The hospital has played a critical role in the fight against Covid-19

An IFS briefing note said the Holyrood administration had received an additional £9.5 billion from the UK Government in Covid-related funding

NICOLA Sturgeon has come under sustained fire over her plans for an independence referendum and the SNP's record in the first leaders' debate of the election.

SNP ministers have used short-lived Covid funding to pay for a raft of pre-election give-aways, storing up future problems, the UK’s top economic thinktank has warned.

A CAMPAIGN group led by doctors has said it is ‘frustrated and disappointed’ after NHS leaders failed once more to set a timeline for an urgently needed Highland hospital, that is already delayed by 18 years.

A protein found in high levels in breast cancer patients which helps keep tumour cells alive could be targeted with a drug that is already being trialled.

SCOTRAIL faces strike action over a "slap in the face" pay deal while the cost of Scotland's railways to the taxpayer is set to soar by over £1 billion over two years due to Covid-19 emergency funding.

The Prime Minister just cannot help himself when it comes to making ill-judged comments at the wrong moments

Jupiter Artland, near Edinburgh, was founded in 2009 and is home to more than 30 sculptures

Two residential workers at a children’s secure unit have been awarded payouts totalling more than £30,000 after being unfairly sacked over a self-harming incident.

I SEE unionists are complaining about Alba "gaming" the electoral system. A bit late, or perhaps hypocritical, as the system has been there since 1999, and was deliberately structured for the non-democratic purpose of preventing one specific party, t...

ONLY Alex Salmond could dominate a debate by not being there. The candidates in the first virtual hustings on BBC TV last night tried to ignore the ghost at the feast. But it was hard – not least because Nicola Sturgeon's position on her late me...

THE CONSERVATIVES will today set out plans to call on the SNP to bin Scotland’s not proven verdict with Douglas Ross insisting it is “distressing and confusing” for victims of crime.

THE SNP has been told to do more to support prison inmates during the pandemic after it was revealed eight people have died from Covid-19 while in custody.

By Scott Wright

IRN-BRU maker AG Barr has hailed a resilient year with profits and sales down but with £50 million on the balance sheet to help spur growth out of the coronavirus crisis.

The company that has made a £145m takeover bid for Nucleus Financial has changed tack after facing opposition from some shareholders.

by Rory Mair

THE issue of the sexual abuse of schoolgirls was debated by columnists and how Covid was stripping away workers rights.

A SHUDDER ran through middle class Britain when John Lewis announced it was to close eight branches. In past years, the travails of Woolworths and British Homes Stores were greeted with sadness but little surprise, since they had been looking tired a...

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SO preoccupied are we with the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic, that it’s all too easy to overlook the fact that the world is undergoing profound change in other ways too.

THE arrogance of nationalism is breathtaking. First they commandeered our national flag for a narrow political cause. Now a schism has assumed the Gaelic name for our country to pursue its own divisive objectives.

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Nicola Sturgeon will take on Douglas Ross, Anas Sarwar, Lorna Slater and Willie Rennie in the first televised debate ahead of May's Holyrood election.

Scotland's political leaders went head to head in the first debate ahead of the Scottish Election.

NICOLA Sturgeon has come under sustained fire over her plans for an independence referendum and the SNP’s record in the first leaders’ debate of the election.

Tonight, leaders from Scotland's five largest political parties faced off for the first time in this year's election campaign.

ALEX Salmond’s new Alba Party has been urged to cut its ties to an influential blogger after he defended a post about Nicola Sturgeon which advocated “decapitating this witch”.

FORMER SNP MSP Jim Eadie has announced his defection to stand as a candidate for Alex Salmond's new Alba Party.

A CANDIDATE for Alex Salmond’s new Alba Party has boasted its plan is to “manipulate” Holyrood’s voting system to get a supermajority for independence.

The Scottish Retail Consortium has welcomed confirmation from the Scottish Government that homeware shops and garden centres can reopen from Monday, April 5.

SCOTS can look forward to their first professional haircut of the year as Nicola Sturgeon confirmed an easing of lockdown rules.

Nicola Sturgeon confirmed on Tuesday that the 'Stay at Home' messaging will be replaced with 'Stay Local' as planned.

THE CONSERVATIVES have officially pledged to repeal parts of the SNP’s controversial Hate Crime Act.

A CANDIDATE for Alex Salmond's Alba Party has apologised after calling Nicola Sturgeon "a cow" on social media.

MUCH ink has been spilled already commenting on the latest twist in the Alex Salmond psychodrama. One hesitates to spill more, but it’s difficult to ignore the biggest story in Scottish politics right now.

The Wee Hotel Company has announced plans to welcome guests back to its venues on the Isle of Skye and in Argyll from the end of April.

AN infamous lifeline Scots road has been shut for a further four days due to heavy rain.

A BREXITEER has been unveiled as the latest defector to Alex Salmond’s Alba Party.

NICOLA Sturgeon has said her deputy and another SNP minister are "mortified" after breaching Covid election rules.

Imagine two entirely fictitious scenarios. In the first scenario an ambulance arrives at a hospital. The patient, who has been seriously injured in a road accident, is rushed off for surgery.

More than 400 fresh cases of coronavirus have been identified in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

JOANNA Blythman doesn’t believe that it is necessary for care home workers to be vaccinated against Covid ("Don’t trust Hancock and power-hungry pals, vaccine passports are a step to dystopian future", The Herald, March 27). I think she is wro...

Nicola Sturgeon has provided an update on coronavirus lockdown restrictions in Scotland.

A review has found Metropolitan Police officers “did not act inappropriately or in a heavy-handed manner” at the vigil held in memory of Sarah Everard.

NICOLA Sturgeon will tonight try to stop the SNP bleeding yet more support to Alex Salmond's new Alba Party amid public splits in the independence movement, as she takes part in the first televised leaders' debate of the election.

THE SNP’s Finance Secretary has insisted May’s election is a “historic opportunity” for young people as she set out a string of SNP policies aimed at empowering Scotland’s youth.

THE hopes of Scotland entertaining a grown-up election campaign, at the most crucial period in the nation’s recent history, were obliterated at the shambolic, car-crash launch of Alex Salmond’s Alba Party, an event so toe-curling it almost req...

MORE than 4.2 million people are registered to vote in the upcoming Holyrood election, according to statistics published by the National Records of Scotland (NRS).