A SCOTTISH Transport Minister suggested banning new motorways north of the border in order to appease public anger about an old one, secret files reveal.

THE Clyde shipyard that has caused huge problems for the SNP Government was regarded as being in “close to irreversible” decline 15 years ago, it has emerged.

THE G8 summit at Gleneagles in 2005 would put Scotland in “the middle of the frame” for terror attacks, Scottish ministers believed.

SCOTTISH Cabinet records are to be made widely available online for the first time because of the coronavirus, allowing people to read them at home.

NEWLY opened Scottish cabinet records from 2005 have revealed striking parallels between then and now in planning for a pandemic.

One neighbourhood in Scotland had almost 32% more than anywhere else in the country.

POLICE complaints have been lodged after a man apprehended over Covid-19 rule breaches and resisting arrest was carried like a human stretcher to a police van after an anti-child abuse group gathering in George Square, Glasgow.

SCOTS love a steak pie to celebrate the New Year and cannot get enough of them, according to an industry expert.

Only an Excuse: The Final Whistle

BORIS Johnson has claimed the “overwhelming instinct” of people across the UK will be to come together in 2021 despite deep divisions over Brexit and the Union.

Former Scotland,  Manchester United, Chelsea and  Aston Villa manager Tommy Docherty has passed away after a long illness at the age of 92.

Sir Billy Connolly is a stand-up megastar - an all-time great. He tells Georgia Humphreys about his decision to step back from performing live.

REMAIN campaigners have vowed to keep fighting to rejoin the European Union even as the full impact of Brexit starts to bite.

SCOTTISH Government civil servants have been accused of peddling “SNP propaganda” using taxpayers' money after promoting an anti-Brexit video on social media.

There have been 2,622 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland.

The father of Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told a French radio station he is applying for French citizenship.

Gibraltar’s border with Spain will remain open following the end of the Brexit transition period after the UK and European Union agreed a draft deal.

Two thousand and sixty four days have passed since the Conservative Party’s surprise majority in the 2015 general election, which gave us the referendum on membership of the European Union.

IAIN Macwhirter is certainly correct when he writes that the Westminster Brexit vote has left opposition parties with a dilemma ("We should bite the bullet and hail Boris, the history-maker", The Herald, December 30), but nonetheless when the dust...

The first Scottish golf course built by outgoing US president Donald Trump clocked up further losses in 2019, according to new accounts filed at Companies House.

Jeane Freeman has said that Scotland’s ability to give people aged over 50 the new coronavirus vaccine by a spring target will depend on supplies.

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