The Tory leadership contest is heating up as more MPs officially launch their bid for the top job.

It doesn’t seem that long since Idris Elba was hoping that learning to box would turn around the lives of disadvantaged youngsters. Now, in the manner of bus clusters everywhere, along comes Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams (BBC1, Tuesday), in ...

A FAMILY who put their "heart and soul' into building an estate and golf course over 100 years have sold the popular holiday site.

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THE pressure is on now more than ever to find a way to make a botched hard Brexit work for business.

An ageing brain surgery unit that was described as ‘very high risk’ by a health board has investigated scores of major clinical incidents in recent years, figures show.

IT HAS been described as one of the great books of Antarctic exploration. First published in 1919, South detailed Sir Ernest Shackleton’s story of his legendary attempt to become the first to cross the Antarctic by land from one side to the other.

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IF the NHS were a patient recovering from Covid, what stage would it be at: ready for discharge home, rehabilitation, or still on life support?

IF hubris and hypocrisy were terminal illnesses Ian Blackford would have died on national television this morning (July 8). While being interviewed by the BBC he was rightly questioned on the parallels between his handling of sexual misconduct allega...

WHAT made Roza Salih? Was it the blood on her street when she was a little girl? Was it the death of her grandfather and her uncles? Was it the gun her dad kept close to hand? Was it the detention camp and the guards? The high-rise in Drumchapel or t...

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TWO competing views have begun to emerge about what the resignation of Boris Johnson portends for Scottish independence. The most predictable one is that the prospect of a Labour Government under Sir Keir Starmer is now tantalisingly closer and that ...

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Ayrshire poet Rab Wilson introduces today’s choice. “Johnny Stariski was in charge of the powder magazine (supply of explosives for blasting purposes underground) at the Barony Colliery, Auchinleck, in the mid/late 1970s early 80s, when I worked ...

AMID the drama of this week, it’s difficult to imagine the political landscape two years hence in the wake of a general election campaign.

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on the growing calls for Boris Johnson to go now on Saturday, July 9, 2022.

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HAVING welcomed a set of twins with a new partner to make him a father-of-nine living children, Elon Musk has again declared ‘underpopulation’ to be the biggest threat facing humanity.

ANAS Sarwar is right. At least, as we reporters like to say, up to a point. The Scottish Labour leader this week declared that it was “pretty obvious” that Vladimir Putin would be pleased by the SNP’s renewed push for independence.

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SIX months ago The Herald took for us what was a rare step – perhaps an unprecedented one for us in recent times – and called for the head of a serving Prime Minister.

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

NICOLA Sturgeon has called for the next Prime Minister to “reset” discussions around the Northern Ireland Protocol, and Brexit.

Peter Brook: An appreciation

FORMER Chancellor Rishi Sunak has formally launched his campaign to replace Boris Johnson as the leader of the Conservatives.

Drum Property Group is seeking occupants for office space in the refurbished 1930s "Red Sandstone" building which extends from 106 to 154 Leith Walk, Edinburgh.

LET’S accept that Boris Johnson will actually go - that he won’t wait for some uptick in the polls, or some useful crisis, like Ukraine or the cost of living, deepening to such an extent that he strong-arms Tories into keeping him on as Prime Min...

An animal charity has decided to turn away wild and sick birds from their rescue centres amid the "far and away the worst" outbreak of bird flu.

Sir Mark Rowley is to become the next Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police replacing Dame Cressida Dick.

The risk of water scarcity in the east of Scotland has risen amid a warning that is likely to get worse in the next week. 

IT would be difficult to overstate how demoralising it was to hear Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer rule out the UK rejoining the European single market if his party were to come to power.

AROUND 8,000 people are expected to take part in an Orange Walk this weekend.

LABOUR is now 11 points clear of the Conservatives, according to the latest poll from YouGov.

Parts of an article in The Mail on Sunday which alleged that the Duke of Sussex tried to keep his legal claim against the Home Office “secret” were defamatory, a High Court judge has ruled.

BORIS and Carrie Johnson will no longer hold their wedding party at Chequers

A father and son running an unlicensed puppy farm have been given a 10-year ban after causing keeping animals in "horrendous" conditions causing them "suffering and pain".

VAULT City Brewing, the Edinburgh-based sour beer producer, is opening a new bar today after a successful crowdfunding drive.

HOLIDAY park operator Pure Leisure Group has added to its Scottish presence after purchasing Mains of Taymouth Country Estate and Golf Course in Kenmore, Perthshire.

Developers will soon submit a new planning application for the construction of an 18-hole golf course at Coul Links. 

JAPAN's former prime minister Shinzo Abe has been shot during a campaign speech, national broadcasters reported.

Rapidly-expanding dental group Clyde Munro has teamed up with a major US equipment manufacturer to launch a new clinic and digital training academy in Perth.

PERSIMMON has reported that planning delays, supply-chain disruption and labour shortages meant it completed fewer homes than expected in the first half of the year.

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ONE would think a renowned Greek scholar might be alert to the dangers of hubris.