The UK Government has said "all options are on the table" to respond to Russia if Moscow's forces are found to have used chemical agents.

A Conservative MP has come under fire after claiming the conviction of a fellow MP was a "dreadful miscarriage of justice”.

This week it’s the methane graph, as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which monitors concentration of the gas, has announced that its levels had jumped by 17 parts per billion (ppb) in 2021.

The asylum seeker who stabbed six people in Glasgow's Park Inn hotel contacted the Home Office and other organisations more than 70 times.

NICOLA Sturgeon has been urged to launch an official investigation into claims Lorna Slater broke the Ministerial Code by comparing critics of plans to reform Scotland’s gender recognition laws to racists and anti-Semites.

CONSERVATIVES will support local councils being able to vary thresholds of a key tax to take higher prices into account as an election manifesto pledge.

THE SNP’s Angus Brendan MacNeil has called for Scotland’s sea-eagle population to be “controlled” after constituents on Barra lost livestock to the giant birds.

THE long queues and flight cancellations that have become commonplace at UK airports in recent days will have been hard to take for holidaymakers desperate to travel overseas. Especially for those holidaymakers who are heading abroad for the first ti...

UK output slowed in February indicating the economic recovery was weaker than thought even before the additional surge in inflation triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

THE SCOTTISH Greens will focus on local decisions that can impact global climate action as the party unveils its manifesto for next month’s councils election.

UP to 300 jobs are set to be created in Scotland with the development of what is claimed will be among the “first fully electric 4X4s designed and built in the UK”.

ICE cream maker Mackie’s of Scotland has hailed a “huge hike” in listings with the UK supermarket chain across hundreds of stores in England and Wales.

WHEN I started working in Starbucks in 1999 we had three beverage sizes - short, tall and grande, the names for 8oz, 12oz and 16oz cups.

Luvvies, don’t you just love them? OK, don’t answer that. It may be my imagination playing tricks on me, but there seems to be more purveyors of “the craft” than ever before, largely, I suspect, due to the explosion in streaming platforms. An...

A SPANISH doctor alleged to have performed a series of botched hair transplants at a Glasgow clinic may be banned from working in the UK.

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NORTH Sea-focused Longboat Energy has underlined the potential to make big gas finds in the area as it looks to continue a notable run of exploration success.

ABERDEEN-based oil services heavyweight Centurion Group has increased its exposure to the renewable energy sector through the acquisition of a Canadian specialist.

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FORGOTTEN your bank card? Is your phone out of charge? Don’t worry. You can still pay for that coffee. Just use your hand.

Farming

He is better known for launching Scotland's world-renowned Celtic Connections festival and as one of the founder members of Capercaillie.

YOU report Douglas Ross’s promise that any Conservative councillor elected next month will “apply to Westminster's Levelling Up Fund, which provides direct investment to councils for local projects” ("SNP urges rejection of ‘power grab’ as ...

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

IN theory at least, we have now entered a new phase of the pandemic: the ambitiously-titled "living alongside Covid".

Our cartoonist Steven Camley's take on Rishi Sunak's financial affairs

Bar-room badinage

The proportion of patients seen on time by Scotland’s A&E units fell to its second worst level on record last week, despite fewer people seeking help.

SUSAN Aitken has said she would stand down as SNP group leader if her party loses control of Glasgow city council next month.

THE SNP leader of Glasgow city council is open to a coalition deal with Labour after next month's election, The Herald can reveal.

A DENTAL practice owned and run bu a husband and wife team has been sold.

DOUGLAS Ross has defended a key UK Government policy – insisting it “absolutely does not” undermine devolution.

THE redevelopment of St. Enoch Centre - to include 1700 homes - has taken a step closer as bosses revealed a planning application for the scheme has now been submitted.

CAMPAIGNERS for buffer zones to stop anti-abortion groups from intimidating women outside hospitals have called for a Scottish Government minister to resign, after more than 100 protesters staged a demonstration outside Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth Un...

A man has been found guilty of stabbing Sir David Amess to death and plotting to attack other MPs including Michael Gove.

THE UK Government should follow Holyrood's lead and develop a food security taskforce, an SNP MP has said.

BORIS Johnson has given the go-ahead for an investigation into Rishi Sunak’s declarations by his ministerial standards watchdog.

A TOURIST tax will be introduced in Scotland's capital if the SNP win the council elections in Edinburgh next month and form the new administration, the Herald can reveal.

SCOTTISH Labour leader Anas Sarwar is to become a pundit for Rupert Murdoch’s new TV channel.

The trial of an ex-SNP MP who is accused of embezzling more than £25,000 has been adjourned because she is unwell.

LORNA Slater has been accused of breaching the ministerial code after she compared critics of government plans to reform gender recognition laws to racists and antisemites.

The UK economy slowed more sharply than expected in February, raising fears that growth could stall or be thrown into reverse in the coming months.

A 174-year-old baronial mansion in Glasgow's Tollcross Park is set for a £1 million upgrade following its acquisition by a local developer.

A housebuilder has been hailed for funding a pathway that will help improve active travel infrastructure in and around an East Lothian town.

Ukraine residents are braced for an increased offensive by Russian troops in the east, after a warning by President Volodymyr Zelensky.

THE destination marketing organisation for Moray and Speyside is this week revealing details of a UK marketing campaign focused on boosting tourism to the area and promoting opportunities for "outdoor activities, natural experiences and wellbeing".

THE Chancellor, his wife, her tax status and his green card. Not a sequel to the Peter Greenaway movie of 1989, but a summary of what was on the minds of Sunday politics show hosts at the end of an embarrassing week for Rishi Sunak.

ALL Scottish Tory councillors will submit "every possible bid" to a UK Government funding scheme if successfully elected.

If you’ve seen the inside of the People’s Pantry in Govanhill you will know that it is so small, so tiny, so infinitesimally miniscule that there is no room inside for the First Minister to answer questions from newspaper journalists. This is a n...

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