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NICOLA Sturgeon must have the biggest smile on her face as she lands the Scottish Green Party hook, line and sinker, simply to try and force through an unwelcome and enormously destructive second independence referendum.

It’s been a summer of doom. A swathe of unprecedented events combined with the latest IPCC report, a “code red” for humanity”, could, if you just stick to reading some of the headlines, lead you to believe that it’s all over already.

New visa schemes are urgently needed to stem a growing crisis across numerous sectors where the re-opening of the economy from Covid restrictions has laid bare the extent of labour shortages caused by Brexit.

A "NEW model for high street banking" to boost access to cash is set to be rolled out to other communities hit by bank closures around Scotland.

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Colleges are open to trialling a four-day week for support staff in a move that could provide a radical new template to workplaces across Scotland.

For months on end, we were used to the coronavirus statistics. Number of infections. Number of hospital admissions. Number of deaths. Up. Up. Up. But now, as we start to move out of the pandemic, we’re getting statistics of a different kind. Number...

From the Office of the Joint Steering Group

Scotland will soon have a new government, with two Green ministers for the first time in British history.

Rangers have launched an investigation after a social media video showed fans allegedly chanting a racist song about Celtic’s Japanese forward Kyogo Furuhashi.

A selection of holiday snaps discovered on eBay showing the Charles Rennie Mackintosh-designed Hill House in the 1970s has given conservation experts new insight into its history.

Sir Billy Connolly will be honoured with a lifetime achievement award, while screenwriter Jack Thorne will deliver the MacTaggart lecture as the Edinburgh TV festival gets under way on Monday.

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ONE week on from the fall of Kabul and the political reaction remains split between anger and despair. Despair at the images of terrified crowds at Hamid Karzai International Airport, and anger at America’s shambolic dash for the exit.

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IT was the end of a busy shift and shopkeeper Mohammed Rajak was pulling down the shutters to his Glasgow store as he did most nights.

Legal firm Shepherd and Wedderburn increased its revenues by 4.1 per cent to £59.3 million during the year to April 30, with profits before partner distributions 13% higher at £25.3m.

HUNDREDS of families have spent three years or more living in temporary accommodation, figures show.

BEREAVEMENT support services available to families in critical care are "informal, sporadic and rudimentary" despite the units accounting for a similar proportion of deaths in Scotland each year as hospices.

The SFA should be keeping a keen eye on Conor Gallagher

BECOMING a two-time Paralympian was never the life Derek Rae envisaged for himself.

When – as is the case – about 40 per cent of the electorate in Scotland want to do something which is economically disastrous for the country I find I keep scratching my head wondering why.

THE behemoth of social media, Facebook has been accused of allowing right-wing content to thrive and spread. But the online giant has now released data on what it says is actually its most read posts - and politics barely gets a look in.

WATCHING the Women's Open golf from Carnoustie, Jim Morrison noticed that one of the players was on the score sheet as Y. Noh.

Shepherd and Wedderburn is the largest Scottish-headquartered UK law firm, with offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, London and Dublin. Its lawyers, many of whom are independently recognised as leaders in their fields, deliver comprehensive multi...

FOR Rachel Brown, it has eliminated the paralysing fear she will collapse for a third time and stop breathing, when no-one is around to help.

They say you should never go back, but the 29-year-old appears to be on a one-man mission to make a mockery of that pearl of wisdom. 

PETER PAWLETT netted the winner and was sent off as Dundee United took all three points in Sunday’s Tayside derby against St Johnstone.

FAMOUS Glasgow pub The Arlington has been bought by the financier who helped broker the deal that saved Celtic in the 1990s.

As Warren Buffet says communication skills can improve your value by 50%, Liz Connor hears tips for feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

BBC journalist Clive Myrie reveals the pressure he felt taking on the role and his experience of being in the public eye and receiving racist abuse.

It was in 1929, while living on canal boat in Paris, that journalist and short story writer Georges Simenon had the Eureka! moment which would help put him into the pantheon of crime fiction greats. It was a sunny morning, and the 26-year-old Belgian...

SCOTLAND'S Education Secretary is self-isolating after testing positive for coronavirus.

ALL the High Street is a stage, and all the street artists its players. The cobbled stretch from Parliament Square down to the Tron Kirk tells a story of Edinburgh and Scotland’s past through its buildings, but it is more than that – it’s a gra...

TWO MEN have been arrested and charged in connection with an alleged "disturbance" in Glasgow.

Beware nationalists bearing gifts. The Scottish Greens may live to regret their involvement with the SNP, the most ruthlessly centralist party in British politics. The SNP is a hydrocarbon party and Nicola Sturgeon gives nothing, but nothing away. Pa...

THE SNP leadership's "grudge and grievance" tactics fuel anti-Englishness in Scotland and undermine the independence cause, a former deputy leader of the party has said.

MINISTERS have lost over £60m in public money through trying to salvage the shipyard company at the centre of Scotland's ferry-building fiasco, the Herald on Sunday can reveal.

Self-isolation forced tens of thousands of pupils to stay away from classrooms for at least two weeks over the last school year, sparking fresh fears that Scotland’s poverty-related attainment gap could grow.

IT was on target to smash records when the pandemic struck, but now Glasgow’s world class entertainment venue is looking to the future when it will host more performances the ever before in one single year.

SCOTS could be facing a winter of discontent as council staff and rail workers threaten to strike.

“If you ever feel useless, just remember the USA took 4 presidents, thousands of lives, a trillion dollars and 20 years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban”. One of the jokes reported by the Arab news channel, Al Jazeera last week. To say tha...

Former pupils at elite private schools are stepping forward in what they describe as their ‘MeToo’ moment and revealing the brutality they suffered as child boarders. They want a complete overhaul of the boarding school system so what happened to...

JACK Ross was left with “mixed emotions” following Hibernian’s 2-2 with Dundee at the Kilmac Stadium. A penalty from Martin Boyle and a volley from Ryan Porteous gave Hibs the lead after Jason Cummings had opened the scoring against his former ...

AFTER an opening day defeat it would’ve been easy for Celtic to stagger back to finding their form. But they’ve achieved quite the opposite after recording their second consecutive 6-0 league win as they brushed aside ten-man St Mirren.

IN a day to forget for Jak Alnwick there was one unlikely memorable moment. The St Mirren keeper was gutted as he walked off 4-0 down at the break but was uplifted by a classy message from Joe Hart.

GLASGOW City are just two games away from a place in the new lucrative 16-team group stage of the Champions League. They beat Kazakhstan side BIIK Shymkent 1-0 on Saturday night to win a place in yesterday's second round draw, which in turn paired th...

CAMPAIGNERS have raised fears over a “democratic deficit” after new statistics revealed that on dozens of occasions SNP ministers have determined controversial windfarm applications after local councils failed to do so within the permitted timesc...