Ian Blackford has said Nicola Sturgeon “acted in an honourable way” after former colleague Alex Salmond reportedly claimed she breached the ministerial code by misleading the Scottish Parliament.

Police Scotland is urging members of the public to not participate in a planned demonstration at the Scottish Parliament.

CARE home residents are facing monthly fee rises of up to £240 this year with private providers citing Covid-related costs and “Brexit uncertainty” for inflation-busting increases.

MASS immunisation against Covid is underway in Indonesia. But unlike the UK, the south-east Asian republic is prioritising working age adults of 18 to 59 with the goal of achieving herd immunity faster and rebooting the economy.

PRIME Minister Boris Johnson’s hard Brexit brought parts of the UK’s colossal road haulage industry, usually ferrying foods and goods across the world, to a near standstill as bottlenecks and red tape wrangles made for a costly start to the ye...

The proportion of Scottish school leavers securing at least one pass at Higher or equivalent has fallen in the vast majority of council areas, sparking warnings that decadeslong progress in improving attainment has “stalled”.

Donald Trump has been permanently suspended from Twitter “due to the risk of further incitement of violence”.

KNEE deep in sludge, in a watery tip where everything from rusting cars to kitchen sinks lurked – even, bizarrely, a child’s coffin – a small group of enthusiasts rolled up their sleeves to begin a mammoth clean-up job.

The latest weekly coronavirus figures have been released which shows the areas in Scotland with the most cases of Covid.

AN injured Scots hillwalker and his father have praised rescuers for saving their lives after plucking them and their dog from a frozen hillside when a festive hike turned to calamity.

WHAT is the future of architecture? Are we still building for permanence? Is that even a sensible idea anymore? How do we reflect human diversity in the structures we create?

NEW year, new starts. On radio as elsewhere. This week saw Emma Barnett jump from Radio 5 Live to Radio 4 to take over presenting Women’s Hour, while BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty stepped into Barnett’s old shoes on the mid-morning 5 ...

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By Ian McConnell

NOTWITHSTANDING the debate over vaccination, the logic of which has escaped some readers (Letters, January 6, 7 & 8), we now learn that England, Germany and other states are prioritising teachers to ease their fears of contagion, enable schools to...

By Scott Wright

RULE breakers, red tape and a smart lockdown were the topics discussed by columnists and contributors in the newspapers.

Thyme 2 Dine

AFTER a while it had become a face-off between jousting grotesques: the hordes running up the steps of America’s seat of government and the flocks of Twitterati descending on the event to feast. In this virtual panopticon they all vie for the tw...

IT’S one of those bone-seeping misty days when every cell is infiltrated by cold grey misery. Even the cover protecting me on the stretcher has rivulets of damp trickling aimlessly.

Tantrums and tigers

IT’S early days, but 2021 has not so far proven to offer the post-2020 relief the world was waiting and hoping for and now, in an unusual pandemic experiment, one person is being offered the opportunity to escape the maelstrom - spending a week ...

IT was no exaggeration for President-elect Joe Biden and other members of Congress to describe this week’s storming of the Capitol Building in Washington DC by a mob as “one of the darkest days in recent American history”.

JOHNSON. Sturgeon. Starmer. Rees-Mogg. Leonard. Blackford. You won’t see them in The Herald. Or you shouldn’t, at any rate.

The Moderna vaccine has been given the green light in the UK.

Students who cannot return to term-time accommodation because of new Covid-19 restrictions must be refunded, ministers have been told.

SCOTLAND’S top police officer has insisted his force has been “proportionate” after revealing it issued the largest number of fines for breaching Covid rules in the UK.

Donald Trump is the "most incompetent president in the history of the United States of America", according to president-elect Joe Biden.

The chief executive of Scotland's health board with the highest Covid-19 rates has painted a "grim picture" of the current situation in the region.