A Wishaw teacher fled Russia after being ‘intimidated’ by police over the Ukraine invasion.

A GLASGOW business has announced that it will be closing its Sauchiehall Street business permanently.

P&O has received over £50m in UK government contracts and subsidies in two years but questions have emerged over whether sacked 800 crew can be pursued under British employment law.

IT was a knock on the door with emergency services telling residents to evacuate their homes in 15 minutes.

Levels of staff pride, positivity and job satisfaction at Scotland’s exams agency fell sharply last year, according to a survey that is likely to spark fears of an exodus as far-reaching reform efforts get under way.

The Foreign Secretary has warned peace talks between Ukraine and Russia might be being used as a “smokescreen” for the Kremlin to regroup troops for a fresh offensive.

DOUGLAS Ross will tell Tory delegates that Scotland is “bitter and inward-facing” amid a warning that the SNP refuses to take responsibility for its record in government.

UK lawmakers are at risk of being influenced by the Kremlin as lobbying rules do not prohibit approaches from firms linked to the state, an MP has said.

TV hasn’t quite been the same without its bent coppers … with even those who didn’t tune in to Line of Duty knowing many of its catchphrases just through cultural saturation.

It is not easy being a maverick cop when every schtick in the book, from gambling to writing poetry, has already been snapped up. Fair play, then, to Garda sergeant PJ Collins of Holding (STV, Monday), whose secret vice is comfort eating. When troubl...

By Scott Wright

Emperor Penguins, tick. Chimpanzees, tick. Lions, tigers, African wild dogs, tick, tick, tick. With so many audience favourites featuring in the first series, the competition to make the cut for Dynasties II (BBC1, Sunday, 8pm), must have been intens...

P&O Ferries started its day on Thursday by issuing an ominous notice that services were being halted ahead of a major announcement.

From walking in memory of a loved one to simply wanting to help play a part in raising funds, there has been great support for Scotland’s Covid memorial campaign in the past two years.

GLASGOW-based generator specialist DTGen has bought a business in England in a move that will support growth across the UK as backers said the outlook for deal activity remains strong, writes Mark Williamson.

By Jonathan Sloan

BP has revealed that its chief executive, Bernard Looney, earned £4.5 million total remuneration as calls for a windfall tax on oil and gas firms intensify.

ADULTS in Scotland who test positive for coronavirus could be invited to take part in a major study investigating the effectiveness of oral antivirals which can be taken at home.

HOW do we clear our waiting list backlog and prevent healthcare splintering irreversibly into a two-tier system?

MUSIC

HOW do you start your day in these dark times? Do you turn the radio on straight away to hear the latest news from Ukraine? Or do you tune away to avoid it?

IN a recent edition of Record Collector magazine, a lifelong vinyl enthusiast spoke of the library he had painstakingly built up over half a century.

What's the story?

The number of restaurants, cafes and takeaways rapped for environmental health concerns in Glasgow has risen and a significant number were for pest control, the council has said.

P&O’S sacking of 800 workers ("P&O sacks 800 staff after receiving £15m Covid aid", The Herald, March 18) was only possible because the UK left the EU and the EU’s employment protections. Presumably, ministers knew this while they were expressin...

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

Our cartoonist Steven Camley contrasts Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin on March 19, 2022.

MY initiation in the art of workplace negotiating came in the late 1980s and was provided by a gifted journalist and trade union activist called Dave King. Not long after I’d landed my first job at the old Scottish Catholic Observer I become the pa...

IT is a victory that divided the crowd in Atlanta on Thursday night, with boos and cheers marking the moment transgender swimmer Lia Thomas was given the gold medal. Now sporting icon Martina Navratilova is among those weighing in on the controversia...

TURKEY has been a candidate to join the European Union and its predecessor organisations for more than two decades. Indeed, Boris Johnson cynically used that prospect to alarm voters into backing Brexit.

ONE blessed day, we will finally put all of these Covid-related precautions, masks included, behind us.

HE likes a good photo op does Matteo Salvini. The leader of Italy’s populist and nationalist Lega has defined his career with a series of snaps.

Totally losing it

Quentin query quelled

A clinical pyschologist and previous host have shared practical and emotional advice to UK households taking in Ukrainian refugees.

Glaswegians are being urged to get on their bikes next week - and they were joined by some well-known faces.

SHARES in Ted Baker close up by more than 15 per cent tonight after the fashion retailer confirmed that it is the subject of a possible takeover interest from a private equity firm.

THE UKRAINIAN President has suggested his country could join the EU "within months" after discussions with the bloc.

BORIS Johnson has ruled out another referendum on Scottish independence being held while Europe "is being ravished by the most vicious war since 1945" by Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

Dunnet Bay Distillers has lodged plans for a temporary visitor and community building and café in the grounds of the ancient Castletown Mill building.

A TEACHING union has raised concerns over “quite serious and disruptive violent behaviour” in schools including biting and spitting from primary pupils aims at staff.

P&O has told staff to keep quiet about its plan to cut 800 staff and replace them with agency workers.

FROM the moment Boris Johnson opened his mouth

THE SNP have rejected calls for Indyref2 to be paused in the wake of the war in Ukraine - despite a poll suggesting Scots thought the party should do so.

THE Tesla model 3 appears to be Nicola Sturgeon's and her ministers luxury electric car of choice, according to new data published.

A SENIOR Tory MSP will investigate a party candidate standing in May’s local elections who has taken an interest in videos of speeches made by the former chief of the Ku Klux Klan.

RISHI Sunak has admitted his party has presided over a “failed economic model” with “low productivity and deep inequality across our country”.

OFFICIALS in the UK Government were told about the plan to axe hundreds of staff at ferry firm P&O the day before workers, it has emerged.

A TORY MP has re-joined the Navy more than a decade after leaving to go in to politics.

THE outspoken chairman of JD Wetherspoon has branded restrictions imposed by government to limit the spread of Covid as “kryptonite” for the hospitality industry, while highlighting pressure from rising food, drink and energy costs.