A hard-fought election campaign is likely to end with Giorgia Meloni as the new Prime Minister.

THE SALMON farming farming industry which produces Britain's biggest food export has come under fire over "sickening" record levels of fish deaths, four years after coming under parliamentary scrutiny over its record, the Herald on Sunday can reveal.

RADICAL plans are being examined to scrap Scottish Government-controlled ferry operators and owners CalMac and CMAL and form one new organisation which would cut costs and improve the failing lifeline services.

The definitive journey through the legendary Bellshill band's catalogue, from greatest hits to hidden gems

Glasgow is dirty. That, at least, has been the story that has been told about Scotland’s biggest city in recent years.

BUT will it work? It’s the question on everyone’s lips about Liz Truss’s Growth Plan aimed at thrusting Britain into a golden future by means of a big economic “sugar-rush” paid for by piling our mountain of debt ever higher.

Waiting times, ambulances delays, GP appointments – the NHS in both Scotland and England is on its knees. To work out just how bad it’s got, we spoke to the two frontline doctors leading the campaign to save the NHS. Neil Mackay reports

As Russia announces a mobilisation order and moves to annex four regions of Ukraine, Foreign Editor David Pratt examines what is another dangerous moment in the conflict

By Kathleen Nutt

By Kathleen Nutt

THERE was a time when, if you were abroad, two aspects of Britain were a matter of envy for foreigners, namely the NHS and the reputable, historic impartiality of the BBC. Today that ship has sailed.

THEY are historic features of our communities countrywide that stand out thanks to their own unique shade of pillar box red.

If you're not a fan of the hit games Wordle or Heardle then maybe try the movie spin-off Framed.

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

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

Nowhere in Scotland’s biggest city, nor perhaps in the Northern Hemisphere, has seen what the Pavilion has seen in its 118 unbroken years

Chancellor Kwazi Kwarteng announced the controversial measures yesterday.

Usually only limited areas of the castle can be seen and only between April and July.

PICTURE this. You are on holiday, chilling on the balcony, the family is downstairs at the pool. Suddenly, "Crack!" The sound of gunfire followed by screaming as panic sets in and people flee. What would you do?

Grunge may be known as the 'Seattle sound' but Scotland had plenty of influence over its most famous exponents.

IT is probably safe to say that Margaret Thatcher and the urban youth of the times did not get on. See music, graffiti, and riots for more details. Yet as a new documentary series shows, the two camps were more alike than they might appear, and each ...

STATE-OWNED Calmac's ageing ferry fleet is being hit by an average of 17 faults leading to service disruption every month as the number of vessel issues has doubled in four years.

PREGNANT women and mothers with newborns are being housed in “dehumanising” accommodation without adequate food or facilities, a charity has claimed.

A SEVENTH-generation Scottish iron foundry facing unaffordable bills amid a cost of doing business crisis has rubbished this week’s UK Government energy proposals.

The “new approach for a new era” unveiled yesterday by Kwasi Kwarteng has drawn a mixed reaction as business leaders and economists questioned whether the Chancellor’s mini-Budget measures amount to a viable policy or a reckless roll of the dic...

More than 10% of Scotland's public spaces are now heavily polluted with rubbish, according to the latest comprehensive and gold-standard environmental survey.

It was no surprise the pound plunged to fresh 37-year lows after Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget.

By Kathleen Nutt

GORDON Goudie couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw a meteor from the balcony of his 21st-floor tower block.

IT has been officially recognised as the first ever international football match, with just 4,000 people coming out to watch a 0-0 draw between Scotland and England in Partick, Glasgow.

By Jason Hollands  

In 1893 Scotland's first dedicated cancer hospital was established in the Garnethill area of Glasgow.

By Ian McConnell

THANK goodness that here in Scotland we have a progressive taxation system in place, one that recognises the need for a just society, something this cost of living crisis will unfortunately demonstrate in time. The new Chancellor brought forth his fi...

HISTORY, alas, doesn’t record what the 16 Glasgow councillors were wearing that night in October 1977, but they were probably more conservatively dressed than the exuberant young Glasgow punks who surrounded them. To Bill Aitken, chairman of the Di...

As imagined by Brian Beacom

With the work of Josephine Tey being given a re-issue by Penguin, which other Scottish women novelists are currently overlooked?

A literary star in the 1930s, pioneering Scottish crime writer Josephine Tey is much less well known today. Now a new campaign in her home town of Inverness and a programme of re-issues is aiming to change that.

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on  Vladimir Putin’s referendums on Saturday, September 24.

Theory of fun

CHRIS JENKS, ACTOR  

What’s the story?

AUTUMN is officially upon us bringing with it time-honoured traditions.

Haute Dolci, Edinburgh

DO GREEK people own this place, I ask the cheery serving person by way of idle chit-chat as I look around at the slick neon decor and wait for Joe to rock up. No, comes the reply. So, is it a chain? No again, is the answer. But, I am told, the owners...

THERE was a wee guessing game Scottish politics nerds used to play. Who, they would whisper over pints or coffees, were the secret “nats" inside Labour?

PENNY GEGGIE

STRICTLY Come Dancing returned to our screens last night as the shows 20th series began.

HOW to report on our new PM?

IT IS a truth universally acknowledged that a politician delivering a policy statement will want a clear run, with no messy, external entanglement.