Coronavirus infection rates in Scotland’s school-age population exploded at the end of last month and into 2021, with senior pupils most at risk.

The latest weekly coronavirus figures have been released in Scotland, highlighting hotspots of Covid-19 per 100,000 of the population.

By the beginning of March, everyone over 65 in Scotland and anyone considered "clinically extremely vulnerable" should have received (if they want it) their first dose of Covid vaccine.

A SCOTTISH parents group has demanded that Scotland's biggest teaching union withdraw "false" claim that it asked members to record teachers and students in online lessons.

ANAS Sarwar is expected to announce his bid to become the next leader of Scottish Labour after the party fixes a timetable for replacing Richard Leonard today.

UP to 40% of fish being landed at an auction in Denmark this year is from Scotland - as boats sail to the EU to sell their catch because of Brexit.

A host of new Covid restrictions have come into force today in Scotland due to a rapidly spreading strain of Covid-19.

THERE is nothing lonelier than the silence of an empty house. Lonely if you’re fragile and nothing is working as it should.

DOCTORS leaders have demanded ‘full transparency’ from health boards amid concern over the number of vaccines discarded after clinics were advised not to give boosters to NHS workers.

POLICE are to take no further action after investigating a hate crime allegation over comedian Sophie Duker's joke about "killing whitey" on Frankie Boyle's New World Order show.

On this day in 1919, the United States Congress ratified the 18th amendment to the American Constitution, authorising the prohibition of alcohol. It is a day that may be celebrated by Nicola Sturgeon and her SNP Government. The prohibitionists in ...

The UK is set to face short-term delays in delivery of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine as the pharmaceutical company upgrades its production capacity.

BULLDOZING Brexit through at a time the world is grappling with an unprecedented modern-day pandemic is threatening the future of thousands of businesses.

SCOTLAND’S crucial financial services sector has been thrown into fresh uncertainty following the UK’s departure from the European Union (EU), as sector observers declared the end of “passporting” effectively amounts to a no-deal Brexit fo...

MEMBERS of the public are to have a direct say in how Scotland’s politicians should respond to the coronavirus pandemic in the coming year.

SCOTLAND's environmental regulator says it will not be held to ransom after its systems were crippled for three weeks by an "international serious and organised cyber-crime groups".

SMALL businesses have been given a lifeline following a Supreme Court ruling over insurance payouts for Coronavirus.

WHERE Scotland was once the fiefdom of the Labour Party and where it used to be said that if it put a donkey up as a candidate it would be elected overwhelmingly, now the party is clinging on by its fingertips in Holyrood, having slipped into third p...

HAVING a spinal-cord injury goes a long way to dictating how I live my life. This week has been a painful reminder of that fact.

OVER the last year we have seen a lot reports regarding the damage caused to footballers as a result of heading the ball during their careers.

Brought to book

“WE’RE not sanctifying him,” Mark Radcliffe said of David Bowie about an hour into his programme on Sunday morning, “we’re appreciating him.”

WHEN the Scottish women’s hockey team celebrated their European Championship II success on home soil back in August 2019, little could they have known it would also serve as a farewell party.

By Ian McConnell

FINDING a corner of your home or garden for a little sanctuary during lockdown is something that many of us would crave.

By Mike Ritchie

It is the long arm of the paw and claw.

CELEBRITIES, pandemic, the truth about the vaccine and working women were the issues debated by columnists and contributors in the newspapers.

A PRIVATE collection of modern and contemporary Scottish art spanning the

 

THE resignation of Richard Leonard may have been a surprise, given that it is a few short months since he insisted he would fight any challenge to his leadership of Scottish Labour. But his belated decision that his position had become “a distracti...

“SWEET Thames, run softly, till I end my song,” Edmund Spenser wrote in his 1596 poem Prothalamion. More than 400 years later it still runs, possibly not as sweetly as it once did (though sweeter than it did 60 years ago; it was declared “bi...

THE MAJORITY of care homes in Scotland have been targeted by anti-vaccination groups over the past two days, Scottish Care has warned.