NICOLA Sturgeon has been accused of “opportunistic politicking” after sending out a letter to every household in Scotland thanking them for “sticking with it” during the pandemic.

According to the latest UK government House Price Index, the average property value rose by almost 10 per cent.

This is a government that seems to seek to avoid scrutiny, and to refuse to answer questions which we have a right to ask and get answers.

GLASTONBURY is cancelled for a second year.

The latest weekly coronavirus figures have been released in Scotland, highlighting hotspots of Covid-19 per 100,000 of the population.

The message that coronavirus does very little harm to children ‘might now be weaker’, a leading paediatrician has said, as new research suggests higher numbers than expected may be experiencing long term effects.

A new plan for indyref2 has been unveiled by constitutional secretary Michael Russell.

WHEN an 11-year-old boy suffered potentially life-threatening crush injuries to his leg after falling under the wheels of a cart on Castle Street, in front of Glasgow’s Royal Infirmary, he inadvertently triggered a watershed moment in medicine.

A £6 million fund, managed by VisitScotland, is being made available to support inbound tourism and businesses which promote and sell packages to international markets.

SNP ministers have been accused of years of delay over plans to hand more powers to the Scottish SPCA to allow it to better investigate wildlife crime, including the illegal killing of birds of prey.

OIL giant ExxonMobil looks set to sell the bulk of its North Sea assets to Norwegian financiers, writes Mark Williamson

By Kristy Dorsey

IT didn’t take long for the inauguration of Joe Biden as 46th President of the US to turn into a canonisation. Since he won the race for the White House, America’s new Commander-in-Chief seems to have been endowed with saintly virtues. I haven...

IN January 2020, the broadcaster Clemency Burton-Hill suffered a brain haemorrhage in New York and was rushed to hospital. She spent the next 17 days in a coma. When she came to, she couldn’t move or speak, but could understand what the people a...

THE Yes campaign must not only win a second independence referendum it must win it big to help unite Scotland, Ian Blackford has insisted.

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Nicola Sturgeon has outlined a number of rules for shopping within supermarkets as she highlighted the coronavirus risk in retail.

THE vacuous nature of contemporary politics is neatly summed up by Sir Keir Starmer saying “Labour needs to rebuild trust” ("Sir Keir Starmer: Labour has a lot of work to do to regain ground in Scotland", The Herald, January 22). If he feels w...

IN only a 10 year period, more than 50 per cent of the world’s elephant population was wiped out. Now the remaining creatures are to be tracked from space as part of a new conservation project.

IT is almost exactly a year since Zhong Nanshan, a Chinese respiratory expert, confirmed that the new coronavirus identified in Wuhan, which had at that stage killed three people, was capable of human-to-human transmission.

LIFE plays sneaky little tricks on us sometimes or is unnecessarily cruel. Or perhaps that’s just the way it is.

WHEN a flotilla of 35 fishing boats sailed up the Thames in 2016, organised by skippers as part of the Fishing for Leave campaign, they were crewed by fishermen in hearty voice. Joined on board by Nigel Farage, the trawlermen were determined to se...

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MOST people in the UK support the introduction of an immunity passport system and would use privacy-encroaching tracking technology, academics have found.

A court has been told it cannot accept the legal standing of a man campaigning to determine whether Scotland can hold a second independence referendum without the UK Government’s consent.

MSPs investigating the botched handling of complaints against Alex Salmond have compelled the Crown Office to hand over documents after being told they may contain evidence that officials attempted to “damage the reputation” of the former fir...

Evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.

BORIS Johnson is considering setting up a Royal Commission on the UK constitution, which could look, among other things, at Scotland’s place within the Union, senior Conservative sources have suggested.

Health bosses are asking people in two postcode areas to get tested for coronavirus after a surge in cases - regardless of whether they are currently experiencing symptoms.

A heritage body has called for the need for public benefit when deciding the futiure of an Edinburgh landmark as it is set to go on the market again.

Speaking during a daily briefing on the state of the pandemic in Scotland, the First Minister said that the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 has risen by 1480.

NICOLA Sturgeon has said she cannot guarantee music festivals and other large public events will be able to take place this summer.

Coastguard rescue teams on the Western Isles have been praised for their help transporting Covid-19 tests.

Donald Trump's impeachment trial is to begin next week, Senate Marjority Leader Chuck Schumer has announced.

The locations of 15 additional mass vaccine centres have been revealed for Greater Glasgow and Clyde, in what has been called a "major step forward".

APRIL, TS Eliot always contended, is the cruellest month. It’s a theory, I suppose. Every time I’ve read that line in The Waste Land, though, the question I want to ask is, “Tom, please show us your workings.”

LABOUR leadership hopeful Anas Sarwar has named a former MSP to chair his campaign for the top party job.

Government scientists believe the reproductive rate – the R – for coronavirus has fallen to below 1 across the UK, suggesting a retreating epidemic.

A HOLYROOD committee has raised fears at a “lack of transparency” over public funding ploughed into struggling BiFab years before the company collapsed.

THE hotel fire that killed a couple more than three years ago was started by embers in fireplace ash put in a plastic bag next to kindling and newspapers.

TERMINALLY ill Scots are missing out on vital benefits as they have been told to wait until after the Covid pandemic to be assessed on whether they are unfit for work.

The show of support from the EU parliamentarians comes after German MEP Terry Reintke asked her colleagues to back her campaign.

REPAIRS carried out at Nicola Sturgeon's official Edinburgh residence during the coronavirus lockdown were essential, the Scottish Government has said.

THE cat, as shadow business secretary Ed Miliband put it, is now out of the bag on the Conservatives’ plans to look at scrapping some workers’ rights protections embedded when the UK was a member of the European Union.

Some of Scotland’s most loved paths are receiving some TLC after new funding has been approved.

The Scottish comedian’s wife Pamela Stephenson revealed in a post on social media that he had received his first jab.

UNFORTUNATELY the valid points made by Rosemary Goring concerning footballers and football during the pandemic, especially the criticism of Celtic, Neil Lennon and "Dubaigate" ("Footballers are like royalty, heedless of what ordinary folk are going t...

UK retail sales volumes increased in December, new figures show.

Our reporter speaks to those at heart of city’s battle against Covid-19.

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