Welcome to our Covid-19 live blog, bringing you all the latest updates from across Scotland.

SCOTLAND'S night-time industry is "on the brink of collapse" with 24,000 jobs at risk in an "impending unemployment tsunsami" due to continuing restrictions as the Covid lockdown is eased.

DOUGLAS Ross has voiced concerns that the introduction of vaccine passports could lead to a black market in fakes.

Scottish society should be moving towards a situation in which independent schools are “phased out” as a result of family choice, according to the authors of a major report.

PERHAPS, in years to come, social chroniclers will come to define this stretch of UK political history as "The Dale Winton Years". Mr Winton, now sadly departed, was the flamboyant presenter of Supermarket Sweep, one of the most subversive shows i...

A NEW suicide bereavement service set to launch in Scotland this summer could save over 70 lives a year by preventing those who have lost loved ones to suicide from taking their own lives.

IF you haven’t yet decided who to vote for, perhaps I can be of some assistance. Late last week, I put the same single question to five different politicians, one from each of the five main parties, and maybe their answers can tell us a little b...

WHEN Nicola Sturgeon appeared yesterday on Ridge on Sunday, the interviewer was keen to stress how long the SNP had been in power in Scotland. Fourteen years to get things right yet so much still wrong was the gist of the attack.

OFTEN, it seems to me, that David Attenborough, is the last voice we need if we’re actually going to do anything about the mess we’ve got ourselves into.

With 17 days left, it feels like this election is already over.

ANDY Maciver ("The rose is wilted, but all is not lost for Labour in Scotland. All they need is time", The Herald, April 16) sets out some credible reasons for believing that Scottish Labour should not be written off in the longer term. The key point...

Name: Kristen Hunter.

A SCOTTISH housing association has converted its former office building, which was previously a church manse, into homes for social rent.

More than two-thirds of people back a ban on damaging fishing methods in protected areas of the sea, a poll suggests.

SCOTLAND could become a powerhouse in the global carbon capture and storage (CCS) business with hundreds of jobs in prospect in coming years, a key player in the emerging industry has said.

A union has started balloting whisky workers at Chivas Brothers over strike action in response to “corporate greed” attempts to impose a pay freeze.

A host of major football clubs have agreed to join a new breakaway European Super League, it has been announced.

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The bow of HMS Glasgow – the first City Class Type 26 frigate being built for the Royal Navy – has been rolled out of the build hall at BAE Systems shipyard on the River Clyde.

Boris Johnson has said that football clubs who have agreed to join a European Super League “must answer to their fans” before going ahead with the “very damaging” change.

SCOTTISH hydrogen technology pioneer Logan Energy has bolstered its executive team with the appointment of three industry-leading experts including the former chief executive of SSE, Ian Marchant, as chair.

Chef, recipe writer and This Morning presenter Phil Vickery has been a staple on our screens and our cookbook shelves for decades now, but when he looks back at his life in food, what stands out?

Footballer Marcus Rashford has launched a book club to help children from disadvantaged backgrounds and encourage them to read.

While Ramadan is a challenging time for all Muslims in Scotland, it is especially so for those trying to work and campaign for the elections at the same time.

Standfirst: Citizen archaeologists have shed fascinating light on Pictish hillfort life.

FROM Dark Lochnagar to The Dark Island, from Ackergill Shore to The Dounie Hills, they are songs that travel the length and breadth of Scotland.

AS it emerges reports of UFOs have surged during the pandemic, the Pentagon’s revelations concerning a swarm of mysterious craft have fuelled interest in the phenomenon.

If you’ve been searching for a way to progress to the next stage of your life, why not consider applying to study at Dumfries and Galloway College and see where life takes you.

I’ve been inside the Sistine Chapel and there’s no doubt Michelangelo had his moments. I’ve also been inside the Italian Chapel on the Orkney island of Lamb Holm and, without comparing the two, the one constructed by Italian prisoners of war...

ROYAL Bank of Scotland owner NatWest Group has offloaded part of its Adam & Company private banking operation, including the brand name.

There have been 211 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

Nicola Sturgeon has urged the UK Government and other devolved administrations to commit to starting a public inquiry into the handling of the coronavirus pandemic this year.

Nicola Sturgeon has said progress in tackling coronavirus in the UK must not be put in jeopardy with “too lax a position on international travel”.

Since the news emerged last Friday of Prince Philip’s death, my thoughts and prayers have been with the entire royal family, and especially with Her Majesty the Queen. I think for most of us, the response has been purely human.

NICOLA Sturgeon has accused Alex Salmond of being "almost contemptuous" of key undecided voters as she again ruled out working with him.

THE WESTMINSTER Government must show more respect to devolved parliaments if the union of the United Kingdom is to survive, a former top civil servant has said.

THOUSANDS of Scottish motorists have won the right to bring a £20m compensation claim against the Volkswagen Group in one of the biggest civil class actions in the country's history over an emissions scandal, the Herald can reveal.

A royal burgh status symbol, gathering place and scene of countless important proclamations and punishments, mercat crosses across Scotland have been witness to folks’ comings and goings for generations.

EVERY night, when Nicola Sturgeon retires to her bed, she could be forgiven for sleeping on a pillow with the Prime Minister’s smiling face on it.

IAIN Macwhirter writes critically about the relative silence of the SNP regarding the arrangements for the Anglo-Scotland border after independence ("Sturgeon’s border problem could possibly kill Yes vote stone dead", April 11). But surely it is no...

IN the week when Scotland’s capital was revealed as the third sweariest city in the UK the independent candidate for Edinburgh Central is making the case for a recount.

It’s not quite pitch black but the sign on the first-floor landing of the Egyptian Halls in Glasgow is still very nearly impossible to read.

All political parties resort to retail politics, but no one does it better than the SNP.  They could give Amazon a run for their money.  Alex Salmond started it all back in 2007 by scrapping prescription charges and bridge tolls, abolishing univ...

When did it really end? Was it when the adjutant-general said “all is lost, seize the Prince and take him off”? Was it when Butcher Cumberland ordered the final cavalry charge? Was it when the Prince, sheltering under a tree, heard the cheers ...

SNP MPs at Westminster have no ideas and no strong desire for independence, two of their former colleagues have claimed, and insist the “time is now” for a constitutional break-up.

Nicola Sturgeon has insisted the SNP's election manifesto is designed to "unite Scotland" as the country looks to recover from coronavirus.

After President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw US troops and a failing peace process Afghanistan stands a perilous point. Foreign Editor David Pratt who has reported on the country’s conflicts for 40 years takes stock of what might happen ne...

It was the last pitched battle ever fought on British soil, with the final shot falling silent 275 years ago this week.

Police dispersed more people for Covid breaches this week than any other seven day period since the beginning of the pandemic.

Driven from their homes and cast to the four corners of the world, the impact of the Highland Clearances would be felt for generations of Scots.