Derek Mackay has quit the SNP following his suspension from the party.

IN those televised leadership debates which have lately become a nailed-on part of the modern UK election, a curious first-past-the-post form of engagement is in operation. In this the main focus of the candidates isn’t to command their own poli...

LET us play fantasy politics. Go on, indulge me. Your role in the game? To convene a meeting of the SNP election campaign team. The rules? Simple, lay out the Big Questions.

DRIVERS risk being put off converting to electric cars due to a ‘confusing’ public charging network system which is "not fit for purpose" a new report has warned.

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

Bless me readers for I have sinned. My column should have been written and sent hours ago after returning from my immunotherapy. Instead at almost 8.30pm I’m just starting, making extra work for the sub tomorrow. Shockingly unprofessional.

LIFE has returned to "something very close to normal" on the tiny Portuguese island of Corvo where almost all 400 inhabitants are now fully vaccinated.

SCOTLAND’S route to a new organ donor system begins and ends with the SNP.

THE prospect of a Lab-Lib electoral deal at the next General Election to stop the Conservatives staying in power has been raised after Ed Davey talked up a Liberal Democrat progressive partnership with Labour and insisted his party’s success in 202...

We've caught up with the man behind some of our favourite political sketches here at The Herald.

IT’S an enticing prospect. The thought of Scottish hospitality being able to be back up to pre-pandemic levels in as little as four to eight weeks of reopening sounds ambitious.

RECLAIM These Streets protesters last night covered an Edinburgh’cycle path tunnel with placards sending out the message the streets are for all. 

POLICE chiefs have been warned they risk losing public confidence after a senior officer was forced apologise for "misleading” MSPs about the controversial use of covert drones for surveillance.

DRAINED and exhausted and often on the verge of tears staff at Scotland’s biggest hospital were able to enter their rest area for a moment to pause and reflect on another gruelling shift.

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THE media are overdosing at the moment on the Nicola Sturgeon/Alex Salmond borefest ("Sturgeon ‘misled’ Holyrood over the Alex Salmond affair", The Herald, March 20).

CLEVER thing about the duck that comes with two-Michelin starred chef Simon Rogan’s meal is this: it’s impossible to muck it up. It’s confit, so precooked, it’s oozing, well, fat, so it starts to pop and sizzle and caramelise and crisp alm...

Scott Ross was on a much-anticipated motorbiking trip to the north of Scotland with seven friends when his life changed in an instant.

THE UK Government is raising £1.1 billion by reducing its holding in the owner of Royal Bank of Scotland amid the huge pressure on the public finances resulting from the coronavirus crisis.

SELF-styled “Queen of shops” Mary Portas couldn’t have got it more wrong when she told us that "the days of a high street populated simply by independent butchers, bakers and candlestick makers are over". Amidst the current retail carnage, w...

Nicola Sturgeon this week updated the Scottish Parliament on plans to move the country out of lockdown.

THERE is dramatic irony in the fact that the leak of the Salmond inquiry’s conclusion that Nicola Sturgeon misled parliament, thus breaking the ministerial code, would itself be a breach of the ministerial code. Nor would it be surprising if the...

THERE seems to be a day set aside to celebrate anything from World Toothache Day to World Single-Tasking Day.

SINCE the 1960s the great American photographer Joel Meyerowitz has been cultivating a garden in his pictures. He has walked the streets of New York, Paris, Venice, ventured to England and Spain and further afield, in search of images that in time...

AS the sun starts to shine in the UK again the issue of Covid holidays reared its head in the newspapers comment sections - plus more thoughts on Meghan’s explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey.

IT is more than 10 years now since the journalist Melanie Reid was paralysed from the shoulders down after falling off a horse and breaking her neck. Suddenly, after four decades in a working body, things had irrevocably changed. And not just for ...

IMAGINE you are going out for your first post-lockdown dinner and a “persuader” appears at your side to say, “Don’t you think you are over-indulging?” Such a scene is now set in China.

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Additional restrictions have been placed on travellers arriving in Scotland from the Ethiopia, Oman, Qatar and Somalia.

A FORMER SNP presiding officer of the Scottish Parliament has been lablled "appalling" after causing anger by suggesting that being born in Scotland does not necessarily make someone Scottish enough.

Leaving hospital he told reporters: “I literally did not feel a thing"

Slavia Prague have lodged a criminal complaint against Rangers midfielder Kamara.

Viral sea shanty sensation Nathan Evans has finally reached number one on the UK singles chart.

SIR Keir Starmer has refused to rule out granting Holyrood the power to hold an independence referendum.

THE SNP members of the Holyrood inquiry into the Alex Salmond affair have condemned some of its findings as "disgraceful and wrong".

NICOLA Sturgeon is facing a vote of no confidence next week after a Holyrood inquiry reportedly found she misled parliament.

An infection "probably" linked to Glasgow's children's hospital was the "primary cause of death" of a young cancer patient.

THE convener of the Holyrood inquiry into the Alex Salmond affair has said she is "dismayed" by leaks of its conclusions to the media.

THE health secretary has denied Nicola Sturgeon is now "damaged goods" after MSPs said she misled parliament over the Alex Salmond affair.

SCOTLAND’s national clinical director has stressed health officials “can’t know for sure” if mass gatherings by Rangers fans in Glasgow has led to an uptick of Covid-19 cases.

Lidl has launched a "landmark" deposit return scheme trial at selected stores ahead of the Scottish Government’s nationwide roll-out next year.

SIR Keir Starmer has said MSPs should have the same legal protection to raise controversial issues at Holyrood as MPs have at Westminster.

NICOLA Sturgeon's office has trashed the Holyrood inquiry into the Alex Salmond affair after it reportedly found she misled parliament.

Hospital visiting in Scotland is to restart from April 26, Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has said.

By Myles Fitt

HOW do I hate him? Let me count the ways. It’s possible, I think, that I haven’t disliked a Prime Minister this much since the 1980s. I mean, I usually end up detesting all of them to some degree or other, but Boris Johnson has me muttering un...

By Ian McConnell

AND so it rumbles on. This week has brought another skirmish in the war of Alex versus Nicola and there’s a distinct air of déjà vu about it.

A £500 "thank you" payment from the Scottish Government is being given to the majority of social care workers in Scotland next month, Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has said.

MINISTERS have pledged to use an estimated pot of £450m to resolve Scotland's cladding crisis - four years after the horrifying Grenfell Tower blaze that claimed the lives of around 80 people.