THE war in Ukraine should not result in plans for a second Scottish independence referendum being pushed back, Ian Blackford has indicated.

FIRE crews are still on the scene of a blaze that broke out in a flat in Glasgow's Southside last night.

AS Chancellor, Rishi Sunak has not had his troubles to seek. A month after he was appointed the first Covid lockdown was announced.

SCOTLAND'S biggest local authority is facing a ticking £225m equal pay timebomb three years after it had to remortgage major venues to pay for a settlement.

A SCOTTISH government-controlled company which gave a lifeline ferries contract to Turkey has spent hundreds of pounds more on monthly overseas travel during the pandemic than before Covid hit, it can be revealed.

Before the onset of Covid, Microsoft Teams had 20 million active users. Just a year later that figure had topped

A two-year, self-imposed embargo on foreign holidays has not been the end of the world. Horizons may have been restricted, but there have been plenty of local opportunities. Day-trips up Deeside for example, assumed the cachet of expeditions to the s...

Criticism of Nicola Sturgeon by a Scottish Tory leader prepared to welcome a leader he recently wanted to sack might best be taken with a large pinch of salt. One might also note that the Scottish Tory gathering in Aberdeen was very tiny and Douglas ...

YOU can’t accuse the British Royal Family of failing to provide value for the money that the UK establishment lavishes on it. The Queen, celebrating her 70th year on the throne, knows this more than anyone. Her Majesty has seen off 13 British Prime...

School staff are "covering up" pupil violence and aggression because of fears that reporting such issues will result in a "black mark" against them, according to a union boss.

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My interest in the last few weeks has been drawn to one of the areas of manufacturing hardest hit by Covid impact, our automotive sector.

A SCOTTISH Government-controlled company which gave a lifeline ferries contract to Turkey has spent hundreds of pounds more on monthly overseas travel during the pandemic than before Covid hit, it can be revealed.

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AS one of Scotland’s most famous ice-cream businesses celebrates its centenary this year, its managing director has told the Go Radio Business Show with Hunter & Haughey how the business has grown and remained relevant over the generations.

CALLS to delay the increase in national insurance contributions for employers and employees have come from entrepreneurs Sir Tom Hunter and Lord Willie Haughey ahead of Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s spring statement on Wednesday.

Fifty Ukrainian orphans and their carers will begin the final leg of their journey to safety in Scotland today after being helped by a charity set up by Hibs football club.

Experts say it has the potential to become Scotland’s next major growth industry, fuelling a jobs boom in coastal towns.

THERE has been some comment (led by your correspondent Peter A Russell, Letters, March 14) that any Scottish independence plebiscite should have different rules applied than have been applied to other UK referenda, other than the notorious 1979 affai...

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WITH the UK currently in the midst of an escalating cost-of-living crisis, it seems many of us are looking for additional ways to make money, including on eBay. Now new research shows which secondhand items are selling like hot cakes.

THE entrepreneurial skills of Scotland’s showbiz fraternity is to be admired. During last year’s Christmas spending spree Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill, the creators and stars of TV sitcom Still Game, took to promoting bottles of the hard stuff,...

A China Eastern Airlines plane carrying 133 people on board has crashed in Guangxi province, Chinese state media is reporting.

COMPANIES should not lay the blame for skills shortages in their workforces at the Government’s door and anyone who does is “hiding behind their incompetence”, according to two of Scotland’s most prominent business leaders.

Coronavirus restrictions in Scotland are being eased – despite infection levels said to be at record highs.

Fighting for the port has continued to be intense, even as the invasion in other areas has floundered

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NICOLA Sturgeon set out Scotland’s plan for living with Covid-19 last week, with some of the final remaining restrictions due to be lifted on March 21.

A SCOTTISH Tory frontbencher has claimed the Prime Minister cannot be replaced “during a time of conflict and crisis” as he insisted Boris Johnson is fit for office.

A North Sea firm has started production from a landmark development that won backing from US billionaire Warren Buffet.

Djeco Group, registered in Edinburgh’s New Town, has been placed on a blacklist alongside scores of Russian firms amid the invasion of Ukraine.

Rishi Sunak has pledged to “stand by” under-pressure households as he appeared to suggest that help could be coming in the form of a fuel duty cut.

GORDON Brown has hit out at Boris Johnson for being too “afraid” to call the SNP’s bluff and give the go-ahead for a second referendum on Scottish independence.

BORIS Johnson has been told to apologise for “utterly distasteful and insulting” remarks after linking the invasion of Ukraine by Russia with the UK’s relationship with the European Union.

THE number of care homes hit by Covid-19 infections has soared to the highest level on record putting pressure on the sector battling the pandemic for two years.

The bees and butterflies that make our gardens hum with movement and colour are our friends in so many ways. Yet chilling reports have been telling us that they are under threat. T

THE Scottish Government has axed a high-powered group of advisers set up to inform ministers over the key issues affecting the nation"s beleaguered lifeline island services in Scotland despite the nation's ongoing ferry fiasco, the Herald on Sunday c...

A SCOTTISH Government-funded charity which is charging up to £120 to a series of events on how to deal with homelessness has been accused of "locking out" people on low incomes.

World War Three may have already begun, according to the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy after his video address to the US Congress.

IN a rare moment of awkwardness in front of the TV cameras Nicola Sturgeon was forced to listen as the BBC presenter Sophie Raworth read out a long list of all the years a second independence referendum had been promised and not happened.

HOLYROOD'S presiding officer has refused to say whether she has received the Referendum Bill that the Scottish Government want to use to hold Indyref2.

Right under our feet there are lost worlds to be found – treasures from the Stone Age to the medieval era. If there is one person who knows what is hiding under cities like Glasgow and Edinburgh, it’s Dr Kenneth Brophy – Scotland’s ‘urban p...

MORE than 8000 Scots have signed up to offer accommodation and help to Ukrainians fleeing the war against Russia.

A LEADING defence expert has accused Nicola Sturgeon of "virtue signalling" over "irresponsible" calls that Nato should consider imposing a no fly zone over Ukraine.

A second Scottish independence referendum is “unlikely” to happen within Nicola Sturgeon’s preferred time frame, a former senior staff member in both the Scottish Government and the SNP said.

Author of Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse, Dave Goulson has called for a ban on pesticide use in gardens.

Nicola Sturgeon has led tributes to a rugby-loving political executive who died during a Scottish Parliament game.

There are more than 4,000 homes being let by overseas landlords in Glasgow, with more than 1,000 owned through secretive tax havens, The Ferret can reveal.