The messages have been fairly muddled till now. We all know we’re supposed to be getting off natural gas heating, but there’s been more heat than light on how to do it.

THERE is no surer way of getting a conversation flowing with UK residents than by bringing up that thorniest of British issues: booking a GP appointment.

A former Lord Provost is calling for a ‘Team Glasgow’ approach to push both governments for a fairer funding deal for Scotland’s largest city.

An all-electric 4x4 designed specifically for some of the dirtiest all-terrain work is set to become the first light vehicle manufactured in Scotland in more than four decades.

By Scott Wright

AS the Scottish Government prepares for the delayed launch of its energy strategy environmentalists have provided a reminder that it has found it easier to make grand policy statements than to deliver on them.

From Christmas trees to wreaths and garlands, one of Scotland’s castles is set to reconnect Scots with the origins of our festive traditions.

FOSSIL fuels giants should cut gas leakage and end gas venting and flaring to halt wasting enough energy to supply more than 760,000 homes a year, a think tank has warned.

Labour will today try to force the UK Government to release records about the award of Covid PPE contracts to a company linked to the Tory peer Michelle Mone.

AN Aberdeen-based shipbuilder has won £140 million backing to start a new fleet of vessels to support the offshore wind sector.

Maxine Dundas, 51, lives near Edinburgh. Maxine’s 74-year-old mum, Gill Colthart, was cared for at the Marie Curie Hospice, Edinburgh for five weeks. She then returned home where she had Marie Curie care at home before she died in May 2021.

 

By Scott Wright

“WHERE are you really from?” is obviously a question best handled with care but in Qatar it arises all the time out of healthy curiosity.

WELL, at least one matter has been resolved in Scotland, a nation normally pickled in constitutional aspic where hopes of going forward are as misplaced as hopes of going back, and resolution of just about any issue has become a mathematical improbab...

ABRACADABRA, the rabbit has been pulled out of the hat – again. By Gordon Brown – again ("Brown unveils vision for major UK reforms", The Herald, December 5). Let’s hoist the Union Jack and stop bothering about independence.

“A LIBRARY outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never-failing spring in a desert.” Those are the words of Dunfermline-born Andrew Carnegie. A man who put his money where his mouth was by funding lending l...

Cold arctic air is set to move across the UK, triggering a chilly spell when overnight temperatures are predicted to plunge to as low as minus 10C.

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The deal, through DEAG’s UK subsidiary Kilimanjaro Group, sees DEAG continue to increase its international promoter network.

Dr Hina Khan joins Space Scotland as its first-ever Executive Director bringing more than 25 years’ experience in the space industry.

Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on Brown report December 6 2022

WAITING time performance across Scotland’s A&E departments has fallen to a new record low, with almost two in five patients waiting too long to be treated last week

Scots are being urged to donate the £400 they receive through the energy support scheme to help those in need amid the cost-of-living crisis.

A LEADING palliative care charity said it is concerned that many cancer patients are not receiving the end-of-life care and support they need as record numbers die at home with the disease.

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SNP ministers would have borrowing limits raised while extra protections would be rolled out to ensure the UK Government does not undermine devolution, under radical plans unveiled by Labour.

Strike action planned for next week will go ahead, with further strikes over the Christmas period.

JOHN Swinney has been told spending £20 million on an independence referendum next year is "not prudent" as he was urged to reallocate the money to boost the economy.

A gay icon lies smouldering. Ashes are all that remain of a reputation carefully built over two decades.

FORMER Scottish Secretary David Mundell has revealed he is to stand again at the next General Election.

A new route between Edinburgh and the Canadian city of Calgary will begin next summer.

THE new principal of a Scottish university has pledged to make the institution the UK's "leading modern university", despite a higher education climate of strikes and funding difficulties.

Feeling a bit flat recently? You’re not alone. Turn on the TV and you’ll be greeted by endless bad news stories, venture outside and you’ll be met with cold and darkness… it’s easy to find yourself in a bit of a funk as we head into the lon...

MICHELLE Mone used "extraordinarily aggressive" lobbying in support of a Covid contract, Matt Hancock has claimed.

Cosa Nostra whisky was condemned by Italian trade and agriculture groups.

A Scottish man has died and another man is injured following a shooting at a bar on the Caribbean island of St Lucia.

Brown sported an uncharacteristically downbeat expression.

SIR Keir Starmer has pledged to “unbind” Britain from a centre that has “not delivered”, as Labour unveiled its blueprint for political and economic devolution across the UK.

A GLASGOW company’s plans to bring forward green lorries have received multi-million-pound backing.

BORIS JOHNSON was "bounced" into a U-turn over face masks in schools in England because Nicola Sturgeon announced her policy to introduce face coverings for pupils north of the Border, according to disgraced Matt Hancock.

CLIMBING, hillwalking and swimming would have been something which Kate McLachlan took in her stride. The idea of having a rest for the 40-year-old would still have meant rushing about.

SCOTTISH soft drinks giant AG Barr has made a big move into the energy drinks market with the acquisition of Boost Drinks in a deal worth up to £32 million.

Police were called to a report of a suspicious item within the security search hall of the airport.

PAY no heed to what the calendar says: the start of the season of peace and goodwill has been delayed.

REPORTS of the SNP’s demise are greatly exaggerated. Despite a torrent of gloomy predictions after the Supreme Court ruling, London-based commentators are already contemplating indyref2.

A NEW wealth tax could help the Scottish Government raise an extra £3.3bn to fund public services, according to a new study.

ONE is opinion, two is interesting, three is the beginning of a trend, but when every person you speak to tells you the same thing, it matters – and every person on Arran I spoke to about the ferries told me the same thing. It’s got worse. It nee...

SCOTLAND’S councils face the spectre of thousands of job losses along with cuts to services unless extra cash can be found to meet an up to £1 billion shortfall.