Piers Morgan’s icky behaviour is starting to show some awful parallels with women's experiences with unwanted, creepy and downright harassment from men.

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THE SCOTTISH Government is calling on the country's cities and regions to apply for additional funding to help them recover from the coronavirus pandemic - with two new funds of a total £4 million up for grabs.

MSPs have recommended that the £20 uplift in Universal Credit payments be made permanent.

A TORY MP has used parliamentary privilege to reveal “whistleblower” evidence about the Alex Salmond affair and claim Nicola Sturgeon misled Holyrood.

BRITAIN must not get drawn into a new “cold war” with China, Boris Johnson has warned.

HM Revenue & Customs has been ordered to pay out almost £30,000 after sacking a woman because she was pregnant.

A GUARANTEE that all school pupils in Scotland will have the right to benefit from the outdoors supported by a new government outdoor recreation champion has been demanded by a coaltion of a dozen recreation groups.

Just 16% of pork being sold on Scots supermarket shelves has been sourced in Scotland, it has been revealed.

Former diplomat Craig Murray is seeking to be picked as a candidate Holyrood elections in May for a fringe independence-supporting party.

IT SEEMS incredible that the menacing narrative evident for some time now – that Brexit is done and shining a light on its dire consequences is sheer impertinence – has become more rather than less embedded as the actual effects of the folly m...

THE Beano’s most popular character turns 70 today. Dennis the Menace first appeared in the comic in issue 452, dated March 17, 1951.

MORRISONS nudged online shoppers towards unhealthy snacks more times than any other supermarket in test purchases while Sainsbury’s was most likely to push customers towards alcohol.

WE have just been condescended to with the latest gracious set of permissions to lead parts of our lives by the First Minster (for which we should of course all be humbly grateful). It includes many generous liberties granted by Nicola Sturgeon, b...

IN November 2017, the SNP Children's Minister, Mark McDonald, resigned after sending a couple of risqué texts to a female colleague. He lost his career, his seat and became suicidal, as he recounted in his emotional parliamentary apology. It has now...

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A renewable energy firm is seeking community support for a plan to build a giant windfarm in the Scottish Borders.

THE fallout from the Sarah Everard murder and violence towards women continued to attract comment from columnists and contributors - plus the issue of online abuse.

EVER since Brexit, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been at pains to tell a new story of the UK’s place in the world. Yesterday, Mr Johnson had what should have been his best opportunity yet to do just that when he outlined the Integrated Review...

RARELY do I agree with Boris Johnson, but his announcement of a £3billion boost to expand and enhance bus services across England made me concede he is not always entirely misguided. Putting aside the question of how often the PM has been seen ta...

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David Davis made the claim as he used parliamentary privilege to raise concerns about the processes surrounding the investigation into the former SNP leader.

Pastor Mark Ralston, of the United Hope Church, described himself as a "100% anti-lockdowns, anti-masker"

CHEAPER ferry fares to west coast island have helped support businesses amid concerns over increased pressure on communities, a new study has revealed.

INCREASING the limit on Britain's nuclear warhead stockpile will not breach the UK’s international treaty obligations, Downing St has insisted, as Boris Johnson set out his Government’s post-Brexit foreign policy strategy to fulfil Britain’s �...

Bea Jones daughter Moira was raped and beaten to death in Queens Park in 2008 by Slovakian national Marek Harcar. 

UNION leaders have called on ministers to "stop the excuses" and commit to taking ScotRail into public ownership.

HARASSMENT complaints against Scottish ministers must be taken out of the hands of civil servants to avoid a repeat of the Alex Salmond fiasco, a review has said.

SCOTTISH Labour’s head of communications has left his job two weeks after Anas Sarwar was named the new party leader.

THE AUTHORS of a key investigation into Scottish education have told John Swinney that the draft findings cannot be made public before the election due to confidentially rules.

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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's roadmap out of lockdown has been hailed by business leaders.

ALL pupils in Scotland will be back in school full-time after the Easter holidays, Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed.

NICOLA Sturgeon has outlined key dates in Scotland’s route map out of lockdown.

ANY pro-independence majority at the Holyrood election is “very clearly” enough to secure a mandate for a second referendum, Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie has said.

Kingdom Housing Association has received planning consent to build 30 eco-friendly "Passivhaus" homes in Fife.

SHOPS, bars and restaurants are set to reopen across Scotland towards the end of next month, Nicola Sturgeon has said, as she outlined the country's exit from lockdown.

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There have been 597 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

The more than 1.4 million pints that would have been sold this St Patrick's Day is just money down the drain for Scottish pubs this year, as they remain closed due to lockdown.

AN Aberdeen-based energy services giant Wood Group has earmarked $196m (£141.3m) to settle bribery cases - as it emerged a subsidary is paying back £6.4m contracts in central Asia.

Subway staff in Glasgow have been told that extra services will be running this weekend amid fears fans will flout a stay-at-home message if the Old Firm match goes ahead.

Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf has welcomed official figures showing the volume of crime has almost halved in just over a decade.

SCOTLAND’S top police officer raised “concerns” about the Scottish Government’s plan to publicise its misconduct probe into Alex Salmond, newly-released evidence confirms.

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.

DOUGLAS Ross has been urged to stand down as an MP before he runs for Holyrood to spare taxpayers the cost of a stand-alone byelection.

NICOLA Sturgeon has been accused of “putting party before pandemic” after planning to put Indyref2 on the ballot paper in May’s Holyrood election.