IT was a gripping speech. David Davis read it well. I don’t say he wrote it well, but he read it competently enough on his old friend’s behalf.

A GROUP of over 1000 business have warned that seven months of disruption to a notorious lifeline Scots road because of landslips have created new safety risks and have set a 2024 deadline for a permanent solution.

IT was the failure of the Darien Scheme in the late 1600s that triggered the Act of Union in 1707 and made Scotland a key partner in the United Kingdom, one of the most successful economic unions in history. If Scotland ever votes for independence...

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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer will visit Edinburgh and Glasgow alongside the party’s Scottish leader Anas Sarwar to meet and thank frontline healthcare workers on Thursday and Friday.

PEOPLE over 65 who have previously been infected with the coronavirus are more likely to catch it again than younger age groups, according to the first large-scale study to assess reinfection risk.

THEY are the hot sweaty nights that after a year of Covid-19  we might all have forgotten existed.

DUTCH state owned railway company Abellio has said it remains "proud" of its role after being axed from their involvement with Scotland's railways which are now to become nationalised.

ON reading Neil Mackay’s article ("Scotland's complicity in the bloodstained sin of Yemen", The Herald, March 16), I do not see how any degree of “love bombing” of Scotland by the Conservative Government could possibly persuade any voter north ...

Scotland is risking a “lost generation” of children due to the impact of lockdown on educational attainment, ministers have been warned.

HEALTH inequalities in Scotland "have been magnified during the pandemic" and must be urgently tackled, the chief medical officer has warned.

MY sister’s old bedroom in my parents’ house is strewn with clothes. Jackets draped over the chair; jumpers and trousers piled up on the bed. This isn’t the result of my mum having a spring clean and finally chucking out the stuff we’ve been ...

A STUDENT housing provider which has a major presence in Scotland sank to a hefty annual loss last year after its £1 billion portfolio was hit by coronavirus lockdowns.

AS buds appear on Scotland’s trees a flurry of deals in the North Sea has encouraged hopes of recovery for the hard-pressed oil and gas sector but some may feel it unwise to assume these will be realised.

PLANS for a pioneering carbon capture and storage (CCS) development in Scotland may be set to advance after the UK Government provided backing which it is thought could help unlock £3 billion investment.

IT takes something dreadful or something wonderful to unite the House of Commons. Yesterday, alas, it was something dreadful: the murder of Sarah Everard. True, bickering bubbled under the surface and occasionally spouted forth, but at least it was a...

POLITICIANS of all stripes do a damn fine job of blaming everyone but themselves, and the groups they favour, for the woes of the world. However, if you take off party political blinkers (a fashion accessory our ruling classes love you wearing) an...

A PUBLIC inquiry into the 125,000 Covid deaths, the need to buy British and lockdown’s lockdown on flirting were the topics raised by columnists in the newspapers.

IT was one of the biggest TV shows of the 1970s and 1980s, pulling in audiences of more than 20 million at its peak. Now a mini "That's Life!” reunion is taking place in a different format 27 years after the last episode aired.

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The cryptic message - which many took to refer to Justice secretary Humza Yousaf - was posted on Mr Galloway's Twitter feed on Wednesday night. 

The increase is particularly apparent among people aged between 25 and 44

THE SNP has been accused by a UK Government minister of “fanaticism” and having a “relentless mission to stir up hatred, division and mistrust”.

MATT Hancock has brushed aside concerns of a “significant reduction” in vaccine supply next month as he also hit back at a threat from the EU to stop the export of supplies to the UK.

Scotland's Justice Minister has warned about "rigged" polls with a cryptic message online.

The milestone was met on Wednesday, a week before the first anniversary of the UK being placed into the first lockdown.

NICOLA Sturgeon has "strongly refuted" bombshell claims about the Alex Salmond saga made by Conservative MP David Davis in Westminster.

THE SCOTTISH Government will upgrade its Covid testing capacity to 250,000 each day despite warnings that less than one third of available tests are currently being used.

JD Wetherspoon is to re-open 60 of its Scottish pubs in April as Scottish Covid-19 restrictions ease.

SIXTY JD Wetherspoon pubs are to open in Scotland next month as lockdown rules are eased.

ONE of the complainers in the Alex Salmond case has dismissed allegations raised by Conservative MP David Davis in Westminster.

Plans have been lodged for 285 homes at a site in Edinburgh.

University Principle and Vice-Chancellor Sally Mapstone described the development as “extremely concerning”

CHINA is “here to stay”, Dominic Raab has declared as he defended the UK Government’s foreign policy shift towards the Indo-Pacific.

NICOLA Sturgeon is hopeful the ramped-up vaccine programme will allow pubs and restaurants to re-open with fewer restrictions and mitigations in place as she denied the hospitality sector is being “unfairly treated”.

BORIS Johnson has revealed he is due to have his Covid-19 vaccine shortly and made clear it will be the Oxford/AstraZeneca jag as tensions with Brussels over so-called “vaccine wars” threatened to escalate.

Transport secretary Michael Matheson has said ScotRail will come under state control from March 2022.

“AND at once everything stopped. Life’s engine ground to a halt.”

By Dr Amy Rogers

SCOTTISH Conservatives are urging Ian Blackford to explain why no action was taken after sexual misconduct allegations were made against a senior Nationalist MP four years ago.

NHS Lothian and the Royal Mail have issued a joint apology after a number of Covid vaccination appointment were missed at the beginning of the week due to tardy appointment letters.

SCOTS want a government at Holyrood which “weans itself off its addiction to constitutional change”, Boris Johnson has insisted as he clashed with the SNP during PMQs.

HEALTH officials expect turnaround times for identifying coronavirus variants of concern to be sped up as part of a £13 million genomic sequencing centre to be set up in Scotland.

A little girl who battled Covid-19 as a baby and thought to be Scotland's youngest coronavirus patient is doing better than ever as her first birthday celebrations approach.

BORIS Johnson has insisted a “cultural and social change” in attitudes is required to ensure women are heard and protected.

National Records of Scotland (NRS) figures data shows that between March 8 and 14, 104 deaths were registered that mentioned Covid-19 on the death certificate

THE CLAIM made by Alex Salmond that it was Nicola Sturgeon’s staff who leaked the name of one of the women who complained about his behaviour has been corroborated by an ex-civil servant.

Scotland has recorded 625 positive coronavirus tests in the past 24 hours, Nicola Sturgeon said.

IT SEEMS incredible that the menacing narrative evident for some time now – that Brexit is done and shining a light on its dire consequences is sheer impertinence – has become more rather than less embedded as the actual effects of the folly m...