JIM McColl's Ferguson Marine failed to fulfil mandatory requirements to qualify as the ferry fiasco contract bidder raising fresh questions about the legality of the procurement process, the Herald on Sunday can reveal.

THE nationalised ScotRail recuitment 'scandal' that has caused massive cuts to train services will not be resolved for five years, it is feared.

SCOTLAND'S biggest council has been lambasted for making a 'taxpayer value for money' evening meals cut to hundreds of homeless people after creating secret Covid deals worth £1.6m.

Preparations drawn up three years ago are now being considered once again to minimise disruption to supplies of food and medicines and limit damage to businesses in the event of disruption.

By Kathleen Nutt

TRANS people could be subject to “vexatious and malicious” applications to have gender recognition certificates revoked by family members who do not approve, campaigners have warned.

By Kathleen Nutt

IT IS a familiar toothy grin that has graced countless happy snaps across the years, the jagged reptilian smile beaming out over a popular Scottish island beach.

By Paul Dobson

The golden barley ripples in the breeze and just a short distance away the bespoke copper stills begin the gentle process of turning its grain into the water of life.

Torn from what should have been their final resting place or, worse, smothered in their sleep and then carted through the streets, they were silent participants in a quest for knowledge.

WHEN baby Eva Hopper was stillborn four years ago, within only weeks of her due date, her parents’ world was naturally turned upside down.

Insight and analysis on stories from across the world by Foreign Editor David Pratt

AS U-turns go, it was the most dramatic to date. Which is saying something. Boris Johnson is now relying on “bazookering” the cost-of-living crisis with higher taxes and more spending.

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THE Lion Rampant is often thought of as second flag of Scotland, after the Saltire, but don’t for a minute go thinking its yours. It’s no’. The law, and the royal family, are quite clear about that.

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SHORTLY after Boris Johnson became Prime Minister, and especially during the pandemic, it became clear to me that he was not a conventional Conservative. Indeed, he isn’t really a Conservative at all. Many took issue with me insisting that he’s a...

CLIFF Todd was the head of Britain’s Forensic Explosives Laboratory. Now retired, he breaks his silence on the Lockerbie case, talking of the unanswered questions to our Writer at Large, Neil Mackay, who covered the terrorist atrocity and got to kn...

The golden barley ripples in the breeze and just a short distance away the bespoke copper stills begin the gentle process of turning grain into the water of life.

By Maureen Sugden

ScotRail has yet to organise an emergency Sunday timetable and has instead told passengers to expect cancellations tomorrow.

A Labour MSP campaigning for safe drug consumption rooms to be legalised in Scotland said the facilities are “fairly normal” in other parts of the world.

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Samuel Hamilton was found seriously injured outside his home in Bellshill around 11.30pm on May 18, 2022.

A mother “self disconnected” the gas supply to her home due to surging energy prices, an anti-poverty charity has claimed.

Social Justice Secretary Shona Robison has hailed an “important” milestone for a mobile app which helps people find free period products across Scotland.

At least 20 Tories have publicly called for Boris Johnson's resignation so far - after the publication of Sue Gray's report into Downing Street parties.

THEY walked in silence and perhaps this was a time when no words were required, but instead they were united in their grief after losing loved ones during the pandemic.

HOTEL owners revamping and expanding their properties have been faced with doubling costs for basic materials such as steel and plasterboard.

NADINE Dorries has been asked to define “British” in a row over the UK Government’s plans to create a “new golden age of British TV."

Professor Hannah Fry introduces herself on her website as a “mathematician, science presenter and all-round badass”.

THE prospect of Indyref2 could give the property market recovery a dent.

MORE than 400,000 households have yet to return their census forms with only one weekend left until the extended deadline expires.

Boris Johnson has committed to working with Western allies to break the Russian “despicable blockade” on Ukrainian ports, in an effort to "avert a global food crisis”.

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The return of Stranger Things

Scottish politics used to be so classy, or so at least many of us thought so.

SCOTLAND’S Covid memorial has officially opened in Glasgow's Pollok Country Park following an emotional ceremony.

IT WAS a question asked as Scotland was beginning to emerge from the first national lockdown: how do we remember this?

The SNP's pursuit of independence has slowed progress in eradicating poverty and health inequalities, according to Scottish Labour's former leader.

By Scott Wright

By Tim Wishart

Health outcomes have been transformed over the past few decades.

Pope Francis will join the Archbishop of Canterbury and the new Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland on a “historic” peace pilgrimage to South Sudan.

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UNTIL now I thought that Partygate should take second place to big national and world events, especially as Boris Johnson seemed to be handling them well. But I fear his energy-cost support response has been driven more by Partygate than a real sense...

NICHOLAS Fairbairn read over Sir John Betjeman’s Jubilee Hymn, which had been written to mark the 25th anniversary of the Queen’s reign, and decided that it just would not do. It was, sniffed the prominent, pugnacious Tory MP, “absolutely pathe...

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