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NICOLA Sturgeon misled parliament over the Alex Salmond affair, MSPs have reportedly concluded.

Nicola Sturgeon said a “very partisan leak” from the Alex Salmond inquiry is “not that surprising” as the committee is understood to have deemed she misled parliament.

CHILDREN may be protecting their parents against Covid-19, according to scientists involved in a "potentially interesting" study, which may inform decisions to close nurseries and schools in the future.

Scotland's papers are dominated by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon being found to have “misled Parliament” about her role in the Alex Salmond investigation.

STRIKING the right balance is a tricky job for political leaders at the easiest of times let alone ones like the current uncertain climate we live in.

By Ian McConnell

SOME little beggar has munched my bulbs.

The BBC’s new director general Tim Davie has just announced that 400 jobs at the corporation are to be relocated out of London in the latest bid to show that it is relevant to the entire country. It is thought that half of those jobs will be in ...

VACCINATING all adults in the UK against Covid is unlikely to achieve herd immunity and fully contain the virus, even if the vaccine is highly protective against infection.

SCHOOLS remaining open during the second Covid wave may have been linked to an increase in infections and hospitalisations among the adults they live with which was not seen during the first wave, according to new research.

Steven Gerrard has insisted he will stand shoulder to shoulder with Light Blues midfielder Glen Kamara as he warned Uefa they could not afford to sweep an alleged racist comment “under the carpet”.

By Ian McConnell

A Scottish property firm has hailed a key hire as it prepares for expansion into new territories.

COMMENT By Anas Sarwar and Keir Starmer

By Scott Wright

THE vaccine delay, calls for a public inquiry and cow hugging were the topics debated by columnists in the newspapers.

AND so it rumbles on. This week has brought another skirmish in the war of Alex versus Nicola and there’s a distinct air of déjà vu about it.

Horsing around

“Pretentious? Moi?”

Nicola Sturgeon will update MSPs on the latest Covid-19 statistics for Scotland before taking questions from MSPs. She is likely to be asked about fresh allegations around her role in the Alex Salmond fiasco.

HOLYROOD has committed to investigating decriminalising possession for personal use of drugs for the fist time as £18 million of funding was allocated to tackle Scotland's crisis of deaths caused by substance misuse.

The temporary facility in Glasgow was set up to support Scotland’s response to the pandemic

AS she ruefully admits, every time Nicola Sturgeon mentions Rangers or Celtic at the daily Covid briefing, all hell breaks loose.

BORIS Johnson has insisted the vaccination programme and route out of lockdown remain on track despite a shortfall in the expected supply of jags as he countered concerns over the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, insisting it was “safe and effective”.

Police searching for missing woman Bennylyn Burke, 25, and her two-year old daughter, Jellica, have found two bodies hidden at a home in Dundee.

THE CAPACITY of rehab beds will be expanded as part of £18 million of funding to help solve Scotland’s drugs deaths crisis.

THE BBC has accepted that it was inaccurate to say the day after the US presidential election polling day that Donald Trump was falsely claiming fraud.

SCOTTISH councils will be handed £40 million of extra cash but ministers have been accused of overseeing “more than a decade of chronic underfunding”.

Scots visitor attractions will need financial help to survive for as long as social distancing measures are in place, according to a new survey.

Gaelic writer and broadcaster Roddy Maclean (Ruairidh MacIlleathain) examined placenames in the landscape, folklore, stories, poems and songs.

The Scottish Criminal Bar Association (SCBA) has raised concerns about the proposal

NICOLA Sturgeon has called on the Tory MP David Davis to apologise for spreading a conspiracy theory on behalf of Alex Salmond and his “old boys club”.

Miller Homes is to launch 62 homes in the west of Scotland this weekend.

NICOLA Sturgeon is on course to fall tantalisingly short of an overall majority at Holyrood for a second time, according to a new poll.

Scotland has recorded seven deaths from coronavirus and 624 positive tests in the past 24 hours, Nicola Sturgeon said.

IT was a gripping speech. David Davis read it well. I don’t say he wrote it well, but he read it competently enough on his old friend’s behalf.

Scotland is risking a “lost generation” of children due to the impact of lockdown on educational attainment, ministers have been warned.

ANYONE who ever had the pleasure of eating a British Rail pork pie during a long journey on a late and freezing cold train will no doubt have shuddered at the news that ScotRail is going to be nationalised.

ALMOST 25,000 calls to Scotland’s mental health crisis support line have gone unanswered during the course of the pandemic, Scottish Labour has revealed.

FORMER Celtic striker John Hartson thinks it is “just a nonsense”.

The BBC has announced plans to shift its focus from London and “better reflect, represent and serve" all parts of the UK.

NOT again. Surely. Tarras, a young hen harrier who was raised on Langholm Moor in Galloway less than a year ago, has disappeared. The tag she was carrying suddenly cut out, with no warning or explanation, and no sign of her body has so far been fo...

UNION leaders have launched a consultative ballot for industrial action over a pay row which they say has meant Scottish Water workers losing up to £3000.

SCOTLAND'S vaccine targets should not be affected by delays in sourcing AstraZeneca jags in the UK, the national clinical director has said.

SCOTRAIL will provide better value for taxpayer money when the Scottish Government takes over the franchise in March, 2022, the transport secretary says.

Scotland’s justice secretary Humza Yousaf has said voters will show George Galloway the cat flap in May after the former MP posted a “race-baiting” tweet.

Large crowds gathered at different locations in Scotland yesterday, after sunny weather may have encouraged people to celebrate St Patrick's Day.

IT was the failure of the Darien Scheme in the late 1600s that triggered the Act of Union in 1707 and made Scotland a key partner in the United Kingdom, one of the most successful economic unions in history. If Scotland ever votes for independence...

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer will visit Edinburgh and Glasgow alongside the party’s Scottish leader Anas Sarwar to meet and thank frontline healthcare workers on Thursday and Friday.