THEY loom up from the ground along our coastlines, appearing in the landscape like strange, abstracted figures watching our beaches. Some shorelines look like busy rock festivals, crowded with forms, staring perhaps out to sea, or poised in perfect b...

DOWNING Street has denied Boris Johnson knew about allegations of harassment surrounding former deputy chief whip, Chris Pincher.

The British Army is investigating a "breach" of its Twitter and YouTube accounts.

Sarwar will call for a new legal duty of cooperation between governments in Westminster and Holyrood and "joint governance councils".

Three people have been killed and another four have been critically injured after a shooting in a shopping centre in Denmark's capital.

Therese Coffey is not one of the better known, most media-savvy operators in British politics.

It’s not always easy to find good news stories about education and believe me, I try. Headlines are too often dominated by the latest chuntering of one or other of the teaching unions. The default position being the glass is half empty. The sabre o...

This, in case you didn’t know it, is the week Labour makes a clever strategic move, a sort of pre-emptive strike that both Anas Sarwar and Keir Starmer hope will do several things. First, undermine a key Tory tactic; second, outmanoeuvre the SNP; a...

There is one (near) certainty in the path towards a second independence referendum.

A MEMO TO ALL UNIONISTS: Like all the other right-thinking people on the planet, we were horrified by Nicola Sturgeon’s new plans to deliver her Scottish independence neverendum. Let’s look on the bright side though: at least it gives us the chan...

HE worked in over 70 different restaurants before landing the role of head chef at Superico in the Scottish capital at the age of 32.

A teenager has been hospitalised after a serious assault during a Glasgow Calvin Harris gig on Saturday.

SHE is someone whose ambition and determination to push herself to the limit has been an inspiration over the years.

FROM Joseph Lister's trailblazing work on antiseptic surgery to the world's first radiology department, Glasgow Royal Infirmary made its mark of the history of medicine.

One of the great myths of getting older is that next year will be quieter.

By Ian McConnell

By Stephanie Millar.

NICOLA Sturgeon suggests that if Scotland is denied a referendum in October 2023, then she will fight the next UK General Election on the principle that the Scottish voters will be voting on a straight "Independence Yes or No" basis, in an election a...

What is today's Framed? Some hints to help you guess the movie. Plus the answer for when you've given up!

Hints and answer for today's Wordle

Move over Wordle, you can now shake things up with its music spin-off Heardle.

Here are some tips to help you crack today's Quordle and the answer when you give up!

IT is a historic game, more than 80 years old, that is played around the world, with more than half of British homes said to have a set. However, all is not well in the world of Scrabble.

THE Diary was sad to hear of the death of Andy Goram, a truly inspirational cricketer for Scotland, also remembered for his aptitude between the sticks on the footie field.

Having just starred in the long-awaited Top Gun sequel (no less than 36 years after the original) and with the seventh Mission Impossible film slated for release in 2023, Tom Cruise is certainly not taking his foot off the pedal as he enters his 60s.

Here are the days you should book off around the remaining Bank Holidays in 2022 to make the most of your holidays.

See the dangerous and wild animals being kept in Scotland - and where they are with Born Free's interactive map.

A NEW Highland town, which Moray Estates has been building since 2018, has laid the final brick on its 250th home as it enters the second phase of development.

PATRICK Harvie has insisted that votes for the Greens at the next general election should be used in support for the Yes campaign if the poll is used as a “de facto referendum” on independence.

A UK Cabinet minister has claimed Boris Johnson did not know “specific claims” about the Tories’ now former deputy chief whip amid a strong of sexual misconduct allegations against him.

Once again, Herald readers have proven they do not merely like to read the best in journalism and well-written pieces – they like to write them too. The recent writing competition organised by The Herald and Mighty Pens not only attracted another v...

There’s no real difference in what motivates men and women to commit murder, according to one of the UK’s leading psychiatrists Dr Gwen Adshead. Women can be just as brutal as men, and if men were raised differently they’d be as less prone to v...

SPECIALIST courts could prosecute serious sexual offences in a bid to increase conviction rates, support victims, and help clear a huge backlog in cases could be set up in Scotland under a plan being considered by ministers.

THE SNP has launched a new drive to encourage people in Scotland to register to vote ahead of plans to hold a second independence referendum next year.

A PROMINENT critic of Nicola Sturgeon has given his backing to her Indyref2 route map and said with a strong and united Yes campaign it could lead to Scottish independence.

There was jubilation in the nationalist movement on Tuesday after Nicola Sturgeon unveiled her new route map to independence. Some thought it was a brilliant legal coup, front-loading the Supreme Court with the draft independence bill. About time, sa...

Scotland’s film and TV industry is booming. Late last month new independent analysis showed it turned over more than £560m in business in the last year before the pandemic, 2019.

On a rocky ledge high above sea level and on one of Scotland’s most precious mountain landscapes, a tiny black and white visitor has settled into its summer home after a journey spanning thousands of miles.

“YOU’RE not going to negotiate when you have a gun on the table,” declared Maros Sefcovic, the top Eurocrat, after a majority of MPs this week backed in principle the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill.

THERE was no shortage of angry words aimed at Donald Trump last week.

COUNCILS have a “responsibility” to try to make the best of controversial freeport schemes to help their people, according to one of Scotland’s most senior local government officials.

It might be described a game of two halves: when the beautiful game kicked off in Edinburgh with women players in their white knickerbockers, blue jerseys and red stockings, a good-natured crowd gathered to witness the unusual spectacle.

War correspondent David Pratt is standing on a simple bridge that spans a dusty track on the outskirts of the town of Citluk in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

NICOLA Sturgeon's route map to Indyref2 came after years of rancorous debate inside the SNP about what to do should the UK Government continue to oppose a new vote.

NICOLA Sturgeon demands a referendum with her preferred timing, wording, franchise and other terms and conditions, so ensuring that in every way possible the approach taken favours the outcome she is seeking.

It begins with Andy Stewart's I Belong to Glasgow before the hypnotic groove of Movin' On Up gets the crowd swaying.

IT’S notable how we take islands for granted in Scotland. Plenty other places don’t have them. They are of us and off us. They configure themselves in the psyche by virtue of visible jigsaw coastline.

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A Glasgow School of Art academic has described his “astonishment” after being shown the restoration of a part of the building considered its masterpiece.