SCOTTISH cycling world record holder Josh Quigley has called for bike helmets to be made mandatory in Scotland.

The office is back, dust off your suits and pack away your jammies. Or is it? UK petrol prices are at a record high following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

It is a Highland peninsula peninsula, surrounded by expanses of water, with the Cromarty Firth to the north, the Beauly Firth to the south and the Moray Firth to the east.

If the idea of directly elected civic leaders is ever allowed to be taken seriously in Scotland, the first predictable “row” will be about what to call them. So let’s get that one out the way quickly.

FINALLY, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble.

As Woody Allen pointed out, “money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons”. But there are plenty of other considerations, as anyone, or at least anyone who has ever been short of the stuff, will tell you. Almost all aspects of well...

THE Russian President Vladimir Putin would be "delighted" for an independence referendum to be held in Scotland next year, according to a leading defence analyst.

A woman who was sacked for taking time off following a pregnancy miscarriage has been awarded more than £10,000 by an employment tribunal.

A GLASGOW-based business aiming to cut the carbon footprint of factories has hailed significant backing to forward its technology and boost its workforce.

Glasgow-based Beeks Financial Cloud has posted a 46 per cent increase in interim revenues and declared its prospects “never more promising” despite a fall in profitability.

HAVE you ever thought of a tune or a lyric and convinced yourself you had come up with something unique? Are you, like me, someone who has musical ditties in their head that meander like a restless wind inside a letterbox?

Running my own restaurant was always an ambition for me and I have relished the time we have had

By Scott Wright

Inflation fears have recently focused on energy, but food may soon demand more attention.

SCOTLAND might have fared better during the Covid pandemic if it were "an island in the North Sea that could manage its own affairs", one of Nicola Sturgeon's key scientific advisers has suggested.

By Ian McConnell

A Scottish entrepreneur will face the BCC's infamous Dragons on television tomorrow night in a bid to secure £200,000 of investment to grow her underwear business.

A TOP Covid adviser to Nicola Sturgeon has revealed how police were forced to investigate after she received threats from anti-maskers on Facebook.

By Scott Wright

WHAT was most surprising about the angry and disgusted reaction to Boris Johnson linking a vote for Brexit to Ukraine’s struggle for freedom was that so many people were surprised.

IF ever we needed a spring statement from the Chancellor it is now. Rishi Sunak must step up and assist struggling families on Wednesday ("Sunak hints at fuel tax cut to help public over cost-of-living crisis", The Herald, March 21).

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Our cartoonist Steven Camley's take on P&O's employment tactics

Knowing the drill

Work on the proposed development off the west coast of Shetland was paused in December

As Russia’s war in Ukraine enters its 27th day, the conflict is showing no signs of abating

P&O face criminal prosecution with unlimited fines after axing 800 staff and rehire with cheap agency workers.

A SCOTTISH KFC has banned customers under the age of 18 after 6pm due to anti-social behaviour.

A GAS generating firm has donated £200,000 to both Scottish Labour and the Scottish Lib Dems to oppose the SNP at Holyrood.

A MINUTE silence will be held at the site of what will become Scotland Covid memorial to mark the second anniversary of the first national lockdown.

RUSSIA has been blamed for hoax phone calls that tricked two senior cabinet ministers into thinking they were talking to the Ukrainian prime minister.

SCOTTISH celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has linked up with St Andrews-based whisky and gin distiller Eden Mill to create a new product, called Ramsay’s Gin.

The man accused of stabbing veteran MP Sir David Amess went on a "reconnaissance trip" to the home of Communities Secretary Michael Gove, prosecutors have claimed.

NAZANIN Zaghari-Ratcliffe has said it shouldn’t have taken six years and five foreign secretaries to secure her release from Iran.

FORMER MSP Andy Wightman has accused the SNP of leaking the findings of the Holyrood harassment committee's probe into the Alex Salmond affair in a bid to “discredit unhelpful narratives."

Demands are being made for legal action over P&O hiring foreign agency workers for as little as £1.82 an hour to replace sacked 800 staff - with some temps living in tents.

Two men were seen with a handgun near the town where a bank worker was murdered, it emerged following new police information.

THE Irish government is to speak to Ryanair after the airline was accused of increasing fares from Poland to Ireland - a route being used by Ukrainian refugees fleeing the conflict.

THE SNP should rethink their objection to nuclear power, the UK Government’s energy minister has said.

TWO projects from Edinburgh Napier’s School of Computing have won funding from a programme which develops innovative cyber security ideas for the commercial market.

THE HOLYROOD committee tasked with steering through controversial gender recognition legislation reform has launched a consultation, asking for a “wide range of voices” to take part.

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 ...

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.