The UK’s economy shrank over the last three months as spending on test and trace and the Covid-19 vaccine programme subsided, figures show.

A shortlist of cities which could host next year's Eurovision have been unveiled on Friday morning.

Scotland is heading for a "humanitarian disaster" as energy bills are expected to soar to two-and-a-half times their current levels next year tipping many households into severe debt after months of rising costs.

SCOTS are having to find over £230 a month more this year from their household budgets to pay for essentials as warnings are made that there will be deaths this winter if the cost of living crisis is not tackled.

NORTH Sea operator Neptune Energy has warned of “uncertainty” created by the UK’s new windfall tax on oil and gas profits and said its future investments would favour “countries with supportive and stable fiscal and regulatory regimes.”

MEMORY is such an unreliable thing.

A Glasgow campaign group is to stage a protest outside the Scottish Power headquarters on Friday amid skyrocketing energy bills.

Some of the “poorest” pensioners face staggering bills with little support, one woman has warned.

Glasgow’s N4 Partners is preparing for the launch of a new investment fund for early-stage businesses following the appointment of Scottish banking veteran Gordon Merrylees.

A DIVERSE and vibrant array of the top businesses in Scotland’s largest city has been narrowed down from a wealth of talented firms vying to enter the next stage of The Glasgow Business Awards, for which The Herald is media partner.

The number of unfilled jobs across the UK reached the highest so far this year in the final week of July, according to figures released today by the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC).

Can the arrival of Scotland’s first chief entrepreneur, announced last month by the Scottish Government, bring change?

What are 'warm banks' and why are heated public spaces a necessity this winter?

With no equivalent of the consumer price cap to shelter from the worst of the storm, UK businesses and smaller firms in particular have been left defenceless against the energy bill crisis that financial expert Martin Lewis has described as on par wi...

A second cruise ship berthed on the Clyde could be used to house Ukrainian refugees arriving in Scotland prompting concern from human rights campaigners.

EVERYONE is aware of the tale of Dick Turpin, the dandy highwayman who caused havoc on London to York stagecoaches by robbing them.

A TIMBER manufacturer in Aberdeenshire has more than doubled staff numbers and won £12 million of orders in its first year of business.

A leading public health expert has warned that steep cost of living rises could spark a “public health crisis” this winter with a rise in excess deaths.

I DON’T know what to make of Adam Tomkins setting out his reasons for not annoying Nicola Sturgeon ("There’s a way to beat nationalists – but it’s not by ignoring them", The Herald, August 10). He derides what he calls “muscular Unionism”...

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“IF I were a guy, I wouldn't be writing this because I'd be out there playing and winning while my wife was doing the physical labour of expanding our family.” So said Serena Williams earlier this week, when announcing her impending retirement fr...

IT usually arrives with a bang but in the last two years, the Glorious Twelfth – the start of the grouse shooting season – has landed with more of a whimper. The

Court in act

THE numbers on the energy crisis are getting bigger, the words bleaker and the national mood darker.

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on refugee ships August 12 2022

AMID the surging cost of living, butter has become one of the most costly items in the weekly shop. Now it seems many of us are taking matters into our own hands and churning out our own efforts with online recipes spreading like…well…a dollop of...

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.

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

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

Weaver is the newest word game on the block - if you are struggling with today's brainteaser here are some hints to get you to the end. And the solution if you give up!

ROCK icons Rage Against The Machine have cancelled their £82.50-a-ticket Scottish gig.

A SCOTTISH freight and logistics firm is celebrating hitting one million deliveries over 12 months as it hailed its growth strategies.

THE high level crisis meeting between Boris Johnson and Britain's energy firms has ended with no new measures in place.

A man who died after a series of incidents after a series of incidents, some involving a firearm, on Skye and in Wester Ross has been identified by police.

NICOLA Sturgeon is facing walk-outs by her own civil servants, after the union representing them said it was set to ballot for a strike.

TWO people have died after a crash on the A9 in the Highlands.

A HOTEL described as "turnkey" opportunity has been brought to market.

ON behalf of the nation’s media I’d like to apologise to Scotland’s pupils, or at least the ones who have been through the exam mill recently.

Energy bills could rise in advance of an expected increase in October, the UK's energy market regulator has said.

SCOTS nurseries could go out of business as it emerged nearly half of councils in Scotland are yet to decide on the hourly rates they will pay childcare providers when the academic year starts next week.

The thing about an Action Plan is that it all depends on what action you actually take and that’s how we should judge the latest one from the Scottish Government. The Action Plan this time is aimed at better helping people who’ve left the Armed F...

Crown Estate Scotland has opened a new leasing process for smaller-scale offshore wind projects, as well as larger ones for the electrification of oil and gas platforms.

THE recent sale of the famous Ubiquitous Chip in Glasgow’s west end generated much media coverage and comment.

AN independent fund management and financial advice firm has announced its second acquisition in Scotland in a matter of weeks as it pushes forward its expansion plans.

Midwives at a Scots maternity unit have been left “frightened” to go to work because of an unusual and sustained spike in abusive behaviour from the public.

I HAVE much sympathy for the Don't Pay UK campaign which now claims to have 100,000 supporters. When Bulb phoned me in April, months before the present crisis broke, to tell me my direct debit was going to increase from £104 to £196 I said: 'No way...

Armed attacks which led to the death of one man and left several others injured have shocked a Highlands community “to its core”, SNP MP Ian Blackford said.

AS Scottish secondary pupils receive their SQA results this week your front-page article says it all (“Somerville: No guarantee on hitting attainment-gap target”, August 9).