland Correspondent, Cairon Jenkins has been to meet some house buyers in Glasgow

More than 4,000 people work in Scotland’s carnival yards; families whose heritage goes back centuries. Many of them live in Glasgow, but say they are being pushed out by the city’s fast moving regeneration – including in Govan, where a £17 million development is being built. We’ve been to meet the people who’ve been providing…

From the fringes to the official US ballot paper. This year, there are white supremacists, conspiracy theorists and extremists among those attempting to run for office – as Republicans. Perhaps the most shocking among them is Arthur Jones, the former leader of the American Nazi Party, who is gunning for a seat in the suburbs…

He’s fighting a trade war on several fronts and one of them is European. Donald Trump has said he sees the EU as “a foe” and he once dubbed the head of its Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, “a brutal killer”. Today the two men met at the White House. The main topic on the table was…

Scotland’s first Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she’ll make a decision on a second independence referendum only when there’s clarity over Britain’s exit from the EU. Speaking on the first day of the SNP’s spring conference in Aberdeen, she wouldn’t put a figure on the start-up costs of independence.