UNION leaders have warned that state-controlled ScotRail’s plans to bring in 130 new train drivers will not end a staff shortage which has led to two weeks of rail chaos and cuts to one in three services across the nation from tomorrow.

MINISTERS have been advised that their experts have been unable to establish what state the two vessels at the centre of Scotland’s £250m ferry fiasco are in - despite official assurances that they will be ready next year, the Herald on Sunday can...

AN independent Scotland would have to accept keeping Trident for more than ten years if it wanted to join Nato, a leading defence expert has warned.

THE MSP behind new assisted dying proposals is confident Holyrood will support them.

Sylvie Bermann was the French ambassador to the UK during Brexit. She spent an evening with our Writer at Large Neil Mackay in Glasgow discussing Scottish independence, the UK leaving Europe, what she really thinks of Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeo...

How will a worker on average pay feel about not being able to get to or from work because of a strike by train drivers who earn £52,000 a year basic (around twice the median Scottish annual wage)?

NICOLA Sturgeon’s ultimate legacy as First Minister will be determined by whether she can deliver independence, according to Scotland’s leading historian.

By Kathleen Nutt

YOU join us as today's scheduled column is interrupted. There I was, typing up a storm at my desk, when suddenly the screen in front of me faded to black. All the words vanished. I sat momentarily bewildered. It took a few seconds for me to realise t...

For the excited crowd drawn to a field near Inverness, the Highland Games of 1822 were much as might be expected today, with one grim exception.

With its varied landscape of beaches, hills, lochs, marshes and sandy beaches, the island of Mull is a wildlife haven and home to some of the most delightful and impressive birds.

THE wild and rugged landscapes of Scotland may inspire poetry and grace calendar pages, but a raft of hidden gems can equally fire the imagination.

IT was, to say the least, quite a shameful achievement. The very place where the Covid laws were hatched was the one where they were most egregiously and most often broken.

Ukraine: Mariupol - a pyrrhic ‘victory’

IT WILL be 40 years this autumn since I first arrived at Stirling University. Four decades since I was a student on perhaps the most beautiful campus in the country. Much has changed in the interim. The halls of residence I stayed in were knocked dow...

For more than a century, it’s been a mysterious death sentence for horses which has left vets baffled and owners heartbroken.

Boris Johnson: is the greased piglet running out of wriggle room?

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Russia's energy giant Gazprom has halted exports to Finland just days after the Scandinavian country officially applied to join Nato.

A man has been hospitalised after being rescued from the roof of a burning building.

A transport union is set to ballot rail staff across the UK in what could lead to “potentially the biggest rail strike in modern history”.

Did you know that Scotland was once notorious for killing “witches” at a higher rate than anywhere else in Europe? Afraid to say we were continental champions at the dark art of falsely accusing women of wrongdoing and executing them for their tr...

THE production company behind the Channel 4 documentary show Tower Block Of Commons has said Nadine Dorries’s claim that the programme used paid actors is “unfounded”.

It follows the hatching of the first osprey of the season in Scotland on Thursday.

THE first hybrid General Assembly of the Church of Scotland opens this weekend and will consider issues including voting on whether clergy can conduct same-sex marriages.

Rangers are set to face Hearts in the Scottish Cup final at Hampden on Saturday. 

Moldova should be "equipped to Nato standard" to guard against potential Russian aggression, the Foreign Secretary has said.

Combined sewage overflows, which are designed to release untreated sewage in times of extreme rain, are less monitored in Scotland than in England, with only 10%of them monitored here, compared to 80% in England.

FEBRUARY 2022, Seafield sewage treatment works, a vast construction of pools and pipes at the edge of the city, where Edinburgh meets the Firth of Forth.

WHAT a difference a lockdown makes. Normal People, an adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel, had us swooning. Oh how we luxuriated in the long, pause strewn conversations as first love blossomed in all its glory.

MIINISTERS have come under fire for failing to sanction a new emergency ferry as one Scots island which has suffered three months of disruptions since the start of the year has been hit yet again.

CONSUMERS have been faced with "shocking" price hikes of more than 20 per cent on hundreds of popular items over the past two years which are putting increasing pressure on household budgets.

THE First Minister has been accused of “peddling ScotRail spin” over the cuts to services, as calls are made for urgent action to fix staffing shortages.

SCOTLAND’S key export markets are under threat from all sides now.

A FORMER rail company director has raised concerns over the continued use of the model of train involved in the Stonehaven crash, calling for speed limits to be introduced for the trains until they are removed from service.

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A man has been charged in connection with the death of man in North Lanarkshire.

Boris Johnson is being urged to explain why he met with Sue Gray to discuss her partygate report on lockdown-breaching parties in Downing Street.

By Andrew Quinn

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By Ian McConnell

By Ian McConnell

A FEW years ago, I had one of the strangest legal tussles of my journalism career.

By Andrew Quinn

By Kara Kennedy

IAN McConnell hits the nail on the head (“Ferguson sniping signals Scots goldfish-bowl politicians not grown up enough”, Business Voices, May 18). Our politicians are not grown-up enough. Neither are large numbers of Scots.

Words: Adair Crumpton

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