UK taxpayers’ stake in NatWest Group, owner of Royal Bank of Scotland, has been cut to below 50 per cent for the first time since the financial crisis of more than a decade ago.

ALMOST 100 people sit on multiple public bodies across Scotland – raking in more than £2 million a year between them, according to a new audit.

LABOUR MP Dawn Butler has been diagnosed with cancer, she has announced.

It is not often a member of a hereditary monarchy is left looking more of a democrat than an American President, but such was the position as Prince William and Joe Biden made their way home from foreign visits.

SHETLAND'S seafood and haulage companies have called for urgent action over a new 'ferry fiasco' which is causing a freight transport crisis in the Northern Isles.

NICOLA Sturgeon is facing concerns the ferry fiasco contract was unlawful after shipyard tycoon Jim McColl claimed it was rushed through by the SNP without the normal checks for political gain.

A desire to protect the reputation of Scottish schools is contributing to the widespread under-reporting of bullying, critics have warned.

I was wrong. I predicted that a deal to export 2000 tons of seed potatoes from Scotland to Russia, which was facilitated by the Scottish Government, would go ahead despite all the controversy and despite the war in Ukraine. But as I say: I was wrong....

Rishi’s in trouble. An underwhelming, ineffective and mean-spirited spring statement, plus a televised inability to scan a can of coke or fill his own car with petrol, have all taken the sheen off the Chancellor’s pearly-radiant grin.

In the wake of the terrorist attacks of 2001, Estee Lauder chairman Leonard Lauder noted that his company sold more lipstick than usual. Now known as the “lipstick effect”, the widely-accepted theory holds that in times of economic turmoil, consu...

Most of us who grew up in the 1950s had pretty Spartan childhoods. Post-war austerity, including food rationing, meant there was little scope for what, at the time, would have been considered luxuries.

SOME of those from a Labour tradition who seek Scottish independence have often had their commitment to self-determination tested.

THIS is how the story has usually been told. A young woman, burned by her failure to become a pop star, meets a boy at the tail end of the 1960s. They are both unconventional people who have a dream together. They find a horse and cart and set off on...

A WILDFIRE at a former bio-weapon experiment site on a Scottish island could spread “any remnant contamination” of toxic chemicals over several kilometres, an expert has warned.

An Ayrshire dental practice which has been in family ownership for 50 years has been bought

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Boris Johnson is “helping more” than other leaders in the resistance against Russia thanks to pressure from the British people.

The Oscars were thrown into chaos after Will Smith stormed the stage and hit Chris Rock in the face after the comedian made a joke about his wife.

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A LANDMARK gathering of “young, exciting and innovative business leaders” has been held in Glasgow.

Name: Andy Meikle.

One in four children in Scotland – around a quarter of a million – lives in poverty.

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THE Scottish Government’s continued belief in face coverings as a primary mitigation against Covid-19 baffles me. There is simply no evidence cloth and surgical masks offer any protection against viruses, yet it doubles down on this policy.

I’M glad Catriona Stewart ("Travelling solo isn’t brave… it’s joyful post-lockdown", The Herald, March 25) liked Chicago. Through working for an airline, I got to know about 20 American cities pretty well and Chicago was always my favourite, ...

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THE Diary was sad to hear of the recent death of Denise Coffey, the talented comic actress who often worked with Stanley Baxter, and starred opposite Sir David Jason and several members of the Monty Python gang early in their careers in the TV show D...

IT is now more than 25 years since the launch of Pokémon which went on to become one of the most successful games in the world. Now a Pokémon trading card has sold for six figures, demonstrating the enduring popularity of the franchise through the ...

We've said goodbye to a number of people in the public eye in 2022, including Meat Loaf, Ronnie Spector and Barry Cryer.

SCOTTISH holiday park operator Largo Leisure, founded in 2003 by Rupert Barrett, has been acquired by private equity firm Limerston Capital.

NICOLA Sturgeon will not introduce any new Covid restrictions when she updates Holyrood on Tuesday on the pandemic, Scotland's health secretary has said.

THE Alba Party will field at least 100 candidates in the Scottish local council elections in May, its leader Alex Salmond has said.

THE Chancellor is considering proposals for a new council tax rebate after a growing backlash for not giving more help to poorer households as the UK heads for its biggest drop in living standards since at least the 1950s.

Nicola Sturgeon has come under new pressure as a shipyard tycoon said that the she rushed the controversial ferries fiasco contract through without normal checks because the SNP wanted to announce it at the party conference.

MINISTERS have pumped in an "eyewatering" £45.1m of public money into the state-owned shipyard at the centre of Scotland's ferry fiasco in just over a year as public spending auditors said they failed to carry out full financial due diligence in nat...

EXTENSIVE proposals to expand Scotland's rail network with the creation of 51 new stations have emerged as Scots were found to be the slowest in the UK to return to trains as Covid restrictions eased.

LEN McCluskey has said Scottish Labour is on the verge of extinction under new leader Anas Sarwar and described Keir Starmer as “appalling”.

MINISTERS in Scotland should consider introducing a local inheritance tax to reduce growing wealth inequality, according to the leader of an anti-poverty campaign group.

Last week, for the first time in a month, Ukraine ceased to be top of the news. First it was the P&O lockout then the “biggest drop in living standards” that dominated the front pages and programmes like Question Time.

NICOLA Sturgeon is being cautioned to keep face mask rules in place for a further period and warned easing the measure could be reckless as she prepares to give her latest Covid update to Holyrood.

THE POOREST Scots are going to have to give up a day of food a week in order to meet the soaring cost of living, new analysis has found.

ONE of the leaders of the 2014 Yes campaign has said it is "not wise" for politicians on both sides of the constitutional divide and experts to "exploit" the war in Ukraine to make points about the independence debate

A 33-year-old man has died after being knocked down by a car on the Isle of Skye.

A charity supporting families coming to the UK from Ukraine said no visas have been granted to those it is helping, almost two weeks on from the Government scheme’s launch.

A separate advisory body for Scotland could have led to children being vaccinated against Covid-19 earlier, public health expert Professor Devi Sridhar has said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused the West of lacking courage as his country fights Russia’s invasion, making a plea for fighter jets and tanks to sustain a defence in a conflict that has ground into a war of attrition.

The UK Government has distanced itself from US president Joe Biden's apparent call for regime change in Russia.

A Scottish island, known as the site where scientists experimented with wildfire during World War II, has erupted in flames last night.

IT BEGAN with a small idea to do something big. Writer, director, actor and one-time musician Cora Bissett was talking to Jackie Wylie, director of the National Theatre of Scotland, about the possibility of doing a musical.

I WAS out with the dog early morning when I saw it. Ambling through the skinny woods behind my house, a terrifying sight loomed into view: a tree in full blossom. I beat a hasty retreat, imagining menacing clouds of pollen in hot pursuit as I fled in...