OUR interactive page goes all wobbly, folks, and takes us back in time to 16 November 1967. Winnie Ewing, having sensationally taken a Labour seat for the SNP in a by-election, arrives in a Hillman Imp (Scottish-built) at Westminster, to be greeted b...

A new multiple sclerosis medical trial could pave the way for ground-breaking stem cell treatment in Scottish clinics.

CALLS have been for a public inquiry into the state of Scotland's beleaguered lifeline ferry services as new figures show the cost of bringing in short-term charters to support the ageing fleet has risen over forty-fold in ten years.

RADICAL plans have emerged for a 'one network' public transport system for western Scotland with smart card payments and integrated ferries, buses, trains and subway.

WOULD it even be the Olympic Games if it wasn’t mired in a doping scandal? Modern-day sport has ensured we don’t know the answer to that question.

One of the lighter moments for me in March 2020 came when my then six year old daughter darted around the aisles of our local corner shop, in a fruitless attempt to maintain a two-metre distance from another shopper.

PLASTIC bottles collected in Scotland’s ambitious deposit return scheme are likely to “be exported for reprocessing” in the north of England – raising fears the SNP-Greens Government will fail to take advantage of the economic and jobs benefi...

Questions have been raised about whether the relationship between Judy Murray and Nicola Sturgeon influenced a controversial decision by the Scottish Government.

VAL McDermid is telling me a story about a tiny bone in the ear. "It is so small that for a long time anatomists didn't even count it," the crime writer explains.

WITH two big-name TV series coined by Val McDermid – Traces and Karen Pirie – soon to air, here are five other Scottish authors whose thrillers and crime novels are set to make the leap from book to screen.

A 15-year-old girl is in hospital with serious injuries after being hit by a car in South Lanarkshire.

Curls carefully tucked into their bonnets, their bras, corsets and belts checked for metal and pockets scanned for matches, a brave generation of unsung heroes marched to the frontline.

REMEMBER Friends Reunited? That was quaint for a while. And so was Facebook. But now the latter social media platform – recently relaunched as Meta – is rarely a fun place to be, no matter how much you try to reconcile with its few remaining rede...

WAITROSE has been accused of “greenwashing” its continued sales of scallops dredged off Scotland.

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

The wind howled and rain lashed down, leaving devastating scenes of lush woodlands ripped apart by furious storms like a hot knife through butter.

It is nearly a decade since a fictional American local government worker accidentally sent a spicy tweet from her work social media account.

TIME is running out. Following the Taliban’s return, nearly nine million people in Afghanistan, including 1m children, are at risk of starvation. Nine out of 10 people are now said to be existing below the poverty line.

With the Russian military deploying by land, sea, and air, in numbers not seen since the height of the Cold War, there is a growing sense that the Ukraine crisis is fast approaching tipping point. But as Foreign Editor David Pratt reports, the signs ...

Franz Ferdinand have spoken out about the row between Neil Young and Spotify. In an interview with The Herald Magazine the band called for musicians to band together to take on the might of the streaming giant.

Has controversial comedian Jimmy Carr ended his own career?

AS a campaign to exonerate all those tried and convicted of witchcraft in Scotland gathers momentum, a new piece of evidence regarding historical witch hunts has come to light.

I’M writing as someone who was born the year the Queen ascended the throne. I have no reason to quarrel with the Queen, who has been a steady pair of hands at the helm. But her promotion of Camilla, first to the Order of the Garter and more recentl...

Stuart Hogg: A couple of uncharacteristic errors summed up an afternoon in which the Scotland captain and his team were unable to play their best rugby. 7

Liam Williams: The full-back made an important early turnover as Scotland threatened, and went on to have an outstanding game in which his composure inspired his team-mates. 8

A MAN pretending to be a police officer has forced his way into a home while his accomplice made off with a “significant amount” of money.

IT doesn’t get any easier over time. Scotland’s losing streak in Cardiff will now stretch into a third decade and there is little comfort to be drawn from this being the narrowest of the 10 losses endured at the Principality Stadium – previousl...

Sexual Revolution: Modern Fascism And The Feminist Fightback

The Scottish Government has recorded more than 5600 new coronavirus cases and 16 further deaths have been reported overnight.

A Scottish man who is living in Ukraine has said he fears “chaos” as he tries to get his family out of the country quickly.

CELTIC will meet Raith Rovers in the Scottish Cup this weekend.

ALEX Kapranos is trying to explain to me what fame feels like. He has chosen to do so through an analogy that involves a popular children’s confectionary brand.

Boris Johnson is scheduled to come to Scotland next week - but it not set to meet Douglas Ross during his visit.

A hospital patient in Bedfordshire has died from a confirmed case of Lassa fever – the third case to be identified in the UK in the last few days.

One patient in the UK has died from a confirmed case of the Ebola-like virus Lassa fever. Three cases have been recorded in recent days, sparking fears of a new outbreak.

Scotland has the opportunity to achieve “significant” reform of education but lacks vital information about how its teaching and learning system is progressing, according to Glasgow’s new schools boss.

Boris Johnson has received a legal questionnaire from police investigating allegations of lockdown-breaching parties in Downing Street.

NICOLA Sturgeon is hopelessly “ill-prepared” for an independence referendum and shouldn’t even try to have one next year, a former deputy leader of the SNP has said.

CALMAC has said unforeseen ferry faults have been partly to blame for disruption to lifeline services which has resulted in islanders raising concerns about empty food shelves.

The coffins, we now know, filled the church next to the main cemetery in Bergamo.

THE SNP and the Scottish Greens will draw up and publish a joint government prospectus on independence which will be put to voters under plans to hold a new referendum next year, The Herald can reveal.

SCOTLAND should lead the world by transitioning away from oil and gas now despite fears that energy bills will continue to soar by relying on imported gas, according to Scottish Greens' co leader Lorna Slater.

SENIOR figures in the SNP are discussing whether to include a commitment to hold a EU referendum in its second independence referendum prospectus.

Some quotations can be tricky to source. John Maynard Keynes is frequently cited as saying: “When the facts change, I change my mind, what do you do?”

THE whirring of the washing machine in the background tells the story of an athlete back out on the circuit and Guy Learmonth couldn’t be happier.

Omega Diagnostics has sold the Clackmannanshire facility that has been its headquarters for the past 19 years as the company prepares to vacate Scotland and distance itself from what has been a volatile foray into manufacturing Covid testing kits.

IT’S quite an accolade to be compared to Torvill and Dean.

SMALLER businesses have borne the brunt of the Brexit fiasco that was found officially this week to have done no more than increase costs and create problems where they did not exist before.

There have been so many outstanding dramas on terrestrial television of late that I cannot be alone in wondering if it is still worth paying for a streaming service. To paraphrase a certain blue-eyed actor, when the likes of The Responder and Anne ar...

Investors have been venting their spleen at Omega Diagnostics, with the level of vitriol unleashed against some representatives of the company such that there are suggestions the police may need to be involved.