Lizzie Roberts
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Deputy News Editor, The Sunday Times
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It's my last day working for @thetimes.com in Scotland! Next month I'll be moving back to London to be the deputy news editor for The Sunday Times. Incredibly grateful to all my colleagues north and south of the border for the last two years. Cannot wait to get started!
July 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It's my last day working for @thetimes.com in Scotland! Next month I'll be moving back to London to be the deputy news editor for The Sunday Times. Incredibly grateful to all my colleagues north and south of the border for the last two years. Cannot wait to get started!
A giant new undersea power cable in a Highland loch will destroy vital spawning grounds for fish, a leading environmental campaign group has said.
Undersea power cable in Highland loch ‘will destroy’ spawning grounds
Campaigners say work to build the proposed SSE power line under Little Loch Broom will damage fragile seabed habitats
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June 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
A giant new undersea power cable in a Highland loch will destroy vital spawning grounds for fish, a leading environmental campaign group has said.
Harris Tweed hopes to weave some magic with Nike trainers
Harris Tweed hopes to weave some magic with Nike trainers
Twenty years after the two companies first collaborated, the Dunk Low range will feature the famous handwoven cloth
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June 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Harris Tweed hopes to weave some magic with Nike trainers
Is JD Vance a ‘Scots-Irish hillbilly’ at heart? DNA evidence casts doubt
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Is JD Vance a ‘Scots-Irish hillbilly’ at heart? DNA evidence casts doubt
The vice-president is facing accusations from experts that his claim to belong to what he sees as a marginalised white ethnic group is false
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April 21, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Is JD Vance a ‘Scots-Irish hillbilly’ at heart? DNA evidence casts doubt
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We're hiring! @timesscotland.bsky.social is looking for a news editor to join our team in Glasgow
If you have:
- precise commissioning and copy-editing skills
- expertise and passion for Scottish news
- strong grasp of digital storytelling
Apply before April 30👇
If you have:
- precise commissioning and copy-editing skills
- expertise and passion for Scottish news
- strong grasp of digital storytelling
Apply before April 30👇
News Editor, Scotland | News UK
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April 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
We're hiring! @timesscotland.bsky.social is looking for a news editor to join our team in Glasgow
If you have:
- precise commissioning and copy-editing skills
- expertise and passion for Scottish news
- strong grasp of digital storytelling
Apply before April 30👇
If you have:
- precise commissioning and copy-editing skills
- expertise and passion for Scottish news
- strong grasp of digital storytelling
Apply before April 30👇
Reform UK’s wolf is at the door — we can walk away or stay and fight
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Reform UK’s wolf is at the door — we can walk away or stay and fight
If Nigel Farage becomes PM public opinion in Scotland will shift substantially and perhaps decisively to the independence cause
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March 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Reform UK’s wolf is at the door — we can walk away or stay and fight
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The skull of a Tasmanian man murdered 200 years ago and once used for medical training will be returned by a Scottish university.
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University to return Tasmanian Aboriginal remains after 200 years
A skull which was part of the University of Aberdeen’s comparative anatomy collection will be taken back to Tasmania and laid to rest in a traditional ceremony
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March 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The skull of a Tasmanian man murdered 200 years ago and once used for medical training will be returned by a Scottish university.
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POMELO EDINBURGH REVIEW: Chitra Ramaswamy returns to an Asian-European restaurant that’s become one of the city’s coolest — where the celebrated hand-pulled noodles still cost a tenner
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Pomelo, Edinburgh, review — Red curry and parmesan? I’m completely in love
Chitra Ramaswamy returns to an Asian-European restaurant that’s become one of the city’s coolest — where the celebrated hand-pulled noodles still cost a tenner
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March 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
POMELO EDINBURGH REVIEW: Chitra Ramaswamy returns to an Asian-European restaurant that’s become one of the city’s coolest — where the celebrated hand-pulled noodles still cost a tenner
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Sixteen is old enough to choose assisted dying, MSP says
Sixteen can be old enough to choose assisted dying, MSP says
Opponents raise concerns but Liam McArthur, of the Liberal Democrats, says he is confident his Holyrood bill includes sufficient safeguards
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February 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Sixteen is old enough to choose assisted dying, MSP says
‘I’ve had four heart attacks but I’m still waiting to see an NHS specialist’
‘I’ve had four heart attacks but I’m still waiting to see an NHS specialist’
British Heart Foundation calls for urgent investment as one man suffers his fourth heart attack after waiting more than two years to see a specialist
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February 5, 2025 at 11:13 AM
‘I’ve had four heart attacks but I’m still waiting to see an NHS specialist’
Mhairi Black: I was heartbroken when they said I couldn’t be a priest
Mhairi Black: I was heartbroken when they said I couldn’t be a priest
The comedian and former MP on Scotland’s best noodles, why she owes her maths teacher an apology — and how nobody in power knows what they’re doing
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February 5, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Mhairi Black: I was heartbroken when they said I couldn’t be a priest
A nurse at the centre of a row over a trans doctor using a female changing room has denied holding homophobic or racist views.
‘I’m not homophobic,’ says nurse in trans doctor changing room row
Sandie Peggie, who was described in court as a vocal supporter of President Trump, acknowledges that she holds gender-critical views
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February 5, 2025 at 11:12 AM
A nurse at the centre of a row over a trans doctor using a female changing room has denied holding homophobic or racist views.
Nicola Sturgeon and her husband, Peter Murrell, plan to continue to live together in their family home as sources close to the couple dismissed rumours she has moved into a flat owned by the crime writer Val McDermid.
Nicola Sturgeon and Peter Murrell ‘still living together’
The former first minister, who announced her split from her husband this week, had been rumoured to be staying with the crime novelist Val McDermid
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January 15, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Nicola Sturgeon and her husband, Peter Murrell, plan to continue to live together in their family home as sources close to the couple dismissed rumours she has moved into a flat owned by the crime writer Val McDermid.
EXC: Millions of passengers face a decade of severe disruption during a once-in-a-generation upgrade of Britain’s most important railway.
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Britain’s busiest railway, the west coast main line, to close for repairs
More than 150 miles of the overhead wires installed 50 years ago on the main line, the UK’s ‘transport spine’, need replacing to ensure it is fit for the future
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January 15, 2025 at 10:42 AM
EXC: Millions of passengers face a decade of severe disruption during a once-in-a-generation upgrade of Britain’s most important railway.
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Scotland’s water regulator ‘spent like a private sector consultancy’
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Scotland’s water regulator ‘spent like a private sector consultancy’
The Water Industry Commission for Scotland splashed out on expensive meals and travel and lost sight of its guidelines, the auditor-general said
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January 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Scotland’s water regulator ‘spent like a private sector consultancy’
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Inside the UK’s first drug consumption room in Glasgow
Inside the UK’s first drug consumption room in Glasgow
Users will not be asked to test their substances before injecting themselves at the facility when it opens next week
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January 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Inside the UK’s first drug consumption room in Glasgow
NEW: A second sighting of lynx has been reported in the Scottish Highlands following the capture of two illegally released wildcats on Thursday
More lynx spotted in Highlands after suspected illegal release
Two wildcats were caught on Thursday but the latest sighting raises fears that more may have been released by a ‘disgruntled activist’
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January 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
NEW: A second sighting of lynx has been reported in the Scottish Highlands following the capture of two illegally released wildcats on Thursday
🚆Alex Salmond backed a £6bn floating train between Edinburgh and Glasgow, new documents reveal
🚆The project would have cut journey times to just 15 minutes
🚆One proposal suggested placing it on stilts in the middle of the M8 motorway
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🚆The project would have cut journey times to just 15 minutes
🚆One proposal suggested placing it on stilts in the middle of the M8 motorway
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Alex Salmond proposed £6bn floating train between Edinburgh and Glasgow
Study showing train link placed on stilts in the middle of the M8 was presented to cabinet in 2009, newly released papers reveal
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January 1, 2025 at 9:33 AM
🚆Alex Salmond backed a £6bn floating train between Edinburgh and Glasgow, new documents reveal
🚆The project would have cut journey times to just 15 minutes
🚆One proposal suggested placing it on stilts in the middle of the M8 motorway
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🚆The project would have cut journey times to just 15 minutes
🚆One proposal suggested placing it on stilts in the middle of the M8 motorway
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A landscape painting of Edinburgh by the artist JMW Turner will go on display in the city for the first time since it was painted over 200 years ago.
Turner’s painting of Edinburgh to go on show in city for first time
Watercolour by the famous British artist was painted in 1801 but was one of 31 pictures given to Ireland by the art collector Henry Vaughan
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January 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
A landscape painting of Edinburgh by the artist JMW Turner will go on display in the city for the first time since it was painted over 200 years ago.
Edinburgh Hogmanay events cancelled after extreme weather warnings
Edinburgh Hogmanay events cancelled after extreme weather warnings
Forecasts of high winds across most of the UK lead organisers to call off outdoor celebrations in Scotland’s capital over safety concerns
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December 31, 2024 at 9:37 AM
Edinburgh Hogmanay events cancelled after extreme weather warnings
‘I dread the day when MND beats me but for now I’ll make most of life’
‘I dread the day when MND beats me but for now I’ll make most of life’
Woman who has same disease that killed the rugby legend Doddie Weir says painting and fostering dogs helps her to cope
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December 31, 2024 at 9:35 AM
‘I dread the day when MND beats me but for now I’ll make most of life’
A dog had to be rescued by emergency crews after plunging 30m down a waterfall made famous by the television series Outlander.
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Dog rescued after 30m plunge down Outlander waterfall
Mountain rescue teams pulled Margot, who fell at the Devil’s Pulpit near Loch Lomond, to safety from unofficial beauty spot made famous by TV series
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December 31, 2024 at 9:34 AM
A dog had to be rescued by emergency crews after plunging 30m down a waterfall made famous by the television series Outlander.
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The King’s former school has scrapped a major deal with a firm owned by an alleged Chinese spy with links to Prince Andrew.
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Gordonstoun scraps campus deal with alleged Chinese spy’s firm
Yang Tengbo, who has been linked to Prince Andrew, controlled Hampton Group International, which had brokered a deal with the school
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December 18, 2024 at 11:12 AM
The King’s former school has scrapped a major deal with a firm owned by an alleged Chinese spy with links to Prince Andrew.
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A Utah teen will be trialled for the murder of a Scottish man in an adult court.
If convicted, he could be jailed for at least 15 years.
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If convicted, he could be jailed for at least 15 years.
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Teenager accused of Dundee man’s murder to face trial as adult
The suspect was 15 when he allegedly shot Rory Swimm, 23, but was originally charged as a juvenile
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December 18, 2024 at 11:11 AM
A Utah teen will be trialled for the murder of a Scottish man in an adult court.
If convicted, he could be jailed for at least 15 years.
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If convicted, he could be jailed for at least 15 years.
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