NICOLA Sturgeon has congratulated to Emmanuel Macron who has been re-elected as the President of France.

IT is fair to say Keir Starmer has had a good week. Going on the attack over Partygate, the Labour leader has spent the past seven days setting about Boris Johnson with a determination that might have earned a nod of respect from Tyson Fury.

THE TORIES have accused the SNP of "levelling down" Scotland over the last 15 years in power.

The Cambo oil field isn’t the only controversy in the waters off Shetland. Island fishermen say Spanish and French-owned boats are destroying marine ecology, with miles of discarded gillnets entangling and drowning seals, birds and other sea mammal...

ANAS Sarwar has defended his decision to rule out formal coalitions with other parties after next month’s local elections – insisting it will bring an end to “party political stitch-ups”.

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It's been a long time. When the pandemic first hit, I pretty much moved all my shopping online. I was also working from home which meant I wasn’t going into Glasgow city centre any more. A few weeks turned into a few months which turned into two ye...

INTERNATIONAL Workers Memorial Day will be commemorated on Thursday primarily by trade unions across Scotland. Most of us spend a significant part of our lives at work but IWMD calls for action are too often marginalised and quickly forgotten. Howeve...

I ALWAYS wince a little when people declare pride at belonging to a race or nationality. You might as well proclaim your delight at simply being members of the human race. All countries and peoples have unique histories bearing witness to deeds that ...

NICOLA Sturgeon has lobbied London financial heavyweights to help plug a £31 billion funding gap to decarbonise Scotland’s buildings in just eight years’ time.

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Independent Scottish legal firm Shepherd and Wedderburn has appointed five new partners along with a raft of other promotions due to take effect from May 1.

Two of Scotland’s top entrepreneurs have urged both industry and government to use their power to help combat the energy crisis, following comments by Keith Anderson, chief executive of Glasgow-based ScottishPower, who said the situation is beyond ...

Describing the current state of the electoral battles for our town halls and city chambers as “election fever” might be political hypochondria.

As your organisation continues its journey towards a more diverse and inclusive team of employees, it’s important to ensure that you’re relying on the most up-to-date information about recruiting the right people and meeting their needs and behav...

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Two chairs that were part of a COP26 art exhibition in Glasgow have been shipped to the Holy Land to help bring people together in the name of peace.

Sir Tom Hunter and Lord Willie Haughey have paid tribute to Sir Ian Wood in the latest instalment of the Great Scots series on the Go Radio Business Show.

Andrew Morrison, managing director of the Clydeside Distillery and director of independent bottlers AD Rattray, has revealed the challenges – and opportunities – faced by the whisky industry.

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REBECCA McQuillan gives food for thought on the political shenanigans we are enduring as part of the UK ("Johnson makes even unionists turn to independence", The Herald, April 22)

WITH his trusty camera and a keen eye for a photograph, Duncan Macpherson captured the day to day lives of the families he encountered, of men marching to war, island weddings, crofters and children.

NADINE Dorries has revealed the impact of dyslexia on her speech, but revealed she takes solace in writing as the culture secretary is a novelist - with some of her words too risqué to reprint.

A TALE that underlines the electorate’s profound admiration for the political class. John Macnab, from Ayrshire, was told of a conversation that took place in Glasgow between two political canvassers and a chap on the doorstep.

Shepherd and Wedderburn is a leading, independent Scottish-headquartered UK law firm, with offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, London and Dublin. Its lawyers, many of whom are independently recognised as leaders in their fields, deliver comprehe...

Morgan’s new global show, Uncensored, will launch via TalkTV in the UK, Fox Nation in the US and Sky News in Australia.

LABOUR has called for a “zero tolerance” approach to alleged harassment by MPs after reports five frontbench politicians are facing allegations of misconduct.

Scottish housebuilding giant Stewart Milne has hoisted the “for sale” sign over his eponymous housebuilding group, having decided to retire after nearly half a century.

THE UK Government has had a “massive missed opportunity” to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons, the SNP’s Westminster leader has claimed.

LABOUR’S only Scottish MP has claimed Boris Johnson is trying to “tar everyone with the same brush and undermine democracy in order to get away with his own failings”.

A FORMER First Minister is pushing for a police investigation after ministers were accused of breaking the law through a lack of transparency over the ferry fiasco which has seen two new lifeline vessels still out of service after six years and with ...

Asylum seekers who were nearly killed in a stabbing in a Glasgow hotel have had their injury compensation claims rejected, a charity has claimed.

NICOLA Sturgeon has been asked to personally intervene in Scotland's ferry crisis - as campaigners make a desperate push for purchase of an emergency vessel for sale for a fraction of the the £52.5m being spent for each new ship being built in Turke...

CHANGES to the way the electricity network is paid for threatens the future of energy supplies and presents a new barrier for investment in green energy projects in Scotland and damage moves to tackle climate change.

When professional boxer Gary Murray suffered a devastating brain injury in the ring, his family feared the worst.

MINISTERS will come under growing pressure to overhaul council tax when the trade union movement step up demands this week over local government funding reform.

The Conservatives in Westminster have lost the plot. They have taken leave of what little sense they had left after the Brexit wars. Boris Johnson has driven them into the realms of the irrational. It’s not the men in grey suits that they need now ...

In an exclusive interview with The Herald on Sunday, legendary Scots actor and star of US hit show Succession, Brian Cox, talks to Barrie Cunning about his love of Scotland, Scottish politics, and how he wants to see the best for Scotland

ON a campaign visit to Possilpark, Glasgow earlier this month Keir Starmer and Anas Sarwar emphatically rejected any prospect of Labour working in a coalition with the SNP at a local or national level in the future.

A man and woman have been charged in connection with an attempted murder after emergency services responded to a gas leak.

The First Minister joined a crowd of more than 10,000 to raise cash for charity at Glasgow’s Kiltwalk on Sunday.

The Home Secretary has defended the Government’s controversial agreement to send asylum seekers for processing to Rwanda as being “very unique” and “not like a trade deal”.

Angela Rayner has accused Tory MPs of using anonymous briefings to spread “desperate, perverted smears” about her by claiming she has sought to distract the Prime Minister provocatively in the Commons.

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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has said he will meet with two top American officials in Kyiv on Sunday.

Japan’s coast guard has said 10 of the 26 people aboard a tour boat that sank in the waters of a northern national park have been confirmed dead.

GRAHAM Phillips could soon be the first comedian from Dundee to end up in The Hague.

LIKE all good yarns our tale begins on a dark and stormy night. It was in the winter of 1850 that high seas and ferocious winds battered the shores of Orkney, washing away part of the sand dunes that fringed the Bay of Skaill to reveal the clutch of ...

When mum to be Lucy Lintott was in hospital for the birth of her first child, her partner likened the anxious wait for the battle ahead to the kind of nervous tension felt by a Tommy in the First World War.