A man has been charged in connection with the theft of a vial of Covid-19 vaccine.

THE HOME Secretary said she will make “no apology” for tougher immigration rules as she announced “the biggest overhaul of the UK’s asylum system in decades”.

A TWO week course of CBD helped improve brain function in the hereditary form of Alzheimer's Disease and may offer benefits for other patients, according to Scottish experts.

By Ian McConnell

THE UK Government has announced plans to invest billions in transitioning the North Sea oil and gas sector into a clean energy industry.

FROM the Kelpies to the Wallace Monument, the Glasgow Hydro to the Ness Bridge, a light was shone across Scotland to mark a year since the start of the first lockdown and to remember those who died.

NUCLEUS Financial chief executive David Ferguson has said a planned takeover of the firm that staff have opposed could be good for the business despite uncertainty about what it will mean for employees including himself.

The Crown Office has offered prosecutors a £5.6 million pay deal in a bid to avoid “damaging” strike action as the country’s courts prepare to reopen after another national lockdown.

MIKE Wilson (Letters, March 23) asks what Donald Dewar would have thought of the goings-on in the Scottish Parliament. I knew Donald a bit (although not as well as many) but I would say that he would have been pleased to see a Scottish Parliament wit...

NICOLA Sturgeon's reputation as a master of detail will never be quite the same. Both the Hamilton Inquiry, which says she didn't mislead parliament, and the Holyrood Harassment Committee, which said she did, are agreed on one thing: the First Min...

CINEWORLD has unveiled plans to reopen as coronavirus restrictions for cinemas are set to be eased across the UK in May.

A year to the day from the onset of lockdown, yesterday’s employment figures from the Office for National Statistics shed some light on the impact of restrictions on the Scottish jobs market.

THERE was something strange about listening this week to British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab call out China over persecution of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang.

A SCOTTISH vending machine company is adding contactless payment systems across its entire business after securing a £52,000 loan.

A REPORT appeared this week which reflected the life prospects of young Scots. It had nothing to do with the constitution or shenanigans in St Andrew’s House. Rather it came from Audit Scotland under the title: “Improving Outcomes for Young Peopl...

WITH the first anniversary of lockdown marked yesterday, the past year dominated the comment sections of the newspapers.

It is renowned as a higher education trailblazer – standing out in a sector that is not exactly short of innovation and daring.

Boost your wellbeing by learning to appreciate garden sounds and sights in ways you never did before, says Hannah Stephenson.

Charity chastised

The event, organised by the end-of-life charity Marie Curie, also encouraged people to stand on their doorsteps at 8pm with their phones, candles and torches to signify a “beacon of remembrance”.

A man has died after his clothes caught fire while working on an estate in the Scottish Borders.

THE SNP has been accused of a “grotesque” exploitation of the Alex Salmond affair to recruit new members.

Don’t believe the hype.

A British shipbuilding “renaissance” will be sparked by a shift towards supporting UK industry, the UK Government has said.

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has been praised for keeping his cool after being being racially abused by a man outside the Holyrood building.

SUGGESTIONS that the Black Watch is under threat is “nonsense” and “scaremongering”, the Scottish Secretary has said.

TENS of thousands of Scots missing their vaccine appointments in the space of a week has been blamed on a “glitch” with sending out letters.

NICOLA Sturgeon has warned there is no guarantee a third wave of coronavirus will not emerge in Scotland – pointing to her regret of relaxing international travel “too quickly” last summer.

A Glasgow destination has hailed a surge of interest in dining out as restrictions are ready to be eased.

Police Scotland came under criticism after failing to disperse thousands of fans who gathered across Glasgow two weeks ago

NICOLA Sturgeon has survived a vote of no confidence in Holyrood over her role in the Alex Salmond affair.

WOMEN’S campaigners have lost a legal battle over a Scottish Government bill to improve gender equality on public boards.

NICOLA Sturgeon has insisted that the next class of MSPs must work together to “create a better and fairer normality for the future” as she stressed if her Government is returned to power in May it will prioritise a public inquiry into the pan...

There have been 495 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

JOHN Swinney has falsely claimed he released all the Scottish Government’s legal advice on the Alex Salmond affair before Nicola Sturgeon testified to MSPs.

THE Holyrood inquiry into the Alex Salmond affair has concluded Nicola Sturgeon misled it, its final report has confirmed.

THE WESTERN Isles will be moved into level 3 of Covid restrictions from tomorrow, Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed.

The Herald memorial garden campaign has been highlighted by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon during a speech at the Scottish Parliament.

DOWNING Street has refused to weigh in on whether the Scottish Tories have done the right thing by pushing for a vote of no confidence in the Nicola Sturgeon

People across the UK have taken part in a minute’s silence to remember Covid-19 victims, marking one year since the first lockdown began.

Sick thieves have targeted The Herald garden of remembrance within hours of it being unveiled to the public.

CAMPAIGNERS have called for thousands of people to be moved into “safe and settled homes” as new homelessness statistics show the number of people being sheltered in temporary accommodation has soared during the pandemic – while unresolved h...

THERE was something so familiar about the look on Glen Kamara’s face as Slavia Prague player Ondrej Kudela cupped his hands and dripped his words into the Rangers player’s ear at last Thursday’s Europa League match.

SCOTLAND’S unionists have a spring in their step. After losing every single opinion poll in 2020 on the subject of independence, those who wish to remain in the UK have started to win again. Regularly.

THE two civil servants whose complaints kicked off the Scottish Government's original investigation into Alex Salmond told MSPs of a culture in which a "blind eye" was turned to unacceptable behaviour.

THE SNP members of the Holyrood inquiry into the Alex Salmond affair have accused their fellow MSPs of leaks, smears and betraying the complainers.

There are fresh fears for the life chances of Scotland’s poorest children after a major report found only limited progress had been made in closing the educational attainment gap.

Analysis

Jackie Baillie has said she would support an investigation into leaks from the Holyrood inquiry into the Scottish Government’s unlawful investigation of Alex Salmond.

NICOLA Sturgeon’s claim to have met Alex Salmond in her capacity as SNP leader, rather than as First Minister, while he has being investigated by her officials has been dismissed by independent adviser James Hamilton