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GREEN fingered pupils from Ardgowan Primary are getting their hands dirty at the Lyle Gateways community garden.

A focus on high-profile state visits conceals the vacuum of diplomatic representation at the regional and national level.

US-based APR Energy recently won a large-scale turnkey power contract in Myanmar to provide power to more than six million people, the firm said in a statement.

In 2020, as the world shut down to insulate against COVID-19, a disturbing side effect of the pandemic began quietly taking root in some corners of the world: democratic backsliding and growing autocratization.While the news worries freedom lovers everywhere, democracy could rebound once governments lift their health restrictions as soon as the pandemic ends. So says V-Dem, a Swedish nonprofit that tracks the health of democracies across a variety of indicators.

The Scottish Government has announced the introductions of additional benefits that will help struggling Scots with a little a bit extra cash in 2022.

With rumours of a UK lockdown in response to the Omicron variant swirling around, workers in the queer arts are concerned.

This past weekend, the Senate confirmed the appointment of American ambassadors to more than forty countries. South Korea was not on that list—and that’s a point of rising annoyance in Seoul. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more.

To heat or to eat is a dilemma facing some Scots as almost half a million are cutting back on food spending to afford their energy bills.

Almost half a million Scots have cut back on food spending in order to afford energy bills, new research suggests.

A NEW Scottish Government campaign has been launched to encourage people who are struggling financially to ignore feelings of stigma and claim the…