THE chances to have a mainstream public discussion about sentencing for criminal offences are relatively few and far between.

The American performers were due to play at the Glasgow Green on Tuesday evening. 

A lot has changed since 2014 – not least because the year of the independence referendum was before the majority of us woke up to climate change.

At least six people have died and 30 have been injured after a gunman opened fire on a July 4 parade in suburban Chicago.

Boris Johnson was briefed "in person" about an allegation of Chris Pincher's inappropriate conduct when the MP was a Foreign Office minister in 2019, it has been claimed.

By Ian McConnell

A NORTH sea oil firm that won backing from US billionaire Warren Buffett saw its shares jump after an upbeat investor update.

AN independent Scotland may be blocked from joining the European Union if it insisted on removing Trident before the UK had found an alternative base for the nuclear missile system, according to one of the world's leading defence experts.

Scotland is 'leading the UK' in the treatment of incurable breast cancer by giving women improved access to treatments that could add years to their lives.

As the economic recovery from the pandemic starts to falter, which sectors of the economy are still operating well below pre-pandemic levels of output?

By Scott Wright

THERE IS still time to enter the 24th annual Glasgow Business Awards, for which The Herald is media partner.

By Scott Wright

KEVIN McKenna wrote a typically astute article on the dilemmas facing many Yes-inclined voters ("Yes voters like me have a big problem voting for the SNP", The Herald, July 2), but his casual remark on the SNP’s "recent Nato fetishism" cannot pass ...

SO there you are, sitting on opposite sides of the living room to your partner, barely speaking, eating dinner in front of the TV. And finally you just say it: "I want a divorce." You almost broke up once, but it didn't quite happen. They made so man...

Farming

What is today's Framed? Some hints to help you guess the movie. Plus the answer for when you've given up!

Move over Wordle, you can now shake things up with its music spin-off Heardle.

Here are some tips to help you crack today's Quordle and the answer when you give up!

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

THE British Army is investigating after its Twitter and YouTube accounts were reportedly hacked after videos on cryptocurrency and images of billionaire businessman Elon Musk appeared on the YouTube channel. A Twitter spokesperson confirmed the Briti...

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on police recruitment July 5 2022

THE case of Suzy Lamplugh has long haunted society. The news that John Cannan is receiving end of life palliative care in the hospital wing of HMP Full Sutton in York, where he is serving a Life sentence, having been convicted of the rape and murder ...

LIFE is full of uncertainties, some more pressing than others. The date of the next General Election is not high on most priority lists. It has to be by the end of January 2025. Apart from that, we know nothing.

Streets ahead

Fake or malicious websites, often impersonating genuine sites, are used by scammers to lure people into sharing personal and financial details.

DOWNING Street has admitted that Boris Johnson knew about allegations of harassment surrounding former deputy chief whip, Chris Pincher.

COUNCIL leaders have warned that the Scottish Government’s plans to set up a National Care Serve “poses a serious risk to councils’ ability to deliver a wide range of services”.

BORIS Johnson has claimed Scottish independence would be “utterly tragic for the whole world.”

A GLASGOW street food business is taking a permanent residency in Bonnie & Wild’s Scottish Marketplace in the Scottish capital.

SNP ministers have revealed “transformative” plans to tackle “the adverse effects of scale and concentration of landownership”.

SHETLAND and Orkney have been dropped from a UK government global advertising campaign.

By Ian McConnell

ANAS Sarwar has insisted that Labour will do no deals with the SNP following the next general election.

PROTESTERS have caused delays on busy Scottish roads as they demonstrate over skyrocketing fuel prices.

ANAS Sarwar was warned the standoff between the Scottish and UK governments has “wounded the Devolution Settlement” as he set out Labour’s constitutional vision including abolishing the House of Lords.

THE SNP has been urged to block Patrick Grady’s return to the party after the Metropolitan Police dropped their probe into allegations of sexual harassment.

A victim who is suing the UK government for a public inquiry has said he is haunted by the Park Inn stabbings in Glasgow.

GLASGOW Chamber of Commerce has issued a final call for entries to the 24th annual Glasgow Business Awards, sponsored by Royal Bank of Scotland.

A green energy company says it has reached a major milestone after securing £8 million of funding for its tidal turbine device.

Transport police are urging people to intervene when they witness incidents of sexual harassment in the country's trains.

THEY loom up from the ground along our coastlines, appearing in the landscape like strange, abstracted figures watching our beaches. Some shorelines look like busy rock festivals, crowded with forms, staring perhaps out to sea, or poised in perfect b...

DOWNING Street has denied Boris Johnson knew about allegations of harassment surrounding former deputy chief whip, Chris Pincher.

The British Army is investigating a "breach" of its Twitter and YouTube accounts.

Sarwar will call for a new legal duty of cooperation between governments in Westminster and Holyrood and "joint governance councils".

Three people have been killed and another four have been critically injured after a shooting in a shopping centre in Denmark's capital.

Therese Coffey is not one of the better known, most media-savvy operators in British politics.

It’s not always easy to find good news stories about education and believe me, I try. Headlines are too often dominated by the latest chuntering of one or other of the teaching unions. The default position being the glass is half empty. The sabre o...

This, in case you didn’t know it, is the week Labour makes a clever strategic move, a sort of pre-emptive strike that both Anas Sarwar and Keir Starmer hope will do several things. First, undermine a key Tory tactic; second, outmanoeuvre the SNP; a...

There is one (near) certainty in the path towards a second independence referendum.