Police deploy resources from 18 forces for Bonfire Night

Nusrat Ghani, the Commons deputy speaker, chairs the Budget. Here’s who she is, what her role involves, and why she oversees major parliamentary debates.

Drivers have been warned of significant delays

HMICS has called for better welfare support for Police Scotland officers under investigation after hearing accounts of isolation, suicidal thoughts and fears of job loss.

Scotland alcohol deaths could fall further under a proposed booze tax rise. SHAAP says restoring the duty escalator could prevent 420 deaths by 2032.

The charter asks councillors to "treat all individuals with dignity, courtesy, and respect, regardless of political affiliation, role, or background".

Chancellor John Healey is delivering his first Budget in the House of Commons, promising “breathing space” for households alongside targeted cost-of-living fixes. Follow our live coverage for full coverage.

Just 474 council houses were recorded as vacant during the 2025/26 financial year, down from a high-water mark of 1,386 in 2022/23.

A family has sold Scottish city snooker clubs set up in conjunction with a green baize legend

Industry consultant Liam Greasley warns that rising costs and under-investment are putting pressure on Scotland's traditional member-owned golf clubs

Chancellor John Healey delivers his first Budget promising resilience and relief, but with fiscal headroom potentially halved to £12bn and public scepticism high, Scotland's leaders are demanding more than warm words.

John Swinney urges Chancellor John Healey to provide substantial energy bill support and fulfil Labour’s £300 reduction pledge in the Budget.

Experts say that delays in securing permanent homes for vulnerable children put them at greater risk of harm.

Today's cartoon is Donald Trump failing to win the Nobel peace prize

More than eight in ten UK adults fear rising food prices as the Chancellor prepares to deliver the Budget.

Glasgow City Council seeks private-sector partners to provide 1,000 furnished temporary homes for homeless people, with contracts worth £177.7m over seven years

Glasgow’s iconic Greaves Sports launches a closing-down sale after its acquisition by Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group, ending its historic Gordon Street presence.

Police Scotland appeal for information after a man entered the sea near Largs, North Ayrshire. Witnesses, CCTV and dashcam footage sought as search continues.

SNP ministers approve new SSE and Equinor’s 900MW gas-fired Peterhead power station, prompting climate hypocrisy claims from Scottish environmental groups.

Internal emails released to The Herald show NHS Fife's chief executive personally rewrote a tribunal statement her own lawyer had doubts about. Now Sandie Peggie's legal team wants those documents and says they support her unlawful victimisation clai...

A motion lodged by the city centre representative asks council officers to work closely with tenants at St Margaret’s House in Meadowbank.

Police Scotland recover a man's body from Montrose beach on October 27. HM Coastguard, RNLI and Scottish Ambulance Service attended as inquiries continue.

Colin Kidd, Professor of Modern History at St Andrews, argues Brexit shows voters deserve a second chance to judge the final deal — and proposes a binding third vote a decade after any Scottish independence, warning markets would force harsh econom...

Scottish childcare technology firm Nuuri has raised £550,000 to expand its nursery software and develop a new consumer app for parents

A missing man checked in a bag containing £12,500 of drugs into the hotel where he was staying. 

Reform UK Scottish leader Malcolm Offord reshuffles Holyrood front bench after MSP Amanda Bland quits, appointing new justice, education and finance spokespeople.

A solicitor has warned safeguards in the Scottish justice system to stop wrongful convictions in criminal trials have weakened.

Storm Boelo flooding submerged Dumbarton Golf Club, with major course damage feared as pumps are sought and operating hours reduced after embankment collapse.

Culture secretary Màiri McAllan says a new national company dedicated to traditional music is needed to address a 'considerable anomaly' in the arts in Scotland.

A Met Office yellow warning for high winds covering the whole of Scotland and the far north-east of Northern Ireland has been cut short.

There was confusion last week at reports of a wallaby spotted in the wild about 20 miles from Perth.

Communities in the Scottish Borders celebrate the Chain Bridge linking Melrose and Gattonside, with local children marking its 200th anniversary on October 26.

An Edinburgh bakery has been named the winner of the 2026 Scotland's Best Croissant competition.

A two-year-old boy was taken to hospital after a dog attack at a property in Mybster Place, Glasgow, on October 26. Police Scotland enquiries continue.

A hospitality company is seeking licensing permission to allow children aged 12-15 to enter several Edinburgh pubs and restaurants unaccompanied by adults.

Scotland’s largest fish farm operator has reported a drop in sales of almost £26 million

A clinical scientist at Ninewells Hospital was sacked after accessing 386 patient records 497 times without authority — a breach the health board never made public, now exposed through an employment tribunal judgment.

The Stein Inn in Waternish is being offered for sale by property firm ASG Commercial, with a guide price of £1,845,000.

Two teenagers at a church in the east end of Glasgow have become the youngest people in recent Church of Scotland history to be appointed to key leadership roles.

A police investigation is underway after alcohol worth a five-figure sum was stolen from the House of Bruar.

Scottish Water has rubbished claims that it has caused structural damage to a historic Edinburgh bridge.

A sheriff has made recommendations aimed at improving safety for water adventure activities following an inquiry into the deaths of a 12-year-old boy and a man in incidents five years apart.

The number of suspected drug deaths in Scotland in the most recent quarter have dropped by 28%, figures show.

The 17-year-olds, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pounced on Chloe Rees and Blair McFarlane at Blue Lagoon on Glasgow city centre's Gordon Street on December 16, 2025

Two-thirds of women were killed by a partner or ex-partner

Emergency search off Largs after person believed swept out to sea; RNLI lifeboats, Coastguard teams, aircraft and emergency services deployed on October 27.

The National Trust for Scotland has acquired two paintings for its collections in Fife at Hill of Tarvit Mansion and Garden and Kellie Castle as they now undergo vital conservation to protect them for the future.

The number of new homes in Scotland’s housing stock is at the lowest level for more than a decade, statistics show.

The suicide prevention charity the Samaritans is to close and merge branches in Scotland in a major overhaul to the organisation, The Herald can reveal.

The total number of alcohol deaths in Scotland has dropped by 3%, new figures show, but the gap between the richest and poorest has increased.