Schools will receive a record £215 million funding for efforts to close the poverty attainment gap this year, with the new Education Secretary saying such work is “more vital than ever” due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The force added 25 of the arrests were in central London while five people were arrested in the vicinity of Wembley

FOOD and drink exports to the European Union almost halved in the first quarter of this year in the wake of the official Brexit.

BLESSED be the fruit, for the new series of The Handmaid’s Tale (Channel 4, Sunday, 9pm) is due for delivery. Hard to believe Margaret Attwood’s stirring vision of a patriarchal dictatorship was published more than 35 years ago and is still going...

IT is not about the winning, it is about the taking part. Aye, right. No-one would ever say such a thing about a war, or Euro 2020, which we will draw a veil over for obvious reasons. (That goal! What did we ever do to the Czech Republic to deserve t...

Former Rangers administrators have been accused of negligence through a failure to get advice on a sale of parts of the club including Ibrox and effectively selling the brand for nothing after it financially collapsed and was sold for £5.5m.

SHE was found abandoned in a Spanish port in the early 1990s and was destined to be scrapped.

JEFF Horton of London’s legendary 100 Club is telling the Oasis story.

On Tuesday, Israel lifted the requirement for face coverings to be worn indoors in public spaces such as supermarkets and banks.

THE former head surgeon at Scotland’s busiest rural general hospital has urged health chiefs to ensure its long-awaited replacement is “future proof”.

ENERGY giant Drax has underlined its willingness to complete one of the biggest infrastructure projects in Scotland in decades, with the right support.

TELL us what you do all day said the assistant editor to the lowly journalist fly. It’s for a Saturday column that goes behind the glamorous facade of The Herald to reveal the whirling cogs within.

THE UFC Apex arena in Nevada will again be virtually empty tonight but the only spectator that matters to Casey O’Neill will be there by her side.

IN 1972, the Japanese photographer Masayoshi Sukita travelled to London and blagged a photoshoot with Marc Bolan. It was the start of his association with the cream of pop talent of that decade and beyond.

A £63m plan to exploit NHS medical records has been criticised for failing to offer patients a choice over whether their personal health data is shared with hundreds of researchers.

RECENT weeks have been filled with joyous posts on social media from athletes who have had their places in Team GB for the Tokyo Olympics confirmed.

ONE of Scotland’s most decorated distillers has expressed his confidence that the five-year suspension of US tariffs on single malt will turn into a permanent solution, writes Scott Wright.

A POPULAR Ayrshire hotel has closed its flagship residents after two members of staff tested positive for covid.

EMPTY streets, deserted office blocks and the shutters of retail outlets firmly closed, Scotland's largest city was almost unrecognisable during months of lockdown.

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'There is a refrain used by government and support organisations, that the UK has a “proud history” of welcoming refugees. That is disputable'

BBC News has spent a fair bit of time recently covering stories about hordes of Scottish football fans gathering in London, many without tickets. We have seen footage of coaches, trains and aircraft packed with screaming fans. Massive crowds gathered...

SCOTS are being urged to show support for a kind and compassionate way of treating refugees and asylum seekers in a new campaign.

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IT’S Scooby-Doo, but not as you know it. More details have been revealed about an upcoming spin-off series featuring the character Velma on her own in an entirely new light, and not all fans are on board.

CHILDREN’S food in Scotland, and throughout the UK, is a disgrace. Our tender babes and tots eat the worst diet of any European nation.

YOU must have been there. You must have walked up and down through the furniture and the antiques and the clothes and the LPs and the jewellery and the ornaments and the paintings and everything else you can think of. You must have enjoyed the patter...

EVERY day I open my online papers to see what fresh hell has been visited upon us as this world spins further into madness – a whirling top of pompous opinion and correct thinking.

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SOME politicians like to put on a show. Perhaps they fall slightly short of the standards required by, say, Dundee Rep or the Ayr Gaiety, but they resort to theatrical guile when addressing a crowd, or a Parliament.

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THE new chi-chi idiom favoured by Scotland’s fake liberal elites is ‘down the rabbit-hole’. It sits with another one, ‘alt-Nat’. Each conveys a smugness born of narcissism: look at me; I know things. They’re the sort of phrases you use wh...

By Ian McConnell

GARETH SOUTHGATE admits England will have to look at themselves closely in an attempt to find a cure to their attacking ills after firing a blank against Scotland.

TYRONE MINGS admits England suffered from a lack of 'intensity' as they were held to a goalless draw by Scotland at Wembley.

HARRY KANE admits England failed to hit the heights expected against a Scotland side that were 'playing for their lives' at Wembley.

ZLATKO DALIC will demand further improvement from Croatia as they look to clinch qualification with victory over Scotland next week.

IT has been fascinating to observe the gushing nature...

SLOVAKIA have never beaten Sweden in their history and that unwanted record continued yesterday as they suffered defeat in Group E.

The Perfume Shop has announced it will be opening a new concept store in Scotland next week.

The Metropolitan Police have issued a 48-hour dispersal order covering central London giving officers the power to remove “anti-social” football fans.

Scoland fans gathering to watch tonight's match against England are being urged to exercise caution while supporters who travelled south were warned to "show respect" to the host city and follow the rules.

Nicola Sturgeon has confimed that there have been more than 900 news cases of coronavirus identified in Scotland during the past 24 hours.

LIKE lots of workplaces, universities welcome secondary school pupils for work experience, and every year I have one or two who join our research team to learn about what we do. Recently this hasn’t been possible due to Covid-19 regulations. Even w...

There has been a 79% rise in one week across the UK in cases of the Delta variant first identified in India.

Aberdeen have confirmed the appointment of Henry Apaloo as assistant coach.

The First Minister urged people to tune the the update, saying she would provide insight into the overall trends and issue the latest statistics

Follow our live blog for the latest news and updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Scotland.

Glasgow University is celebrating after it scooped the top prize in this year’s Herald Higher Education Awards (HHEA).