-First Minister says she will answer 'all questions' on her role in the Scottish Government's botched inquiry into allegations against Alex Salmond -Conservatives call for Nicola Sturgeon to quit after new bombshell evidence

Mr Brown told ITV News: “They’re in a feud, they’re bringing the country down, it’s not really about policy.

Follow along with the latest coronavirus news in Scotland and further afield.

Today's session will give the First Minister her chance to have her say.

NURSE vaccinators have told the Herald they are feeling "hacked off" and demoralised over gulfs in pay which can see pharmacists, dentists and opticians earning nearly £700 a shift.

The First Minister has insisted there is not “a shred of evidence” to support her former mentor’s claim

Rishi Sunak is set to use Wednesday’s Budget to pledge to continue to help businesses and individuals through the “challenging months ahead – and beyond”.

NO part of the UK benefited more from EU funding than the Highlands and Islands which means there is now a particular interest in what happens next.

Nicola Sturgeon is set to give evidence at Holyrood as part of the Alex Salmond inquiry.

SCOTTISH energy firms are to join the National Grid in a rebellion over the UK regulator plan to stop them charging customers more on their gas and electricity bills.

It is perhaps one of Scotland's most unlikely partnerships.

SCOTS energy firms have apologised after becoming among 18 gas and electricity suppliers who have were told to pay £10.4 million in compensation for failures to one million homes over overcharging.

RISHI Sunak is looking like someone very tempted indeed to jump the gun by focusing way too much and very prematurely on the public finances at a time when he should be looking to secure recovery.

ROBIN Gilmour (Letters, March 2) can’t recall anything positive from devolution and wants to end it. Devolution is a UK remedy for the democratic deficit Scotland faces in the Union. Westminster controls the size of the Holyrood budget and the Scot...

DOGS bark, cats meow and Labour put up taxes. Since time immemorial, Tory ministers have been using that line at elections. Actually, I think it was Michael Heseltine who first said it. Gordon Brown tried hard to disown it through resorting to what b...

CAST an eye across the world right now, and it appears that the "bad guys" call all the shots.

IT’S Budget day again. Chancellor? Rishi Sunak will stand up this afternoon at around 12.30pm to reveal his latest plans for the economy in the midst of this current pandemic.

BUSINESSES are calling for Nicola Sturgeon to bin her geographical levels system amid concern ministers will “move the goalposts” and roll out even stricter criteria for parts of Scotland to move down the tiered system.

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TRIBUTES have poured in for Ian St John, the Scottish football legend turned one half of one of the finest double acts in sports broadcasting who has died at the age of 82.

With strong links to local firms providing career pathways for thousands of students over the years, South Lanarkshire College is certainly familiar with Scottish Apprenticeship Week’s theme of ‘Business Backing Talent’, writes Ann Wallace

TAYLOR Wimpey has said it will pay out £125 million to fund the replacement of cladding and other fire safety work on all its developments across the UK built in the past 20 years.

SHETLAND oil pioneer Hurricane Energy has seen its shares plunge around 13 per cent after the company suffered a fresh setback.

A NORTH-east of Scotland hotel offering views of Slains Castle, a location believed to have inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula, is up for sale.

RISHI Sunak will announce what is billed as a £57 million plus investment in jobs and green growth in Scotland in The Budget today in a move that could provide a boost for the hard-pressed North Sea oil and gas industry.

Whether planting in pots or in larger borders, there's a daffodil for every situation. Hannah Stephenson leafs through some of the best.

LIFE in a quarantine hotel, signs of hope and the insensitive timing of the Sussexes interview with Oprah Winfrey were the issues raised by columnists and contributors in the newspapers.

THE Duke of Edinburgh’s move to St Bartholomew’s hospital in London at the start of the week was unexpected and unwelcome. Already he had been in medical care far longer than originally anticipated. In mid February, he walked unaided through t...

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RISHI Sunak will today extend the UK Government’s furlough scheme “lifeline” for another five months to help protect millions of British jobs as the country begins to look beyond the pandemic and towards recovery.

SNP ministers were warned they had “a very real problem” defending their legal battle with Alex Salmond two months before it finally collapsed.

NICOLA Sturgeon is facing calls for resign after two senior SNP figures directly contradicted her account of meetings at the heart of claims she lied to parliament.

THE PASSENGERS of a flight that arrived in Scotland carrying a new strain of coronavirus are being urged to call contact tracers.

THE long wait is over. Scotland are finally heading to a major tournament for the first time since 1998.

RISHI Sunak has vowed to use “fiscal firepower” to protect jobs and livelihoods in tomorrow’s Budget as he is expected to extend much of the Covid aid package such as the furlough scheme to the summer.

Nicola Sturgeon faces accusations of being driven by dates not data after she announced all pupils would go back to school full-time after the Easter break.

THE REPUTATION of the UK's fishing exports is being lost "day by day", according to a Scottish seafood leader.

THE Scottish Government’s belated agreement to publish its legal advice on the Alex Salmond affair has been hit by a last-minute row over transparency.

JOHN Swinney has been accused of “manufactured outrage” after complaining about a metaphor as his Government faces grave charges of abusing its power.

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MINISTERS are "confident" the Scottish Parliament elections will go ahead on May 6 but the results may not be available for days.

A warehouse estate next to Glasgow Airport has been sold for £5.3 million.

THERE’S a shadow on the Yes movement’s soul. What was once hopeful and open has become laced with a strain of insular, divisive ugliness and hate.

NO 10 has refused to deny reports that Boris Johnson is considering setting up a charity to pay for the refurbishment of his official Downing St flat after it was suggested he was concerned about his fiancée, Carrie Symonds’s expensive tastes.

NICOLA Sturgeon has raised hopes that the lockdown exit plan could be “accelerated” as more progress in suppressing the virus continues.

More school pupils will return to class under newly unveiled plans from Nicola Sturgeon.

Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed that lower league football clubs in Scotland can return to action.

SNP ministers chose to block the release of legal advice relating to the Alex Salmond affair despite two votes by Holyrood demanding its release, it has emerged.

THE UK Government’s furlough scheme is to be extended, Kwasi Kwarteng, the UK Government’s Business Secretary, has confirmed.

There have been 542 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.