Brian Monteith: Ignore scare stories, Brexit was right decision

The scale of Scotland’s homelessness crisis has been described as “damning” after figures showed the equivalent of 38 children a day were left without somewhere permanent to live last year.

Is Edinburgh in danger of killing the golden goose by pricing artists out of appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe? £500 for an overnight hotel stay is an eye-watering sum. But prices are high right across Scotland. Even in June a popular booking site had no hotel or bed and breakfast availability in the Oban and Lorn area for the entire week. A trip to Eigg earlier this month found only a couple of B&Bs for £70-£100 in the Mallaig-Arisaig area and “No vacancy” signs outside every camp/caravan site. Luckily, I stayed with friends whose summer months are now busy and sociable with cost-cutting visits from friends and family. When they travel elsewhere in Scotland, they do the same. It’s a great way to live and travel – if you have a wheen of like-minded, far-flung acquaintances with plenty of space. But if you don’t, the novel combination of brilliant summer weather and high staycationing demand from the rest of Britain creates a problem. Put simply, Scotland is fast becoming an impossibly expensive holiday location for folk actually living here.

Australia and Scotland’s FinTech businesses are perfectly game, set and matched under new initiative

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Half of UK voters would back a fresh three-option referendum on a final Brexit deal, Sky News has reported.

A three-goal flurry early in the second half allowed Rangers to maintain their summer momentum with a morale-boosting victory over English Championship side Wigan Athletic.

She came down from Gullane Hill to find herself on top of the world. Ariya Jutanugarn, a 22-year-old from Thailand, is the highest-ranked player in women’s professional golf after winning the $1.6 million Aberdeen Standard Investments Ladies Scottish Open on the East Lothian coast.

Celtic have been confirmed as the latest partner club for Pro Evolution Soccer 2019.