SCOTS are being warned they can expect major travel disruption over the Easter weekend.

The Home Secretary has issued a rare "ministerial direction" to overrule concerns of a top civil servant regarding plans to ship some asylum seekers to Rwanda, it is reported.

The most improbable story to have ever happened in the art market. So says one contributor of the true tale told in The Lost Leonardo (Sky Arts, free to view, Tuesday, 9pm). Who could resist the offer to learn more?

HE has run half-marathons barefoot in the snow, climbed Everest wearing shorts, and he’s not even from Glasgow … Ladies and gentlemen, it’s Wim Hof!

GLASGOW City Council’s cultural arm has been accused of politicising ancient exhibits at a flagship museum by linking them to the contemporary debate around transgender rights.

Shop soiled THE surreally duff start to the SNP’s local election campaign has sparked a meme.

IT IS only an eight-minute ferry journey from its nearest large town and has been billed as being Scotland’s most accessible island.

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More than 150 people have signed a petition amid mounting anger over plans for remote learning at high schools in the Western Isles.

THE SNP will charge commuters entering Edinburgh and level the workplace parking levy on some of the biggest companies in the capital if the party is re-elected next month.

IT IS a time of change for many in the hospitality industry after one of the most difficult periods in the sector’s history.

SHAUNA Macdonald is a natural-born storyteller. The Scottish actor has a knack for rattling off anecdotes that hold the listener rapt, making for gregarious company with her quick wit and no-holds-barred candour.

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BOOKS do furnish a room. And they furnish people too, as author Emma Smith pointed out on Start the Week on Monday morning (Radio 4).

Glasgow-based training consultancy This is Milk is looking to raise up to £450,000 to support the launch of its new online learning platform.

IN the 1830s, a new disease began sweeping through Britain which is said to have "shocked society like no other illness had done in recent times and generated everything from general unease to riots".

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THAT Boris Johnson et al at Westminster should now propose forwarding refugees to Rwanda ("Johnson’s plan to send migrants to Rwanda branded 'inhumane'", The Herald, April 15) is quite the most despicable action, and that Priti Patel and Mr Johnson...

IN Holy Week when we celebrate humanity’s salvation through the death and resurrection of God’s only son our thoughts are directed towards compassion and the forgiveness of sins. These are the most sacred days in the Christian year, but they also...

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Love is stronger than war. Violence is never the answer. It is too easy to hate.

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

TRUE story: I’m perched at a high table at La Choza here scooping so-so guacamole with giant fried plantain chips and simultaneously and pretty aimlessly Googling: why do these tacos keep falling apart.

Buying stocks is one of the main things people consider when they want to make investments. After all, this is arguably the oldest form of investing that there is, and people have yielded some pretty enticing returns with the stock market throughout ...

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on Russia’s propaganda over the war in Ukraine, on April 16, 2022.

ITS release revolutionised the fitness industry and spawned a genre that is still going strong today, albeit no longer on VHS. Jane Fonda's first exercise tape - one of the best-selling video tapes of all time - turns 40.

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A WEST of Scotland seafood company that supplied top-end chefs with hand-dived scallops has ceased trading.

A community trust restoration and refurbishment project that breathed fresh life into a Borders railway station building has hailed a double accolade.

THE SNP has been criticised by opposition politicians over out-of-date information on their website that suggested students could vote twice in next month’s election.

NICOLA Sturgeon will put the cost-of-living crisis “centre stage” at next month’s council elections as she defended her Government’s support for local authorities.

POLICE are investigating the origins of a “skull” found by a member of the public on a road in Motherwell early on Friday morning.

A SCOTTISH child had to receive a liver transplant after a case of severe hepatitis amid a surge of liver inflammation across the UK.

NICOLA Sturgeon has hit out at Douglas Ross after the Scottish Tory leader backed UK government plans to send some asylum seekers to live in Rwanda.

Russia has warned of plans to intensify missile attacks on Kyiv a day after losing the Black Sea fleet flagship the Moskva.

SHIPPING migrants to Rwanda will save Britain money in the longer term, a Home Office minister has insisted.

ALEX Cole-Hamilton has said he wants his party to become the “voice of rural Scotland” as he urged Tory voters to turn their backs on the sleaze and chaos of Boris Johnson.

A man has been seriously injured after a hit-and-run murder bid in Edinburgh.

Covid-19 infection rates in the Western Isles and Shetland have soared ahead of the rest of Scotland.

A SCOTTISH outsourcer has hailed creating a further 200 jobs at a site it launched half a year ago.

The UK government plans to start sending asylum seekers to Rwanda within "weeks", the Prime Minister's policy chief has said.

The flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet has sunk after being heavily damaged after Ukrainian officials claimed to strike the ship with two missiles.

THE SNP leader of Glasgow City Council has spoken publicly for the first time about her husband being banned from acting as a company director for six years.

Pity poor Rishi? Not likely, but the Chancellor is certainly having a tough time of it lately.

SCOTLAND’S largest city’s pandemic-battered high street has been given a vote of confidence with the announcement of a £5 million investment by a venerable jeweller.

NICOLA Sturgeon will today urge voters to turn the local elections into a referendum on Boris Johnson and his record as she starts a 21-day countrywide “cost-of-living” tour.

IT'S discombobulating to hear Nigel Farage talking common sense but a stopped clock and all that, eh?

THE SNP has pledged to use new powers from Holyrood to curb soaring rents in the capital.

The bodies of more than 900 civilians have been discovered in the region surrounding the Ukrainian capital following Russia’s withdrawal, police said on Friday.

Staff and patients at an Edinburgh hospital unit have walked four million steps to raise funds for Ukraine.