I THINK we can be sure that Nicola Sturgeon is not considering resignation after having been found guilty of misleading Parliament by the Holyrood Harassment Committee.

FEWER than one in three people in Scotland who applied for a grant to help them to self isolate were provided with funding, with approval rates as low as one in six in some council areas.

BUSINESSES will go to the wall by the end of the year because of an over 15-year failure to prevent landslips on a notorious lifeline Scots road - which could be solved with a Norway-style tunnel in three years.

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

Europe: an apology. As a vociferous supporter of Remain, readers may have been under the impression that this column regarded the European Union as an organisation that embodied the best ideals of enlightened internationalism.

Beaming the broadest of smiles, Megan Baillie held a cocktail glass in her hand, toasted the camera and looked for all the world like she could not be happier.

Pressure is growing for radical reform of Scotland’s education watchdog after figures revealed over 700 schools had not been inspected for a decade or more.

SOME £10m in compensation has had to be handed out to nearly 14,400 Scots savers through the collapse of six community banks in the space of three years, leading to serious concerns about how they are being regulated, the Herald on Sunday can rev...

The enormous human and economic cost of the deadly fumes and tiny poisonous particles which fill our city streets barely registers as a political issue. However, a campaigning new book is about to change all that. We speak to author Chris Woodford...

AS career paths go training to be a forensic scientist to able to solve crimes and murders is a pretty specific remit.

At least 36 people were arrested at an anti-lockdown protest in central London which saw crowds hurling missiles at police and assualting officers.

THE Forth Bridge Experience has been stopped in its tracks due to the impact of the pandemic.

Nicola Sturgeon this week outlined a series of lockdown changes as Scotland looks to achieving more normality.

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I’ve never been big on anniversaries…unless it happens to be a joyous occasion such as a wedding anniversary or a birthday.

Rubies, graphite, oil and gas, Cabo Delgado has them all, as well as an Islamist insurgency the macabre impact of which brought this obscure region into the global headlines last week. Foreign Editor David Pratt reveals what lies behind the story

Falkirk's singer-songwriter Craig Eddie has been named winner of The Voice UK 2021.

BBC football pundit Michael Stewart has stumbled into a fresh row after questioning Rangers star Glen Kamara who insists he was racially abused by a Slavia Prague player during the Ibrox club's Europa League 2-0 defeat.

Willie Rennie has said independence for Scotland would be like Brexit on a rocket to Mars.

AROUND 30-40 police officers – plus their families – are self-isolating after officers who were present at illegal Rangers fan gatherings tested positive for coronavirus.

Holidays to foreign destinations will be “extremely unlikely” this summer due to the risk of new Covid-19 variants being brought back into the UK, a scientist has warned.

IN those televised leadership debates which have lately become a nailed-on part of the modern UK election, a curious first-past-the-post form of engagement is in operation. In this the main focus of the candidates isn’t to command their own poli...

LET us play fantasy politics. Go on, indulge me. Your role in the game? To convene a meeting of the SNP election campaign team. The rules? Simple, lay out the Big Questions.

There have been 488 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

Derek Mackay has quit the SNP following his suspension from the party.

The European Union's executive arm has said AstraZeneca could face export bans to countries outside the bloc if it does not speed up its delivery of the promised amount of vaccines.

RECLAIM These Streets protesters last night covered an Edinburgh’cycle path tunnel with placards sending out the message the streets are for all. 

IT has been 12 long months since we found ourselves plunged into a national lockdown, cut off from families, friends and work colleagues.

DRIVERS risk being put off converting to electric cars due to a ‘confusing’ public charging network system which is "not fit for purpose" a new report has warned.

Fiona Band, General Manager, General Medicine and Medical Specialties

BBC presenter Huw Edwards has said he was 'ordered' to delete a tweet of himself with a Welsh flag by bosses at the corporation.

Bless me readers for I have sinned. My column should have been written and sent hours ago after returning from my immunotherapy. Instead at almost 8.30pm I’m just starting, making extra work for the sub tomorrow. Shockingly unprofessional.

The latest weekly coronavirus figures have been released, highlighting hotspots of Covid-19 and the risk in each neighbourhood.

The official elections watchdog has contacted the Tory Party over a reported payment made for the refurbishment of Boris Johnson’s Downing Street flat, it has been disclosed.

IT’S an enticing prospect. The thought of Scottish hospitality being able to be back up to pre-pandemic levels in as little as four to eight weeks of reopening sounds ambitious.

LIFE has returned to "something very close to normal" on the tiny Portuguese island of Corvo where almost all 400 inhabitants are now fully vaccinated.

SCOTLAND’S route to a new organ donor system begins and ends with the SNP.

THE prospect of a Lab-Lib electoral deal at the next General Election to stop the Conservatives staying in power has been raised after Ed Davey talked up a Liberal Democrat progressive partnership with Labour and insisted his party’s success in 202...

We've caught up with the man behind some of our favourite political sketches here at The Herald.

DRAINED and exhausted and often on the verge of tears staff at Scotland’s biggest hospital were able to enter their rest area for a moment to pause and reflect on another gruelling shift.

TODAY’s game against Italy is obviously a must-win for Scotland. But rather than feeling pressurised by that fact, the team should regard it as a chance to showcase their game at its best.

POLICE chiefs have been warned they risk losing public confidence after a senior officer was forced apologise for "misleading” MSPs about the controversial use of covert drones for surveillance.

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THERE was a fair old difference between the atmosphere at Hampden from when I was going along as a fan and when I was in the dugout as Scotland manager. And apart from the odd moment, it wasn’t for the better.

THE media are overdosing at the moment on the Nicola Sturgeon/Alex Salmond borefest ("Sturgeon ‘misled’ Holyrood over the Alex Salmond affair", The Herald, March 20).

A single vial of Covid-19 vaccine has been stolen from an Edinburgh vaccination centre.

A man has been attacked by two armed men who broke into his flat in East Ayrshire while he was asleep.

The brother of a man who died following a hit-and-run crash has told how the family have been left with a “massive black hole” in their lives.

Half of the UK’s adult population has now received its first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, the Health Secretary has announced.

Edinburgh Festival Fringe organisers have said they have had to lay off one in three staff members due to increasing financial concerns.