A FORMER SNP cabinet minister has called on the party to reverse the appointment of a new complaints officer, after it was revealed the new hire accused their own party MP of “bullying” and “transphobia”.

ALEX Salmond has claimed Alba is the "fast growning political party" in Europe.

A FORMER executive with the shipyard company at the centre of Scotland's ferry building fiasco has warned that the newly nationalised firm is set to fail and warned of the "scandal" of shutting down innovation and business development and concentrati...

SCOTLAND's largest health board faces having a £73m damages claim kicked out over design flaws and defects that compromised safe healthcare at the £800m superhospital complex after being accused of a breach of contract.

Angela Taylor wasn’t sure whether she was doing the right thing. What about the cost? What about the time it would involve? Would she be able to get as far as she used to? But in the end, she went for it. She bought an electric car. In Scotland, th...

Rangers began their Premiership campaign at home to Livingston yesterday but the league flag – the first to arrive at Ibrox in ten tears – remains unfurled.

RARELY does any commentary about elite sport fail to mention pressure.

EMPLOYERS must start complying with the law and take the mental health of their staff seriously if the country is to stave off a “tsunami” of problems after the pandemic, a public sector trade union has said.

A key climate change commission placed a bomb under the environmental debate last week. The National Infrastructure Commission, which advises the UK government on progress (or not) to Net Zero, published a report saying it cannot be met by renewables...

THE SCOTTISH Government is calling for a review of the dangers of a munitions dump off the west coast.

With flowers that are the most comforting shade of blue, it is a rare beauty that, unfortunately, tastes as good as it looks.

Duncan Scott became the first British athlete to win four medals at a single Olympics as Team GB celebrated their best swimming haul at a Games.

JABS mean jobs, Boris Johnson has often boldly declared.

A Labour MSP has claimed Scots face a “postcode lottery” when applying for crisis grants.

Two weeks into my new treatment and a young mum whom I worked with a while ago started her breast cancer treatment on the same day.

Stories from across the world as viewed through the lens of our Foreign Editor David Pratt

Built in 142AD on the orders of Emperor Antoninus Pius, the Antonine Wall was a massive symbol of Roman might, intended to keep raiders at bay.

For weeks the world’s coldest city, Yakutsk in Siberia, has been at the centre of an inferno.

ACCELERATE Our Game is the name of the new five-year women's football strategy. Hopefully the correct pedal will be used for its implementation, as it was the brake which caused it to be delivered several months behind schedule.

I READ Iain Macwhirter’s article (“Good Friday Agreement will be the first casualty of NI trade war”, July 25) with great interest.

CALLUM DAVIDSON was disappointed to not take all three points as St Johnstone and Ross County shared the spoils in Dingwall yesterday.

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Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie have announced they are expecting their second child together.

Scottish heatwaves are few and far between but erratic weather patterns caused by climate change are making them much more likely. This summer’s hot spell has tested all our gardens: can we and our fellow garden residents keep cool? Do we need to m...

STYLE AND SUBSTANCE

Edinburgh Foodies Festival

As her debut romantic novel is published, the BBC weather presenter talks about her own romance and the sunny outlook of her career.

ABOUT two-thirds of my YouTube recommendations involve animals (the other third seems to be everybody’s moving to rural Sweden).

Johnny Green spends a long weekend sampling old and new delights in the popular seaside town.

NEW POETRY SIGNING:

LET’S begin with the small matter of recognition. Have you ever, I ask Domhnall Gleeson, used your fame to your own advantage?

AFTER landing a cup double and finishing fifth in the Scottish Premiership last term some might question where St Johnstone can go from here.

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SCOTLAND’S drug deaths crisis has been labelled “our national shame” after the total number of lives lost since the SNP came to power soared to more than 10,000.

Elections to the Scottish Parliament deliver results which are almost four times more reflective of voters’ choices than polls for Westminster, a pro-democracy think tank has said.

Like Antiques Roadshow, Fake or Fortune (BBC1, Wednesday), is obsessed with how much an object is worth in grubby old pounds and pence, but everyone involved is too polite to say so. Both shows are fronted by Fiona Bruce, a BBC1 presenter with a dust...

Parent power has helped win a reprieve for a Skye teacher facing the loss of her post as anger grows over temporary contracts and their impact on rural schools.

By Scott Wright

WITH vital culture and leisure services under threat in Scotland's largest city with Glasgow Life, the charity which runs them, losing £38million due to lockdown, the impact on the health and wellbeing of its citizens and the need for a change in ho...

Margaret Allan ties a small white card to a tree in Glasgow's Hidden Gardens with the words I remember missing my family so much.

The first of two open days as part of The Herald's covid memorial campaign has been held as a way to reach out to people.

HOW did you spend last Saturday night? Me, I was cleaning the shower. Don’t tell me I don’t know how to live.

A CRITICAL and anxious few days lie ahead for tourism businesses in the Scottish islands with social distancing restrictions on the beleaguered CalMac ferry service due to lift a week on Monday, all being well.

They have a world-wide appeal and before the pandemic, Glasgow's museums and collections drew more than four million visitors a year.

Fidelma Cook passed away last month. We are running a selection of her columns as a tribute. This one is from October 2010. We hope you enjoy it.

RISHI Sunak has rejected claims his government are trying to snatch power from Holyrood with UK-wide levelling up programmes.

This time last year when Hibernian sat down to vocalise their aims for the campaign ahead, the third place they set their sights on may, to some, have seemed ambitious. Twelve months on, Christian Doidge has confessed a repeat of that is the least th...

The athletics continues, with the blue riband event, the men’s 100m, seeing a new champion crowned following the retirement of three-time gold medallist, Usain Bolt.

A body has been recovered from a river in Moray in the search for a missing woman.

AN SNP MSP has spoken out about homophobic abuse after a troll blamed his sexuality for a devastating fire at a church.