Connect with us
Scotland's breeding ewes fell to 2.45 million, then barely recovered, as carbon, trees and rewilding outbid hill flocks for the same ground.
Balance Power's 29.9MW Coylton battery, kept with East Ayrshire Council, sits west of Statkraft's 150MW park while the summer 2026 start stays unconfirmed.
Heriot-Watt leads Scotland at 4.57% CEOs on a LinkedIn score, yet sits 20th in the UK after a 15.76% first-place scrape two years earlier.
Scotland completed 17,057 homes in the year to June 2026, the lowest since 2015, after Hume reports warned that social-policy housing cannot carry growth.
Royal Bank of Scotland staff beat a £100,000 CHAS target with £176,350, a record haul beside a £20 million hospice rebuild.
OSG’s Moray FLOW-Park is still a two-year seabed hold, not a lease, with a full EIA ordered for up to 47 foundations 1.06 km off Findhorn.
English devolution promised local power, then tried to wipe out district councils. Only Surrey is still merging, while mayors now cover most of England.
Since March 2025 NatWest has opened Accelerator rooms on four campuses and recast its 10,000-founder goal as a 50,000-account community for 2026.
RLB’s Scotland construction outlook now shows a near £20 billion public pipeline, 3.5% tender inflation, and a smaller workforce than in 2025.
Private-sector influence in an independent Scotland is too much when people cannot leave a supplier the state cannot replace. Use this test on water.
