When did it really end? Was it when the adjutant-general said “all is lost, seize the Prince and take him off”? Was it when Butcher Cumberland ordered the final cavalry charge? Was it when the Prince, sheltering under a tree, heard the cheers ...

THE WESTMINSTER Government must show more respect to devolved parliaments if the union of the United Kingdom is to survive, a former top civil servant has said.

THOUSANDS of Scottish motorists have won the right to bring a £20m compensation claim against the Volkswagen Group in one of the biggest civil class actions in the country's history over an emissions scandal, the Herald can reveal.

All political parties resort to retail politics, but no one does it better than the SNP.  They could give Amazon a run for their money.  Alex Salmond started it all back in 2007 by scrapping prescription charges and bridge tolls, abolishing univ...

EVERY night, when Nicola Sturgeon retires to her bed, she could be forgiven for sleeping on a pillow with the Prime Minister’s smiling face on it.

SNP MPs at Westminster have no ideas and no strong desire for independence, two of their former colleagues have claimed, and insist the “time is now” for a constitutional break-up.

It’s not quite pitch black but the sign on the first-floor landing of the Egyptian Halls in Glasgow is still very nearly impossible to read.

Nicola Sturgeon has insisted the SNP's election manifesto is designed to "unite Scotland" as the country looks to recover from coronavirus.

It was the last pitched battle ever fought on British soil, with the final shot falling silent 275 years ago this week.

Police dispersed more people for Covid breaches this week than any other seven day period since the beginning of the pandemic.

IN January 1966, Paul McCartney, encouraged by his then girlfriend Jane Asher, bought High Park Farm, a remote estate on the Kintyre peninsula, as both a tax break and a place to escape to when the pressures of Beatlemania became too much.

Driven from their homes and cast to the four corners of the world, the impact of the Highland Clearances would be felt for generations of Scots.

IT’S hard to put a finger on why my chin isn’t “keeping up”. But there it is.

Painted in dazzling emerald green and bright scarlet, with a flat deck that glides round to offload its vehicles and passengers onto dry land, she is the romantic route over the sea to Skye.

An independent Scotland could lead global efforts in nuclear disarmament, Green co-leader Patrick Harvie said.

Labour’s Anneliese Dodds has said Rishi Sunak may have ‘breached the ministerial code' in his dealings with David Cameron.

A Royal historian has said the Queen could take a “step back” from her duties following the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral.

The photo of the Queen sitting alone near her late husband’s coffin dominates newspaper coverage of the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral.

Steeped in history and at the heart of its community for over 250 years, the small inn in the Trossachs offered a warm welcome, comforting dram and the possibility of plenty of good chat.

Pupils at the Duke of Edinburgh's former school have paid tribute to him while his funeral was underway in Windsor.

There have been 210 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

The global death toll from coronavirus has topped three million people amid repeated setbacks in the worldwide vaccination campaign and a deepening crisis in places such as Brazil, India and France.

HEALTH boards are preparing to fight legal claims for hospital-acquired cases of Covid-19.

The nation has fallen silent in memory of the Duke of Edinburgh as his funeral marking a life of service, devotion and duty began.

A topless protester ran in front of a crowd near Windsor Castle following the minute’s silence for the Duke of Edinburgh.

THIS week has been described as a "turning point" in Scotland's lockdown.

COULD this plague-beset election get any more surreal? At the SNP manifesto launch, Nicola Sturgeon felt it germane to disavow the prospect of an arm-wrestling contest with a fellow advocate of independence.

IN the fog of mendacious sanctimony that cloaked the first two Holyrood leaders’ debates, the most threadbare fictions belonged to the parties of the Union. They appear to have signed up to a pre-election entente that compels each of them to der...

A key figure on the UK’s immunisation committee has said imported coronavirus variants are unlikely to set lockdown easing back to “square one” because immunity from vaccines “won’t just disappear”.

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Cillian Murphy has led tributes to the “gifted” actress Helen McCrory, who has died aged 52.

The funeral of Prince Philip takes place at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle today.

It was one of the most harrowing battles ever fought on British soil, with the flower of a generation cut down in the space of a few hours by the relentless guns of their government foes.

BORIS Johnson is as slippery as an eel. He shifts his ground repeatedly. Never follow him into battle because he will defect to the other side before you can line up behind him.

IT is regarded as one of the most profound social developments in modern day Scotland.

BETTER news on the coronavirus front in Scotland brought a quickfire seismic shift for islands tourism firms on Tuesday when First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a reopening in line with the mainland.

Just 30 people will attend the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral today, as coronavirus restrictions forced a change in plans for the day.

The latest weekly coronavirus figures have been released, highlighting hotspots of Covid-19 per 100,000 of the population and the risk in each neighbourhood.

Rare chairs made for the painter and decorator friend of Charles Rennie Mackintosh are to go under the hammer at auction next week.

THEY started out as 46 plain white vases, blank ceramics, but have now been transformed into stunning designs by some of Scotland’s most high profile contemporary artists and creatives.

THE manifesto pledges from the SNP detailed by the First Minister ("Sturgeon pledges stability with freeze on income tax", The Herald, April 15) once again demonstrate economic illiteracy at the highest level. The shameless “spend, spend, spend�...

The Herald has launched a new political podcast, fronted by former BBC Scotland political editor Brian Taylor, ahead of the Holyrood election.

A MANIFESTO, going by the name, ought to be a list of things easily seen, clearly understood, or otherwise obvious. For movements in fine art, film-making or literature, that means general principles, rather than a detailed description of forthcom...

There was much talk last weekend about BBC television’s response to the announcement of Prince Philip’s death. But what about radio?

At Home With Monadh

IN his ninth decade David Hockney decided to move to France. To Normandy and a farmhouse where he set up a studio to paint the arrival of spring. “I know I’m 82, but I feel 30 in the studio when I get going,” he tells Martin Gayford in a new...

Hundreds of people gathered in the midday sunshine to watch as the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery processed along the Long Walk in Windsor ahead of the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral.

WHEN the story of the ingenuity of humans during this coronavirus emergency comes to be written, there will be a special chapter for choirs and chorus-masters.

The blaze broke out after emergency services issued warning of extreme risk of wildfires.

A touching photograph of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh that gives a glimpse of their lives away from protocol and ceremony has been released on the eve of Philip’s funeral.