A FORMER administrator involved in the controversial takeover of Rangers is pursuing criminal action against Police Scotland and an ex-Lord Advocate to address the “abuse of power” in the legal system.

For many years it was known for its dreadful living conditions, slum tenements and families crammed into tiny spaces.

It seems a long time ago now, but during the first wave of the pandemic, commentators and politicians talked excitedly about how coronavirus would bring the world together against the “common enemy”. Borders were irrelevant. Nations would have...

A YEAR ago today, the first known cases of coronavirus in the UK were confirmed.

The UK Government has expressed confidence that the European Union will not block vaccines entering the UK, after the two sides agreed to a “reset” in relations to de-escalate tensions.

Opposition party leaders have condemned Boris Johnson’s “unwillingness” to intervene in global atrocities and accused him of turning his back on the world’s most vulnerable.

POLITICAL contests can be underhand, sneaky and aggressive affairs leaving losers contemplating their place in the political world.

The Government will formally apply to join a free-trade pact including Australia, Canada, Japan and Singapore, under its post-Brexit plans.

Nicola Rylatt was visiting her hairdresser when it happened.

THE death toll from drugs misuse has soared up by up to eight times in a decade in parts of Scotland with rural areas among the grim hotspots, shocking new analysis has revealed.

This week, The Herald on Sunday invited the nation’s leading historian Sir Tom Devine and the nation’s first black professor Sir Geoff Palmer to debate Scotland’s legacy of slavery. Their explosive exchange shows just how far we have to go a...

HENRY McLeish has condemned Boris Johnson’s lockdown visit to Scotland, describing it as a “safari” and said the Prime Minister had “lost the plot” over the Union.

THE prestigious COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow should go ahead in November as planned, as a fully physical summit, with a “huge presence” of world leaders and delegates in attendance, Alister Jack has insisted.

Teachers are to be given support to better deal with the effects of the pandemic on children.

As protests in support of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny grow, so too does talk of Vladimir Putin’s demise. But as Foreign Editor David Pratt reports, we have been here before

Scotland: check how many people in your local authority have been given their first dose of the Covid vaccine.

Boris Johnson’s fiancee Carrie Symonds has landed a communications job at a high-profile animal conservation charity.

WE are living through an extraordinary period in history. From Brexit to independence, we face political choices that will define life in Scotland for decades. We are in the teeth of a global pandemic that has killed thousands of our fellow citizens ...

Two men are marooned on a desert island and have to use all their smarts to survive.

There have been 994 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

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...

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.

IT was a moment of panic in Brussels.

The former head of the Better Together campaign has called for Boris Johnson to stay out of the debate on Scottish independence.

I AM convinced my 76-year-old Pakistani mum was the creator of the now-withdrawn UK government Stay at Home advert this week. Four houses were depicted, three containing women looking after children, doing housework, and home-schooling and one contai...

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.

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

I READ with dismay Neil McKay’s Big Read ("Inside Scotland’s education wars: Inside Scotland’s education wars Daggers drawn on all sides amid Covid lockdown", January 24).

ACCORDING to Alexander McKay (Letters, January 29) and others of his ilk, if it were not for the beneficence of the UK Government, Scotland would have sunk in the Covid quagmire.

OF course, I haven’t seen Bridgerton. If there’s a loop, I’ll be out of it. A curve? I’ll be behind it.

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

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

IT was irredeemably dull but had a limitless capacity to fascinate. Its former trait lay entirely in its lacklustre bronze appearance. The latter resided in the story it told.

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

Scottish Labour leadership hopeful Anas Sarwar has said he would call former leader Richard Leonard on his first day in charge in a bid to unite the party.

THEY are predominantly unspoilt but increasingly being blighted by waste washed upon their shores.

The DUP’s Westminster leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has called the Northern Ireland Protocol a “stick for the EU to beat the UK with” after Brexit.

Monica Lennon has set out her priorities if she becomes the next Scottish Labour leader, as she insisted she is in the running for the party's top job on merit.

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.

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.

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.