The force is understood to have about 500 armed officers and while there has been no increase in their numbers for Cop26.

COP26 president Alok Sharma said he wanted the coming climate conference to be the most inclusive ever. But last week campaigning groups declared it could potentially be the “most exclusionary".

Vigil: the reality behind the hit BBC series What’s the story?

SOME £8.5m has been 'wasted' on temporary 'sticking plaster' fixes to try to prevent landslips on one of Scotland's key roads over five years.

COVID, the crisis in social and health care, the state of the post 9/11 world – the Sunday politics shows are hardly short of subjects to explore. Their chief concern yesterday, however, was how to jump on the increasingly crowded Emma Raducanu ban...

MINISTERS have intervened to try to end a dispute that threatens to bring Scotland's railways to a grinding halt when the world's eyes are on the nation during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 26) in Glasgow in November.

TWO of Scotland's ageing ferries were forced out of action at the weekend - as calls were made for the scrapping of the management and ownership structure of Scotland's beleaguered lifeline vessels and a re-organisation into one integrated body.

PLANS to temporarily double the carer’s allowance supplement given to unpaid carers have been backed by Holyrood’s Social Security Committee.

By Scott Wright

By Ian McConnell

The SNP leadership appears to have grown mistrustful of public involvement in the political realm. At least, that’s the impression after news that gatherings outside Holyrood are set to be criminalised and the transitional constitution for an indep...

A TAWDRY episode in Scotland’s recent history, shielded by the great human dramas that have unfolded around it, is dragging to a close. In December we will return Edinburgh Zoo’s two giant pandas to their homeland in China after a decade-long ren...

“Something touched me deep inside, the day the music died.” So sang Don McClean in his 1971 classic, American Pie. The music was pronounced dead on 3 February 1959, when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and Jiles Richardson Jnr., aka the “Big Bopper...

The Grumpy Old Men of Scottish nationalism have been talking about what’s going wrong with Scottish nationalism and, surprise surprise, they do not agree. Kenny MacAskill says the SNP has become too authoritarian and is undermining women’s rights...

FOR the past decade, Glasgow's schools have been on the up and up - attainment is steadily rising while exclusions are falling.

NICOLA Sturgeon is to emphasise the democratic need for Scots to have another referendum when she addresses the SNP conference today.

John Swinney has stated that vaccine passports in Scotland would be a temporary measure and that the Scottish Government was still looking to continue with plans.

Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey said the introduction of vaccine passports has not been “ruled out forever”.

Elliott horror injury will shine spotlight on more lenient refereeing

Analysis By s1jobs  

Analysis By Sandra Innes  

Fears have been raised for the retirement prospects of hundreds of thousands of older UK workers following the release of fresh data showing a dip in the employment rate of 50 to 64-year-olds, reversing a 20-year upward trend.

Name: Nick Sinclair.

There are more of them. They are bigger. And they are more aggressive.

SCOTLAND coach Bryan Easson believes the draw for the Rugby World Cup qualifying tournament has been kind to his team, despite the fact that their first match this afternoon is against hosts and top seeds Italy.

Boris Johnson is “dead set” on avoiding further lockdown, reports have suggested, as the Prime Minister prepares to set out his plan to get the country through coronavirus over the autumn and winter.

Chronic neglect of the NHS and a lack of preparedness before the pandemic, along with flawed government thinking, has added to the tragic impact of Covid-19, the British Medical Association’s council chairman will say.

British actress Tanya Fear has been reported missing in southern California.

Rural Scotland – though wonderful in many ways – is economically challenged.

I AM currently in the position of securing elderly care for my 93-year-old mother, and like Frances McKie (Letters, September 9), I welcome the intentions of the Scottish Government to improve the provision and delivery of such care in Scotland. To a...

SCOTLAND is not ready to fully transition to electric vehicles due to lack of infrastructure and insufficient charging points, according to the chief executive of leading chauffeur drive company, Little’s.

LORD Willie Haughey, the Labour peer and owner of City Facilities Management Holdings, has reiterated his opposition to the UK’s apprenticeship programme, claiming that “it has done nothing but put back the whole apprenticeship movement”.

By Karen Peattie

The UK Government has terminated an agreement with French pharmaceutical company Valneva for its Covid-19 vaccination, the company said.

By George Mair

By Carlos Alba

WE recently mentioned a bakery near Dundee where the iced buns are famous because…

IF you are of a certain vintage, it may be that a rummage around your wardrobe could well reveal an old item of clothing that would now also be regarded as ‘vintage’, bearing the words ‘St Michael’ on its label. Now the old Marks & Spencer br...

THE head of Alzheimer Scotland has criticised new social care funding plans for failing to "even mention" the higher care costs faced by those with advanced dementia.

It will be full blooded, trench warfare for 90 minutes but no one would have it any other way. 

ONE of the MSPs on Holyrood’s management body has called for the parliament to abandon its controversial plan to criminalise protests outside the building.

The pandemic and Brexit are ‘no excuse’ to delay another referendum, Alex Salmond has insisted.

Swinney: Negative naysayers will be left behind

A referendum could be held in Scotland as early as next year, although leaving the UK would be “hard work”, the author of a major report on the economics of independence said.

Priti Patel is facing questions over her conduct after it emerged she met with a Tory donor and British Airways without a government official.

Rizzio

Location: Fabulous Forres

The directors of an award-winning absinthe bar share their passion for magical cocktails in a new book. Sam Wylie-Harris takes a peek inside.

Sunday's opinion page pieces covered cultural snobbery around the quest to save the Gaelic language, and raised concerns about the prospect of a nationalised rail service in Scotland. Here is The Herald’s pick of those editorials.

THE NHS is not safe under a Conservative government in Westminster, Scotland’s health secretary has said.