By Scott Wright

IS it a good time to buy and sell hospitality properties?

Can women, particularly women wearing lipstick, garden? Some people seem to be struggling

MINISTERS have been accused of undermining the resilience of Scotland's lifeline ferry network by "repurposing" a multi-million-pound fund for building a stock of spare parts brought in three years ago.

NICOLA Sturgeon has been urged to carry out a new state aid bailout to save the historic McVitie's factory in Glasgow after its Turkey-owned and UK-based owners said it planned to go ahead with closure and the loss of 472 jobs.

THE new owner of the Standard Life brand has hammered home its belief in the value of the name it bought from the Scottish financial services giant now known as abrdn.

By Kristy Dorsey

CITIES across Scotland with typically higher wages have had a slower recovery from the pandemic, a new report has revealed.

REVISED plans to build the first concert hall in Edinburgh for more than a century have been drawn up after a legal row with the company behind a new shopping centre forced the height of the building to be scaled back by seven metres.

A 42-year-old man has sadly died and two were taken to hospital following a three car crash on the M74 on Wednesday.

By Ian McConnell

A Scottish health board has been forced to cancel all scheduled routine operations until at least the end of next week due to coronavirus pressures.

A minute’s silence is to be held for the victims of the Stonehaven rail crash one year on from the disaster.

The Olympics have reached the finish line and I have to say I got quite emotional watching those brilliant young athletes on the podium.

A HOTELIER whose bid to create a luxury hotel in the former Royal High School building in the Scottish capital was rejected has challenged a rival to "deliver what it has promised".

The company has developed a natural fibre insulation system called “IndiBreathe” using UK-grown hemp. This can be deployed in new and retrofit building projects.

COVID cases in Scotland were already rising in the week leading up to the new Beyond Zero freedoms, new figures have revealed.

“What’s fascinated me is how much has to be in place when the birds arrive in Scotland from Africa each March,” says filmmaker John Wallace.

ENERGY giants have suffered a setback in their campaign to get the regulator to drop plans to cut the returns they can generate.

THE UK’s first vegan hotel is almost entirely booked up until Christmas after a rocky start which saw it shut just months after opening in the Scottish Highlands.

What does “protected” mean? In the case of the hen harrier, it means you can persecute the bird in any way you like. But worry not: you’ll never be punished. In the case of the badger, it means you can use the animal for sport if you want to. B...

ANGLERS are set to be banned from taking their catch home on 101 Scottish salmon rivers next year.

FARMING

IT’S gone unreported in Scotland but over in New York, Human Rights Watch has just called out our national police force for propping up the Sri Lankan government – a regime accused of extrajudicial executions, torture and arbitrary detention.

EARLIER this year, I was asked during an interview who the smartest person I know is. Because school and university are as distant a memory to me as the nightclubs all the cool kids flocked to in the wee hours of Monday morning, I didn’t start scro...

ON 14th August, it will be exactly 79 years since Winston Churchill met Joseph Stalin for the first time. The historic meeting took place in Moscow. Churchill was deeply suspicious of the Soviet leader, not least because back in April 1939, Britain a...

THE word crisis has become synonymous with the Scottish Government. It’s time they stepped up and did the right thing for the people of Scotland.

YOU may be surprised to hear this, but we are entering election mode again.

A fishy tale

CALLUM DAVIDSON admits it will be a special moment when St Johnstone take to the field in front of a packed out McDiarmid Park on Thursday.

A SCOTTISH health board has announced the cancellation of all upcoming routine operations due to the “significant pressure” it is facing from coronavirus.

GALATASARAY boss Fatih Terim is expecting a "rocking atmosphere" at McDiarmid Park when his team square off against St Johnstone in the Europa League.

ANGE POSTECOGLOU has revealed no formal bids have been submitted for Odsonne Edouard.

Tourists are being urged to remain cautious when travelling to the Highlands as health chiefs warned they expect Covid cases to rise in the coming weeks.

Did you know you can get a bottle of Lussa Gin absolutely free with a Herald subscription?

CAMPAIGNERS have won the right to pursue proceedings against ministers over their refusal to commission investigations into how former president Donald Trump financed the purchase of his Scottish golf courses.

THE LABOUR party has hit out at the Prime Minister for not yet replacing his security minister following the arrest of a man suspected of spying for Russia.

A PROPERTY in Aberdeen which traded as a hotel until falling into administration is to given a new lease of life as student accommodation.

Gone are the days when a salad was three lettuce leaves, 3 slices of tasteless tomatoes and 3 slices of cucumber, made infinitely more bearable with a generous dollop of that famous ‘variety’ of salad cream. These days we are all open to all sort...

NICOLA Sturgeon has been told to “get off the fence” and oppose controversial plans for a new oil field near Shetland.

HOPES of saving the historic McVitie's factory in Glasgow and 472 jobs have been dashed as the owners have said they plan to proceed with the closure.

I AGREE with the headline and much of the analysis in Mark Smith’s article, “Tories’ Union Jack blitz will not achieve much in Scotland” (August 9).

SCOTLAND’S largest local authority has called in the police after around £300,000 was found to have been paid to a “deceased pensioner” in a “significant potential fraud” spanning decades.

FORMER Rangers chief executive Charles Green says the £6m he has won from from the Lord Advocate in a settlement over his claim for being maliciously prosecuted in the collapsed club fraud case will not adequately compensate for the damage done.

MINISTERS' financial support for the Scots company which manages the UK's highest railway which shut three years ago due to structural problems - has trebled in a year.

Wildflowers, weeds and plants that pop up when you leave a patch to grow wild can be put to good use, Hannah Stephenson discovers.

By Scott Wright

THE astounding degree of turbulence in the UK Government’s policy-making on international travel conjures up the image of weary, bemused airline passengers scrabbling around nervously for the paper bag in the seat pocket in front of them.