HOLYROOD’S Presiding Officer has refused to second guess the legality of a Referendum Bill that lacks consent from Westminster.

SCOTLAND needs to take urgent action to fill a £10.66bn black hole in budgets over the next 14 years to make revolutionary changes to adult social care in the wake of the Covid pandemic.

SCOTLAND bucked the broader UK and European trends by winning more foreign direct investment projects last year than in 2019, in spite of the coronavirus pandemic, a key survey reveals.

MARGARET Thatcher once claimed to be a “very good backseat driver”, much to the irritation of John Major, her successor. He called her tendency to interfere “intolerable”.

The Army is being drafted in to help with Scotland’s vaccination roll-out this week.

Free and fair trade helped build Scotland, and every other part of the United Kingdom, by delivering new jobs, opportunity and prosperity.

YOU wouldn’t believe the things I do for you guys, such as sitting through the inaugural meeting of the Aberdeen branch of the Alba party.

Nappies and face masks are among the items found littering a beauty spot in recent weeks as campaigners urge people to take their rubbish away with them.

A simple blood test could help protect thousands who are at risk of a potentially life-threatening and difficult to diagnose heart complication.

THE zealotry of Catholic ultra-montane groups often makes the tribalism of secular politics look like a community council kerfuffle over garden waste disposal.

I NOTE an excellent article from Alex Renton about the slave trade, its legacy, and the obligations we have to make amends for our part in it ("My family had slaves. Scotland must make amends", The Herald, June 4). The wealth that flowed from slavery...

Global generosity is suddenly big news.

By Kristy Dorsey

The films, both partly shot in the Leith area of Edinburgh, will be shown on a giant LED screen outside a brewery taproom

Names: Bronwyn Jenkins-Deas, Jenine Ward, Juli Dempsey, Philippa Dalton and Lynda Gill.

It was a book that almost didn't get published an was inspired by stories the author made up to pacify his two daughters on long car journeys.

BORIS Johnson would be guilty of a “grotesquely inhumane” act if he goes ahead with cuts to the UK’s foreign aid budget, the SNP have warned ahead of a Commons showdown today.

AN Italian artist has successfully auctioned off one of his latest sculptures for the sizeable sum of nearly $20,000 and the buyer will have no problem getting it in the car to take home because it is invisible.

BACK at the start of the century Willy Vlautin bought a house in Portland, Oregon and changed his life.

Meghan gave birth to her second child on Friday June 4 and named her Lilibet ‘Lili’ Diana.

Harry retained his place in the line of succession despite quitting royal life, and dropping his HRH style.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are celebrating the arrival of their baby daughter, who they have named Lilibet "Lili" Diana Mountbatten-Windsor.

Today is, of course, the anniversary of D-Day, when the largest invasion in history ensured that, 77 years on, we don’t speak German, except on a Rhine cruise. It liberated Europe, it defeated fascism, and it saved many Jews and others from a te...

In a letter to party leaders, Ms Robison argued that the Scottish Government needs “the full devolution of employment powers

AROUND 500 apartments are to be developed on a vacant site on the banks of the Clyde in Glasgow.

Almost half of the adults in Scotland did less sport and exercise over the last year, according to a survey.

There have been 775  new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

The UK Health Secretary said he could not rule out recommendations on home working and mask wearing continuing in the long term.

A FORMER SNP MSP has defected to Alex Salmond’s Alba party after failing to get re-elected to Holyrood.

THE COP26 climate change conference due to take place in Glasgow in November may not go ahead because of a lack of progress in lead-up talks, its former chief has said.

ONE of Scotland’s leading public health experts has said she is “worried” about the Covid risks of the Euro 2020 fanzone in Glasgow, especially without mandatory testing.

Vulnerable children in Scotland may have been detained unlawfully in secure accommodation

Boris Johnson will urge G7 leaders to “defeat Covid” by vaccinating the world by the end of next year

Holyrood’s new Presiding Officer has spoken out about her determination that the Parliament should be a “real exemplar” in the fight against climate change.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge may be asked to spend more time in Scotland under plans reportedly drawn up by palace officials to bolster the Union.

Are the royals racist? “We’re very much not a racist family,” Prince William responded to suggestions from Meghan Markle, in her notorious Oprah interview, that they very much were and it had made her almost suicidal.

The latest weekly figures have revealed Scotland's Covid hotspot areas as the country enters a "fragile" moment in the fight against the virus.

More than half a billion pounds has been paid out by Scottish public bodies during the coronavirus crisis without any scrutiny.

THE working life of Scotland’s ageing ferry fleet has been raised by 15 years  and helped to cut spending, the Herald on Sunday can reveal.

The Health Secretary has thanked volunteers for their “huge contribution” to the vaccine rollout.

YOUNG folk today would be horrified that the BBC's Black And White Minstrel Show regularly had a 16m audience for 20 years to 1978 with prominent singers' faces blacked up.This was cultural appropriation, yet today Channel 5 is blatantly after pub...

NOT for the first time, a political storm is slowly gathering across the water.

FORMER administrators or Rangers have come under fire over how they handled the insolvent club as analysis revealed that their most valuable players worth £17.5m ended up leaving for less than £1m.

HOMEOWNERS in one of Edinburgh’s most deprived communities who cannot afford shared repair bills are being offered the change to sell their homes back to the council as part of a groundbreaking pilot.

On the anniversary of the worst RAF crash in peacetime, new evidence has been brought to light which could finally solve the mystery of what sent the UK’s top intelligence officers to their deaths over Scotland in 1994

It was the silence that I found most unsettling. The soft squeak of the invigilator’s shoes. The rustle as students turned to the next page of the exam paper. The occasional gasp of disbelief at what they found there.

A young motorbike rider was airlifted to hospital with critical injuries after a collision with a car at a crossroads.

The biker, who died at the scene, was discovered down an embankment beside the A702

A teenage cyclist has been killed in a collision with a bus, police have said.

Location: Fife