SHIPYARD company Ferguson Marine has failed to win any contracts in more than two years of nationalisation under the £2800-a day turnaround director Tim Hair - and 'walked away' from millions of pounds in potential deals, the Herald on Scotland can ...

SMALL and medium sized businesses in Scotland are losing out on a £55m annual UK government defence spend bonanza to international contractors, the Herald on Sunday can reveal.

New concerns have been raised about affordability of care homes in Scotland as the price gap between the cheapest and most expensive has more than doubled in a decade.

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ALEX Salmond will today call for a determined campaign of civic action on independence.

CLIMATE campaigners have warned a “gaping hole” has emerged in the SNP’s blueprint to hit legal targets after Government officials warned a reliance on a contested technology will not materialise in time.

Some landed on the doormat from exotic climes, others from picturesque spots just along the road, delivering scenes of seaside fun and mountain views, sunny days and warm messages of ‘wish you were here’.

RESOLVE and resilience are two admirable and essential qualities in any leader. The ability to suffer bruising political blows and battle on to victory regardless. But perhaps more admirable and essential are the qualities of integrity and sound judg...

It is strangely fitting that Boris Johnson’s downfall, if downfall it is, should have been brought about by a jailbird and an aficionado of tractor porn.

Dr Rachel Taylor, paediatric gastroenterology consultant, seven years at RHC as a consultant

THE summer heat has come early to Sicily this year. And so have the coffin explosions.

As Pride month comes to an end, Scotland’s leading youth activist for LGBT rights, Amy Winter - who’s also a member of the Scottish Youth Parliament - talks to our Writer at Large Neil Mackay about what it’s really like to be a young LGBT perso...

Spotlight: Mick Lynch, a folk hero for our times?

Patrick Grady's statement of apology in the Commons chamber after he was found to have made an "unwanted" and "inappropriate sexual advance" against a member of staff 17 years younger lasted some three minutes.

WHEN they were building the Ravenscraig iron and steel plant, back in the 1950s, no fewer than four million cubic yards of earth were excavated, transported and filled elsewhere on the site. Four million. The place was huge.

I FEEL like grinding my teeth every time I hear Priti Patel coming out with her pet remark "I am speaking on behalf of the British people".

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From superb golf courses to culinary main courses, this part of Scotlandharbours a wealth of holiday treats, with fabulous restaurants,beautiful beaches and exciting outdoor pursuits for all the family to enjoy.

In the peace and quiet of her Inverness home, her tasks of looking after her ailing father done, the intensely private Elizabeth MacKintosh settled down to what she liked to call “my knitting”.

HAVING watched a trillion detective shows I would like to think that we, thee and me, could crack a case on our own by now. The circumstances would have to be extreme, a mass outbreak of dicky tummy, say, that drove most of the country’s cops to th...

POLICE Scotland has carried out more than 1,000 strip searches on children in the last two years, according to figures uncovered by The Herald.

Best foot F-word COUNTRY toff turned Scottish Secretary Alister Jack suffered a bad case of Tweed rage at Monday's Scottish Affairs Committee. Quizzed by SNP MP Deidre Brock about levelling-up funds, he spluttered: “You ought to suck it up and go w...

WHEN Ralf Little was 18 he was cast as a tea boy. Not just any tea boy, though. As Antony Royle he served television blue bloods no less. Barely an episode of The Royle Family passed when he was not despatched to the kitchen by dad Jim, mum Barbara o...

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THE CATHOLIC Church has been criticised after claiming elements of plans to reform gender recognition are “detrimental to the interests of society, communities and family”.

A CRESCENDO of discontent around Scotland’s ferries, and efforts to tackle capacity pressures claimed to be costing business exponentially, rings loud.

Roger Daltrey: the night The Who nearly brought the house down at Green's

RETAIL sales volumes in Great Britain dropped by 0.5 per cent month-on-month in May, with the food category showing particular weakness amid the cost-of-living crisis, writes Ian McConnell.

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It began life as a private hospital specialising in heart surgery but failed to make a profit.

"If we got a phone call today we would be ready," says Canon Peter McBride, as he shows us around the "airbnb" he has created at a Catholic church in Glasgow's west end.

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HOW worried should we be about reinfections with Covid?

The band are alright: The Who's best songs ranked

Roger Daltrey on the what, the when, the why and The Who

THE founder of a health tech start-up that bridges the gap between physical injury and mental wellness was one of the big winners at Scotland’s largest company creation programme for Scottish universities.

IAN Blackford, the SNP's Westminster leader, has spent copious amounts of political capital attacking his opponents for a variety of sins, including moral turpitude. Boris Johnson is, of course, the ultimate bete noire, justifying, in Mr Blackford’...

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FOR an iconic lyricist that penned classics for The Clash such as English Civil War (1978), Something about England (1980), and This is England (1985), Joe Strummer had a strange but somewhat late and close relationship with Scotland.

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LIKE many Scots, perhaps even other northern Europeans (though I think it’s mainly we Celts), I’ve a complicated relation to the Sun. I agree it can cheer a place up, brightening even the dingiest slum. But why must it be so blasted hot? (On a se...

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