THE recollections of Ibrox, Heysel and Hillsborough are very different for Derek Pickup. He will never forget, though, as he prepares to remember once again.

As many as 2,133 Scots may have contracted Covid-19 while in hospital over the course of the pandemic this year, figures show.

IT is now clear that UK’s the second wave of coronavirus began in July. Some experts have gone so far as to pin it to one particular day: ‘Super Saturday’.

AS the Bells chimed on the 31st, a Brexit trade deal that had barged its way through Westminster with some jingoistic bluster and very little else on Wednesday had already been formalised and the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Unio...

OFTEN, it’s been the essential virtues of our shared humanity which have made this Covid year bearable. Occurring alongside the increasing infection and death tolls have been individual human stories conveying kindness, self-sacrifice and compas...

ScotRail paid out more than £1.1 million over a year, figures show.

SCOTLAND'S council tax debt mountain has doubled in size in five years as fears grow that the coronavirus pandemic will make a credit crisis even worse.

THE impact of the Covid vaccination programme on case numbers may not be seen until March, a Scottish public health expert has said, warning that a new and more concerning strain of the virus had “not really taken hold” yet in Scotland.

Every year at this time I predictably start with the same sentiments. I don’t make resolutions for I don’t believe in tempting fate but I’ve now found out the hard way that fate gets on with its own business regardless of looking it in the e...

THE SCOTTISH Government has been told to back up climate emergency pledges with action and funding – ahead of the global COP26 conference being held in Glasgow.

TODAY's Old Firm game has massive repercussions for both teams and the outcome of this season. If Rangers win, you can’t really say that the league is over but to be realistic, the chances of Celtic retaining the title would be extremely limite...

He is famous for the F word.

Football spectating in the 1960’s and 1970’s was a completely different scenario compared to the pampered luxuries of the modern day game. In January 1971, Ted Heath was some seven months into his Premiership. Decimalisation was imminent (Feb ...

A UK ticket-holder has started 2021 with a bang - and a £39 million EuroMillions jackpot.

Since the release of Akira in 1988, the popular idea of anime in the western public imagination is one of shimmering future cities, all neon and tech, usually only a flicker away from an act of gratuitous destruction.

REFLECTIONS on 2020 and the personalities of the year dominated the comment sections of the newspapers on the first day of the new year.

STILL surging around the world, with a rising death toll, coronavirus has turned every facet of life as we know it on its head. But a new warning has been issued that this pandemic may not be "the big one”.

WELL done everyone. Like those plucky soldier chappies in The Great Escape we managed to tunnel our way to the end of 2020. Now here we are on the other side of the wire, ready to make one final dash for freedom. (Fingers crossed about those vaccines...

NICOLA Sturgeon has insisted Scottish independence “has never been about separatism” as she forecast the country could rejoin the European Union family of nations "soon".

THE SNP has been told to spend an unused £70 million recycling fund to clean up Scotland’s streets and halt rising numbers of rats.

FORMER teacher Anne Paterson celebrated a Royal honour on the same day she retired after devoting 39 years to pupils in one Scottish rural area.

NICOLA Sturgeon has issued a stark warning that “the next few weeks may be the most dangerous we’ve faced” since the start of the pandemic.

Rangers bosses say they have taken the decision with "great sadness" and opted instead to wait until restrictions relax.

More than 2500 people in Scotland have tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours.

NICOLA Sturgeon’s top official tried to explain her "visions" for local government to fellow mandarins by using the Oasis hit Wonderall, official files have revealed.

SCOTTISH ministers were alarmed at the prospect of their public and private lives being exposed by the advent of Freedom of Information, official records reveal.

"If somebody had said it five years ago, we wouldn't have done it, but it's the right timing - and it isn't always of your own making," remarks British ice-skating champion Christopher Dean of his latest sub-zero adventure.

A Lanarkshire maternity unit is though to have welcomed the first New Year baby of 2021.

BORIS Johnson has said Brexit offers a chance to “transform our country”, as a new era of trade between the UK and Europe gets underway today.