IT was a moment of panic in Brussels.

Scotland’s former Chief Medical Officer Catherine Calderwood, who stepped down from the position after flouting lockdown rules, has secured a senior role with NHS Scotland.

SCOTLAND’S Tourism Secretary has “let the cat out the bag” after admitting that his own Government's plans to regulate Airbnb-style short-term lets could penalise traders in rural parts of the country.

NICOLA Sturgeon should be replaced by a medical or science expert in the Scottish Covid daily briefings, Alister Jack has insisted, claiming that if she continued to front them, the SNP would gain an unfair electoral advantage in the run-up to the...

Shamed MP Margaret Ferrier is now relying on the Tories to cast her votes in Parliament.

Education staff have been threatened with possible disciplinary action for getting inoculated against Covid-19.

CONTEMPT. Disgust. Controlled anger. That’s what I felt watching Boris Johnson’s performance at his briefing on the milestone 100,000-dead coronovirus figures.

IN a week in which the UK hit the grim milestone of 100,000 Covid deaths, vaccination has never felt more urgent.

DURING his visit to Scotland this week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson described the ongoing disruption in the seafood sector as "teething problems".

The European Union has backed down on its threat to override part of the Brexit deal on Northern Ireland as part of its export controls on coronavirus vaccines.

THE SNP treasures equality; everybody says so, but in this party some are more equal than others. On Wednesday night, Nicola Sturgeon broke away from her daily task of leading us through the pandemic to underline her commitment to equality. She wa...

SOMEBODY once said there are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence. They must have had the Scottish Government in mind. A recent report by KPMG for the Confederation of British Industry and Business revealed...

MASSAGE therapists have been told they can work in the current lockdown under certain conditions in an apparent U-turn by the Scottish Government.

By Ian McConnell

DRIVERS and staff working at a Scottish Amazon site have urged the firm to close it down following a Covid outbreak.

Do you think Nicola Sturgeon should be replaced in the daily Covid-19 briefings?

SCOTS with dementia will be among those benefitting from “significantly” more financial help towards care home costs, following campaigning efforts by a charity that have been backed by The Herald.

In our 2021 Ports Review we hear how the nation’s ports and harbours navigate these uncertain waters with confidence and innovation, click here.

When the Isle of Harris Distillery launched their “mainland” ceilidh at The Ubiquitous Chip in Glasgow last year, organisers could not have foreseen that it would be one of the last major events before lockdown.

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

By Scott Wright

In another week where the business news flow – as in nearly every other aspect of life – was driven primarily by the pandemic and its financial wrath, in came the Scottish budget with some sticky plasters and Blu Tack to keep what remains of t...

WITH nearly half a million visitors to Glasgow Cathedral every year, it might not have been surprising that when services moved online there was an initial audience of more than 25,000 last year.

HE’S been seen on screen pulling pints in Still Game’s Clansman bar and played a rapist in River City, but it his latest role which Frank Gilhooley is relishing.

IT has been a tough year for the arts. Theatres are dark, cinemas are closed, live events are out of bounds for the foreseeable future.

BORIS Johnson’s visit to Scotland, the EU vaccine chaos and Stockholm syndrome were the issues discussed by columnists and contributors in the newspapers.

ON the day that rioters stormed the US Capitol Building in Washington DC, pipe bombs were planted at the local offices of both the Democratic national committee and the Republican national committee just a few blocks away.

The Dapper Mongoose

IN some corners of the world, getting people to wear one facemask has been a challenge. Now some public health experts are recommending “double-masking” as part of the battle against coronavirus and virulent new strains.

The European Union has been warned not to disrupt the supply of coronavirus vaccines by Downing Street.

The so-called “vaccine war” has intensified after the EU was accused of erecting a “hard border” between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic to stop the province becoming a back-door to Britain as a way of circumventing an export ban on E...

PROSECUTORS have handed over potentially explosive evidence to the Holyrood inquiry into the Alex Salmond affair.

THE Western Isles will join mainland Scotland in full lockdown from midnight after a surge in new coronavirus cases pushed its principal hospital to capacity.

THE number of mass vaccination centres designed to administer 20,000 Covid jabs a week in Scotland has been halved, Jeane Freeman has admitted.

NICOLA Sturgeon’s top aide has deleted a controversial tweet attacking Boris Johnson after being accused of violating her code of conduct.

A vaccine from Johnson & Johnson is 66 per cent effective at preventing moderate to severe Covid-19 but offers high protection against people needing to go to hospital, trial results show.

THE health secretary has weighed into the row over SNP MP Kenny MacAskill potentially breaking lockdown, saying “no one is exceptional and there are no exceptions” to the rules.

Scotland's largest trade union has expressed concerns over the safety, accessibility and fairness of the planned Holyrood elections in May this year.

Scots heart specialists say the function of the right hand side of the heart which pumps blood to the lungs may be key to surviving Covid-19.

A further 70 deaths from coronavirus have been recorded in Scotland over the past 24 hours, according to the latest figures.

BRITAIN will help neighbouring nations with their vaccine supplies “where it can,” a UK Government minister has said, as the row between Brussels and AstraZeneca intensified.

A NIGHT porter who caused the fire that killed two men at the luxury Cameron House Hotel has been spared a prison sentence.

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.

OUR First Minister seems set against asymptomatic tests, she just plain disagreed with Jackie Baillie at First Minister's Questions today (January 28). I am with Ms Baillie on this one.

"Once Covid-19 is diagnosed, it’s too late to go out and get supplies."

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.