ALEXIS Fleming is just starting to get to know the “new guy” who arrived at her hospice yesterday. This “old man”, as she calls him, was dumped last week in Grimsby, has anal cancer and is “covered in lumps”. “He could die next week," s...

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has warned it is “arrogant” to think the UK could unilaterally prevent Afghanistan falling back into the grip of the Taliban.

THE bus was almost always old and uncomfortable, the long journey exhausting and there were no guarantees of success at the end of it.

THE success of Team GB and its “heroes who lifted a nation,” brought some much-needed sporting joy into our Covid-depressed lives. But some people were more lifted than others.

The Taliban have seized the last major city outside of Kabul held by the country's increasingly isolated central government, cutting off the capital to the east as helicopters began landing at the US embassy there.

They are Europe’s favourite sunshine holiday islands. And Pedro Sánchez’s too.No

Twenty years ago, Foreign Editor David Pratt was an eyewitness as the Taliban were routed by Northern Alliance fighters. Today though the tables have been turned and it’s now the Islamist insurgents that are overrunning Afghanistan with a speed tha...

When there were shortages of certain things in the supermarkets, we decided to create a wee “stock cupboard” up in our loft.

MINISTERS are facing a wave of compensation claims estimated at up to £100m in a land grab for one of Scotland's biggest road schemes whose £1.2bn cost is up to four times an original budget, the Herald on Scotland can reveal.

A debate is raging among psychologists, lawyers and men and women’s groups over ‘parental alienation’ – the idea that one parent can manipulate children into hating their ex. Writer at Large Neil Mackay talks to the families caught up on all ...

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IT seems you don’t just get cancelled for saying sex is real, but for saying climate change could be solved. Last week, I wrote a column in The Herald arguing for a Covid-style collaboration between the state, universities and big business to addre...

It lies a stone’s throw from Edinburgh’s city centre and alongside a city housing estate dogged by its unfortunate links to Trainspotting.

A NEW dedicated advice site has been launched to support Scots struggling to deal with loan sharks – amid a soar in online scams during the pandemic.

IT was created with the intention of being a place which was part of its community with an open door policy, however the pandemic meant that a Glasgow hospice was forced to send volunteers home and close their doors.

IT has been a sad week waking up each morning and being unable to switch on the television and instantly become heavily invested in a sport I know nothing about.

It is one of the UK's most visited areas and a popular stopping point for tourists travelling to the Scottish Highlands.

Scottish Labour has warned of the "first signs of a looming crisis" after figures revealed that the number of people evicted has risen six-fold after a ban ended.

The Scottish Left Review magazine reaches a major milestone next month. Its September/October issue will be its 125th. In reaching this point, it will have outlasted any other left magazine published in Scotland in the post-war period. Radical Scotla...

JUST as the advent of professionalism brings many benefits, inevitably it also has downsides. Forfar Farmington, like similar size clubs in England and elsewhere, have now discovered that to their cost.

A rare 19th Century silver pistol made for the novelist Sir Walter Scott is expected to fetch up to £20,000 at auction.

At least 300 people were killed and hundreds were injured and missing after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Saturday.

It takes more than a screwdriver to open the lid of our bird box; a steely resolve is also required. Today, as I lifted off the slate roof, I had a feeling I would not find an empty nest. Sadly, I was proved right.

The Pole, last week Livingston’s late villain, completed a remarkable day in West Lothian as he clawed Kyle McAllister’s penalty onto the crossbar.

BURGLARS, murderers, psychopaths. We are fascinated by crime. We wallow in tales of those who hack people to death, poison, drown . . . there seems to be no crime so dastardly we don’t wish to know the details.

Why heaven is other people: Neil Mackay reviews Hello, Stranger by Will Buckingham

Hendricks Gin Rooftop, The Glasshouse Edinburgh

As September approaches, individual gardeners can make a huge difference to the success of our bumblebee populations. Because this is the ‘hungry gap’ for bees.

The Scottish Government has recorded 1,383 new coronavirus cases and 5 more deaths in the past 24 hours.

A man has been charged over the death of William Leiper, whose charred remains were found at the site of a park fire in Glasgow.

Veteran leftwinger and filmmaker Ken Loach has said he has been expelled from the Labour Party in a “purge” of critics of the leadership.

A number of trains are subject to delays at Glasgow Queen Street station.

Why Should We Visit

BEFORE watching The Secret World of Chocolate (Sunday, C4, 8pm) in which Dawn French turns choc detective, questions popped into m brain like Aero bubbles.

This low maintenance dish is delicious and very easy to make (although it takes some time to cook). The great thing is you can make it in advance and serve it up when needed, the slow cooked beef also freezes well should you want to double up and kee...

NEW CRIME: An intriguing new perspective on Tudor Britain will be offered by Scottish author Steven Veerapen, author of an upcoming historical crime fiction series. Set at the court of the young Henry VIII in the 1520s, the novels feature Anthony Bla...

OF LATE Laura Mvula has been getting into superhero stories. Marvel movies. Star Wars. It’s a new thing for her, she says. “I couldn’t stand that stuff before and now I’m completely transfixed by it.”

WITH 1,314 drug deaths last year, drug overdoses killed twice as many under-65s in Scotland as Covid did.

Pro-independence supporters are expected to gather for a march in Glasgow this afternoon.

A couple have been arrested and charged after an alleged domestic incident at a home in Kilwinning.

It dwarfed the Eifel Tower and St Paul’s Cathedral, was made from more steel than the Forth Bridge and emerged from a manmade hole in the ground six times wider than the Panama Canal.

A ROW has erupted over Scottish Government transparency as it emerged the Ferguson Marine ferry fiasco fixer was actually paid £252,701 more than was divulged.

Surrounded by forests, lochs and beautiful Trossachs scenery, the villagers of Aberfoyle knew they had plenty to offer visitors – the trouble was encouraging them to come.

SCOTLAND’S largest local authority is being urged to scrutinise future compromise agreements for senior officials after The Herald revealed one of its most high-ranking directors walked off with a pay deal close to six figures and into a consultanc...

THE direction in which the Scottish ferry fiasco appears to be heading has a significant bearing on business.

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SNP ministers have been accused of marking the first 100 days after securing victory in the Holyrood election with “delays, broken promises, and a gulf between their spin and their action” – with alarm bells raised over a failure to draw up a r...

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CELTIC chief executive Dom McKay insists the club's nomination in the European Club Association's (ECA) Women's Football Award 2021 is vindication for the decision to move to a full-time set-up.