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The Renfrew-based technology group reported record revenue of £40m and said demand for its analytics and AI products is exceeding expectations

Sir Peter Mathieson defended recent programme closures at Edinburgh University in an email sent to a student and a number of regional MSPs.

Nathan Graham is the head chef at The Voyage of Buck in Edinburgh.

Welcome to The Herald's Business live blog, where we’ll be bringing you the latest developments from across Scotland’s business industry.

A bookshop in Bearsden which also sells cheese and wine is now permitted to deliver alcohol to customers.

A "remarkable" collection of more than 30,000 comics amassed over a lifetime by a Glasgow comic book enthusiast could fetch thousands when goes under the hammer.

The British Medical Association is expected to back a move to suspend Israel's membership of a global body containing more than 10 million physicians

As temperatures fall across the Northern Hemisphere, the case for investing in genuinely well-made winter accessories grows harder to ignore.

Crossbasket Castle in Glasgow will soon offer treatments using products from A.S Apothecary.

Scottish Government civil servants have been told they are 'free to leave' by a senior official if they are not happy with new hybrid working rules.

An actor best known for playing Kevin Malone in the US version of The Office is among the candidates seeking to become the next Rector of the University of St Andrews.

A police investigation is underway after the theft of a trailer carrying over 41,000 bottles of Irn-Bru

A Roma fan involved in a 'mass disturbance' with Celtic supporters before a European match has been banned from football games for two years

CalMac has confirmed that the MV Hebrides and MV Finlaggan will serve Arran from Ardrossan, while the new MV Glen Rosa launches service on the Troon-Brodick route in 2027.

Stephen Flynn was briefed on CalMac’s highly flammable gas leak – despite controversially telling a Holyrood committee he had had no knowledge of the high-profile incident.

Macdonald Hotels Limited said in new accounts that the profit included the sale of a popular hotel and resort

Ilia Belov, 23, assaulted a 12-year-old girl during the incident

The 30-year-old, originally from India, was elected to Holyrood in May

A powerful new BBC iPlayer documentary explores the life, music and legacy of Glasgow artist Beldina Odenyo, known as Heir Of The Cursed.

AI is transforming legal practice, offering both efficiency and opportunity while also creating risks around accuracy, confidentiality and professional responsibility that solicitors can’t delegate

Controversial proposals to build a supermarket on Common Good land have been overwhelmingly opposed by residents - but may go ahead regardless

A man has been arrested following a 'disturbance' near a primary school in Clydebank

The five-year sentence follows a brutal attack that left a man needing lifesaving surgery

A petition has been launched calling for direct flights between Edinburgh and Cagliari to be restored

Hamilton MSP Alex Kerr visits The Optical Factor to discuss Scotland’s eye care future, community optometry, new schemes, technology and MOptom training.

Motorists have been told to avoid the area

Councillor Heap’s motion asked officials to clarify what level of “employment support and social security” could be offered to tenants of St Margaret’s House.

Could this help Gaelic thrive?

Two Bulgarian siblings who assaulted girls during an incident in Dundee last year are due to be sentenced on Friday.

The finalists of The Herald Law Awards for Scotland 2026 in association with 123 Medical Services have just been announced with national firms, local offices and specialist teams amongst those who have made it through this stage of the judging...

Police are hunting a man who carried out an act of indecent exposure on a bench.

Straight and Narrow Drinks, a UK maker of low-calorie alcohol-free beverages, is set to close after entering liquidation.

An ethics watchdog concluded that restricting a councillor’s freedom of speech was “not justified” – only to reverse its position at his disciplinary hearing and support a decision that ended with him being suspended for two months, The Herald can...

Sexual crimes in Scotland hit a record high as victims face a median two-year 11-month wait for cases to conclude amid growing High Court delays.

The Herald cartoon today is on the NHS preparing for winter

Spey Bay Golf Club has been put up for sale at offers over £1.5m for the historic Moray links and its associated facilities

Sally Mapstone leads Scotland’s university reform, with mergers, collaboration and shared services on the table amid a £200m sector sustainability gap.

Could new proposals to turn some of the arts and culture hub into a hotel and student accommodation scupper the creative future of the complex?

University of St Andrews Principal Professor Sally Mapstone will lead the "radical" second phase of Scotland's university reform project.

New Public Health Scotland data shows 8.6 million antidepressant items were dispensed in 2025/26 — up nearly 10% since 2021 and 15% since 2020, despite a Scottish Government pledge dating to 2007 to bring annual rises to zero.

Fife-based civil engineering business Logan Bruce Limited secures creditor backing, safeguarding jobs

New study finds Chaetomium globosum fungus in wheat seeds reduces Septoria tritici blotch, offering a potential alternative to chemical fungicides.

More than 100 humanitarian, human rights, and other civil society organisations have signed an open letter stating that a ceasefire in Gaza exists 'in name only'

Three people have been arrested after a suspected firearm was reported in Ladybank, Fife.

Two more men charged over Billy Watson’s death in Armadale, West Lothian.

The organiser of an online child abuse vigilante group has been ordered to carry out 300 hours of unpaid work after admitting to harassing an innocent 70-year-old man in a case of mistaken identity.

MSPs from the SNP, Labour and the Greens rounded on Reform UK at Holyrood on Thursday, condemning its push for restrictions on face coverings as Islamophobic and a calculated attack on Muslim women.

Former Partick Thistle youth goalkeeper Luis Cameron granted bail at Glasgow Sheriff Court over alleged culpable homicide of barman Daniel Colrain after an assault.

Alan Cumming says Pitlochry Festival Theatre is committed to 'taking creative risks and raising the bar for what Scottish theatre can be'.

Plans to bring a derelict hotel on Mull back into use as a house and shop have been given the go-ahead by council officials.