An update on the Eurovision Song Contest host city shortlist is expected later today, according to the BBC.

Back in November of last year, in the full flush of post COP26 enthusiasm, Nicola Sturgeon came out against the controversial Cambo oilfield, saying that it “should not get the green light”. It seemed to mark a turning point in the SNP and Scotla...

RANGERS have been fined £225,000 by a markets regulator for their part in the fixing of prices fans pay for the club's merchandise.

They blazed a trail for creative equality in what was a male-dominated field.

BABCOCK International has said uncertainty on the global political stage could bring further business opportunities in an update of the first five months of this year.

While Liz Truss appears to have bowed to warnings that tax increases could threaten investment in the North Sea, evidence suggests the levy imposed by her rival in the Conservative party leadership race has not dented enthusiasm for the area.

IT'S really time to reassess your priorities when the thought of being sprung anywhere but Waitrose is enough to have you shunned from your usual social circles.

MINISTERS have been told to provide funding and a regulatory system to develop a green energy technology that could heat thousands of homes in Scotland.

University bosses say their institutions are fast approaching a “critical” state after forecasts suggested weak public investment will soon lead to international students overtaking the Scottish Government as a revenue source.

By Kathleen Nutt

AT its record low of $1.0327 in Asian trading yesterday, the pound was down a jaw-dropping 10 cents on its close last Thursday, the day before Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng unleashed a frenzy in financial markets with his mini-Budget.

By Ian McConnell

ALDI has hailed its growing patronage and pledged to “provide the lowest grocery prices in the UK” as the cost of living crisis worsens for millions of households.

DRUGS commonly used to lower cholesterol have been shown to slow tumour growth in prostate cancer patients for the first time.

Luxury car retailer Pendragon has received a fresh takeover offer from its largest shareholder valuing the group at about £400 million.

Revenues at marketing and promotions specialist SpaceandPeople have partially recovered to pre-pandemic levels but losses widened as costs increased.

Farming By Neil McQuistin  

OLD Dante would feel right at home in 2022. There’s a sense that we’re walking in the poet’s footsteps. In The Divine Comedy, Dante passes into hell through gates bearing the legend "Abandon hope all ye who enter here’. At its heart, Dante’...

A FORMULA frequently adopted by some submitting letters to The Herald is to start by bemoaning aspects of national life and ascribe blame for these solely to Westminster and the Tories. This is then cited as sufficient reason for Scotland to secede f...

ADVENTUROUS Michelle Wilson from Paisley has been discussing with her family the possibility of a move to Australia next year.

I GOT chatting to my old friend, the author Douglas Skelton last week. He is perhaps best known for writing a crime series about a fictional, Glasgow-based criminal called Davie McCall, who was first introduced in the novel Blood City. His more recen...

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on the pound September 27 2022

TORY voters are entitled to feel confused. For 12 years, they have been voting successfully to elect Tory governments, only to be told now that they weren’t Tory governments at all, but pinko imposters betraying the true gospel.

The Treasury moved to settle the markets with the promise of a Budget next spring as the pound tumbled against the dollar on Monday

A stroke charity has echoed a doctor’s concerns that Scotland lags behind England in providing access to a “game changing” treatment that catches potentially deadly clots.

SIR KEIR Starmer is expected to tell delegates at Labour conference that he cannot and will not work with the SNP, and that there will be “no deal under any circumstances” between the two parties.

If you're not a fan of the hit games Wordle or Heardle then maybe try the movie spin-off Framed.

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

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

THE SNP has argued that Scotland’s right to self-determination is “fundamental and inalienable” in a full legal submission over a legal bid to hold an independence referendum.

ANAS Sarwar has insisted that Labour will take seats off the SNP at the next election and get Keir Starmer “over the line”.

THE GOVERNOR of the Bank of England will not “hesitate to change interest rates by as much as needed” amid fears action may be required if the value of the pound continues to fall.

It was remarkable how many of those witnessing the late Queen’s journey from Balmoral to Windsor, did so via their mobile phones. Understandably, they wished to record what was a unique occasion, unlikely to be repeated. It was more difficult to un...

A Scottish bagel brand is bidding to raise funds to boost its UK-wide expansion plans.

Sterling slid to its lowest against the US dollar on record after traders swallowed the impact of the Chancellor’s tax cut plans.

The cost-of-living crisis has pushed up bills for the average Scottish household by £167 per month since the start of this year, the second-highest rise of all the UK nations and regions after London.

A Scottish cyclist has broken another record after completing a loop of the North Coast 500 route in 28 hours and 35 minutes.

NICOLA Sturgeon has accused the UK Government of overseeing a “catastrophic disaster” as she criticised the “fiscally reckless” tax cuts announced by the Chancellor.

Nearly two-thirds of voters who took part in a ballot supported the plan to buy the 27,000-acre Bays of Harris Estate, which includes the Isle of Berneray.

ONE OF Scotland’s top lawyers has said he would consider moving south of the border if the SNP do not follow Kwasi Kwarteng’s lead and abolish the additional rate of tax.

THE Cabinet Office has spent at least £300,000 blocking transparency requests in court, it has emerged.

THE POUND has plunged to an all-time low against the US dollar amid hammered market confidence in the UK Government’s economic strategy - as the First Minister accused the Tories of creating an "economic crisis".

JOHN Swinney has said the Scottish Government will “reflect carefully” on the radical tax changes introduced by the Chancellor but has insisted any system north of the border will have a “progressive character”.

EXECUTIVES at Aldi have pledged to "provide the lowest grocery prices in the UK" as they warned the cost of living crisis is "worsening" for millions of households.

FALLING leaves, party conferences, and the First Minister of Scotland tweeting about Strictly Come Dancing – you hardly need to consult the calendar to know autumn is here, politics is back, and with it the Sunday shows.

A MAJOR Scottish A&E department has been operating beyond its capacity for every single hour of every day last month.

THE leader of the UK's biggest union has said ScottishPower's "eyewatering" £7bn in dividends to its Spanish owners reveals the need to renationalise energy and proves that a budget benefitting the rich will not work.

Nicola Sturgeon – hold fast. Last week the First Minister described Kwasi Kwarteng’s decision to abolish the 45p top rate of income tax as “moral bankruptcy” – suggesting her government won’t pass that tax cut on.

Whenever there is talk of austerity the Tories reference low-income families as though they are stray dogs that must be fed scraps. They produce a spectrum of poor relief that ranges from “enough for them to live on” to “keeping a roof over the...

A MASS meeting is being organised for staff after a one of the last of Scotland's historic paper mills went into administration with the loss of more than 300 jobs after receiving £12m in public money.