The £32 million repairs will run from March 13 - May 8 with significant disruption expected

IT’S almost two years since our world changed, and Scotland was thrown by the pandemic into its first lockdown. We have all been changed by its impact. I remember… Scotland’s Memorial Garden, created through a Herald campaign, will mark how it ...

STEVEN Knight heard the story from his dad, who would have been eight years old at the time.

DESPITE the sunny title, there was a chill in the air at the start of The Holiday (Channel 5, Tuesday-Friday). No wonder. The setting for the tale was that circle of middle class hell known as the villa holiday with friends. A week in the Bates Motel...

Political Circus ANAS Sarwar included a lot of personal anecdotes in his speech to Scottish Labour conference yesterday. Like the time he came home knackered after campaigning to learn his six-year-old son had been asked to write an essay at school a...

IT’S NOT the debut that anyone would wish for when starting a new job, but when the head of Glasgow’s newly formed culture and leisure department took over her first day coincided with day one of a library strike.

By Ian McConnell

POLITICIANS across the Scottish political divide have their say on the issues, challenges and opportunities facing Scotland and the UK's tansition away from fossil fuels as part of our Scotland's Future series.

Nicola Sturgeon and Boris Johnson are “joined at the hip,” Keir Starmer is expected to tell delegates at the Scottish Labour conference.

THE SNP Government has called on UK ministers to help usher in the “fastest possible managed and just transition away from dependence on oil and gas”.

ENGINEERING giant Weir Group was one of the first Scottish companies to make public its position over its operations in Russia this week.

Scottish footballers were long in demand in English football before a perception emerged down south that the game here was vastly inferior.

By Scott Wright

ALEX Salmond has called for new North Sea oil and gas licences to tally up funds for carbon capture projects and come with a “public share”.

There is no doubt that being part of the UK has been a problem for Scotland’s ambitions on climate change and energy.

IT is early doors on a Monday morning as Sam Heughan’s face pops up on my computer screen. He is in New Zealand, so technically it is evening there. But here in Scotland the sun has not yet quite come up.

Child protection leaders in Glasgow have confirmed that a youngster’s death during the pandemic will be investigated.

PORT of Cromarty Firth in the Highlands expects to welcome a record number of cruise ships this year as the tourism industry recovers from the slump caused by the pandemic.

By Matthew Wright  

I sat for hours trying to think of how to start this week’s column.

CLEARING the backlog of NHS dental treatment built up during the pandemic is "fundamentally impossible", a dental leader has warned.

Golf, as we all know, can be a mind-mangling pursuit. The storm-tossed waters of a golfer’s psyche are so tumultuous, some of the defeatist thought processes that surge through our heads as we ponder a 7-iron over a pond should be accompanied by a ...

A Glasgow life science company is aiming to become a R&D hub for digital medical technologies after receiving £85,000 in government funding, writes Kristy Dorsey.

FEW areas of the NHS have been left in a more perilous state by the pandemic than dentistry.

EXPERTS. We can’t get enough of them these days. Michael Gove’s Brexity soundbite about us not needing them anymore, which, loath as I am to be fair to him, has always been misquoted (his complaint was about experts who consistently got things wr...

RUTH Marr (Letters, March 4) finds it inexplicable, especially at this time when the UK wants Vladmir Putin indicted at the International Criminal Court (ICC), that Tony Blair has never been punished in any court for his role in aggression when a co-...

THE National Strategy for Economic Transformation, the 10-year vision unveiled this week by Kate Forbes, is a “radical and bold” foundation for growth, innovation, productivity, skills, improved health, employment, cultural and social outcomes, t...

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on Vladimir Putin being accused of war crimes on March 5, 2022

FOLLOWING Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine it took less than a week for the burning crosses to appear in the civilised, peace-loving West. As is commonplace in periods of geo-political distress they were being brandished by assorted siren voice...

THE Queen’s Platinum Jubilee year is here and to mark the occasion, a vast array of memorabilia is on sale, but would you buy a souvenir Easter egg for £145 and is any of it worth investing in anyway?

Glaschu

I HAVEN’T downloaded the NHS app, or the NHS Covid app, and I have absolutely no intention of doing so.

SUNDRY politicians have been heard commending the thorough UK media coverage of this gruesome conflict in Ukraine.

A LITTLE over a century ago Scots got worried about what they called one of their favourite snacks.

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

Gotham a go-go

If Brexit was the trigger for a renewed debate over a second independence referendum and a major democratic

The fact we are facing a fuel poverty crisis is undeniable. This winter is harsh, the cost of living is increasing, energy prices are rising exponentially, and things are set to get worse, not better.

Amid heavy rain across the UK in recent months, driving conditions have been far from ideal.

SCOTLAND Yard's specialist officers are to help gather evidence of war crimes in Ukraine.

ANAS Sarwar has attempted to set a new course for Scottish Labour, saying it has to shake off its “culture of defeatism” and be “unashamedly pro-business”.

Universities have been warned they could face a further five days of strike action beginning later this month.

Contracts such as work on a new dual carriageway from Ravenscraig to Motherwell, public realm construction works across Glasgow, and the upgrade and realignment of Aurs Road in East Renfrewshire are included in latest City Deal infrastructure program...

The former chief executive of the Scottish National Investment Bank has issued a statement saying her decision to resign was "ultimately" for "personal reasons".

THE OUTGOING chief executive of the Scottish National Investment Bank has broken her silence on why she quit the publicly-owned bank – pointing to “personal reasons”.

THE HOME Secretary has extended a scheme for Ukrainians fleeing the war to enable them to stay in the UK for up to three years.

SNP ministers have stated the Scottish Government will take no part in any fisheries talks with Russia following Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

THE HEAD of Nato has confirmed reports that Vladimir Putin is using cluster bombs in Ukraine.

DUNDEE have announced two positive Covid cases have been identified this week through routine testing.

AN independent Scotland embracing nuclear power would be a “catastrophic financial decision”, an energy politics expert has warned.