The Government “will not be going ahead with plans for vaccine passports” to gain access to nightclubs and other crowded venues, Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said.

 

Outside Charing Cross Post Office, tucked between some telephone kiosks, there is a big metal box on wheels.

Scotland got filthier during the pandemic, according to extensive and detailed litter surveys of the nation’s streets.

A SCOTTISH Government agency faces the loss of up to £4.3m of taxpayers' money from the collapse of a wind tower firm seen as a key part of Scotland's green jobs revolution, the Herald on Scotland can reveal.

With the UN climate summit just weeks away, Writer at Large Neil Mackay, speaks to the industrialist who predicts a coming ‘clean hydrogen revolution’ will save the planet, allow economies to keep on growing, and see an energy windfall for Scotla...

A Conservative Prime Minister increasing taxes to the highest levels in half a century has caused little short of apoplexy amongst Tories, especially those with fond memories of Margaret Thatcher. Daily Telegraph columnists are crying ”betrayal”....

Scottish company MV Commercial has made the largest acquisition in its 20-year history, buying Lincolnshire tipping-trailer and truck-body manufacturer Fruehauf out of administration in a multi-million-pound transaction which will save 120 jobs.

María Mendiola, who was half of the band Baccara behind disco anthem Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, has died at the age of 69.

Measuring just eight metres by two and with a distinct lack of mod cons, it is certainly what estate agents might like to say is on the “compact and bijou” side.

Labour has accused the Home Secretary of being “reckless” and a “serial offender” in breaching the ministerial code after allegations she brokered a meeting between a billionaire Tory donor and British Airways.

Politicians and leaders across the UK have paid tribute to “extraordinarily fabulous” teenage tennis champion Emma Raducanu.

I’ve never felt closer to the NHS in my life before … even when I worked right inside the beating heart of it for 18 years.

PARTICK Thistle will play their first-ever SWPL 1 game this afternoon when they host Aberdeen at Petershill Park. Last Sunday's scheduled opener at Rangers was postponed for Covid-related reasons.

Twenty years after the September 11, 2001 al-Qaeda terrorist attacks on America, Foreign Editor David Pratt reflects on his own ‘9/11 moment’ and the subsequent tumultuous events of the ‘war on terror’ that he continues to cover to this day

SCOTLAND'S public bodies and educational institutions have been hit by dozens of cyber attacks in the last three years, figures show.

IT’S easy to assume athletes lead a charmed life. In many respects, this is true. In particular, for those at the top, the fame and fortune they enjoy can often make it difficult, impossible even, to empathise with any suffering they claim to be en...

The UK is facing a “winter of discontent” after the Tories pushed ahead with Brexit, taking Britain out of the European Union, Scotland’s Deputy First Minister will warn.

They have the voices of angels if perhaps not the behaviour of heavenly beings.

A musical pilgrimage began with a pint in Dublin’s southside at the famous O’Donoghue’s where The Dubliners began playing in 1962. A pint of Guinness lands on the bar as I look around at the many artefacts which celebrate the band’s much-love...

It was a frustrating day for all in the City of Discovery.

There’s no denying homemade compost is weedy and we’re actually chucking many of the offending weed seeds into the compost bin just now as we tidy the beds. But rather than ‘contaminating’ their precious soil with this terrible compost, some ...

David Harewood was just 23 and fresh out of Rada when he suffered a psychotic breakdown during which he had to be physically detained by six police officers, sedated and then sectioned under the Mental Health Act. He had spent weeks walking all over ...

DAIRE O'CONNOR barely batted an eyelid when Liam Scales conducted his first press conference at Celtic in Irish.

Alex Salmond and MP Kenny MacAskill have been confirmed as the leader and depute leader of the Alba Party.

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For decades, Laurie Campbell would head to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland from his Berwickshire home, packing a tent and cameras into his Morris Minor and later his camper van as he set out to record the life of the elusive otter – a creatur...

The Queen, Boris Johnson, Sir Keir Starmer and Nicola Sturgeon have marked the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

THERE is going to be some musing this week, so you might want to slip into something more comfortable before we begin. A floaty scarf works for me.

Question timing RED faces at Holyrood on Wednesday as Nicola Sturgeon highlighted just how scripted her backbenchers’ questions are.

SCOTS prosecutors have come under fire for the "misguided" practice of pausing criminal cases to "mask the reality" of how it was meeting targets on time taken for deciding on criminal prosecutions.

Fidelma Cook passed away in late June. We are running a selection of her columns as a tribute. This one is from September 2009. We hope you enjoy it.

Dirty streets, tourists robbed and violence were all linked to Glasgow in the early 1980s.

Surging Covid case rates are significantly increasing the infection risk for teachers and pushing schools towards the point at which lack of class cover results in even more children being sent home, union leaders have warned.

THE head of Standard Life has underlined the growth potential of the business that the firm’s previous owner decided to offload amid big changes in the financial services sector.

FOR vessels that are meant to operate under the strictest secrecy, submarines are attracting the kind of attention usually dished out to a new Strictly line-up.

Fishing today comprises varied sectors, from deep-sea to inshore waters, to aquaculture and the processing operations required to deliver world-class produce to UK homes and to global customers.

A NEW fund has been launched by the UK Government as part of its drive to help modernise and sustain the fishing industry.

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CALLUM DAVIDSON has signed a new long-term contract at St Johnstone.

Emma Raducanu’s shot at US Open glory will be available to watch on free-to-air television after Amazon Prime agreed a deal with Channel 4 to share the women’s final on Saturday.

THIS column is dedicated to walking and ramblers' groups from across Scotland, where they can suggest the best routes to enjoy from their areas and further afield.

GARY Lamont is talking Arctic ice adventures, thermals and avoiding polar bears. It is all a far cry from the Glasgow actor as many might know him.

THERE may be "issues" with some goods crossing the border between Scotland and England after independence, the SNP's deputy leader has admitted.

Lawyers for the woman suing the Duke of York over sexual assault allegations have claimed to have served legal papers on him, according to a document filed in a New York court.

TODAY campaigners will gather outside Whiteinch Library for the 21st weekly read in.

It’s been about four decades since the last chronic bout of stagflation, so a comment earlier this week from economist Paul Dales probably didn’t strike the degree of dread it should have among those too young to recall or appreciate the fiscal d...

AFTER slashing the UK’s foreign aid budget and announcing they’re going to cut benefits for the poorest in the UK by more than £1,000 a year, I thought the Tory Government at Westminster couldn’t sink any lower; but I was wrong.

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