Funeral details have been announced for Prince Philip.

IN the days and weeks before the worst rioting in Belfast in decades, signs appeared all over the city announcing: “Loyalists will NEVER accept a border in the Irish Sea”. They were signed: “Unionists against the Northern Ireland protocol”...

A woman stalked by a hospital worker after he accessed her personal details has spoken for the first time about the impact of the crime on her life.

SCOTS dentists have re-ignited a decades old debate by demanding that fluoride be added to Scotland's drinking water to beat a children’s dental crisis exacerbated by a lack of available treatment during pandemic.

COUNCIL tax should be scrapped to be replaced by a fairer and more radical way of raising revenue, based on the value of property, according to new research.

SCOTLAND'S largest NHS union is urging its members to accept the Scottish Government's four per cent pay offer or prepare for "sustained and substantial" industrial action.

THE UK Government should provide financial support to the ailing airline sector, in exchange for promises to improve its green credentials.

BBC and ITV viewing figures collapsed after regularly scheduled programming was pulled for blanket coverage of Prince Philip’s death.

ONLY one-fifth of onshore windfarm projects being considered by the Scottish Government have come from Scottish-owned developers with ministers accused of selling off renewable assets overseas.

Life should be punctuated by as many sweet moments as possible.

by Robert Donald,

Sabre-rattling or ratcheting up to war? As tanks mass and angry exchanges grow between Moscow and Kiev, the US and EU look on anxiously. Foreign Editor David Pratt examines the likely outcome of a crisis with a troubling resemblance to the start of w...

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

Imagine you are accused of a serious crime. It goes to court. You’re tried in front of a jury of your peers. The verdict is in. Not Proven. What happens next? Is it the same as Not Guilty? And if not, in what way is it different? Did the jury belie...

Tributes have been paid to to reality TV star Nikki Grahame, following her death aged 38.

It may not be the most glamorous or cosmopolitan corner of the capital and few international tourists will ever make it out to Burdiehouse, the housing scheme just shy of Edinburgh’s ring road.

Reality TV star Nikki Grahame, who rose to fame as a contestant on Big Brother, has died at the age of 38.

ISLANDS tourism leaders appealed again this week for an indicative date to plan towards reopening their businesses.

Freedom of information requests have found there were at least 1,395 breaches recorded and 73 people have faced disciplinary action.

HEALTHY patients under 30 have been given the AstraZeneca vaccine against official recommendations because clinics did not have alternative vaccines in stock.

Scotland's national clinical director Professor Jason Leitch has thanked health care workers after he received his first Covid jab.

It has been more than 25 years since Mel Gibson painted his face two-thirds blue, pulled on a kilt and howled: “They may take our lives but they’ll never take our freedom.”

The BBC has established a dedicated complaints page for viewers following their blanket coverage of the death of the Duke of Edinburgh on multiple platforms.

It is, partly, our fault. To some extent, we get the election we deserve, while permitting the candidates to pay little heed to the huge, stomping, snorting mammoth in the corner of the room.

There have been 281 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

One of Scotland’s biggest scallopers is facing record fines after admitting a series of fishing offences.

The alarm was raised early on Boxing Day. Police patrol cars were ordered to be on the look-out for a Ford Anglia saloon, which was last seen at 5.15am; the car’s occupants were thought to be a man and a woman “said to have Scottish accents”.

I AM beginning to feel like the character in Stephen King's Misery.

AS the Covid storm abates we gather for the return of doves bearing olive branches indicating dry land. Is momentum building in the downward trajectory of the daily numbers? Have the vaccines begun to break the link between infection and death? Wh...

Turkey has rejected accusations it snubbed one of the European Union’s most powerful executives European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen because of her gender.

WITH their wide open spaces, slower pace of life and tight-knit communities, the Highlands and Western Isles are generally considered among the most desirable areas to live.

Allies of David Cameron say he accepts it was a mistake to lobby Chancellor Rishi Sunak with private text messages over access for his employer to a coronavirus loan scheme.

The latest weekly coronavirus figures have been released, highlighting hotspots of Covid-19 per 100,000 of the population and the risk in each neighbourhood.

Yesterday it was announced that the Duke of Edinburgh had died at the age of 99.

IN the 1950s, polio was said to be "second only the atomic bomb" as the thing Americans dreaded the most.

A TIRELESS champion for almost 60 years was how the Duke of Edinburgh’s role as chancellor of the University of Edinburgh was described.

THE Duke of Edinburgh's connection with Scotland began years before he even set foot on the grounds of Balmoral with the Queen. When he was 13-years-old was sent to Gordonstoun in the Scottish Highlands and was among a handful of founding pupils.

THERE were, at least for me, three aspects of the statement made with regard to the movement of patients from hospitals to care homes of particular interest ("Care home moves were ‘mistake’, says Freeman", The Herald, April 9). First, the identit...

THE stock thing to say is that Radio 4 comedy is a bit of an oxymoron. It’s not really true, though, is it? Without Radio 4 there’d be no Alan Partridge, no Mighty Boosh, no League of Gentlemen.

Like molten lava, the hot topic of Do Not Resuscitate Orders (DNRs) recently erupted into the public domain with publication of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in England report: “Protect, Respect, Connect – decisions about living and dying ...

YOU will know John Hassall’s work. The book illustrator, painter and poster artist is the man behind the famous poster from of 1908 of a fisherman skipping down the beach above the legend “Skegness is SO bracing.”

Anne Frank’s Europe: Before, During and After Her Diary

Facebook does not plan to notify customers who had their personal information exposed after being posted to a website by hackers.

Police were pelted with petrol bombs and masonry during three hours of disorder on Friday.

A scientist advising the Government has insisted blood clots potentially associated with coronavirus vaccines are “extraordinarily rare events” and reminded the public that no medicine is completely free of side-effects.

I DID my homework conscientiously for the first programme in Line of Duty, series 6. I’d been following this police drama since it started in 2012, and series 1 to 5 have been re-watched twice.

ONCE upon a time – and not so long ago – the world of golf would be taut with anticipation on this weekend as a supreme competitor donned his red shirt on a Sunday and laid waste to par at the Masters.

SOMETIMES, in order to write a song, you just need to be able to wait a while, Roseanne Reid tells me. “I would love to be someone who writes every day, but I’ve not got that sort of discipline,” she admits. “I’m very much someone who is...

Pictures of Prince Philip feature on newspapers across the globe after the death of the duke aged 99 on Friday.

Train services across Scotland have been affected by a test train that derailed near Dalwhinnie.