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The latest poll found 63% of French people surveyed would support an independent Scotland joining the EU, with only 13% opposed. In Italy, 64% favour Scotland being allowed to join, with 11% against, broadly similar to Spain – where 65% said they would support an independent Scotland in the EU while 13% are opposed to this.

On July 3, 2025, in Lanark, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK, a security video captured a rare celestial moment. The footage, taken from a sky camera typically used to monitor the aurora borealis, instead recorded a meteor passing through the Earth's atmosphere.

An Arkansas professor brought his expertise all the way to Scotland to help develop the first-ever academic program for agricultural communications in the United Kingdom.

Sir Keir Starmer will meet Donald Trump when the US president visits Scotland ahead of his second state visit to the UK. Mr Trump is expected to travel to Scotland in July before the state visit in September.

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THE next generation of Red Arrows jets could be built in Scotland under plans announced last night. The Qatar-backed start-up Aeralis picked Scotland’s Prestwick Airport as its preferred

Scotland’s police force is preparing for a potential visit from US president Donald Trump “later this month”, it said in a statement. Rumours have swirled for months that the president will visit the country this year to coincide with the opening of a second course at the golf club he owns in Aberdeenshire.

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The recent announcement that Ravenscraig could soon be home to one of the UK’s largest green AI data centres has raised eyebrows, but it represents a transformative step towards Scotland becoming a major artificial intelligence hub.

In Germany, 68% of people said they would support Scottish membership of the EU. In France, the figure was 63%. Support was also strong in Spain (65%), Denmark (75%), and Italy (64%). In comparison, elsewhere in Britain, only 46% of Britons supported Scotland re-joining the EU if it became an independent country.

In a quiet corner of Glasgow’s East End, a radical public health experiment is underway. For the first time in the United Kingdom, people who inject illicit drugs such as heroin and cocaine can do so under medical supervision – in a safe environment and indoors.