MORE than 400 train services are estimated to have been been hit yesterday due to a shortage of train drivers - despite extensive cuts to the nationalised ScotRail timetable.

SCOTLAND’S food banks have warned the Scottish Government they are struggling to meet a huge rise in demand amid the cost-of-living crisis, with one in three parcels being  given to children and demand outstripping supply.

SUNDAYS can sometimes seem like a twilight zone between the political week just past and the one to come, but are they home to an alternative reality, a parallel universe where things are not as they seem?

 

“Whole classes” of pupils are leaving primary school without basic reading skills because of a failure to focus on systematic synthetic phonics (SSP), according to a teaching consultant.

At today’s EU summit, Europe’s leaders will continue their tortuous efforts to agree the shape of a Russian oil embargo. And the next summit at the end of June will prove no less challenging when the question of Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova joini...

I was speaking to a guy in the pub the other day who worked on the shipyards in Glasgow for nearly 50 years, starting shortly after the work-in led by Jimmy Reid, and what was really striking as he talked about his long career was how much things hav...

Two of Scotland’s top entrepreneurs have given a scathing indictment of Boris Johnson, following the publication of the Sue Gray report into Partygate. Speaking on the Go Radio Business Show with Hunter & Haughey, Sir Tom Hunter said: “In 2020 th...

There are tough years, and then there are periods of tumult where problems spring up like incessant weeds in an array of awkward places. The latter probably best describes the 14 months since Parsley Box made its debut as a publicly-listed company.

THOSE trade unions are at it again: fighting for their members; trying to secure better pay and conditions.

The sheer scale of the UK Government’s legislative agenda unveiled in the Queen’s Speech this month was breathtaking.

Brian Duffy is best known as the CEO of Watches of Switzerland Group, the UK’s leading watch retailer, but his career has spanned the globe.

Scots families seeking answers from the NHS  after the death of loved ones have told of medical notes going missing, health boards “closing ranks” and being accused of paranoia.

Despite facing legacy challenges brought by the pandemic, Glasgow is set to grow stronger through academic excellence and inward investment, according to the chief executive of Glasgow Chamber of Commerce.

By Rory Mair

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MOST sensible newspaper columnists decry the demon drink. The Diary, however, has a more circumspect attitude towards alcohol.

IN a dispute that has rumbled on through the ages, rather than there being any sign of resolution, the row over the Elgin Marbles has now deepened.

Threats to security of supply have prompted Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng to ask Britain’s coal-fired power stations to delay their closures.

Researchers from the Edinburgh-based university examined 93 cumulative effect assessments

MOST sensible newspaper columnists decry the demon drink. The Diary, however, has a more circumspect attitude towards alcohol.

Strike action could be “inevitable” for tens of thousands of council workers in Scotland this summer, as union bosses hit out at the offer of a “paltry” pay increase.

A Scots neuroscientist is aiming to find out why a protective barrier in the brain becomes leaky in people with Alzheimer’s, allowing toxic molecules to enter.

It’s to be expected, as one ages, there’s a growing awareness and acceptance that the days are wearing short.

DOUGLAS Ross will today urge MSPs of all parties to back his plan for a “game-changing” law to tackle Scotland’s drugs death crisis.

With the cost-of-living crisis continuing to cause concern for families across the UK, we have looked at the best ways to save money on your household appliances as part of our Your Money Matters campaign.

THE historic Caledonian Brewery on Edinburgh’s Slateford Road is to close down, putting 30 jobs at risk and signalling the demise of the last major brewery in the city.

RISHI Sunak and Boris Johnson had to be “dragged kicking and screaming” to take action on the rising cost of living “at the last minute”, Labour has said..

A TORY cabinet minister has downplayed claims that Sue Gray was pressured into diluting her partygate report by Downing Street officials on the eve of publication.

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

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.

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.

A reliable budget instant printer from Kodak.

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.

It is pleasing to note that African-born slave, Joseph Knight, is to feature in one of the specially commissioned banners which will be hung at Perth City Hall when it reopens in 2024.

Say what? Ricky Gervais and the trans rights spat

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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As eating disorder hospital admissions soar, Abi Jackson looks at the vital need for early support.