CELTIC are set to be boosted by the return of a key player for Thursday's Europa League clash with Real Betis.

A GROUP of mindless vandals have defaced a sculpture with "Hang SNP" and anti-vaccine messages.

Festival bosses have confirmed the first parts of the line-up for next year's Glasgow Green event, which will take place between July 8 and 10. 

Boris Johnson is mourning the loss of his mother after she died aged 79.

Plans for the construction of Scotland’s first spaceport have passed yet another legal hurdle after receiving permission from the Scottish Land Court.

COUNCIL leaders have warned SNP ministers that “a crisis response mode will be required for several years to come” ahead of crunch budget negotiations with emergency pandemic funding expected to be wound down.

By Kristy Dorsey

By Scott Wright

THE appearance of towns and cities across Scotland has been in the spotlight in recent weeks, with much focus on the causes of the excess rubbish, fly-tipping and vandalism that are blighting some of our streets.

HOLYROOD bosses are scrambling to quell a growing revolt against plans to expose protesters to the threat of criminal prosecution.

RADIO 4 aired a show on Sunday afternoon about the transformation of Buckfast from wreck-the-hoose-juice to quirky cocktail ingredient in London bars.

MSPs will be asked to support controversial plans for the Cambo oil field as Conservatives attempt to force a wedge between the new SNP-Greens government.

HAVE you flung in your tuppence worth on Padraig Harrington’s European Ryder Cup wild cards yet?

By Kristy Dorsey

By Ian McConnell

By Ian McConnell

IT is a vision which could put Glasgow on the map as a city of wellbeing with proposals being draw up to develop land which could attract a health-driven complex.

NORTH Sea-focused Ithaca Energy is reported to be poised to buy a $1billion (£0.7bn) portfolio in a deal that would confirm there is still strong interest in oil and gas assets in the area.

OIL services firm Exceed has expanded into Australia amid expectations that expertise developed in the North Sea will help it win business in the country.

The more you look at them, the less the UK Government’s plans make sense

SO the Scottish Greens have been in government just a handful of days and there’s yet to be a People’s Soviet declared anywhere in the central belt. Balmoral hasn’t been stormed by Red Guards. There’s been no Battleship Potemkin moment at the...

SCOTLAND CANNOT afford independence, yet it was the talk of the SNP conference this weekend, so rest assured a costly road lies ahead.

AN award winning arts expert has joined prestigious auction house Lyon & Turnbull.

Pop queen Britney Spears to marry

The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has given Orkney brewery a Golden Award to mark 50 years of campaigning.

IT is dispiriting to see the Scottish Government back-track on its proposals for a national energy company ("Ministers urged to reverse ‘embarrassing downgrade’ to energy firm pledge", The Herald, September 9).

AN NHS overhaul, vaccines and the social care crisis were the issues raised by columnists in the newspapers.

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SCOTS heart specialists are using artificial intelligence to reduce the risk of heart attacks in a medical first that will improve outcomes for patients.

Here's when and how to watch Nicola Sturgeon's Covid update this afternoon.

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ARE vaccine passports a good idea? Were they ever a good idea? Could they be a good idea in Scotland, where we’re getting them, but not in England where, after humming and hawing, the government has decided against?

A FRIEND recently offered me this interesting insight: “If you want to know what Nicola Sturgeon is going to do next, look at what Jacinda Ardern is doing now”.

A Scots jewellery designer who counts Kylie among his customers is to open a new outlet in Glasgow city centre.

THIS heavy defeat in sunny Parma has left Bryan Easson’s Scotland’s side with a mountain to climb in their quest to reach a first World Cup since 2010. They must now defeat Spain this coming Sunday and Ireland the following Saturday to keep alive...

Andrew Neil has appeared on GB News in his new role as a contributor and commentator after stepping down as the chairman and host of a prime-time show.

COUNCILS which take in Afghan refugees who flee to the UK will receive £20,000 per person to help them settle in their new homes.

ANDREW Neil has quit GB News just months after launching the controversial network.

When you walk into an exhibition of paintings and feel energy bouncing off the canvases and straight into the unconscious part of your brain which affects your mood, you know that something is working.

MICHAEL Gove made racist and sexist remarks and joked about paedophilia, new recordings have revealed.

Aidan Pilkington, 18, has been confirmed as the teenager fatally struck down on Crow Road in the early hours of Saturday.

MORE than 40 arrests were made over the course of the weekend for "drug possession and assaults" at TRNSMT.

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The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has awarded Orkney brewery in Quoyloo with a Golden Award to mark 50 years of the organisation’s campaigns.

Compelling portrait of a woman losing her grip: Malcolm Forbes reviews Dinner Party

Three writers test three recipes from Jamie Oliver's new collection, Together, designed to make family cooking doable and fun.

MANDATORY vaccine passport checks for all supporters attending football matches with more then 10,000 fans would be "counterproductive", Ian Maxwell has claimed.

CHILDREN aged 12 to 15 should be offered Covid vaccinations, according to an evaluation by the UK's four chief medical officers.

SNP activists have sent the party leadership a stark message for councils to be given more freedom over Scottish Government funding after the party’s conference delegates called for authorities to be allowed “local flexibilities” amid concern o...