International rugby star Adam Hastings has joined The Herald's team of columnists - and he can't wait to get started.

The list of countries temporarily suspending use of the AstraZeneca jab is growing, over fears that it causes blood clots after inoculation.

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

Were women wrong to organise Saturday night’s Reclaim the Night vigil on Clapham Common?

RESEARCHERS have unravelled new clues to help explain why a particular genetic mutation is more common in people with Crohn's disease.

MORE pupils return to classrooms across Scotland today as the latest phase of lockdown easing sets in.

BORIS Johnson has denounced the SNP for seeking a second independence referendum that would “turn Scotland against itself” but stopped short of saying he would refuse to facilitate one if the SNP gained a majority at the forthcoming Holyrood elec...

OVER the next few weeks Americans will be living the dream of citizens everywhere. Coming their way in the post are cheques of up to $1,400 (£1,005) from the government. Free money, just like that.

WHAT is often interesting in politics is not what politicians say but what they don’t say.

BEFORE he was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, Kris Gourlay says his mother used to be stopped in the street by people worried what was wrong with him.

MINISTERS have been warned the homelessness system to safeguard survivors of domestic and sexual abuse is “struggling to cope” as more than 14,000 Scottish households are “effectively trapped in temporary accommodation”.

YOUR lead article on Friday ("Care home residents ‘left tied to long-term contracts’’", The Herald, March 12) should be a wake-up call for us all living in a country with an ageing population. How can this be? Who is asking for those contrac...

I’d like to talk today about why Boris Johnson may finally have got it right on the subject of a second independence referendum, but I’d also like to talk about something called The Book of Fallacies which was written 200 years ago. Bear with ...

A GENERATION has come and gone since my beloved aunt Angela was brutally slain in the garden of her own home, but her death and the manner of it will forever be branded on my family’s psyche. Her daughter, my young cousin, was asleep in her cot ...

GLASGOW city centre could be transformed with mini parks, European-style plazas and pedestrian-friendly streets under ambitious plans inspired by the Dutch city of Rotterdam.

The hospitality industry has called on the Scottish Government to “avoid catastrophic business failure” by implementing proposed changes to the country’s Covid-19 levels system.

A MAJOR petrol station group with more than 900 sites across Great Britain has announced a £400 million investment in electric vehicle charging points across its network.

Despite the push in recent years to create better balance between our work and personal lives, the grind culture that has dominated for decades remains in ascendency.

Name: Ivor Campbell.

“What did you learn when life was unkind?

By Scott Wright

THERE is something great about watching a celebrity have a temper tantrum, isn’t there?

As celebratory feasts go, the menu choices do seem to have been rather limited.

BY GEORGE MAIR

WOULD you spend £50 million on an artwork you could not hang on your wall or even touch, that exists only in the digital world? Digital art and assets have rocketed in popularity of late, although some have their doubts that these "NFTs" will end...

BORIS Johnson will today chair a meeting of a crime taskforce to see what more can be done to protect women on Britain’s streets as police chief Cressida Dick defied calls for her to resign over how Scotland Yard policed the London vigil for Sarah ...

CRESSIDA Dick, the head of the Metropolitan Police, has insisted she will not stand down despite calls for her to quit over her force’s actions at a vigil in memory of Sarah Everard.

SCOTLAND will play an important part in the UK’s economic recovery from Covid-19, the Chancellor has insisted.

Boris Johnson hit out at Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP, saying: “The SNP want to divide us, to turn Scotland against itself, at this of all times.”

The pensions giant that is buying the Standard Life brand this week underlined its belief in the name’s value amid expectations the market will grow strongly in coming years as it posted strong growth in profits.

Nicola Sturgeon has praised the "outstanding contribution" of Scots makar Jackie Kay, as her tenure as Scotland's national poet comes to an end.

There have been 484 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

HOME Secretary Priti Patel has demanded a "full report" on Scotland Yard's handling of the London vigil for Sarah Everard by the end of today as pressure mounts on Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, to resign.

The UK’s national statistician said he has “no doubt” that there will be a further wave of Covid-19 infections in the autumn on the Andrew Marr show.

A quarter of Scots would support holding a second independence referendum in the next year, while 45% say it should not take place for the next few years, an opinion poll has found.

Alister Jack is to claim the UK's coronavirus vaccine programme is the "envy of the world" and a "truly astonishing achievement".

A growing number of passengers are dodging the Scottish Government’s hotel quarantine system by flying from other airports in the UK, Scottish Labour has said.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick is being urged to resign, following a series of violent clashes between police and crowds at a vigil for Sarah Everard in Clapham last night.

THE ongoing “mental torture” for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe continues, her MP has insisted, after it emerged this morning that she will have to wait another week before hearing an Iranian court’s verdict on whether new charges of “propaganda a...

Use of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine should be temporarily suspended, Ireland’s deputy chief medical officer Dr Ronan Glynn said, after serious blood clotting has been recorded in Norway.

SOME of us remember how former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher favoured the easy ride she got from sympathetic interviewers such as DJs Terry Wogan and Jimmy Young. She would avoid the likes of David Dimbleby, Alastair Burnet, Robin Day and Rober...

THE SNP has been accused of having “neglected and mistreated” Scotland’s local councils – amid a warning local authorities have faced real-terms cuts to their non-ringfenced budgets of approaching £1 billion over an eight-year period.

WAKING up on Mother's Day there will be someone missing for the Honeyman family as it is exactly one year since they lost their beloved mother to covid.

Four people have been arrested for public order offences and breaches of coronavirus regulations at a vigil in memory of Sarah Everard in Clapham, the Metropolitan Police said.

Data on how many fines Police Scotland have handed out during the pandemic since they were given the power to break up parties.

by Sandra Dick

MINISTERS are under increasing pressure to deal with a cladding crisis in Scotland as it emerged that over 100 local authority high rise buildings have potentially deadly cladding four years after the horrifying Grenfell Tower blaze that claimed t...