A professor who was unfairly sacked and victimised for raising sex discrimination concerns at one of Scotland’s leading universities has claimed that her life has been “destroyed”.

ADMINISTRATORS overseeing the company at the centre of Scotland's ferry building 'fiasco' sanctioned its controversial nationalisation.

THE iron law of emergency powers is that they last longer than the emergencies which spawned them. The Scott Inquiry into arms-to-Iraq discovered in the 1990s that the UK’s export controls dated from emergency laws passed at the beginning of the...

FINANCE secretary has denied the misuse of public funds through the forfeit of £25m to complete two vessels at the centre of Scotland's ferry building 'fiasco' in a secret deal to pave the way for a shipyard company nationalisation.

POLICE Scotland is contesting liability for any damages to former Rangers finance chief Imran Ahmad who has received a public apology from the Scotland's most senior law officer over wrongful prosecutions linked to club fraud and conspiracy.

IT was difficult to escape the impression that others who warned of doom might have been mischief-making for political reasons in these febrile times.

AFTER weeks spent attempting to agree a "four nations approach" to hotel quarantine arrangements for international travellers arriving in the UK, the First Minister and the Scottish Government decided to go it alone in making hotel quarantine mand...

A £47,000-a-year “lead teacher” position is set to be rolled out across Scottish schools, sparking hope that gaping trainee recruitment shortfalls in core subjects can be plugged.

IT'S not entirely clear exactly what the French President, Emmanuel Macron, said to Boris Johnson at the G7 about Northern Ireland not being part of Britain. But it is very clear what he meant: the Province is not an indivisible part of Britain as fa...

It was the first place to offer Nelson Mandela freedom of the city, paving the way for 2500 mayors from 56 countries to sign a declaration to the UN in 1981 demanding his release.

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CARE home staff could risk assault charges if they coerce or assist elderly residents to wear masks, an expert has warned.

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A Highland town fighting to have a 'forgotten' Jacobean battle memorialised has reached a new milestone.

FROM hero to zero. Or at the very least an internet meme. Pictures of luckless Scotland keeper David Marshall trying vainly to keep Patrick Schick’s audacious lob from the halfway line out of the net during Scotland’s game with the Czech Repub...

THE new St James Quarter retail complex in Edinburgh has announced that it has signed four more tenants ahead of the opening of the centre next week.

BELLWAY has hailed a “record investment in new sites” in recent months as it looks to meet an anticipated rise in demand for new homes.

INTERNATIONAL giants have underlined their interest in the offshore wind power generation market in Scotland ahead of a key licensing round.

FEW things are worse for your self-image than sitting in the hairdresser’s chair in a shapeless gown, facing a mirror, with bedraggled wet hair. It’s as if you’ve just been plucked by the RNLI from a capsized boat, and wrapped up against hyp...

THE extension of lockdown and its effect on politics was discussed by columnists and contributors in the newspapers.

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DELAYING a further lifting of Covid restrictions is about “buying time”, Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs.

A GLASGOW MP has warned the owners of the threatened McVitie’s factory not to “take the biscuit” and protect workers.

NICOLA Sturgeon has signalled a delay to Scotland's lockdown easing.

THE UK Government has been accused of “screwing over” farmers with a new trade deal after details of plans for meat tariffs were revealed by the Australian government.

ULSTER’S men of violence don’t give a damn about highfalutin fancy language – about words like ‘backstop’ and ‘protocol’. They don’t care what heads of state say. They pay no heed to the Tory party, middle England, Brussels, or Was...

SNP ministers have been warned over “the deep inequality in Scottish education” after the number of teenagers finding work after leaving schools reached its lowest level for a decade in the wake of the pandemic.

IF I was with John McAslan + Partners I'm not sure I'd be inclined to give the city a second chance after last time, even with financial and reputational rewards acting as a bit of a sweetener.

NET Zero Secretary Michael Matheson has admitted Scotland failing to hit legally-set carbon reduction targets for the third year running is a “wake-up call” to keep ambitious aims on track.

FORMER Rangers chief executive faces a challenge from the Lord Advocate over his claim of £20m for being wrongfully prosecuted in the club fraud case.

ONE of Scotland's most highly-respected lawyers who has secured a string of prominant convictions is set to become the new lord advocate.

A SCOTTISH business leader has said Nicola Sturgeon's signal of a delay to Scotland's lockdown easing will be "frustrating and painful for many Scottish businesses" who had hoped to reopen in time for the summer uplift.

AN SNP MP has suggested the former Director General of the BBC should accept a cut to his 'lavish' pension to make up for his ‘negligence’ over the Martin Bashir saga.

The Scottish Parliament has recently voted a unanimous ‘yes’ on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill, making Scotland a global frontrunner in the application of children’s rights.

AS predictable as the sun rising and setting, Nicola Sturgeon stood up in the Scottish Parliament today confirmed Scotland's lockdown easing is “unlikely” to happen as planned on June 28. 

SNP ministers have been warned that “Scotland needs to do more on climate change” after official statistics showed the Government has failed to meet legally-set greenhouse gas reduction targets for the third straight year.

THE UK has reached a preliminary agreement on trade with Australia, sparking fears over the impact on Scottish farmers and demand for beef and lamb.

The Scottish actor has been nominated for a top TV award for his role in the hit BBC drama

The Covid-19 figures for the past 24 hours have been released.

Antibody tests that can detect whether people have been exposed to new variants of Covid-19 have been developed by scientists at Aberdeen University.

Emergency services, including fire crews and paramedics, rushed to Glasgow Airport on Monday evening.

Shortages of goods arriving in the UK and inflation triggered by supply-chain disruption could "choke off" any recovery in the retail sector, an expert has warned.

University bosses have warned that student wellbeing and academic progress are approaching a "tipping point" and want ministers to provide urgent clarity on arrangements for in-person learning during the 2021-22 session.

ONCE again Guy Stenhouse hits the nail on the head when talking of the Scottish Government being unable to do its day job ("Action, not words, are needed to solve ferries fiasco", The Herald, June14).

By Louise McCosh

PLANS to ban large shops from trading on New Year's Day have been branded "frankly absurd".

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AS an army of construction workers prepares Edinburgh’s gleaming St James Quarter retail complex to welcome shoppers next week some residents may fear it could become a white elephant or just a playground for the rich.

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