A decision will be made today whether to allow plans for a major spectator fan zone in Glasgow for the upcoming Euro 2020 matches.

WE have a beguiling, new addition to the suite of everything-but-outright-independence options. It’s called Independence within the UK and has been constructed by the former Labour MEP, David Martin.

WHILE the precise distance from the offices of the BBC’s top brass to The Andrew Marr Show studio is not a matter of public record, it was clearly a trek too far for someone.

MSP Ruth Maguire has revealed she has been diagnosed with stage three cervical cancer.

PEOPLE keep saying it was the constitution that decided the election in Scotland – and it was – but there’s a bit more to it than that.

IN the latest of his regular diatribes against Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP, Martin Redfern (Letters, May 20) asks why COP26 is a priority for her, when this forthcoming event is a UK conference, led by the Prime Minister.

Is Boris finally ditching Thatcherism with the invention of Great British Rail?

Fifteen years ago I submitted the Kerr report to the Scottish Government, with the support of civil society and all political parties, providing a framework upon which Scotland’s NHS would plan for the future.

The autumn of 2012 was not a happy time for Edinburgh’s Castlebrae Community High School.

ENDING delayed discharges must be a top priority for the new Health Secretary, Scottish Labour has said.

IF Josh Taylor was feeling somewhat underappreciated heading into the biggest sporting weekend of his life, then he would surely have been happier with the reaction that followed it.

A LEADING academic who authored a 20-year plan for the NHS in Scotland in 2005 said progress has not come "far enough".

SCOTLAND’S involvement in their first tournament finals in 23 long years is drawing tantalising near now. Steve Clarke selected his 26 man squad for the Euro 2020 finals last week amid widespread excitement. The vast majority of those called up ...

The historical items stolen included a set of rosary beads carried by the Queen to her execution.

The Covid-19 pandemic could lead to a rise in violent crime in Scotland as the country struggles to recover from the impact of the virus, experts have warned.

They have been the nation’s great seats of learning for centuries. And power too. But Scotland’s “ancient” universities are gradually loosening their grip on parliament, according to new analysis for The Herald.

IT IS 55 years since his great aunt gifted what was known as Old Pollok estate to the then Glasgow Corporation which led to Pollok Country Park being established.

IT is a newly defined “billion club”, but it has nothing to do with finance. A new study has identified four birds that each have a population of more than a billion, as birdwatching enjoys a boom.

It was one of the big interviews of the last century, the “three people in this marriage” one, where the BBC’s Martin Bashir drew out from Princess Diana all of the travails and faithlessness of her marriage to Charles, the future king.

If it’s safe to go out now, suitably attired, masked, hazmatted or merely double-vaxxed and insouciant, then it’s time to escape to the places that might have escaped you. It’s not a bucket list, more a sod it list. Here are six of the best,...

SCOTLAND'S most senior law officer is to step down, the Scottish Government has confirmed.

LORD Willie Haughey this week 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.

RESTRICTIONS could be eased in Glasgow if an increase in cases and hospital admissions do not translate into extra pressure on intensive care beds, Scotland's new health secretary has said.

There have been 378 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

A PROMINENT SNP councillor has been accused of using "abhorrent language" in a tweet about the Eurovision results.

SCOTLAND'S most senior law officer is expected to step down within days, it has been reported.

“We are Rangers, Super Rangers, no one likes us, we don’t care”. I won’t type the next line for reasons those familiar with the song will understand, but the opening line refused to leave my mind last weekend as 15,000 of my fellow Rangers...

A former Loretto pupil today tells of a ‘Lord Of The Flies’ environment at the boarding school, claiming he and others suffered long-lasting mental health issues due to a sickening litany of violence, abuse, humiliation and degradation carried...

SCOTLAND get ready. Project Fear is about to be reborn but this time it will have a benign twin: Project Love.

RANGERS fans say they and the club have been unfairly maligned over the ugly scenes that marred the celebrations of their first premier league title in a decade with allegations the levels of condemnation were politically motivated.

Dominic Cummings has claimed the government originally intended to let coronavirus spread through the country in an attempt to build "herd immunity".

I FORESEE years of fruitless confusion and rancour surrounding the constitutional issue, it being all or nothing for fundamentalists on both sides of the debate.

SERIOUS concerns have been raised that the risk of covid transmission will increase if reopening workplaces is not managed properly including ongoing enforcement of public health and health and safety legislation.

Ian Blackford has claimed Scottish Secretary Alister Jack should fight back or resign over a “damaging” free trade deal with Australia which would threaten the future of Scottish farmers.

Shiny black and with its classic – if a little dumpy – lines, chrome bumper and gleaming wing mirrors, Wayne Campbell’s Morris Minor glides extremely quietly through the doors of his Glenrothes garage.

I TRY to avoid writing about “the culture war”. It has very little to do with culture for a start, and the war is largely conducted by sanctimonious creeps on Twitter. However, sometimes the human casualties of these absurdist conflicts cannot...

SAFETY fears have been raised over the home of Britain's nuclear weapons on the Clyde as managers have slashed firefighter numbers alongside a 'failure' to provide promised safety equipment.

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IF I had the money, would I buy a big fancy boat? It is a question I’ve found myself ruminating on in recent days while perusing a clutch of articles about the so-called billion-pound boom in sales of superyachts.

More than seven million people in the UK tuned in to watch the Eurovision Song Contest.

IT was instructive to be an unwitting attender at the Rangers celebrations last week. Heading for the Clyde tunnel on the way home after a holiday on Arran, my car gently eased its way among supporters at Ibrox more than two hours after the match ...

Priti Patel has refused to rule out criminal prosecutions following the publication of the Dyson report into the BBC’s 1995 Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales.

The lead singer of Eurovision winners Maneskin has denied suggestions he was taking drugs during the broadcast.

Tributes have been paid to the “kind and compassionate” Barra teenager who was killed in the Manchester arena terror attack at the age of 14.

Scotland’s future electricity supplies are being put at risk due to failures by ministers to fully explore the consequences of relying on renewable energies.

The United Kingdom scored 'nil points' and finished dead last in a crushing defeat in the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest.

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

Glasgow City and the City of Edinburgh has the lowest percentage of people vaccinated in Scotland.

A LETTER arrived in the post box on the wall outside my front door the other day – a handwritten envelope. Inside a was a beautiful card with an image of a rambling rose flowering in a wild meadow on the cover.

As clothing giants H&M and Primark announce they will resume Myanmar orders for the first time since February’s military coup, Foreign Editor David Pratt examines what it means for ethical trading, sanctions, and due diligence over human rights and...