ANAS Sarwar has been warned by one of his new MSPs that Scottish Labour faces further decline if it maintains its “muddled” position on independence.

ONE of Scotland’s best known academics has hit out at Scotland’s “impossible” Covid helpline after waiting more than 14 weeks for his second vaccine.

A DECISION will be made later this week as to whether East Renfrewshire and other areas with rising cases will be put into tougher lockdown restrictions.

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

Columnist Andy Maciver imagines an alternative future which sees Ruth Davidson in Bute House not the House of Lords

NICOLA Sturgeon will today be confirmed as First Minister after her second Holyrood election win, following a ritual vote by MSPs.

THE idea that a specific group or nation has different values to another group or nation makes for an uncomfortable discussion.

AN NHS radiographer who accessed the records of more than 200 female patients and pestered them for dates has been struck off.

PUBLIC health officials may “never know” if mass gatherings by Rangers fans in Glasgow will be a “superspreader” event, according to Scotland’s National Clinical Director.

A MAJOR development at a landmark site in Glasgow city centre has taken a significant step forward.

ONCE more for the people at the back: "You have a gender neutral toilet in your house" is not the argument ending zinger you think it is.

THE US is sending abroad AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine it cannot use - because its regulatory system has not yet approved its use.

THE union that represents UK pharmacists has said contractors accused of “rigging” vaccinator shifts may simply have taken advantage of technology to secure work.

THE Labour Party has been inviting people to vote for a “vacuum” and has to stop being so “timid”, one of Britain’s top pollsters has said. 

I HAVE just read Kevin McKenna’s scathing comments regarding Police Scotland and its response to recent public order situations ("Poverty and political failure lie at the heart of violence", The Herald, May 17).

A LAWYER whose firm is representing more than 100 bereaved families and survivors of Covid outbreaks in care homes and workplaces says an inquiry into the pandemic response must be the “widest and most open ever”.

FOODMEK, the Tayport-based engineering firm, is targeting a further leap in turnover as it celebrates its 50th anniversary.

Western Isles Council has written to the First Minister over the ferry “chaos” on the west coast, warning the disruption was tipping some businesses into closure.

A SCOTS couple who were reliant on foodbanks are now listed among the world's 'rising stars' for wedding photography after teaching themselves the trade.

Scotland’s courts experienced widespread delays on Monday as defence lawyers took action in a dispute over support for legal aid firms struggling due to the pandemic.

Scotland’s unemployment rate fell slightly in the last quarter, according to the latest figures.

WITH a range of companies announcing plans to make big payouts to shareholders through buy backs in recent weeks, divisions in the corporate world are becoming increasingly clear in a way that could spur much -needed change to the tax system.

“Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends,” according to Nancy Mitford’s Uncle Matthew, who shared the sentiment with King George V, or possibly George VI (a similar line is attributed to both of them).

HOUSEBUILDER Stewart Milne expects its redesigned homes to help it bring in revenues of £550 million over the next two years from house sales in Scotland and north-west England.

IT is a rare find, known by some as the sacred stone of Columba, discovered by diving in the sparkling waters off the Scots isle.

A company leading work on a pioneering carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Scotland has won a fresh vote of confidence after an energy industry heavy-hitter joined its board.

Future perfect

IT looks likely that the months ahead will be remembered as the summer of staycationing, day-trips and picnics.

Taking the phrases ‘one-upmanship’ and ‘market flotation’ at their most literal, the world’s billionaires and oligarchs are increasingly taking to the oceans to show off their wealth

Thousands of supporters defied Covid-19 warnings against large gatherings and massed in George Square in Glasgow

There needs to be a deep-rooted examination as to why things have deteriorated to the point where almost everything is a source of conflict.

SCOTTISH Labour leader Anas Sarwar is self-isolating after a member of his family tested positive for coronavirus.

The figures from Public Health Scotland show the rolling seven-day average to Friday May 14

Tourism and hospitality bodies are calling for urgent talks with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Glasgow remaining in Level Three coronavirus restrictions.

“Have you apologised for being late for a meeting, blaming the traffic when you’ve been late for every meeting and appointment you’ve ever had in your entire life? Perchance have you phoned in sick for work on the hottest day of the year wit...

Police Scotland have launched a probe into the short film

MOST people don’t think MPs should have to squeeze back into Westminster full-time after the Covid lockdown, but should be able to carry on working remotely.

There have been 161 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

Thousands of Gers fans descended on the city on Saturday with some clashing with police and other supporters.

THE number of confirmed Scots cases of Covid variants of concern identified in India has quadrupled in a week, the Herald can reveal.

Covid vaccinations are to be made available to younger people aged 18-39 living in areas of Glasgow experiencing a spike in cases linked to the Indian variant.

TODAY’S column begins with me going to the pub and drinking Guinness, but bear with me because the pub I visited, and where it is, and the people I was with, all of it does matter. And there’s truth to be found in pubs. Even late on Friday nig...

RANGERS fans who took part in the scenes of violence and disorder at the weekend should be banned, a senior police officer has said.

LORD Willie Haughey has revealed plans to spend more than £1 billion on building 11,000 homes in Scotland over the next nine years, aiming to tackle shortages and transform the housing market.

"What do you do if a UK Government refuses to accept democracy? The fact I can't come up with a soundbite answer is no reflection on me." Nicola Sturgeon was speaking on the Andrew Marr programme about the latest Indyref deadlock. But she could ju...

John Swinney has condemned the action of Rangers fans in Glasgow on Saturday as “absolutely reprehensible”.

IN the snatched footage from the siege of Glasgow’s city centre that lit up social media on Saturday night a 10-minute video stood out. It was shot by observers above St Vincent Street, the road that forms the southern boundary of George Square....

GORDON Brown has said the SNP should submit its case for independence to rigorous parliamentary hearings in both Edinburgh and London to ensure voters are fully informed about the consequences of leaving the UK.

All mainland council areas in Scotland - except Glasgow and Moray - have moved from Level 3 to Level 2 Covid restrictions.

MICHAEL Settle asserts in his Analysis article ("Time has come for Labour to step up and reinvent itself", The Herald, May 14) that Labour has to reinvent itself. I would dispute the implication that the Labour Party has to conjure up some magic f...