Follow along with the latest coronavirus news in Scotland and further afield.

Scotland's most expensive bridge has been closed to traffic after cold and wintery weather brought by Storm Christoph gripped the country.

The former first minister also revealed his legal team will ask the Lord Advocate whether the Government was in contempt of court.

The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital staff member opens up on the pandemic.

It is around 11 months since Scotland's largest hospital accepted its first positive Covid-19 patient.

HE was so close. If Richard Leonard had only managed to dodder on for a few more weeks, he would have become Scottish Labour’s longest serving leader in opposition.

IT was hard to say which was the most vulgar: the nightclub complete with dance pole, or the sofa that cost more than a two-bed flat. Both featured in what Alexei Navalny claims is President Putin’s £995 million palace on the Black Sea coast, p...

IN a Washington bearing the scars of recent conflict, a 78-year-old born in the depths of a world war yesterday began a long battle to restore his country’s soul.

THE average jobseeker in Scotland has unsuccessfully applied for 15 different roles over the past 12 months, new research has revealed.

AN INQUIRY is being called for into a "scandalous" £20m settlement in a claim over the malicious prosecution of the former administrators of Rangers in connection with the collapsed club fraud case.

THE SCOTTISH Government-owned shipyard Ferguson Marine has launched an investigation in a row over the drafting in of migrant workers while existing staff were let go.

JOE Biden's presidency could offer a new hope, not just for America but for the Scottish whisky industry.

DEVI Sridhar, professor of global public health at Edinburgh University and a member of the Scottish Government's Covid-19 Advisory Group, has said that an independent Scotland could have handled the coronavirus better. But it seems important to emph...

WITH Joe Biden now in the White House, the United Kingdom has the opportunity to re-set our relationship with the United States. It is a chance for both nations to work together to reverse some of the economic damage done by Trump and his administ...

Almost 200 flood warnings remained in place across England on Thursday morning.

Every sector across the Scottish economy recorded a double-digit increase in the number of businesses in "significant" distress in the final quarter of last year, with pandemic-related financial aid masking the true picture of those in most critic...

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IT was once home to Alexander Drummond of Midhope, whose brother Robert was tasked with overseeing the construction and repair of Scotland’s palaces and castles by Royal appointment.

AMID growing confidence that oil and gas markets have bottomed out following the turmoil caused by the coronavirus crisis, it may still be too soon to read much into faint signs of recovery in the North Sea.

Tennents are set to remove 150 tonnes of plastic from Tennent’s Lager can packs by 2022 as part of a £7 million investment in packaging equipment at Wellpark Brewery.

CRANEWARE, which supplies billing software for the US healthcare market, has returned to revenue growth in the first half in the six months ended December 31, against a backdrop of the pandemic and “volatile” dollar exchange rate.

Nicola Sturgeon has this week confirmed that Scotland’s lockdown will be extended until at least mid-February.

UNCERTAINTY, NHS last rites and life on the frontline for an EU migrant nurse were the topics raised by columnists and contributors in the newspapers.

‘AMERICA will heal’. ‘The Reunited States of America’. ‘The world’s greatest nation can come together again as a beacon of democracy’. ‘Joe Biden will fix the United States’.

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THEY are a centuries old creation that in contemporary form are instantly recognisable for their multiple kings and queens, but one Dutch woman believes traditional playing cards to be sexist and has made her own gender neutral packs.

The European renewable energy company, ERG is committed to helping the Scottish government progress its goal of achieving a zero-carbon economy by 2040. ERG, which is currently developing four wind farms in the UK, is already in the top ten of Eur...

By Scott Wright

TENNENT'S is ending the use of plastic rings and wrapping which has traditionally bound its multi-packs of beer in its bid to invest £14 million on environmental initiatives.

NICOLA Sturgeon has announced an extra £250 million over the next five years to help tackle the "national disgrace" of drug-related deaths.

NICOLA Sturgeon has defended Scotland’s rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine – stressing that prioritising care home residents means "you don't do as many because it takes longer".

TWO-thirds of Scots think Nicola Sturgeon should resign if she is found to have lied to the Scottish Parliament, according to a new poll.

BORIS Johnson has described the latest coronavirus daily death-toll figure for the UK, a record at 1,820, as “appalling” but warned “there will be more to come”.

Amanda Gorman has become the youngest poet ever to perform at a presidential inauguration, calling for "unity and togetherness" in her self-penned poem.

SCOTLAND recorded the highest number of peacetime excess deaths in 129 years in 2020 as the pandemic led to 6,324 more deaths than the average previous five years.

IF anyone came up with a hare-brained scheme which experts warned would cause great damage, and then insisted on ignoring the advice and ploughing ahead, and the predicted trouble ensued in spades, you would expect them to be embarrassed.

A trade union has warned of the “terrifying consequences” that adverse weather could have on train services.

Scotland’s weather: Watch latest weather forecast as snow warnings issued ahead of Storm Christophe

Scotland's national clinical director has warned civil servants not to book a holiday abroad until 2022, a leaked video has revealed.

An explosion in Madrid, has resulted in the death of at least three people, according to officials.

Joe Biden has been sworn in as president, bringing an end to four years of Donald Trump’s leadership in Washington.

This is the moment that Kamala Harris was sworn in as vice-president -- becoming the first woman, the first African American, and the first Asian American to serve in the role.

THE advent of a Biden presidency has been widely welcomed by the political leaders at Westminster as MPs were told it marked the end of the “dark chapter of Trump’s presidency”.

Weather warnings have been upgraded as Storm Christoph threatens to bring challenging conditions to some parts of the country.

Miller has unveiled a 71-home development at new community in Perthshire.

“You vote with your wallet ultimately, and it's time we started voting to uplift the health of our community by investing in it.”

NO 10 has rejected Theresa May’s stern rebuke of Boris Johnson after she accused him of abandoning Britain’s position of “global moral leadership”.

BORIS Johnson has claimed British fishermen should prepare for an “El Dorado” despite many of them currently experiencing severe difficulties with red tape post-Brexit and a fall-off in demand because of the coronavirus.

BORIS Johnson has been accused of "incompetence" and risking UK safety after it emerged Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, had advocated closing the country's borders to international travellers as long ago as last March at the start of the pandemic...