WITH 1,314 drug deaths last year, drug overdoses killed twice as many under-65s in Scotland as Covid did.

Pro-independence supporters are expected to gather for a march in Glasgow this afternoon.

A couple have been arrested and charged after an alleged domestic incident at a home in Kilwinning.

It dwarfed the Eifel Tower and St Paul’s Cathedral, was made from more steel than the Forth Bridge and emerged from a manmade hole in the ground six times wider than the Panama Canal.

A ROW has erupted over Scottish Government transparency as it emerged the Ferguson Marine ferry fiasco fixer was actually paid £252,701 more than was divulged.

Surrounded by forests, lochs and beautiful Trossachs scenery, the villagers of Aberfoyle knew they had plenty to offer visitors – the trouble was encouraging them to come.

SCOTLAND’S largest local authority is being urged to scrutinise future compromise agreements for senior officials after The Herald revealed one of its most high-ranking directors walked off with a pay deal close to six figures and into a consultanc...

By Scott Wright

SNP ministers have been accused of marking the first 100 days after securing victory in the Holyrood election with “delays, broken promises, and a gulf between their spin and their action” – with alarm bells raised over a failure to draw up a r...

THE direction in which the Scottish ferry fiasco appears to be heading has a significant bearing on business.

The first British troops have begun deploying to Afghanistan to assist in the evacuation of the remaining UK nationals from the country.

By Stuart Paterson

By Kristy Dorsey

"Proud to have enabled the business to continue trading as an independent entity for years to come, the new owner hopes to build on the great work

Brexit and the pandemic have been blamed for a shortage of vets that is leading to Scottish surgeries having to shut their doors.

For the last 13 years the photographer Jamie Hawkesworth has been wandering around the UK with his Leica camera, travelling from remote islands to city centres and taking photographs of what he has found.

They are known as flying barn doors because of their massive 8ft wingspan and were hunted to extinction more than 100 years ago before being successfully re-introduced.

IT was an interesting week for our five Scottish clubs in Europe. There weren’t the best of results or performances all round but at least we have three teams still involved in European tournaments for now.

IN a week when physical distancing requirements ended and venues from pubs and restaurants to cinemas, trains and nightclubs were allowed to return to full capacity for the first time in 17 months, there was one crucial corner of society conspicuousl...

An investigation has been launched into Plymouth gunman Jake Davison’s possession of a shotgun and a firearms licence, which were returned to him in July after being removed at the end of last year.

ALL the mediocrity and fake virtue on which Scottish politics proceeds was on full public parade this week. Rarely has so much chicanery and unctuousness been exposed over such a short period.

In 1955, the Quebec Liberal Party (QLP), which by then had been around for almost a century, formally separated from the Liberal Party of Canada. Five years later, in 1960, it won the elections to the National Assembly – the devolved parliament of ...

The £1.75 billion Murray International Trust has warned of “extremely erratic” economic growth across different regions in the coming months as the global economy rebounds from the coronavirus pandemic, writes Kristy Dorsey.

The Glenburn Hotel on the Isle of Bute has gone into administration with the loss of all jobs after falling victim to the Covid-19 pandemic.

People were tearful as they gathered at a vigil following the fatal shootings in Plymouth.

A royal megafan has collected a piece of the Prince and Princess of Wales’s wedding cake after paying £1,850 for the confection.

AS TV detectives go, Columbo lives long in the memory. More than 50 years after his debut, a new book celebrates the landmark American TV series that continues to air to audiences around the world.

Sallying forth

As imagined by Brian Beacom

Almost daily reports of failures in Scotland’s ferry services are the predictable, indeed inevitable, outcome of years of government mishandling of an area that not only provides a crucial lifeline for islanders and coastal communities, but has imp...

THREE scenes from planet football. In the early days of the century, one English football club owner leaned into another in a toilet where they had taken a comfort break from negotiating the broadcast deal with Sky TV. “Let’s wrap this up,’ he ...

The Big Counter

There is a reason why pseudo-animal foods are so often seen nestling amongst the yellow-sticker reductions on supermarket shelves. Food manufacturers' crude and unconvincing attempts to turn ultra-processed protein powders and chemical additives into...

A MAN has been arrested in connection with the death of another man in Glasgow.

TC BioPharm has received the fifth ranking for female-powered companies in the United Kingdom in a report by JP Morgan Private Bank.

The Glenburn Hotel on the Isle of Bute, which was originally built as Scotland's first "hydropathic" hotel, has gone into administration having fallen victim to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Prime Minister is holding an emergency meeting with senior government figures amid the growing tensions in Afghanistan.

NICOLA Sturgeon has been accused of being “motivated primarily by the constitution, not the climate” in her attempt to intervene in the Cambo oil field row.

Thousands of Orangemen and women will take to Glasgow’s streets next month in the biggest day of parades since coronavirus restrictions were eased.

MARGARET Ferrier MP may be struggling to find staff to work for her after she posted four job adverts in two months.

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Derry Girls star Siobhan McSweeney is climbing aboard an electric bike to explore the rural landscape of Northern Ireland in a new four-part series.

PERHAPS Richard Allison (letters, August 12) can enlighten me as to when Scotland had the world’s leading education system, as it certainly wasn’t in either of our lifetimes.

MOTORHOMES, campervans and caravans have been banned from standby queues for CalMac sailings around Scotland.

NEARLY two in three Scots fear the government will not prioritise the environment and feel left in the dark about new trade deals, new research has revaled.

The Scottish Government-owned shipyard company at the centre of a Scots ferry building fiasco has defended the £2,783-a-day pay of its turnaround director.

IT has been another dramatic week in post-Brexit Britain, with the possibility of the Army being required to step in to deliver food amid an alarming shortage of heavy goods vehicle drivers having made headlines.

THINGS I don’t miss: making packed lunches. The endless chore of being an equity analyst for my stomach, predicting what it might want in the unknown ups and downs of the future.

NORTH Sea minnow Deltic Energy has seen its shares surge ten per cent after one of the Scottish oil and gas industry’s biggest names bought into its acreage.

THE parents of a 16-year-old girl given wrongly given a Covid vaccine which is still only authorised in the UK for use in adults say they have been “fobbed off” by the health board.