Her name conjures up angels and celestial beings, but as HMS Seraph, an S-Class submarine measuring 217ft of deadly war machine, surfaced in the chilly springtime waters of the Holy Loch, her mission was far from heavenly.

It feels ironic that the week that Devi Sridhar and I are meant to meet in person, I come down, with Covid. We resort to the tool of the pandemic, Zoom.

MOTORWAY service stations, how much do you hate them? On a long journey, when you need a pit stop and don’t want to take a chance on the nearest town (have you seen Deliverance?), they are a necessary evil. Crowded, noisy, expensive, it’s a get i...

COME awards season The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe (STV, Sunday-Wednesday) should be a shoo-in for several prizes, including “best bad acting”. It takes a truly gifted thesp to act like a beginner, and Monica Dolan and Eddie Marsan delivered th...

THE UK is in the grip of an employment emergency. There is a record 1.25 million job vacancies and a labour shortage that is keeping businesses that should be open closed.

By Ian McConnell

MINISTERS will face pressure next week to drop their resistance to nuclear energy as the trade union movement back the building of new plants in Scotland in a bid to boost jobs and cut household fuel bills.

Glasgow's "sick man of Europe" tag was “not always accurate” but the cost of living crisis on top of years of austerity risks the city regressing, a leading doctor has said.

Some 700,000 Scottish households have still not submitted their census response, with just one week left to fill in their form.

IT WAS a regular sight in Glasgow Green as thousands of people donned tartan to take part in the Kiltwalk events.

RATES of norovirus have rebounded sharply in Scotland after virtually disappearing during the height of the pandemic.

By Ian McConnell

A new poll has found that small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) in the UK are less positive than their Nordic counterparts on the outlook for the economy.

By Scott Wright

By Stuart Paterson

OVER a three week period in March, clinicians at Glasgow’s Royal Hospital for Children (RHC) noticed something very strange.

IT IS the optimism that might come as a surprise. Because it’s not the usual default position when it comes to Northern Ireland.

MUSIC

“WHERE’S the fantastic pop song about Putin?” Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant asked at the end of This Cultural Life (Radio 4) last Saturday. “It’s as though it’s not the concern of pop music,” he continued. “Well, I think it is the concern...

By Clare Adamson

THE comments made by Stephen Boyle, Scotland’s Auditor General, to a Holyrood committee investigating the ferries construction fiasco are quite extraordinary ("Public finance watchdog warns over ‘lack of ferry transparency’", The Herald, April ...

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on Boris Johnson’s escape  to India on April 23, 2022.

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IF you see a photograph of the Queen or Prince William or one of the younger members of the Royal Family, you possibly don’t think too much about what they are wearing, but online, there are teams dedicated to tracking down every item.

IT seems almost sinful to mock politicians for their shortcomings in parliamentary debate or public speaking. They don’t solicit our votes on the basis of their aptitude for oratory and, if they did, it would signify shallowness and more than a deg...

A DISTINGUISHED life, no doubt. Early service in the army, followed by a career at the bar, a QC no less.

HE was a great talent, one of his obituaries said, but also a “rare scoundrel”. For more than six decades Vasily Lanovoy somehow dominated every stage he trod, every scene he shot.

A Scottish Government minister said any Westminster move to tear up a deal with the EU governing post-Brexit trading agreements with Northern Ireland would be “unthinkable”.

THE crisis is real, and it is already upon us. Fuel poverty is no mere abstraction.

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Here is how you can save money at Aldi, Lidl and Morrisons.

MEMBERS of staff in Downing Street are thought to have begun receiving fines for an infamous 'BYOB' gathering in 2020.

Cut Media, a sport content studio in Glasgow, has unveiled a ground-breaking drone film for Red Bull.

ONE of Scotland's lifeline ferry network's biggest and oldest vessels will be out of action for at least another 11 days after suffering an engine failure.

Scottish Sea Farms (SSF), the country’s second-largest producer of farmed salmon, has implemented a 9 per cent pay rise for its lowest income workers to help combat the cost-of-living crisis.

Douglas Ross has accused the SNP of “leaving behind” Scotland's rural communities.

THE SNP has included supporting a second independence referendum to be held by next year as a “key pledge” of the party’s manifesto for next month’s council elections.

THE SCOTTISH Government has been accused of “a blatant and unnecessary power grab” after proposals to make emergency Covid powers permanent narrowly made it through to the next parliamentary stage.

NICOLA Sturgeon has denied there is a Government “cover-up” after a key document explaining when a controversial contract was awarded without a full refund guarantee cannot be found.

BORIS Johnson has confirmed the UK is to reopen its embassy in Kyiv next week.

THE SCOTTISH Government has confirmed a ban on the use of combustible cladding on new residential and “high-risk” buildings over 11 metres.

The chief executive of B&M Bargains is to quit the retailer after 17 years.

Check out some of our latest properties for sale in Edinburgh. From a trendy flat to a beautiful family home, we’ve got everything covered.

There is “no question” of Boris Johnson standing down over the partygate row according to one of his closest allies.

Public health expert Devi Sridhar describes, how the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, gained her admiration over the Covid-19 crisis.

PUBLIC finance auditors have called for new reviews over Scotland's ferry fiasco - as ministers were accused of breaking the law over a transparency failure over the debacle.

THE supreme inadequacy of the Boris Johnson administration’s

RECENTLY I met friends of friends for the first time. One stared at me quite intently for a few moment before landing an expected right hook.

SCOTLAND’S first commercial gold mining company plans to more than double its gold output to an annual rate of 23,500 ounces by next year as it hailed record levels of gold concentrate production.