Boris Johnson will deliver a statement to MPs on Tuesday regarding fixed penalty notices issued in the partygate saga as fresh claims emerge about his conduct, according to reports.

By Paul Dobson and Rob Edwards

The greased piglet was wriggling and squirming last week and for a moment it looked as if Boris Johnson’s goose was cooked, if you’ll excuse the mixed metaphor.

AFTER 28 years of teaching, Jane Rainbow was looking forward to retirement. Her decision to leave the job she had loved had been fortified by a recent investment in a fledgling oil and gas firm that was now paying out a stunning 10 per cent dividend ...

THE SNP Government has been accused of playing “constitutional roulette” with the devolution settlement after lobbying UK ministers with five options to rewrite the Scotland Act to push through legislation deemed incompetent by the Supreme Court.

THE 2017 council election in Glasgow was a landmark victory for the SNP and the ultimate humiliation Labour which had held power in the city for almost 40 years.

Scotland’s “prescriptive” approach to sex education is normalising underage sexual activity and risks perpetuating child exploitation, according to a leading analyst.

THERE is always a curious jumble of emotions when a long-running TV series ends. While part of you desperately craves everything tied up neatly in a bow, there is a melancholy about not getting to hang out with all your favourite characters anymore (...

For thirsty travellers arriving in the northeast harbour town of Wick, battered by the elements, whipped by the North Sea winds or just weary from the road, a stiff drink may well have been in order.

They emerged from the intense heat of the furnace, every day, simple objects that would revolutionise kitchens up and down the land.

TIMING may not be everything in politics but it’s pretty close. Getting it right is invariably crucial to ensuring a policy is a roaring success rather than a whimpering failure.

What did you watch on TV last night – or, more importantly, how did you watch it? On the BBC? Channel 4? A streaming service? On your laptop? Your phone? Perhaps you didn’t watch any telly at all and scrolled through YouTube?

WHEN the makers of the TV series Outlander needed to cast a Scottish garden to stand in for those at the French royal place at Versailles they came to Crieff.

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I REPEAT the question I posed in a previous letter: how can we call our lives “normal” when there is so much suffering in Ukraine? After all, “the heroes of the Ukrainian resistance have been fighting for all of us” (“Ukraine’s heroes are...

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Investing in cryptocurrency is something that many enthusiastic traders are looking to do these days.

THE  UK’s immigration policy is not about “saving refugees’ skins, it’s about saving this Government’s skin”, a charity has said, after it was revealed Priti Patel overruled the concerns of civil servants to push ahead with the controver...

The First Minister is confident most people in Scotland will carry on using face masks after the rules ease on Monday.

Three teenage boys have been charged with reckless conduct in connection with an incident at a busy Scots lifeboat station.

A lorry driver who died in a five-vehicle crashin the Highlands has been named by police.

The Prime Minister and Scotland's First Minister are among a series of UK officials to be banned from entering Russia in retaliation for supporting Ukraine.

The First Minister has voiced support for Lorna Slater following a row over comments by the Green minister about transphobia.

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Parents have been urged to avoid Kinder chocolates this Easter weekend amid a salmonella outbreak.

The bodies of more than 900 civilians have been discovered outside Kyiv, the area's police chief has claimed.

SCOTS are being warned they can expect major travel disruption over the Easter weekend.

The Home Secretary has issued a rare "ministerial direction" to overrule concerns of a top civil servant regarding plans to ship some asylum seekers to Rwanda, it is reported.

The most improbable story to have ever happened in the art market. So says one contributor of the true tale told in The Lost Leonardo (Sky Arts, free to view, Tuesday, 9pm). Who could resist the offer to learn more?

HE has run half-marathons barefoot in the snow, climbed Everest wearing shorts, and he’s not even from Glasgow … Ladies and gentlemen, it’s Wim Hof!

GLASGOW City Council’s cultural arm has been accused of politicising ancient exhibits at the Burrell Collection by linking them to the contemporary debate around transgender rights.

Shop soiled THE surreally duff start to the SNP’s local election campaign has sparked a meme.

IT IS only an eight-minute ferry journey from its nearest large town and has been billed as being Scotland’s most accessible island.

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More than 150 people have signed a petition amid mounting anger over plans for remote learning at high schools in the Western Isles.

THE SNP will charge commuters entering Edinburgh and level the workplace parking levy on some of the biggest companies in the capital if the party is re-elected next month.

IT IS a time of change for many in the hospitality industry after one of the most difficult periods in the sector’s history.

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A motorcyclist has died on the scene of a crash on a northeast road.

SO many numbers have been thrown up by Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine. First there were military graphics in the newspapers bristling with figures, like a macabre game of Top Trumps. How many men, tanks and planes did the Russian president have ma...

SHAUNA Macdonald is a natural-born storyteller. The Scottish actor has a knack for rattling off anecdotes that hold the listener rapt, making for gregarious company with her quick wit and no-holds-barred candour.

By James de Uphaugh

BOOKS do furnish a room. And they furnish people too, as author Emma Smith pointed out on Start the Week on Monday morning (Radio 4).

Glasgow-based training consultancy This is Milk is looking to raise up to £450,000 to support the launch of its new online learning platform.

IN the 1830s, a new disease began sweeping through Britain which is said to have "shocked society like no other illness had done in recent times and generated everything from general unease to riots".

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THAT Boris Johnson et al at Westminster should now propose forwarding refugees to Rwanda ("Johnson’s plan to send migrants to Rwanda branded 'inhumane'", The Herald, April 15) is quite the most despicable action, and that Priti Patel and Mr Johnson...

IN Holy Week when we celebrate humanity’s salvation through the death and resurrection of God’s only son our thoughts are directed towards compassion and the forgiveness of sins. These are the most sacred days in the Christian year, but they also...

THE fact that Boris Johnson and his Chancellor, Rishi Sunak have received fixed penalty notices from the Metropolitan Police for breaches of the Covid regulations, and accepted them, puts them in a very grave position.