The delay in a final decision on whether to offer coronavirus vaccines to all 12 to 15-year-olds is “frustrating”, an expert at a Scottish health board has said.

Mertoun House Gardens

ANDREW Neil is due to quit GB News, according to reports.

HUNGRY children queueing at a local soup kitchen to receive hot dinners on a school night has prompted a call for party leaders to attend the provision and “make a difference”.

We didn’t get off to the best of starts with the first of our latest World Cup qualifiers.

BE it a railway station, a shop, a museum or a hospital, some places would love to be “discovered” by TV. Think of all that free publicity. Somehow, I do not think the Ministry of Defence is going to feel the same way about Vigil (BBC1, Sunday-Mo...

DO you know the history of your house? Would you want to? All those thoughts about who traipsed those floors before you, where that crack in the ceiling came from, and why after all these years there is still a funny smell in that cupboard … it cou...

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Fidelma Cook passed away in late June. We are running a selection of her columns as a tribute. This one is from January 2012. We hope you enjoy it.

THE plight of Scottish industry, from food to construction, is becoming more concerning by the week.

IN 2002 Zalmay Khalilzad flew into Kabul, the capital of his homeland, in the wake of the American invasion. “It was like a dead city,” he recalls. “No cars, hardly any bicycles, shops empty, destruction in each and every way. It was heart-brea...

THE UK is the only country amongst its close European neighbours to have a negative trade balance on exports since the Brexit vote, new data has revealed.

WHAT is it like interviewing Robert Florence and Iain Connell, the comedy writing double act who have brought us TV gems such as Legit, Burnistoun and the upcoming BBC Scotland mockumentary-style series The Scotts?

By Keith Brooks

By Ian McConnell

JAIME Hernandez is perhaps the best cartoonist in the world (let it be known that the “perhaps” in that statement is merely there as a balm for any other cartoonists reading this.

THREE-quarters of business leaders believe Brexit is damaging the UK economy, a poll has revealed.

IS the objective of the Scottish Government's vaccine passport plan infection control, or a last-ditch bid to boost uptake among the young.

CHARLES Berry is stepping down as chairman of Weir Group, paving the way for the first woman to occupy the post, writes Scott Wright.

As imagined by Brian Beacom

I BELIEVE that the First Minister is not prejudiced against the English, nor are the majority of SNP members ("White turns grey as Presiding Officer turns the screws over off-colour remark", The Herald, September 3).

EMPTY GP surgeries, vaccine distribution and schools reopening after summer were the topics raised by columnists in the newspapers.

HER voice quivers with rage and the crowd, gathered at her feet, is captivated by her passion and convincing environmental message of defiance.

DOMINIC Raab must step in and help Afghanistan tackle the coronavirus pandemic, an SNP MP has urged.

A church featured in Outlander that has links to Saint Columba and the battle of Culloden may soon be on the market.

DID you catch the chicken sounds which accompanied Douglas Ross as the Tory leader sought to challenge the First Minister? How did you feel: sympathetic, amused, both?

TEMPERATURES are supposedly nudging into the 20s in the days ahead, but it appears thoughts are already turning to…wait for it…you might not want to hear this…be prepared…Christmas!

IN the new politics of Scotland an infantile state of permanent empathy is valued above all else.

We speak with Jim Sillars about his life and turbulent times... From 'hammer of the Nats' to SNP heavyweight and – now – Sturgeon's toughest critic

THE disturbing scenes featuring Michael Gove in an Aberdeen nightclub have understandably given rise to fears that democracy has been put at risk once more as respect for our statesmen is further undermined.

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EARLIER this week, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde posted this tweet: “Our emergency departments remain extremely busy. Please do not attend unless it’s life-threatening.”

SOMETIMES, in moments of bleak reflection, I think I have spent half my life waiting for footballers to come to an interview. And the other half wishing they hadn’t. This is, of course, inaccurate and unfair.

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THERE is no doubt that the current Covid figures, running at more than 6,000 news cases a day for the past week, are extremely alarming. Three Scottish health boards feature in the five worst-hit regional authorities in all of Europe, according to Wo...

A LIFELINE ferry on one of Scotland's busiest routes was taken out of action on Friday for repair - causing fresh chaos on Scotland's network.

THE SNP has called for a “cast-iron guarantee” that the Scottish Government will receive proportionate funding if National Insurance is hiked to pay for social care reforms south of the border.

Strikes have moved "a step closer" after school support staff and refuse workers rejected a pay offer.

THE SCOTTISH Greens leadership have suggested they will drop their opposition to vaccine passports – hinting some of their previous arguments against the policy “have changed over time”.

CAMERON Carter-Vickers has revealed he contacted former Spurs team-mate Joe Hart ahead of his Celtic move.

I’VE always tended to see dying or being hospitalised because of someone else’s selfishness and stupidity as a pretty major infringement of human rights.

ALEX Salmond has claimed that the deal struck between the SNP and Greens at Holyrood is risking pro-independence supporters turning to unionist parties.

UNION leaders have labelled a business group “highly irresponsible” for demanding Nicola Sturgeon encourages workers back into offices across Scotland.

NICOLA Sturgeon has been warned her vaccine passport proposals could hand businesses “yet another layer of administrative burden” as traders have set out a host of key issues they want answers to.

A £55 million national centre school plan has been put forward for the old Royal High School in Edinburgh after a luxury hotel proposal was rejected.

AH, ABBA. The first band I remember loving. I was 10 when the Swedish foursome – Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny and Anni-Frid – won Eurovision in 1974 with Waterloo. On a school trip to Germany three years later I remember buying an album of their greates...

CHARLES Berry is stepping down as chairman of Weir Group.

By Scott Wright