TORY leadership hopeful Liz Truss has won the support of three MSPs in the last 24 hours.

Drax, which is seeking permission for a major expansion of its Cruachan hydro power plant in Argyll, has reported a rise in profits as the group benefitted from high electricity prices and strong demand for renewable energy.

BUDGET airline easyJet posted a loss it attributed to a £133 million hit from airport disruption amid a warning that labour shortages are “not going to disappear overnight”.

Rail services in Scotland will be crippled today because of a fresh strike by thousands of workers in a bitter row over jobs, pay and conditions.

HOMELESS campaigners have appealed to the First Minister to open public buildings as 'warm banks' to 'stop people freezing to death' as housing associations report increasing numbers of tenants struggling to afford essentials, including food and fuel...

SCOTLAND'S national cricket team has come under fire for "failing to provide any support" for those who sparked an independent review that found institutional racism within the sport's governing body.

And the Tories have now thrown into the mix some more introspection with a leadership contest, now whittled down to Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, that seems frivolous in nature given

FIRST, the good news. Vladimir Putin's chokehold on gas has done more to advance the cause of renewable energy than all the hot air expended at COP26. Phasing out fossil fuels has become the number one priority for Europe now that the dash for gas ha...

By Scott Wright

Medical software provider Craneware said it is line to reap the rewards of the company’s biggest-ever acquisition when it reports its year-end results in September.

A DRONE’S-eye view of queues waiting to reach the ferry terminals at Dover and Folkstone last weekend looked more like a war-time evacuation than the start of the summer holidays.

HAVING watched the Conservative leadership debate last night between Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss ("Truss and Sunak clash in noisy head-to-head debate", The Herald, July 26), my position remains unchanged in so far as I am dismayed that Westminster MPs ...

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

If you have tried and loved Wordle, Quordle should be your next go-to brain teaser.

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on Tory debates July 27 2022

THE Scottish Tories are about to find out that Boris Johnson was not their problem. Not that they will do anything about it. But it needs said anyway.

IN the wake of claims Google has created an artificial intelligence (AI) system with emotions, a robotic chess player broke the finger of an opponent at a tournament in Moscow. Against this backdrop, is Elon Musk correct to repeatedly warn of the dan...

I REMEMBER vividly the time when the now-former Chancellor Rishi Sunak declared his intentions around the Kickstart scheme. Following the announcement in his summer statement, the £2 billion programme was a bid to kickstart the economy and the caree...

Troubadour turns thesaurus

Ferry operator P&O Ferries warned passengers to expect a two-hour wait to complete checks before they can board a ship

The broadcaster, 61, said witnessing incidents of both sexual and physical abuse at the Edinburgh Academy had had a ‘profound effect on my life’.

THE SNP council leader at the centre of a sexual misconduct row will hold a crunch meeting with party colleagues about his future today, the Herald understands.

A FORMER SNP activist has called for all parties to act against sexual misconduct in their youth wings after revealing he was assaulted on a Young Scots for Independence trip overseas.

DAVID Campbell, who has died at the age of 78, was a well-known and respected business figure in the west of Scotland who started his working life in the Merchant Navy but found his true vocation in the newspaper industry.

SCOTS schools face being shut in a targeted strike as thousands of council workers across Scotland for for industrial action.

TONIGHT’s Tory party leadership debate has been hauled off air after a “medical issue” in the studio.

A NEWLY refufurbished green landmark office block in Scotland's largest city has hailed its first tenant.

LIFELINE ferry services have been severely disrupted after a fault which has sidelined one of its ageing vessels a matter of days after it was evacuated after a bombscare.

THE SCOTLAND Office has deleted a tweet which claimed that Skye was part of the Western Isles.

RISHI Sunak’s campaign has denied he was too “aggressive” and patronised Liz Truss by “mansplaining” in the first head-to-head TV debate of the Tory leadership contest.

BORIS Johnson has confirmed he met ex-KGB agent Alexander Lebedev at the height of the Salisbury poisoning scandal.

THE age at which children start school in Scotland may be increased in line with most other European countries.

People are being told only to travel by train if necessary on the eve of the latest national strikes by rail workers as Scottish transport minister Jenny Gilruth urges UK government intervention to end the dispute.

RISHI Sunak has insisted that a second referendum on Scottish independence is “the wrong priority at the worst possible moment”.

THE leader of Glasgow City Council has promised that a Eurovision on the banks of the Clyde would be a “Ukranian event.”

WAITING time performances across Scotland’s A&E departments have improved for a second week, but almost a third of patients are still waiting too long to be seen.

BORIS Johnson’s Scottish campaign manager for the 2019 general election has joined the campaign to elect Liz Truss as Tory leader and Prime Minister.

SELF-catering businesses and short-term let providers in the north of Scotland are moving to tackle challenges related to new rules.

THE board of North Sea-focused Serica Energy has “unanimously” rejected a revised takeover proposal from energy investment firm Kistos, declaring that it “significantly undervalues” the company.

Surges in air fares, delays, cancellations, strikes and general airport mayhem have dominated the headlines so far this summer, and with massive staff shortages throughout the global aviation industry, there is no prospect of the situation easing any...

IT'S less Netflix and chill to more of a cold shoulder.

BUDGET airline Ryanair has swung to a first-quarter profit despite airport disruption but warned the market is fragile as it was claimed “the golden age of cheap air travel is over”.

THE building blocks for an immense renewable energy project off Scotland stand on the quayside, waiting like impatient giants.

EasyJet has revealed quarterly losses after taking a £133 million hit from recent airport disruption, but insisted its operations are getting back to normal following cuts to its flight programme.

By Ian McConnell

RECENTLY a Glenluce member of the Galloway Community Hospital action group (GCHAG) shared her childbirth experiences with the Secretary of State for Women's Health. Her emotive account of 7,500 miles to receive maternity care hit home. The eighth-lar...

I see Nicola Sturgeon has been branding both contestants for the Tory leadership as ‘`hypocrites”. Par for the course, you might say; a childish insult unworthy of further consideration.

THIS month has seen the general, UK release of the much-garlanded Australian film, Nitram, about the Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania in April 1996.

By Scott Wright