AN SNP candidate has been forced to apologise after dismissing an award-winning musician's account of racism in Scotland as “a load of s***”.

CHANNEL 4’s sale could lead to a “brain drain” down south, with Scotland’s top talent forced to move to London to find work, a senior TV executive has warned.

It was one of the most harrowing battles ever fought on British soil, with the flower of a generation cut down in the space of a few hours by the relentless guns of their government foes.

By Ian McConnell

SCOTTISH cloud computing specialist Iomart expects to make pre-tax profits of £17 million in the year to March, down from £19.6m in the prior 12 months.

A SCOTTISH fibre cable technology company is to open its first US facility, creating 200 jobs, in a “landmark moment” for the firm.

IN these tumultuous times, it is perhaps not particularly surprising the impending disappearance

EDINBURGH-based cybersecurity specialist Truststream Security Solutions has been acquired by a Liverpool firm in a deal that looks to have put its two founders in line for payouts of more than £1m each.

THE MAJORITY of Scots are now more concerned about paying their bills and buying food than anything else, with most believing neither Rishi Sunak nor Kate Forbes has done enough to help them.

SCOTLAND is set for a green electricity revolution with hopes uneven transmission charges will be scrapped and more than £300m used to future-proof the electricity network for the net zero push.

Drivers were hit by the largest monthly spike in pump prices on record in March, despite a cut in fuel duty, according to new analysis.

The widow of a senior Scottish Government official has made a new plea for answers in a letter to the first minister.

Workers across the UK will be hit by an increase to National Insurance contributions from today.

The humanitarian situation in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol is worsening as the remaining residents have been left with no light, medicine and water.

By Ian McConnell

AN oil and gas pipeline welding specialist has hit the acquisition trail as it increases its exposure to other energy markets.

A GLASGOW School of Art graduate is considering legal action against the world-renowned institution over claims of disability discrimination.

By Ian McConnell

SCOTLAND has opted to go green and tomorrow we put our money where our mouths are – or at least our windmills. The UK Government's Energy Security Strategy is expected to include 7,000 wind turbines to be fast-tracked, mostly north of the Border. W...

INTERVIEWED on Channel 4 News last night (April 4), US senator Lindsey Graham made a point of praising Boris Johnson's leading role in the Ukraine crisis. So have President Zelenskyy and the Polish leadership.

This year’s The Herald Property Awards for Scotland will take place on Thursday, 29 September and entries are already pouring in. Companies that have not yet filled in their entry forms have until this Friday (8 April) to take advantage of a specia...

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WATCHING Grand Designs, I sometimes sympathise with French peasants who stood by while Versailles took shape, looming over their hovels. You watch, open-mouthed and speechless, but not in a good way.

GREETINGS from Israel, where I find myself working for the seventh time, albeit after a gap of some six years. It is a country at once familiar to me, yet changed. In both Tel Aviv and Jerusalem construction is everywhere – if the number of cranes ...

Over the Bridge festival is set to take place in Edinburgh this summer - here's how you can get tickets.

Tiger Woods will play The Masters, his first competitive golf since being involved in an horrific car crash last year

High-resolution satellite imagery has shown that bodies have been lying in the open for weeks in the Ukrainian city of Bucha, as Russia denies its soldiers had committed war crimes.

A RANGE of seafood species have been added to a “fish to avoid” list, as conservationists warn of the urgent need to fix UK fisheries.

BORIS Johnson has told Russian citizens that he is not surprised Vladimir Putin is trying to conceal the atrocities in Ukraine as they would not support the war if they knew the truth.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told the UN Security Council that Russian military must be brought to justice immediately for war crimes.

GlamCandy, the Scottish make-up academy, has bolstered staff numbers with the appointment of 18 former students.

THE SCOTTISH Government has criticised plans to privatise Channel 4.

JUST under a third of voters in Northern Ireland would vote for Irish unity, a new poll has revealed.

AN LGBT adviser has quit his post accusing the UK government of trying to drive a wedge between transgender and gay people.

The first transgender MP said he is “bitterly disappointed” that people who identify as a different gender to the one they are born into will be excluded from plans to ban conversation therapy.

Britain must expel the Russian ambassador to the UK in response to alleged “war crimes” committed in Ukraine by Vladimir Putin and his forces, Labour has demanded.

THE Government’s plans to use a third country to process people seeking asylum in the UK are nearing completion, it is understood.

A health board has apologised after mistakenly using the wrong template while inviting children to receive their Covid vaccine.

THE government’s sale of Channel 4 could be “revenge” for the station’s “biased coverage of Brexit” and “personal attacks on the PM,” a senior Conservative MP has claimed.

The seven-day Covid-19 infection rate in one local authority has remained significantly higher than in the rest of the country.

DOUGLAS Ross has insisted the SNP can be beaten in May’s council elections as he called on activists to “knock the Nats down to size”.

BORIS Johnson’s plans to sell off Channel 4 have been met with fierce opposition from members of his own party.

WORK is under way on new affordable green homes in Fife's biggest development of its kind.

SCOTLAND’S rural communities are no longer phoning the police “as they have little confidence of a meaningful response,” the Scottish Police Federation has warned.

THE planet, said UN Secretary-General António Guterres, at the launch of yesterday’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, is on a pathway to global warming of “more than double” 1.5 degrees, an “unliveable world”.

Scotland’s Home of the Year

IT IS more than 20 years since the sacred Lakota Ghost Dance shirt was returned to descendants of the community of its origin.

Councils are being urged to hire more specialist teachers as the number of visually impaired young people soars and fears grow of a sight-related attainment gap in schools.

FOR many years I shared a bedroom with my mum. It was a council flat and had two bedrooms but my bedroom, the smaller one, was so damp as to be uninhabitable.