SCOTLAND'S railways face another day of disruption as ScotRail faces a third day of strike action this weekend in a bitter dispute over overtime payments.

THE message from James Tavernier wasn’t delivered with any bombast or hubris. It was said with an assured confidence, with the kind of belief that winning instils in a player and a team.

George Galloway has lashed out at BBC Scotland which he claims is "heavily seeded with nationalists" after an interview with journalist Laura Maciver on Good Morning Scotland.

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Greta Thunberg has said she does not plan to attend the UN climate conference due to be held in Glasgow later this year.

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

TWO-thirds of patients being admitted to hospital with Covid in Scotland are now under 65, as vaccinations continue to curb illness and death in older people.

The contract to re-design Glasgow's George Square as part of a £115million city centre modernisation programme has been awarded.

NICOLA Sturgeon has said she may delay her plan for a second referendum and backed off  a previous claim that independence would be integral to Scotland’s economic recovery.

Nicola Sturgeon has ruled out working with Alex Salmond’s new Alba Party after May’s Holyrood election – but has left open the prospect of a future deal with the Scottish Greens.

CELTIC interim manager John Kennedy yesterday made his displeasure known at the glaring discrepancies between how Parkhead left back Boli Bolingoli and Rangers’ Covid Five have been dealt with by the SFA after high-profile coronavirus protocol b...

NICOLA Sturgeon has lambasted Alex Salmond for failing to admit the Russian state was behind the Salisbury chemical weapon attack.

CONCERNS have been raised that some care home providers are not passing on a rise in state allowances to elderly fee payers.

MINISTERS are under fire for 'withholding' taxi support cash as drivers face a postcode lottery of support during the pandemic.

A LIFE sciences giant is to create 500 new jobs under plans to establish a global health research, development and manufacturing hub in Scotland.

MY friend's wee boy is absolutely fearless.

A SCOTTISH Conservative candidate vying to become Scotland's first black MSP has said he hopes to inspire more people from an ethnic minority background to get involved in politics.

Controversial literacy and numeracy tests taken by children as young as four would be axed under plans published by the Greens.

AN Israeli-owned oil and gas firm is set to provide a £400 million vote of confidence in the North Sea under a plan to squeeze an extra 40 million barrels out of a venerable oil field.

NICOLA Sturgeon’s assertion that she will increase NHS elective output to 110 per cent of pre-Covid levels is fanciful, if not a dishonest pre-election bribe ("Sturgeon pledges to ‘remobilise’ health service and maximise hospital capacity", The...

NATHAN PATTERSON is a young player I really admire and he would definitely add value to the Scotland squad if he were called up.

NICOLA Sturgeon will unveil her party’s blueprint to tackle the climate emergency – putting a focus on developing hydrogen technology and decarbonsiing heating systems.

THE SCOTTISH Greens have insisted that any Holyrood majority in favour of independence is a mandate for a second referendum – rubbishing any suggestion from Alex Salmond that a ‘supermajority’ is needed.

THE UK Government should scrap the use of BMI as a health measure and the planned implementation of calorie labels in restaurants, a new report has urged.

The death of a woman whose body was found in a Glasgow flat is now being treated as murder by police.

The sinking of a fishing vessel in the North Sea two years ago was “almost certainly a result of shell plating or hull weld failure”, an investigation has concluded.

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A SCOTTISH wearable technology company aiming to transform the way sportspeople train, using software and analytics, has raised $2.3 million as part of an international expansion push.

A husband-and-wife team who started a vegan goods delivery business after struggling to find plant-based products on the high street have secured £3.5 million backing from financiers.

A taxi driver grant scheme should be reopened because a third of cabbies have missed out, Unite Scotland has demanded.

IT'S official: Kim Kardashian West is a billionaire. The US reality TV star and entrepreneur has joined the elite club of the super-rich with her net worth reaching $1 billion (£727 million), according to Forbes business magazine.

The SNP Scottish Government under Nicola Sturgeon’s leadership has become synonymous with bold and ambitious action to tackle climate change.

When it comes to leasing cars there are two things that many drivers are looking for: SUV practicality and battery electric economy. If you’re looking for the same thing, then the compact family-sized MG ZS EV delivers. It’s a...

CONTRARY to some headlines, there’s a lot to love in Scottish school education. As the parent of a six-year-old, that’s been my experience so far.

A LONG time ago, when the first independence referendum was still a year or so away, I came up with a daft feature idea for The Herald.

JEANE Freeman has admitted patients were recklessly moved out of hospitals into care homes at the start of the Covid pandemic.

Scots football legend Sir Alex Ferguson has won the treble again - but this time on the race track.

MINISTERS have defended their cautious approach after Scots island communities called on Nicola Sturgeon to intervene to give "urgent clarity" over the easing of lockdown restrictions and when they can reopen to visitors from the mainland.

SCOTRAIL ticket examiners have voted for industrial action in what union leaders say is a "growing fight for workplace justice".

Schools should not be subjecting pupils to prelim-style exam “diets” as they gather evidence under the alternative certification process, Scotland’s largest teaching union has said.

THE NORTHERN Ireland Secretary has called for loyalist paramilitary groups to condemn the violence in the country during a visit for emergency talks with politicians.

THE LEADER of the Labour party has said that broken promises over Brexit made by Boris Johnson 'do not justify the violence' in Northern Ireland.

AS ALEX Salmond’s defence QC put it in his summing up at the former First Minister’s criminal trial last year, “There’s something that doesn’t smell right in the whole thing”.

Distiller Diageo has said it has collaborated in a successful pilot project to pioneer "the lowest carbon footprint glass bottles ever produced for a Scotch whisky brand".

A Glasgow street has been sealed off for public safety after high winds caused scaffolding at a luxury flat development to crash to the ground.

NICOLA Sturgeon has said she will take the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine despite emerging links to rare and potentially fatal blood clots.

STV has joined the BBC in leaving Alex Salmond off the guest list for its leaders' debate. The head of the newly formed Alba Party is not happy about this. That other “new” kid on the electoral block, George Galloway of All For Unity, is also ...

THE SNP are on course to win an outright majority at the Holyrood election while Alex Salmond's Alba Party would fail to gain a single seat, a new poll has found.

THE FORMER deputy leader of the SNP has declared his support for the Alba Party – insisting that the “arithmetic is incontestable” to back Alex Salmond’s new party on the list vote.

ONE of the most entertaining features of elections normally is the number of wacky oddballs that put themselves forward as a bit of a laugh.