Sarah McMullan

WE are generation obsessed with celebrity. The idea of finding fame is now so appealing that many spend their lives dedicated to the pursuit of stardom – rather than, you know, actually working.

BANK of England governor Mark Carney said that interest rates are likely to rise twice more over the next three years after a week that saw the rates raised for the first time in more than a decade.

ON a grey and cloudy September day thousands of people rise from their beds with a feeling in their belly that they can’t quite explain. It is that time again. To other people, outsiders, it is a feeling that is almost impossible to articulate.

FIFTEEN years ago, a film crew spent 12 months documenting the lives of residents from a Stirling council estate, the Raploch.

Sitting in his front room days after his thirtieth birthday celebrations as his children slept soundly upstairs, Derek Chalmers, plagued by depression, decided to take his own life.

Over 700 babies in Scotland were born addicted to opiates, methadone and diazepam in the last five years.

SCOTLAND has the highest petrol prices in the UK. New figures show that in Scotland the lowest pump price is higher than the national average for the entire UK.

Scotland’s Chief Medical officer has defend the SNP’s Baby Boxes ahead of the initiative being launched on Tuesday.

CONCERN has been raised after a major increase in the number of whales, dolphins and porpoises found stranded along Scotland’s coastline in recent weeks.

Wherever we look, it seems, the story of our society is one of inter-generational warfare. Election and referendum results have revealed a nation divided, not so much by class or party allegiance, but by generation. Brexit, for instance, was driven by pensioners; the rise of Jeremy Corbyn was fuelled by the young.