THEY might look like slightly out of place against some of the nearby historic buildings, but these wooden decking and benches in Glasgow are all part of a way of helping to improve safe movement around the city.

Nicola Sturgeon is in talks with the Scottish Greens to freshen the face of government and formalise Holyrood’s independence majority.

I SHOULD probably start by telling you what happened to me when I moved to Glasgow in the 1990s. It took me by surprise at the time and, 30 years on, I’m still not sure how I feel about the incident. But I do worry that the attitudes and prejudi...

ONE of the many takeaways from Dominic Cummings’ incendiary evidence to MPs last week was that Downing Street exists in a state of chaos.

MATERIAL success in politics often requires you to embrace fake virtue and to hedge the unkempt values of your cultural traditions. Perhaps this explains why a simple declaration of unvarnished truth by Kate Forbes this month seemed so startling. ...

IT is the most valuable rock ever to land on UK soil and contains materials from the dawn of our Solar System 4.6 billion years ago.

SCOTLAND'S national qualifications and education bodies are "not fit for purpose" and must be reformed, the Scottish Liberal Democrats have said.

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THE claim by Donald Macaskill from Scottish Care that older people with dementia were responsible for the Covid death rates in nursing homes ("Death rates higher in larger care homes", The Herald, May 27) represents a new low in the private care indu...

THE UK Government has been accused of neutralising the impact of the Scottish Child Payment with plans to reduce benefits payments.

THE SCOTTISH Government must invest £1bn of unallocated Barnett funds to pandemic recovery, Scottish Labour has urged.

THE SNP is facing internal turmoil after its treasurer and independence taskforce chief both quit in the same week.

FOR James Grant celebrating his 40th birthday this month was a milestone he was just grateful to see.

A professional snooker referee has backed a new lung cancer campaign that has been developed in direct response to a major drop in detections through the pandemic.

French authorities have tightened restrictions to prevent the spread of the Indian variant of coronavirus with travellers from the UK needing to provide “compelling reasons” to enter

Name: Stefano Pieraccini.

Denmark's secret service collaborated with the US National Security Agency (NSA) to help the US spy on European politicians including German Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2012 to 2014.

A dog which was found buried alive has been adopted by one of the animal welfare officers who rescued him.

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More than 80% of Scots back a ban on smoking outside schools to protect children's health, a survey indicates.

Actor Joe Lara - best known for starring in the TV series Tarzan: The Epic Adventures - has been killed in a plane crash in Tennessee.

IT is an enduring mystery that has drawn international interest for more than 70 years. Now Australian investigators hope they will finally identify the “Somerton Man”.

A dense sea mist, which descended on Scotland's east coast on Sunday, was captured in breathtaking images.

ORKNEY'S 'five star' tourist attractions have helped it become named as the 'best Scottish island amongst British visitors.

Mass vaccination centres in NHS Lothian are facing 'critical' staff shortages as Edinburgh battles rising cases of Covid-19.

John Swinney has said Police Scotland is not investigating the SNP’s finances following an MP in charge of the party’s accounts quitting.

There have been 526 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

The Scottish Greens' co-leader did not rule out co-operation arrangements with the SNP and ministerial roles.

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John Swinney has said he is hopeful Glasgow will be moved out of Level 3 as soon as possible, amid hopes that the restrictions can be eased by the end of the week.

THE taxman had a secret gameplan to push Rangers towards liquidation weeks before its financial implosion so there could be a full investigation over the non-payment of millions of pounds in tax, it has emerged.

With our borders coming into full bloom and verdant vineyards flowering, Sam Wylie-Harris picks out some super scented styles.

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A new drug for Alzheimer's is being hailed as the biggest treatment breakthrough since the disease was discovered in 1906.

NHS Highland is tackling a 'significant' outbreak of Covid-19 linked to a bar in the Lochaber town of Fort William.

Remote working or learning and virtual team meetings is something we have all become used to during lockdown, but the idea of remote healing practices might be a little more difficult to imagine.

With the Scottish and British governments in a stand-off over the future of the constitution our Writer at Large Neil Mackay talks to Professor Sir Tom Devine about where Scotland is in terms of the broad sweep of history - and what the future hol...

Boris Johnson has married Carrie Symonds in a low-key ceremony planned in strict secrecy.

IT is clear that Tony Philpin (Letters, May 23) has bought into Greta Thunberg's doomsday narrative that "our house is on fire". Apparently every dramatic image that is fed to us by much of the media, whether it be landslides due to torrential rai...

LOSING a second referendum would mean the hope of Scottish independence would be “more or less lost” for a generation, Pete Wishart, the SNP’s longest-serving MP, has admitted as he warned that getting the timing right on staging Indyref2 wo...

The US firm behind the launch of a collection of luxury Scottish resorts has appointed one of the country’s most acclaimed chefs in the latest phase of its Scottish golf coast project.

JUDGEMENT is the imperative on which all our politicians succeed or fail.

A new poll has found that just a fifth of voters in England strongly oppose Scottish independence.

MINISTERS face a court challenge over secret legal agreements which allowed the nationalisation of the owners of the shipyard at the centre of Scotland's ferry building fiasco.

DOMINIC Cummings aimed to destroy his former boss last week. But he blew himself up instead with his intemperate j’accuse. Mr Johnson should really reward his former chief adviser – ennoble him as Baron Dom of Barnard Castle. He’s done him a...

MINISTERS have been criticised for an "abject failure" over its 2020 'green capital of Europe' revolution which has produced as little as five per cent of the low carbon jobs it forecast.

A new national flagship, the successor to the Royal Yacht Britannia, will promote British trade and industry around the world, Boris Johnson has said.

Music

If this weekend’s guide to seafood has whetted your appetite here’s my take on how best to prepare them. Not everyone likes raw oysters so here I’ve prepared them cooked. It’s an alternative twist to a simple classic.

WE have all missed live concerts and choirs over the last year or so, no-one more so than those talented musicians and singers who brighten up our lives.