Absences of ambulance staff due to mental health problems have soared by more than 150 per cent since 2017, new figures show.

They were to be the solution to city housing problems, towering high above the rooftops and providing residents with a head for heights, a bird’s eye view of the world below.

The word on the street - or at least at the kerb where the bins are collected - is that food waste is down.

LABOUR must face up to its “relevance problem” and strap in for a long-term rebuilding project – one of the two candidates vying for the Scottish party’s top job has insisted.

SCOTLAND’S most notorious murder, the killing of 14-year-old Jodi Jones by her then boyfriend Luke Mitchell, is to be thrust back into the spotlight this week with evidence presented that the case is a miscarriage of justice.

AN MP who believes she was defamed by a Scottish actor has taken legal action to obtain more than £2000 from him – after he questioned why she had donated to a campaign on social media. 

Like an ageing gunfighter waiting for the final showdown, Alex Salmond has been kicking his heels outside the old court house for weeks. Winds blow, doors squeak, clocks tick – and still no-one came. All we heard was the muffled cries of black-coat...

THE SNP "reek of entitlement" and have been taking people for granted for a very long time, argues Scottish Labour leadership contender Monica Lennon.

THE Bathgate Hills are steeped in stories. This corner of West Lothian – stretching from Linlithgow in the north, to Bathgate in the south and Uphall in the east – may not be as well-known or lauded as some other Scottish landscapes, yet it is...

ASK Ewen Bremner what he makes of Glasgow-born music supremo, entrepreneur and raconteur Alan McGee, the man he plays in the new film Creation Stories, and the actor could easily reply which Alan do you mean?

by Hamish Macdonell

Ms Lennon has pledged to make free universal music tuition in state schools a key manifesto pledge if she is elected to lead the party.

If I was crumpled on the desert sand dying of dehydration and a stranger appeared offering water, I’d weep with relief and pleasure.

For decades it has reeled under famine, civil war and an Islamist inspired insurgency, but just as it was getting on its feet Somalia once again faces possible meltdown. Foreign Editor David Pratt who has visited the country over many years examines ...

By Ian McConnell

There are more than hundreds of rules in The Highway Code.

ICONS, eh? The word is over-used. Maybe, at this point in the series, I should look up what it means. I’ve several prestigious dictionaries on my shelves – Oxford, Chambers, Lidl – but as I can’t be bothered getting out of my seat to look ...

As of 8.30am on February 19, 1,386,152 people had received their first dose of Covid-19 vaccine, according to the Scottish Government.

You Are Not The Man You Are Supposed To Be: Into the Chaos of Modern Masculinity

EVEN though it’s been 30 years since I left Glasgow University, it’s still painful to see headlines like "University admits racism is rife across campus". They first flashed up this week in a WhatsApp group I’m part of, with a bunch of Asian...

New figures from the Scottish Government show that there have been 803 confirmed cases of the virus since Friday. 

I ASKED in this slot two weeks ago for your views on The Herald's use of Scots words, and where the line – if any – should be drawn.

Princess Eugenie has thanked the public for their well wishes as she shared the name and first images of her baby son.

Offshore workers have backed a “landmark” agreement their union said will lead to better terms and conditions.

DESPITE the losses and hardships of the past year, we should be grateful to be where we now are. The creation, approval, production and roll-out of effective vaccines – an achievement for which scientists, medical specialists and the frequently mal...

Helena Zengel was just 11 years old when she first met Tom Hanks, and she didn't really understand what a big deal he is.

New figures from the Scottish Prison Service have revealed that the number of virus cases among prisoners increased from 189 to 364.

Visits of up to two designated people will be allowed by care home providers.

A campaign group has gone to court to get a ruling on whether it would be legal for Holyrood to hold an independence referendum without the consent of Westminster.

Road, rail and ferry services could be hit by cancellations and delays

THERE’S a large stuffed-toy tiger peering up from behind Lesley Riddoch as she chats over a Zoom video call from her home in coastal Fife. It is, she explains, a gift for one of her stepdaughters, but also a jokey and cuddly representation of so...

In the week NASA's Perseverance Rover touched down on Mars, Herald cartoonist Steve Camley ponders if Covid restrictions stretch all the way to the red Planet.

THE daily average for new coronavirus infections in Scotland has risen for the first time since early January, just days before the routemap out of lockdown is due to be unveiled.

BRIAN Wilson can see St Kilda from his window. He turns his laptop camera towards it and explains, “You can’t see it today – but on a clear day, I promise it’s out there.” The view he is displaying is from his office in the house he and ...

You might not know it yet, and lock-down means your opportunity to explore it fully will be sadly limited when you do, but Thursday is the inaugural Gray Day, the first of what organisers hope will become a significant annual event celebrating the...

As imagined by Brian Beacom

THERE is a moment that solidifies the substance of any theory. It happened to me in a queue for a 99 at an ice-cream van in Stirling when temperatures were nudging towards the levels when polar bears decide it’s time for a night in, a seal suppe...

JUST when Union Central thought things couldn’t get any worse.

As crime series Prime Suspect celebrates its 30th anniversary, creator Lynda La Plante reveals how she'd like to bring DCI Jane Tennison back.

What a lucky little sod

I AM a one-man cashless society. Never carry the stuff any more, unless I’ve taken a tenner out for something, and then I’ve never used it, whereupon it sits in my wallet for weeks, even months.

The trading landscape that is emerging in the wake of the Brexit transition period is more than just a bureaucratic nightmare and it certainly is not temporary.

THE GREEN party is challenging the NHS to provide better healthcare for transgender Scots after failing in its commitment to improve waiting times.

In our series looking at Joe Biden's first month in charge, we look at some of the moves made by the administration as February began.

WHAT makes a good loch? Size, location, geology are all up there, but for Paul Murton none of that matters without three crucial things: stories, people and history.

TEN weeks after the UK became the first country in the world to administer a Covid vaccine outside of clinical trials, we are finally seeing signals of its real world effects.

The latest Scottish weekly coronavirus figures have been released, highlighting hotspots of Covid-19 per 100,000 of the population and the risk in each neighbourhood.

A Scottish town has been identified as Britain's top property hotspot - with its access to nature and its green spaces responsible for rising prices.

THE other night I was listening to the World Service (radio, telly; it’s like GCHQ here some days), when an old chestnut of a debate came on: why are people, particularly women, so drawn to tales of violent crime? There was no definitive answer,...

NHS dentistry in Scotland is facing a looming crisis after it was announced graduations would be postponed and no new students taken on this year, leaving a potential shortage of trained staff.