THE taxpayer faces a bill of over £110m for the malicious prosecutions scandal over the failed Rangers fraud case as a new £25m claim has landed with Scotland's most senior law officer, the Herald can reveal.

THERE’S a very strange anomaly in Scottish democracy which needs addressed. The Alba Party was humiliated at the polls, and thoroughly rejected by voters. Yet the party has two sitting MPs and a clutch of councillors in office, who defected from...

A SECOND referendum would definitively settle the issue of whether Scotland should be independent, the SNP's former communications chief has suggested.

STRICTLY for reasons of business, not pleasure, I took part in a Zoom call with Michael Gove this week.

Nicola Sturgeon has said the Scottish Government is monitoring rising numbers of coronavirus cases in Glasgow as the country gets set to ease restrictions.

CONTROVERSIAL Scottish independence blogger Stuart Campbell, who runs the Wings Over Scotland website, has announced that he will be quitting.

SCOTTISH football chief Neil Doncaster said that the way administrators handled cutting costs when Rangers went into financial meltdown was "different from the usual practice".

SHARES in Scotch whisky giant Diageo closed up nearly four per cent after it flagged expectations of profit growth of “at least” 14% – ahead of analysts’ forecasts – and resumed a £4.5 billion return of capital to investors.

THOUSANDS of supermarkets and shops around the country have committed to continue to accept cash after businesses - including some of the biggest names in retail - signed up to a new pledge.

AS the hopes of a Shetland oil boom sparked by a pioneering explorer fade, some giants have made clear they still see potential in the area. However, firms in the hard-pressed North Sea supply chain and taxpayers alike may be unwise to expect to g...

PARTIES are making their final push for votes ahead of today’s by-election.

CASTLES in the sky, is how one estate agent describes the impressive turreted tenement buildings in Glasgow city centre.

SCOTLAND'S beleaguered lifeline ferry operator has been hit by a  new issue - this time with its tickets and reservations phone lines which were out of action for the whole of yesterday (Wednesday).

AT Westminster yesterday, Boris Johnson announced that a public inquiry into the handling of the Covid crisis would begin next spring. Labour opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer had an inquiry: Why? Why wait so long?

THE full scale of the health harms caused by the pandemic “may not be felt for years to come”, according to Holyrood report.

JASON Leitch has fired a warning to Rangers fans who are planning to take title celebrations to the streets of Glasgow this weekend.

The Edinburgh Art Festival is set to return after the coronavirus pandemic forced the cancellation of last year’s event.

PARTS of Glasgow are seeing a spike in Covid cases which appear to be linked to the spread of new variants, according to a public health leader.

NOTHING much has changed. No party lost or gained more than two seats in the Scottish Parliament in last week’s election.

Senior pupils have been sitting crucial tests without knowing the grades they need to get into university, it has emerged.

A spin-out company from Edinburgh is ramping up production of its eco-friendly bricks to more than two million per year after securing £1 million of funding from Zero Waste Scotland.

Children and young people living with severe epilepsy in Scotland will have access for the first time to a potentially life-changing laser treatment which could end their seizures.

BBC Question Time returns this evening following the Scottish election as well as local elections in England.

By Ian McConnell

THERE’S a new buzzword: cheugy. The term – a modern-day way of suggesting something is passe – is garnering column inches and stoking much bafflement about what it actually means.

By Karen Peattie

TWO new large-scale Lidl supermarkets have won planning approval.

THE Queen’s speech and what it showed about the state of the Conservative party and the Prime Minister were debated by columnists in the newspapers.

REVELATIONS that the Iranian regime has been peddling disinformation on social media in an attempt to influence the outcome of the Scottish election should come as no surprise. Their fake posts and tweets on Facebook and Twitter for at least the l...

Chillingly creative

NICOLA Sturgeon and Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar have urged Scotland's Muslim community to celebrate the end of Ramadan safely.

THE SNP has said Boris Johnson's financial situation "doesn't add up" after it emerged he has a county court judgement for £535.

Newly-elected MSPs are due to be sworn in tomorrow at the Scottish Parliament's official swearing-in ceremony on Thursday.

ONE of the Scotland's most prominent public health experts has urged Scots to get behind the extended DEC Coronavirus Appeal for India to provide vital life-saving medical supplies.

ENTREPRENEUR and businessman Sir James Dyson has issued a withering attack against the BBC for 'political mudslinging' and 'twisting' of information.

THE construction firm involved in a joint venture to deliver Edinburgh Trams extension and a raft of other high profile civil engineering projects is looking for a new Scottish chief.

SCOTS journalist Andrew Marr is in the clear again after being at the centre of a new BBC probe over 'bias' after telling millions of his viewers that those who are not interested in the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh are "wrong".

Jeremy Corbyn has accused the media of treating him ‘worse than Arthur Scargill’ and has rubbished claims that he is to blame for Labour’s defeat in the elections.

FEW journalists seem prepared to examine claims that the first independence referendum ought to have been policed by a UN peace-keeping force.

THE PRIME Minister is facing court action over an unpaid debt.

Mr Yousaf posted on social media that his wife, Nadia El-Nakla, has been in "floods of tears" overnight

THE sun was breaking through on Monday morning and I had a film crew to meet in Stornoway, here to tell the world an uplifting story about Harris Tweed. The ferry had sailed, so all was well in the world. Phew!

THE PRIME Minister has announced a public inquiry into the handling of the coronavirus pandemic is to begin next year.

How could Scotland re-join the EU? Director and founder of the Scottish Centre on European Relations, Dr Kirsty Hughes, gives her insight.

“We are coming out of lockdown” my pal called me “we can meet up and finally hang out?” I nervously said: “Yes, maybe in October?”

DOWNING Street has confirmed the Prime Minister's unpaid debt has "nothing to do" with the luxury refurbishment of his flat.

SCOTLAND'S lifeline ferry operator has been hit by a new fault - this time with its tickets and reservations phone lines which have been out of action for five hours.

THE CO-OPERATION of the Scottish Government with Westminster throughout the pandemic has been hailed as "amazing".

POLICE Scotland have been blasted for lacking transparency after releasing 17 pages of redacted documents about Rangers fans' celebrations.

ONE of the strangest developments in politics is the radicalisation of the Conservative Party.