On one of the first days of spring sunshine this year, Vic’s & The Vine bar and restaurant in Prestwick had slowly started to fill with shorts and t-shirt-clad visitors, eager to make the most of the occasion.

Scotland’s Citizens Advice Bureau has issued a warning that people risk falling through the cracks into poverty after the Prime Minister announced plans to tackle ‘sick note culture’.

Humza Yousaf has said it would be a “poor choice” for the Scottish Greens to back the motion of no confidence in him.

Why is Britain so sick? Statistics published earlier this month revealed that the number of adults aged 16 to 64 who were not working due to long-term sickness had reached a new high of 2,829,000 by the beginning of this year.

Water damage affecting an operating theatre in Fife caused a power outage in the middle of a patient's procedure earlier this year, according to data obtained by the Herald on dozens of "deeply worrying" building safety incidents across NHS Scotland.