Bernard Zonfrillo News Today

I SYMPATHISE with Hilda Butler (Letters, November 21). I too have written to all the MSPs in my area about Assisted Dying(AD) and have received…

I NOTE the recent discussion on heat pumps ("Heat pumps ‘cheaper than boilers’", The Herald, December 2, and "£7,500 grant?…

I DON’T hold a candle for either the SNP or the Scottish Government, although during my five years as Commissioner for Fair Access I found…

I WAS shocked to read today that David Lammy, Labour’s shadow foreign secretary, has strongly opposed the potential strike by British Airways…

I WONDER what sort of parallel universe Jane Lax (Letters, April 14) occupies. Amid the revelations of serial Downing Street lockdown parties and…

JOHN Taylor (Letters, April 11), raises important issues about the parlous state of Glasgow Airport.

THERE is not much cheer in our news just now, what with the damaging fallout from Brexit, the continuing onslaught of Covid and now the horrors of…

WATCHING opposition MSPs fulminating at Holyrood over the cost of two ferries rising by 300 per cent (“FM accused of ‘throwing Mackay under the…

WHILE it is clear that GP services are having difficulties in the current situation, it is worrying that the SNP should be advocating changes which,…

IT may be of interest to note that yet again during this pandemic the UK power grid has had to rely upon Europe. Since last weekend, Scotland and the rest of mainland Britain has had to depend upon European imported power to keep our lights on and our hospitals and labs functioning as wind generation has collapsed and solar output in the cloudy, short-daylight weather has been typically low and brief. As at Tuesday mid-afternoon (March 2) Scotland was importing more than 1000MW from Engla...