There can be few more enlightening articles on rewilding or land ownership in recent weeks than the one by David Segal that ran in the New York Times, looking at the peatland restoration projects of Anders Povlsen, the Danish billionaire who owns 200...

ONE of the UK’s largest community-led nature and climate projects based in Scotland is "hanging in the balance" due to issues over raising the necessary money.

SCHOOL staff, home care workers and binmen are to be balloted for industrial action in a dispute over local authority pay.

A STARK reminder of the deep challenges facing the retail sector was splashed across newspaper pages in recent days, as reports highlighted major upheaval at one of the industry’s most historic names.

Student leaders are demanding that ministers act to prevent crippling disruption during exam season as colleges brace for fresh strikes over pay.

Gleneagles Townhouse, the first venture beyond the Perthshire hills for Gleneagles Hotel in its almost 100-year history, has announced its opening date.

SUPERMARKET giant Morrisons has won a takeover battle for collapsed convenience store chain McColl’s.

Fears are growing that a proposed Scottish alternative to the Turing exchange scheme has been shelved indefinitely after ministers admitted there was no timetable for consulting on it.

THE Declaration of Arbroath is to go on public display for the first time in 17 years, The Herald can reveal.

NORTH Sea oil firms could slash the emissions associated with offshore production by around 80 per cent using power generated by floating windfarms while achieving significant cost savings, a study has found.

By Ian McConnell

By Scott Wright

OIL and gas firm Longboat Energy has bought into a North Sea gas prospect that is estimated to contain around 100 million barrels oil equivalent, following a run of exploration successes.

By Scott Wright

KEVIN McKenna ("It's possible to hate the SNP and back independence", The Herald, May 9) is spot on. But he delivers a stinging blow to the would-be pretenders to the throne that the nationalists have held for 15 years. Labour has to find a leader in...

A THOUSAND PhDs will be written about the political events of the last few days. Pick your metaphor for change: we’ve stepped over a line in the sand, crossed the Rubicon, found ourselves in uncharted territory. Or, to turn to a rather apt master o...

I HAVE an addiction. But my problem (and I count my lucky stars for this) doesn’t extend to harmful substances. Instead, I’m hooked on something else entirely – my need to obtain a complete collection of some type of thing or another. I’m a �...

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

By Julie Cameron

Our cartoonist Steven Camley's take on the Victory Day parade in Moscow

I CAN’T remember when I first got fed up with the suffix “-gate” being applied to every scandal, real or fabricated, that came along, but it must have been much closer to the original Watergate affair than to the present day. Perhaps it was “...

Mindful miss

THE other day, I was contacted by a researcher working on the political contribution of the late Tam Dalyell. As a memory prompt, he enclosed an article I wrote in 1978 when a Scottish Assembly was in prospect.

The family of a man who died in police custody have said he is “Scotland’s George Floyd” as the inquiry into his death gets underway on Tuesday.

Detectives investigating the murder of a 26-year-old woman have said a man has been arrested.

Book your Spring staycation at the Scottish hotel named among Tripadvisor's best in the UK for 2022.

Ladbrokes is offering odds of 4/1 on the record summer temperature of 38.7C being surpassed this year.

Morrisons has beaten EG Group in the battle to buy collapsed convenience chain McColl's, saving 16,000 jobs, the supermarket has said.

THE Scottish Tories have appointed a deputy leader and a new party chairman following their election losses last week.

SIR Keir Starmer has dramatically promised to resign if he is fined by the police for breaking lockdown rules in the so-called ‘beergate’ scandal.

Civil engineering and building contractor Farrans Construction is celebrating 75 years in Scotland having completed over 1GW of windfarms, enough to power 750,000 homes in the country.

The Glasgow Business Awards, hosted by Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, is returning for its 24th year with a black-tie ceremony later this year.

THE SNP and the Greens are due to begin talks in the coming days about the prospect of forming a joint administration to run Scotland's largest local authority.

NATALIE McGarry transferred more than £10,000 from a Yes group's fund into her own bank account before paying rent, a court has heard.

NEWLY nationalised ScotRail launched a huge half-price rail tickets sale today with a view to tempt back travellers to using the train after the Covid pandemic which led to a huge drop in passenger numbers.

ANAS Sarwar says he believes Keir Starmer will “absolutely” lead Labour into the next general election, despite increasing pressure over the Beergate row.

An average of 1189 Scots tested positive for coronavirus each day over the past seven days as the Scottish Government begins a transition to less frequent updates.

A GLASGOW arts venue which was one of the first commissions by architect Charles Rennie Macintosh has yet to fully reopen to the public since it was first forced to shut in March 2020.

LABOUR’S leader in Edinburgh is set to open discussions with a number of parties about potential city council deals but said he will “take on board” an order from central office for formal coalitions to be ruled out.

NICOLA Sturgeon has labelled comments made by one of her SNP MSPs claiming that medical clinics put pressure on women to have abortions as “wrong”.

A UNION has called for action by new council leaders to avert a summer strike involving binmen, schools and social care services.

NICOLA Sturgeon has been unable to set out a timetable for a referendum bill on independence to be published despite insisting there is a “growing sense” the UK is not serving the needs of nations.

THE LIBDEMS have ruled out going into coalition with the SNP in Edinburgh as talks continue over who will run the city.

NICOLA Sturgeon is to visit the United States next week as she promotes her Government's thinking on international affairs ahead of her planned independence referendum.

STATE-CONTROLLED shipyard firm Ferguson Marine has defended itself after an oil firm which ordered a 'first of its kind' air cushioned barge from the company said it was towed away semi-finished vessel to be completed elsewhere – after losing confi...

An Italian restaurant in Lanarkshire has been put on the market, with the owner set to retire.

A BOMB disposal team have been called out to a Scottish castle after a suspect item was found nearby.

The speech comes as Russia is set to mark Victory Day with a military parade as the country marks the defeat of the Nazis in 1945. 

Morrisons and EG Group have both launched final bids to secure rescue deals for convenience chain McColl's after the firm fell into administration on Friday.

Disruption is set to continue on a popular rail line after a train was derailed on Friday night.