A BADLY injured man leaped into the water to escape flames after his cabin cruiser blew up as he got ready to go on a fishing trip. Joseph Murray, 37, of Kinghorne Walk, Dundee, was trying to start the 21ft-long Selina in Tayport Harbour, Fife, on Saturday
London Scottish...29 Bristol..................25 International full-back Derrick Lee will be allowed to go on tour with Scotland today, despite having a suspension hanging over his head after being sent off during the second half of a bad-tempered Allied
Conference A McKane Park rarely has seen anything like it on a sunny Saturday afternoon. Dunfermline were ready to dish out their usual excellent hospitality to their visitors - this time, Conference A challengers Heriot's FP. The Edinburgh side
GLENN Hoddle yesterday credited some of England's World Cup qualification success to controversial faith healer Eileen Drewery. Hoddle has been criticised for using Drewery with the England squad but he insisted she had played her part during the
John Cook took advantage of Fred Couples' self-destruction to win the $2.5m Byron Nelson Classic by three strokes in Dallas yesterday. After having started the final round four strokes behind Couples, Cook shot a closing five-under-par 65 on the
THE people of Knoydart are preparing to publish a clear expression of their opposition to the new owners of the 17,000-acre Knoydart estate, and state their determination to win local control of the land, but not at the #2.5m they have just been quoted
Opposition parties will today renew their assault on the Government over the arms to Africa affair amid signs that the British mercenaries involved will not be prosecuted. The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats will use a Commons debate to try again
Now, I'm all for free trade, but this Mark McKenzie thing is a strange one, and only the future will really tell us who has been right and who has been wrong. The facts are that McKenzie didn't get his contract renewed with the districts because
VAUX, the Sunderland-based beer to Swallow Hotels group, is believed to have poached Martin Grant, who heads Allied Domecq's leisure division, to be its new chief executive. Vaux chairman Sir Paul Nicholson said last week that an appointment would
At his first time of trying, American Paul Cayard made history early yesterday morning as he skippered EF Language to overall victory in The Whitbread Round the World Race. By finishing the penultimate stage of the race, from Baltimore to La Rochelle
JOHN Fowler's evocative descriptions of the Scottish mountains were a pleasure to read (May 8-9). But his major pieces on the mini-bag of our eight new Munros will also have left many mountaingoers who know these peaks aghast with a stiff whisky
Langholm Sevens GALA recaptured the Edinburgh Woollen Mills Langholm Sevens Cup after a four-year interval by beating Melrose by no less than 63-7 in a remarkable final. On a very warm day the Netherdale team should have been the more drained by the
DAILY POEM This abridged version of a start-the-week poem by the American humorist Ogden Nash is entirely self-explanatory. WE'LL ALL FEEL BETTER ON WEDNESDAY By Ogden Nash I love coffee, I love tea, I love the girls, but they're mean to
City of Glasgow Ragazzi and Rucanor Jets both completed league and cup doubles with victories in Scottish Cup finals at Meadowbank yesterday. However, while Ragazzi's four-set win over Kilmarnock continued their overwhelming dominance of men&apos
THE school bearing the name of John Logie Baird, the inventor of television, could be facing closure. The primary in Helensburgh, the town where Logie Baird was born, is less than half full and closure would help Argyll and Bute Council claw back more
A KIRK committee, which was expected to be wound up in the autumn, has been granted an unexpected reprieve. In a three-way battle over its future, which involved a former moderator and the convener of the ill-fated Assembly Council, the committee was
IT was never going to be a hurried honeymoon. Scottish football's eternal bridesmaids had waited four decades to get to the altar. They weren't going to let the party stop. So they came out in hordes. Up the Royal Mile, down the Mound, across
Tachycardia could provide her trainer Barry Murtagh with a welcome tonic at Musselburgh's first evening meeting of the year tonight. The 30-year-old Irishman, based at Ivegill just south of Carlisle, suffered nasty head injuries on Wednesday when
Rory Watson examines the difficult balancing act faced by Tony Blair at the EU-US summit THE Prime Minister will meet his closest political ally, Bill Clinton, in Downing Street this morning, all too aware that his European partners will be keeping a
New Rangers manager Dick Advocaat suffered a double cup blow at the weekend when his present team, PSV Eindhoven, were routed 5-0 by Ajax Amsterdam in the Dutch Cup final yesterday. The disappointing result came just a day after Rangers failed in their
May 18, 1801 n THE Herald reported: ''Saturday night the Loyal Stirling Volunteers were marched by Major Mayne to Tullibody, the centre of Sir Ralph Abercromby's estate, to celebrate the brilliant success of their illustrious countryman
Middlesex Sevens Barbarians retained their Middlesex Sevens title at Twickenham with a hard-fought 38-28 victory over Leicester in the final. The select Barbarians side took control of the final after just 30 seconds and never looked like losing
Conference C A mid-innings team talk provided the impetus for Beazer Clydesdale to kick-start their season at the expense of Ayr. By the time Greig Williamson gathered his players around him, Clydesdale had failed to cash in on the perfect start which
Your feature on Scottish transport problems (May 12) was aptly titled On the road to nowhere. While the integrated transport White Paper is due next month, it seems business people still believe the only solution is to build more roads otherwise there
COMPANY results this week are dominated by Marks & Spencer, British Telecom and three electricity generators all reporting full year figures. After a quiet day today, tomorrow what has been called the world's best retailer will announce fairly flat
Arsenal.....................2 Newcastle.................0 HE IS foreign and he has won two trophies out of the three domestic prizes available this season. Familiar? Arsene Wenger, however, unlike Wim Jansen, is certain to be in charge of Arsenal next
Double yellow lines on an unlikely country road are a cryptic clue. The answer is Portencross, a hidden gem on the Hunterston peninsula, round the corner from the power stations and once a symbol of a different kind of power. The tiny natural harbour
THE tradition of people having ''second sight'' or prophetic vision is a phenomenon which is going through a revival of interest in Scotland, writes Aine Harrington. Long before the obsession began with horoscopes, astrological charts
It was Saturday night. The venue was Birmingham Symphony Hall. The world's great movers and shakers were there, and they were out for a good time.. Move and shake they did - to Jools Holland, Chris Rea, Mick Hucknall, All Saints, Sam Brown and the
n AS THE 1585 ton all-weather supply ship Pharos, she used to butt her way through storm-tossed seas around the Scottish coastline delivering provisions and spare parts to lighthouse keepers. Now, renamed Amazing Grace, this 43-year-old Dundee-built
Communication Good morning, thank you for calling The Helpyoo Company. I'm sorry that none of our operatives is available at this moment. If you require information about our brochure, please press ''one''. If you are confirming
AN attempt by inmates at Noranside prison to restore the controversial former Church of Scotland minister Helen Percy as a chaplain has failed on a technicality. The prisoners had submitted a 100-strong petition to the General Assembly on Saturday, but
TO those of us on the wrong side of the mandatory size 10, the communal dressing room on a Saturday afternoon in the high street can prove a little daunting. As we haul ourselves in and out of ill-fitting garments and plod out to the rails to find something
Scottish Cup With two of Scottish cricket's most illustrious names in town, Glasgow's west-end was the place for potential cup shocks yesterday. Heriot's and Aberdeenshire arrived at New Anniesland and Hughenden respectively with undefeated
Scottish Claymores..27 England Monarchs..24 Gary Parker kept his nerve when it mattered most to give the Scottish Claymores a last-minute victory over England Monarchs at Murrayfield yesterday. Parker, who had missed a field-goal in the final seconds
MOVES to modernise the image of the Royal Family were reinforced in the traditional opening Queen's Letter to the General Assembly. The letter, often bound by formal language, was a short easily-understood message that looked to the millennium and
Scottish League DESPITE their British League exploits 24 hours earlier, City of Edinburgh still managed to consolidate leadership of the Scottish men's league when they won yesterday's division one match at Grangemouth,
THE sleeping giant that is Heart of Midlothian Football Club came alive yesterday amid incredible scenes of celebration following their Scottish Cup win. Edinburgh was a sea of maroon as more than 200,000 people took part in a massive street party
We live in a world which seems to be obsessed with change. New and modern are two of the most popular key words of our time and it is distinctly untrendy either to be old or to remain the same. Everyone and everything must suffer regular sea-changes
A letter linking Mary Queen of Scots, her husband Lord Darnley, and his future murderer, Lord Bothwell, has surfaced after more than 430 years. In the letter, written in August 1566, the Queen commands Bothwell - whom she married the following year just
LITERARY MATTERS n Literary types are clogging up the highways and byways en route to a week in which books are bound to make headlines. Tomorrow the coolly competent Sheena McDonald is Chair of Judges at the Orange Prize for Fiction at the People&apos
WHEN you want to beat the Marines, send in a couple of girls. That was the tongue-in-cheek message last night as early finishers nursed bruised and sun-baked bodies after Britain's toughest endurance event. The Island Peaks Race is a weekend of
Y AS a one-time oil worker and keen fisherman, can I offer my personal solution to the question you raised - what to do with redundant oil-rigs? Leave them where they are. On the accommodation barges we lived on we were often visited by the biggest
ALLEGATIONS that horses were doped on the set of a film about the legendary Derby winner Shergar have been investigated by animal welfare associations and the police. The Hunted, starring Hollywood hellraiser Mickey Rourke and filmed on the Isle of Man
BRILLIANT sunshine and a carnival atmosphere made for enforced changes in the ITV team at the Wembley final. Instead of one commentator and his helper, there were 79,183 voices to describe the occasion. Arsenal won only the match. It was the crowd who
DOCUMENTARY film-maker Ross Wilson has as good a chance as any of lifting a coveted prize at this week's Bafta Television Awards in London and bringing it home to Glasgow, although the final decision is in the lap of the gods -- or, at least, in
Lauren Stark, 5, tests a 1950s pedal car in preparation for Fife Historic Vehicle Club's cavalcade at Lathalmond near Dunfermline, on June 21. In tow is Kylie Milne, 10, in a 1935 Armstrong Siddeley. The cars are from her grandfather, garage owner
Ready for business: Ravenscraig Regeneration, the group planning to transform the site of the former steelworks, left, is tomorrow taking part in Europe's largest urban regeneration event at the SECC in Glasgow. Mr Harry McGuigan, leader of North
A MAJOR rift has emerged between the Church of Scotland and the Government over the failure to safeguard the Kirk's position in the Bill of Human Rights, set to reach committee stage in Parliament this week. There was anger at the opening session
A SCHEME involving the population of one of Scotland's most popular holiday islands, aimed at improving the environment and boosting tourism, has been launched, writes David Steele. Beachwatch Bute has been in existence for just a few months but
IT's rare to come across a double bill where both pieces leave you not just aware - and in awe - of the dancers' bodies, but also aware - and possibly surprised - by your own! Even without having to make any conscious analytical effort, just
THE Prime Minister yesterday admitted to a sense of frustration at the failure of the West to influence the outcome of the nuclear arms race between India and Pakistan. An emphatic condemnation of the Indian nuclear arms testing emerged from the G8 summit
TOPIC OF THE WEEK Line Dancing Yee-har, guys and gals, gather round for a lickety-split dozy-do of a dancing competition. Oh sorry, this ain't no C & W barn dance. This here is line dancing. And in these northern parts we believe that a scuffin&
NEGOTIATIONS between Micro-soft and US government lawyers aimed at averting anti-monopoly lawsuits collapsed at the weekend, putting the Justice Department and at least 20 states back on a collision course with the world's most powerful software
The long-awaited courtroom collision between the US government and Microsoft appeared imminent yesterday, with the Justice Department and at least 20 states set to file antitrust suits today that could change how consumers buy and use most computers.
A FORMER Scottish council official whose career was blighted by allegations of mismanagement stands accused of similar charges with an English local authority, it emerged yesterday. Mr Peter Aiken, a 41-year-old Irishman, is the subject of complaints
SPECULATION is growing that the Kwik-Fit tyres and exhausts group has put in a bid for the Auto Windscreens subsidiary of building materials group Heywood Williams. A spokesman for the Huddersfield based company said that several bids had been expected
THE husband of a woman who was killed when the car he was driving collided with her on a country road is to appear in court in connection with the incident. Dumfries and Galloway Police confirmed yesterday that a 43-year-old man had been bailed to appear
THE latest scheduled flight guide from Scottish Airports offers a wealth of information on direct services and convenient connections from Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow as well as Dundee and Inverness airports. Of particular note for the travelling
Worldwide VETERAN captain Lothar Matthaus has blamed lack of discipline for coach Giovanni Trappatoni's departure from Bayern Munich. The Italian will take charge at Fiorentina next season but Matthaus insisted: ''He
Canoeing Former leading Scots wild water canoeist Robin Lang took advantage of a trip back from Canada to renew old rivalries on the River Tweed yesterday. Lang, who hopes to compete for Canada in the marathon world championships, won the 6 mile event
THE youth delegation, attending for the first time, were quick to make their presence felt. Mr Alan Millar, from Aberdeen, asked convener of the Kirk's board of practice and procedure, Mrs Ann McCarter, whether 18-25 year olds would soon be able
I THINK your correspondent Mr Bill Williams (May 14) has missed quite a lot - orders for new rolling stock for Strathclyde rail services, Edinburgh-Glasgow, and Edinburgh-Aberdeen, which will set off a cascade of rolling stock which will improve travelling
Glenorchy created history on Saturday with their first win in the final of the Glasgow Celtic Society Cup, shinty's oldest competition. To do it they overcame Inveraray, chasing a third win in four years. On the immaculate Strathclyde Police pitch
IT is always a pleasure to flush out a Scottish apologist for New Labour, especially as their arguments almost invariably seal the case for the opposition. John S Rosie (May 11) tells us that it is a facility in Petten, Belgium which produces cancer-treating
NOBODY blessed with a moderately analytical mind could dismiss my mega-simple theory - one that I have embraced for the past few weeks - that if you remove the food supply of a pest it will flit to pastures new. Until my neighbour, a farmer, sold several
BILL Clinton raised the stakes in the Northern Ireland peace campaign yesterday by insisting the stark choice in the referendum vote on Friday lay between economic prosperity or the prospect of international oblivion. In an unprecedented interview on
By coincidence, both the men's and women's single sculls events at the YMCA Glasgow Regatta were won by A Watt - the only difference being that Allan Watt of Castle Semple won the men's event, while Ali Watt of the host club took the women
SCOTTISH men are muscling in on the world of line dancing. This Saturday, they will be executing high kicks and big steps in the grand final of the British Line Dancing Championships at Wembley Arena. Two of Scotland's leading male exponents are
It is becoming increasingly common, this spectacle of grown men weeping at football matches. But enough of Rangers' problems. Let's concentrate on Hearts and the day they were at last rewarded for their efforts in pursuing class football on
WITH the double now safely in the bag, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is now a wanted man. However, he has already turned down three massive managerial offers and is ready to commit himself to Highbury for the next six years. It is believed France wanted
TELEPHONE lines at an oil refinery were jammed yesterday after worried residents living nearby woke to find a light scattering of white powder on the streets. Locals in Grangemouth contacted officials at the BP Oil refinery after discovering roof-tops
Conference B Statisticians live for days like Saturday when all three 100% records were shattered, a new individual milestone was reached, and another was gratefully avoided. Despite being held to a draw at Drumpellier, West of Scotland, for whom professional
q 31 seconds. The most significant incident. With supporters still finding their way to their seats, referee Willie Young pointed to the penalty spot after Steve Fulton had badgered his way past Joachim Bjorklund and Sergio Porrini, only to be brought
Going Dutch A WEEK mostly spent touring the Netherlands, interviewing sundry species of conservationists for a Radio Scotland programme, Postcards, which it would be quite improper to mention here. Likeable place: liberal, prosperous, relaxed, and jolly
JUNIOR CUP Arthurlie............... 4 Pollok.................. 0 PUTTING all their eggs in one basket paid off for Arthurlie yesterday when they won the Scottish Junior Cup for the first time since 1937 by hatching a first-half steamroller that swept
VICTIMS of domestic violence who need emergency advice but are afraid they will not qualify for legal aid, could benefit from new Scottish Office proposals published today. Scottish Office sources said the proposals in the consultation document, Access
REPORT and supplementary report of board of national mission; report of consultative committee on church properties; report of committee on priority areas fund; report of board of world mission and joint report of parish education and on protection of
THE Milk Forum, which represents the three Scottish milk co-operatives and dairy companies which source supplies directly from producers, has compiled figures which demonstrate the pressures being faced by the industry. Analysis shows that prices at
AN AUSTRALIAN couple surfed the Internet worldwide for their dream wedding location - and came up with Hawick. Cate Archer and Dave Burns were impressed by the web site of three-star Mansfield House Hotel in the Borders town and set their hearts on tying
THROUGH all the celebration of Celtic's triumph in winning the Scottish Premier League - and the subsequent shambles in which their football supremo, Wim Jansen of Holland, walked away from his moment of glory - I found myself thinking more and
WORLD CUP UPDATE THE Italian media yesterday called for the inclusion of Roberto Baggio in Italy's World Cup squad after the veteran striker completed one of his best seasons ever, with low-ranking Bologna, scoring 22 goals in league matches
Margaret Henderson marvels at history which cements the fabric of our ancient buildings LOOK closely at the Great Gate to Balliol College, Oxford, and you will see the Crowned Lion of Galloway impaled on the Orle of Balliol. Thus are commemorated the
OUR question, ''Will Brussels treat us like a second-class nation?'' should surely be, ''Will Brussels accept us as a nation?'' This is the crucial issue. In a letter published on March 20, David Martin, MEP and
AS the temperatures nudged the high 70s, Scottish Secretary Donald Dewar spent yesterday afternoon basking in an altogether different ray of sunshine - the company of Stephane Dion, the Canadian Government Minister for unity. Seated in the sun-speckled
YVONNE Murray fought back tears of frustration and anger yesterday at the end of the Britannia Women's 10,000 metres in Glasgow. Having been reduced to a walk by a severe stitch, the Commonwealth champion dropped from the lead to seventh as Australian
IT was not supposed to end like this. Ten in a row, the treble, and the biggest farewell party of them all. That was what the fans wanted, perhaps expected. Inwardly, it was also what the manager, his assistant, and the players who knew that this season
The riot-scarred Indonesian capital was braced for more demonstrations this week, as President Suharto summoned his military commander to review the country's precarious internal security. Tanks and troops were deployed throughout Jakarta, which
smile, please n This is a week made for Anthea Turner, National Smile Week. Time to make those gnashers work, extend those lips, twinkle at the postman and the bus driver, and pray you haven't got muesli on your molars. It's not actually so
workers in the UK will pay the price for the strong pound with significant job losses over the next 12 months, according to a report. The high value of the pound against foreign currencies has driven down export orders to UK companies, and in some areas
THERE may turn out to be a double edge to the compliment which High Commissioner Lord Hogg paid to his close personal friend Donald Dewar, Secretary of State for Scotland, who sat alongside him at the opening session of the 1998 General Assembly. &apos
AS a means of providing me with a first-hand insight into the crushing psychological stresses attendant upon those greensward giants who serve at the sharp end of today's multimillion-pound football industry, my two-hour stint last week on the training
Golf Round-Up Former Scottish professional champion Brian Marchbank produced a record equalling performance at Buchanan Castle on Saturday to capture the top prize in the Stirlingshire club's annual pro-am. Marchbank carded eight birdies in a flawless
Tennis Marcelo Rios, who lost the world No.1 ranking last month because of an elbow injury, is fit again and ready to bid for his first Grand Slam title at the French Open later this month. Speaking after his walkover of injured Spaniard Albert Costa
JOHN Robertson stood like an Olympic gold medal winner on the podium, arms outstretched, in the middle of the cauldron of noise. Around him his team-mates stood and applauded as the little man with the big heart lifted the Scottish Cup. He put his hand
EXCLUSIVE THE historic ability of people in Scottish communities to predict future events, including the imminent death of friends and loved-ones, is the focus of an international academic study. A researcher at Edinburgh University has been given more
THE City is certain to see highly volatile share movements this morning after a series of weekend press reports that several high-profile mergers are to be announced this week or at least that exploratory discussions are under way. Those in the frame
Ulsterman Darren Clarke took revenge on Colin Montgomerie yesterday for the #40 lost to the Scot in practice by pocketing the #125,000 winner's cheque in the Benson and Hedges International Open. The duel between the two Ryder Cup team-mates, who
BRINGING his side to Ibrox to play in Ian Durrant's testimonial last month has turned out to be one of Ron Atkinson's final acts as Sheffield Wednesday manager. The 59-year-old has left Hillsborough only six months after returning for a second
THE future of Scottish native woodlands is brighter than ever largely due to the number of farmers, landowners and crofters who, fearing cutbacks in financial support through the Common Agricultural Policy, aim to take advantage of payments from tree
THE Hotel Armes de Champagne is one of those places you'd never discover on your own. Drive through L'Epine - a village in the Champagne region - and you would probably go straight past it, hypnotised by the sight ahead of you. The Basilica
THIS was always, of course, going to be the end of an era at Ibrox but the intriguing thought thrown up by the Hearts victory in this Scottish Cup final is whether it can also be the start of something big at Tynecastle. The team which has been pieced
IN former times, 31-year-old Mac Mackie, the fourth generation of one of Scotland's leading farming families, would have been the ideal competitive poker player. Calm and inclined to give questions considerable thought before answering, he maintains
THE incoming Moderator of the General Assembly emphasised the need to listen more carefully to hear the word of God in the age of communication. Delivering the traditional assembly sermon at St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh, the Rt Rev Alan Main
CITY LIGHTS n From tomorrow until Thursday dreams will be in the air at the SECC in Glasgow. You may not think Cities 98, the sixth annual conference examining urban management and strategy, is the stuff of dreams. But just think about it. Exhibition
ALMOST as a riposte to the lumpen parochialism of the lard-brained London critic who last week slagged off Britain's so-called regional opera companies, derided Scottish Opera's latest production, and arrogantly insulted its ''largely
COMPETITION is intensifying in the mortgage market, where new-style banks, which have abandoned their time-honoured mutual status to become companies quoted on the stock market, must now earn profits to satisfy their investors. But there is a real danger
EXCLUSIVE THE US Navy has finally caved in to demands for help in dealing with mystery canisters found during the dredging of the former Polaris nuclear missile submarine base on the Holy Loch. About 30 containers, which could contain anything from
Defending champions Linlithgowshire continued to narrow the gap in the east section of the Counties Bowls Championship when they beat West Fife 132-103 at Abbeyview on Saturday. For the second successive week the champions didn't have a losing
Ready for business: Ravenscraig Regeneration, the group planning to transform the site of the former steelworks, left, is tomorrow taking part in Europe's largest urban regeneration event at the SECC in Glasgow. Mr Harry McGuigan, leader of North
Scottish jewellery designer, Ringmaker, plans to open a retail unit in a fashionable area of London as part of its expansion programme. Partners John Gilchrist and Robert Myles are travelling to London this week hoping to clinch the deal. '&apos
Harlequins ..............20 Newcastle.............. 44 Brilliant Newcastle were crowned Allied Dunbar Premiership champions with a champagne six-try performance to crush Harlequins at The Stoop. The victory was a personal triumph for Falcons' director
Scottish Secretary Donald Dewar poured scorn on the SNP yesterday when he accused the Nationalists of backtracking from their own flagship policy of calling an independence referendum if they win control of the Scottish Parliament next year. Mr Dewar
Sir John Hall was particularly insistent. On the morning of the match, in his Park Lane hotel, he told me: ''We are not going to win today, though we will probably succeed in the rugby tomorrow. To be honest I could do without all this fuss
THE nuclear tests which have taken place in India are not a moment of madness as many may imagine or claim but the culmination of a policy change by the Indian Government some decades ago, when on the demise of Gandhi his successor Pandit Nehru stated
A HOSPITAL has declared an amnesty on laundry thieves. Patients leaving with hospital linen, including pyjamas, nighties, babywear and blankets, are costing it #25,000 a year. Managers at Aberdeen Royal Hospitals Trust have decided the only cure is to
TWO of Rangers' beaten Scottish Cup finalists yesterday received mixed news about their next move now that they are about to leave Ibrox. Andy Goram's hopes of a dream move to Italy look dead after Brescia were relegated from Serie A, while
WITH fewer than 500 working days to go to the dawn of the new millennium, now is the time for businesses to start getting their computer hardware and software in order. ''It is these two specific elements of an organisation's IT infrastructure
Heriot's FP...32, Kelso...12 How ironic that on the day Hearts finally broke their trophy jinx, a rugby team should have emulated the Tynecastle club's most notorious ever perfomance. Twelve years on from Hearts loss of both the league
SUMMER has come. There has been little heat yet but the signs are there. We have had three mornings on the trot of haar and stillness followed by glorious sunshine and little winds. With the sowing having been so late, no-one can remember when there
MAY I correct some of the respondents to my letter published on May 5? I am most certainly not satisfied nor content with the state of affairs in which Scotland is subsidised (James Nelson, May 13). I stress again that I should like the facts, now that
WESTERN Grasshopper are just a few weeks away from the start of their centenary season. They kept themselves on course for their first league and cup double yesterday at the Dundee International Sports Complex but all is not well with the team at the
OUR question, ''Will Brussels treat us like a second-class nation?'' should surely be, ''Will Brussels accept us as a nation?'' This is the crucial issue. In a letter published on March 20, David Martin, MEP and
Motorsport VOLVO's Rickard Rydell regained the Auto Trader RAC British Touring Car Championship lead at Brands Hatch yesterday when he won both sprint and feature races. The Swedish driver has a 15-point series lead over Honda's James Thompson
Face to face Is it a fall or a comeuppance? Whatever the semantics of Robin Cook's latest predicament one man, more than most, foresaw its imminence. ''He wouldn't be in so much trouble if he hadn't preached at us,'&apos
British Men's League qCity of Edinburgh found their first fixture in the British League First Division as depressingly tough as had been predicted and finished eighth and last, 17 pts adrift of Birchfield Harriers, writes Sandy Sutherland. They
AFFLUENT churches are being penalised by new Kirk rules attempting to raise ministers' stipends and by the constant demands of central funding for mission and aid work, Glasgow ministers have claimed. The city's presbytery raised concern about
YOUR editorial (May 13) was absolutely right to criticise the spurious facts which Scottish Enterprise have used to try to bolster the case for the M74 northern extension. Extravagant claims of 6000 jobs lost if the road is not built will require the
McDonald's LPGA Britain's Lisa Hackney finished second in the McDonald's LPGA Championship at the DuPont Country Club in Dela-ware yesterday. In keeping with the rest of the field, she was left in awe by the performance from the winner
Open Forum WITH the political scene hotting up in Scotland for our new Parliament, we have to face the reality that for too long we have been lulled into being a pretty apathetic, non-politically active crowd of bar-room politicians; good at sorting
HEARTS defender Paul Ritchie stated yesterday that he believed, despite their Scottish Cup final victory, that the Tynecastle club would have to buy in quality players during the summer to maintain their challenge to the Old Firm.
Are you being cheated by the mortgage lenders? Keith Sinclair describes the experience of two borrowers WHEN Mrs Morag Mack, of Milngavie, near Glasgow, was moving house and hunting for a mortgage, she secured what she thought was the best deal available
