THE architect behind the original plan to build a crossing from Scotland to Northern Ireland insists it should be a “post-Brexit imperative” in the wake of the UK Government shelving the idea.

MORE than 50 Orange walks and loyalist marches are set to take place in Glasgow today.

THE BBC is to make a second series of Bodyguard starring Richard Madden, according to reports.

ONE of Scotland’s most senior doctors has warned the growing problems in the NHS as it heads into a brutal winter now go wider and deeper than the pandemic.

GREAT news for the hard of hair as Alex Salmond proves there’s life in the old scalp yet.

Hundreds of pupils are being kept out of school every day by parents amid worry over Covid-19 case rates and the revised contact tracing process.

UK ministers have been warned by a top UN official that the decision to cut the £20 Universal Credit uplift may be a breach of human rights laws.

Primary pupils will be helped to explore LGBT+ issues such as the difference between assigned sex and gender, using pronouns inclusively and stereotyping thanks to a book being donated to Scottish schools.

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SCOTLAND is set to miss out on a second post-Brexit freeport after SNP ministers confirmed they have rejected UK Government plans and are intent on pressing ahead with alternative proposals.

HARD to believe in these days of cosy panel games such as Would I Lie to You and QI, but the BBC used to be the home of a very edgy quiz. One where some contestants felt so insulted they walked off the set, and where the possibility of a punch-up hun...

IT is all change for the arts on Radio 4. Last weekend it was announced that the station is revamping its coverage, with a longer running time for the regular magazine programme Front Row, including more regional coverage. There will be a new music p...

By Tim Wishart

IT is a garden that throughout lockdown became even more a sanctuary for those who use it than ever before.

OKAY, time to move on to another sport. The Tenner Bet has exhausted all avenues in attempting to find a winner to kick-start the football season but, when trebles are falling down because previously unbeaten Fulham lose at hitherto winless Blackpool...

IN the vaults of the British Pathe newsreels, there is a grainy, black and white clip of a “Golf International” at Gleneagles from 1921.

WEST of Shetland-focused Hurricane Energy has generated around $20 million cash from its oil production operations in the latest month following a period in which it has faced big challenges.

Some relief at last late yesterday for Britain’s battered and bruised travel industry as costly testing requirements for many international arrivals into England were scrapped in favour of “simpler, cheaper rules” for those who are fully vaccin...

Blair McDougall, head strategist of the Better Together campaign during the 2014 independence referendum, is writing exclusively for The Herald's Voices Live section.

By Scott Wright

THE power of sport doesn’t just inspire youngsters to be the best they can be, it provides a place for all of us to move our bodies.

THIS year’s Camanachd Cup final has put Kinlochshiel on the map. Just not literally. Anyone scanning an atlas eager to locate the Highland village that has provided a team for shinty’s showpiece occasion for the first time will find it a fruitles...

IT was a tough start for Celtic and Rangers in Europe this week.

THE quango in charge of Scotland's historic sites plans to spend up to £60,000 mapping their "imperial connections", including any links to the slave trade.

Blair Jenkins, chief of the Yes Scotland campaign during the 2014 independence referendum, is writing exclusively for The Herald's Voices Live section.

How much can Scotland's current ambulance crisis really be blamed on coronavirus?

NUANCE is frequently difficult to discern in modern political discourse. Partly, I blame the mischievous media. Myself, in short, and my sundry colleagues.

Seven years since the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, have your views heard. Vote in our poll.

“MY work is about me: It is how I think, how I breathe, how I move, what I witness, what I pay attention to. It would be very difficult for me to try and pull myself out of the work. It would be virtually impossible.”

IT’S possible, I think, both to empathise with Humza Yousaf for being filmed taking a fall at his place of work and to mock his somewhat supercilious response to it. The cabinet minister for Health and Social Care was rushing to be present at a Hol...

SCOTTISH Equity Partners has taken part in a $35 million investment round in London-based tech company Tyk, which has a management platform used by Starbucks, Domino’s and Societe Generale, writes Scott Wright.

POLITICALLY motivated opposition attacks on Humza Yousaf (Letters, September 17) are unwarranted and unjustified, not least as ambulance services and health boards throughout the UK have also advised people to think twice before calling for an ambula...

Covid travel rules, loneliness in care homes and empty shelves were the topics raised by columnists in the newspapers.

THE current serious crisis faced by the Scottish Ambulance Service is not confined to one dreadful case in which a critically ill patient died after a 40-hour wait, though it is understandable that such an incident should spark an outcry.

ROLLING Stone has compiled what it says is the definitive list of the "500 greatest songs of all time", but critics have branded the effort “woke”.

I HAVE just returned from Croatia. It was life enhancing to escape from the Covid-obsessed UK, to a country that felt pretty Old Normal. It underlined for me just how weird, despairing and corrosive to confidence the mass psychology here has become.

OASIS played four outdoor summer shows in Loch Lomond and Knebworth 25 years ago that saw 5% of the population apply for tickets. It remains the largest ever demand for concert tickets in Britain.

Ron Mackenna's restaurant review: Luchador, Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow.

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.

I DON’T want to worry you, but I’ve been on a train. The controversial incident occurred last weekend, and I doubt if I’ll be repeating the experience.

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Funding given to NHS dentists to equip surgeries with Covid ventilation systems that could allow them to treat more patients is “woefully inadequate,” a Scottish dental leader has said.

Today marks seven years since the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.

TOMMY WRIGHT admits Rumarn Burrell’s return to training is an unexpected but huge boost to Kilmarnock.

CHRIS SUTTON has branded Rangers' decision to deny him access to Ibrox last night to work as a pundit as 'Trumpism at it's finest'.

THE SCOTTISH Government plans to merge the green and amber travel list to "streamline" restrictions — following an earlier announcement in England.

Investment adviser Alan Steel has died at the age of 74 following a month-long battle with Covid.

ALBA Party leader Alex Salmond has said the "incompetence" of the award of £100m ferry contracts overseas will provide severe problems for the SNP-Green coalition.

THERE’S a particularly cruel absurdity to the SNP’s online army attempting to turn public debate toward a discussion about whether the BBC should have tweeted images of the Health Secretary falling off his scooter.

School inspections are to resume in a move that has been branded retrograde and out of touch by union bosses.