A deaf teenager has won a legal battle against a council to a have British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter present in her ...

A deaf teenager has won a legal fight against Fife Council to have a British Sign Language interpreter in her class for ...

Kanye West's wife Bianca Censori left little to the imagination as she stripped off on the Grammys red carpet, but a body ...

Whale song is more similar to human language than previously thought, research has found. The study, led by the University of St Andrews, revealed a previously undetected “language-like ...

Spanish has become the most popular language studied at all senior levels among school pupils in Scotland for the first time after a dramatic fall in the number of pupils choosing French.

Centuries ago Scottish Gaelic was the language of the nation but after years of gradual decline the dialect is now only spoken by around one per cent of the population - usually those living in ...

New research has revealed that people in Scotland would rather live in their own home, with the support of a paid carer or their family, if they could no longer live independently. Did you know ...

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