Here is a look at some of the last ScotRail train times amid the temporary cuts in Monday to Friday services. 

IT could all come down to the photos. That is the thinking as Westminster readies for the publication of Sue Gray’s report into Downing Street parties during lockdown.With fines issued and the police investigation concluded, the senior civil servan...

Very little renewable energy is produced in London. So why is the daily standing charge there the lowest in Britain by a country mile? You don’t have to be a "raving nationalist" to ask.

I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed. Labour, the Lib Dems, and some independents have struck a deal to run a Scottish council and the SNP and its supporters have called it a “unionist pact”. Others in the party have called it a “backroom d...

I recently described how a long-anticipated holiday in Gran Canaria turned into a nightmare. To recap briefly, I became very ill and in need of urgent, lifesaving surgery. Thankfully, I hadn’t skimped on insurance and had taken out a top-of-the-ran...

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Is Scotland the most gullible country in the world? Our First Minister seems to think so. The Sunday National published a rare article written by her yesterday in which she announces that “now is the time to debate independence”. She doesn’t qu...

By Scott Wright

A CAMPAIGNER whose daughter died from a deep vein thrombosis days after warning doctors she was ill said he is "very disappointed" by figures showing an increase in blood clot deaths among females under 40.

By Scott Wright

NURSES in Scotland will fight for an above inflation pay rise when talks get underway with the Scottish Government in the coming weeks, a trade union leader has said.

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Competition for the very best talent is intensifying. While attracting new talent remains a challenge, and the volume of unfilled vacancies is still extraordinarily high across all sectors, one solution for businesses is to think upstream and instead...

It will come as no surprise to you, I know, but just to get it on record, for the third year in a row, the official best small business in the entire UK is from Scotland.

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IT appears that the SNP’s dream of a nationalised rail service has quickly turned into a nightmare, with services decimated and workers – the new owners of Scotrail – unable to get home from their jobs without significant costs, delays and inco...

COMMENTS by Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey who gave an “apocalyptic” warning over rising food prices and blamed global factors including the war in Ukraine, have under under fire from Scottish entrepreneurs Sir Tom Hunter and Lord Willie ...

IT’S the iconic Scottish coat brand famously worn by President John F Kennedy at his inauguration in 1961 that also found favour with Winston Churchill and Doctor Who.

By David Scott

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When one of the richest men in the world decided it was time to indulge in his love of fine objects, some of the land’s most accomplished designers sharpened their pencils and got to work.

EVERY mother's worst nightmare is unfolding in the United States with a baby formula shortage that has deepened during the pandemic and is now a full-blown crisis, leaving parents searching for vital milk and, at times, taking desperate, dangerous me...

A WORRYING study just published has warned that by the year 2040 there will be 42 million overweight people in the UK.

Sievierodonetsk is the main city under Ukrainian control in Luhansk province

The trust which runs Birmingham Children’s Hospital said the death occurred on its paediatric intensive care unit.

Many people who have transitioned find their voice does not match the person they have become

The rail operator was brought into public ownership at the beginning of April

AN APPLICATION has been submitted to demolish a landmark Glasgow city centre building and replace it with a £75 million office development with ground-floor retail space.

A TRADE union has hit out at a Scottish Government minister for asking workers to be 'sensible' about pay.

THE UK Government's education secretary has been unable to say who organised a meeting between Boris Johnson and the civil servant investigating lockdown breaking across Whitehall.

THE Scottish Government's employment minister has said he hopes the Scotrail strike problems will be "sorted soon" but distanced Holyrood's ability to intervene.

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...

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

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)?

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’

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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...

A New Scotland - Building an Equal, Fair and Sustainable Society

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

Brian Beacom