RANGERS topped off a busy January transfer window with the signatures of Bournemouth duo Jack Simpson and Nnamdi Ofoborh.

Follow along live with the latest coronavirus lockdown news in Scotland.

Energy bills are to rise for millions at a time when finances are hit through the Covid-19 pandemic.

Police are carrying out an investigation after a hospital was locked down for three hours following a major incident.

By Tom Gordon

A COALITION of unions, think tanks and businesses are demanding the First Minister bring in a national subsidy so that a four-day working week can be introduced with no loss of pay.

THE yawning chasm between grim Brexit realities for hard-pressed businesses and households, and fantasies about what the future could hold for what some strangely see as a newly “independent” UK has been thrown into stark relief in recent days...

A FORMER Rangers administrator says he has no confidence that criminal action over malicious prosecutions in a collapsed club fraud case will ever be properly investigated.

Parent leaders have slammed the prospect of five-year-olds sitting controversial literacy and numeracy tests following a planned return to school this month.

NORTH Sea-focused EnQuest is buying a stake in a bumper oil field development for up to $375 million (£275m) in a deal the company said underlined its commitment to the area amid challenging times for the industry.

TOM Gordon is correct; the SNP is needing a refresh. Neil Mackay is correct; the SNP has splits. Mark Smith ( is wrong; the LSE report (“Independence could leave Scots £2,800 a year worse off, claims report”, The Herald, February 3 and Letters...

MY job in Sydney was so unutterably dull that on a Friday, as a treat for surviving another monotonous week, my two chums and I would buy a three dollar box of Chinese food from the Central Plaza food court and take it on the Monorail.

HOLLYWOOD star George Clooney may have been crowned "No 1 man's man" in the past, but now he has earned a new tag: the poster boy for sewing.

NOT to deflect from the main issue of the week in Scottish football, which appears to be the sacking of the Hamilton Accies co-commentator for a rather vivid description of his half-time constitutional - now infamously known as ‘Jobbygate’ - b...

OFF the field, an 18-year-old Jonjoe Kenny may not have looked every inch a future star of the game when Gary Caldwell first laid eyes on him. But when he saw the Everton youngster take to the pitch, he was immediately convinced that as diminutive...

By Scott Wright

By Scott Wright

HOUSEBUILDER Barratt has pledged to create jobs in Scotland as it supports the economic recovery, it said as it posted a half-year profit hike.

TWMA, the specialist drilling waste management company, has unveiled new headquarters in Aberdeen.

THE loss of a hero, the Prime Minister’s popularity and a divided nation were the topics discussed by columnists and contributors in the newspapers.

AH, Captain Tom. Last April, just after completing the hundredth lap of his garden, the sprightly veteran of the Burma campaign, who until days before had been living in obscurity, found himself called upon to deliver a message to Britain at the p...

Single-minded

CROSSHOUSE Hospital was in lockdown this evening after a major incident.

Tom Gordon

WHEN it comes to the debate over Scottish independence people still believe it’s fundamentally “the economy stupid”. But has the pandemic coming on top of Brexit shifted the parameters of the debate?

President Biden is set to announce an end to US support for offensive operations in Yemen, where a war of more than six years has resulted in the death of more than 110,000 people.

NICOLA Sturgeon’s husband is to give further evidence to the Holyrood inquiry into the Alex Salmond affair after MSPs agreed to use compulsion powers if he refused.

The Army has begun giving people Covid-19 jabs at a mass vaccination centre at the Royal Highland Centre just outside Edinburgh.

COACH operators in Scotland can apply for emergency cash support as the Scottish tourism industry battles to stay afloat amid continuing coronavirus restrictions.

Shell has plummeted to a mammoth 21.7 billion US dollar (£16 billion) full-year loss after hefty writedowns as oil prices crashed amid the pandemic.

Tourism bosses and tourists alike have their eyes firmly set on the easing of lockdown restrictions - and while holidays abroad are still largely discouraged, a Scottish staycation is still on the cards for many.

ALEX Salmond has reacted furiously to the Holyrood inquiry into his legal fight with Nicola Sturgeon’s government refusing to publish his most explosive allegations.

Jacob Rees-Mogg has hailed Joanna Cherry's “courage” after she was “sacked” from her frontbench role.

THE SCOTTISH Government has published £33 billion plans to invest in infrastructure over the next five years – but ministers have been accused of being “out of transformative ideas” and falling short of what's needed to kickstart a recovery...

PLANS to have a Highlands airport and its 'lifeline' flights protected from future closure has been supported with a £1m-a-year fund.

By George Thorley

Tom Gordon

NICOLA Sturgeon has been urged to take action against her chief of staff amid claims her social media use includes multiple breaches of the code of conduct for special advisers.

Speaking during a daily briefing on the state of the pandemic in Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon said that 45,085 first-dose vaccinations had been delivered as of 8.30am this morning.

Highland Council has rejected a plan to convert a stone farm building on the south west side of the historic moor into a modern dwelling house. 

A FIVE-NATION quarantine agreement between the UK and Ireland is the “favoured solution”, Scotland’s national clinical director has indicated.

An animal charity has issued a warning after people posing as its inspectors snatched family pets .

"I carry the burden of losing John before this vaccination programme became available to the public."

SCOTLAND’S vaccination programme will need to slow to allow for “stockpiling vaccines” to administer second doses within the 12-week timeframe, the national clinical director has warned.

IN the middle of a pandemic, especially with severe criticism about the speed of the vaccine roll-out, you would imagine it would be all hands to the pump for the Scottish Government.

A HUGE slump in Edinburgh Airport passenger numbers will cost Scotland 21,000 jobs, managers have earned.

SEAFOOD exporters are starting to lose hope in the face of post-Brexit red tape, MSPs have been told, while red meat exports may never return to normal.

THE experts have spoken (again). Some of it, to be honest, you don’t need experts for, such as this: “Scottish independence would create a new international border between Scotland and the rest of the UK, leading to higher trade costs”. But ...

SCOTLAND'S most senior law officer has said "no criminal conduct" was exposed in investigations into the malicious prosecution of former Rangers administrators who believe there was an "abuse of power" in the legal system.

Following a change of format which has ditched the audience from specific location, BBC Question Time will once again return tonight.