THE race to replace Boris Johnson has intensified overnight with eight candidates now vying for the Tory leadership.

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Lynn Shand's mother, Elizabeth, requires care, "from the moment she gets up to the moment she goes to bed."

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Few tears are being shed at the departure of the Lord of Misrule from Downing Street. Though deep in the bowels of Bute House there is the faint sound of the gnashing of teeth. Boris Johnson was the best recruiting sergeant for independence since Mar...

He writes in the mither leid, the mother tongue. But nothing his own mum could ever understand.

By Ian McConnell

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The colours have been chosen to reflect the deep lochs and vibrant sunsets, diverse wildlife and rocky outcrops, and every stitch will tell a tale of Highland and Islands life down the generations.

Four Corners: Personal insights on stories from across the world by Foreign Editor David Pratt

“TREACHERY with a smile on its face.” Margaret Thatcher’s famous line after she was toppled by her once true colleagues is being echoed by those ultra-loyalists bemoaning the downfall of their hero Boris Johnson.

HUNDREDS of patients are becoming critically ill while waiting hours for an ambulance, according to figures obtained by the Herald on Sunday.

Dr Suzanne Zeedyk is Scotland’s leading authority on Boarding School Syndrome – a condition which turns children into adults devoid of empathy and a risk to others. If someone in power has the syndrome then they could cause untold suffering to so...

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AND so, now we know, the King – the man whose childhood dream was to become King of the World, had such a vacancy actually existed – is dead, long live the King.

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There is something very Alice in Wonderland about the eccentric yew topiary of Crathes. It’s as if these “egg and cup” forms were meant to be precise geometrical shapes but, out of some will of their own, grew distorted. They are also one of th...

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

Festival-goers have been forced to wait for over two hours to get into Glasgow festival TRNSMT on Saturday.

POLICE have confirmed the number of arrests that were made on the first day of TRNSMT.

Education minister Andrea Jenkyns has admitted she “should have shown more composure” after making a rude gesture to a “baying mob” outside Downing Street.

Defence secretary Ben Wallace confirmed he will not launch a bid for the top job on Saturday. 

ENERGY bills in the UK could reach over £3,300 annually by this Winter as the cost-of-living crisis continues, research firm Cornwall Insight has revealed.

Firefighters remain at the scene of a major fire at an Aberdeen recycling plant which first started on Friday afternoon.

Scotland’s security services would not look like those of the current UK.

In the mid-1950s Ireland barely had a foreign policy worth the name. External relations consisted almost entirely of the “sore thumb” strategy, as it was proudly called: the perpetual repetition of anti-British resentment over Partition. As one h...

Sri Lankan protesters demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa have forced their way into his official residence, as thousands of people took to the streets of the capital Colombo decrying the nation’s worst economic crisis in rece...

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.

Elon Musk has decided to pull the plug on his 44 billion dollars (£36.5 billion) bid to buy Twitter - but the social platform's board has threatened to sue.

The Scottish Government’s November 2013 White Paper, Scotland’s Future: Your Guide to an Independent Scotland, outlined its defence priorities and posture in detail.

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?

WRITING these columns requires tasting a lot of wines and it's easy to get diverted away from what you want to taste into drinking what you think you need to taste. So this week, I decided to put heart before head and I came up with three styles to p...

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...

IT is 25 years since the first Harry Potter novel was published, with the boy wizard's adventures bewitching and beguiling generations of readers from that moment on.

WHAT? You’ve had enough of Goldilocks? You don’t want this pantomime to continue? You’re saying that when someone is shown to be entirely morally bankrupt it’s time to pull down the curtain on their career? And Boris can take his henchwomen N...

I HAVE written here before about how things have changed over the years on our Letters Pages. Some conventions have been dropped, some modified.

THE last place to watch a film is the cinema. It’s ruined by the phenomenon that spoils everything … Other People. Texting, yakking, yawning, sneezing, breathing stentoriously, bobbing up and – at times – down, they think not of others but on...

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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