A fresh analysis of artefacts from the Broxmouth hillfort has raised the prospect that everyday items were kept by iron Age people as an emotional reminder

THE Scottish Tories are hunting for fresh blood.

IN 2018, Professor Heidi Larson wrote a piece for scientific journal Nature, following the Ebola and H1N1 swine flu outbreaks, contemplating what might happen if there were a bigger global pandemic. Its title was, The Biggest Pandemic Risk? Viral Mis...

A SIX month delay in a response from the Scottish Government on correspondence from Glasgow City Council over funding for the reopening of the city’s culture and leisure facilities was bordering on contemptuous.

SO, that’s it all over for Scotland at the European Championships, but I don’t think Steve Clarke can look back with too many regrets.

A FOUR-MONTH delay in the delivery of the two vessels for the lifeline Scottish ferry service might as well be a year for businesses in the islands.

SNP ministers have been accused of “environmental vandalism” for failing to prepare farmers for the climate emergency – after government advisers called for Scots to cut the amount of meat and dairy products consumed.

EVENT television, appointment to view, the one that gets the highlighter treatment in the listings (The Herald: old school and proud of it). Whatever you call a TV must see, chances are a new Ken Burns/Lynn Novick documentary would be on the list.

THEY are powerful and emotion-charged recollections of moments in time from the pandemic.

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It was an idea which stemmed from the cancellation of flights at London's Gatwick Airport following reports of drone sightings close to the runway in 2018.

A healthcare company which employs as a senior director the brother of the aide Matt Hancock was pictured kissing has insisted it had never benefited from the connection to the Health Secretary.

BACK in Gilead for a new series of The Handmaid’s Tale (Channel 4, Sunday), and boy don’t we know it.

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AYSHIRE hotelier Bill Costley has said he is optimistic about the prospects of the group he runs which is sitting on very strong bookings in spite of seeing revenues plunge amid the coronavirus crisis.

Freedom. That was the overarching message this week as governments at Holyrood and Westminster set out their respective timetables out of the pandemic.

PEONIES throw a lush, luxuriant light on any garden and, once established, will probably outlive you.

Thirty feet long with two huge paws and a giant tail, the creature raised itself out of the water and slithered around the tiny fishing boat.

Mourners missed a funeral and a Scots pensioner was helicoptered home from hospital amid claims there was no room on an island ferry.

IRVINE-based Green Home Systems has completed a reshuffle of its senior leadership team, writes Scott Wright.

I, LIKE many other Scottish families, have devastatingly experienced the death of a loved one from terminal illness. My father was diagnosed with short-term terminal cancer. He was very pragmatic and faced his illness with huge bravery. His fear was ...

IT remains one of Ireland’s most infamous murder cases for which the prime suspect has been found guilty in France but remains free and vehemently protests his innocence. Now the case is being revisited in two new documentaries.

FIVE years ago, I went to bed in the early hours, bored with the seeming voting inevitability that the UK would remain in the EU. There was no excitement as result after result came in...Remain.

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WE have just passed Bloomsday, the annual opportunity to commemorate the events, bizarre, comical and poignant, chronicled by the Irish writer James Joyce in his magnificent novel, Ulysses.

Kirsty Hughes

THERE’S a chill that comes from imagining Britain’s military situation room when a tense diplomatic stand-off is developing and Boris Johnson bumbles onto the premises. “Um, the Black Sea; is that um, one of ours?”

Taking the pith

“GRIEF is not elegant, and it is not well-mannered,” Cathy Rentzenbrink reminded us on Guide Book on Radio 4 last Tuesday. “And we do very silly things, I think, in grief. Often because we just want to escape our own pain.”

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to 22-and-a-half years in prison for the murder of George Floyd.

THIS is it. The long wait is over. Four years on from their last outing, a 15-15 draw that saw them square the series with the All Blacks, the British & Irish Lions are finally back in business.

SCOTLAND’s tourism industry has warned the SNP’s updated plans to require Airbnb-style short-term let properties to obtain a licence have “fundamentally failed” to address its concerns.

A SCOTTISH chef has launched a series of wild dining events.

LAST week I did something very out of character. I got rid of some books.

LABOUR'S deputy leader has written to the Government adviser on minsterial standards demanding an investigation into the Health Secretary.

Hearts have been rocked by five Covid cases and their friendly against Berwick Rangers has been scrapped.

ALEX Salmond has ramped up his attacks on Nicola Sturgeon over independence, saying her government “seems to be doing nothing at all” to secure it.

Scotland has recorded 1,747 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours - significantly lower than yesterday's figures which hit a record high of 2,999 cases.

DOUGLAS Ross has published his party’s proposals to introduce a right to rehabilitation for those struggling with drug addiction.

BORIS Johnson has “accepted” Matt Hancock’s apology after he admitted breaking social distancing rules when he was caught in a romantic embrace with a lover.

NINE players have been ruled out of Scotland A’s game against England on Sunday - one after testing positive for Covid, the rest because they were close contacts.

THE HEALTH Secretary has apologised after it emerged he is having an affair with his close adviser.

Matt Hancock has been urged to resign after it was reported he has been having an affair with his senior aide.

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AN SNP MSP has apologised privately for falsely claiming a bus company was discriminating against Irish Catholics after receiving pressure from Edinburgh’s SNP transport convener.

FORGET Leith, forget Finnieston, forget Loch Fyne. If you want the best food in Scotland Jack Lowden says, you need to go to Skye.

World expert on vaccine confidence, Professor Heidi Larson, expressed her shock at “how bad leadership has been” during the pandemic.

An activist who was arrested at the vigil for Sarah Everard in London is preparing to start legal action against the Metropolitan Police.

THE Scottish capital has launched its first fully electric double decker buses in a new partnership with SP Energy Networks.