NEWLY released figures from Police Scotland show a staggering postcode lottery for public urination offences.

Islands, surrounded as they are by water, and swept by winds, always seem much closer to the elements. So it is that the hundreds of Scottish islands present us with places in which it’s possible to see the full force of nature.

SCOTLAND won't meet its climate change targets unless 79,000 more construction workers are recruited by the end of the decade, ministers have been warned.

Last week, doom-scrolling took on a new meaning as unspeakable images crowded our social media screens, day by day, following the withdrawal of Russian forces from the suburbs of Kyiv. We tried not to look. War should not be a spectator sport. How wo...

Interview by Neil Mackay

THE hours are long, the pay low, and the successful candidate will have to steel themselves to abuse on social media.

COUNCIL bosses have warned SNP ministers that authorities have not been equipped to meet net zero targets – insisting that “urgent delivery is now critical”.

THERE is something about the run-up to Easter that always puts me in the mood for a jaunt. I have emerged from my burrow like a hibernating animal, suddenly in the mood to throw off the shackles of my sofa-bound existence that has filled much of the ...

ON the wall of her Kippen home Carol Campbell has a memory box. It’s a gather-up of bits and pieces, of photographs and knick-knacks and belts and chains and plastic hearts. There’s a one-armed clock that, back in its two-armed days, she used to ...

A hidden camera has captured the first live UK footage of a wild white-tailed eagle hatching.

A Whitehall leak inquiry has been launched in an attempt to find out who passed details of Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s wife’s tax status to the media.

Britain’s self-proclaimed money saving expert Martin Lewis has warned of “civil unrest” amid the country’s worsening cost-of-living crisis.

Boris Johnson has said the West will supply Ukraine with the equipment it needs to ensure it can never again be invaded by Russia after holding surprise talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv.

SPIRALLING A&E delays have seen some patients wait over three days for a bed, while others have suffered broken hips in falls from emergency room trolleys, medics have told the Herald.

IF the Mauldslie Bridge could talk, this charming crossing over the River Clyde would no doubt have some cracking yarns to tell.

THEY saved the worst ‘til last.

As the Kremlin stands accused of war crimes in Ukraine, Foreign Editor David Pratt who was recently in Kyiv takes stock of the evidence and reflects on where the war is now heading

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A hole in one and a damaged star in the other: Donald Trump, Tiger Woods and the great leveller – golf

IAIN Macwhirter ("Will ‘NatRail’ be superior to ScotRail? Passengers will certainly take some convincing", April 3) takes a cheap and ill-informed swipe at our Scottish Government when commenting on the prospective consequences of ScotRail coming...

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Boris Johnson has met President Volodymr Zelensky in Kyiv in a “show of solidarity” with Ukraine.

SCOTS gathered in Glasgow in a show of solidarity with Ukraine on Saturday.

“SUNLIGHT,” as David Cameron famously said in 2009 about the MPs’ expenses scandal, “is the best disinfectant”.

MY television reviewer senses were tingling as The Split (BBC1, Monday) returned. The everyday tale of divorce lawyer folk ended its second series with the seemingly rock-solid marriage of Hannah and Nathan (Nicola Walker and Stephen Mangan) on the r...

One of Britain's largest holiday park groups, Park Holidays UK, has been acquired by US real estate investment trust Sun Communities Inc.

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THE blueprint for the future of Scotland’s economy was criticised by some for being too broad-brush, and lacking ambition.

SEX, scandal, MP. When these words appeared in Sunday paper headlines recently it seemed like stepping through a portal to another time. The back to basics, era, say, or earlier than that, Profumo. Surely Westminster scandals had moved on to the like...

DESPITE the SNP and Nicola Sturgeon being the most popular among Scottish voters, they still do not favour independence, according to a new poll.

It is “possible” the SNP could win a historic majority in Glasgow City Council, the authority’s leader has said.

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A body has been found in the search for a missing pensioner who disappeared in the Highlands more than two months ago.

An urgent four-nations summit should take place to consider how to respond to “hardship” in the food sector linked to the Ukraine crisis, Scotland’s Rural Affairs Secretary has said.

The UK needs to lift its visa requirements for Ukrainians in order to see more than a "small trickle" of refugees making it to the country, the head of the British Red Cross has said.

SO, I say to the writer sitting in his tenement flat in the East Village in New York, when was the last time you used the phrase, “I am the Booker Prize Winner.”

Rishi Sunak's wife Akshata Murty has announced she will now pay UK taxes on all her worldwide income after a row erupted over her non-domiciled status.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called for a tough international response after Russian forces fired a missile at a crowded train station.

In a hospital bed, with a new stoma to get used to and having battled through emergency bowel surgery, Robert Cowie’s body and spirit had taken a battering.

THE campaign to create Scotland’s Covid memorial has taken a step closer to reaching its fundraising target following a five-figure grant towards vital work in and around the peaceful location.

THE Scottish Building Society, which claims to be the world’s oldest remaining building society, has posted record results, writes Brian Donnelly.

THE Israeli-owned firm that has bought into the Cambo field off Shetland has said the development of the reserves it holds could help boost energy security in the UK and make sense on environmental grounds, in spite of fierce opposition from campaign...

CAN the obesity crisis be reversed?

A smart outdoor surveillance and protection camera with powerful features to secure your property.

A man has been arrested after a high-speed police chase on the M8 that saw two people hospitalised.

COMEDY

By David Coombs

BACK when he used to present Radio 2’s Breakfast Show, Terry Wogan used to tell his producer that he wasn’t going to get up at 5.30am in the morning not to have a laugh. “It’s got to be fun,” Wogan said. “If we’re not having fun, then t...