THE owners of Scotland ageing lifeline ferry fleet have said they will no longer allow Scottish ministers to stop them from securing mandatory financial safeguards in procuring new vessels - after criticising the handling of the award of a ferry fias...

A SCOTTISH housing group have begun legal action to attempt to block the energy regulator Ofgem from imposing "unlawful" and massive fuel bill hikes across the UK from next Friday which it is feared will cost lives.

GOVERNMENT has failed to take their own scientific experts' advice for nearly 20 years to prevent the obliteration of cod stocks off Scotland in what has been described as a "national scandal".

Why are politicians all talking nonsense right now?We’ve reached the Talking Heads moment in the energy crisis: the moment when everyone decides to Stop Making Sense. It’s all just too difficult. The political classes are in denial, left and righ...

A year ago, Janey Godley was the toast of Scotland and one of the nation’s best-loved comedians at the top of her game. But scandal hit when historic tweets were found and she was branded racist. She contemplated suicide and then, within weeks, was...

The mail keeps coming. Fat envelopes.

The move away from “doctor knows best” may be leading to GPs putting too much pressure on patients to make snap decisions about treatments, it is claimed.

Fears over the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on young people alongside a major drop in volunteers have sparked major concerns for a children’s helpline service.

Many believe that its spirited defence was pivotal in helping stop Russian forces taking Kyiv during February’s invasion. Foreign editor David Pratt visits the village of Moschun and meets some of those who are still living with the aftermath of th...

By Mike Ritchie

IT'S a great pity and an embarrassment for Scotland that the accounts of the abuse heaped upon BBC reporter James Cook and others outside the Tory leadership hustings in Perth should have reached the world stage. James Cook is a good, objective journ...

By Andrew Fraser

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.

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.

Weaver is the latest 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!

By Kathleen Nutt

Exclusive

HOW are you? I feel I should ask having just watched Marriage (BBC1, Sunday-Monday), one of the most disturbing television experiences of the year (and I speak as someone who has sat through all the Tory leadership debates).

A TEENAGER has registered scores of companies in the name of major Scottish and UK bus and rail brands, including operator Stagecoach and manufacturer Alexander Dennis, making him one of the UK’s largest transport moguls on paper.

FOOTBALL documentaries are having a moment. After the success of All or Nothing: Tottenham, Sunderland ‘Til I Die, and the like, filmmakers are alive to the fact that football clubs are home to some great stories. Whatever happens, there is a guara...

1974’s three-day week is now no more than a bad memory.

SCOTTISH ferry company CalMac has come under fire for awarding a media and advertising contract to an English business while the lifeline service continues to battle against what some might say are peculiarly Scottish headwinds.

The Scottish school week may have to be cut from five days to three as rampant inflation, austerity and climate-related disruption combine to make existing arrangements unsustainable, a leading expert has warned.

By Scott Wright

WE have, it seems, to be careful about using the expression “missing in action” when describing our increasingly demob-happy Prime Minister.

IT is located on one of the four original streets in Glasgow and welcomed its first customers in 1792.

WORRIES over the cost of living may have replaced Covid as a daily preoccupation for most of us, but the NHS continues to face a crippling pandemic hangover.

FROM Monday, health and social care workers in Scotland can begin booking appointments for their next round of Covid boosters and winter flu jags.

PRIVATE firms are being invited to bid for a £150 million contract that includes providing staff to carry out operations in NHS hospitals at weekends over the next five years.

By Lee Halpin

By Ian McConnell

By Ian McConnell

The leader of one of Scotland’s oldest universities has told an employment tribunal that it is “shameful” so few women are promoted to senior roles within the institution.

GR Weir (Letters, August 18) likens Liz Truss’s assertion that she “will never allow the Union to be split up” ("Union will ‘never ever’ end, says Liz Truss", The Herald, August 17) to Putin asserting Ukraine is part of Russia and Xi Jinpin...

A double life examined: the strange case of Brandon Lee comes to the big screen

As imagined by Brian Beacom

The post-summer return to classrooms will, after two years of relentless upheaval, have something of a business-as-usual feel.

A former Dragons’ Den contestant believes his new Glasgow venture could help save more Scottish hairdressing salons from closing their doors.

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on how the cost of living crisis is affecting food banks on Saturday, August 20, 2022. Framed prints of Steven Camley's cartoons are available by calling 0141 302 6210. Unframed cartoons can be purchased by visit...

By John Crawford

IT’S often argued that flying is safer than any other form of travel. Which is true. Though only if you add the proviso that the pilots in charge of the plane must stay awake.

Green manures are an ideal mulch for covering bare patches of soil in the veg garden. The term green manure is frankly a bit misleading because although it’s green it isn’t a manure. “Green” refers to the plants that it comprises, but unlike ...

University of Dundee Botanic Garden

A doctor explains the dos and don'ts of the common cold. By Katie Wright.

THE VOIDS

The former children's presenter and life peer is determined to use her experience to help others.

TWENTY years of murder and mayhem. Twenty years of relationship chaos, backstabbing and betrayal. Twenty years of discovering unimagined parents, siblings – and Lorraine Kelly standing next to you in a wedding line-up.

Ballet Freedom (Lennox Theatre - Pleasance at EICC until August 28) is a spectacular world-class ballet company that travels from Kyiv. With 14 incredible dancers, the production celebrates their 20th anniversary in Edinburgh. Their intimate, sensual...