IT’S time for me to stop being a news junkie before I go completely mad. I’m already more or less convinced we’re living through the end days.

WHAT have we learned from the roadmap out of lockdown announcements this week?

SOME conversations stand out. It may be a significant disclosure – or a remark which subsequently acquires importance. It may be a single, startling phrase, recollected in tranquillity.

The BBC has issued a correction on social media after a headline on the Six O’Clock news claimed that Alex Salmond wanted Nicola Sturgeon to resign as First Minister.

Heritage campaigners face a fresh battle for Culloden after it emerged decision to block an application to build on the historic battlefield has been appealed.

THE political smart-set have coined a phrase for these types of events which conveys both spectacle and a heightened sense of their own chic luminance. Thus, we are being invited to witness a psycho-drama and to bring our own popcorn. For, this is...

WHY is it important for Scottish tourism and hospitality to reopen out of the pandemic at the same time as England and why must a date be set?

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

Scottish Labour is set to announce its new leader with just 10 weeks until the Holyrood election.

Brian Taylor, BBC Scotland’s long-serving political editor, has always had an ambition to write for The Herald. He first started reading the paper when he moved to Glasgow as a teenager and has been a reader and subscriber ever since. Now he’s...

OPPOSITION parties in Scotland really do take the biscuit. They complain continually about the SNP’s record in Government and its handling of the global pandemic. So what an opportunity is afforded through our democracy to the opposition every week...

For a man whose career has been spent working with words – in Russian, Spanish and Italian as well as in English – it’s no surprise that terms such as ‘deracinated’ flow freely from David Leask’s lips. A university-trained linguist who...

“Everyone expects me to say Glenfinnan but I love driving down Loch Eilside heading to Fort William with the sun rising above the Ben.”

By Sarah Nelson

By Brian McIver

Scottish hospitality businesses believe the route map out of lockdown revealed by the First Minister did not offer a clear plan and argued without travel restrictions being lifted it would be difficult to operate.

FEARS are rising that Rishi Sunak is about to hit pension savers with a “stealth tax” in next week’s Budget as the Chancellor charts the long process of boosting Treasury coffers to fill the financial black hole left by the pandemic.

IT IS a city that boasts more public parks than than any other in the UK, with 90 evenly spread across both sides of the River Clyde.

AT the start of Unforgotten (STV, Monday) I realised I had clean forgotten how the last series ended. Well, it was three years ago. I’ve had a lot on, what with Brexit and the pandemic (have you noticed how Covid has replaced Brexit as the go-to...

By Ian McConnell

ALMOST four decades on from the end of the Falklands War, another serious threat is troubling its 3,400 population. It seems that the British archipelago in the South Atlantic was a missing link in the Brexit negotiations. The Falklands fisheries ...

Child Benefit payment rates in Scotland are to increase from April this year. Here we outline everything you need to know and how you can apply.

Professor Gary McEwan, CEO of Elevator – the largest private sector provider of business support in Scotland – outlines the organisation's new focus on his home town of Glasgow and how his ambition is to inspire a new generation of business tr...

BORN as I was in the early 1960s, I’m very much the target demographic for Boom Radio (boomradiouk.com) which launched on Valentine’s Day. There are 14 million of us possibly coming to an end of our mortgages/child-rearing years and presumably...

EVERYONE deserves to be cared for in their last days, and to be able to die peacefully at home if that’s their wish. With the coronavirus pandemic, the choice to die at home has become more important than ever. By supporting the Great Daffodil A...

The Garden, 2019, Erik Madigan Heck

THE French language has gender at its very heart, but this fact is the focus of an intensifying sexism row. Now a new law has been proposed to ensure French remains as it is by banning public servants from using “gender-inclusive” terminology ...

Alex Salmond will have his say on the Scottish Government's botched inquiry into the handling of allegations against him when he appears in front of MSPs at an unprecedented Holyrood evidence session.

ALEX Salmond has insisted there has been a “calculated and deliberate suppression of key evidence” as he criticised the Scottish Government’s complaints policy at the heart of its unlawful investigation into complaints against him.

Here are the key points from Alex Salmond’s evidence:

MOGWAI have landed their first number one album - 25 years on from the release of their debut single.

SCOTTISH peer Lord McFall of Alcuith is being tipped as a leading contender to become the next Speaker of the House of Lords.

Former First Minister Alex salmond has been giving evidence to the Scottish Parliament inquiry into the handling of historic harrassment claims against him.

ALEX Salmond has claimed the leadership of Scotland has failed the country and suggested it is not fit to lead it to independence.

The incident happened on Royston Road near the British Car Auctions entrance

The ballot was arranged by the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS)

THE UK Labour Party would keep nuclear weapons and support Nato if elected, John Healey, the Shadow Defence Secretary, has said, continuing to put it at odds with the Scottish Labour Party on the issue of Trident renewal.

ALEX Salmond has contradicted Nicola Sturgeon’s account to Parliament over whether she passed on a name of a complainant to her predecessor's former chief of staff.

Alex Salmond has said there is a failure of leadership in Scotland as he attacked Nicola Sturgeon and claimed there has been a “calculated and deliberate suppression of key evidence” to a Scottish Parliamentary committee.

THE Holyrood inquiry into the Alex Salmond affair began as a look into how the Scottish Government bungled a sexual misconduct investigation into the former First Minister.

Iain Macwhirter explains what will happen if Boris Johnson rejects a second independence referendum.

THE Health Secretary has said it would not be "justifiable, proportionate, or wise to deviate" from guidelines which recommend vaccinating under 50s against Covid based on age not occupation.

Dobbies Garden Centres has hailed a new-look foodhall in Lanarkshire as part of a store refresh.

SCOTLAND’S Lord Advocate has been accused of being “absent without leave” in the Salmond row as a former UK Supreme Court judge said it was disturbing how the nation’s criminal justice system was being called into question.

SCOTLAND’S health service is facing a “perfect storm” of huge waiting list backlogs and consultant vacancies which are more than double official estimates, according to a new report.

Alex Salmond is due to make his long-awaited appearance before the Holyrood inquiry into the Scottish Government’s unlawful investigation of sexual harassment claims made against him.

Scotland has recorded 27 deaths from coronavirus and 581 positive tests in the past 24 hours, Jeane Freeman said.

PRITI Patel has launched a consultation over plans to make it a legal requirement to improve anti-terrorism measures in public places, in the wake of the Manchester Arena bombing.

THE NEXT cohort of people to receive the coronavirus vaccine has been unveiled this morning.

DOUGLAS Ross has defended the Prime Minister excluding the Scottish Conservatives from membership of his new Union Cabinet Committee.