TOM Daley is a brave guy. There’s the diving, of course. Heights, complex routines, high risk of injury – the stuff of nightmares for most of us. Maybe it was that same daredevil streak in him that said yes to live presenting The One Show recentl...

SETTLED down to watch Women’s Euro 2022: the final (BBC1, Sunday) after making a bet with the dog on how long it would be before someone mentioned a certain date in the 1960s.

For Chris Lowe and his family, the long drive north from their home in Midlands was much more than a welcome break.

PLANS have been lodged for a major new adventure water park on the site of a historic brickworks site.

ISLANDS businesses have been blighted by the abject failure of the Scottish ferry service delivered by CalMac and should receive meaningful compensation.

AS the Conservative leadership race intensifies and the candidates address hustings across the UK, including in Perth on August 16, business leaders and experts are calling for a “renewed and realistic economic strategy” that creates the right co...

We've said goodbye to a number of people in the public eye in 2022, including Meat Loaf, Ronnie Spector and Barry Cryer.

I LOVE an analogy and the immediate one that springs to mind regarding the Bank of England and its control over our economy is “lunatics in charge of the asylum”.

HOMELESSNESS should be treated as a public health issue if it is to eradicated in Scotland’s largest city, according to the new director of a unique alliance.

Iomart chief executive Reece Donovan saw a drop in pay last year as sales and profits slipped at the Glasgow-based cloud computing company.

By Peter Michaelis  

IT isn’t every week that a scientific breakthrough shifts the goalposts for death.

Asset manager and pensions provider Royal London, which has significant operations in Scotland, has reported a recovery in sales of new workplace pensions during the first half of this year.

A JUNIOR doctor will be able to return to work in Scotland after a deportation threat against him was dropped.

AS A general rule, the word ‘apocalyptic’ is not something you wish to see in the context of waiting-times in Accident and Emergency units. And yet, there it was in black and white, in a report in these pages just three days ago.

ASSETCO, the fast-growing wealth management company chaired by Martin Gilbert, has completed the purchase of Revera Asset Management – at a reduced price.

INTO Edinburgh’s Italian Renaissance-style McEwan Hall that autumn afternoon filed a large queue of people – in the words of the Glasgow Herald’s Christopher Small, who was present, “the celebrated, the cultured, the culture-hungry, the vain,...

THEY SQUEEZE a bowl of crunchy, salty, roasted new potatoes with gremolata and aioli onto the corner of the table, lifting glasses as they do. That’s from the chef, says the waiter. With his apologies for the croquettes.

IT was the backdrop to Saturday nights throughout the 1990s, watched by audiences of more than 15 million at its peak. Now, if you so desire, you can return to Crinkley Bottom as Noel’s House Party is back on the BBC for one night only.

IT would appear that there is a new spirit of unionism at large in these islands and that its public face is Liz Truss.

WHEN the head of one of our most respected addiction recovery organisations walks out of a meeting with the government in exasperation you know Scotland’s drugs deaths crisis won’t be improving any time soon. Annemarie Ward, CEO of Favor UK, twee...

First, a health warning. This is a column about a row on Twitter. Well, kinda.

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

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

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

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

THE Governor of the Bank of England has denied the institution was too slow to act on inflation after the government said it had “hugely missed” its target.

MORE than half of all Scots are cutting back on their energy use in a bid to save money, a grim new report by the Office for National Statistics has revealed.

A DENTAL practice described as one of the oldest in the Scottish capital has been sold.

IF Nicola Sturgeon really wants to one day win independence for Scotland, then right now she has the best opportunity of her career. If she can harness the fear and anger that ordinary Scottish people are feeling over the financial catastrophe that f...

ENERGY bills could hit £4,000 next year, according to a grim new forecast.

THE HOME Office has ruled out the possibility of a UK-wide inquiry into the miners’ strike.

CALLS have been made to recall the Scottish Parliament for an emergency statement over the state of Scotland's ferries - as a safety issue has caused major disruption to lifeline services.

THE former justice secretary Kenny MacAskill has been criticised after complaining the head of Scotland’s prosecution service is not openly backing an independence referendum.

BUSINESS Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has admitted he does not know where Boris Johnson is right now.

A SCOTLAND-based renewable energy consultancy and service provider has hailed the start of delivery on a major windfarm in Ireland

TENS of thousands of older Scots will be plunged into fuel poverty over the decision by the energy regulator to review prices four times a year.

MORE than 200,000 Scots homeowners face mortgage bills rising by hundreds of pounds a year after the Bank of England hiked the interest rate for the sixth consecutive time.

MINISTERS have come under new fire after the ferry operator CalMac decided to move a ferry from one of Scotland's busiest lifeline routes to help provide services to two Outer Hebrides links hit by the sidelining of a vessel due to safety issues.

Cell therapy development specialist RoslinCT is merging with US counterpart Lykan Bioscience in a bid by their owner to create a global leader in the market for contract gene manufacturing.

By Scott Wright

INVESTMENT in Scottish commercial real estate reached a four-year high in the first six months of 2022, boosted by a strong second quarter, figures from Colliers show.

GLOBAL supply chain giant Agility has announced that it has finalised the £763 million acquisition of Edinburgh-based John Menzies.

"HEY!" There was a man leaning over the bonnet of the Batmobile, reaching out a grubby hand towards the windscreen.

I COULD easily detect Brian Wilson’s contained anger on the state of CalMac’s ferries and the lack of any movement by our devolved government to mitigate the situation while the Port Glasgow and Turkish new-build vessels await delivery (“Cynica...

One of Europe's largest private hotel groups has acquired the Premier Inn at Glasgow's Charing Cross following the opening of a rival establishment within the city by its previous owner.

This year has not seen the return to normality that many businesses hoped for.

Having failed to move on interest rates for most of last year when prices for food and fuel started rising, the Bank of England (BoE) is now chasing its tail to stymie an inflationary surge of a magnitude unseen in the UK for more than five decades.

ONE in eight adults suffer long Covid symptoms following infection, according to a Dutch study which provides the most reliable estimates for the condition to date.