Firefighters were attacked five times as they were called out to 356 bonfires this Saturday.

An additional bank holiday will mark the coronation of King Charles III next year.

10 songs and five bonus tracks that tell the story of a classic British band

A SCOTTISH Government agency has provided public money to help investigate privatising island ferry services - after Nicola Sturgeon ruled it out, the Herald on Sunday can reveal.

Cash-strapped Scots are selling belongings and buying second-hand to help get through the cost-of-living crisis.

THE head of Scotland's biggest publicly funded housing association and social landlord has seen his wages soar by 63% in eight years to nearly half a million pounds while rent arrears in the cost of living crisis hit a record high of £169m.

Lewis Capaldi, Sir Rod Stewart and Paolo Nutini were among the winner at this year’s Specsavers Scottish Music Awards.

A LABOUR government may take Scotland and the UK back into the EU’s Erasmus programme, according to a member of the party’s shadow cabinet.

NICOLA Sturgeon will face a further SNP rebellion next month when legislation making it easier for transgender people to change their legal sex comes before the Holyrood for the final time.

How can patients get such different experiences at EDs just few miles apart 60 miles apart at opposite ends of the A9 in Larbert and Dundee

IT WAS billed as the “last best hope” to salvage efforts to limit global warming below irreversible levels. But one year on, COP26 has been branded a failure amid warnings that the world is still on course for climate catastrophe.

So small, they could easily be passed by without even being noticed, their delicate flowers with their sweet fragrance only found in tiny pockets of ancient Highland pine woodland.

HERE we go again. World leaders will gather by the Red Sea in the next 48 hours to make grand statements, some apocalyptic, about the climate threat to the planet and what needs to be done to save it but never has it been necessary for actions to spe...

Professor Matt Qvortrup is a world expert on how countries achieve independence. He says Scotland would easily become a successful independent nation, but the SNP lacks the charisma and passion to pull off a win. He talks to our Writer at Large

STAFF shortages may have contributed to two deaths in a single four-week period at a flagship Scottish hospital, an investigation has found.

A FORMER health secretary has called for the Scottish Government to introduce a land levy which he estimates could generate £2 billion a year to help fund public services including the NHS and social care.

The year was 1880 and for young medical student Arthur Conan Doyle, the offer to join a “whaling cruise” to the Arctic, in return for wages of two pounds ten a month plus three shillings a ton for “oil money” was too exciting to possibly turn...

JOHN Swinney's huge cuts to public services serves as a warning. Money does not grow on trees. Mr Swinney has gone even further by cutting a large chunk of NHS cash whilst telling the nurses there is no more money for the pay deal they have just reje...

As former health secretary Matt Hancock heads for the celebrity jungle, how will he fare - and why is he doing it in the first place?

CABINET Office minister Sir Gavin Williamson says he “regrets” the language used in a series of abusive text messages to another MP.

According to Joe Biden the future of US democracy itself is on the ballot this Tuesday as the country holds its midterm elections. Foreign Editor David Pratt examines the key issues and whether American politics is about to take a sharp turn right

Described as a game for 'cinephiles and casual movie watchers alike' it is inspired by the worldwide popular guessing games. 

Here are some hints and tips to help you crack the Quordle from November 6.

Hints and answer for today's Wordle, 505.

Emergency services are gearing up for the busiest night on their calendar.

The firebombing of an immigration processing centre in Dover was motivated by an extreme right-wing terrorist ideology, police have said.

Nicola Sturgeon has been urged to act on reducing emissions in Scotland as she joins world leaders at COP27.

Travellers across Scotland are still facing significantly cut train services this Bonfire Night after a union called off its strike.

20 years of Franz Ferdinand in their own words

THE number of NHS workers on the receiving end of violent assaults at work has risen by over a third since before the pandemic.

A TENANTS group fighting to save their demolition threatened homes are today launching an appeal for volunteers to launch an occupation.

If you didn’t know what was going on, it would look very strange indeed. A big group of people who’ve just arrived from the other side of the world are gathered round an ordinary looking gate. They’re all taking pictures of it. Some of them are...

By Scott Wright

The Prime Minister’s COP-in on climate change has raised plenty of scathing comments about the Conservative party’s consistent track record of U-turns, but industry executives are far more agitated that Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt are ...

A LONDON-based company has submitted a planning application to The Highland Council for a £25 million biogas plant at a wartime airfield.

CHRISTMAS is but weeks away but there is little reason to be cheerful. The outlook for the economy and for public spending is positively wintry.

WHEN David Johnstone was diagnosed with a sarcoma after months of back and forth with doctors telling him not to worry about a grapefruit sized mass it turned his world upside down.

Accountancy firm BDO has moved into a new 8,000sq ft office in Glasgow as part of ongoing plans to expand its team.

WHEN it comes to waiting times in the NHS, the gulf between what happens on paper and what happens in reality has never been wider.

By David Thomson

IT is often said that the only certainties in life are death, taxes, and people being nasty in the comments sections of newspaper articles.

WITH the arrogance that we have come to expect from SNP representatives and members, Deirdre Brock, SNP MP, tried to patronise Penny Mordaunt, Leader of the House of Commons: "She might not know that there are… seven countries…in the EU [that] st...

CROSSED arms and holding some bread next to a sideboard and his stuffed great dane Cecil, Horst P. Horst’s ‘Andy Warhol In His ‘Factory’, is one of the great portraits of the iconic American visual artist.

For one weekend in May every year, the ‘Wee Red Toon’ of Kirriemuir quadruples in size as AC/DC fans gather from all corners of the globe for three days of rock ‘n’ roll concerts in celebration of the life of the iconic rock ‘n’ roll band...

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on Matt Hancock’s decision to join the I’m A Celebrity… castaways on Saturday, November 5.

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A TV interview with an able-bodied male-born finance worker who identifies as a woman who is paralysed from the waist down has sparked controversy in Norway.