QUESTIONS have been raised about the legality of awarding key lifeline ferry contracts to Turkey - after ministers failed to detail any Scottish community benefits from sending the work overseas.

Siriki Dembele might beat brother Karamoko to the punch

Serena Cowdy, who was in a 'love triangle' with two married SNP MPs, has been selected as a candidate at the local elections in May.

I know precisely when and where my hearing problems began. It was April 1980, at a Gerry Rafferty concert at Aberdeen’s Capitol Theatre. Gerry was his usual uncommunicative self, but otherwise on top form. He had a very loud brass section and havin...

AT those times when the world feels threatened by impending war or economic calamity we begin to see the best of humanity … and the worst. Very often, the noblest responses are evident in the deeds of ordinary people while callousness is practised ...

I have never knowingly or willingly agreed with Ian Blackford about anything really, but his comments this week made a lot of sense. The focus right now should be on Ukraine, he said, we need to show a united front to Putin, now is not the time for t...

By Scott Wright

Principal teachers should be reintroduced to secondary schools in Scotland as part of efforts to plug massive trainee recruitment shortfalls in maths and science, ministers have been told.

Two superpowers are facing off over Ukraine. One with a re-embodiment of Joseph Stalin at the helm. The other led by a president who might be replaced by the NATO-sceptic, Putin-friendly Donald Trump. So even as Ukraine bids for NATO membership and o...

ST JOHNSTONE did the impossible last year by landing the League and Scottish Cup double.

CELTIC are chasing down yet another domestic treble.

SCOTLAND’s worst area for potholes has been revealed as the country faces an almost £1.7bn bill for road repairs.

A pregnant woman and her baby have died after Russian forces bombed the maternity hospital in Ukraine where she was meant to give birth, medics have revealed.

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An SNP minister has admitted her administration is investigating “extending” devolved powers so that flawed legislation to protect children’s rights is deemed legally competent.

With events in Ukraine having

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Names: Alan Mulligan and Alan Glen.

Thousands of NHS staff in Scotland have been absent from work for two months or more due to Covid, figures show, as the government pledged to maintain a full pay arrangement.

Vladimir Putin is the Hitler of the 21st century. His actions in Ukraine are a nasty replica of the German invasion of Czechoslovakia which began in 1938.

Sir Tom Hunter and Lord Willie Haughey have underlined how human resources support and employment law advice can help businesses succeed in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Helena MURPHY, who founded investing firm Raising Partners in 2017to help investors access

“WELL” said Sophy Ridge, newly returned from maternity leave, “I didn’t expect to start my first programme back with this devastating reality: a war in Europe, civilians, even hospitals, targeted, millions fleeing for their lives”.

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WISHFUL thinking by Bruce Halliday (Letters, March 11) notwithstanding, it is very far from over for the independence cause.

THE buskers of Glasgow are an inventive bunch. Never content to merely warble a famous tune or two, they prefer to adapt classic lyrics so they connect more intimately with the watching audience.

AUSTRALIA is home to some of the world’s most venomous snakes and spiders at the best of times, but in the wake of recent severe flooding, the creatures are invading homes - and beds.

“WELL” said Sophy Ridge, newly returned from maternity leave, “I didn’t expect to start my first programme back with this devastating reality: a war in Europe, civilians, even hospitals, targeted, millions fleeing for their lives”.

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SCOTTISH ministers have used devolution to accumulate power and turn Holyrood into a “mini- Westminster”, one of the leading authorities on the SNP has said.

DOUGLAS Ross’s position has become “completely untenable” as a result of his spectacular u-turn over the fate of Boris Johnson, the SNP has claimed.

In February, Ofgem announced the new energy bill price cap will rise by 54 per cent per cent from April.

The UK will provide cancer treatment for 21 seriously ill Ukrainian children as Brits were urged to open their homes to people fleeing war.

Motherwell defender Bevis Mugabi was sent off inside the first minute as Hibernian won 2-1 at Fir Park to reach the Scottish Cup semi-finals.

On the northern shore of Gare Loch, washed by salt waters that merge into the Clyde, is the naval base, Faslane, home to Vanguard-class submarines. This sea loch, and the wildlife it sustains, knows little of the destructive capacity contained within...

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.

A Russian attack on a Ukrainian military training base on Sunday has killed at least 35 people and injured 57 others, officials confirmed. 

MORE than half a million pounds of taxpayers money has been spent by ministers with private consultants Ernst and Young to advise on ferries since 2015 in a move described as "scandalous".

TWO key Scots energy firms have raked in over £1.3bn in profits in the two years after the regulator brought in a price cap to protect consumers from soaring bills.

NICOLA Sturgeon could risk the SNP deal with the Greens and bring her majority government to an end if she softens her opposition to North Sea oil and gas production as some senior figures in her party want, The Herald has been told.

CAST your mind back a few weeks ago to when the main concern of the day wasn’t the bombing of a maternity hospital, the murder of people cowering in their basements, or the imminent threat of nuclear war, but whether Boris Johnson had broken lockdo...

SCOTLAND'S rural affairs secretary is being urged not to relax rules which encourage farmers to grow verges and let wildlife flourish in their fields in the wake of the war in Ukraine.

The way we work is changing. Millions now work from home, and the shift is accelerating daily. It is the biggest upheaval in work since the Industrial Revolution. Writer at Large Neil Mackay looks at how life has altered and meets the woman behind �...

It doesn’t really make sense. Why should Boris Johnson cease to be unfit for office just because of the war in Ukraine? Yet Douglas Ross, the Scottish Conservative Leader, was right to uncancel him last week. Boris Johnson, like him or loathe him, ...

VICKY McClure is best known to many police drama fans for her role as Detective Sergeant Kate Fleming in the BBC’s Line of Duty – the onscreen trio that we’ve come to watch and love in the hit show, with Vicky describing them as her “best ma...

SERENA WILLIAMS has never been one to bite her lip when she has got something to say. In a world in which athletes are, all too often, media trained to within an inch of their lives, Williams’ frankness is a refreshing change.

The measure of a good striker is one who moves onto the next chance and Reilly did just that.

Scotland hooker George Turner insists that he and his team-mates will not be intimidated by the physical challenge they will face in Dublin next weekend.

INTERNATIONAL rugby is tough.

FORGET Gone in Sixty Seconds, it took Willie Collum just 56 seconds to set the tone in a fierce Scottish Cup quarter-final between Motherwell and Hibs as he flashed a red card.