Holyrood's Presiding Officer has rejected any suggestion that Scottish Government's botched handling of harrassment complaints against Alex Salmond have damaged the reputation of the Scottish Parliament.

PHARMACIST vaccinators who have seen their pay cut and shifts "cancelled without notice" are demanding to know why they are being treated differently than dentists, optometrists and GPs.

As you know, I do love a good metaphor, but I’d never resort to anything as cliched as a sinking ship, or a train hitting the buffers, so let me tell you about my boiler. It’s been in place now for quite a long time, there are lots of things w...

Scotland’s vaccination programme has now delivered more than two million first doses to the eligible population.

From the journal of Nicola Sturgeon

The Ghost of Tom Joad is one of Bruce Springsteen’s lesser known but most evocative albums. Springsteen was inspired by John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath to lash out at social injustice in the USA in the 1990s. In so doing, he nailed homelessne...

THE SNP is set to scrape a majority in the upcoming Holyrood election, a new poll for The Herald has found, as Nicola Sturgeon prepares to face one of the most dramatic weeks in the history of devolution.

Academics, lecturers and researchers are pushing for Scotland to re-join the Erasmus+ programme independently as anger grows over the UK's post-Brexit replacement.

THE proposed “vote of confidence” in Nicola Sturgeon was announced at the “Scottish” Tory conference on Monday, March 15, days before the disgraceful leak from the Salmond inquiry – playground constitutional politics in the middle of a pand...

What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.

The news recap at the top of The Andrew Marr Show yesterday rounded off with a fluffy ain’t-that-cute story about an Arctic walrus spotted off the west coast of Ireland. The theory is it took a nap on an iceberg then drifted off into the mid-Atl...

THE owner of a landmark Glasgow restaurant has expressed his happiness that he has managed to retain all of his staff, and declared it “feels like waking up from a bad dream”, as he prepares to reopen next month.

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By Scott Wright

Irn Bru 1901 is to return to shop shelves permanently from today, Barrs have announced.

WHEN I was growing up, there was chocolate, and then there was Thornton’s chocolate.

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BY GEORGE MAIR

IT is a real life horror story that inspired a best-selling book and then a series of Hollywood movies, with the grim fascination enduring to this day. Now a death may bring some closure to The Amityville Horror.

Prudence Wade finds out about the baker's journey through food.

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Police are carrying out inquiries after a threatening package was delivered to Scottish journalist and broadcaster Ruth Wishart.

Donald Trump isn’t just off stage – he’s off plinth. A waxwork of the former president in San Antonio has been retired for its own safety because of people working out their own therapy by repeatedly punching and clawing at it. Surely they s...

A SMALL boy in pyjamas is spotted walking through darkened streets in the October rains. He is four years old. When police are called he is taken to hospital for health checks and found to be covered in so many bruises that a consultant paediatric...

Glasgow's Michelin star restaurant Cail Bruich has revealed the date when they will be accepting bookings ahead of reopening their doors in May.

A new leisure venture which will see the development of Scotland’s first artificial surf park is set to transform the disused Craigpark Quarry near Ratho, on the outskirts of Edinburgh, into a world-class family and sports destination.

Capital Theatres is to appoint three key individuals to its team as it moves to steer the business out of coronavirus.

How Britain Ends: English Nationalism and the Rebirth of Four Nations

There have been 532 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

SCOTLAND currently has the highest rate of Covid infections in the UK, with more than 100 cases being detected per million people.

By Nigel Leask

Mike Russell has compared calls for Nicola Sturgeon to resign with shouts of “lock her up” at Donald Trump rallies.

I THINK we can be sure that Nicola Sturgeon is not considering resignation after having been found guilty of misleading Parliament by the Holyrood Harassment Committee.

FEWER than one in three people in Scotland who applied for a grant to help them to self isolate were provided with funding, with approval rates as low as one in six in some council areas.

Lockdown has taken its toll. But spring is in the air and there’s no better time to adopt new habits and set yourself on a path to a healthier you.

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has warned that any attempt by the European Union to block vaccine exports would be “counterproductive”.

BUSINESSES will go to the wall by the end of the year because of an over 15-year failure to prevent landslips on a notorious lifeline Scots road - which could be solved with a Norway-style tunnel in three years.

The Scottish Government has completed the 10 year school plan with 117 new schools built.

A Scottish Government minister’s parliamentary office has been vandalised and the word “resign” written twice on the office door.

NEARLY all officers of a local Scottish Labour party have resigned in protest at the removal of a Holyrood candidate who spoke out on indyref2.

HERE we go again. I start to wonder if there is a word for this excitement mingled with fear that comes as lockdown eases and the rules of living change for the umpteenth time in a year.

DISTRACTED as we are by the pandemic, not enough attention has been paid to this week's Defence Review, the most far-reaching since the Cold War. It comes against a backdrop of Defence Secretary Ben Wallace complaining that UK defence is not fit f...

Europe: an apology. As a vociferous supporter of Remain, readers may have been under the impression that this column regarded the European Union as an organisation that embodied the best ideals of enlightened internationalism.

While much has been written about the easing of Covid-19 restrictions in the UK, other countries are having to introduce tougher measures to curb rising infections.

Labour has called for an inquiry into reports David Cameron lobbied Rishi Sunak to grant millions of pounds in loans to a finance company he was advising.

Beaming the broadest of smiles, Megan Baillie held a cocktail glass in her hand, toasted the camera and looked for all the world like she could not be happier.

SOME £10m in compensation has had to be handed out to nearly 14,400 Scots savers through the collapse of six community banks in the space of three years, leading to serious concerns about how they are being regulated, the Herald on Sunday can rev...

Data on how many fines Police Scotland have handed out during the pandemic since they were given the power to break up parties.

Pressure is growing for radical reform of Scotland’s education watchdog after figures revealed over 700 schools had not been inspected for a decade or more.