The Prime Minister has so far rejected calls by Scotland’s First Minister to give the go-ahead for a referendum

All of the parties at Holyrood have also temporarily suspended their campaigning for the Holyrood election.

HOW to have a Sunday politics show when politics has been placed on pause? That was the conundrum faced by broadcasters yesterday, day three of the blanket coverage of the Duke of Edinburgh’s passing, and they reacted in different ways.

TOM Gordon claims a “dubious whiff coming off Mr Salmond's Alba Party” ("Something doesn’t smell right about the Alba Party", The Herald, April 8), but there is a bit of stink about his argument.

Boris Johnson won’t be attending the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral this weekend.

THE impact of the Covid pandemic could leave Scotland with even fewer doctors than it had before, Scotland's GP leader has warned.

I THINK it was Thumper the rabbit who once said that “if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say nothing at all”, but perhaps Patrick Harvie hasn’t seen Bambi. The co-leader of the Scottish Greens, apparently feeling the pressure to comme...

THOSE of us who view the British royal family with a curled lip can still, I think, offer compassion when they grieve. Like the raw ache of love withdrawn, the pain of grief doesn’t soften for the privileged. All we need to know about Prince Phi...

More than 2,600 teachers have dropped or lost their professional registration over the last five years, sparking fears of a classroom crisis as schools battle to recover from Covid-19.

By Scott Wright

SCOTLAND'S political parties have been urged to include plans for a four-day working week in their manifestos for the upcoming Holyrood election.

Immigration is needed in Scotland but is not a ‘magic bullet’ to fix the country’s workforce problems, according to a new report.

WESTMINSTER'S 'deep-rooted' complacency and 'considerable indifference' towards devolved issues is contributing to the breakdown of the union, a new report has found.

Name: Tom Murdoch.

By Ian McConnell

SCOTLAND’S leading retail association has demanded a firm Scottish Government commitment to an ‘eat out to help out’ style voucher scheme to help struggling shops survive the Covid crisis.

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A FEELING of accomplishment and sitting back, proudly looking on at the transformation of an island garden or leading a community yoga class might sound like it’s all in a days work.

“Poyekhali!”

A FEELING of accomplishment and sitting back, proudly looking on at the transformation of an island garden or leading a community yoga class might sound like it’s all in a day's work.

SHE is one of the most successful music artists of all time, with an estimated worth of around £350 million and counting. Now Taylor Swift has made an unusual move - re-recording a 13-year-old album in its entirety and re-releasing it.

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

There have been 250 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

The Duke of York has said the Queen has described the death of her husband the Duke of Edinburgh as “having left a huge void in her life”.

THE RECALL of Parliament should be extended so ministers can face questions over care home admissions and 10,000 Covid deaths.

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”...

An SNP minister's unrecorded dinner with banker Lex Greensill and steel billionaire Sanjeev Gupta has sparked calls for a probe into whether he broke ministerial code.

Independence is viewed as the most important issue by fewer than one in five people according to recent poll data.

HOW they speak about the dead reveals the character of the living. The display of mindless nastiness on Friday about Prince Phillip on Twitter told us much about the kind of people there who call themselves the left.

EVERY night when Nicola Sturgeon retires to her bed, she could be forgiven for sleeping on a pillow branded with the Prime Minister’s face.

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.

He walked through the cheering crowd in the grand square designed by Michelangelo, acknowledging the adulation of the people, occasionally touching the brim of his bowler in salute. A choir of students broke into a political anthem and just as he ...

Police have launched an investigation after fireworks were heard outside Celtic Park during a two-minute silence.

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.

Funeral details have been announced for Prince Philip.

Downing Street has confirmed that Boris Johnson will not attend the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral to allow for the attendance of as many family members as possible during coronavirus restrictions.

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

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

A NEIGHBOUR crossing the field stopped by the garden fence the other morning. Her young black Labrador put her head and paws on the gate, whining for attention, but when she heard our next door neighbour at his hedge, dashed off. He is her favouri...

MY weary shoulders are throbbing. Biceps, calves and thighs each, in turn, emit a dull ache. This past week I have done more bending and twisting than a 1980s aerobics instructor. Thankfully, no Lycra was harmed – or worn – in the making of th...

OOH, I do declare. Another waddle back into the mists of history this week, folks, to the 14h century, when men were men and never did Pilates.

GUN: Taking On The World: Released – 1989

I NOTE Neil Mackay’s The Big Read article (“A crisis of faith”, April 4) in which the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the Rt Rev Dr Martin Fair, is reported as maintaining that “Christianity isn’t about those...

IN gowns which skimmed the polished maple wood floor and to the rousing oompah of a brass band, Edwardian ladies and their smart-suited companions rolled in neverending circles around the room on their skates.

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.

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.

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

by Robert Donald,