NICOLA Sturgeon has agreed to release years of backdated tax returns covering more than £800,000 of income.

SCOTLAND'S exams body (SQA) has been plunged into new turmoil as one in ten staff have left, while the rest are considering strike action as ministers are accused of failing to come up with a coherent plan to scrap it.

CALMAC has called for commissioning of an emergency ferry dropped after a row over safety concerns - as it emerged it has been operating successfully.

PARTS of Scotland are facing "eyewatering" energy bills of over £7500 a year this winter as urgent calls are made to provide targeted emergency financial support in the cost of living crisis.

DENTAL leaders have criticised an “easily exploitable” fee model which enabled dentists in Scotland to “cash in” by ramping up simple procedures and examinations while delaying treatment for more complex patients.

LESLIE Evans was paid “compensation” by the Scottish Government after she had left her role as the head of the civil service, The Herald on Sunday can reveal.

A Russian who tried to lure Scottish nationalists to Moscow has been formally linked to Vladimir Putin’s secret police.

A GRANDFATHER flew to Spain for dental treatment after months of “excruciating agony” waiting to see a dentist in Scotland.

Scotland could emulate the 'high value low volume' eco-friendly tourism model of the Scandinavian countries under independence, according to a sector leader.

I REALLY have to take issue with Denis Bruce's letter (August 7) regarding buffer zones around hospitals. I am a nurse with considerable experience and have cared for women going through what is often the most traumatic experience in their lives, tha...

SOME welcome consequences arise from reports that several of the UK’s top universities have banned books they deem to be harmful to the wellbeing of under-graduates. Others have applied trigger warnings to classic works for students feeling menaced...

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IT'S coming yet for all that. Hopes are rising among nationalists that the cost of living crisis could be the last gasp for the Union.

As the shooting season opens a coalition of wildlife, environmental and land reform campaigners have the grouse industry in their sights. Estates burn moors, contribute little to the Scottish economy, and are engaged in a grotesque ‘war on wildlife...

MUSCULAR unionism is set to be on uninhibited display next week when the two rippling contenders for the Conservative crown vie to impress the Scottish judges in the Perth round of the Tory beauty contest.

MUSCULAR unionism is set to be on uninhibited display next week when the two rippling contenders for the Conservative crown vie to impress the Scottish judges in the Perth round of the Tory beauty contest.

It’s a long way from the picturesque Irish city of Cork to the ruins of Borodyanka, going on 2000 miles if one cares to check. But this was the distance covered by road during the journey made by Irishman Padraig O’Keeffe and his search and rescu...

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

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

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!

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.

An E.coli outbreak has been linked to a Scottish nursery, forcing it to close while an investigation is carried out.

Campaigner and author Charles Clover gave a damning assessment of the failure of Scottish and UK governments to protect our seas in an interview for this week’s Herald magazine.

Overfishing has wreaked havoc beneath the waves, but efforts are underway to rescue precious species from the brink. We have decimated species through overfishing but there’s hope in a growing movement to rewild our seas.

A wildfire in West Lothian has continued to burn for the third day since it broke out.

A WOMAN has died and four people, including two children, have been injured in a crash on the A90 in Tayside.

SO fare thee well Jimmy Perez, going but not yet gone from Shetland (BBC1, Wednesday). It has been nine years and six series and we have yet to see you wearing the regulation bobble hat that surely comes with the terrain.

The Radio Times described Sky High Club: Scotland and Beyond (BBC Scotland, Monday, Wednesday, 10.30pm; BBC Three, Thursday, 8pm, 8.30pm) as “a non-fictional version of The High Life”. Oh, dearie me!

Edinburgh's £1 billion fund manager Bruce Stout has castigated central bankers for their belated response to rising inflation as "woefully inadequate" in the face of rapidly deteriorating economic conditions in the first half of this year.

THE impact of the cost of living crisis on homeowners has been laid bare as queries from Scots seeking help about mortgage payments soars by more than 1000% while new mortgage arrears and repossessions rise.

SCOTLAND’S reputation for prudence has stood its fund managers in good stead but of course that has to be backed up by excellence in execution.

With Scotland recording the biggest increase in home working of all the UK regions during the first quarter of this year, one recruitment expert is warning of a growing divide between the “haves” and “have-nots” of hybrid employment.

JK Rowling has said she is working with the police after receiving a potential threat from a Twitter user following her reaction tweet to Sir Salman Rushdie’s attack in New York.

Some council leaders are keen to offer staff a five per cent pay rise to avoid strike action that could see waste pile up uncollected.

Storms are now expected to hit across Scotland from 9am on Sunday, with the heavy rain continuing into Monday, the Met Office forecasts.

An 82-year-old man said he is “ready and very excited” to scale the final peak in his mission to climb all of Scotland’s Munros.

A planned flyover by the Red Arrows in Edinburgh was cancelled at the last minute due to cloud cover.

WHO, really, would want to take over from Boris Johnson at a time like this? There are so many serious crises in the in-tray, from high inflation and a pending recession to the consequences of Russian aggression in Ukraine, from Britain’s still lar...

New technology developed by a Scottish entrepreneur will allow lidding film for food which is normally thrown away to be recycled with household collections.

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By Scott Wright

WHEN the Covid pandemic grounded planes, closed borders, and plunged whole swathes of the planet into months-long lockdowns and even longer periods of social distancing, there were plenty of warnings about unintended consequences.

IN a country famed around the world as the home of the deep-fried Mars Bar, the latest creation should perhaps come as no surprise - a 'pie in a doughnut'.

WHEATLEY Group, the social housing giant, has agreed a £100 million deal with four major lenders to support its new-build programme.

IT is sad to see that it’s taken an intervention by Gordon Brown to prod the Labour Party into putting forward some proposals to tackle the energy and cost of living crisis that is upon us (“Brown forces Labour to act”, The Herald, August 12). ...

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