SCOTS aged over 70 face a postcode lottery for Covid jags with many having to travel several miles to receive it at a mass vaccination centre rather than at their local GPs.

SCOTTISH councils are facing a £767 million bill to tackle the Covid-19 crisis amid a warning the Government has only covered up to two thirds of the pressure.

A Scottish council rocked by claims staff self-harmed and had suicidal thoughts due to bullying and harassment has paid out £230,000 in gagging agreements over the last five years.

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Scotland has recorded a slight increase in employment since the last quarter, new figures show.

The First Minister has said that she is considering piloting vaccinations round the clock in a bid to accelerate the rollout.

HERE’S Scotland’s political dilemma in a nutshell: the majority of the population favour independence; however, the vehicle to get independence – the SNP – is rotting from the inside out.

Dog owners could be in for a shock if they get slapped with a £40,000 fine or a stint in prison, for letting their dogs chase and kill livestock.

A Scottish golf club is facing legal action over claims a laundry worker suffered sexual harassment “several times a day for months” at the hands of another employee.

HE has been slated as a Weinstein of his day for his treatment of women. Now First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has added to the debate surrounding Robert Burns by suggesting a rewrite of one of his most famous works, A Man’s a Man for A’ That.

A MOTHER says her eight-year-old daughter is still suffering Covid “flare-ups” nine months after suffering what is thought to have been a rare but life-threatening complication that left her falling asleep at her school desk.

DAMNED if you do and damned if you don't - the etiquette of the thank you letter is under scrutiny and to send or not to send has become a political issue.

MORE than half the firms operating in the North Sea expect to achieve ‘acceptable’ profits at current oil prices although widespread job cutting is in prospect a study has found.

I WRITE as a serving police officer, a uniformed response officer answering 999 calls in one of the Scottish cities, to highlight the increasing concern and confusion amongst officers as to why we are not being prioritised for the Covid vaccine. I...

The UK's jobless rate has soared to its highest level for more than four years, with more than 830,000 dropped from UK payrolls since the start of the pandemic.

Government vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi has said he is “confident” that the Pfizer supply would continue, despite concerns over export controls from the EU.

The world was left stunned by the passing of basketball great Kobe Bryant in a helicopter crash on January 26th last year.

WHEN Stephen Kelly made the loan move from Rangers to Ross County last summer, he knew it was designed to test him and challenge him in different ways to ensure he was as prepared as possible for a potential Premiership campaign at Ibrox.

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FOR someone seemingly not in charge of his own destiny, things have turned out not too badly for Mark Stewart.

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HE roamed the streets and dabbled in soft drugs as a teenager but has now turned his life around to become a full-time youth pastor.

THE recent actions of a self-styled disrupter of the Scottish banking scene have proved it to be as tin-eared as incumbents that dominate the market.

By Holly O'Donnell

IF YOU’RE starting to get fed up with the same routines every day, why not shake things up and give yourself something to look forward to either through a new purchase or a  virtual experience. That could be anything from treating yourself to ...

Herald restaurant critic Ron Mackenna visited Cail Bruich last year – and wrote that chef Lorna McNee was the person to finally lead Glasgow back to Michelin star-stardom. The announcement last night that her restaurant has been awarded the cove...

Facebook has launched a section dedicated to personalised news content in the UK called Facebook News.

Long before we all became self-appointed experts in epidemiology, with our own quack remedies and hocus pocus about containing the coronavirus, we used to be self-appointed experts in osteopathy, with our own quack remedies and hocus pocus about s...

IN his inauguration speech, Joe Biden admitted “I know speaking of unity can sound to some like a foolish fantasy.”

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Amid signs of rising support for Scottish independence, Mr Hancock stressed the importance of collaboration between the nations in the fight against Covid-19 during the health briefing.

IT has been a long time coming but Glasgow can finally boast a Michelin star restaurant for the first time in 18 years.

MATT Hancock has insisted the cross-border co-operation during the pandemic has shown the strength of the Union and how Scotland and England are “stronger together”.

THE TSSA trade union has declared the closure of 89 shops by Hays Travel is “a sad but inevitable move”, while laying the blame at the door of the UK Government.

BORIS Johnson is set to visit Scotland this week amid a constitutional row over the Scottish Government’s plan for a second Scottish independence referendum, something Downing St made clear was not within Holyrood’s powers.

HAGGIS-loving Europeans are struggling to get their hands on the Scottish national dish due to Brexit, the SNP claim.

By Scott Wright

An SNP MSP who represents Grangemouth has labelled the country’s biggest polluter “misguided” after their billionaire boss refused to appear in front of MSPs investigating Scotland’s response to the climate emergency.

The number of shoppers heading out to retail destinations across the UK rose by 9 per cent last week from the previous seven days, indicating “lockdown fatigue” for people cooped up at home, according to market researcher Springboard.

By Jamie Livingstone

NICOLA Sturgeon has said Scotland is "looking at piloting" 24/7 vaccinations in a bid to accelerate the rollout.

The site has been experiencing high volumes of traffic throughout the day of Burns Night and has suffered frequent outages. 

NICOLA Sturgeon has announced extra support for Scotland's wedding sector as one of her senior ministers revealed her own engagement on social media.

BBC viewers reacted after news anchor Joanna Gosling appeared confused over one of the main ingredients in a traditional Burns Supper.

A virtual exhibition to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Peploe on 27 January is being launched, featuring work from the collection managed by OnFife (Fife Cultural Trust).

NICOLA Sturgeon has refused to be drawn on a key part of her plans for a second independence referendum.

A FORMER council leader who shared confidential information on Facebook has been suspended for three months by the Standards Commission.

THE UK Government is “actively” looking at quarantining all overseas visitors to protect the country from vaccine-busting Covid-19 variants, Boris Johnson has confirmed, as he signalled it would look at the “potential” of relaxing lockdown...

Nicola Sturgeon is joined by chief medical officer Dr Gregor Smith to give the latest coronavirus figures.