A SUMMER national rail strike is moving closer - as up to 800 ScotRail services were cancelled in just over a week in the wake of a drivers pay dispute which has seen workers unofficially work to rule.

A ban on "discriminatory" pavement parking should be enforced more quickly in Scotland because it puts people off walking and cycling in their communities, according to a new study.

PIPELINE engineering specialist STATS (UK) Ltd increased revenue to just under £50 million and signalled growth with potentially more work in renewables and energy transition.

By Scott Wright

LEADING global fund manager James Anderson recently highlighted his belief that a very large state investment fund in Scotland, matched with private sector money, could enable the nation to achieve major successes.

They were a group of friends who had grown up together and had stayed close even as they went their different ways in life.

not shine a light on the reasons for the deaths it does highlight how almost all of those that died had been within institutional care for more than 30 days with 6 people having been there for more than a year.

THE number of nurses and midwives registered in Scotland has risen by just 280 in the past year.

THE Herald is to recognise the best use of communications in business at one of the country’s leading awards ceremonies.

By Scott Wright

DOES anyone seriously think Nicola Sturgeon would send Trident packing if she wins the independence referendum she hopes to hold next year?

THE SNP policy is for a Scottish state to ratify the new UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Nicola Sturgeon has given strong personal support to this and there will be an SNP observer at the first meeting of the 60 state parties ...

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FAST-food chain McDonald’s has announced that it is to leave Russia for good. After temporarily closing its 847 outlets in the country in March following Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine, it is now pulling out altogether.

With less than two weeks to go until the winners of this year’s The Herald Higher Education Awards are announced in front of a packed audience in Glasgow’s Crowne Plaza Hotel, the finalists have been announced.

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WHEN the British shortage of HRT hit the news, even the war in Ukraine took a back seat. Such was the consternation and anger this caused it felt as if every woman between the ages of 45 and 55 was about to descend on the doorsteps of Bute House and ...

NOW the dust has settled on the local government election results we are about to enter the phoney war of independence and indyref2. You may think we have been in that phoney war since the autumn of 2014 – I mean, the issue has hardly gone away at ...

Our cartoonist Stephen Camley on the 'worthless' Northern Ireland Protocol

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Investigators have so far not found any mechanical or technical faults with the jet

Labour called for more help for struggling households, but the Chancellor said it was not possible to totally protect people from rising costs

Ross Greer is a West Scotland list MSP

The register shows the number of nurses and midwives eligible to practise

Met Police said officers received a report in January 2020 relating to alleged sexual offences committed in London between 2002 and 2009

THE SNP and Greens have started “formal negotiations” about establishing a minority administration on Edinburgh City Council.

THE SCOTTISH Conservatives have been accused of “completely mischaracterising” plans to reform and simplify the process for trans people to change gender.

An investigation has been launched after a golden eagle was found dead in Perth and Kinross.

A TORY MP has been arrested on suspicion of rape.

A previous visit found there was no room to feed babies, few washing and cooking facilities, and that it was not safe for the children to play, crawl or stand.

Rail workers in Scotland could strike this summer, as they aim to disrupt the Edinburgh Festivals.

SIX islands will turn carbon neutral by 2040 under a Scottish Government project – ten years after the country’s two biggest cities hope to achieve the aim.

A KAYAKER has died after getting into difficulty on a loch on Tuesday morning.

THE MISINFORMATION around proposed reforms to the process for trans people to obtain gender recognition is reminiscent of the treatment of gay men in decades past, the director of an LGBT charity has said.

CAMPAIGNERS have warned the Scottish Government that its long-delayed proposals to streamline the process for trans people to obtain gender recognistion falls short of what is required.

Robbie Waddell, 52, died following a crash on the A835 near Gorstan in the Highlands.

DECATHLON UK is to open a new 1,500 sqm store in Livingston that is expected to inject millions of pounds into the local economy per year.

FINANCE secretary Kate Forbes refused to provide any level of confidence over whether ships at the centre of Scotland's ferry fiasco would see service next year.

MPS have warned that the UK government's plans to rip up the Northern Ireland Protocol will start a trade war with the EU.

Rangers fans are expected to outnumber the Eintracht Frankfurt fans two to one in Seville, according to figures from officials.

THE FOREIGN secretary has announced the UK Government will lay down laws that would rip up parts fo the Northern Ireland procotol within weeks.

Linda Lambert told the inquiry into Sheku Bayoh's death in Edinburgh that she was “very frightened”.

THE owner of Tennent’s Lager has offloaded its stake in a major UK pub company for £55 million.

A TOTAL of seven cases of monkeypox have now been identified in the UK this month.

FORMER Conservative leader William Hague has attacked the Government for delaying measures to tackle unhealthy eating, branding the weakening of anti-obesity strategy under pressure from MPs “morally reprehensible”.

If the current rate response continues until the new deadline on May 31, uptake is expected to remain below 90 per cent. 

A renewable energy firm wants to build a new underground hydro power station deep within a Scottish mountain.

THE SNP and the Scottish Greens have struck a landmark deal to jointly run Glasgow city council, the Herald can reveal.

Union leaders have warned of the 'worst cuts to rail services since the dark days of Beeching" by newly-nationalised ScotRail amidst an ongoing pay dispute which has led to hundreds of service cancellations due to driver shortages.

Some are calling the First Minister’s trip to the United States a wasteful “indy tour”. Others have been grumbling about that fact that she has centred a key speech on climate change, even as she has added to her carbon footprint a plume of tra...