TWO PROTESTS are being staged outside ScottishPower's Scottish headquarters today after concerns that nearly £7bn of dividends has gone to its foreign owners.

He suggested it could get a Tardis, go back in time and “undo the errors”.

HUNDREDS of thousands of Scots who do not qualify for Liz Truss's energy bills freeze because they use alternative fuels are to get just £100 towards their increased costs, it can be revealed.

Alan Wilkins, playwright and teacher

Peter Tilbrook, nature conservation leader in the Highlands and Islands, and Antarctic ecology pioneer

NICOLA Sturgeon has been warned plans to rush a controversial rent freeze and eviction ban through Holyrood in three days are unacceptable.

FOOD and drink wholesaler JW Filshill has posted an increase in turnover to £200 million as it ramps up investment ahead of a move to a new distribution centre.

Scottish-headquartered Capricorn Energy has scrapped its proposed merger with Tullow Oil in favour of a tie-up with Israel's NewMed Energy to create one of the largest independent upstream companies listed in London.

THERE'S substance to the cliche that only boring people get bored.

ONE of the UK's largest trade unions has seen strike action from its own staff in a dispute over pay and conditions.

CONCERNS have been raised after a former Kirk minister who was sacked after having an affair with a parishioner and masturbating in front of a colleague was employed to work with overseas exchange students.

Optical Express, the eyecare company owned by Scottish entrepreneur David Moulsdale, posted a hefty increase in revenues and profits last year amid high demand for laser eye surgery.

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A “dire shortage of accommodation to rent” will worsen as landlords opt to sell due to “anti-landlord rhetoric” from the Scottish Government, an industry expert warned.

I COULD see where they were coming from, Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng. The British economy has major, long-term structural deficiencies which need to be addressed.

IF the ineptitude and carefree attitude of this SNP Government to the public finances was not so very serious it might be laughable. However it is contemptible.

Music should be be a recognised, formal part of dementia care, according to a charity set up almost 10 years ago by broadcaster Sally Magnusson.

Explosive remark

COMPETENCE, confidence and credibility are all essential elements, which a government must possess to be successful but, at present, the Conservative administration lacks all three.

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on council 'sale' September 30 2022

TODAY is DJ Steve Wright’s last afternoon show on Radio 2 before he is replaced in the afternoon slot - in a move that isn’t going doing well with all listeners, sparking ageism accusations.

The Ian McKellen Theatre at Saint Stephens has been named following the veteran actor’s acclaimed season of Hamlet at the 2022 festival.

The BBC Studioworks facility, which launched today, will meet the growing demand for production in Scotland.

It is estimated that Cairngorms National Park has 85% of the total population

Fresh details emerged last night about the lack of an independent OBR forecast to go along with the fiscal event last week

A YouGov survey for The Times revealed that Labour has taken its biggest opinion lead over the Tories since the firm began polling in 2001

Described as a game for 'cinephiles and casual movie watchers alike' it is inspired by the worldwide popular guessing games. 

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

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

Hello and welcome to The Herald Property Awards for Scotland 2022! You join us live from Doubletree by Hilton, Glasgow Central.

William MacDowell, 80, was convicted by a jury at the High Court at Inverness on Thursday of killing his lover and their son.

SCOTTISH ministers have accused the UK Government of taking a “reckless attitude” to the environment after plans set out in the controversial mini-budget.

THE OIL and gas industry has insisted it is “confident” that plans for North Sea fossil fuels licences will withstand a threatened legal challenge from climate campaigners.

DOUGLAS Ross has admitted the surge in interest rates in the wake of the Chancellor’s ill-fated mini-budget is “an absolutely huge concern” for mortgage holders like himself.

NICOLA Sturgeon has acknowledged the next UK Government could be formed by Labour – despite previous SNP claims that Scotland is stuck under Tory rule.

The UK's largest maritime exercise is set to begin in Scotland on October 1, with eleven different nations taking part.

William MacDowell, 80, was convicted by a jury at the High Court at Inverness on Thursday.

FORMER Bank of England governor Sir Mark Carney has said the Government has effectively under-cut the central bank's efforts to rein in rocketing inflation.

UNION leaders have warned Scots council leaders that frontline service cuts "won't be tolerated" after accepting a pay deal to end the dispute that threatened to shut schools and and waste disposal services.

Local police have implemented an exclusion zone for safety reasons

Directors at Edinburgh-based Capricorn Energy have struck a new merger deal with Israel's NewMed, ditching a previous agreement with Tullow Oil.

The four occupied areas held Kremlin-orchestrated “referendums” on living under Moscow’s rule that the Ukrainian government and the West denounced as illegal and rigged.

Officers are now looking to identify a man seen in Wilson's Sports Bar in September 2015.

SHARES in the pub giant that owns Glasgow’s famous Horseshoe Bar fell sharply this morning after it underlined the deep challenges facing the hospitality sector.

AN expanding Perthshire dental group has opened a new £300,000 practice in Killin, "giving villagers access to local dentistry for the first time".

Scottish ministers have been told to improve compliance with air quality limit values after a report revealed “continued failure” from the Government.

The Prime Minister ran the gauntlet of various local radio stations.

WHEN the next UK “power list” is assembled there ought to be a place for the person who draws up the Daily Star front page each night.

NEW concerns have emerged over whether vessels at the centre of Scotland's ferry fiasco will ever be delivered as it emerged the costs to the taxpayer is now approaching £340m.