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Nicola Sturgeon marks mental health awareness week

Nicola Sturgeon has revealed how she copes with pressure, as she urged people to take steps to look after their mental health. ....

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Obituary – Tessa Jowell, Labour politician who played pivotal role in bringing the Olympics to London

Labour politician who played pivotal role in bringing the Olympics to London . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16222333.Obituary_-_Tessa_Jowell__Labour_politician_who_played_pivotal_role_in_bringing_the_Olympics_to_London/?ref=rss

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Friends and colleagues hail ‘inspirational’ Dame Tessa Jowell

Dame Tessa Jowell has been described as an “inspirational” politician with “unflinching tenacity” as friends and colleagues shared heartfelt tributes following her death...

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Dame Tessa Jowell dies aged 70 after battling brain tumour

Former Labour cabinet minister Dame Tessa Jowell has died, her family has announced. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16222303.Dame_Tessa_Jowell_dies_aged_70_after_battling_brain_tumour/?ref=rss

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Peers gave Dame Tessa Jowell unprecedented standing ovation for powerful speech

Dame Tessa Jowell was given a standing ovation after making an emotional plea for more cancer treatments to be made available through the...

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Dame Tessa Jowell: New Labour minister who became London 2012 political champion

Dame Tessa Jowell will be remembered as one of the main political architects of the hugely successful 2012 London Olympics, which captured the...

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Housing benefit reforms causing crisis and debt, minister claims

UK Government welfare policies have led to private renting becoming “completely unaffordable" in some areas of Scotland and driven up rent arrears, according...

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RT: A history of conspiracy theories and Ofcom breaches

THE owner of a Kremlin-backed broadcaster RT has breached UK broadcasting codes 15 times in the last six years. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16222175.RT__A_history_of_conspiracy_theories_and_Ofcom_breaches/?ref=rss

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Criticism of the press is good, but hatred is dangerous and anti democratic – if the SNP does not speak up the cause of independence will be wounded

LAST week’s front page of the Sunday Herald provoked an outburst of anger on social media. We ran a main story, about political...

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Garry Hassan: Independence is about more than an indyref – it is a state of mind

Scotland and the UK find themselves in a peculiar state of hiatus, caught in a moment of uneasy stasis as the ramifications of...