BRITISH-based workers are planning a mutiny as protests erupt over the scandal of cheap foreign labour replacing them to serve Scotland's green revolution, the Herald on Sunday can reveal.

From Taxi Driver to Goodfellas, 10 songs and five bonus tracks that prove music has been integral to Scorsese's success

NEARLY 100,000 children across Scotland do not have access to a library at their primary school - despite a four-year-old Scottish Government move to ensure that they do to help improve literacy and boost attainment.

Migration and the rise of Airbnb have put traditional communities at risk.

SCOTLAND'S biggest publicly funded housing association has been condemned for a failure to track the full extent of damp and mould problems in their rented properties leading to serious health concerns.

A UK Government shipbuilding strategy has cited ferries set to be built in Turkey within a ‘pipeline of 'opportunity' for domestic shipbuilders, it has emerged.

Climate activists have faced floods of criticism over destructive and damaging protests, but state these are the only way to ensure their dire concerns are heard.

A SENSE of unrest within the SNP ranks at Westminster looks set to continue despite Ian Blackford seeing off a challenge to his position as leader of the party in the Commons.

GERMAN hotel group Ruby is to open its first hotel in Scotland.

With watertight protection for Scotland’s ancient and veteran trees in sight, cataloguing them has become even more important. Amateur tree hunters are on the job.

They are the names and faces which make you shudder at the very thought of them and the heinous crimes they committed.

Abuse of migrant workers, LGBT persecution, control of women, and allegations of Fifa corruption. As the World Cup begins, our Writer at Large speaks to the one man who knows Qatar inside out to discover the truth about this strange and dangerous nat...

It’s Joe Biden’s 80th birthday today. It’s a fair bet that the US president will pause and wonder what lies ahead for him in the coming year not least whether he will run again in 2024.

BRITAIN’S winter of discontent has arrived early with an almighty thump: a recession; an accumulating number of strikes and the grim prospect of most of us getting poorer through 2023 and beyond.

HENRY McLeish has urged Nicola Sturgeon not to be tempted to put her plans to establish a National Care Service on hold following hefty criticism and growing concerns over cost.

I HAVE been shocked, but not so much surprised, that while the UK remains heavily engaged in the national parlour game of Westminster-based naval-gazing and deep-seated economic woes coming to a head after 12 years of Conservative financial and cultu...

The FIFA World Cup is already mired in controversy before it has begin. Will you be watching?

Here are Billy Connolly's 8 funniest moments as the Glasgow-born comedian celebrates his 80th birthday.

Hints and answer to today's Wordle 519.

Train your brain by putting your mind to November 20's Quordle word puzzle.

Flood warnings remain in place for areas of Scotland, following dramatic scenes on Friday.

He confirmed the UK's "continued support" in the war with Russia.

EVERY day is a school day for Alan Yentob. The BBC arts doyen had ventured north to Glasgow to make Imagine … Douglas Stuart: Love, Hope and Grit (BBC1, Monday), a profile of the Booker-winning author, and he had clearly done his homework.

SPOKE to someone the other day who had no idea the World Cup started on Sunday. Admittedly she was 84 and had never watched a match in her life, but still. The World Cup used to be A Big Thing. Especially on the telly. Weeks of wall-to-wall coverage ...

What is this, I say to Joe, after we have both forked up mouthfuls of rice, pomegranate and yoghurt. And after I have looked at the menu repeatedly. True. At first absently.

A RESTAURATEUR has hailed the opening of a new offering in the Scottish capital.

The owner of Scotland's largest undercover shopping and leisure destination has gone into administration.

SCOTLAND’S home-grown restaurants, hotels, pubs and clubs have been among the worst hit. First closed by the pandemic, then battered by Brexit, and now floored by energy bills and inflation, the outlook in the wake of the Autumn Statement is not go...

Deputy First Minister John Swinney’s hands will be “relatively tied” when it comes to decisions on taxation in next month’s Scottish Budget by decisions that have been made at UK level, with any major divergence having knock-on effects for Sc...

Tens of thousands of tenants in social housing in Scotland face soaring rent increases when a nationwide freeze ends at the same time as annual energy bills will rise by around £500.

Bar and restaurant group offering up to £750 to “any members of the public” who make a successful recommendation of a friend to join staff at venue

ON the same day that the global population officially reached a record eight billion on Tuesday, scientists were sounding the alarm over something that might just put the brakes on future growth: the mysterious, and apparently accelerating, decline i...

By David Coombs

For the past year it seems, unbeknown to the majority of those who call Anstruther home, it has harboured one of the world’s most notorious Holocaust deniers. 

It is a language spoken by an estimated seven million people but has been suppressed in its home country.

CAMPAIGNING. Standing up for what matters. Shouting loudly.

AFTER a lifetime criticising the Tories, it feels strange writing this; but I think Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement is reasonable overall ("UK facing record fall in incomes", The Herald, November 18). The decision to uprate benefits by inflation was...

Aftersun, the debut feature from Edinburgh-born director Charlotte Wells, arrives in cinemas this weekend - and could just be the best British film of the year

SOME call it the “Fourth Wave”. The Far Right is – once again – surging across Europe.

IN life, there are always consequences. For Ministers delivering contentious, dramatic statements, the alternatives are generally fairly straightforward. Either they will make history – or they are history.

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on the arrival of the controversial Qatar World Cup on Saturday, November 19.

As imagined by Brian Beacom

I’M going to start with my usual content disclaimer. This week we’re talking about consent, sex, and boundaries. If any of those are topics you would rather avoid, by doing so you are already respecting your own boundaries and that’s something ...

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LOUISE McCarthy is telling a story about life imitating art while shooting the latest series of BBC Scotland comedy The Scotts. The actor reveals she was only days away from giving birth when filming the hilarious scenes which saw her pregnant on-scr...

EVERY four years, football fans across the globe salivate as they look forward to the World Cup and its showcase of the game’s most exhilarating players and free-flowing teams. In 2022, however, something seems to be missing.

JONATHAN WHITELAW, AUTHOR

TODAY is Women’s Entrepreneurship Day, an annual global celebration that highlights the importance of women in business and makes a powerful economic case for more women to become entrepreneurs.

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