The First Minister will update Holyrood on restrictions levels during a briefing today.

The TV star – who rose to fame in City Lights and was more recently a River City actor ¬– was also one of Scotland’s greatest ever panto stars, headlining each year at the King’s Theatre in Edinburgh.

Follow along with the latest coronavirus news in Scotland and further afield.

AS usual, following the resignation of yet one more Scottish Labour leader, we have the regular debate about the remedy (Letters, January 16).

SCOTTISH Labour should not block a second independence referendum, but push to have far greater devolution included on the ballot as a third option, Monica Lennon has said.

THEY were calling card movies, the films that made his name, won awards and led eventually to Hollywood stardom.

MSPs are set to refuse consent for the UK Government’s controversial spy cops Bill today in a fresh constitutional clash with Westmminster.

THE SCOTCH whisky industry says 5% cut in duty will help ease a £7.5m a week hit causes by "punitive tariffs" and actually provide a £250m a year boost to the nation's tax revenues because it will boost demand.

IT is the small East Ayrshire town of 13,000 people with a strong socialist heritage due to its history as a mining centre.

SCOTS experts warned six months ago that international travel was a main driver of Covid-19 infections but the UK’s rigorous test-before-travel scheme was not introduced until yesterday, allowing the virus to circulate freely in Scotland, it has...

OVER 2m Scots have been refused the right to pay with notes and coins during the pandemic, threatening the viability of the cash network.

A MOTHER who gave birth at home during the first national lockdown said she hopes those considering the option will not be discouraged by a new film starring Vanessa Kirby which documents a catastrophic delivery.

Is now the time to stir up emotions and divide our communities in the pursuit of independence?

THE UK North Sea is the most attractive basin in the world for oil and gas firms that want to develop big offshore projects on a key measure, experts have concluded.

THE SNP is to support an amendment to Brexit legislation that could allow UK courts to determine whether genocide has taken place.

It’s traditional for an outgoing American president to issue pardons. How many depends on the president, but as he enters his last full day in office today it’s expected that Donald Trump will announce 100 or so to add to the 94 who have alrea...

LIKE most people, I felt immediate relief when Big Tech pulled the plug on Donald Trump amid the Capitol riot. Silencing him would save lives, I felt, would save democracy.

BAILLIE Gifford US Growth Trust hailed the achievements of biotechnology company Moderna and entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX venture as it revealed it had outperformed dramatically in its first half.

OBSERVERS of the economic impact of coronavirus may be more interested than usual in the forthcoming reporting season for the major high street banks, which takes place towards the end of next month.

A SCHOOLGIRL'S entrepreneurial spirit featured in The Herald after raising money for charity has been highlighted in the Scottish Parliament.

WHAT would Scotland be without its love of traditions? Every year on 25 January, Burns Night celebrates and pays homage to our beloved bard Robert Burns. Despite being in lockdown, the patriotic spirit and being felt throughout the country this y...

A VIDEO platform founded by leading figures from technology and sport is to launch this year and has already caught the attention of rights holders around the world.

SCOTLAND’S richest man has won the right to mount a legal challenge against a new spaceport near his Highland estates.

WORLD leading vaccination production and the sense of suspended animation as lockdown continues were the topics covered by columnists in the newspapers.

A GOOD deal of derision greeted the BBC News website headline (fairly swiftly amended) that initially declared: “Talented but flawed producer Phil Spector dies aged 81”.

Dissing the dish

BORIS Johnson has been accused of leaving low-income families across the UK facing “crippling uncertainty” as he looks set to delay any decision on whether to maintain the £20-a-week increase in Universal Credit until the March Budget.

More than half of Scots support independence, according to a new poll.

He was in the spotlight for more than 40 years, a legend of Scottish stage and screen.

MATT Hancock has told people “don’t blow it now” as he claimed the lockdown restrictions were bringing the coronavirus under control and the vaccination programme was accelerating with more than four million people now having had their jabs....

A SENIOR SNP MP has warned his party the “window is closing” on holding an independence referendum this year - but has stressed it should still take place “as soon as possible”.

FISH export firms which have lost out on sales as a result of Brexit chaos will be able to apply for a £23m compensation scheme, the Prime Minister has announced.

ANAS Sarwar has been formally endorsed by more than of his party’s elected parliamentarians to be the next leader of Scottish Labour.

The British Meat Processors Association has said it is receiving a growing number of calls from meat companies highlighting the “plethora of problems” they’ve been experiencing at the borders; problems which are now causing a serious and sus...

BORIS Johnson has insisted the UK Government could not be faulted in its financial support for people during the pandemic as Sir Keir Starmer branded him “pathetic” for ordering Tory MPs to abstain in this evening’s Commons vote on maintaining ...

POLICE Scotland hopes to roll out body worn cameras to all frontline officers by 2023 – but has admitted they have no funding to do it.

MEDICAL leaders are writing to all care home staff in Scotland amid fears they are being targeted by anti-vaccination campaigners.

NICOLA Sturgeon has echoed the UK Government's plan to offer every adult their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine by September.

Faced with becoming site with a .uk web address - Leave.uk, in effect -  after the UK left the EU, attempts were made to register the website in Waterford.

Protestors have been issued with fixed penalty notices (FPN) after a protest over the Brexit fishing deal in Whitehall.

The UK Government has said it is looking at more financial support for the fishing industry after it emerged 40% of fish being landed at an auction in Denmark this year is from Scotland.

The head of industry body Scotland Food & Drink has flagged the sector's anger over the UK Government's dismissal of Brexit-related woes for exporters as "teething problems".

A LOOPHOLE means that the poorest Scots taxi drivers are being "discriminated" against in a new £1500 grant support scheme for those affected by a huge drop in passenger numbers as a result of the pandemic.

A LOBBYING firm has been criticised by its industry body for appointing a sitting peer to its consulting panel.

There have been 1,429 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

THE SNP has been criticised after complaining to the BBC that it is being excluded from coverage of Nicola Sturgeon's coronavirus briefings.

DOMINIC Raab has called on Russia to immediately release Kremlin critic and opposition leader Alexei Navalny, expressing alarm at the swift detention in Moscow of Vladimir Putin’s political opponent.

Scottish fishermen have taken aim at the UK Government over Brexit export issues which have seen them frozen out of traditional EU markets.

ANAS Sarwar has said Holyrood should be a “Covid recovery parliament” after this year’s election rather than one endlessly arguing over the constitution.

THE “strength of the Union has never been so important,” Alister Jack has insisted, after Treasury figures showed that during the pandemic the UK Government has helped more than 90,000 Scottish businesses with loans worth almost £3.5 billion....