THE boss of Edinburgh fund management giant abrdn has declared it will not invest in Russia and Belarus for the “foreseeable future” as the west continues to squeeze the Russian economy amid its continuing assault on Ukraine.

Putin is alleged to have used thermobaric bombs, banned by the Geneva Convention and thought to be the most powerful non-nuclear weapons ever developed.

“We will not surrender in Ukraine and we hope the world will not surrender in building a climate-resilient future”, said the environmental scientist, Svitlana Krakovska, at the end of an IPCC meeting last week.

THINGS have been getting fairly heated in the world of golf lately. So heated, in fact, you could probably brown a piece of bread on a toasting fork simply by holding it close to Greg Norman’s strongly worded letter to the PGA Tour.

A COALITION of business leaders have criticised the UK Government for “profiting from environmental measures” by refusing to cancel VAT on bottles collected in Scotland’s deposit return scheme – set to cost the industry around £16m in the fi...

THE Scottish National Investment Bank has been no stranger to criticism in its short life.

SHELL last night followed BP in deciding to pull out of Russia amid the war in Ukraine and said it deplored the loss of life that has followed the invasion of the country.

Investment in smaller Scottish businesses rebounded sharply in 2021 relative to the first year of the pandemic in 2020, with demand for finance “robust”.

LEGAL firm Anderson Strathern has hailed a hike in turnover and profit as it appointed former Deloitte partner Mike McGregor to its board.

Citizens Advice Scotland is calling for a raft of measures to crackdown on bad bosses amid claims workers suffered more than usual during the pandemic.

“Martin and I are very keen to see a strong presence for AssetCo in Scotland.”

A SENIOR UK Government minister has suggested that Nicola Sturgeon’s administration may want to reprioritise future funding for the North Sea oil and gas sector into other areas of the economy.

By Ian McConnell

“As I write, highly civilised human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.”

By Ian McConnell

All London Underground lines are suspended, according to the Transport for London’s website, amid strike action by thousands of workers.

PEOPLE struggling with their mental wellbeing should not wait until they feel suicidal before calling the Samaritans for help, one of the charity's Scotland-based volunteers has said.

One year on from the launch of Scotland’s Artificial Intelligence Strategy, Edinburgh is set to host the inaugural Scottish AI Summit.

Civil servant Philip Whyte has been appointed director of the IPPR Scotland public policy think tank.

A clinical trial is set to investigate whether a wearable device can reduce the growing number of fatal opioid overdoses in Scotland.

The SNP has been urged to honour a pre-election pledge to extend free breakfasts to secondary schools amid concern about the numbers of pupils going without food.

IF I were the Prime Minister, I would not be so quick to dismiss Vladimir Putin's threat to use the nuclear option ("Putin raises stakes with nuclear alert", The Herald, February 28).

By Scott Wright

As the new leader of Scotland’s largest Catholic community he could easily be enjoying life in an opulent residence set aside for a man in his position.

THERE’S more, so much more, that we can do. Yes, Britain is arming Ukraine; yes, we pushed for the toughest economic sanctions against Russia, blocking access to the Swift banking system. But this is a war for the future – the future not just of ...

WE hear the First Minister announce that the Scottish Government is giving initial humanitarian aid for Ukraine in the amount of £4 million as well as medical supplies While this may appear noble, it is disingenuous when we had Finance Secretary Kat...

2000 AD has just celebrated its 45th birthday. First appearing on newsstands in February 1977, the comic quickly established itself as the anarchic home to such comic book anti-heroes as Judge Dredd, Slaine and Strontium Dog. And from the beginning t...

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Our cartoonist Steven Camley's take on Ukraine's resistance against the Russian bear.

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IT was shocking to wake up to the news last Thursday that Russia had invaded Ukraine, an independent, sovereign and democratic European country. We’d been warned a full-scale invasion was possible, likely even. Reality when it came was still chilli...

THE Scottish Government’s flagship plan to reshape the economy has suffered an immediate setback after a key stakeholder disowned it.

Both Royal Bank of Scotland and Natwest have reported recent outages.

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JOSH TAYLOR insists he will not stand for the "disgusting" personal attacks against him and his family after the weekend's boxing drama at the OVO Hydro.

A star conductor and friend of Vladimir Putin has quit his role at the Edinburgh International Festival. 

MSPs have ramped up the pressure on the manager of their pension fund to remove any  investments in Russia from it immediately over the invasion of Ukraine.

THE UK must be “tougher than tough” in its sanctions of Russia, the foreign secretary has said.

A GLASGOW charity which has been responding to humanitarian disasters and war zones across the globe for more than 20 years has today shipped off its first container of aid to help the people of Ukraine.

THE European Union have approved supplying weapons for the first time in its history to a state outside the bloc, in what is being regarded as an historic development.

THE TRANSPORT secretary has asked all UK ports to prevent Russian ships from docking in Britain.

Scottish-Italian chef Nico Simeone is set to bring his Glasgow dining concept to Aberdeen this spring when he opens the city's first Six by Nico.

ALEX Salmond’s personal media company was almost drained of money last year, leaving it with its lowest reserves since it was founded in 2015.

PRITI Patel has ruled out waiving visas for Ukrainians trying to flee Russian invasion.

British footwewar and accessories chain Kurt Geiger has donated a week's worth of profit from its stores to aid victims of the crisis in the Ukraine.