THE SNP’s depute leader has said the party wants to see the end of the coronavirus pandemic partly for “selfish” campaign reasons.

It has become a vital tool in the way party leaders communicate with their supporters and voters at large.

Mark Smith shares his analysis of the latest polls ahead of the Scottish election.

Nicola Sturgeon has rejected claims that an independent Scotland would not be able to procure coronavirus vaccines as "nonsense".

A PLAN by Boris Johnson to invest billions in Scotland's transport network, among other union-boosting measures has come 'too late' to make an impact ahead of the elections, and described as "complete c**p" by party sources.

Nicola Sturgeon, Douglas Ross, Anas Sarwar, Alex Salmond and more will be fighting for votes in the coming days.

More than a quarter of Holyrood’s MSPs are not seeking re-election to the Scottish Parliament this year.

THE newspaper review on The Andrew Marr Show is one of the show’s more hectic segments. All those titles to get through in so little time.

THE MAJORITY of Scottish voters do not consider Alex Salmond a fit and proper person to become an MSP.

Welcome to our Covid-19 live blog, bringing you all the latest updates from across Scotland.

KEITH Brown is the latest to take the hot seat in our Brian Taylor Podcast and the episode is out today.

Line of Duty

The UK government has been urged to extend restrictions on overseas holidays to reduce the risk of new Covid variants fuelling a third wave.

A former Labour government minister has lent his support to Alex Salmond's Alba Party.

COVID compensation claims could be the industrial illness crisis of a generation, according to a legal expert who is preparing for the floodgates to open for potential cases and court action.

NEVER has voting for Scottish self-determination seemed so dispiriting.

On Thursday May 6, Scotland will be voting for its next Parliament in the Scottish Election.

INDIA’S deadly second wave is continuing to worsen, with daily new cases consistently exceeding 300,000 and deaths now having surpassed 3,000 a day.

DR Gerald Edwards (Letters, April 29) looks at life through rose-tinted spectacles if he believes that Boris Johnson has pretty effectively "saved the United Kingdom from the true ravages of coronavirus both in health and economic terms".

By Ian McConnell

Name: Esther Kungu-Cooper.

Developments in recent economic data for both the UK and Scotland are largely positive, if predictable. The economy slowed again during the second lockdown, but is now showing firm signs of picking up once more, albeit with a slight lag for Scotland ...

Often the most maligned of meals, Ella Walker wonders whether a working lunch can ever be truly enjoyable.

Is Scotland’s constitutional divide taking Scotland in the same deadlocked direction as Northern Ireland? Stormont’s Justice Minister, Naomi Long, has warned Scots about the dangers of the constitution dominating politics and creating a cleava...

AS Boris Johnson knows to his cost - financially and politically - wallpaper is fashionable once more. But it it turns out that it is a certain type of wallpaper that has surged in popularity in lockdown.

Martin Lewis's MoneySavingExpert has revealed how to use your central heating this year.

Line Of Duty star Martin Compston has urged Scots not to leave the outcome of Thursday’s election to chance, calling on them to back Nicola Sturgeon in the ballot.

TWO SNP MSPs have appealed to their party leader to re-think the outright opposition to Alex Salmond's Alba.

The Scottish LibDems leader claims the party could make gains in ‘every corner’ of Scotland

It’s Scotland’s wind! I don’t expect we’ll see that slogan from the SNP in future elections (or referendums) as oil figured in the 1970s one, before it began to run out and also become an ecological affront. It’s currently at just over h...

They called it “going up the Congo”. This was Afghanistan, not Africa, but it didn’t matter – the object was the same. The special forces soldiers put on their body armour, blackened their faces, checked their weapons by firing into sand p...

THE chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland owner NatWest Group has said that the institution would move its headquarters from Edinburgh to London in the event of Scottish independence.

By Carlos Alba

Discovering his Alzheimer's early gave Dr Daniel Gibbs an opportunity to try and slow its progress. Lisa Salmon finds out how.

Manchester United fans protesting against the club’s ownership took to the Old Trafford pitch.

BORIS Johnson is planning to spend billions on Scotland's rail and road network in an attempt to save the Union, but will unveil his 'blueprint' after the Holyrood poll.

NICOLA Sturgeon is on course to win a majority at the Holyrood election on Thursday, a new poll for The Herald has found.

Nicola Sturgeon has insisted she is the only politician offering "serious leadership" for Scotland in Thursday's crucial Holyrood poll - despite conceding her SNP had "not yet done enough" when it comes to dealing with the country's attainment gap...

Ciaran Martin was right at the heart of the British government – he was one of the architects of the 2014 referendum, the UK’s lead official on the constitution, and helped run GCHQ. Now, in an explosive intervention on the eve of the Scottish...

There have been 146 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

HMS Glasgow has reached a significant moment as the full size of the ship is revealed.

Dominic Raab said he has “no idea” if a Conservative donor was asked to pay for Boris Johnson’s childcare as the Foreign Secretary dismissed the allegation as “tittle-tattle”.

Douglas Ross was quizzed on Boris Johnson not campaigning in Scotland, Brexit, and a ‘democratic route’ to a second independence referendum in a heated interview with Andrew Marr.

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has called for large scale events to be trialled in Scotland to 'save' the struggling sector from collapse.

WHILE it was great to read Ally McLaws' column about the good work happening at the NHS Centre for Integrative Care ("In the absence of scientific proof, belief is good enough", April 25), a reader could surmise it promotes little more than positive ...

THE LEADER of Northern Ireland’s Alliance Party has warned the SNP and Conservatives against using divisions around the constitution to secure votes in the election, arguing the issue is a "disruptive force" which has not served her country well...

It is not hard to imagine what Boris Johnson would have made of the cash-for-curtains affair had he still been writing his newspaper column. He’d have fulminated in cod rage at the PM turning the Downing Street flat into a Balinese bordello, in ...

MINISTERS face an official sanction after the nationalised shipyard company at the centre of Scotland's ferry building fiasco failed to file four sets of financial accounts on time, the Herald can reveal.

MINISTERS have been warned of the risk of deaths as they forge ahead with a 10-year timescale to provide an permanent solution to Scotland's most notorious stretch of road - having sanctioned paying £25m on consultants alone.

Police dispersed more people for Covid breaches this week than any other seven-day period since the beginning of the pandemic.