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

Boris Johnson is facing pressure to increase a proposed pay rise for NHS staff, after more than 150,000 health workers in Scotland have been told their pay packets will be upped by 4 per cent.

A university is to return a bronze sculpture that was looted by British soldiers from Nigeria in the late 19th century.

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AT the end of every superhero movie it is customary, once the enemy is vanquished, for the victors to take stock. Though the city has been left a smouldering pile of rubble, there is always time for a “Well done, everybody,” speech by the lead...

Meet the guerrilla gardeners improving their local area one flowerbed at a time.

Racism continues to blight Scottish education and ethnic minority pupils are calling for school lessons that directly tackle the country’s role in episodes such as slavery, according to a report.

NICOLA Sturgeon has appealed to voters to put their trust in experience as political parties set out their stalls for May’s Holyrood election.

HOME Secretary Priti Patel has announced that the UK Government intends to “crack down” (favourite phrase of authoritarians) on asylum seekers, especially those who arrive in the UK by illegal means ("Patel announces clampdown on asylum claims in...

By Ian McConnell

HOUSEBUILDER Bellway has hailed hundreds of new homes for Scotland after “bumper” results.

A NOTEWORTHY milestone was reached earlier this month which may signal better days lie ahead for the Ferguson shipyard on the Clyde.

SCOTLAND’S “first 100 per cent renewable biomethane refuelling station” to be set to be opened this year, it is claimed.

By Brian Donnelly

If you’re a gardener yearning to make the most of a small outdoor space, but not knowing quite where to start, garden owners who are opening up their gardens to the public this summer may provide inspiration.

HOW the past 12 months have affected Boris Johnson and the renewal of the Coronavirus Act were the topics discussed by columnists and contributors in the newspapers.

You don't have to go all the way to Japan to enjoy glorious cherry blossoms. Here's how to grow a cherry tree at home.

FAME is a fickle beast as many former reality show contestants will attest, but 12 years after Stacey Solomon sang for Simon Cowell on The X factor, she is now a social media sensation who is topping the book charts.

SCOTLAND enters campaigning for the May elections not focused on issues which matter – covid, the SNP’s record in government, the pros and cons of independence – but sullied by the Salmond-Sturgeon wars and a Holyrood inquiry which should ha...

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LET’S talk about jingoism, satire and getting it up you. I apologise unreservedly for the last mentioned, but don’t know how I can avoid it. Only the messenger, don’t you know?

NHS staff in Scotland have been offered a pay rise of at least 4%, the Scottish Government said tonight.

Nicola Sturgeon will update MSPs on the latest Covid-19 statistics for Scotland before taking questions from opponents on the last day of the Holyrood term before May's election.

ALEX Salmond has announced he is taking legal action against Scotland's top civil servant.

At present, Union flags are only required to be flown on all UK Government buildings on designated days,

IAN Blackford faces humiliation after a high-profile attack on Scottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross today.

Boris Johnson also used his appearance in front of senior MPs to criticise the SNP’s push for independence.

A LONG-awaited review into how the UK's four nations can work better together has been published by the UK Government.

THE UK Government is preparing to challenge a Holyrood Bill on improving children’s rights after Deputy First Minister John Swinney rejected requests to amend it.

THE HOME Secretary has been urged to rethink her "cruel" immigration reform plans by Scotland's leading refugee organisation.

Scottish Government ministers have accepted that majority of the recommendations of the independent Deer Working Group

All Bar One owner Mitchells & Butlers has been dealt a blow by investors amid a backlash against pay plans for top executives and corporate governance at the group.

By Paul Thomas, Head of Proposition Development at North

A MAN has been arrested after a bomb disposal team were alerted to a suspicious item in the grounds of the Palace at Holyroodhouse.

Car parking charges will continue to be lifted at three major hospitals until further notice, it has been confirmed.

The Russians who designed and created it must have been laughing their heads off that such fools and their money could be so easily parted.

Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed that there have been three deaths of coronavirus patients  recorded in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

A group of 27 church leaders launched a judicial review at the Court of Session against Government ministers

OFFSHORE asylum centres and overseas removal are part of plans announced by the Home Secretary in her new immigration crackdown strategy today.

LARGE swathes of Scotland could be submerged underwater in less than 30 years, according to a climate change study.

THE DEPUTY leader of Scottish Labour has been accused of "a cynical attempt to deceive voters" after her party name has been left off an election leaflet sent out by her campaign.

BORIS Johnson has been challenged to tell his Scottish Conservative counterpart to quit as an MP before the Holyrood election.

The majority of survivors who left hospital after being treated for Covid-19 were not fully recovered five months after discharge, a study has found.

John Lewis is to shut eight more stores in a move which will put 1,465 jobs at risk.

IF pubs and gyms had been allowed to open for the evening, or hairdressers to unlock their salons, the streets on Sunday night would still have been devoid of life. As 9pm approached, the four nations settled into a self-imposed lockdown, as they swi...

It can take a lot to prompt a surge of hope on Monday mornings at this advanced stage of the coronavirus crisis.

The First Minister has given her backing to Children 1st as it enters into a partnership with Dolly Parton's Dollywood Foundation UK

Scottish-based rocket company Skyrora has received €3 million (£2.6m) of co-funding from the European Space Agency (ESA) as it seeks to become the first UK company to launch satellites from Europe.

A TOP pollster has said that the furore surrounding the Alex Salmond inquiry won't cause major change in voting behaviour.

The Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland (MDDUS) has leased new office space at 206 St Vincent Street in Glasgow, taking a significant amount of space across the building’s ground and first floors.