Follow along with the latest coronavirus news in Scotland and further afield.

A blanket of snow could cover parts of Scotland in the next couple of days, with some areas seeing up to seven inches (20cm).

One in seven shops in Scotland is currently empty, amid fears that the situation will continue to worsen in the coming months.

OVER one in three Scots are exercising less in the current Covid-19 lockdown than in the first, with just around one in ten saying they exercise more, according to new research.

A new coronavirus vaccine could be approved for use in the UK within weeks in what is being described as a "medical breakthrough".

Campaigners are urging the UK’s eight largest retail banks to publicly commit to maintaining cash access for the millions of people in Scotland who still rely on it.

YOU would think the report card on Boris Johnson’s Brexit issued this week by international ratings agency Moody’s would make embarrassing reading for the Prime Minister and his Government.

By Scott Wright

ALISON Rowat refers to an Edinburgh Evening News report of 1975 when Margaret Thatcher, the newly-elected leader of the Conservative Party, was "mobbed by enthusiastic crowds" ("When the sun and smiling crowds came out for Maggie", The Herald, Januar...

WITH Boris Johnson's unrelenting Churchillian war imagery woven through his speeches and the continued romanticising of Brexit statehood, the Conservatives are a party of nostalgia.

THOUSANDS of people living with multiple sclerosis are confused about whether the it is safe for them to be vaccinated against Covid, as a charity called for clearer information.

A CARER who looks after his wife with dementia says he was left with no choice but to cancel her Covid jag because she cannot travel to the mass vaccination site.

By Scott Wright

RENEWABLES giant Vattenfall has underlined the appeal of investing in Scotland where it is working on plans for a big expansion of its windfarm portfolio.

Scottish actor James McAvoy, actress Daisy Ridley and TV presenter Stacey Dooley are among the twenty celebrities that are hoping to impress in the next Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer.

IT has attracted visitors from more than 30 countries and helped to cement the area as a go to destination for whisky lovers and last year Spirit of Speyside whisky festival had come of age.

THE blame game, debt owed to key workers and reality television were the coronavirus topics debated by columnists in the newspapers.

THEY were an early noughties fashion staple, worn by everyone from Kate Moss and Beyonce to Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Sienna Miller and, err, Ben Affleck. Then Uggs – the sheepskin boots originating from Australia – fell out of favour. The...

IT WAS not the time for Boris Johnson to be heading to Scotland, or indeed anywhere, to present arguments for the UK union, or indeed anything.

Confusing cow SCOTTISH golf broadcaster Diane Knox is based in the States, though her Celtic connections remain robust. She even owns a framed picture of a certain statue of the Duke of Wellington wearing a traffic cone. Recently her boyfriend sur...

Nicola Sturgeon will update MSPs on the latest Covid-19 statistics before taking questions from opponents ahead of Kate Forbes delivering the Scottish Budget

BORIS Johnson has said the people of Scotland don’t want to “spend more time on constitutional wrangling” as he criticised the SNP for unanswered questions about what independence would mean in reality.

NICOLA Sturgeon has said she will publish vaccine supply figures despite the UK Government previously asking that they be kept secret.

Nicola Sturgeon has claimed nobody can reduce her predecessor’s impact on the Scottish independence movement, despite fractures within her own party.

By David Eiser

Travellers from the United Arab Emirates, Rwanda and Burundi will no longer be allowed to enter Scotland or the UK.

SCOTS scientists believe rats could be trained to sniff out Covid.

IT was an iconic moment; Boris’s sackcloth and ashes moment. Sombre. Apologetic. Humbled.

Covid-19 and a reliance on revenue from international students have raised doubts over whether Scotland’s universities are in a financially sustainable position, the higher education minister has warned.

MILLIONS of vaccines meant for the UK could be blocked by the European Union as the so-called “vaccine war” intensifies.

A new Covid-19 test that is able to detect coronavirus in the saliva is being piloted for use Scotland.

THE PRIME Minister has suggested a vaccine being developed in Scotland could be “potentially much more resistant” to mutated strains of the virus.

SNP leaders have pledged to change after mass resignations from the party over transphobia.

BORIS Johnson has stressed that “wild horses won’t keep me away” from visiting Scotland during May’s election campaign.

THE SNP has been criticised for "pressing ahead" with plans for a second independence referendum as the country faces years of "economic turmoil".

ECONOMIC activity in Scotland will drop by 5 per cent in the first quarter of this year and will not return to pre-pandemic levels until 2024, the Scottish Government's official forecaster has said.

Jim Cullen, 80, has been in the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, Renfrewshire, for more than two weeks but will soon be discharged.

One hundred percent rates relief in Scotland for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses is set to be extended for a minimum of three months, the country's Finance Secretery has said.

A PROMINENT SNP MP has written directly to the Prime Minister after he visited part of his constituency today.

By Jackie Waring

SCOTLAND’S economic growth will not return to pre-pandemic levels until 2024, Kate Forbes has warned as she delivered the draft Scottish budget.

PEOPLE will probably have to live with coronavirus in some form "for years to come", Jason Leitch has said, with routine vaccination likely.

There have been over 1,000 new cases and a further 82 deaths over the past 24 hours in Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon has announces.

WHEN Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1953, according to wags, they were met at the top by a load of tourists taking pictures.

Jacob Rees-Mogg has called Nicola Sturgeon “Moan-a-lot” following her remarks that Boris Johnson should not be making a non-essential journey to Scotland.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has traveled to Scotland to pay a vist to two facilities vital to the fight against Covid.

NEW questions have been raised on how a £20m settlement in a claim over the malicious prosecution of the former administrators of Rangers will end up hitting policing budgets.

KATE Forbes has urged the Chancellor to extend Covid support for businesses and reject a return to austerity as a way out of the pandemic ahead of today’s Scottish budget.

EVERYONE knows how horrendous this pandemic is. Everyone probably knows at least someone who’s fallen ill or died given that the number of deaths attributed to coronavirus in the UK is now over 100,000. And everyone (or almost everyone) is willi...

NHS Western Isles has suffered another significant increase in coronavirus cases.