EVERYONE will pay more tax and see public service cuts, the Chancellor has said ahead of Thursday’s autumn statement.

The Boss has been thrilling tramps like us for 50 years.

As we head from one crisis to another, we appear to have forgotten about the biggest threats facing us. The climate and biodiversity crises haven’t gone away, they are only getting worse.

A COALITION of environmental groups are demanding radical changes to decades-old Scottish Government system of funding for farming, while it emerged the proportion of greenhouse gas emissions coming from agriculture has risen.

ISLANDERS have faced severe food shortages after a lifeline ferry was sidelined due to steering issues, the Herald on Sunday can reveal.

UK GOVERNMENT plans threatening nuclear and radiation safety laws in a “Brexit bonfire” have provoked resistance from regulators and trade unionists, opposition from Scottish ministers, and alarm from campaigners.

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SCOTLAND’s health secretary is demanding the UK Government provide extra funding for NHS pay to stop “catastrophic” strike action by nurses this winter.

Some may well think 1980s style - with those boxy shoulder pads, electropop tunes and mullet haircuts - would be best parked in the past.

Small but mighty, the elusive natterjack toad might be hard to find but certainly likes to be heard: its distinctive and very loud call can carry over 2kms.

IT was the first official women’s football international. Fifty years ago this week Scotland v England took to the field at Ravenscraig Park in Greenock.

A MOTION which could see Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater forced out of their roles as co-leaders of the Scottish Greens is to be voted on by party members later this month.

THE Scottish Greens have set out their red lines over gender recognition reforms as the SNP attempt to dampen a new Holyrood revolt.

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“THINKING the unthinkable,” which we’re told Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt have been doing, is one thing; doing the unthinkable is quite another.

Scottish Fire and Rescue said six crews were sent to the scene after the blaze broke out around 6pm

Edinburgh GP Dr Gavin Francis is beloved around the world for his books which unravel what it means to be human. However, he’s got some harsh truths when it comes to what’s gone wrong with our health service, and why. He talks to our Writer at La...

OOOH, say it in the voice of a Hollywood trailer. The Stone … of Destiny! Da-dah!

Last year Storm Arwen brought disruption and devastation to the power grid

If your employer produced digital evidence which showed that you have been embezzling substantial sums of money from them, how would you prove you didn’t do it? In principle, the burden of proof lies on the prosecutor. In principle, you don’t hav...

I NOTE that under plans to redraw Britain’s electoral boundaries the SNP is to lose two of its Westminster MPs' seats. This must surely be good news for nationalists who feel that the continued presence of dozens of SNP people at Westminster kind o...

As Ukrainians celebrate an extraordinary victory, Foreign Editor David Pratt examines the significance of retaking Kherson, it’s likely impact on the course of the war and ramifications for Vladimir Putin

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Hints and answer for today's Wordle, 512.

Train your brain by putting your mind to November 13's Quordle word puzzle.

COVENT Garden, a great place to eat, shop, and generally watch the world go by. Outside of the city’s parks it is one of the few places you can go in London for a relaxing, convivial time (just don’t use the Tube station; you’ll wait years for ...

HE’S arrived then. Matt Hancock, former Cabinet Minister, current Alan Partridge impersonator (job share with Richard Madeley), and all-round pillock, has turned up for his shift on I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! (STV, daily).

AN independent inquiry has found that a fatal lockdown hotel stabbing attack "could have been avoided" by for the actions of an asylum system "motivated by commercial profit".

MALA Jayhindaran was cooking rice when the call came that she was being given just one hour to pack and leave her home of three years.

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Scotland’s biggest planned offshore wind farm, Berwick Bank, is estimated to bring round 4,650 direct and indirect jobs in Scotland, and 9,300 in the UK.

WHEN the ScotWind round was announced in January, the names of some of the companies awarded seabed leases, were striking: Shell, TotalEnergies and BP.

SCOTLAND’S jobs crisis is deepening. The labour market is shrinking along with the economy and businesses are closing early or altogether because they cannot get enough staff.

SCOTTISH workers are stepping up their return to the office because of growing concerns over the cost of living, a prominent Scottish law firm has observed.

THE owners of an island tourism business are to sell the property and concentrate on a separate restaurant venture.

Expert support to speed up the development of medical devices is being made available through a new partnership serving small and medium-sized businesses.

Gas producer IOG is hoping to rectify production setbacks at its Southwark field off the coast of Norfolk with hydraulic stimulation operations that are expected to begin next week.

The energy situation in Europe is already a genuine crisis and the indications are that it will get worse. For the first time since post-WWII, energy rationing and even the re-nationalisation of energy companies may be the only way governments can th...

Monetary Policy Committee member Silvana Tenreyro yesterday declared she felt the Bank of England had “already done enough”.

After weeks of anticipation, the winners of The Herald Law Awards of Scotland 2022 were announced last night in front of a packed audience in the DoubleTree by Hilton Glasgow Central.

She had kind eyes and an ever so faint smile, at least on canvas. Elizabeth Steven of Polmadie and Bellahouston was painted – as was the custom of her age – to look dignified but demure.

HOLYROOD has experienced a variegated slew of governance: Labour/LibDem coalition, minority SNP, majority SNP. This week the latest iteration – the SNP partnership agreement with the Greens – faced renewed tension on two fronts.

IT was surreal to see Nicola Sturgeon smiling and shaking hands with a man whom she avowedly detests, as a Tory, namely the Prime Minister ("Talking the talk", The Herald, November 11 and "Sturgeon tells Sunak she is ‘ready and willing’ to negoti...

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on Steven Camley’s take on Donald Trump’s midterm elections letdowns  on Saturday, November 12.

WE reporters, like everybody else, have our little biases, political or otherwise. And they sometimes show, whether we like it or not.

THE exact wording of the phrase was disputed by Number 10 at the time, though there was no explicit denial that David Cameron had ever referred to environmental policies with the inelegant formulation of ‘green crap’.

Covid curtailed Lachlan Goudie's trip of a lifetime to the Indian Ocean. Two years on, he has been - and a new exhibition of his work shows what he found there

There are more important things than budgets where re-building Glasgow School of Art's iconic Mackintosh Building are concerned says painter and broadcaster Lachlan Goudie