WHEN he was making Paxman: Putting Up with Parkinson’s (STV, Tuesday), the former Newsnight anchor and University Challenge quiz master was certain about one thing: he wasn’t going to “blub” on camera.

Our compost bins are starting to overflow as we squeeze in as much garden rubbish as we can. The heap sinks, but never quickly enough when we’ve got so much clearing on our hands to do just now.

WILL he, won’t he, and when will he eventually get round to telling us? Since his reluctant exit from the White House, Donald Trump has managed to keep America and the world guessing about another run for the presidency in 2024.

Dance Off DISTRESSING news from the Tory conference in Birmingham, where Scottish leader Douglas Ross launched into his polished routine to Atomic Kitten’s Whole Again at the disco. Icky enough, you may think. But seized by the music, and possibly ...

Alison Brady, PA to newspaper editors who became lynchpin of The Herald operation

SCOTLAND'S public spending regulator has told state-controlled ferry purchasers Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited (CMAL) and Transport Scotland there is a duty to investigate fraud after claims the awarding of the ferry fiasco contract to tycoon J...

THE owner of Scotland's railways has come under the close scrutiny of the transport regulator after being plunged into financial trouble by overspending to the tune of £229m over three years while compensation claims due to poor performance have soa...

THE SNP will open its annual conference today with an extended attack on UK Labour, in a sign of nervousness about a change of Government at Westminster hurting support for independence.

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PENSION funds in a £1 trillion pot were within a whisker of going bust as the Bank of England frantically moved to save a calamitous downturn brought on by a UK Government policy announcement, a new document revealed this week.

Scots councils are "sitting on" more than £500 million which should be used to fund more cost-of-living crisis help, according to campaigners.

The Alisa was one of four Standard Clyde Class vessels, along with Orli, Hilla and Varda, all of which were built at Clydebank or Scotstoun.

SHE reached the summit of the Pap of Glencoe to the sounds of the pipes and a guard of honour formed by walking poles.

SHE reached the summit of the Pap of Glencoe to the sounds of the pipes and a guard of honour formed by walking poles.

MICHAEL KELLY remembers the moment he met Nelson Mandela in Glasgow when he arrived to accept the Freedom of the City.

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Aberdeen-based FirstGroup has been given a six-month extension to continue running the Avanti West Coast franchise and deliver an "urgent increase" in service levels.

AS the NHS braces itself for what Health Secretary Humza Yousaf described this week as an "extremely challenging season", one of the questions is how much of that challenge is likely to come from Covid.

BREXIT has cost more in lost growth than the previous 47 years' contributions we have paid in to the EU.

WHERE are we with female empowerment? Surely, we aren’t still stuck in the Eighties, when women were caged by financial immobility and locked into put-upon relationships largely because there was no option?

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on a proposal for a shipbuilding museum for Glasgow on Saturday, October 9.

AS a columnist I speak for only one person: myself. So, I won’t dare explain why all columnists write. I’ll dare, though, to explain why this columnist writes. This particular column is, after all, meant to be where The Herald explains itself to ...

POOR old Ewan McGregor has been dissed by a diary. Not this one, we hasten to add. We’re much too polite to have a pugnacious pop.

THE other day I was called a Nazi on Twitter. Hey, that is hardly newsworthy. To be honest, it is a rare week – day, really – that passes without being slagged like this. And much worse.

Eve, Edinburgh

I HAVE been struck. (Readers’ chorus: “About time!”). If you will let me finish, I have been struck by the increasing degradation of city life.

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YOU have to feel sorry for Douglas Ross. Aw, c’mon, you do. Who said that? Take that person’s name.

LOVE it or loathe it, Mrs. Brown’s Boys is a smash hit on the BBC. Now creator and star, Brendan O’Carroll, has dismissed critics who have branded the sitcom “transphobic”.

SOME people say that nerves are an important and integral part of every performance or public speaking engagement – I used to believe that those people were lying to make me feel better.

The First Minister’s comments come as Scotland narrowly missed out on hosting the major international event next year

The setting is American but this poem by Billy Collins, who was Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003, probably describes fairly universal attitudes to ambulances when they pass. The piece comes from his eleventh collection, The Rain i...

AT Scotland’s glitzy newspaper press awards last month (as glitzy as a gathering of journalists can ever expect to be) Jackie Bird was on stage to imbue the occasion with a measure of elegance and wit.

YES, yes, this issue of self-identification and gender reforms won’t go away but, in answer to your opening question, no, I won’t be having a T-shirt made up imprinted with ‘JK Rowling. Noun. Perpetual Nuisance.’

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

Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

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

A police scene on Saddleworth Moor where experts were searching for the body of Moors Murders victim Keith Bennett has been closed with no evidence to indicate human remains.

SCOTTISH airline Loganair has announced an increase in flights across its schedule as it responds to growing demand from leisure and business travellers.

The MP for Bournemouth West was previously Northern Ireland secretary before being appointed to his current role last month.

Scotland’s Auditor General is considering a new inquiry following growing concerns the  awarding of the ferry fiasco contract to tycoon Jim McColl's Ferguson Marine was rigged.

MAISON Dieu Coffee Roasters, the Angus-based company set up and run by Rangers footballer John Souttar and Euan Spark, has secured a hat-trick of wholesale deals.

A damning report on institutional racism was released earlier this year.

Clyde shipbuilding expert Ian Johnston believes Scotland is “missing a trick” by not capitalising on the “world-class story”.

This year's winners Ukraine were unable to stage the show due to the ongoing war with Russia.

SCOTLAND'S most notorious road is to be shut yet again after is due to be re-opened with restrictions on Saturday.

WETHERSPOON is facing "a momentous challenge" to persuade pubgoers back into its bars, the company's founder said.

SCOTRAIL services will be crippled on Saturday and Monday after strike action by rail workers.

Talk of blackouts has echoes of one of the defining features of the 1970s - when the lights really did go out.

LIVES will be at risk from dramatic proposals from energy chiefs which could lead to the introduction of three hour a day blackouts over the winter as the UK runs short of electricity, it has been warned.