“FOR all those tweeting about sewage pollution on ‘British’ beaches,” one tweeter declared recently, “they mean England. Scottish Water is publicly owned. Our water is clean.”

INFLATION is expected to hit its highest level for nearly 50 years in January, hitting 18.6% - leading to new fears that interest rates will now soar.

A NEW cyber-crime prevention support scheme has been created with the help of 'ethical hackers' as it emerged the number of victims in Scotland has doubled in two years.

By Scott Wright

THE beauty of cinema is its power to transport.

NEARLY 2,000 students in Scotland are currently waiting for help from university mental health services.

An escape to the pictures has traditionally been regarded as an economical form of entertainment; the thing to do at the end of the month after a spell of drinking and dining out in the weeks after payday. And despite steadily increasing prices at th...

COUNCIL bosses in Edinburgh will launch ambitious plans in December to double the length of the city’s tram network with a new route expected to cost more than £1 billion.

GLASGOW’S transformation from an industrial to commercialised city brought unknown risks and dangers to firefighters as a series of major incidents claimed many lives including seven who perished in a warehouse blaze 50 years ago, according to a hi...

Scottish boutique bank Hampden & Co has posted record results for the first half of 2022 with total income up 47 per cent year-on-year to £8.8 million.

By Ian McConnell Business Editor

NEWSPAPER headlines recently could easily have been taken from the 1970s and 80s. We have inflation going through the roof, interest rates crippling households and businesses, strikes and threats of strikes. It is all reminiscent of the Thatcher year...

DEMOCRACY isn’t perfect - it’s meant to be an ugly, messy beast. Not that you’d know that, of course, if you’ve been plugged into the Scottish media lately. In the collective minds of many Scottish journalists, democracy should be a knitting ...

By Scott Wright

ANYONE visiting Stornoway last week might have been surprised to see a piper-led, fully-robed procession making its way through the town to a graduation ceremony. Rather a small place, surely, for such academic grandeur?

The finalists for this year’s The Herald Property Awards for Scotland have now been announced and they include some of the most exciting projects in the country.

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on inflation August 23 2022

FIFE funny fella Richard Pulsford is having a fine time to himself. Already anointed this year’s UK Pun Champion, TV channel Dave have now voted one of his jokes number seven in their top 10 gags from this year’s Fringe.

Festival Music

A man also suffered gunshot wounds to his body and a woman suffered a gunshot injury to her hand in the incident.

Scottish councils are set to meet unions in a bid to stop the spread of strikes which have left Edinburgh’s bins overflowing and its streets strewn with rubbish.

The Scottish First Minister has already warned many families will face “destitution and devastation”

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.

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

Daily puzzler Weaver is the latest word game for fans of Wordle - 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.

He ranks as one of the most influential figures in Scottish and British political history.

A businessman who bought a unique Scottish sculpture on a whim after downing a bottle of wine is now set to sell his drunken eBay purchase - for £100,000.

A night manager told the inquiry into a fatal fire at a luxury hotel in 2017 she was "absolutely horrified" when she saw a porter clearing out the ashes of a log fire using a plastic bin bag.

Former Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has denied fraud over an alleged failure to declare to the Government more than £400 million in a trust in Singapore.

Tom Gordon

A union has described a 5% pay offer to council workers as a "vague aspirational pledge" as it pledged a continuation of the first wave of local authority staff action involving Edinburgh's bin men.

A senior City economist has predicted that consumer price inflation will peak at more than 18 per cent early next year, potentially forcing interest rates to rise to as much as 7% to bring surging prices under control.

SHARES in Cineworld have been further routed today as the struggling cinema chain responded to media reports about its future.

A HISTORIC property in the Highland tourist town of Grantown-on-Spey has been earmarked for development into a hotel.

ALEX Salmond has dismissed Nicola Sturgeon’s attempt to secure a second independence vote via the UK Supreme Court as “foolish” and claimed no referendum is ever “unlawful”.

SNP ministers have been urged to step in and resolve a refuse strike in Edinburgh during the height of the summer festival season.

LABOUR has criticised Liz Truss for planning to hold an emergency budget without running the figures past the independent spending watchdog.

Angels' Share Glass of Stirling has secured the largest order in its 10-year history with an agreement to supply whisky-based gifts to duty free outlets across Asia.

More than two-thirds of Scots would vote to rejoin the EU, according to a new poll.

Should bicycles have registration plates? Should cyclists carry compulsory insurance? These ludicrous and unworkable suggestions by Transport Minister Grant Shapps are a collective sign of the times. A non-policy and a massive non-starter - how big a...

In my grandparents’ day, life expectancy was a lot shorter than nowadays. For most workers, especially those toiling in heavy industry, retirement was largely a pipedream. Most accepted they worked until they dropped.

SOME context is required when analysing the strange case of the shrinking SNP membership. The Herald reported last week that the party had lost 25,000 members between the end of 2019 and the end of 2021, a 25% reduction from the 125,534 figure on Dec...

A year ago the Taliban entered Kabul to take back the reins of power in Afghanistan. After nearly twenty years out of power, the Taliban was back to write a new chapter and perhaps tear out recent progressive ones. The events stirred fear in the hear...

As someone who’s actually been called “Tory scum” once or twice in my life and happens to think both of those words are pretty inaccurate in my case, I would like, if I may, to have a go at talking about the anti-Tory protests in Perth even tho...

An alliance of more than a hundred organisations is supporting a new 'save our seas' campaign to force the government to halt the dramatic decline of cod described as a "national disgrace".

Skills shortages were a headache for Scottish technology companies long before current labour market predicaments created a scarcity of workers across virtually all sectors, and as the pandemic accelerated the adoption of digital business models, the...

Nicola Sturgeon has said the looming energy price cap rise must not “be allowed to go ahead” amid dire warnings lives may be lost as some face the prospect of freezing or starving this winter.

Education leaders have been accused of deliberately restricting post-lockdown access to schools after a national poll of parents found four in ten had not been to their child’s place of learning since before the start of the coronavirus pandemic.