Highland did not close its injection clinic in September, but new patients stay barred and ministers still refuse to implement Scotland’s February evidence review.
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.
Seventeen months after Openreach's £157 million Scotland deal, rural gigabit access is 54% and Highland build had not begun by June.
English devolution promised local power, then tried to wipe out district councils. Only Surrey is still merging, while mayors now cover most of England.
Prince Charles's Point logged 131 Jurassic prints, with theropods ahead of sauropods, a lagoon that later Skye papers now treat as part of a split coast.
Scotland won the 2025 world men's curling championship 5-4 in Moose Jaw, while China missed a direct Olympic spot despite finishing fourth.
James English was found guilty of domestic abuse in Glasgow, then dated a Daniel Kinahan interview for 5 October while sentencing moved to 11 November.
OnPath’s 200MW Pond battery in Bathgate is consented, aimed at 2031, and still unbuilt while NESO treats batteries as oversupplied.
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.