On a Highland hillside, lifelong vegetarian Megan Rowland aimed her shotgun, took fire and claimed her first kill.

MY television reviewer senses were tingling as The Split (BBC1, Monday) returned. The everyday tale of divorce lawyer folk ended its second series with the seemingly rock-solid marriage of Hannah and Nathan (Nicola Walker and Stephen Mangan) on the r...

SEX, scandal, MP. When these words appeared in Sunday paper headlines recently it seemed like stepping through a portal to another time. The back to basics, era, say, or earlier than that, Profumo. Surely Westminster scandals had moved on to the like...

One of Britain's largest holiday park groups, Park Holidays UK, has been acquired by US real estate investment trust Sun Communities Inc.

THE blueprint for the future of Scotland’s economy was criticised by some for being too broad-brush, and lacking ambition.

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DESPITE the SNP and Nicola Sturgeon being the most popular among Scottish voters, they still do not favour independence, according to a new poll.

SO, I say to the writer sitting in his tenement flat in the East Village in New York, when was the last time you used the phrase, “I am the Booker Prize Winner.”

Rishi Sunak's wife Akshata Murty has announced she will now pay UK taxes on all her worldwide income after a row erupted over her non-domiciled status.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called for a tough international response after Russian forces fired a missile at a crowded train station.

In a hospital bed, with a new stoma to get used to and having battled through emergency bowel surgery, Robert Cowie’s body and spirit had taken a battering.

THE campaign to create Scotland’s Covid memorial has taken a step closer to reaching its fundraising target following a five-figure grant towards vital work in and around the peaceful location.

THE Scottish Building Society, which claims to be the world’s oldest remaining building society, has posted record results, writes Brian Donnelly.

THE Israeli-owned firm that has bought into the Cambo field off Shetland has said the development of the reserves it holds could help boost energy security in the UK and make sense on environmental grounds, in spite of fierce opposition from campaign...

CAN the obesity crisis be reversed?

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By David Coombs

BACK when he used to present Radio 2’s Breakfast Show, Terry Wogan used to tell his producer that he wasn’t going to get up at 5.30am in the morning not to have a laugh. “It’s got to be fun,” Wogan said. “If we’re not having fun, then t...

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the US, was assassinated on April 15, 1865, after winning the American Civil War and abolishing slavery. The poet Walt Whitman idolised Lincoln and wrote this impassioned lament.

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HOW exactly does the SNP plan on procuring energy in the future? From my limited technical knowledge, nuclear seems like the only viable option left ("North Sea and nuclear at heart of new energy plans", The Herald, April 8). If the climate emergency...

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Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on Russia being removed on from the UN Human Rights Council, on April 9, 2022.

GEORGE Galloway is raging. The former socialist firebrand’s Twitter account has been branded by the social media giant as “Russian state-affiliated media” and he is not at all happy about it.

IN the Queen’s historic platinum jubilee year, the spotlight is turning not just to the monarch, but to the four-legged friends she is most famed for keeping and who are rising in popularity around the world - corgis.

IT IS frequently noted that to govern is to choose. As I have equally frequently commented, most politicians of my acquaintance are in an honourable lather of uncertainty much of the time.

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A SCOTTISH election is upon us once more and, as with all the recent others, the SNP are guaranteed a comfortable victory. Soon, shoals of professional nationalist politicians will fish out their independence hashtags from cold storage and charge onc...

LIKE many Scots, I’ve a complicated relationship with tartanry and kilts. They’re quintessentially Scottish, but is tartan easy on the eye? Is the kilt morally uplifting?

Green and Whine A BAD start to the week for SNP Westminster leader and massive Hibbee Ian Blackford, after he proved less than universally popular at a gala dinner for Easter Road legend Franck Sauzee in the capital. Despite styling himself as a humb...

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It was established in 1772 on the site of an old brewery on the banks of the River Clyde.

Creating one national health board and giving people access to their own medical records could accelerate Scotland’s “world-leading” reputation in dementia prevention, an expert in the disease has said.

Many people sweep through their home indoors with a spring clean, while neglecting the exterior, then come to regret it within a short time.

An “evil” sexual predator was jailed for at least 36 years yesterday for the murder of primary school teacher Sabina Nessa.

A DENTAL practice that has been on the same site for nearly 100 years has changed hands for the first time in two decades.

Tennis star Boris Becker could be jailed for transferring hundreds of thousands of pounds from his business account after his bankruptcy.

Airlines have been urged by the aviation regulator to set “deliverable” schedules after thousands of UK flights were cancelled in recent days due to staff shortages.

The SNP’S Energy Secretary has been accused of failing to understand his own government’s policy after rejecting nuclear power from a new technology his administration has insisted it is open to looking at.

How to plan your 2000s ultimate birthday bash from Buyagift.

THE HOME Secretary has been accused of squandering opportunities to help Ukrainians in need after data revealed just 3 per cent of people who have applied for a visa have managed to get here.

NICOLA Sturgeon has rejected accusations of Donald Trump-like “arrogance and cowardice” for not inviting print media to the SNP’s local government campaign launch.

VLADIMIR Putin's daughters are being hit with sanctions by both the UK and EU.

CAMPAIGNERS have insisted that a new company taking charge of controversial plans to drill for oil at Cambo will “be hellbent on selling any oil they might extract to the highest international bidder”.

Scottish Building Society, which claims to be the world’s oldest remaining building society, has posted record results.

WEALTHY landowners should face a limit on how much of Scotland they can buy, a Labour MSP has said.

One very good way to help pay for an ageing population is to make the UK attractive to younger workers from other countries

AS with the Chancellor’s Spring Statement a few weeks ago, so too with Boris Johnson’s energy security strategy, unveiled 48 hours ago. Something important was missing.

THE apathy of the status quo is a robust thing and becomes tyranny when coupled with the twin desires to preserve tradition and defer to the rich.