AMONG the memories that GP and presenter Dr Rangan Chatterjee shares with me about his time spent in Edinburgh evolves around a phone call he received from his mother one night, while he was at Edinburgh Medical School.

A 'MILESTONE' payment of more than £1m was paid to a Scottish shipyard the day after Nicola Sturgeon launched a new ferry that remains unseaworthy and languishing in the yard to this day, it can be revealed.

Honest to a fault MILLIONAIRE Tory donor turned wholly coincidental Tory peer and Scotland Office minister Malcolm Offord made a rare public appearance on BBC Scotland’s Debate Night on Wednesday. Joining in with the mood of rest of the panel, he w...

As calls to the barricades go, it’s hardly French Revolution standard, but there is no doubting Jim Moir’s enthusiasm as he introduces The Prince’s Master Crafters: the Next Generation (Sky Arts, free to view, Wednesday, 8pm).

THE prospect of a national strike that could bring the already limping UK grinding to a halt is another psychological blow to businesses and homes struggling to balance the books.

Councillor George Redmond says he has the votes to replace Malcolm Cunning as leader of the Labour group on Glasgow City Council.

AN INVESTIGATION has been launched into a "very unusual" spike in deaths among newborn babies in Scotland for the second time in just six months.

ASK Gordon Buchanan about his most memorable wildlife encounters and he is spoiled for choice – perhaps no surprise after three decades of adventures that have taken the presenter and filmmaker to almost every corner of the globe.

A POIGNANT ceremony is to be held to mark the official opening of the first phase of Scotland’s Covid Memorial just weeks after reaching the fundraising target.

THE Scots finalist of the Queen’s Platinum Pudding contest might have lost out on being crowned the winner, but is ready to head to Balmoral if she is asked.

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London-headquartered KultraLab is opening a new "product hub" in Edinburgh in a move that will double its workforce with the creation of 25 jobs.

By Ian McConnell

THEY were the last age group to be offered Covid vaccinations, and uptake has been notably sluggish.

By Ian McConnell

IF I’M honest, I still think Radiohead peaked on their second album The Bends. However, this is, if Archive on 4 (Radio 4, Saturday) is to be believed, a minority position. It’s the band’s third album, 1997’s OK Computer, which is seen as the...

IT has been apparent for some time that the parliamentary system at Holyrood is not working at all well. The recent exchanges about the ferries fiasco have demonstrated this clearly ("Swinney denies he gave the ‘final nod’ to Calmac contract", Th...

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AND still, remarkably, the CalMac ferries debate drags on, each week bringing forth an unappetising new detail.

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Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on the police issuing more Downing Street Partygate fines on May 14, 2022.

THE Crown, the robes, Black Rod, the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition obliged to indulge in awkward social badinage as they head for “another place” to hear the gracious speech.

UPDATED versions of classic nursery rhymes such as Baa Baa Black Sheep and Little Miss Muffet have been released to "remove insensitive language”, be more “animal friendly” and discourage “speciesism”.

“NOW,” the waiter says expectantly, “would you like to video this?”

BOFFINS, they’re back. Kinda. Climate change, Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine and especially Covid have all reminded many of us how much we need to hear from people who know what they are talking about.

AND now the week’s most predictable development: Nicola Sturgeon is to host a summit of women’s groups in Scotland to discuss abortion rights. Last week the First Minister couldn’t bring herself to define what a ‘woman’ is. Perhaps she coul...

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YOU win some you lose some, you lose an Andrew you gain an Andrew. That is the state of play on Sundays now that Andy Marr has left the BBC for LBC and his fellow Scot has put that GB News unpleasantness behind him for The Andrew Neil Show (Channel 4...

WhatsApp, owned by Meta, the company who owns Facebook and Instagram issue the warning over the rules many people are not aware of.

Jenny Vaughan: An appreciation

BORIS Johnson failed to apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe despite her telling him of the “massive impact” his blunder had on her six-year detention in Iran.

The "world’s first" rapid testing facility for tidal turbine blades, which researchers say can speed up development of marine energy technologies while helping to reduce costs, has opened in Scotland.

LABOUR’S attempt to re-take one of its former red wall seats in a byelection has been thrown into turmoil amid claims of a ‘stitch-up’ by party bosses.

THE party that came second in the Northern Ireland Assembly election has been accused of "shameful" behaviour after it blocked the return of the entire legislature.

THE UK Government faces a collision course with unions and the threat of a national strike over controversial plans to axe tens of thousands of jobs in the civil service.

A PRIME development site in Aberdeen which went into administration at the end of last year has been brought to the market.

If Scots were happier, would we be healthier? TV doctor, Rangan Chatterjee thinks so and in an interview in the Herald magazine to be published tomorrow has said that happiness is the missing element in most public health and medical strategies

JUST days after coming within a seat of replacing the SNP in Glasgow, the Labour group in the city is reportedly on the brink of “civil war”.

BORIS Johnson certainly ensured the week got off to the noisiest of starts on the Brexit front.

London-headquartered KultraLab is opening a new "product hub" in Edinburgh in a move that will double its workforce with the creation of 25 jobs.

UPDATED designs for the new £68 million Shawlands Arcade in Glasgow have been described as "out of context" in the second stage of a consultation.

WHEN Coldplay signed up to a partnership with Finnish sustainable aviation fuel company, Neste, as part of a bid to halve the emissions of their tour, they may have thought they were doing their bit for the planet, but Carlos Calvo Ambel didn’t thi...

Hundreds of trains services have been cancelled or curtailed this week due to driver shortages linked to a bitter pay dispute ahead of a possible summer of discontent on the newly-nationalised Scots rail network.

NETWORK provider Commsworld is linking rural communities in England with boosted broadband under a new partnership.

The Auditor General has indicated that claims of fraud at a crisis-hit college may require police involvement.

By Scott Wright