AFTER landing a cup double and finishing fifth in the Scottish Premiership last term some might question where St Johnstone can go from here.

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SCOTLAND’S drug deaths crisis has been labelled “our national shame” after the total number of lives lost since the SNP came to power soared to more than 10,000.

Elections to the Scottish Parliament deliver results which are almost four times more reflective of voters’ choices than polls for Westminster, a pro-democracy think tank has said.

Like Antiques Roadshow, Fake or Fortune (BBC1, Wednesday), is obsessed with how much an object is worth in grubby old pounds and pence, but everyone involved is too polite to say so. Both shows are fronted by Fiona Bruce, a BBC1 presenter with a dust...

Parent power has helped win a reprieve for a Skye teacher facing the loss of her post as anger grows over temporary contracts and their impact on rural schools.

By Scott Wright

WITH vital culture and leisure services under threat in Scotland's largest city with Glasgow Life, the charity which runs them, losing £38million due to lockdown, the impact on the health and wellbeing of its citizens and the need for a change in ho...

They have a world-wide appeal and before the pandemic, Glasgow's museums and collections drew more than four million visitors a year.

The first of two open days as part of The Herald's covid memorial campaign has been held as a way to reach out to people.

HOW did you spend last Saturday night? Me, I was cleaning the shower. Don’t tell me I don’t know how to live.

Fidelma Cook passed away last month. We are running a selection of her columns as a tribute. This one is from October 2010. We hope you enjoy it.

Margaret Allan ties a small white card to a tree in Glasgow's Hidden Gardens with the words I remember missing my family so much.

A CRITICAL and anxious few days lie ahead for tourism businesses in the Scottish islands with social distancing restrictions on the beleaguered CalMac ferry service due to lift a week on Monday, all being well.

RISHI Sunak has rejected claims his government are trying to snatch power from Holyrood with UK-wide levelling up programmes.

Celtic Renewables is using residues from the whisky industry to prove that it is possible to produce chemicals from bacteria on an industrial scale and break our addiction to fossil fuels, writes Anthony Harrington.

YESTERDAY, the National Records of Scotland (NRS) outlined the latest drug death figures for Scotland.

IF, like me, you have been fixed to the TV this week glued to all the Olympic action, you've probably also been caught up in the debate around Team GB and how well or otherwise it has been performing.

By David Coombs

By Kristy Dorsey

HAMILTON the football team has never been short of scrappers, the likes of Dougie Imrie and Darian Mackinnon always willing to go toe to toe with an opponent.

The youngest member of a Scottish family who embarked on a trip of a lifetime around the world has become a Bollywood star after being scouted in India.

We should be reasonably pleased this week as we still have five teams in Europe. Hibernian and Aberdeen have done very well with comfortable home wins and qualification into the next round.

PICTURE the scene: Edinburgh on a typical August day. A simmering hubbub where crowds throng the streets and posters for festival shows are plastered to almost every lamp post.

WHO among the TV gods first decided that when it comes to dishing out paid holidays – not just free breaks – celebrities should be at the front of the queue?

MAINSTREAM Renewable Power, the global wind and solar company, and Siemens have partnered to bid for licences in the new ScotWind offshore leasing round.

It's not your standard lockdown delivery.

This is Columbus Point on the isle of Tobago, one of the many places around the world that the American-born photographer Thomas Joshua Cooper has visited over the past 30 years.

MANAGERS of the Scottish American Investment Company (SAINTS) have signalled hope in the growth potential of its holding in Taiwanese cosmetic ingredient manufacturers TCI Bio, as they continue to search for investments to help grow dividends at a fa...

Let there be Holyrood. Let there be light. We like to think of Scotland as a beacon of enlightenment in a United Kingdom tainted by graft and sharp practice. When the Scottish Parliament was established, among its founding principles was a commitment...

Sajid Javid and Piers Morgan are living proof that fully vaccinated people can get Covid. Indeed, many recent Covid ‘cases’ are occurring amongst the double-jabbed. With that knowledge, the public health rationale for vaccine passports crumbles, ...

Comics frequently rely upon catchphrases. Frankie Howerd, “please yourself”. Del Boy excoriating his brother as “you plonker”. Blackadder’s “cunning plan”. Chic Murray and … ok, there are some gloriously eccentric exceptions.

EAT less and move more was Stephen Hawking’s answer to solving the obesity crisis.

ANGER over the pingdemic, winning the fight against Covid and a new variant of capitalism were the topics discussed by columnists in the newspapers.

THERE are areas of policy where it is possible to claim that under other measures outcomes would look less poor, or that events outwith all control made matters worse, or even – admitting some culpability – that government made errors, but can se...

IT'S a sad and sobering statistic that Scotland should be viewed as the drug death capital of Europe. With the drug death rates in Scotland being roughly three and a half times more than those in England and Wales, there's obviously something radical...

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ARE you really sure you want fries with that? The world’s most expensive portion of chips has been unveiled and there is already a waiting list for those willing to fork out a small fortune to taste them.

THE answer was pithy, precise. “He’s a knob,’’ a voter informed the Observer newspaper of his MP, Matt Hancock, the recently departed health secretary.

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The viral clip features a Nationwide Building Society cash point although any ATM could be affected including major banks and supermarkets.

JAKE DOYLE-HAYES has told of his pride after making his Hibernian debut in Europe on Thursday.

ZANDER CLARK insists there is still plenty room for improvement at St Johnstone, despite their history making campaign last term.

The Scottish Government has admitted they took their eye off the ball and are doing everything they can to kick with the right foot by giving the funding injection so desperately needed.

FINNISH striker Eetu Vertainen is currently quarantining in Perth ahead of a possible move to St Johnstone.

BARCLAYS has hailed Glasgow and Scotland's potential for growth as it prepares to double its staff numbers in Scotland.

SNP ministers have been told to implement new standards for drugs treatment “as a national priority” after the annual number of drug deaths soared to the highest on record.

SNP MP Joanna Cherry has pointed the blame for abuse at her own “irresponsible” party following the sentencing of a man who threatened her online.

AN Edinburgh theatre at risk of closure has been handed a lifeline after the Scottish Government agreed a £6.5 million grant.

Eilish McColgan finished 11th in the second women's 5000m heat after being tripped during the run.