Bring it on. Bring on the rich red leaves and the bright yellows of the birch. Bring on the ground covered in bright crimson toadstool. Bring on the berries lighting up the rowan. The leaves are only just starting to turn now, a reminder that autumn ...

ONE of Scotland's leading architects has thrown his hat into the ring to become chairman of the troubled Glasgow School of Art in a bid to seek reform, saying it had "lost respect" in a strong attack over the way it has been run over recent years.

CARBON neutral oil is the oxymoron of the moment. Oil that through some sleight of hand, some magic of credits and offsets, becomes emissions free! Last week, a certificate was issued in China for the first shipment in the country of full life cycle ...

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Gay history, identity, and tolerance is to become an integral part of the curriculum in Scottish schools and if that idea makes you angry or frustrated, if it makes you reach for phrases like “politically correct” or “woke”, if you think it w...

Like many of my generation, I spent my early years in a tenement that was new when Victoria was a girl. From our windows we had an uninterrupted vista of the gasworks and a chemical plant, often shrouded in an evil smelling yellow mist. When I was fo...

Don’t panic buy, said Boris Johnson. No question of the lights going out, said Kwasi Kwarteng. No ‘winter of discontent’ ahead, said Small Business Minister Paul Scully. And lo, the prospect of a grim winter with power, food and CO2 shortages w...

There must surely come a time when the Scottish Government stops using Covid-19 as its favoured bail-out option. In the early stages of the pandemic the Scottish people were happy to suspend scrutiny of the SNP’s management of wider issues as it so...

Appointment letters inviting children aged between 12 and 15 for a coronavirus vaccine will be dropping through letterboxes this week.

Police divers are searching the River Clyde as part of the security operation in the run up to the Cop26 climate change conference in Glasgow.

PARTS of Scotland have been issued a yellow weather warning for rain this morning.

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A WEEK beside the seaside in Brighton. The chance to get together again for the first time in an age, renew old acquaintances and make new ones. Sounds lovely on paper.

Name: Malcolm Simpson.

One of Scotland’s leading whisky brands has launched an initiative to help new recruits and existing staff perform their best as hybrid working becomes a permanent feature of its operations.

One of the qualities a real Government needs to have and which the Scottish “Government” lacks is courage

RISING energy prices could push inflation to eight per cent by Christmas, it was predicted on this week’s Go Radio Business Show with Hunter & Haughey.

A FALKIRK man says he is being "driven mad" trying to fix errors in his Covid vaccination record which have already cost him nearly £400 in cancelled travel plans.

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LONDON is opening up faster than Scotland – so is it time to invest there, a Scottish tourism business asked this week’s Go Radio Business Show with Hunter & Haughey.

CHOCOLATE is very scientific, says Lara Messer, co-founder of Glasgow-based craft chocolate maker Bare Bones Chocolate.

Edinburgh start-up Carbogenics has appointed a new chief executive as the circular economy specialist seeks to expand its presence in the farming, wastewater and food waste sectors.

OUR democratic, electoral and parliamentary processes, our standards of truth, decency and compassion, the UK’s place in the world and our future prosperity are being relentlessly undermined by a form of Conservatism which had been, until Brexit, s...

A YOUNG chef is flying the flag for Scotland in an elite cooking competition up against head chefs from some of the UK’s best restaurants.

IF JFK was in the White House now, his extra curricular activities would likely be public knowledge during his term in office and in today’s “Me Too” era, one wonders how it would play out. Now, more than 60 years on, one of his alleged mistres...

The move will see 100 new Aldi stores opened across the UK.

ANAS Sarwar is turning a blind eye to history when he uses the current ferry problems to attack the First Minister ("Sturgeon told ferries failure on her watch is an ‘international humiliation'", The Herald, September 24).

Scots affected by a blood disorder known as the 'Celtic Curse' are resorting to private treatment after a dedicated NHS unit was closed during the pandemic - and patients were not told.

Here are all the previous winners of Strictly Come Dancing and where they are now.

The Next summer sale is available to shop online and in stores around the country.

IT was always going to be a titanic task. As the final session of the 43rd Ryder Cup got underway at Whistling Straits, an embattled Team Europe faced the kind of fearsome reeling in job that Chief Brodie and his motley maritime crew embarked on when...

THE LABOUR party has no route to power in Westminster without winning back Scotland.

SCOTTISH runner Eilish McColgan ran the third fastest time ever for a British person as she stormed to victory in the 10km Great Manchester Run on Sunday.

ISLANDERS have called for the “urgent replacement” of what will be the oldest CalMac ferry in the fleet.

THE man police believe was behind the wheel of the car that crashed on the M8 killing three people has been released without charge.

A "hugely successful" island campsite has been put up for sale in what has been described as rare purchase opportunity this week.

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THE body representing two-thirds of the UK’s petrol stations has warned the majority are dry or running out because of panic-buying.

SIR Keir Starmer has  refused to back his deputy Angela Rayner after she called the Tories racist, homophobic “scum” at a meeting at the Labour party conference.

SO, Nicky, I say to the fiftysomething man currently sitting some 400 miles away, have you or the other members of the band had a midlife crisis yet?

SIR Keir Starmer has said it is wrong to say that only women have a cervix.

ONE of Scotland's biggest employers has breached the law by failing to pay the minimum wage to thousands of low paid workers across the UK, the Herald on Scotland can reveal.

MINISTERS have presided over a 'tsunami' of nearly 5000 job losses in aviation across Scotland after failing to provide direct pandemic support, while using over £1.2 billion of public money to support buses and trains and its own airports, the Hera...

THE CHAIRMAN of the Scottish National Investment Bank has warned that crucial private sector funding needed to get tidal power and green hydrogen industries up and running is being put off by a lack of proven technology – denting the SNP-Greens’ ...

UP TO 400 more elderly and sick Scots will die this winter due to fuel price increases, campaigners have warned.

Disinformation by hostile states and homegrown extremists threatens the fabric of society. It’s time to act, Stewart McDonald, the SNP’s Westminster defence spokesman, tells Writer at Large Neil Mackay

SCOTLAND'S model of teaching children about LGBT history could be exported around the world.

Turkeys really were voting for an early Christmas last week. That’s because of reports that around 50 per cent of them might be saved because of a shortage of CO2 gas used to humanely kill Yuletide turkeys and then process their meat. What mordant ...

MICHAEL Smith has been at Hearts long enough to understand that the club’s fans not only expect success, but also style.