NICOLA Sturgeon has been asked to personally intervene in Scotland's ferry crisis - as campaigners make a desperate push for purchase of an emergency vessel for sale for a fraction of the the £52.5m being spent for each new ship being built in Turke...

CHANGES to the way the electricity network is paid for threatens the future of energy supplies and presents a new barrier for investment in green energy projects in Scotland and damage moves to tackle climate change.

When professional boxer Gary Murray suffered a devastating brain injury in the ring, his family feared the worst.

MINISTERS will come under growing pressure to overhaul council tax when the trade union movement step up demands this week over local government funding reform.

The Conservatives in Westminster have lost the plot. They have taken leave of what little sense they had left after the Brexit wars. Boris Johnson has driven them into the realms of the irrational. It’s not the men in grey suits that they need now ...

In an exclusive interview with The Herald on Sunday, legendary Scots actor and star of US hit show Succession, Brian Cox, talks to Barrie Cunning about his love of Scotland, Scottish politics, and how he wants to see the best for Scotland

ON a campaign visit to Possilpark, Glasgow earlier this month Keir Starmer and Anas Sarwar emphatically rejected any prospect of Labour working in a coalition with the SNP at a local or national level in the future.

GRAHAM Phillips could soon be the first comedian from Dundee to end up in The Hague.

LIKE all good yarns our tale begins on a dark and stormy night. It was in the winter of 1850 that high seas and ferocious winds battered the shores of Orkney, washing away part of the sand dunes that fringed the Bay of Skaill to reveal the clutch of ...

When mum to be Lucy Lintott was in hospital for the birth of her first child, her partner likened the anxious wait for the battle ahead to the kind of nervous tension felt by a Tommy in the First World War.

Every morning, 370 miles away from the ancient Caledonian pine forest beauty of Loch Arkaig, Mary Cheadle rises, logs on and catches up on the latest instalment of the soap opera she can’t stop watching.

As France today goes to the polls in a presidential election the outcome of which remains uncertain, Foreign Editor David Pratt examines one crucial factor that might have swung things Emmanuel Macron’s way

It is only a journey of the mind now. A train full of people, all in their Sunday best. Smiling and happy. Buckets and spades and sandwiches. To the left are the fields of Fife, to the right is the sea, and at times you’re so close to the water it ...

A disunited France today goes to the polling stations to choose its new or not so new president but as voters in many cases hold their noses, Europe will be holding its breath.

IT'S a matter of some concern that the most important issue facing the world just now – Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the slaughtering of its citizens – is being overshadowed by the Partygate affair with Boris Johnson facing increasing calls t...

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From Glastonbury to TRNSMT, here's whether you should be packing your sunscreen or wellies for the UK's biggest festivals this year.

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Enquiries are ongoing to establish the cause of the fire at the Bridgeton building.

LABOUR MSP Katy Clark has criticised plans from Conservative ministers to close work and pensions offices in Scotland, as she called on the Scottish Government to step in and recruit at-risk staffif necessary.

Her name conjures up angels and celestial beings, but as HMS Seraph, an S-Class submarine measuring 217ft of deadly war machine, surfaced in the chilly springtime waters of the Holy Loch, her mission was far from heavenly.

It feels ironic that the week that Devi Sridhar and I are meant to meet in person, I come down, with Covid. We resort to the tool of the pandemic, Zoom.

MOTORWAY service stations, how much do you hate them? On a long journey, when you need a pit stop and don’t want to take a chance on the nearest town (have you seen Deliverance?), they are a necessary evil. Crowded, noisy, expensive, it’s a get i...

COME awards season The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe (STV, Sunday-Wednesday) should be a shoo-in for several prizes, including “best bad acting”. It takes a truly gifted thesp to act like a beginner, and Monica Dolan and Eddie Marsan delivered th...

THE UK is in the grip of an employment emergency. There is a record 1.25 million job vacancies and a labour shortage that is keeping businesses that should be open closed.

By Ian McConnell

MINISTERS will face pressure next week to drop their resistance to nuclear energy as the trade union movement back the building of new plants in Scotland in a bid to boost jobs and cut household fuel bills.

Glasgow's "sick man of Europe" tag was “not always accurate” but the cost of living crisis on top of years of austerity risks the city regressing, a leading doctor has said.

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The Culture Secretary has accused commentators of mocking her dyslexia after she muddled her words in a video posted on social media by a Conservative MP.

Nicola Sturgeon has hit back at “bizarre” claims her party’s manifesto puts independence before local government issues.

Russian forces have attacked a steel plant in the shattered Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, Ukrainian officials said.

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A tour boat with 26 people aboard is missing after reportedly sinking – with no sign of survivors after seven hours, Japan’s coastguard said.

Fire crews are currently tackling a blaze on a bus in Glasgow city centre.

Scotland’s west coast ferry network is facing major problems due to its ageing fleet of vessels, the managing director of CalMac has said.

Supermarkets across the UK have placed limits on how much cooking oil customers can buy due to supply-chain problems caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Some 700,000 Scottish households have still not submitted their census response, with just one week left to fill in their form.

IT WAS a regular sight in Glasgow Green as thousands of people donned tartan to take part in the Kiltwalk events.

RATES of norovirus have rebounded sharply in Scotland after virtually disappearing during the height of the pandemic.

By Ian McConnell

A new poll has found that small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) in the UK are less positive than their Nordic counterparts on the outlook for the economy.

By Scott Wright

By Stuart Paterson

OVER a three week period in March, clinicians at Glasgow’s Royal Hospital for Children (RHC) noticed something very strange.

Laura to Cape Fear: the week's best TV films

IT IS the optimism that might come as a surprise. Because it’s not the usual default position when it comes to Northern Ireland.

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