A Scots care home owner has been banned from being a company director for six years after it went into liquidation with no explanation for hundreds of thousands of pounds leaving company accounts.

Colin Tully

After the season that both Rangers and St Johnstone had last term, it was a privilege last week to see the Scottish Premiership duo reunited with a small number of their supporters.

THE SNP and Greens have been urged to make a massive increase in solar power a key part of joint government talks, to complement Scotland’s wind power revolution.

THE SNP will today try to kill off what it calls the Tory Government’s “hateful anti-refugee Bill” as it returns to the Commons for its next parliamentary hurdle.

SCOTLAND'S beleaguered ferry network has suffered another vessel breakdown causing further chaos to travellers as the Glasgow Fair begins.

SCOTS consumers back plans for net zero emissions by 2045, but are ‘in the dark’ over the challenges it will pose in their own lives despite high profile campaigns, new research has found.

Ministers have been asked to "come clean" as fears grow over the collapse of the nationalised firm at the centre of the Scots ferry-building fiasco.

By Kristy Dorsey

A REVIEW of how Glasgow museums function as a driver of social culture and economic value could help sustain their future amid a funding crisis with feared closures.

Linda McCartney died of breast cancer in 1998, but her presence in the world of food, supermarkets and animal welfare, is still ongoing and colossal.

THE tides of pro-independence optimism, cajoled expertly by the SNP party machine follow a familiar pattern. A fresh opinion poll indicates a recent increase in support for Yes; then some leadership loyalists say the tide is turning and, in the days ...

Thirteen years on from a landmark report that recommended Scotland should embrace the Finnish system of community justice – an Audit Scotland report suggests we’re roughly back where we started.

The NHS Louisa Jordan, established to help ensure NHS Scotland had extra capacity to treat patients during the Covid-19 pandemic has now closed to all patients.

Both Celtic and Rangers will be seeded when they enter today's Champions League draw for third round qualifying.

The Glasgow Central - Ayr line has closed indefinitely following a fire at Troon station over the weekend.

By Ian McConnell

It has been dubbed as 'Freedom Day' by many in the press, with today seeing a host of Covid rules in England scrapped.

Analysis By s1jobs  

I was speaking to some of our recruiters last week and considering what will happen as organisations switch from hiring freezes to acute growth modes. We are seeing a definitive shift back towards a candidate-driven market where they will face a weal...

With burnout among IT professionals on the rise, workplace mental health campaign This Is Me Scotland is preparing to launch a podcast series speaking to the bosses of technology start-ups about the tactics they use to cope with pressure and stress.

A PRACTICE racquet used by Andy Murray just weeks before he won the US Open. Football jerseys signed by Pele and Maradona. A programme from the England's victorious 1966 World Cup final.

KIRSTY GILMOUR has had enough of hearing about bubbles. And understandably so. It has become one of the most overused phrases of the past 16 months alongside self-isolate, close contact and “you’re still on mute”.

The wait goes on. And, no, we’re not talking about the golf writers hanging around for the media centre shuttle bus. England hasn’t toasted an English winner of The Open on English soil since Tony Jacklin won at Royal Lytham back in 1969.

Name: Lynn Laughland.

By Paul Sheerin

The Australian government on Monday ordered Katie Hopkins to be deported after what a senior minister called her “shameful” boast about flouting quarantine rules while in the country to appear on Big Brother VIP.

By Kristy Dorsey

YOU may have noticed that it’s all gone a bit quiet. The leading party for Scottish independence hasn’t been talking about Scottish independence. There have been no dramatic SNP launches, or relaunches, or announcements. In fact, if you were pron...

CHARITY bosses are urging the UK Government to release internal analysis on the impact of scrapping the £20 Universal Credit uplift.

SCOTS consumers back plans for net-zero emissions by 2045 but are “in the dark” over taking action in their own lives despite high-profile campaigns, new research has found.

Everything you need to know about changes to hospitality, weddings and everything else in level 0...

SHE is more than 60-years-old but certainly doesn't look it. With sales peaking and a new movie in the works, Barbie is booming.

Return to sender

J PATRICK Maclean's letter (July 16) on the Mull ferry situation was in my opinion, yet another example of a very sound argument that will be ignored by our present Government in Holyrood and CMAL. To me this is a very worrying example of the failure...

What about that then? Collin Morikawa hasn’t just announced himself on to the major championship scene over the last year. He’s just about bawled himself hoarse.

Police have set up a specific website for the public to submit information in relation to the murder of a man in Fife.

An actor in the new Indiana Jones film being shot in Glasgow took a spill while performing a chase scene.

SOCIAL media is now “a place of hate”,  Arlene Foster has said, as she revealed trolls had issued death threats against her and her children.

RANGERS continued their preparations for the new season with a battling performance against Arsenal at Ibrox on Saturday.

SKY SPORTS has come under fire for its broadcast coverage of Scots golfer Robert McIntyre who has made a herculean comeback to be in the running to win The Open today.

BORIS Johnson has claimed he only “briefly” considered skipping out of quarantining over a Covid contact after being forced into a U-turn by a political backlash.

Scotland is expected to bask in a heatwave this week after temperature records were set on Saturday.

ENERGY giants ScottishPower and Royal Dutch Shell have teamed up to enter the bidding for windfarm licences off Scotland in a landmark licensing round that has generated huge interest, it is revealed this week.

Nicola Sturgeon has said talk of “Freedom Day”  — as it has been dubbed in England —  was “not sensible” given the high daily numbers of new coronavirus infections.

Nicholas Royle’s passion for collecting white-spined Picador titles from the 1970s-1990s led him on a tour of UK book and charity shops. White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector describes his adventures. In this extract, he rummages through so...

Sunday's opinion page pieces puts the SNP's record under the microscope as new figures show more than 140,000 Scots have not had their second Covid jab within the recommended eight-week window    Here is The Herald’s pick of those editorials.

According to Scottish Government statistics, 1,735 new infections have been recorded since Saturday

COMEDIAN Tom O’Connor has died in hospital, aged 81.

Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London and a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has warned that infections will “almost certainly” reach 100,000 daily cases, with the potential for double that figure.