THE wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance has been found off the coast of Antarctica.

Big retail is among the shops and businesses that will benefit from the £9m gift card give-away in Glasgow.

A SCOTTISH council has apologised after a skip had been found "filled to the bring with Gaelic educational books".

Just one in three Scots now identify as being a Christian - a million fewer than 11 years ago.

Scotland's book festivals are making a comeback to their 'old' live format after being scaled back because of the Covid pandemic last year.

SOME 57% of people living in one region of Scotland are set to be plunged into fuel poverty as a result of the energy price crisis, a charity has warned.

ONCE, during a proper, old fashioned newspaper bollocking, an editor hit me with the twin takedowns of, “this is bizarre, even for you” and “who do you think you are, Salvador f****** Dali?”

UTTER incredulity seemed like an only natural response upon hearing that arch-Brexiter Sir Desmond Swayne had declared it was “monstrous” that UK businesses had to fill in forms to trade with the European Union.

A leading Scottish oil firm, Capricorn Energy, has underlined the appeal of investing in the North Sea, amid the prospect of disruption to supplies following Russia’s assault on Ukraine.

IT was a very pleasing gesture from the Scottish Rugby Union to suggest that a new trophy should be crafted to be presented to the winners of men’s international Six Nations matches between Scotland and Italy.

A maintenance manager who was sacked for raising concerns about asbestos at homeless hotels in Glasgow has been awarded more than £23,000 by a tribunal – but will not receive a penny of his compensation.

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for winds which could reach up to 70mph in parts of Scotland this morning.

Health bosses are set to take down walls at a major Scottish hospital over fears they pose a fire hazard.

A PRIVATE jet thought to have been used to shuttle a Russian oligarch in and out of the UK has been “impounded.”

Two Scots who travelled to Ukraine to help evacuate refugees have told how Russian soldiers held them at gunpoint.

By Ian McConnell

Companies will be asked to include salaries in job adverts under a Government initiative to combat the embedded bias against women created by “ambiguous pay policies and historic pay decisions”.

By Scott Wright

By Scott Wright

Work will begin this summer on a £100 million golf resort, hotel and spa in the Angus countryside after councillors approved an updated masterplan for the "once in a generation" luxury destination.

Scots farmers are facing cost rises of up to 200 per cent and warning a tsunami of escalating prices could mean further price rises in shops – and even food shortages leading to “civil unrest”.

The UK Government has refused to reveal how much of taxpayers’ money has been given to a fertiliser firm whose US parent corporation is worth around £9bn.

THE delivery of free travel vaccines in Scotland’s largest health board has been plunged into chaos after a bitter row erupted between NHS bosses and the region’s pharmacists.

A PICTISH symbol stone that has been found in a farmer’s field at Aberlemno near Forfar has been described as a “truly remarkable” discovery. The stone, which is 5ft 6in long, is thought to have been part of paving for a large building that dat...

COMPUTER says no. We’ve all been there, faced with the idiocy of online officialdom; but few of us have been running for our lives at the time. According to the BBC, Home Office computers told one Ukrainian refugee family to go to Kyiv to get biome...

SNP child welfare policies could reduce the burden on hard-up families by a third if they are fully implemented, according to a report.

I OFTEN disagree with Neil Mackay, but his latest article on Ukraine has nailed it ("There can be no indyref while Putin is murdering Ukraine", The Herald, March 8).

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Acclaimed Scottish singer songwriter Eddie Reader has spoken of her pride on discovering that her granny was a female “Jimmy Johnstone” at a time when women were publicly ridiculed for playing the sport.

Our cartoonist Steven Camley's take on the Ukrainian refugee crisis.

FOR the past couple of weeks I’ve been waking with a sense of apprehension. Bill Forsyth would describe it as that sinking feeling, which is exactly right. In ordinary times this means the day holds a medical appointment, or a public talk, the sort...

SECONDARY pupils are very wise and knowledgeable, as former maths teacher Debbie Meehan once discovered while discussing general knowledge with one of her charges.

SCOTLAND’S economic performance is woeful, and is forecast to get worse. Moreover, those forecasts were made before Omicron threw its overheated spanner into the works before Christmas and before anyone in the West woke up to the horror that war is...

MAYBE I haven’t been keeping up but the term “green lairds” only recently impinged upon my consciousness, arousing instant suspicion. The word “laird” should be confined to soap operas set in big houses awash with tartan.

STAGECOACH has agreed to be taken over by a pan-European investment fund in a cash deal worth nearly £600 million, dashing hopes of National Express to merge with the Scottish bus giant.

Experts are warning of the impact new sanctions on Russian oil and gas imports could have on the cost of living in the UK.

Pancreatic cancer is deadly and can be very difficult to treat, with only around one in four people surviving one year or more after diagnosis.

THE POLISH government has confirmed it is ready to give fighter jets to help the Ukrainian conflict.

THE UK has joined a group of countries in calling for a crackdown of Russian involvement in international sport.

The Education Secretary has personally sought reassurances from examiners after revision support material designed to ease pressure on pupils was blasted as insulting, unfair and shambolic.

THE UKRAINIAN President has given a live address to MPs from Kyiv.

THE UK Government has joined the US in banning the import of Russian oil.

THE FORMER Commons Speaker has said he will not apologise after a damning report found he was a "serial bully" and "serial liar".

NICOLA Sturgeon has welcomed recommendations “in principle” that would make misogynistic harassment a specific criminal offence.

We stand united in our condemnation of the outrageous Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the war crimes being committed there.

SCOTLAND’S Energy Secretary has called on UK ministers to raise its “level of ambition” on accelerating cleaning up the power supply system in response to attempts to end a reliance on Russian oil and gas.

A new pilot programme is encouraging employers to publish salary details in job adverts, and refrain from asking applicants about their previous pay.   

THERE is “no evidence” that a flagship £2.8billion SNP scheme intended to help small businesses has actually done so, experts have concluded.

THE UKRAINIAN president should be awarded an honorary knighthood and the street housing the Russian embassy in the UK named after him, MPs have said.

There were tears in many eyes at Portobello beach today, and hugs in the water, as over 700 people plunged into the sea to mark International Women's Day.