What is this, I say to Joe, after we have both forked up mouthfuls of rice, pomegranate and yoghurt. And after I have looked at the menu repeatedly. True. At first absently.

A RESTAURATEUR has hailed the opening of a new offering in the Scottish capital.

The owner of Scotland's largest undercover shopping and leisure destination has gone into administration.

SCOTLAND’S home-grown restaurants, hotels, pubs and clubs have been among the worst hit. First closed by the pandemic, then battered by Brexit, and now floored by energy bills and inflation, the outlook in the wake of the Autumn Statement is not go...

Deputy First Minister John Swinney’s hands will be “relatively tied” when it comes to decisions on taxation in next month’s Scottish Budget by decisions that have been made at UK level, with any major divergence having knock-on effects for Sc...

Tens of thousands of tenants in social housing in Scotland face soaring rent increases when a nationwide freeze ends at the same time as annual energy bills will rise by around £500.

Bar and restaurant group offering up to £750 to “any members of the public” who make a successful recommendation of a friend to join staff at venue

By David Coombs

ON the same day that the global population officially reached a record eight billion on Tuesday, scientists were sounding the alarm over something that might just put the brakes on future growth: the mysterious, and apparently accelerating, decline i...

For the past year it seems, unbeknown to the majority of those who call Anstruther home, it has harboured one of the world’s most notorious Holocaust deniers. 

It is a language spoken by an estimated seven million people but has been suppressed in its home country.

CAMPAIGNING. Standing up for what matters. Shouting loudly.

AFTER a lifetime criticising the Tories, it feels strange writing this; but I think Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement is reasonable overall ("UK facing record fall in incomes", The Herald, November 18). The decision to uprate benefits by inflation was...

Aftersun, the debut feature from Edinburgh-born director Charlotte Wells, arrives in cinemas this weekend - and could just be the best British film of the year

SOME call it the “Fourth Wave”. The Far Right is – once again – surging across Europe.

IN life, there are always consequences. For Ministers delivering contentious, dramatic statements, the alternatives are generally fairly straightforward. Either they will make history – or they are history.

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on the arrival of the controversial Qatar World Cup on Saturday, November 19.

As imagined by Brian Beacom

I’M going to start with my usual content disclaimer. This week we’re talking about consent, sex, and boundaries. If any of those are topics you would rather avoid, by doing so you are already respecting your own boundaries and that’s something ...

EVERY four years, football fans across the globe salivate as they look forward to the World Cup and its showcase of the game’s most exhilarating players and free-flowing teams. In 2022, however, something seems to be missing.

There's always hope...

HAVE you tried to buy concert tickets lately? It’s a minefield - and an expensive one at that. Taylor Swift ticket sales essentially broke Ticketmaster this week in the United States, as well as breaking the bank for those who managed to get hold o...

Billy Connolly and the city where he was born and raised have been tightly interwoven throughout his eight decades. To paraphrase the famous song, while the Big Yin may “belong to Glasgow”, Glasgow most certainly belongs to him and, as he prepare...

Barbara Dickson with Nick Holland, Memorial Hall, Lanark, tonight, Buccleuch Centre, Langholm, Thursday and The Brunton, Musselburgh, Friday

HERE’S another aspect of life on this planet that I dislike: dinner parties. It’s their formal informality I can’t abide: having to sit on seats, make conversation, wear a napkin, all things you never do in the comfort of your own home.

Train your brain by putting your mind to November 19's Quordle word puzzle.

Hints and answer for today's Wordle 518.

The World Cup is a time when people from all over the planet can come together, be happy and gay. Well, not gay.

The owner of Scotland's largest undercover shopping and leisure destination has gone into administration.

HURRICANE Energy has said it expects to pay around £4.2 million a year over the next three years in windfall taxes to the Government.

THE LABOUR leader of Edinburgh City Council has been accused of “bypassing democracy and dodging scrutiny” after he was forced to apologise for backing a green freeport bid without permission.

No matter what Conservatives try to do now, voters will suffer.

DRIVING past Prestwick Airport always evokes memories. It is always a little sad to reflect on the airport’s current passenger numbers.

THE SCOTTISH Government has agreed to name and shame ministers who are found to have bullied or harassed civil servants.

A FAMILY-owned restaurant business is to open a new eatery in the Scottish capital after closing its flagship premises.

JOHN Swinney has hinted that Scotland could follow the UK Government and lower the tax threshold for higher earners – stressing the move by the Chancellor chimes with the SNP’s “principles of progressive taxation”.

Reilly captained Italy to victory in the World Cup Final and will now be immortalised in the National Portrait Gallery.

WE knew this anyway but it's always good to be proven right.

The immigration minister has pledged the door will be shut on the "scandal" of allowing cheap foreign labour to replace British workers in serving Scotland's green revolution.

Oil and gas independent Neptune Energy has warned that new projects planned for the UK and elsewhere are at risk from “poorly targeted” windfall taxes.

A SCOTTISH vertical farming pioneer has unveiled plans to further expand into the US, creating more than 100 jobs.

By Scott Wright

CLARK Contracts has secured over £30 million of new orders in what it says was a record month.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement has been branded a “missed opportunity” as the Government is set to rake in an additional £26 billion from employers through freezes on National Insurance and VAT thresholds.

It is understood the person was attempting to rescue a dog near Monymusk at around 3pm.

Rest centres have been opened in some parts of Aberdeenshire after flood warnings were escalated to severe on Friday.

It was an act of bravery and duty but ultimately cost him his life.

An amber weather warning in eastern Scotland has been extended as heavy rain drenches parts of the country, with flooding leading to school closures and disruption on roads and railways.

From its idyllic location on Islay, Bruichladdich distillery is setting new environmental standards within the whisky industry, finds Nan Spowart

SHE believes she writes better than she speaks and despite that and stage fright, psychological thriller author Paula Johnston is about to give a talk at her local library as part of Book Week Scotland.