JAMES Inglis (Letters, May 21) should look on the bright side. If Frank Sinatra's passing was the main news of the day then all must be well with the world and he can sleep peacefully of a night! G J C Reid, Druim Fada, Spean Bridge. May 21.
It's one of Glasgow's secret houses - you could walk right past it and never know it was there. But you'd be missing a golden opportunity to own one of the finest examples of the Glasgow style, lovingly restored to its former glory by
HEATED debate over the mechanics of dealing shares in Europe's biggest stock market is due to come to a head in the next few days when the London Stock Exchange is expected to unveil the results of its latest consultation exercise. Launched with
A WITNESS who provided the crucial evidence 10 years ago that convicted a former policeman of the murder of teenager Lorna Porter is a ''fantasist'' who now admits that he made up his testimony, the Court of Criminal Appeal heard
THIS MORNING an official party led by local MP David Stewart will take Bruce Watt's boat from Mallaig on her regular service to Inverie (right) in Knoydart. Their mission may yet prove crucial to the future of Highland land reform. Stewart is due
I ASSUME that in order to be even-handed, the Government, on the presumed recommendation of the CBI, will now be insisting that no company can make a donation to any political party unless 40% of all shareholders vote for this in a secret ballot. Neil
DESPITE enjoying the dubious reputation of being WH Smith's most shoplifted author, Terry Pratchett is a publishing phenomenon. Guards! Guards! is just one of the 21 Discworld novels that has been translated into 26 languages before readers buy
Sandy Lyle would dearly love to face the USA in the Ryder Cup for a sixth time next year at Brookline, Mass., but he never wants to captain the European team. As one of the famous five whose exploits tilted the balance of power to this side of the pond
I'll tell you something about Manhattan taxi drivers. They haven't a clue about where it's at. And for ''it'' read anywhere beyond the most obvious tourist attractions like the Empire State Building, Central Park,
MAY I add to your excellent profile of Ian Bannen (May 21)? When working with the Dr Finlay team I asked Ian if he would consent to be interviewed by Playback, the recording service for the blind. In spite of a very busy work schedule he agreed immediately
FOURTEEN British tourists were injured yesterday in Portugal when their coach rolled over on ''the road of death'' while trying to avoid a crash involving two trucks. Two Portuguese men in one of the trucks were killed, writes Cameron
THE Adam Smith Institute has designated today ''Tax Freedom Day'' to illustrate how much of our money goes on taxes. The free market think-tank has calculated that the average wage earner would have to work every day, including weekends
MOTORISTS were delayed for several hours early yesterday when one of Scotland's busiest commuter routes, the A80 between Glasgow and Stirling, was jammed with tailbacks stretching for up to eight miles. The chaos, which was caused by resurfacing
YOUR report, Student anger over fees (May 22), suggests that the SNP has changed its policy on student funding. In fact, the SNP's policy has not changed at all. The SNP is fundamentally opposed to the Labour Government's proposals to introduce
CLASSICAL ballet, jazz, contemporary - even a little tango on the side. This package demonstrates how much we have come to expect of our young dancers: not just in terms of technical proficiency, but in flexibility of style. Few company repertoires
Singspiel and Pilsudski may have left for stallion duties but Michael Stoute has another decent senior in Insatiable, emphatic winner of the Group 3 Brigadier Gerard Stakes at Sandown yesterday. Stoute, who campaigned his older pair with such success
Ronnie Brown, whose partner in The Corries, Roy Williamson, died of cancer, was in Edinburgh's Princes Street Garden yesterday to promote the Marie Curie Cancer Care open air concert there on June 14. He is pictured with a 12ft high set of bagpipes
RON Ferguson's cynically passionate article (May 22) scorns the work of the counselling agencies such as the Samaritans, the Rape Crisis Centre, Victim Support, and others. If Ferguson has not suffered major and horrific tragedy in his own life
Rock on, Cool Britannia. Our creative but unemployed young people will not, after all, lose their dole money. Ministers have accepted that the New Deal's package of work experience and training will not block the artistic development of jobless
BAA'S share price eased back after its full-year results yesterday although these were better than expected. It was a mixture of profit-taking after the shares have performed strongly this year and a touch of caution over capitalised interest. However
Are we shortly to witness anarchy in France, both on and off the football pitch? Such is the potential for mayhem that the World Cup might even interest those football-loathers for whom it is normally as appetising as a personal endorsement from Mr Ian
BELHAVEN Brewery Group continued to play to its strengths as the Dunbar, East Lothian-based company increased full-year pre-tax profits by 20.3% to #5.03m - the result of a combination of both organic growth and acquisition which helped push turnover
JONATHAN AITKEN, former Tory Cabinet Minister and upper-class flyman, claims he lied for his country. A claim that was emblazoned across the front page of the Daily Telegraph. I suppose Mata Hari could have claimed to have got ''laid for my
Don't tell casualty wards elsewhere, but young patients at Glasgow's Yorkhill children's hospital are being given bright cars to take themselves to theatre rather than a scary trundle on a trolley. As long as they stop at corners and don
MEASURES aimed at preventing pupils and teachers being exposed to white asbestos are being demanded by the country's biggest teaching union, writes Carlos Alba, Education Correspondent. The Educational Institute of Scotland has written to public
A man who brought terror to the West End of Glasgow when he abducted two women was jailed for six years yesterday. In the first attack Christopher Loughran grabbed a 58-year-old woman with learning difficulties as she walked along Byres Road. After police
The popular market sectors around Glasgow are becoming so expensive that they are fast becoming no-go areas for outsiders. Properties in the West End, Bearsden, Milngavie, and a wide arc of countryside running from the north-west of the city almost to
THEIR gait may have been unsteady, but their memories were strong. Mostly, those memories consist of torture, humiliation, and starvation. They include remembrances of months spent in the jungle before being betrayed to the Japanese by those they trusted
TWO pupils from the High School of Glasgow have won the UK English-Speaking Union Schools Debating Competition held at Manchester Grammar School. Ewan Smith, left, 17, from Bearsden, and Niall Kennedy, 16, from Glasgow's West End, were chosen by
Despite claims that nobody does any cooking these days (probably because we're all too busy watching cookery programmes on the telly) the kitchen remains the hub of the household. Which is only as it should be, when you think how much money people
HIGHLIGHTS of the Edinburgh International Festival are to be beamed into homes around the world in the largest arts transmission of its kind, writes Annette McCann. Radical plans to put video footage of the performing and visual arts on the Internet
HISTORY has her burned at the stake, but Schiller had Joan of Arc mortally wounded on the battlefield. In Verdi's account, the maid of Orleans falls in love with Carlo, King of France, leads the French to victory, is betrayed to the English, later
FROM 9.30am till 4.30pm today in Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall, with only a break for lunch, the man billed as the world's leading business guru will strut his very expensive stuff. Tom Peters, variously described as corporate messiah or a
LORD Macfarlane yesterday exited the chair of the highly-successful packaging group he founded 49 years ago on a bitter-sweet note. The septuagenarian, best known for restoring respectability to drinks giant Guinness following its controversial takeover
A swan polluted by oil on the River Laggan in Northern Ireland is recovering at a Scottish wildlife rescue centre. No specialised centre for cleaning oiled birds exists in Ireland. Another bird had to be destroyed and the young female mute swan faced
THE chairman of the Scottish Arts Council, Magnus Linklater, yesterday hit back at claims that Scotland has made a glut of low-quality movie failures. On the contrary, he said, Lottery-funded films were gaining distribution and theatrical release -
EMPLOYERS could face increased administration costs and a mountain of paperwork to bring their files on employees into line with new rules on data protection. The Data Protection Bill, due to come into force later this year, will give employees greater
Monica Seles kept her emotions in check as she demolished Australia's Annabel Ellwood 6-0, 6-2 in the first round of the French Open yesterday. Her father died 12 days ago and Seles eyes misted as she paused for a few moments before admitting she
Above: 'Ultra Sheer' 7 denier tights by Marks & Spencer, #2.50. Short pleated silk skirt by Bazar de Christian Lacroix, #189 at the Bazar boutique, Princes Square, Glasgow; Jane Davidson, Thistle Street, Edinburgh; Selfridges, Oxford Street
ghillies (left to right) Jim Last, Roddy McNaughton and Pete Keay, pictured with Giles Litchfield (second right), managing director of Broughton Ales, which is sponsoring the angling demonstrations at the Game Conservancy Scottish Fair at Scone Palace
BRITISH-based information technology company ICL has teamed up with software giant Microsoft in an alliance expected to create 1000 jobs in Europe and the US during the next three years. Although about 500 of these jobs will come to Britain, none will
Susan Fraser: slotted home Scotland's first penalty corner IF Scotland are to win a medal at the World Cup in Utrecht, then the women who have excelled themselves over the past couple of days will have to achieve the near impossible by beating Germany
THE beauty of Belhaven is that it is too small to be a serious threat to the Scottish beer duopoly of Bass and Scottish & Newcastle but big enough to attract an increasing number of free trade customers, now in excess of 1000 accounts. But the share
ALMOST every baby starts off in life experimenting with building blocks, and this initial fascination grows ever stronger as the child gets older. That's why building sites are inevitably regarded as fascinating places to play. There's all
Brian Wilson, the Minister responsible for tourism, yesterday welcomed moves by the chairman of Highlands and Islands Enterprise to press for better pay and conditions for many people working in Scotland's #2500m tourist industry. Fraser Morrison
THE Scottish Parliament will have a strong voice in Brussels and be able to mould European legislation to its own circumstances, it was claimed yesterday. Chairman of the European Parliament's legal affairs committee, Willy De Clercq, said he was
We asked Kate, Cassandra, Shirley, Joanne, and Deborah to comment on the relative merits of barely-there- look hosiery from leading brands. n Aristoc ''Flawless Finish'', #4. 15 denier tights with low sheen finish and cotton gusset
AIRPORTS operator BAA yesterday attacked the proposed abolition of duty-free retailing for travellers within Europe and said it would continue lobbying against the changes. The company, which runs Heathrow, Gatwick, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Stansted
TEACHERS across Scotland look set to boycott the revised Highers amid concerns the new exams are being dumbed down and that they will provide a charter for cheats. The country's biggest teaching union, the Educational Institute of Scotland - which
''IT was just a joke,'' claimed union leaders yesterday on being castigated for seeking a half day off so that their members could watch the Scotland v Brazil World Cup clash on TV, writes John MacCalman. Unfortunately the joke backfired
ACCORDING to Andrew J White (Letters, May 25), Bolivia has drug trafficking, corruption, and poverty on a scale which is difficult to believe, yet he thinks that's a better place to be than our more affluent Scotland because the people are packing
industrial action closed the Mitchell Library in Glasgow yesterday. Striking staff began their week-long protest over pay cuts to librarians throughout the city. Students trying to study for exams were turned away and a group of three-year-old children
I COULD not fail to notice that immediately next to your Opinion piece today on New Labour's latest hysterical anti-nationalist rantings was a letter from that renowned political free-thinker Brian Fitzpatrick, regurgitating the same, sad, Millbank
A GOVERNMENT campaign to put the work ethic back at the heart of British life is to be launched in Scotland today by welfare reform Minister Frank Field. In choosing to launch a UK-wide debate north of the Border the controversial Minister is both tapping
AS a nation celebrated at their expense, Scotland's rugby tourists were last night left to consider the damage done to their inter-national credibility after 80 minutes of abject humiliation in Fiji. A scoreline of 51-26 was horrific enough in its
CRAIG Watson has a score to settle with the course at Muirfield next week when he defends his Amateur Championship crown. Only once has he played a competitive round over the home of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers - and it was an 11-over-par
JUNIOR doctors could face bills of hundreds of pounds every year as a result of allowances for essential training courses being capped, writes Alan MacDermid, Medical Correspondent. The courses are seen as essential if they are to continue learning and
ALMOST 3000 people have applied for jobs on quangos in Scotland since the Government advertised vacancies two weeks ago, writes Murray Ritchie. Scottish Secretary Donald Dewar said: ''This is encouraging news at such an early stage in the campaign
GOOD race relations and equal opportunities could be put at the heart of the Scottish Parliament's agenda by creating a powerful standing committee to monitor and feed into all Holyrood legislation, the SNP suggested yesterday, writes Robbie Dinwoodie
SCOTLAND has, in the past, produced radical solutions to problems: the Scottish Parliament will provide new opportunities for creative solutions. The issue here is that although children are one fifth of Scotland's population, they have no opportunity
THEY say that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned but that's an old adage that Anthea Turner and Ginger Spice, Geri Halliwell, obviously have little truck with. Instead, over the past few weeks they have evinced a near-saintly capacity for forgiveness
WOOD Group has acquired two companies in the US and Venezuela which make and service wellheads and valves for onshore oilfields. The Aberdeen-based engineering services company will pay about $10m for Church Oil Tools of Houston, Texas, and Bompet of
THERE is no keener ear for the nuance of Glasgow as she is spoke than Jim Kelman's and this exercise in the subtly shifting interplay of relationships between three expat street people in Birmingham is as good an example as you'll find. And
THANKS to his recent prolific output, the current trademark of director Ian Brown is beginning to emerge - sharp post-modernism with a touch of flash. Robin Don is the designer here supplying a series of cool, clever, revolving backdrops - smart legal
MURRAY RITCHIE, SCOTTISH POLITICAL EDITOR LABOUR'S so-called Natbusting campaign continued last night when Helen Liddell, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, rounded on the SNP for threatening constitutional chaos through the new Scottish Parliament
THE New Britain first fingered me on May 5, 1997. I can pinpoint the day. The jet-lag from election night had worn off. The monumental hangover was gone, just. I had even managed an hour on the Saturday evening at a Tory bop to celebrate Eighteen Glorious
Glasgow's Big Big Country festival may have missed out on the opportunity of promoting rare Scottish appearances by former Byrds in consecutive years, with the cancellation - due to illness - of its Chris Hillman concert tomorrow. but its delving
Denis Campbell Political Correspondent THE Japanese Emperor failed in his bid last night to defuse the row over Japan's brutal treatment of captured British Servicemen during the Second World War. Veterans dismissed his expression of '&apos
FREED nurse Deborah Parry's lawyer yesterday followed Lucille McLauchlan's and cleared payment of #740,000 in ''blood money'' to the brother of their murdered Australian colleague Yvonne Gilford, Frank. The two women also
IT WAS a short speech, and the issue which has commanded so many column inches in recent days merited only 120 words. Yet they said much more, subtly too. But not enough for the thousands of prisoners of war who suffered such terrible brutality at the
IT is not a happy time for the oil industry, with the price languishing at $14 a barrel and the Government threatening extra taxation. Already employment is being hit as a planned oilfield development is shelved. We are accustomed to thinking of oil
St Petersburg SCOTLAND'S contribution to an ambitious multinational project to launch commercial satellites from a former North Sea oil platform is poised to set sail for its Californian ''home base''. The Govan-built mother
GLASGOW has been chosen as the first Scottish city to host BBC radio's music festival Music Live 99. The #1m event will be broadcast live throughout the UK on Radio 1, Radio Two, Radio Three, Radio Four, Radio Five Live and Radio Scotland. Scheduled
NCR, which employs nearly 2000 people in Scotland, has signed a #50m contract to maintain NatWest's entire network of cash machines in the UK for the next three years. Company officials said the deal would bring additional jobs to the company&apos
110 Queen Victoria Drive, Scotstoun. Three-bedroom sandstone terraced villa. Offers over #95,995. Robb Agency, Byres Road. This richly decorated property with a definite flavour of Laura Ashley has a charming little cloaks and storage room just
THOUSANDS of life-saving injectors carried by sufferers from severe allergic reactions are faulty, the UK distributors warned yesterday. The US makers of the EpiPen and Junior EpiPen have discovered that about 4000 of the one-shot pen-style syringes
Fiji ....................... 51 Scotland ............. 26 SCOTLAND'S tour got off to the worst start imaginable in Fiji yesterday as indecision and hesitation cost them dearly against a side who were more direct, more enterprising, and
World Cup Watch ROMARIO, nursing a hamstring injury, was back on track yesterday to lead Brazil's attack in the World Cup opening match against Scotland at the Stade de France on June 10. The Flamengo striker took part in the fitness part of Mario
Scotland goalkeeper Andy Goram left the international squad yesterday and returned home claiming that he had been forced out of the finals in France by the tabloid newspapers. Goram, who has been capped more than 50 times for his country, was released
Militant French truckers lifted road blocks after a brief protest over pay yesterday and promised not to defy police and upset football fans by disrupting the World Cup. But as the threat of road chaos during the tournament faded, Air France pilots gave
THE Rangers striker, Gordon Durie, broke off from a spell of treatment yesterday and admitted that he had feared that the injury he received against Colombia at the weekend might have prevented him from going to the World Cup finals in France. '
TV chef Nick Nairn, with Craig Gibson and Rebecca Ross from Capability Scotland's Corseford School, at the launch of the charity's new credit card. The Bank of Scotland card will benefit the charity by 25p for each #100 spent.
RESEARCHERS at Stirling University has discovered why some people are more tickly than others. They have found that right-handed people are generally more tickly than those who are left-handed. And the tickliest spot on our bodies is the sole of the
RECENT letters to The Herald have been a delight: we have had learned discourses on the Stewardship of the Schiltron Hundreds, and polemics for and against the formal teaching of English grammar. Unsurprisingly, the ''antis'' have
YOUR front-page headline (May 26) referring to possible job losses in the UK offshore oil industry as a result of proposed changes in the fiscal regime needs to be understood in its proper context. A recent article in Petroleum Economist (April 1998)
SO you've got your barbecue and patio area and the flash conservatory was installed a couple of years ago. Now how do you make the neighbours green with envy? Patrick Colbert thinks he has the answer. Based at Pitmedden Farm in Auchtermuchty, Colbert
R D Kernohan expresses eloquently (May 23) the anxiety experienced by old Tory unionists as they realise they can no longer count on the certainties of yesteryear. He must not be allowed, however, to escaped unchallenged in his assertions about what
GLASGOW'S Labour administration yesterday pulled back from a potentially damaging dispute with the city's Roman Catholic and Muslim communities by ruling out the possibility of admitting boys to Scotland's only local authority comprehensive
DOZENS of confidential documents, including details of poll tax defaulters and people who served prison sentences, have been discovered by children playing on an industrial estate in Stirlingshire. Stirling Council has launched an investigation after
RESEARCH carried out by the Scottish Office into methods of removing private lawyers in summary criminal legal assistance and replacing them with State-salaried lawyers was published yesterday, only to be dismissed by the Law Society of Scotland as &
THE fate of Glasgow's Lord Provost, Patrick Lally, hangs in the balance today when the Court of Session hears evidence on attempts by his City Council to remove him from office, writes John MacCalman, Municipal Correspondent. Mr Lally was granted
YOUR editorial today about having the Scottish Parliament and council elections on the same day is welcome in airing this important subject further, but ignores some relevant arguments. Having the voting in the two elections on the same day means the
BOOK of the DAY THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY Edited by Nicolas Royle Sceptre Paperback, #6.99 IT'S best to start with a public health warning. If the date 1966 is liable to bring you out in a rash, then The Agony and the Ecstasy is possibly not the
Raymond Duncan A SCOTTISH chief constable claimed yesterday that around 50% of skilled and 85% of unskilled workers are failing in-house drug screening by Scots companies, many of them nationals and multinationals. His remarks caused controversy, with
A report on a boiler used to cook meats at John M Barr & Son was not produced as evidence, the E-coli food poisoning inquiry heard yesterday. North Lanarkshire Council's environmental health department had ordered the manufacturer's engineer
THE #98m Dunedin Smaller Companies Investment Trust yesterday became the latest fund in the Edinburgh Fund Managers stable to report much-improved results. Dunedin Smaller has a fairly bleak long-term performance record and trailed its benchmark significantly
POLICE swooped on suspected Islamic militant groups in five European countries yesterday in a bid to prevent terrorist attacks during the World Cup. At least 88 people were rounded up in the co-ordinated raids in France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, and
Industry Minister Brian Wilson yesterday indicated sympathy to calls for the creation of a South of Scotland Development Agency to help fight the deepening economic crisis in the Borders and Dumfries and Galloway. But he said consideration of such a
SHARES in Mirror Group, the subject of bid speculation and owner of the Daily Mirror and the Glasgow-based Daily Record and Sunday Mail newspapers, increased 25.5p to a year's high of 243.5p, which values the company at more than #1000m. The strong
IT IS often claimed that ''environmentalists'' do not live in the real world. In the case of the Lingerbay quarry (May 25) it is the supporters of the development who are the fantasists. The first responsibility of anyone interested
Extensively refurbished by the present owner - a conservation architect - to form a delightful family home and more, this Georgian farmhouse includes a few unusual extras such as a restored cantilever barn fully equipped for IT users, a playbarn, and
Myself, I blame Sara Villiers. She wrote in an article, not long ago, about being green with envy when one of her pals started attracting wolf whistles by driving around in a Mazda MX-5. Add that to the undeniable fact that more than half of the customers
COUNCIL leaders have failed to prevent their local authority from being crippled by industrial action. Around 1300 angry workers at Labour controlled Stirling Council will hold a one-day strike tomorrow after last ditch talks to avoid a walk-out failed
HEARTS' chief executive Chris Robinson has been nominated by his premier division colleagues to become president of the Scottish League at the annual meeting tomorrow. He has also been nominated for vice president. However, Mr Robinson will not
FIVE years ago there were inquests taking place in every rugby club in the land after Scotland conceded 51 points to the All Blacks. Yet yesterday Jim Telfer, of all people, was making excuses for conceding precisely that number of points to a small
ALAN Kernaghan last night snubbed big money offers from English clubs to sign a lucrative new two-year contract with St Johnstone. Stewart Duff, managing director of the Perth club, said: ''We always said we would sit down at the end of the
Have you noticed the empty chair in the current national childcare debate? Working parents will tell anyone who wants to hear that childcare provision in this country is dire and that juggling the demands of home and office threatens their health and
THIS week, audiences at the Perth Festival are in for a treat, and a rare one at that. This morning Austrian violinist Ernst Kovacic begins a four-concert residency at the festival that will afford his listeners a glimpse of the full range of his extraordinary
Well, let's be honest. We like to think we are a top-level rugby playing country, but it looks as if that one result, a hammering by Fiji, proves we aren't really. I met David Williams, of the Hawks, on the train from Edinburgh. '&apos
STRONE Cottage, situated in Glen Fruin, eight miles north-west of Helensburgh, is a property steeped in history. The garden greenhouse which has stone walls on three sides and glass on the fourth, started life as a bothy some 400 years ago and in 1603
EXCLUSIVE DONALD Dewar warned the Treasury that the Scottish oil industry would rebel over tax increases, it was confirmed last night. The Scottish Secretary wrote to the Chancellor warning of the industry's strong hostility to the Treasury&apos
A SILVER snuff box, carried by its first owner in the Battle of Culloden, fetched #27,600 at auction in Edinburgh yesterday It was the highest price achieved at what Christie's described as its best sale of Scottish silver. The box, made in 1744
John Tilbury's final recital focussed on Morton Feldman's for Bunita Marcus, a long piece dating from 1985 and dedicated to the eponymous pianist, who also commissioned Feldman's final work for piano, the rather more distilled Palais De
YOUNG Scots who have been hardest hit by long-term unemployment are to be given a new chance of finding work through an #18m initiative launched yesterday. Scottish Secretary Donald Dewar said the New Futures Fund would give hope to those previously
THE concept of buy-to-rent has certainly taken on, north of the border as well as in the south. the financial institutions are encouraged to promote the creation of suitable properties to let, in the private sector, with acceptable loan arrangements.
n Once upon a time when Scotland was not in the headlights of Cannes a man called Bill Forsyth led the cinematic field. Even now he is hailed in reference books as ''Perhaps the most important figure ever in the Scottish film industry'
SCOTLAND'S largest cheese trading company is set to open an office near the heart of England's cheddar country in an effort to boost its penetration in the South and increase business volumes. McLelland, which last year took a 20% stake in
A FISCAL last night demanded a police explanation after a youth accused of assault walked free when the wrong witness was summoned to give evidence against him. The case is the fourth this year in which serious errors have led to an accused escaping
FORMER Celtic executive David Hay told an industrial tribunal yesterday how he was sacked only weeks after giving a warning to Fergus McCann about problems at the club. Mr Hay said he told the club's chief executive about problems between Jock
IT IS suggested that a by-law against begging may infringe the so-called European Convention on Human Rights (May 22). Is there anything in this document about the ''right'' of people to walk down the street without being intimidated
A RESCUE operation was launched last night when a replica Viking longboat with six French nationals on board was reported to be in trouble off the north-east coast of Scotland. The eight-metre wooden vessel Thorvald was taking on water and in danger
THE National Farmers' Union of Scotland's hill farming convener, John Scott, has welcomed the re-opening of the sheep export trade to France which was suspended in January under BSE controls imposed by the Ministry of Agriculture. Talks between
THE London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (Liffe) will bring forward the introduction of electronic trading by six months in order to reclaim business lost to Frankfurt, writes Andrew Wilson. It proposes that the new system, which
n AS SCOTLAND recovered from the General Strike, The Herald reported: ''The ordinary passenger steamer service from Glasgow and Greenock to the various holiday resorts on the Clyde coast has been greatly restricted owing to the necessity for
LEFT-wing Labour MPs yesterday claimed plans to introduce a central list of approved candidates for the next General Election would kill the party's tradition of dissent. Allowing Labour's ruling national executive committee to vet Parliamentary
CLYDE sail-maker Graham Campbell's decisive overall victory in the Sonata class, winning six of seven races, earned him the Scottish Series Trophy last night as the best overall performance of the 231-boat Tarbert Scottish Series regatta on Loch
