CONOR Burns, the Tory MP sacked from the goverment by Liz Truss after allegations of inappropriate behaviour at the party’s conference is reportedly in line for a knighthood in Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list.

Parts of Scotland will have to fork out nearly double the amount set by Liz Truss's frozen £2500 bills cap as concerns rise that not enough is being done to support Scots in the cost of living crisis.

JOHN Swinney is set to renew the Scottish Government’s opposition to new nuclear power stations being built north of the border.

LABOUR will target soft SNP voters in its former Central Belt heartlands as a central part of its strategy to oust Liz Truss from Downing Street at the next general election, the Herald on Sunday has been told.

ALBA has called for a Scottish Constitution Convention to be established following the Supreme Court's ruling on Indyref2.

Boys are badly trailing girls in education. Men are struggling to find a role in the modern workplace, increasingly taking their lives and losing touch with familiesand children. Scholar Richard Reeves’s groundbreaking new book proposes radical sol...

IT took Boris Johnson five days, David Cameron four and Theresa May just two before the new Prime Minister zipped up to Edinburgh for their inaugural formal meeting with Scotland’s First Minister.

THE Home Office has blocked Nicola Sturgeon's Scottish visa pilot which would have allowed businesses in remote and rural communities an exemption from UK immigration rules over hiring EU and other foreign nationals.

PUBLIC health experts ruled out any link between spikes in neonatal deaths in Scotland and the Covid vaccine without checking whether any of the infants' mothers had received the jag during pregnancy.

Scotland's gun laws are among the strictest in the world, according to a former police chief, amid concern checks should be tightened.

Six months has become 22 years. How the hell did that happen?

THE last week has been pretty traumatic for the Prime Minister, aided by caustic comments from Nicola Sturgeon. However, we all know a week is a long time in politics. Ms Sturgeon has been having a tough week too. Problems for the Scottish Government...

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Jewish Scots have told of the anti-Semitic abuse they have faced as a new documentary explores the country's diminished but still thriving communities.

LONG gone are the days when being dragged around dreary displays of dusty objects felt like a soul-sapping experience. Scotland has no shortage of innovative and quirky visitor attractions to fire the imagination when it comes to our history and heri...

Cathy Wilson, 52, told the Sunday Mirror: “He was a monster and there is a feeling of relief that he is now dead.”

A personal journey through the legendary band's catalogue, from greatest hits to hidden gems

A man gets on his motorbike in Poland. He rides all the way across Europe and crosses the Channel and heads up to Scotland and into a little seaside village on the north-east coast called Pennan. He parks up his bike and walks over to the red phone b...

All this week the UK has been celebrating National Curry Week, in recognition of the importance of Indian cuisine to the history and culture of the nation.

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.

THE senior detective whose operation led to serial killer Peter Tobin being sentenced to life imprisonment for three brutal murders of young women said the full truth of his reign of terror may yet come out following his death.

AN SNP MSP has claimed the party is siphoning off support for independence by taking a stance on a host of social issues including abortion buffer zones and gender recognition reforms.

SENIOR leaders of the SNP have doubled down on their attacks on a resurgent Labour as the party’s Westminster chief hinted at party frustration over independence.

THE body representing Scotland’s police men and women has warned of more crime, more victims and fewer officers on the street as a direct result of Scottish Government budget choices.

AN MP has warned that more suicidal people have come through her door in the last two weeks than a typical year sparked by the cost-of-living crisis.

THE SNP will produce of series of broadcast programmes “to discuss the big issues surrounding the case for independence”, the party’s deputy leader has confirmed.

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.

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.

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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.

Saturday 08/10/22

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.