SNP activists have challenged the party’s leadership over a £52million plan for two freeports under Boris Johnson’s levelling up agenda.

FORMER Rangers chief Dave King has failed in an audacious bid to get back any of the £20m he claimed he was owed from the club as a result of an investment in the club.

LAWYERS and accountants handling the financial collapse of Rangers have come come under fire as it emerged they have pocketed nearly £25m in fees while creditors including thousands of fans are set to lose out to the tune of over £90m.

It was the first acquisition for the Burrell Collection in 10 years and is also the first sculpture by a woman in the collection.

IT IS Scotland’s only UNESCO City of Music and pre-covid Glasgow saw more than 100 gigs played every week boosting the city’s economy by £75million.

JOHN Menzies’ spurned Kuwaiti suitor has called for access to information and claimed the Scottish company is refusing to offer “meaningful engagement” to its approach.

A council leisure quango has announced an independent investigation into the sacking of its general manager after a tribunal branded the process biased and unreasonable.

Audio specialist Krotos, whose software has been used in a string of high-profile film and gaming titles, has secured a fresh seven-figure capital injection to further work on a significant new project.

WE are only around seven weeks into the new year, but already we are seeing a recurrence of a familiar theme in corporate Scotland.

LOVELY news last week in politics with the announcement of the coming patter of tiny feet.

WOLFCRAIG Distillery is set to be a new independent force in the Scotch whisky industry with a landmark, purpose-built home beside Craigforth at the foot of Stirling Castle.

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A SCOTS artist known for his designs featuring hippos has been given the honour of having part of a school named after him.

A Lanarkshire firm that has developed contact lenses which it reckons can help users avoid suffering irritations such as dryness of the eye has won £1.4 million backing from investors.

Early-stage investor Frontier IP has booked a seven-figure profit on the sale of stock in Exscientia, a spin-out firm from the University of Dundee that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help pharmaceutical companies speed up the way new medicines...

By Ian McConnell

WELL, that’s another of life’s annual little ceremonies over. I am, of course, talking about Valentine’s Day, that panic-stricken date on the calendar which leads to bumbling men like myself making blundering, half-baked romantic gestures that ...

By Ian McConnell

MOST patients want a hybrid system of GP telephone appointments and face-to-face consultations to continue after Covid, according a survey by a Glasgow practice.

THE recent retirement of his good friend and former foe, Kash Farooq, served as a valuable reminder to Scott Allan that, as in life, nothing in sport is ever guaranteed.

How will a Scottish university strike affect me?

AN acquisitive Glasgow-based dental group has won multi-million pound backing for expansion amid keen investor interest in the sector.

THERE’S a sort of horrible amusement to be had in watching the SNP harrumphing over Boris Johnson’s Scottish trip, given that Nicola Sturgeon’s party has all but completed its Tartan Tory metamorphosis.

SOME balance would be welcome in the current UK coverage of the Ukraine situation ("Ukraine slates Defence Secretary over ‘appeasement’ comparison", The Herald, February 14). You would think that massive, threatening military exercises were somet...

By Professor Jaime Toney

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THE co-leader of the Greens, Lorna Slater, told this newspaper on Saturday that the SNP/Green government intended to produce a new independence prospectus in advance of another referendum next year.

NEVILLE Chamberlain is usually regarded as a figure who was proven spectacularly wrong, though there currently seems to be, in a film adaptation of Robert Harris’s book Munich, in which Jeremy Irons portrays him, some attempt at rehabilitation. As ...

A man who claims to have been sexually abused by monks has been awarded almost £1.4 million in damages – said to be a record sum for a victim.

It serves as a reminder that Govan shipbuilding workers were among those who died when a First World War submarine sank during sea trials in the Gareloch.

Kate Winslet who portrayed Rose in the epic romance/disaster movie has been replaced by 'Cat Winslet' in a bizarre twist on the 1997 hit.

BOTH Celtic and Rangers will travel to Tayside for their fixtures in the Scottish Cup quarter-finals.

ANAS Sarwar has failed to back Keir Starmer’s position on the EU after the Labour leader ruled out attempting to bring the UK back in to the bloc.

THE CONTROVERSIAL immigration plans being drawn up by the UK Government could cost nearly £3bn a year, according to a new analysis.

Higher education (HE) bosses have been told they are "underestimating" staff anger amid competing claims about the size and impact of national strike action.

ROYAL Bank of Scotland owner NatWest Group is to swing the axe on 32 branches, citing the shift to mobile and digital banking.

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In the garden patio of The Ludlow Hotel in New York there’s a brick wall with a faded imprint that reads King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut. It marks a piece of Lower East Side Manhattan history, a club known for experimental music and its ever-changing déc...

ABERDEEN caretaker manager Barry Robson will aim to pick the players up ahead of Tuesday’s visit of St Johnstone following the sacking of Stephen Glass.

LIZ Truss is to convene an emergency COBRA meeting as fears grow over the situation in Ukraine.

BORIS Johnson has insisted he is “working very hard” with his Scottish Tory colleagues, despite their leader saying he is unfit to be Prime Minister.

FOSSIL fuels leaders have been accused of a “PR stunt” as an attempt to “avoid the real changes needed” to Scotland’s energy mix after any mention of oil and gas was removed from the name of the industry body.

TWO “disruptive” passengers on a flight from Glasgow to London were escorted off the plane by police after a row over face coverings.

A DOCTOR has revealed plans to open a new seafood restaurant and takeaway in the Glasgow suburb of Bearsden.

KEIR Starmer has vowed not to rejoin the EU despite warnings that it could be damaging to Scottish Labour.

THE Herald last week launched a far-reaching new series called Scotland’s Future – and now it’s your chance to get involved.

A Scottish brewer has made the permanent move to a four-day week across its brewery, bar and office operations in what it says is a first for the commercial industry in the UK.

By Ian McConnell