Police Scotland have launched a campaign to keep people safe during the Edinburgh festivals, as the city’s population is expected to double to around one million throughout August. Festival ...

JUST one in five housebreakings are being cracked in Scotland’s worst hotspot for the crime, we can reveal. Last year saw Edinburgh emerge as the worst place in the country for burglaries, for the ...

Scotland’s population rose faster than at any time since the 1940s in the year up to mid-2023, according to official data. National Records of Scotland (NRS) figures put the country’s ...

FAMILIES fear Scotland's southernmost village is facing a "death spiral" of depopulation after being told their local nursery will close this summer. Parents and pupils at Drummore Early Learning ...

Hoisted high atop Edinburgh, as if monitoring the city below, Edinburgh Castle is not only one of Scotland's most recognized landmarks, but one of the country's most-visited attractions.

One of Scotland's leading experts discusses the connections between school experiences, patterns of offending, and the country's prison population.

In 1542 Scotland had a population of approximately one million people. Over half the population lived in the countryside in fermtouns (farm towns) and paid rent to a local landowner. There was ...

So Edinburgh and Scotland will offer a magnificent backdrop to the tour ... tourism opportunities and we’ll also want to make sure that we touch as much of the population as we can.” Dutton also ...