Tell Me Good Things: On Love, Death And Marriage

The U.S singer-songwriter releases her new album today.

DEFENCE giant BAE Systems has hailed a landmark moment for the first in a fleet of eight new warships built on the Clyde.

It was once as iconic as the Stone of Destiny and gave legitimacy to the Scottish Crown at home and across the realms of medieval Europe.

We speak to an environmental activist on her journey, the legacy of COP and disruptive protests.

SCOTLAND has lost out since it was forced from the European Union and its biggest free trade deal. Our exports to the EU have slid by £2.2 billion since Brexit.

Perth-based energy giant SSE has sold a 25 per cent stake in its Scottish electricity transmission network to a Canadian pension fund in a deal worth nearly £1.5 billion.

SHARES in the North Sea independent surged

Scotland’s dirtiest council areas have been revealed with the capital being the worst in the country for litter-strewn streets, according to a new study.

THE company that is taking over a Scottish manufacturer has pledged to invest in the business.

FIFA has announced plans to invest money from its World Cup Legacy Fund into the education of girls and women in India and Nepal – two countries from which many migrants travelled to work on the building of the stadiums in Qatar, sometimes with fat...

The agreement, struck with clean energy developer ENGIE, covers 100MW of the capacity from the 882MW Moray West offshore wind farm.

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Football fans are being urged to come together to mark the historic 150th anniversary of the first international between Scotland and England.

A pioneering community group in the Highlands has launched a bid for funders to help them deliver a sustainable new eco-tourism destination in the area.

IT is well over 100 years since Alois Alzheimer first described what he called an “unusual disease of the cerebral cortex”.

AS a starting point for the history of maternity care in the north-east of Scotland, you would struggle to find a stranger or more nightmarish tale than that of Margaret Bane.

FREE trade negotiations between the UK and India pose a "very real risk to affordable drug prices" and could see access to lifesaving medicines curtailed, Scotland's Health Secretary has warned.

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The public is being bombarded with energy efficiency advice which puts properties at risk of toxic mould, an environmental health expert has warned.

ANDY Maciver is the most astute and reasoned of the unionist commentariat in my view. I agree with much of his article ("Will SNP see that a new unionism can work for us all?", The Herald, November 25), but with a couple of quibbles.

NEVER become the story. This, surely, is a basic aim of public relations professionals. But not one, it seems, that is in the reach of the Scottish Government’s communications team.

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on our struggling high streets on Saturday, November 26.

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TOURISM is a terrible way for a society to make a living. It’s demeaning. It’s the pimping of one’s assets. It’s fuelled by lies, hype and exaggeration (“you will see whales, dolphins, perhaps even the great god Poseidon”).

STEVEN Knight’s SAS Rogue Heroes (BBC1, Sunday) teetered on the edge of believability, defying us to consider whether his comic-book sensibility could ever be taken seriously as a horrors-of-war drama. Could ultra-cool guys wearing Aviators and kha...

I TRY my hardest to choose topics which I think are important. Ones I think people should talk more about, so on that note I am going to spoil the ending for you now and say this week we’re going to be discussing issues related to the vagina.

ASK yourself this. Who is smiling and who is downcast this weekend in the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling on a further independence referendum?

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DESPITE the horrendous outbreaks of avian influenza we should keep feeding our birds in the garden.

A PILOT scheme where GPs can prescribe “heat” via energy bill payments amid the soaring cost-of-living crisis is now being expanded.

SCOTLAND’S most influential lawyer greets me in the refulgent, black designer suit that’s become his trademark. Aamer Anwar admits that bespoke labelled suits are one of his personal weaknesses, but they’ve also become a curse.

Campaigners from trade unions to refugee support groups will gather in Glasgow for an anti-racism and anti-fascist march.

Hill of Tarvit Mansion and Gardens

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LISTEN, can we take a minute? On Monday, as the World Cup started and it was clear that FIFA was going to double down on its anti-LGTBQ+ stance, while Elon Musk seemed keen to get Trump and Kanye and every other rabid ghoul back on Twitter, it did fe...

IT did not last for very long, this glimmer of grown-up debate about the sustainability of the NHS. No sooner was it detected than the shutters came down, and the earnest shibboleths about founding principles were dusted down and hurried into the ope...

Here are some hints and tips to help you crack November 26's Quordle word puzzle.

Hints and answer for today's Wordle 525.

NICOLA Sturgeon believes the Supreme Court defeat has “galvanised” the Yes movement as she will accuse unionist parties of being “joined at the hip”.

Tenants in homes with storage heaters have claimed they are “absolutely freezing and there is nothing they can do about it” while struggling to afford growing energy bills.

THE UK Defence Secretary has praised the “remarkable achievement” of Glasgow’s shipbuilders as a new frigate was moved onto the Clyde.

Spain’s Minister of Finance and Public Function said that the decision “marks the limits” to separatism.

For the first time since the pandemic, the Scottish Politician Awards took place in person in Edinburgh.

RECENTLY I've spent a considerable amount of time writing about foodbanks. I'm loath to call it a hot topic, as it's undeniably crass, but, unfortunately, that's what it is.

DEVRO, the Moodiesburn-based sausage skin maker, has agreed to a takeover by a company owned by one of Germany's richest families.

IT was difficult to know quite what to think upon hearing George Eustice’s remarkable comments.

The Herald's Who Owns Urban Scotland? joint investigation with the Ferret looks at the route to community ownership and the costs and barriers.

Upmarket estate agency Halliday Homes has marked its seventh year of trading with the opening of a new office in Perthshire.

SCOTLAND’s beleaguered high streets can be transformed into vibrant and successful areas again by introducing just five measures to stimulate growth, according to experts.