Scotland’s biggest planned offshore wind farm, Berwick Bank, is estimated to bring round 4,650 direct and indirect jobs in Scotland, and 9,300 in the UK.

WHEN the ScotWind round was announced in January, the names of some of the companies awarded seabed leases, were striking: Shell, TotalEnergies and BP.

SCOTLAND’S jobs crisis is deepening. The labour market is shrinking along with the economy and businesses are closing early or altogether because they cannot get enough staff.

SCOTTISH workers are stepping up their return to the office because of growing concerns over the cost of living, a prominent Scottish law firm has observed.

THE owners of an island tourism business are to sell the property and concentrate on a separate restaurant venture.

Expert support to speed up the development of medical devices is being made available through a new partnership serving small and medium-sized businesses.

Gas producer IOG is hoping to rectify production setbacks at its Southwark field off the coast of Norfolk with hydraulic stimulation operations that are expected to begin next week.

The energy situation in Europe is already a genuine crisis and the indications are that it will get worse. For the first time since post-WWII, energy rationing and even the re-nationalisation of energy companies may be the only way governments can th...

Monetary Policy Committee member Silvana Tenreyro yesterday declared she felt the Bank of England had “already done enough”.

She had kind eyes and an ever so faint smile, at least on canvas. Elizabeth Steven of Polmadie and Bellahouston was painted – as was the custom of her age – to look dignified but demure.

HOLYROOD has experienced a variegated slew of governance: Labour/LibDem coalition, minority SNP, majority SNP. This week the latest iteration – the SNP partnership agreement with the Greens – faced renewed tension on two fronts.

IT was surreal to see Nicola Sturgeon smiling and shaking hands with a man whom she avowedly detests, as a Tory, namely the Prime Minister ("Talking the talk", The Herald, November 11 and "Sturgeon tells Sunak she is ‘ready and willing’ to negoti...

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on Steven Camley’s take on Donald Trump’s midterm elections letdowns  on Saturday, November 12.

WE reporters, like everybody else, have our little biases, political or otherwise. And they sometimes show, whether we like it or not.

THE exact wording of the phrase was disputed by Number 10 at the time, though there was no explicit denial that David Cameron had ever referred to environmental policies with the inelegant formulation of ‘green crap’.

Covid curtailed Lachlan Goudie's trip of a lifetime to the Indian Ocean. Two years on, he has been - and a new exhibition of his work shows what he found there

There are more important things than budgets where re-building Glasgow School of Art's iconic Mackintosh Building are concerned says painter and broadcaster Lachlan Goudie

LOOK, it’s great to speak to you, thanks to one of the crew slipping me their iPhone, but I need to be quick because I’m set to eat monkey anus or whatever in the next few minutes.

She was the forward-thinking Victorian-era businesswoman whose endeavours in Glasgow influenced London society.

MATT Hancock has proven himself to be a Tarzan for our times. Though admittedly without the hair, the flair and the yodelling blare.

I’M going to start this week’s column by saying I’m going to be discussing disordered eating, body dysmorphia, nutrition, and food. If you’d rather avoid reading about these topics, please know that I respect your choices to avoid media which...

HISTORY was made in the United States this week when a teenager called Brian became what is thought to be the first transgender person to win a ‘Miss America’ title.

Staff at the ambulance service are set to go on strike for the first time in decades

It’s my sister’s birthday today – happy birthday, Yvonne! So here’s my pick of places to celebrate a special day.

Scottish singer-songwriter Rab Noakes has died aged 75.

The Lib Dem MSP is heading to Moray – the Westminster seat held by Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross – on Saturday

WITH breathtaking irresponsibility, this column has frequently touted the possibility that, one day, we’ll need to leave this hellish planet and settle doon somewhere else.

OKAY, I whisper to Joe by way of my witty Fatboy banter: nobody mention secret policemen. Or underground Chinese government outposts.

Greentosh SPECTACULAR misfire of the week came from the Scottish Greens, who launched their new Indy paper on Monday, while Nicola Sturgeon was safely out of the country. Lacking any detail on currency, borders, costs or other niggles, it was univers...

Despite the cryptocurrency market being heavily bearish for the better part of 2022, adoption continues to grow. New coins are coming up, and the older ones are improving on their fundamentals to meet the ever-evolving needs of the market. This means...

As a teenager, during university holidays I had a seasonal job working under a woman who was feared by all.

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

Ready or not, the festive adverts have arrived which means the countdown to Christmas is well and truly on.

The daily word guessing game Wordle has well and truly taken the world by storm.

Train your brain by putting your mind to November 12's Quordle word puzzle.

Hints and answer for today's Wordle, 511.

NICOLA Sturgeon has been hit with a Twitter impersonator aiming abuse at Douglas Ross and Alex Salmond.

Two of the main barriers to development are capacity within the supply chain and on the transmission network.

NICOLA Sturgeon has said she is “profoundly concerned” about spending cuts and tax hikes in next week’s budget after the Chancellor warned of “eye-watering” decisions.

Industrial action later this month will see staff working to rule and a ban on overtime.

KWASI Kwarteng has been accused of a “disgraceful” refusal to shoulder the blame for the damage inflicted on the public finances by his disastrous mini-budget.

A “SUBSTANTIAL and well-established” self-catering business made up of a B-listed Georgian house, garden flat and cottages on the whisky Isle of Islay has been put up for sale.

Neither government will act like an adult and accept its own share of the blame

OPPOSITION parties have laid the blame for emerging signs of recession squarely on Tory mismanagement of the economy, calling it a “wake up call” for Rishi Sunak.

It is important not to overlook how much of the storm is somewhat faux, with opposition politicians at Holyrood seemingly keen to whip up a whirlwind at every opportunity when it comes to these Scottish Government-owned ferry services.

A MOVE to reconfigure a Scottish shopping centre to include the development of hundreds of new homes has been brought forward with the unveiling of detailed proposals.

KWASI Kwarteng thought Liz Truss was “mad” to sack him as chancellor and warned her she would be out of Downing Street within weeks if she kept pushing through her reforms at "breakneck speed".

THE UK economy is facing “extremely difficult decisions”, Jeremy Hunt has warned, as new figures showed the country teetering on the brink of a record recession.

Members of the Langholm Initiative said they have reached a ‘moment of history and hope’

Police say they are not investigating allegations that the ferry fiasco contract awarded to tycoon Jim Mcoll's Ferguson Marine was rigged.