Nicola Sturgeon is updating parliament on key dates in Scotland's easing of lockdown.

Scottish education is stagnating and needs an injection of outside expertise to achieve better outcomes for pupils, a major report has warned.

NICOLA Sturgeon is to give further details on the easing of lockdown measures in Scotland.

THE UK Government’s landmark Integrated Review on security and foreign policy is to set out a new framework of “increased international activism” to counter growing threats to the established global order from countries like Russia.

SCOTLAND’S oil and gas industry has appealed for public funding amid a warning a £3 billion hit to the sector could put ambitions to transform operations away from fossil fuels at risk.

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said it is important to maintain a “minimum credible” nuclear deterrent when asked about the Government’s Integrated Review of security, defence, development and foreign policy.

NICOLA Sturgeon is preparing to put the issue of a second independence referendum literally on the ballot paper at May’s Holyrood election, the Herald can reveal.

The figures from Public Health Scotland (PHS) show reductions in cider, perry and spirits

A PENSIONER who missed two GP vaccination clinics due to cancelled flights and travel quarantine says he has been left frustrated by the “inflexibility” of the appointments system for the immunisation hubs.

AN INVESTIGATION has been launched into how £3.3m had to be refunded to thousands of savers as a Scottish community bank collapsed two years after auditors cast doubt over its future as a going concern.

By Scott Wright

A community effort to get computers to school pupils who need them for home learning has been stopped by a local council in a move organisers claim is “scandalous”.

THERE are few sins worse than "the double wound" – the act of hurting someone, then hurting them again, out of cold spite or wilful negligence. To kick someone when they’re down is the mark of a failed, dark character.

WELCOME, dear friends from the South.

Beyoncé and Taylor Swift won big as history was made at Sunday night’s Grammy Awards for music, underlining the fact that right now it’s the distaff side pushing the form and breaking new ground.

MILLIONS of office workers in the UK will have reached or will be nearing a milestone that most will never have imagined achieving – a year of working from home.

By Scott Wright

NEW research has shown a drop in the number of stores in Scotland of 652 last year.

FOLLOWING the death of Sarah Everard, the issue of violence against women - and the police response to a vigil in her memory - continued to be debated by columnists and contributors in the newspapers.

THE titanic struggle between Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon – the dominant Scottish political figures of their generation – is an extraordinary spectacle. For nationalists it must seem to have all the elements of a Greek tragedy. Mentor and ...

I WONDER whether the job of Home Secretary turns people into intolerant authoritarians, or whether people already that way inclined tend to get the job. My suspicion, looking at recent holders of the post, is that it’s the former: the longer peo...

Dux in a row

TALK about twisting a knife in an open wound! Well that’s exactly what the UK Government is doing to UK food exporters by deciding to grant EU imports a free ride into the UK for a further 6-12 months.

Police are investigating reports of “potential gatherings” at an evangelical church in North Lanarkshire.

THE right to protest is the “cornerstone” of British democracy, Priti Patel has insisted, but she made clear that large gatherings, like the vigil for Sarah Everard, should not take place while the pandemic posed a lethal threat.

The Holyrood inquiry into the Scottish Government’s unlawful investigation of Alex Salmond has ordered the Crown Office to provide all correspondence involving senior government officials about the handling of complaints made about the former f...

ANOTHER SNP majority government would be the “biggest threat” to Scotland’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, Douglas Ross has claimed.

A "SMALL number" of Covid cases in the past week have been linked to the Rangers title win celebrations, Scotland's chief medical officer confirmed.

Douglas Ross told journalists that a timeline for a vote of no confidence in Nicola Sturgeon will be announced.

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

THE new-look White House-style £2.6 million media briefing room at 9 Downing St has been revealed in pictures obtained by ITV News.

A SCOTS based firm is getting £375m from the UK government as it seeks to ramp up production of Covid-19 tests to encourage people without symptoms to get themselves checked for the virus.

BORIS Johnson has made clear the UK’s medicines regulator sees “no reason to discontinue” using the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine as Germany, France and Italy became the latest countries to suspend its use over concern of potential blood clots fol...

AIR traffic control staff are to escalate industrial action over plans to centralise some air traffic control at Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd.

Joyce Kirkland, 72, from Kikcudbrught, was last seen around 10pm on Friday

We shouldn’t have been surprised by the parsimonious pay award to English health workers. Afterall, in June 2017, 313 Tories abetted by 10 DUP allies, voted down a Labour amendment that would have given a “proper” pay rise to health workers,...

Chocolate retailer Thorntons has announced plans to permanently shut all its 61 stores with 603 jobs impacted.

The governor of the Bank of England has been criticised for allegedly failing to declare a potential conflict of interest in a scandal that saw thousands of Royal Bank of Scotland business customers in ruin.

DOWNING St has declined to say if Boris Johnson would facilitate a second independence referendum if the SNP won a majority at the Holyrood election, saying it was a “hypothetical” question that it would never answer.

NICOLA Sturgeon will outline key milestones in Scotland's exit from lockdown tomorrow, including proposed dates for the reopening of shops, pubs and restaurants.

The European Union is expected to formally launch legal action against the UK for unilaterally extending the post-Brexit grace periods to trade in Northern Ireland.

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 ...

NICOLA Sturgeon has admitted being aware of concerns about the SNP's chief whip in Westminster before a formal sexual harassment complaint was made against him.

DOUGLAS Ross could become First Minister in May’s Holyrood election, Michael Gove has claimed.

THERE is "no evidence whatsoever" that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is causing blood clots, Scotland's chief medical officer has said.

Hairdressers have reopened in Wales as Covid-19 lockdown restrictions continue to be eased in different stages across the four nations of the UK.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says "no final decision" has been made on this weekend's Old Firm derby between Celtic and Rangers.

ANAS Sarwar has claimed Boris Johnson’s Tories are “the biggest threat of the United Kingdom” as he pointed the finger at the Conservatives for “why our country is so divided”.

HOSPITALITY groups have outlined their roadmap to save pubs and restaurants as  one said some 200 Scottish pubs have been lost forever due to the coronavirus crisis.

More than 1,000 civil servants are set to relocate to Glasgow and East Kilbride in the coming year, ministers have announced.