UNESCO predicts the global community will lose as many as 3,000 indigenous languages by the end of the century. When a ...

Scottish folk legend Barbara Dickson OBE, who is set to play four dates in Northern Ireland this April, has had a ...

A round-up of events going on across Edinburgh over the course of the next week, including yoga, film festivals and tarot readings.

The Scottish accent can be notoriously hard for other English speakers to understand, but what if that’s because it’s not actually English at all? Though closely related to English, Scots is ...

Seachdain na Gàidhlig, however, is a chance to bring the language into the spaces in which it belongs, encouraging its presence in spaces such as pubs, cafés, and music venues. Here’s a look at some ...

Ewan Kennedy explores the connections between our national bard and our other national language.

Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, a college in the south of the Isle of Skye, is to be a Gaelic hub in the new Centre for Teaching ...

British cyclist Garo Jlitakryan, 32, admitted striking the unnamed man with an axe at least six times, but claimed it was ...

Rutherglen school pupils are being encouraged to showcase their sense of humour by the town’s MSP. Clare Haughey is urging the children to participate in a national primary school joke competition.

WHEN I heard that a new list of Scots words had been compiled thanks to the success of Outlander, it got me thinking about creative ...

Debate around single-sex spaces has made headlines after a nurse took a health board and a trans colleague to tribunal.

Bayern, Benfica, Dortmund, PSG and Real Madrid all progressed from the UEFA Champions League play-offs, while Manchester City and Juventus crashed out.