Vaccination has been linked to a substantial reduction in the risk of Covid-19 admissions to Scotland’s hospitals, landmark research suggests.

DURING the newspaper review on his show yesterday, Andrew Marr interrupted the chat about lifting lockdown and the soap opera shenanigans in Downing Street (“Every day in Number Ten is like an episode of Hollyoaks,” the Mail on Sunday was told...

THE SCOTTISH Government has been accused of "going backwards" in meeting a key climate pledge to clean up its fleet of lifeline ferries.

It’s a strange thing to start a new column amidst an old political battle.

ONCE, when it operated as a mature political party, the SNP was known for its hospitality to strangers. At times, in the heady aftermath of the 2014 independence referendum, to attend one of their conferences was to encounter evangelical fervour. ...

Aldi has been named the UK’s top in-store supermarket in the annual Which? survey.

Oliver Lewis, the man who led Boris Johnson’s “Union Unit”, the department tasked with keeping the UK together, has quit the job after just two weeks, and, while that’s definitely not a great look for Number 10 (“the disunited Union Unit...

THE SNP sails confidently and complacently towards the election in May. It fully expects to win and assuredly it will because it has absolutely no serious competition. Under Ruth Davidson the Conservatives were for a time really making inroads int...

The youngest children are returning to the classroom as schools reopen to more pupils across Scotland.

Follow along with the latest from Nicola Sturgeon's lockdown update for Scotland.

A total of 17,582,121 people in the UK have received the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine, according to Government figures published on February 21.

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JAMES Elder-Woodward (Letters, February 19) raises concerns about the National Care Service as envisaged by the Independent Review of Adult Social Care – the Feeley Report. A National Care Service (NCS) can be judged by the principles that underlie...

A LEADING cancer charity today warned the coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated the devastating financial impact of a cancer diagnosis on an individual’s quality of life and mental wellbeing.

Sometimes what Nicola Sturgeon says sounds almost reasonable. Try this one: “it is for the people of Scotland and no-one else to decide the constitutional future of Scotland”.

Scottish employers are reporting their strongest employment intentions since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, in a key survey.

Name: Sandy Enoch.

The Duke of Edinburgh has spent a sixth night in hospital.

Dominic Raab will address the UN Human Rights Council to demand the military step aside in Myanmar and release the country’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

IT was the legacy of an 18th century saddlemaker that part of the fortune he left should go to feed those in need and supply oats to the poor.

IT is the date which plunged the country into lockdown and saw families forced apart as tough restrictions swept across the UK.

Boris Johnson is set to unveil Government’s plan to relax coronavirus lockdown restrictions in England.

A BRITISH diplomat is playing super sleuth to help solve the mystery surrounding a Scottish sailor whose grave he found on Mauritius.

Boris Johnson is set to unveil the roadmap for England's roadmap out of lockdown.

IT is 100 years since the first wireless radio broadcast took place in the UK and despite the raft of other entertainment possibilities at hand now, from streaming to podcasts, research shows more people than ever are tuning into the airwaves.

The British Nutrition Foundation outlines key nutrients that can help both children and parents fight infections, and explains which foods they're in.

NICOLA Sturgeon must carry the can for the Alex Salmond affair, the Scottish Tories have said, after reports her underlings are being lined up for the chop.

There have been 827 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

Like an ageing gunfighter waiting for the final showdown, Alex Salmond has been kicking his heels outside the old court house for weeks. Winds blow, doors squeak, clocks tick – and still no-one came. All we heard was the muffled cries of black-c...

AN ACTOR has published a letter he received by lawyers acting on behalf of Joanna Cherry QC after the MP disputed reports of legal action against him.

MORE than 500 Rolls-Royce jobs in Scotland were this week safeguarded from compulsory redundancy for at least five years following an agreement with Unite the union.

AN MP who believes she was defamed by a Scottish actor has taken legal action to obtain more than £2000 from him – after he questioned why she had donated to a campaign on social media. 

The escalating row over the handling of the Alex Salmond affair had the columnists twitching on Sunday. Here is The Herald’s pick of the views.

Matt Hancock has declined to apologise and refused to resign after the High Court ruled the Government unlawfully failed to publish details of billions of pounds’ worth of coronavirus-related contracts.

ONE of Scotland's most iconic roads has been forced to shut again a matter of days after it was claimed that 100,000 tonnes of debris is waiting to fall on it.

Studies have revealed that the Pfizer vaccine is 95.8 per cent effective in preventing illness with coronavirus, according to Israel’s health ministry.

POLICE Scotland has been forced to pay out over £300,000 over the malicious prosecution of one of the former administrators of Rangers in connection with the collapsed club fraud case.

THE SNP is to spend up to £600,000 on “referendum preparations” this year against the backdrop of the Covid pandemic and a gruelling economic recovery.

JOHN Swinney has insisted it is safe to reopen Scotland’s schools after a warning that reported low transmission rates of Covid among children was “misinformation”.

Flooded road and rail links have brought disruption and some were homes evacuated after torrential rainfall and melting snow left parts of Scotland soaked.

IN the last week we learned that Amsterdam had overtaken London as Europe's largest share trading centre, with the City likely to lose more jobs and business as a result. The Dutch capital saw daily trading surge from €2.6 billion to €9.2bn af...

Absences of ambulance staff due to mental health problems have soared by more than 150 per cent since 2017, new figures show.

A Conservative think tank has expressed concerns over Carrie Symonds' influence inside Number 10, calling for an independent inquiry into her role in the “governing” of the UK.

Conservative former leader William Hague has said “you can smell” the improvement in the Government since the departure of Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain.

In our final of three articles looking at the first 30 days of Biden's presidency, we look at some of the key moments throughout February.

They were to be the solution to city housing problems, towering high above the rooftops and providing residents with a head for heights, a bird’s eye view of the world below.

The word on the street - or at least at the kerb where the bins are collected - is that food waste is down.

SCOTLAND’S most notorious murder, the killing of 14-year-old Jodi Jones by her then boyfriend Luke Mitchell, is to be thrust back into the spotlight this week with evidence presented that the case is a miscarriage of justice.

THE SNP "reek of entitlement" and have been taking people for granted for a very long time, argues Scottish Labour leadership contender Monica Lennon.