A vaccine passport app is being created for the Scottish Government amid increased pressure to jag younger Scots, it has been revealed.

CHEMOTHERAPY patients whose symptoms were tracked remotely had significantly lower anxiety and better quality of life compared to people left to alert doctors themselves about potentially worrying side effects.

TECHNICAL issues hitting three ferries run by state-owned ferry operator CalMac including a pioneering diesel-electric hybrid brought fresh chaos to the island lifeline network yesterday.

ALARM has been raised over Scotland's 'soft-touch' justice as nearly a third of all fiscal fines handed out by prosecutors that were rejected resulted in no further action.

LABOUR'S Shadow Chancellor has pledged to "buy, make and sell more in Scotland" as she set out her party's blueprint for economic recovery.

SCOTTISHPOWER has enjoyed a surge in the profits it makes from the sale of energy to households and made progress in the offshore windfarm business in which it sees big potential.

AS the focus on net zero sharpens it may be time to revisit attitudes to nuclear energy that developed before the scale of the threat posed by emissions-related climate change was realised.

A NEW Scottish beer company has hailed a 500 per cent sales growth in just a few months of launching its range of alcohol-free lager and ale.

The RMT rail union is demanding an urgent investigation into risks posed by unmanned stations “following revelations that Troon station was completely unstaffed at the time of a devastating fire at the weekend”.

Hero community members delivered hundreds of bottles of water and snacks to drivers stuck inside their cars for hours after a serious crash during a heatwave.

The leader of Glasgow City Council has set out her ambition for Cop26 to create a lasting legacy, with 100 days to go until the UN climate conference.

Olympic champions Hannah Mills and Mohamed Sbihi have been named as Team GB’s first joint flag bearers for Friday’s opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games.

A MAN, a woman, two chairs, three cameras and a couple of lights. The room was otherwise bare of decoration, so determined was the BBC team behind Dominic Cummings – The Interview, that nothing should distract from what was being said.

Funding used to launch “Beer-as-a-Service” model

THE carbon capture and storage cluster that a pioneer backed by international investors hopes to develop in Scotland could support around 20,000 jobs in the country a study has found.

DOUGLAS Ross will be the next First Minister of Scotland, a leading member of Boris Johnson's Cabinet has predicted.

With COP26 taking place in Glasgow in just a few months, the spotlight has never shone brighter on climate change, sustainability, and what the world needs to do to ensure we become NetZero.

A £20 million private hospital will be opened at Braehead near Glasgow – by the owner of the long-established Ross Hall Hospital on the city’s south side – creating 50 jobs initially.

POLICING of Scotland’s most dangerous road is poorly resourced and leading to lengthy closures which are having a “profound” effect on Highland communities, according to politicians.

On Thursday 22nd July 1944, 77 years ago today, delegates who had been meeting in the Mount Washington Hotel at Bretton Woods in the New Hampshire Hills, gathered in the dining hall to hear the closing speech of Henry Morgenthau, the US Treasury Secr...

By Kristy Dorsey

By Kristy Dorsey

SCOTLAND will reap “huge benefits” from post-Brexit trade deals, Liz Truss has insisted, as she said businesses want to move away from constitutional debates over independence.

For all the correspondence it had with actual circumstances, the long-awaited cry of “Freedom!” – via Zoom by a Prime Minister cloistered at Chequers – might as well have been delivered in an unconvincing accent by an American-Australian acto...

Shamelessly nostalgic first paragraph: Its name was The Pop Inn. It was on Sinclair Road in Torry, Aberdeen. I would get to it by bike – a Chopper naturally, it was the 70s. And the first single I bought there – I assume the day was bright and su...

THE so-called ‘pingdemic’ and Covid passports were the issues raised by columnists and contributors in the newspapers.

WITH four miles of cavernous inlets, breathtaking caves and secluded beaches, the coastal path from Arbroath to Auchmithie is described as one of Scotland’s hidden gems.

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IN this Royal & Ancient game, Colin Montgomerie is certainly golfing royalty. Just don’t call him ancient. “I don't like this wording Senior Tour or Senior Open as you expect Old Tom Morris to come out with a bloody walking stick,” chuckled HRH...

WHEN even your arch-libertarian free marketeer Andrew McKie accepts that climate change is a problem ("The world needs a greener agenda. But it will cost all of us dear", The Herald, July 20), we should all believe it is becoming serious.

Moe Sbihi and Hannah Mills have been selected as GB's flag bearers for the opening ceremony - here's everything you need to know about the gold medallists

HE is one of the most influential artists in history who remains known the world over hundreds of years after his death. Now Leonardo da Vinci’s living descendants have been traced in a decades-long project that hopes to offer further insight into ...

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A £2 coin to commemorate 250 years since the birth of Sir Walter Scott has been launched by the Royal Mint.

THERE was a good adjournment debate in the Commons on Tuesday from Kenny MacAskill.

THE UK Government’s plan to use a new post-Brexit fund to strengthen the Union could end up doing it more harm than good, a leading thinktank has warned.

KRIS AJER has shared a heartfelt message with Celtic supporters, players and staff after sealing his move to Brentford.

Scott Brown insists he will bring the same passion and determination to his new role as Aberdeen’s captain as he did when he was the on-field boss at Celtic.

CELTIC have announced the signing of defender Carl Starfelt from Rubin Kazan.

CITY leaders in Edinburgh have been urged to “remain vigilant” after Liverpool had its World Heritage status revoked after a UN committee found developments including the new Everton FC stadium threatened the value of the city’s waterfront.

EU leaders have warned the UK Government it will not renegotiate the deal on Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading arrangements after Lord Frost demanded "significant change" to the terms.

KRIS AJER has completed his move away from Celtic after penning a five-year deal with Brentford.

BIN trucks claimed to be the country’s first rural all-electric refuse vehicles are being piloted by SP Energy Networks in partnership with Dumfries & Galloway Council as the region works towards achieving its 2025 net zero emissions target.

JOHN Swinney has been reported to the UK Statistics Authority after sharing an inaccurate graphic on social media – claiming it was impossible for two people wearing masks and being six feet apart from contracting Covid.

BORIS Johnson intends to begin the UK Covid inquiry next spring after being accused of being “not fit for office” after allegedly stating "the over 80s should be sacrificed”.

THE UK Government is seeking “significant change” to the Northern Ireland Protocol with ministers calling for a “standstill period” for trading grace periods to be continued.

CELTIC or St Johnstone fans could face a European lockout this summer due to UK Government travel restrictions.

THE SCOTTISH Government has warned that a ramping up of electric vehicle chargers will need to be paid for by the private sector – stressing it is “unsustainable” for public bodies to foot the bill.

AN SNP MP has sparked an online row after tweeting a Covid graphic with “combative, aggressive” messaging that “Scotland isn’t England”.

Serving up Christmas dinner will have a tastier element to it if you've grown a lot of what goes on the plate.