SCOTTISH Government ministers were told of concerns with the Test and Protect system six weeks ago, The Herald on Sunday has learned.

THE SNP Government has been accused of a “catastrophic failure” after concerns raised about a lorry driver shortage five years ago were ignored – now putting Scotland’s £85 billion export industry at risk.

Police were called out to a Scottish football ground following violent scenes on Saturday afternoon.

THE SNP’s top official has been accused of blatant “hypocrisy” after urging transparency in political finances despite his own party facing claims of excessive secrecy.

I first became interested in Orangeism at the academic level after I was appointed in the 1990s to the Foundation Glucksman Chair of Irish and Scottish Studies and became the first Director of the AHRC Centre of Irish and Scottish Studies at Aberdeen...

A Scots-based company which made over £375,000 in donations to the Conservative Party over five years has won over £108m in emergency PPE contracts from the UK Government, it has been revealed.

It was all happening on day three of the abrdn Scottish Open. There were so many birdies and eagles getting blasted, you just about expected a concerned RSPB officer to visit The Renaissance.

THOUSANDS of people chanting my name, I had never felt anything like it, and I never will again.

Once, when he was Manchester City manager, Roberto Mancini was asked if he would like to take charge of England one day. The Italian replied in the affirmative.

Harvested from the sea and produced using coal mined from the small pocket of Jurassic rock, Brora’s ‘white gold’ salt was a prized commodity which told its own story of Highland history.

It seems we are more in touch with nature than ever before these days.

Conor McGregor sustained a serious leg injury as he lost to lightweight rival Dustin Poirier via doctor’s stoppage in round one at UFC 264 in Las Vegas.

WANLOCKHEAD is a place where the superlatives trip off the tongue. As Scotland's highest village, it sits at a lofty elevation of 1,531 feet – that's 467 metres – above sea level.

Museums are caught in the crossfire of our increasingly toxic political debates around Empire, race and the past. Writer at Large Neil Mackay talks to Professor Christopher Breward, the director of National Museums Scotland, as he charts a path throu...

Fifty five years of hurt may or may not be over tonight at Wembley. Italy haven’t lost a match in the last 33, and it could be a massive comedown. But one thing is clear: English nationalism is coming home. In 1966, when England won the World Cup, ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has written to the England football team ahead of their clash with Italy in Sunday’s Euros final.

Finn Russell will miss the next three scheduled matches for the Lions in South Africa with an Achilles issue meaning that he won’t be in contention to play for the tourists again before the week of the first Test of their three-match series against...

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SO, Will, I ask the guitarist staring at me down the lens of a Zoom call, how truly scary is Annie Lennox when she’s angry?

Tasty and nutritious runner beans also add goodness to the soil and look stunning. Writing in his ‘Herbal’ four centuries ago, the botanist Gerard says the flowers of runner beans, Phaseolus coccineus, “are large, and of an elegant scarlet colo...

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Labour has called for Theresa May’s former communications director to be sacked from the board of the BBC.

There have been 2,190 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

Greenock Morton are the latest club to be struck by a Covid outbreak within their squad as they confirmed their Premier Sports Cup tie against Stranraer has been cancelled.

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THESE days Stephen Dorff, star of big and small screen, lives on a 70-acre ranch in Tennessee near Nashville where he spends his time amidst palm trees, four-wheelers, gun ranges and a growing sense that his industry might have gone to the dogs.

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COMPETITION: Here’s a creative challenge that will appeal to young readers and their parents – especially fans of Cressida Cowell’s How To Train Your Dragon series. The Scottish Friendly Summer Book Tour Competition offers the chance to win a f...

A public health expert has warned that the coronavirus situation in Scotland remains “quite fragile” as hospitals are expected to come under increased pressure.

POLICE were called to a busy Glasgow street overnight following reports of an alleged 'incident'.

POLICE were called to a busy Glasgow street overnight following reports of an alleged 'incident'.

NORTH Sea oil and gas entrepreneur Tom Cross has seen shares in the Parkmead Group business which he runs surge after the firm announced an acquisition and said it has more deals in its sights.

WHEN the British Heart Foundation was founded sixty years ago by a group of cardiologists, the standard treatment for a heart attack was bed rest.

DEMANDS have been made for the Scottish Government to step up with extra funding to help Glasgow’s culture and leisure services through a crisis as proposed job cuts are widely condemned.

HERE comes the bride? Here comes Kate Moss, anyway, dressed up in the swishiest tartan fashion designer Vivienne Westwood could devise for her autumn/winter collection of 1993-1994, Anglomania.

I remember not being able to visit Jim and hold his hand, tell him he was going to be ok for the 35 days he was in hospital and only able to talk to him via video call for the last two weeks of his life.

THE summer of ’96. Was it a good one? I can’t remember. Too busy learning how to change nappies and sterilise bottles as I recall. Daughter number one was born four minutes after England were knocked out of the Euros that year. Every time I see t...

HEARD the one about the Irish lassie and the Scots woman who tried to smuggle a suitcase full of cocaine out of Peru? The story of Michaella McCollum and Melissa Reid was no joke, though it was hard to tell initially from the five-part documentary Hi...

PAEDIATRIC emergency departments could face a “perfect storm” of a surge in respiratory viruses in young children and more severe illness when schools return, medics have warned.

David Baddiel and Frank Skinner will reunite with The Lightning Seeds to perform football anthem Three Lions for England fans ahead of the clash with Italy.

Clearing the backlog of hospital operations will take years, the chief executive of NHS Grampian has said.

AN expert warned flash flooding seen in Edinburgh last week when half the rainfall in July was recorded in one hour will begin to happen more regularly with climate change.

Crippled by the pandemic, Glasgow’s renowned arts scene has reached crisis point.

HOW capitalism works part 78: now that staycations have become popular, prices have risen exponentially for such holidays. This week, it emerged that someone – a Tory councillor, indeed – had been quoted £71,000 for a week in a three-bedroom mod...

Police are probing claims Celtic striker Leigh Griffiths sent inappropriate messages to a second teenage girl on social media.

ONCE, on a largely deserted outcrop on an isolated part of the Canary Islands, I was approached by a walker who was obviously lost.

From the award-winning podcasters behind CEREAL and Who Feeds Us? comes Landed – a personal exploration of land ownership and colonial legacy, told by a Scottish farmer’s son as he returns home to his family farm. Landed, by Farmerama Radio, is p...

Tributes have been paid to radio and television presenter Jonathan Coleman who has died with prostate cancer.

People across Scotland are being urged to 'choose local' to take advantage of wonderful local produce and build stronger futures for their communities.