The British Armed Forces is being drafted in to accelerate vaccinations in an area of Scotland facing rising cases.

With the collapse of the old unionist parties, Scottish identity is undoubtedly on the march.

ANAS Sarwar has launched a new group to help UK Labour return to power despite leading his own party to its worst ever result at Holyrood.

SCOTS islands have been left with a backlog of vehicles and freight as one of Scotland's oldest publicly owned ferries was taken in for repairs due to a fault.

THE number of Scottish football club showing early signs of financial problems has soared.

By Ian McConnell

Universities have told Gavin Williamson that proposals to reform course admissions could undermine the distinctive structure of Scottish secondary schooling.

WILDLIFE ranging from bluebells and bumblebees to snow leopards and emperor penguins are under threat from the devastating impact of climate change, according to a report.

URGENT action is need to avoid major world flooding with a billion people worldwide hit through prehistoric levels of climate change, a new Scots study has warned.

FOURTEEN Scottish care homes required at least five inspection visits during the pandemic before they were deemed ‘adequately’ safe for residents, a damning report found.

EMERGING from Covid gloom, there is more need than ever for creativity, ideas, vision to conjure up jobs and put communities back on their feet. The role of government is to support all this while coming up with a few decent strategies of its own....

“Nobody should have hired me, I am an idiot, why would I be in charge?”

BP chief executive Bernard Looney has said the world will need oil and gas for decades even amid the drive to achieve net zero, as he underlined the role the North Sea industry can play in the effort.

I FIND myself in general agreement with Neil Mackay’s “five key truths” on the Union ("The five key truths about Scotland and the Union", The Herald, June 1). The disrespectful way Scotland is treated by Westminster and the establishment, aided...

A puppy needed emergency veterinary treatment after eating cannabis at a country park.

JODIE Turner-Smith made her debut as Anne Boleyn in a new Channel 5 drama series last night. Anne Boleyn explores the final months of Henry VIII’s second wife before her execution.

SHARES in Springfield Properties soared by 14 per cent in early trading as it said revenue and profit for the current year will be “significantly ahead of market expectations”.

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By Ian McConnell

PLANS have been unveiled for a £20 million green energy plant on the River Clyde.

By Scott Wright

With Scotland recording its hottest day of the year so far this week, Scots are being reminded to keep an eye out for their four-legged friends.

DOUBTS over so-called Freedom Day and the origins of Covid were the topics raised by columnists in the newspapers.

YEARS ago, in jest, I bought my husband a litter picker. He had been fulminating, as ever, about the mess left by “revellers” on the park where we lived. On a Sunday morning his clock was set not by the ringing of church bells but by the smatt...

Dust to dust

IT’S that time again when Iranians face an all too familiar dilemma. As the country goes to the polls this month in perhaps one of the most significant presidential elections in years, the choice for most voters is pretty stark.

GLASGOW restaurateur Colin Clydesdale welcomed today's announcement from Nicola Sturgeon that the city was able to move to level 2 this weekend adding it was brilliant for hospitality.

THE Justice Secretary has said there is a “compelling” case for ending the partial defence in Scots law for killing a lover in a jealous rage.

The sixth season of the time-hopping drama has finished filming in Scotland and will be making an appearance on the small screen early next year

SNP ministers have been told to do more to halt the NHS backlog “spiralling out of control” ahead of a health service recovery plan being drawn up.

No new deaths of someone who tested positive within the past 28 days have been recorded across the whole of the Uk for the first time since the early months of the pandemic.

The number of cases in an 'significant' outbreak in the highlands linked to pubs has risen to 62.

HOW local is local? With Glasgow finally being given the green light to go down to level 2 Covid restrictions, how best to deal with virus hotspots became the main focus of debate after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s statement to the Scottish ...

THE brothers behind Valentian Vermouth are nearing a £100,000 crowdfunding campaign target in just a week.

NICOLA Sturgeon has been accused of leaving 14 councils and 2.96 million people across Scotland “in limbo”.

Tracy Black, CBI Scotland Director, welcomed the decision saying businesses were struggling to keep afloat

Much of Scotland is to enjoy warm, sunny weather for the rest of the week according to the latest forecast from the Met Office.

NICOLA Sturgeon has revealed which areas in Scotland will move down to Level One from Saturday – and which will stay at Level Two.

Scottish Government statistics show that 478 new cases of the virus have been recorded since Monday

Glasgow is to move to Level 2 from midnight on Friday ending nine months of the city having the toughest Covid measures in Scotland.

The UK could become a global leader in emissions reduction technology following the North Sea transition deal, the head of the oil and gas industry body has said.

ONE of Scotland's oldest publicly owned ferry vessels has had to be taken in for repairs due to a fault - as another was due to make a return.

THE NUMBER of children and young people forced to wait more than a year for mental health treatment in Scotland has soared to the highest figure on record.

PEEL NRE, part of Peel L&P, is planning to develop a waste plastic to hydrogen facility in Scotland.

ATTEMPTING to establish "the truth" in Scottish politics is a difficult business. One person’s black is another person’s white depending on where they sit along the independence-unionist axis. Everything is disputable, everything open to doubt...

NO ONE will be watching the covid lockdown update from Nicola Sturgeon this week more closely than restaurateur Colin Clydesdale.

THE SNPs flagship employment programme is weak, limited and oversold, according to a leading Scottish thinktank.

Its aim is to plant ten trees for every man, woman and child in Greater Glasgow as part of a new urban forest to tackle climate change.

SNP ministers have been told to set out hospital construction safeguards after plans were drawn up to ensure building projects are completed with infection control standards in mind.

THERE was a recent generational squabble about punctuation in text messages. Apparently putting a full stop at the end of a text message is rudeness akin to violence for younger generations. I ask a 13-year-old about this and he says, "It's like you ...