THE recent Stigma Strategy launched by the Scottish Drug Deaths Taskforce tells us nothing of use about drug addiction but tells us an awful lot about the disconnected professional classes.

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THERE is a “real risk” that Pfizer vaccines will be wasted as a result of the sudden U-turn on second doses for healthcare staff, a top doctor has warned.

BORIS Johnson and Emmanuel Macron offered very different perspectives on Brexit in their new year messages, as former Monetary Policy Committee member Danny Blanchflower again encapsulated what the situation will mean from an economic and societal...

THE UK Government has been told to make the £20 Universal Credit uplift permanent as almost half a million Scots are now claiming the benefit.

TWO major investors have agreed to fund a landmark build-to-rent development of hundreds of homes on a landmark site in Glasgow city centre.

The latest Scottish lockdown with its nationwide ban on contact sports for the over 18s is effectively extending the ban on competitive rugby introduced by Scottish Rugby’s Board in November.

With a new lockdown in place, exercise is one of small number of reasons to leave the house.

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The company behind the major redevelopment of a Glasgow landmark has expressed hopes its £100 million project will attract technology companies, after winning planning approval for the office space and hotel scheme.

HERE we go again. Happy New Lockdown. Those of us fortunate enough to be able to work at home will no doubt sit this out, as we did last time, watching Netflix while bickering and complaining on Twitter. Meanwhile a whole army of anonymous folk wi...

MINISTERS have been told to do more to prevent racist bullying and introduce compulsory recording of abuse after more than 2,200 incidents were reported in schools in the last three years.

EDINBURGH University will harness space technology to help farmers in Africa grow more crops thanks to a £200,000 funding package from the UK Government.

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The Years that Changed Modern Scotland

It is "imperative" for the Scottish Government to act quickly as it moves to ban single use plastic items, environmental campaigners have said.

It feels like it may never end, however, one of the final steps in the US election gets underway tomorrow.

AS we experience Nicola Sturgeon’s further actions which will destroy the economy ("Scots told to stay at home or risk breaking the law", The Herald, January 5), perhaps alternative logical actions could be recommended.

NORTH, the Scottish headquartered technology firm formed by the merger of five UK technology companies, has appointed Glen Williams as its chief executive.

A firm that developed pioneering oil analysis technology expects to double staff numbers after securing a seven figure investment amid the challenging market conditions resulting from the coronavirus crisis.

AS you read this, I hope to be lying in the dentist’s chair, one of the few activities still allowed under the new prohibitions. It is only a check-up, but that feels like a luxury and a privilege compared with the lockdown last spring, when the do...

ON Sunday reports emerged that Tanya Roberts, former Bond girl and one-time Charlie’s Angel, had died in Los Angeles, only for her agent to reveal that this was not the case a day later.

As winter sets in, now's the time to admire structural plants that can provide a framework or focal point for beds and borders in the cooler months.

THE UK’s plunge into a third lockdown and Boris Johnson’s leadership dominated the newspapers comment sections.

James Bond star Tanya Roberts has died at the age of 65, several hours after her publicist incorrectly announced her death.

SCHOOL pupils who will be stuck at home during the most recent lockdown will be able to watch BBC TV to enhance their education, it has been announced.

CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak has been accused of performing an “embarrassing U-turn” and “short-changing” Scotland after he announced a £4.6 billion aid package to help businesses through the latest lockdown, saying it included £375 million extra...

NICOLA Sturgeon has been urged to stop government work and political campaigning for independence because of the “perilous situation” caused by coronavirus surging.

SCOTLAND’S Finance Secretary has claimed that £375 million of UK Government funding announced to mitigate the lockdown is not new cash

BORIS Johnson has revealed the initial “huge effort” of the country’s biggest vaccination programme has already seen 1.3 million inoculated across the UK, including one in four of the over-80s south of the border.

THE HEADTEACHER of an independent school on the outskirts of Edinburgh has launched a furious attack on government after Nicola Sturgeon announced the closure of all schools until February to help fight the spread of coronavirus.

A petition calling for the UK Government to reduce university tuition fees is circulating, after many students will now study remotely in response to the recent Covid-19 restrictions.