'Why can't we go to Aberdeen, Inverness, Dundee?'

WHIZZING down ramps and taking sharp corners like a pro - it's hard to believe some of the girls at the Loading Bay cycle track have only been on bikes for four weeks.

IT is customary, not to mention polite, to wait until after an election is lost before calling for leadership heads to roll. Not, however, if you are fighting for a key seat in the 2022 midterms, an electoral contest that is beginning to make Fight C...

I see that Shawlands in Glasgow has been named by Time Out magazine as one of the coolest neighbourhoods in the world and, having lived there for many years, I can sort of see why. Even I, it would seem, was not able to dilute its coolness.

THE SCOTS renewables industry has warned that that a new 'windfall tax' on energy fimrs which will help pay for fuel bill cuts could damage the country's green ambitions.`

A SEVENTH CalMac lifeline ferry has been forced out of action since the weekend in a wave of faults and suspensions to state-controlled services.

THOUSANDS are fearing for the future of their jobs due to "centralisation" plans for the new National Care Service.

HOUSEBUILDER Barratt saw its shares slide more than five per cent as it flagged a “less certain” outlook.

NICOLA Sturgeon has defended her strategy to use North Sea oil revenues to kickstart the economy of a future independent Scotland despite concerns over the climate impact.

THE SCOTTISH Government will hand over a dossier of evidence supporting on loss and damage climate reparations for developing nations at COP27, the SNP Environment Minister has confirmed.

MUCH attention has rightly been focused on the affordability of mortgages amid the cost-of-living crisis and fall-out from the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s mini-Budget in recent weeks.

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By Ian McConnell

By Ian McConnell

The number of new electrical apprentices in Scotland has hit a 13-year high as the industry continues to grapple with skills shortages.

By Ian McConnell

By Ian McConnell

ELIZABETH Scott demonstrates with her letter (October 12) that Nicola Sturgeon has succeeded in ramping up the language against those who do not agree with independence, as she finds herself agreeing with the First Minister’s choice of words. Great...

IT’S easy to feel quite Luddite these days. The machine, in all its modern horror, has stolen ineluctably into every part of our existence. For many, the algorithm now decides our life partner. A dating-app swipe increasingly leads to marriage and ...

There are two weeks to go until the winners of The Herald Top Employer Awards 2022 are revealed, but today the finalists have been announced and each organisation on the list has earned its place because they have succeeded in creating the sort of cu...

WHEN was the last time you encountered a hedgehog? Or spotted a murmuration of starlings in a pink sky? The natural world as we once knew it is under threat like never before, as the latest global science shows.

IN an agnostic age, the need for religious certainty sometimes leads people into politics.

HERE’S an idea: Ian Blackford as Prime Minister of All Britain. It was the SNP’s Westminster leader himself who raised the intriguing prospect at Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday.

ANGELA Lansbury, who has died aged 96, was surely the most Miss Marplish actress ever to play Miss Marple. Though it was starring as a suspiciously similar lady detective in TV series Murder, She Wrote that garnered her most plaudits.

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on Scottish Baftas October 13 2022

Higher wind speeds, increased rainfall and additional capacity coming online are understood to have contributed to the increases

The Prime Minister was accused of ‘trashing’ Conservative values as a bid to win over mutinous MPs backfired

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.

ECONOMISTS have roundly rejected Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg's claim that the UK's financial turmoil was not being driven by the mini-budget.

By Ian McConnell

THERE are definitely some eyebrows raised at the inclusion of the Burrell Collection – but largely everyone is in complete agreement.

THE Supreme Court should consider the full “legal and practical effects” of Holyrood staging its own referendum on independence, the UK Goverment’s legal team has said.

Discover a part of Scotland where the spirit of ancient Romans and romantic writers endures in the emerald hills, looping rivers and welcoming villages.

Beth Orton, Brit Award winner and twice Mercury Music Prize nominee, was in a bad place.

BBC police drama Vigil has been nominated for five Scottish BAFTA awards, with Suranne Jones in the hunt for best actress.

A SCOTTISH renewable energy business has hailed the completion of a major solar farm development and a separate wind farm project in Ireland.

JACOB Rees-Mogg has attacked the BBC as he moved to blame the Bank of England for Britain's economic chaos.

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MURRAY Capital Group, the Edinburgh-based metals, property, wine, and investment company, has reported its “best set of results for a number of years”, accounts filed at Companies House today show.

ENERGY bills face being slashed under plans to cap revenues of renewable energy firms which UK ministers say has the potential to save "billions of pounds" for consumers.

By Ian McConnell

BANKS will be blocked from closing branches and could receive financial penalties running into hundreds of thousands of pounds if they fail to comply with new rules over the public's right to cash, the financial regulator has warned.

SCOTLAND's biggest teaching union has warned that Scotland faces school closures in autumn as  48,500 teachers are today (Weds) balloted for strike action as negotiations to have broken down.

A SIXTH CalMac lifeline ferry has been forced out of action in the space of a few days after a new wave of faults and suspensions continued to cause mayhem to state-controlled services.

NICOLA Sturgeon has called on the UK Government to stop “undermining” the legacy of COP26 with its regressive climate policies – warning Liz Truss it would be “damaging to the world” ahead of the next global climate summit in Egypt.

PUB group Marston’s said the demand for drink continues with sales at one per cent below pre-pandemic levels amid “encouraging” trading despite cost pressures facing customers.

A SCOTTISH telecoms network business has linked up with a major provider to provide “life-changing” full-fibre broadband connectivity to around 90,000 homes in North Lanarkshire.

By Ian McConnell