Since the six tragic drownings in Scotland over the weekend, many of us have been thinking about how to make our waters safer, and what we can tell people to help keep them safe – not just in the kind of situations those who lost their lives found ...

Scots researchers have warned there are gaps in mental health support for frontline respiratory nurses as a survey found more than a fifth experienced anxiety and depression during the first wave of the Covid pandemic.

FOOTAGE online shows the devastating moment the roof of Glasgow's St Simon's Church in Partick collapses as the building is gutted by fire.

A CHURCH in the west end of Glasgow has been gutted by fire.

THE SNP has launched an attack on a flagship Treasury plan ahead of the Chancellor’s visit to Scotland.

By Kristy Dorsey

FOR some time now I have been saying that international rugby has been a game of 23-a-side and the British and Irish Lion’ deserved victory over South Africa at the weekend proved it. The starting XV in international tests rarely finishes a match, ...

A STRING of key sea ports, an industrial hub and Scotland’s busiest airport could be clustered together in plans being drawn up to become a post-Brexit green port.

The 24-year-old pulled out after one rotation of the women’s team final on Tuesday.

PROPERTY owners with short-term ‘airbnb-style’  lets are being offered a year’s rent for two-week stays during this year’s COP26 climate conference in Glasgow.

The Scottish economy is taking tentative steps towards recovery.

CLYDESDALE Bank owner Virgin Money has highlighted its confidence in the prospects for a strong recovery from the economic slump triggered by the pandemic as it said it had made progress in key markets.

I’M not sure when swimming outdoors became “wild swimming”. A decade ago, that referred to the exploits of hardy coastal athletes swimming around islands and across channels. Now it is one of the fastest-growing outdoor activities, led often by...

They are relics of Scotland’s industrial past and have lain disused underneath Scotland’s biggest city for decades.

A LIBERAL Democrat MSP has announced his bid to become the party's next leader in Scotland.

FROM the ancient wide-open fields of Callendar and Bellahouston Park, but soon within the billion-dollar futurism of Japan’s National Stadium on top, a familiar voice from the gods has been the soundtrack to Jake Wightman’s youth and adulthood al...

SCOTTISHPOWER has completed development work on a windfarm in the Highlands which it said was the first it had built without the benefit of a government revenue support scheme.

A couple of weeks ago two teenagers and their mother arrived in the Borders on holiday. Friends of a friend, they planned to spend their last two nights in a B&B in our village. Since we are somewhat off the beaten track we assumed – as you do – ...

My family occasionally remind me of a French holiday, much of which I spent in a telephone kiosk trying to pre-empt a CalMac strike on the Clyde which would have hit my Arran and Cumbrae constituents hard in mid-season.

ENERGY giant SSE is eyeing a move into the emerging Polish windfarm market as it looks to capitalise on booming investment in renewable energy around the world.

Quiet, isn’t it? Three months on from yet another election that was falsely billed as the most important in our lifetimes, politics has gone into a deep sleep and the issue which dominated that election campaign - indyref2 - is more or less comatos...

By Karen Peattie

By Karen Peattie

By Karen Peattie

There are no excuses for leaving anything behind on a beach, that you brought into it.

By David Scott

PRINCE Harry’s forthcoming ‘tell all’ book and his father-in-law’s decision to take legal action to see his grandchildren were discussed by columnists and contributors in the newspapers.

BORIS Johnson must be thanking his lucky stars that the successful vaccine roll-out by the NHS has masked the UK Government’s deplorable management of the coronavirus pandemic (lest we forget, the UK still has the highest Covid-19 death toll in Eur...

By Gordon Davidson

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The rape statistics for England and Wales are doing the rounds again. Every year we are informed that only between two and six per cent of rapes end in a conviction. Fingers are pointed at the police, the prosecution service and at the sexist juries,...

FLEXIBLE working should become the “new normal” after the experience during the coronavirus pandemic, Labour has said.

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I first tried a buttermilk chicken burger whilst on a trip to NYC many years ago and was instantly hooked. Buttermilk is great at tenderising the meat without drying it out, which other methods such as using lemon or vinegar can sometimes do. The res...

RANGERS have confirmed 23,000 fans will be granted admission to their Premiership opener against Livingston.

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Satellite communications specialist R3-IoT is is set to more than double its headcount after closing a £3.1 million seed investment round led by US-based Space Capital and the Scottish National Investment Bank.

THE renowned Lorne Hotel in the west end of Glasgow has been put up for sale as administrators take steps to liquidate its owning company.

ST MIRREN have completed a five year operation to become a fan-owned club.

TOURISTS are being urged to “act with caution” when visiting the Highlands, after The Herald revealed a 1000 per cent rise in cases in the past six weeks.

NICOLA Sturgeon has said there are "strong grounds for hope" that Scotland will be able to lift most Covid restrictions on August 9 as planned.

LIFELINE airline services are to be grounded after on Thursday as it was confirmed air traffic control staff are to go on strike as a dispute over cuts was not resolved.

Scotland's most infamous road which has become plagued with landslides is to be out of action for safety reasons for the first time this summer - because of a forecast of heavy rain.

THE Labour party has had its funding withdrawn from a trade union after a council employee was sacked.

MET OFFICE forecasters have upgraded their weather warning for large parts of Scotland, issuing an amber 'risk to life' alert as thunderstorms close in.

FREE bus travel for 930,000 people under the age of 22 will be rolled out in Scotland from January next year.

THE PRESIDENT of COP26 has warned that “fault lines remain on some critical issues” between nations ahead of crunch climate talks in Glasgow later this year.

AN SNP MP has lashed out at the Conservative party under Boris Johnson for its failure to change sick pay rules.

THE HOME office has “giant steps” to take to change its culture and risks failing the Windrush generation all over again, MPs have warned.