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A Scottish customs clearance house that would allow seafood and fish exports to flow faster into Europe should be established at ports, MSPs have been told. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to ...

A Scottish Tory MP has insisted his party acted in the national interest by opposing a bid to potentially keep the UK in a customs union after Brexit. The government saw off a bid on Tuesday to create ...

Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon reiterated her goal for the UK to remain in the customs union and single market in a meeting with Michel Barnier, the European Union's (EU) chief Brexit ...

In the mid-1980s, Tartan Day originated in Canada, where just over 15% of the population is of Scottish descent. It is a day for the Scottish diaspora to commemorate their heritage and the signing of ...

because of a shortage of manpower. As a full team of officers was preparing to search the 13,593-tonne Polish vessel Krakow II, which had been tied up for more than three days in Invergordon, Easter ...

One of the oddest news items to appear in the usually uneventful new period between Christmas and New Year was the announcement of efforts to revive the old Scottish custom of “first-footing”.