SINCE the movie Broadcast News any drama set in a TV newsroom must include a running scene.

FROM playing a skinhead thug in This is England to a prison officer under pressure in Time, Stephen Graham’s finest roles are not at the sunshine and lollipops end of the business.

IT took three months but the precious cargo's arrival has marked a milestone for one sustainable coffee company after it started shipping beans to Scotland from Colombia by sailboat.

By Scott Wright

FORMER chancellor Rishi Sunak is lauded by his supporters for his role in the introduction of the UK furlough scheme during the worst of the pandemic.

Police are investigating claims of theft and fraud at a Scottish college, The Herald can reveal.

IT takes part of its name from the patron saint of Glasgow and is the second novel to be published by Booker prize-winning author Douglas Stuart.

One of Scotland's oldest licensed distilleries is set for a £30 million expansion to help meet soaring demand for its single malts.

By David Coombs

PARKMEAD GROUP, the energy company headed by former Dana Petroleum chief Tom Cross, is looking for commercial partners to invest in what it is billed as one of the North Sea’s largest undeveloped oil projects, writes Scott Wright.

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BRITISH workers are restless. Be it in education, police, NHS, local government, civil service or national companies et al, there is a howl for increases in remuneration and working conditions. And the unions are agitating on behalf of members. It fe...

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

ALL of us living in Scotland have so much to be grateful for: our country’s dramatic natural beauty, world-class universities, a green energy sector that could be transformative and a history of innovation, not to mention our naturally cheery and p...

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on the climate surrounding the start of the Commonwealth Games on Saturday, July 30, 2022.

True story then: a reader sends an email saying he and his wife would love to wake up one Saturday morning and see a review of their current favourite restaurant in The Herald, which they still have hand delivered to their actual front door.

ON THE cover of his new memoir, Alan Cumming appears to be levitating. The image raises a smile because you can’t help but wonder if it’s a metaphor for how he sees himself? Is he a superhero in the Marvel Comics vein, (he once appeared in the X-...

The chef speaks to Prudence Wade about setting up the Cook for Ukraine campaign, and how food can connect everyone - regardless of where you're from.

OVER the decades in which I have covered politics, I have frequently found the accompanying discourse to be infantile or, at best, a few grapes short of a vineyard.

THE media has become all-pervasive. We don’t just mean that used copies of The Herald regularly make their way into readers’ toilets, where they prove useful when the Andrex runs out.

HE was, I thought, only stating the bleeding obvious. But that can be a helluva dangerous thing to do in politics.

TWENTY years ago in Scotland, you were 10 times more likely to suffer a fatal overdose involving illicit drugs if you were living in the most deprived areas of Scotland compared to the most affluent.

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.

If you have tried and loved Wordle, Quordle should be your next go-to brain teaser.

NEW homes and buildings will be banned from running fossil fuels boilers in just two years' time under plans unveiled by the Scottish Government.

A Scottish renewable energy consultancy and service provider has hailed its role in massive energy programme in the United States.

More than 60 confirmed cases of monkeypox have been reported in Scotland since late May, according to the latest data.

SCOTRAIL’s alcohol ban is to stay in place for the “foreseeable future,” the transport firm has confirmed.

Visitors are to be banned from another Scottish island in an effort to limit "the terrible effect" a recent outbreak of bird flu is having on seabird colonies.

An Edinburgh road crash is being treated as attempted murder after a man was deliberately knocked off his motorcycle.

THE SCOTTISH Government has been accused of “spinning like a washing machine” over their help for the cost of living crisis.

Water resources are "critical" in the east of Scotland as businesses could be forced to stop abstracting water.

A murder investigation has been launched after the death of a woman who was seriously injured in Dunoon.

One of Scotland's oldest licensed distilleries is set for a £30 million expansion to help meet soaring global demand for its single malts.

BEN Wallace has accused Rishi Sunak of trying to block “vital” defence money during his time as chancellor as he baked Liz Truss to become prime minister.

SHARES in Royal Bank of Scotland owner NatWest Group surged more than seven per cent in morning trading after revealing plans to return hefty amounts of cash to investors.

A SUSTAINABLE coffee company has started shipping beans to Scotland from Colombia by sailboat.

SCOTTISH Gas owner Centrica’s chief executive has defended bringing back dividends for shareholders amid the sprialling energy crisis.

“I am grateful to fate for three gifts: to have been born a woman, from the working class and an oppressed nation. And the turbid azure of being three times a rebel,” wrote the Catalan poet, Maria Mercè Marçal. It’s this line that inspired th...

CROSS-BORDER services will not reach three major Scottish cities tomorrow as the nation is hit by a one-day train strike.

USERS have complained of detours of up to 180 miles as lifeline ferry services were thrown into a third day of turmoil after a safety issue with an ageing CalMac ferry.

UNIONS have warned that they have a mandate to disrupt the operation of over 1200 schools across Scotland after thousands of local government workers voted for strike action in a pay dispute.

By Scott Wright

A SEARCH in the picture archive for "women & exercise" throws up a smorgasbord of stereotypes.

By Scott Wright

By Ian McConnell

Around one in 19 Scots were estimated to have had the virus in the week ending July 20, figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed. 

Tributes have been paid to Sir Christopher Meyer, the former British ambassador to Washington and press secretary to John Major, after his death at the age of 78.

THEY are images which reflect an extraordinary moment in time and the ways people and communities changed during the pandemic.