The Treasury has announced a further £1.1 billion of coronavirus support funding for the Scottish Government.

A “reprehensible” plan by Tesco to fire and rehire hundreds of workers in a bid to cut their salaries has been halted by a landmark legal ruling.

More than 50 people were discovered at an illegal Valentine’s Day rave in Glasgow this morning.

Police are on the hunt for two men who broke into a home and stole money while two children were inside.

Fans of Sydney Devine have been left devastated after flower tributes to the late singer were stolen over the weekend.

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THE UK Government has been accused of undermining Scotland's tougher international quarantine rules by failing to help close a loophole.

MAKING predictions about politics, about pretty near anything these days, is a risky business. But here is one you can count on. BBC Scotland’s new television/radio politics programme, The Sunday Show, having failed to bag many headlines on its ...

LATER this year Glasgow will pull on its wellies and fasten up its rucksack as it prepares to host the annual UN Climate Change Conference, the most anointed gathering of green acolytes on the planet. It’s a sort of G7 summit with bicycle clips ...

Why are we here? I mean: why are we here in a specific Scottish sense? Why is support for the SNP holding up so well? Why has support for independence risen, then fallen again? Some of it, I suspect, will never be satisfactorily explained and will...

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WHEN she was 12 years old, growing up in a small, semi-detached Wimpey house in Glasgow, Scots Makar Jackie Kay was given the album Bessie Smith: Any Woman’s Blues by her blues-loving dad. A double album, in fact, with Smith’s face on both sid...

An innovative project offering Scots pupils the chance to pick up a free breakfast from a mobile cart before class is to be extended to other UK schools following a successful pilot.

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FIFTY years ago today, the British Government launched a new decimal currency that despite the inordinate scale of the transition, managed to go off without a hitch - although it did spark the enduring phrase, ‘What’s that in old money?’

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Many a chef has had their career, restaurant and kitchen stalled over the last year. While we've missed going out for dinner, their livelihoods have been decimated, their ability to

IT’S February 2020 and the scene is Paisley Arts Centre. The place has been abuzz all week with book-loving audiences keen to hear from literary legends including John Byrne, Jackie Kay and Janice Galloway, whilst local pubs have played host to som...

ANDY Walker, the former Celtic striker and Sky Sports co-commentator, spoke a great deal of sense as the row over Parkhead club’s warm weather training break in Dubai raged last month.

The Earl and Countess of Dumbarton are expecting a second child, a spokesperson for the couple has said.

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The future of our town and city centres is under threat as never before, as the coronavirus pandemic accelerates the switch from bricks and mortar to digital retailing. This week Herald business turned the spotlight on the high street in a new spe...

Late last month a document outlining a new blueprint for a European Super League appeared – or rather reappeared in a different guise - following the recent abortive attempt that was revealed in October. It was said these proposals were being di...

It is less than a month since Glasgow restaurant Cail Bruich earned Michelin star status and now it is hiring.

LEGISLATION paving the way for a second independence referendum will be published in the next few weeks, SNP ministers have confirmed.

When Nicola Sturgeon finally appears before the Holyrood committee investigating the Salmond affair, she will be insulated by that shield of moral self-confidence that has become her trade mark. More in sorrow than in anger, the First Minister wil...

There have been 903 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

A LIBERAL Democrat MSP has been urged to offer a "full, unequivocal apology" after appearing to swear at an SNP minister while on mute during a virual Holyrood committee.

Gender studies has become a lucrative and prestigious topic at the world’s leading institutions and universities have moved to lure its scholars, not least because of the insights they cast right across teaching and research.

ONE of the women who made sexual assault allegations against Alex Salmond has said an ongoing Holyrood inquiry into the saga has been more traumatic in many ways than the criminal trial.

On the morning of 18 April, 1933, an angry and worried congregation of several hundred gathered in a building on Glasgow’s Southside.

Scottish swimming enthusiasts demand Sepa takes immediate action over levels of effluent and chemicals at popular sites across the country

HOW can meat, a food that we’ve been eating for millennia, a food that made the human race what it is, one of the most nutrient-dense sources of sustenance available, be bad for us?

SCOTTISH construction chiefs are calling for the Treasury to change VAT reforms which they say could cripple them further and cause massive job losses.

The Scottish Government has been urged to do more to protect patients from catching coronavirus after another record week of infections on hospital wards.

The end of former president Donald Trump's impeachment trial opens a new chapter for his successor in the White House.

Amanda Holden has been reported to police after breaching Coronavirus lockdown rules in England.

SOME of Scotland’s country estates are facing a financial crisis after a state aid loophole in a rate relief scheme hits green hydro-electric operators who produce almost a fifth of renewable energy output.

As the torrid process of Trump’s impeachment trial comes to a head, few betted on any conviction anyway. Foreign Editor David Pratt explains why the biggest loser stands to be America itself

Donald Trump was acquitted on Saturday of inciting the horrific attack on the US Capitol, concluding a historic impeachment trial that spared him the first-ever conviction of a current or former US president.

The world can seem hostile at times and no wonder – it has always been dominated by psychopaths, and the 21st century is supercharging their predatory behaviour. In a Herald on Sunday exclusive, leading authority on psychopaths Kevin Dutton reveals...

JUSTIN Currie has revealed that he thought he might be too old to make a new Del Amitri album. The 56-year-old frontman of the Scottish band has told The Herald Magazine that he feared he wouldn’t have the same energy that he did when he was you...

BACK in the 18th century, the village of Gretna Green was Britain’s Las Vegas – and the smithy there its Little White Wedding Chapel. Some of that buzz still endures. Last year’s leap year even saw a wedding surge that made Scotland's mini w...

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THE truth is, Justin Currie says, he was worried that they’d be too old. When the idea of doing another Del Amitri album – the first since 2002’s Can You Do Me Good? nearly 20 years ago – was first mooted by his bandmate Iain Harvie, the 5...

AMERICA does not have an official day to observe the birthday of President Abraham Lincoln, but “President’s Day” on the third Monday in February is a US federal holiday set on the calendar because of its close proximity to the birthdays of Lin...