IF anyone came up with a hare-brained scheme which experts warned would cause great damage, and then insisted on ignoring the advice and ploughing ahead, and the predicted trouble ensued in spades, you would expect them to be embarrassed.

ONE of the country's most prominent public health experts has said an independent Scotland would have handled the coronavirus pandemic better.

JOHN Swinney has denounced Celtic manager Neil Lennon’s claim that his players were made to self-isolate for political reasons as “absolutely appalling”.

Mr Sarwar, who is of Pakistani descent, said his election as leader of his party would send a strong message about Scotland being a welcoming place to live.

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DATA showing Israel’s widespread vaccination policy has dramatically reduced hospital admissions is “real world evidence” that the UK governments were right to delay second doses of the Pfizer vaccine, a clinical expert has said.

Coronavirus infections continue to fall but experts say it will be some days before fatalities follow.

SNP ministers wanted to ensure that public advice on the emerging coronavirus pandemic was “branded” as Scottish, it has emerged.

SCOTLAND’S top law officer suggesting using sweeping terrorism-related legislation to cope with the pandemic, the Scottish Government has inadvertently revealed.

LOUISE Casey, the UK Government’s former homelessness adviser, has warned that the Conservatives would “go back to being the Nasty Party” if they went ahead and withdrew the £20-a-week increase to Universal Credit paid to millions of low-paid ...

IT is the forgotten predator that disappeared from Scotland due to fur hunting and habitat loss over 1000 years ago.

A LEADING energy company has warned that Scotland will not be able to scale up wind farms to meet climate targets without an overhaul of charging regimes that “penalises” projects north of the border.

THE CONSERVATIVES have been accused of "an outrageous grab" of power as the SNP has challenged MSPs to reject EU funding being diverted from Holyrood.

THE BBC has been told to set out a plan to reach "underserved" audiences in the wake of cuts which have hit BBC Scotland.

HERE comes yet another Scottish Labour leadership contest where the two candidates deny the people’s right to choose their own future ("Lennon says Labour should push for Devo Max not block Indyref2", The Herald, January 19). Devo Max, medium or...

MORE than half of men in Scotland are surviving kidney cancer for at least five years after diagnosis for the first time, new figures reveal.

Hannah Stephenson offers the lowdown on grey mould, one of winter's most prevalent plant diseases.

TODAY marks a change in the US presidency. One that has been wracked by contention and controversy. There was a time whenever a new American leader took office, one of the most pressing concerns faced was keeping the country safe from Islamist-ins...

Union leaders are calling for a rapid deployment of extra teachers amid fears thousands of pupils in some parts of the country face being taught at home for longer due to local coronavirus rates.

IT has been revealed that the Prime Minister has allegednly been taking regular power naps  to help him get through the working day.

GLASGOW City Council today launches an appeal for 1,000 volunteers to help support the staging of the UK’s most prestigious international gathering: the United Nations’ Conference of the Parties climate change summit.

THERESA May has launched a fresh onslaught on Boris Johnson, accusing her successor of abandoning Britain’s position of “global moral leadership”.

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PATIENTS with an incurable condition affecting one in 500 Scots have been offered hope by a world-first trial that could pave the way for treatments to halt its progression.

HOW did that happen? Britain has vaccinated an astonishing four million vulnerable people against Covid-19 only three weeks into the New Year. Government ministers and the NHS are beside themselves. Critics are dumbfounded. After all the problems of ...

WOOD has won a $130 million (£95m) contract to help extend the life of one of the UK’s oldest gas field clusters, which will fuel hopes of recovery in the sector.

TWO Scottish firms have collaborated to produce a ground-breaking magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner which aims to provide new insights into brain disease research.

So now we know. The Guinness Six Nations is likely to be held behind closed doors in its entirety.

Around two-thirds of all new cases in Scotland are found to be from the new, faster spreading mutant variant of coronavirus, Nicola Sturgeon confirmed yesterday.

THE University of Edinburgh and the Scale Space, a new community for scaling businesses, have linked up to help boost start-ups working in the Artificial Intelligence sector .

MENTAL health experts would probably give it a fancy title like expressive group therapy. For Calvin McCord, however, it is just old-fashioned mickey-taking.

THE Covid vaccine and our national health serviced continued to dominate the comment sections of the newspapers with columnists and contributors praising the team effort and acknowledging the strain on frontline workers.

WHEN Donald Trump denounced the assault on Capitol Hill, it was widely regarded as a hostage-like statement, delivered under duress and in no way reflecting his personal views. If he wanted to say what he meant, he should perhaps have taken a less...

SEAFOOD exporters will be able to claim up to £100,000 in compensation as the UK Government announced the details of a £23 million package to help companies struggling with post-Brexit red tape amid the coronavirus pandemic.

MSPs have refused consent for the UK Government's controversial "spy cops" legislation, which would allow undercover agents to break the law.

KWASI Kwarteng, the new Business Secretary, has confirmed the UK Government is considering scrapping some European Union labour laws but insisted there would be no “bonfire of rights” or “whittling down” of standards.

President-elect Joe Biden has made a final emotional speech before setting off for Washington DC for tomorrow's inauguration.

NICOLA Sturgeon’s husband has been recalled to give further oral evidence to the Holyrood inquiry into the Alex Salmond affair after stinging criticism of his previous appearance.

Two of Scotland's island communities will be going into lockdown from Wednesday, in a bid to curb rising infection rates.

The UK has recorded a further 1,610 coronavirus deaths – the highest number reported on a single day since the outbreak began.

Scotland's schools will remain closed until mid-February amid surging rates of Covid transmission among children and young people, Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed.

LOCKDOWN restrictions will remain in place across mainland Scotland and some island communities "until at least the middle of February", Nicola Sturgeon has said.

THE UK Government has been accused of treating touring musicians as Brexit “collateral” and of “fatally undermining” festivals in Britain after failing to agree a deal with the EU to allow a visa-free travel period for performers.

NICOLA Sturgeon is “exploring all options” to try and speed up business grants getting into the bank accounts of traders amid speculation the private sector could take some of the burden off over-stretched councils.

NICOLA Sturgeon has accused the UK Government of having a "hissy fit" over the publication of vaccine supply details.

On Wednesday, January 20th, Donald Trump and Melania will depart from the White House for the last time as President and first lady.

Business leaders have said the lockdown extension is a “heavy blow” as lost revenue for Scottish shops this time round is set to break through the £1 billion mark.

MORE than 90 per cent of care home residents have now received their first dose of coronavirus vaccine, Nicola Sturgeon has said.

Mrs Marion Dawson, the third oldest person in Scotland and most senior in Greater Glasgow & Clyde, received her Covid vaccination on her 108th birthday in Houston, Renfrewshire.