A GLASGOW lottery winner has just one week left to claim a prize of #102,601. Camelot yesterday launched an appeal to find the owner of the winning ticket before the prize becomes the largest ever to go unclaimed in Scotland. ''We'd love
KISS. Keep It Short And Simple. That is the advice that Euro officials are now being given when drafting documents in a desperate attempt to prevent the public being drowned in EU jargon, writes Rory Watson, European Correspondent. The practical advice
Water works: conifers and fountains are central to the Parks' displays; solar power runs the water features and the water can be pumped without electricity even on the most hazy day. SHE was town bred and grew up with little knowledge of gardening
MINISTERS faced renewed questioning on the use of uranium-tipped weapons in the Gulf war last night after Iraq announced it had filed a claim for damages with the United Nations. Labour MP Tam Dalyell will raise the issue in the Commons next week. The
HE played 44 times for Scotland, but John Rutherford has been given a taste of how much harder life can be as a coach at Test level. After Tuesday's 51-26 defeat by Fiji, however, he was determined to maintain a positive approach to the remainder
n THERE'S plenty of time to get to Scotland's National Gardening Show - it runs from tomorrow at 11am until Sunday at 5pm. The full opening hours are: Tomorrow - 11am-7pm; Saturday - 10am-6pm; Sunday 10am - 5pm. Until Saturday evening it
silent cinema: World Cinema Before The Coming Of Sound Joel W Finler Batsford Film Books, #20 n LIKE no other art form that has ever existed, silent cinema is complete - or, as the philistines would say, finished. When the talkies took over, it was almost
SOCIAL workers are being assaulted at a rate of about three a week and some of their families have received death threats, Aberdeen councillors will be told next week For the past year the number and nature of violent incidents affecting the social
THE Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society has launched a breed improvement programme designed to identify the top performing bulls in the breed and ensure that they are more extensively used in both pedigree and commercial herds. While the Aberdeen-Angus has
This little diary wonders, quite genuinely, if professionalism is going to widen the gulf between rugby nations, and split them into race and body types. We Scots have survived in rugby, which is quintessentially a physical contact sport ideally suited
THE Government was at the centre of a new row over the controversial Knoydart estate yesterday when it emerged that Heritage Secretary Chris Smith stayed there at the weekend, despite investigations by the Serious Fraud Office and the Department of Trade
IMAGINE being a child - not easy, granted, but give it a try - of Northern Ireland. Never mind which side you are on. What matters is how the future looks, not what the past has determined. Try to think how it would be to be the child of 30 years of
MAY I congratulate The Herald for bringing together, at a luncheon, the Lord Provosts of Glasgow and Edinburgh? I was delighted to be one of the many people there who agreed with the civic views that, while each city will remain proud of its virtues,
n Is your wisteria wilting, your fuchsia fading and your pansies going to pot? Then it's time to consult the experts. Bring small plants or gardening artefacts for expert advice at the Great Gardening Celebrity Question Time in the Herald Q&A Theatre
EDINBURGH investment house Ivory & Sime saw its profits tumble during its last nine-and-a-half months as an independent entity. Results released yesterday cover the period to mid-February, when Ivory merged with English life office Friends Provident&
WELFARE Minister Frank Field brought his work ethic message to Scotland yesterday, and drew a mixed reception in a debate which is set to hot up this week. Labour's older constituency, typified by keynote speaker Lord Hattersley, will today begin
SCOTLAND'S biggest teachers' union yesterday voiced grave concern that access to education still depended on ''who you are and where you live'', writes Raymond Duncan. The criticism by the Educational Institute of Scotland
New releases Washington Square (PG) 115 mins. Directed by Agnieszka Holland GFT from tomorrow, Filmhouse from June 5. The General (15) 129 mins. Directed by John Boorman. Dark City (15) 100 mins. Directed by Alex Proyas. Wishmaster (18) 89 mins. Directed
n ARE you desperate to see your urban garden alive with wildlife but don't know where to start? Even if you live in a concrete jungle there are steps to take to make it a little more lively. It's simple enough, just provide certain plants and
TOM Clark, the executive chairman of Semple Cochrane has realised more than #1.2m from the sale of shares to institutional investors keen to buy into his Paisley-based support services company. The transaction follows hefty share sales to institutional
MORTON last night reported Kilmarnock to both the SFA and the Scottish League. And they are demanding #500,000 for midfielder Alan Mahood, who is signing for the Rugby Park club. The two clubs are now set to clash and Morton owner Hugh Scott said last
ALTHOUGH Scottish Financial Enterprise is exploring the possibility of sharing office space with CBI Scotland, the financial sector lobbying group has rejected any notion that it might merge with another industry body. Following an informal re-appraisal
Bill Knox enjoys one exhibit which has managed to combine the best of both worlds - a cultivated patch with its own wild side SCOTLAND is becoming a favourite patch for foreign garden enthusiasts and increasingly their touring coaches are on their
TESTING and processing of blood donated for transfusions in Scotland is to be concentrated at two centres instead of the current five, resulting in the loss of more than 60 jobs, it was revealed yesterday. Laboratory services currently undertaken in
n GASPS of amazement will accompany the rapid clicking of camera shutters as visitors snap up the ''floral bridge'' over Strathclyde Park's loch. Created by the Scottish Bedding and Pot Plant Group - made up of some 65 nurseries
There will be no repeat of the heartbreak of Euro96 for Scotland's second most capped player in the country's history, Jim Leighton. Two years ago, the Aberdeen keeper was devastated at being left out of the Scotland side for the group games
A GROUP trying to develop Scotland's tourism potential is calling on the Government to establish a new ministerial department to give the industry an injection of confidence. The Scottish Tourism Forum, set up by a cross-section of interested parties
A GLOBE-TROTTING life has brought Teyl de Bordes to the suitably named village of Lilliesleaf, in the Borders, to conduct a worldwide plant search. From his Lilliesleaf base, he is conducting the mammoth task of tracking down and collecting 300 varieties
BRAVE is the director who takes on a remake of a much-loved classic, although, to be fair, Washington Square is based on Henry James's novel, not, as was William Wyler's The Heiress, on the play by Ruth and Augustus Goetz. But the Polish director
SHARES in banking group Halifax continued to surge yesterday in a plunging stock market, as reports that it had asked Royal Bank of Scotland to consider a merger persisted. Significantly, Royal Bank has decided to backtrack on its original response to
anAs thousands of visitors head for Strathclyde Park, the small group of permanent staff of the Royal Horticultural Society are already looking ahead to their next projects. They will be at the park for the five days following the show while the show
He is still revered as one of Scotland's greatest heroes but the Braveheart legend could be heading for a tumble after cracks were found in the ankles of a famous statue of William Wallace. The 36ft imposing bronze figure, which was built 110 years
Working Legs, Muirfield Centre, Cumbernauld THE world premiere of a new play by Alasdair Gray - and those without a disability in the audience are in a distinct minority. Which is as it should be. Working Legs posits a society where the ability to perambulate
Sainsbury is to introduce its new food store concept into Glasgow's Buchanan Galleries. The food giant has selected the #200m shopping centre, under construction at the top of Buchanan Street, as the launch site for its new city centre food store
the mars mystery by Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval, and John Grigsby Michael Joseph, #16.99 SUB-TITLED A Tale of the End of Two Worlds, it will undoubtedly come all too easily to some immediately to scoff at and dismiss The Mars Mystery as entertaining
IT was a case of what might have been for Scotland last night at the women's hockey World Cup. They were beaten 1-0 by Germany, the world's No.2 ranked side in their final group match and this reversal has had severe ratifications. The defeat
Money may not grow on trees but one of the more usual exibits at Strathclyde could well nurture an interest in a new and controversial currency. The display is aimed at promoting interest in the euro, the single European currency. Designer Caroline Boyle
A 16-year-old tearaway, who has committed 21 drink-related offences since October, was sent back to Cornton Vale women's prison yesterday. Christina Taylor, who achieved notoriety when a sheriff placed her on a round-the-clock curfew last year in
ON any other day, the British Airways share price would have moved ahead quite sharply but it was unable to overcome the weakness which plagued FTSE-100 yesterday. Last year's results were as good and prospects for the current year seem to be encouraging
GEORGE Kerr was 16 when he left Penilee Secondary School in Glasgow. But even then he had only one ambition - to design and develop small gardens. Now the 25-year-old, a qualified horticulturist with his own business, has taken a major step forward.
A vital list of outlets supplied by butchers John M Barr & Son was held back by the health authorities during an E-coli epidemic, because of fears it was incomplete, a fatal accident inquiry into the deaths of 21 people was told yesterday. There was
In what must be Glasgow's biggest ever pub deal, a property investment company has rolled out a #4m cash barrel. Portfolio Holdings Ltd has purchased the former bank building at 24 George Square and 2 St Vincent Street from publicans JD Wetherspoon
STROKE isn't just a disease of age and each week in Britain it claims 200 victims in the prime of their lives, writes Chris Holme. However, treatment remains patchy and aftercare for sufferers is often sparse, the European Stroke Conference in Edinburgh
THE Prime Minister was last night on course to set the new national minimum wage at #3.60 an hour, after receiving a recommendation that fell substantially below the level demanded by the trade unions. An overdue, 400-page report by the Low Pay Commission
THE British Airways share price ran into some turbulence yesterday despite the company's full-year results exceeding market expectations. Although the #125m cost of the cabin strike last summer and a #200m hit on the impact of the stronger pound
THE Prime Minister will discuss his plans for Europe's future with the Commission president Jacques Santer in London today. The meeting will launch a series of bilateral contacts between Mr Blair and fellow EU leaders in the weeks ahead as the Prime
GLASGOW Lord Provost Pat Lally went into the witness box yesterday to deny that he was acting to protect his #18,000-a-year allowance and the trappings of power when he blocked a moved that could have led to him being removed from office. Mr Lally&apos
News that tax inspectors are so overworked they are making up bills will come as a surprise to one Scottish taxpayer. In her case, the taxman has been so meticulous in his calculations that he is pursuing widow Janet Craig for 16p. Mrs Craig insists
Billy Carruthers walked into the derelict walled garden of Sue Ryder's Binny Estate three years ago and thought he had ''died and gone to heaven''. In his boyhood, when he was confined to home in a Glasgow semi, because of his
HEALTH experts will today examine evidence which suggests that products containing tomatoes may reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease. Two major US studies have shown that lycopene - a natural pigment that gives tomatoes their red colour and is
THAT rail services in Britain have fallen substantially behind in standards of service, rolling stock, and infrastructure compared with other European countries is due to a complex interplay of factors applying over many years; for example, under-investment
As the Scotland World Cup squad came to grips yesterday with the news that goalkeeper Andy Goram had quit international football, the national team manager, Craig Brown, made a spirited defence of the man who has walked away from his squad. Despite repeated
YOU could be forgiven for forgetting that most of us voted for a Scottish Parliament because we wanted to see distinctive policies defined in Scotland and not in Westminster. The current political debate about the Scottish Parliament is a pale reflection
WITH a classic start to his residency at the Perth Festival - running through till Saturday, with four concerts and workshop/masterclasses with schoolchildren - Austrian violinist Ernst Kovacic yesterday morning lit up a rather dreich Perth in a recital
The old religion David Mamet Faber, #9.99 When the playwright David Mamet turns to prose, as he has done in collections like Writing in Restaurants, and the recently published True and False, he writes in a terse, economical style that is as intelligent
A DOCTOR facing a series of charges of improper conduct against his female patients told a 16-year-old schoolgirl in his surgery that he wanted to make love to her, a court was told yesterday. The witness, who is now 20, claimed her GP had made sexual
Morocco.................0 England....................1 IF the defection of Andy Goram is a serious disappointment at a crucial time for Scotland's World Cup hopes, the news from Casablanca last night was a lot more encouraging. The 1-0 win by England
Esme MacLeod, 16, a pupil of Lourdes Secondary School, reflects on her prize-winning success at yesterday's Trades House of Glasgow Awards. The annual awards are for the best craft items produced by Higher and Standard grade students at Glasgow&
tough new measures to control blasting at opencast mining sites are to be introduced by East Ayrshire Council following an incident in Muirkirk last week in which a girl was injured when a controlled explosion at a LAW Mining site sent debris into the
TOMMY Docherty has said that no club would now touch Andy Goram with a barge-pole. The former Scotland manager regarded Goram as a friend while the keeper was at Oldham. However, he is outraged at Goram's behaviour of pulling out the Scotland squad
I WOULD like to bring to your attention the close association of two subjects that are of concern to Glasgow at the moment, namely Britannia and the City of Architecture appellation. The Britannia I have in mind is the cutter yacht built at the Meadowside
Tennis SCOTLAND's Jamie Murray confirmed his place among the top 12- and-under players in Europe when he won the singles and doubles titles at the Passagespoirs International Tournament in Agen, France. Murray, from Dunblane, beat Simon Calvalido
ARTIFICIAL heart valve manufacturer AorTech has successfully completed a #3m fund- raising exercise which will allow it to take a 38% stake in Australian polyurethane developer Elastomedic. The company, based in East Kilbride, has issued a little more
aTHE horror of a stroke was all the more real for Loraine Easdale because as a nurse on a neuroscience ward she knew exactly what was happening. There were no obvious risk factors in 1996. She did not smoke or eat meat and was a fit climber. There was
THE High Street retailer Sweater Shop, which used lucrative sponsorship deals with snooker stars Stephen Hendry and Ken Doherty to help boost its image, has gone into receivership placing 1300 jobs throughout the UK - almost 400 in Scotland - under threat
There is no doubt that the rural economy is in a mess. Equally, there is no doubt that those in that particular mess need not look to the agriculture minister, Dr Jack Cunningham, for help, a comforting word, or even much in the way of understanding.
G WILLIS is right in pointing out that Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia welcomed the German Army rather than being swallowed up (Germans welcomed, May 25). These countries were swallowed up by the Soviet Union. However, G Willis is wrong in including Ukraine
q SUE Bradburne, better known for her exploits over jumps, today has a rare runner on the level at Ayr. Total Tropix, formally trained in Lambourn by Brian Meehan, represents the Cupar handler in the Fenwick Maiden claiming stakes. The filly joined her
LAWYERS were last night examining an article in the latest edition of the official Celtic Football Club magazine, the Celtic View, after managing director Fergus McCann launched an attack on people he accuses of undermining him, writes Chris Starrs.
n Hollywood is rather thin on the ground when it comes to villainous sex bombs. Forty-five-year-old John Malkovich seems to revel in a film career playing largely unsympathetic assasins (In The Line Of Fire); salacious immoral rakes (Dangerous Liasions
Forspoken Ajay Close Secker & Warburg, #9.99 FASHIONABLE is the world that naturally springs to mind when thinking of Forspoken. The novel is awash with Glasgow trendy types with carefully-prepared appearances who eat stuffed olives, almond croissants
A fascinating story of the extent to which Earl Spencer attempts to manipulate his image in the press, despite purporting to despise such behaviour, emerges from the background to a biography of him by the journalist Richard Barber. Like sister, like
David Crossland: demand slackened. INCREASED first-half losses caused by trading difficulties in Scandinavia sliced 6% off the share value of UK holiday operator Airtours yesterday. The company, which now generates only half of its turnover from Britain
Rachel carson: witness for nature Linda Lear Allen Lane, #25 RACHEL Carson's book Silent Spring has been a landmark for the environmental movement since its publication 36 years ago. Her thesis (that the indiscriminate use of pesticides was a time-bomb
WHEN it comes to food, and what we like to eat, the ebb and flow of fashion doesn't usually take quite so long. But, as the millennium approaches, and after a hiatus of several centuries, our taste for wild boar is set for reappraisal. And unlike
Scotland is about to burst into colour with the start of the second annual National Gardening Show. Its three-day run starts tomorrow at Strathclyde Park and looks set to top last year's 60,000 attendance. ''Ticket sales are up more than
YOU could be forgiven for forgetting that most of us voted for a Scottish Parliament because we wanted to see distinctive policies defined in Scotland and not in Westminster. The current political debate about the Scottish Parliament is a pale reflection
YOU can't see Berlin for the cranes. They crowd the skyline, their arms busy filling in the gap left by the removal of miles of unwanted wall. Impossible to hide, they were recently given a starring role in an open-air ballet set to music conducted
I WAS saddened at the reports that Paul Gascoigne is a smoker and also that England coach Glenn Hoddle wrongly claims that encouraging him to stop ''could do more harm than good''. Giving up smoking would have immediate health benefits
MONDAY night fever shimmied its way into Glasgow a few nights ago and rapidly spread to the rest of the week. There are only three more nights to catch Boogie Nights, the show with extra flare, at the King's until May 30. This new musical is the
SCOTLAND'S secondary schools are facing a crisis in teacher recruitment, with applications to training colleges down by almost a third on last year. Graduates are voting with their feet and seeking jobs in professions where salaries, benefits and
A RETIRED couple who loathe football were celebrating yesterday after winning an island holiday to escape coverage of the World Cup. Former university lecturer Edwin Miller, 59, and his wife Norma, 57, from Sheffield, entered the competition, run by
FORMER Scotland goalkeeper Andy Goram was beginning life away from the international scene yesterday heartened by messages of support and goodwill. Team manager Craig Brown indicated that if the Rangers keeper wanted to reconsider his decision to retire
Tony Blair today admitted that he and his barrister wife Cherie claim child benefit for their three children, renewing the debate about whether it should be taxed for high earners. Chancellor Gordon Brown announced in the Budget that the Government was
We do not know if Ministers choked over the Danish pastries and croissants with creme fraiche during their breakfast meeting with representatives of Scotland's secondary head-teachers yesterday. Several issues were discussed but one in particular
AN investigation into the high number of ME sufferers in the Outer Hebrides has found most have been exposed to the Gulf war illness chemical organo-phosphate. Nearly 60% of victims of the chronic fatigue syndrome who responded to the survey revealed
THE teaching of Gaelic in the West of Scotland is to receive #250,000 after Argyll and Bute Council secured a grant from the Scottish Office - the only local authority in Scotland to receive full funding. Fifteen local and six inter-authority projects
HERE, I think, is a clear manifesto of this company's current - indeed future - strengths. In the middle of the programme are beautifully crafted - blazingly demanding - pieces by two acclaimed masters: Jiri Kylian and Merce Cunningham. Flanking
There is a definite shortage of licensed businesses available for sale just now, making this a very good time to put a hotel or pub on the market. A number of recent sales, including those of the Stakis hotels in Falkirk, Paisley, and at Glasgow Airport
The IRA must make the first move before loyalist paramilitaries begin handing over weapons, the loyalist representatives said last night. Despite an amnesty protecting terrorists from prosecution, the conditions were still not right for the handing over
A FORFAR man has amazed animal experts by becoming one of the first people in Scotland to breed iguanas at his home. Mr Nigel Etheridge, 28, was shocked when two of the giant South American lizards produced 45 eggs between them, then, using an old fish
Frost causes problems for all gardeners but it strikes an arctic chill into the heart of two thistle growers, as Bill Knox discovers BILL and Joan McHugh have been casting frosty glances towards the weather forecast for weeks - but they are beginning
aA BODY was found yesterday in the sea below the cliffs at Eyemouth on the Berwickshire coast where emergency services were carrying out a search for a 50-year-old man missing from his home in Berwick. However, a lifeboat crew was unable to recover the
A dynasty ended yesterday when Aberdeen Football Club chairman Ian Donald stood down to allow successful Scottish housebuilder Stewart Milne to take over to usher in a new era for the Dons. For quarter of a century Donald, who becomes vice chairman,
THE prospect of the two-year-old European Union export ban on Scottish beef being lifted within months rose yesterday after similar restrictions were ended on exports from Northern Ireland. The European Commission decided to give the green light to the
MUSIC group EMI is putting on a brave face over the collapse earlier this month of bid talks with Seagram, the Canadian entertainment and drinks group. Seagram chose to buy PolyGram, the world's largest music company, which Dutch electronics group
A new joint venture has been a learning experience all round, says Bill Knox Hundreds of enthusiastic horticultural students make up the small army which has created one of the Scottish Gardening Show's most outstanding features. ''Participating
IF, as your second leading article today so aptly suggests, artistic unemployed young people should be regarded as students at the University of Life, should not their unemployment benefit be regarded as student loans, to be repaid when they graduate
WORKERS at the naval warship builder Yarrow yesterday celebrated the launch of the latest Clyde-built frigate and expressed quiet optimism that they can continue to win contracts to ensure the yard's long term future, writes Aine Harrington. More
ALLEGATIONS of misconduct may have destroyed the political career of a councillor after an official report found that he had secured a council house for the mother of a friend through ''extraordinary'', ''unsatisfactory&
THE seeds of Duncan McDougall's horticultural success were sown long before he left the police force - and what started as a hobby has taken over his retirement. He was always interested in gardening and visits to St Andrews' Botanic Gardens
Bowls Wellcroft's Mark Campbell, the winner in 1992, bowed out of the Regal Glasgow Bowling Association singles championship last night when he lost out 21-8 to Alistair Riach, from Rutherglen, in their second-round clash at Burnside. Riach, a twice
EXCLUSIVE THE SNP wants to use the constitutional settlement in Northern Ireland as part of its campaign against university tuition fees, by suggesting that anomalies facing students should be one of the first areas scrutinised by the proposed Council
the crystal frontier: a novel in nine stories Carlos Fuentes Bloomsbury, #16.99 ONCE again, Carlos Fuentes confronts the contemporary tensions and historical divisions that exist between Mexico, and her richer, more powerful neighbour to the north. And
The one thing visionary business guru Tom Peters had not fully foreseen was that Concorde would start shedding wing parts. The man who sells the kind of futures you can lace with diagrams, quotations, and anecdotes, and then stick in a best-selling book
THE first of Loch Garten ospreys' eggs have hatched into bitterly cold and wet weather. Now bird experts at the Highland RSPB reserve are hoping that the unseasonal cold snap will end before the other two eggs hatch at the end of this week. At present
LABOUR is bracing itself for criticism after appointing a senior Scottish Office civil servant to play a key role in its fight to regain the political initiative north of the Border. The new appointee has swopped his post implementing Government policy
Campaigners yesterday criticised a kit which drug-takers can use to test substances as an irresponsible money-making venture. Mr Dylan Trump, who is behind the scheme, claimed the kit would provide information to people using illegal drugs. Mr Trump
IAN Mackie, Scotland's leading 100 metres runner, has requested that he should not be considered for the 4 x 100 metres relay at the Commonwealth Games in September. He plans to leave Kuala Lumpur early in order to run for his shoe sponsor in Japan
BLOODSHED and oppression form the staple diet of news from Israel and Palestine, with religion, and the fanaticism it can breed, often being singled out as the source of the problem. But Edinburgh and Glasgow this week are hearing an impassioned plea
n THE Herald reported: ''Feeling he had a duty to be in as dangerous a position as his friends in the services, conscientious objector, Samuel S MacIlwain, 38 Ashburton Road, Glasgow, joined the Merchant Navy, was bombed in Malta harbour, and
Six sailors will today relaunch their epic 1200-mile voyage from Norway to France in the wake of the Vikings - after an unscheduled stop in Fraserburgh courtesy of a Scottish lifeboat. Their bid to sail from Bergen to Nantes was nearly scuppered on Tuesday
Norway, in Scotland's group in France, swamped Saudi Arabia 6-0 in a World Cup warm-up match yesterday marred by the sending-off of two Saudi players. ''I'm happy but the game was ruined by the red cards,'' Norwegian coach
No pain, no gain is the motto of one man who goes to great lengths to reach perfection, as Eileen Crone discovers THE art of taking pains is what has transformed a non-gardener into one of the most eminent growers of delphiniums in the country. Tony
YOU feel hot and sticky and your throat is dry. You ran for a bus and missed it. You took ages to find your keys. You yearn, more than anything, for a long glass of cool, clear water. As soon as you reach the kitchen you turn on the tap . . . Or do
Spanish air tours firm Condor Vacaciones yesterday announced that it intends to add Inverness Airport to its international charter operations next year. The firm will fly up to 4500 passengers into the Highlands during the summer months. The move could
Foreign witnesses could give evidence in British trials by video links under new plans to be discussed by European justice ministers today. International video links are expected to become more common as police and Customs officials increasingly work
They orchestrate the most harmonious displays in towns and cities, but a competitive note is struck at the National Garden Show, finds Robert MacLeod THE plants may seem delicate but the competition is tough - particularly among the parks department
In May 1954, Robert Capa lost his life when he stepped on a land mine in Vietnam. Magnum lost a founding member, Life magazine lost its first war correspondent, and the world lost a great humanitarian and one of its greatest exponents of photography.
A ''sunquake'' 40,000 times more powerful than the earthquake which devastated San Francisco in 1906 has been observed by scientists, it was disclosed yesterday. The discovery was the first proof that solar flares produce seismic
BASHIR Mann's plea for Muslims to receive their religious education in separately State-funded schools is quite understandable, and has my sympathy. However, given the religious bigotry in Northern Ireland and south-west Scotland, which largely
TWO of last year's gold medal winners have united to face one of this year's toughest challenges at Strathclyde. Scottish Natural Heritage and Hopetoun Gardens, South Queensferry, are presenting The Environment in Your Hands, on a Tarmac surface
THE Government was at the centre of a new row over the controversial Knoydart estate yesterday when it emerged that Heritage Secretary Chris Smith stayed on the estate at the weekend. Scottish Secretary Donald Dewar is believed to have declined an invitation
EMPEROR Akihito faced a second day of emotional protests by prison camp survivors, who turned their backs and jeered him on a visit to Cardiff yesterday. The demonstrations that have dogged the Japanese leader's state visit to Britain last night
SO THE EIS and the other Scottish teachers' unions have settled for 3% when inflation is currently running at around 4%. According to the EIS negotiators, it's the best deal that can be obtained in the circumstances. So that's all right
The Herald today announces details of a major international competition to find a new Song for Scotland. After the huge response to our national anthem telephone poll in January we are today inviting composers, songwriters, schools, and anyone else interested
At Ardkinglass Estate, they know they're the tops. Bill Knox gets the measure of their heady success ONE hundred thousand visitors can't be wrong - the 12,000-acre Ardkinglass Estate, at Cairndow, Argyll, deserves to be high on the agenda
FALKIRK Council is to set up an interactive display for National Noise Awareness Day on July 1 that will include examples of the types of noises that prompt complaints from neighbours. The diplay in Howgate Centre will also give advice on legal rights
SINGER Jimmy Somerville is to headline a concert in Glasgow in support of the 1998 Pride Scotland march on Saturday June 13, writes Robert Hutton. The event, to raise awareness of gay issues at home and abroad, is being supported by Amnesty International
ROYAL Bank of Scotland's climbdown from a denial to a ''no comment'' stance on reports of it having had merger talks with Halifax is curious. More and more detail about the pair's courtship continues to leak out from somewhere
redbirds - memories from the south Rick Bragg Harvill, #12 RICK BRAGG is his momma's boy. A hulk-sized Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who wrote this scorching brew of autobiography meets social commentary for and about his momma. The beautiful
A man who terrified and robbed women at bank cash dispensers was branded a ''public menace'' by a judge and jailed for ten years at the High Court in Glasgow, yesterday. During a three-week reign of terror, drug addict Mark McLeod
THE defection of Charles Goodhart from the hawks to the doves on the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee last month has taken some of the heat out of the debate about UK interest rates, but Mervyn King, its chief economist and one of the hawks,
ALL those heading for Scotland's National Garden Show at Strathclyde Park this weekend should follow two golden rules: DO follow the traffic signs which guide the ways in. DON'T set out to arrive early. Particularly on opening day! Last year
A major retail planning row has taken a new turn. Councillors in Aberdeen have voted - over the heads of their officials - to visit a controversial contaminated site at the city's Beach Boulevard where Scotoil Group is proposing a major retail park
The wooden huts of Low Moss Prison outside Bishopbriggs, a low-security jail which holds a fifth of Scotland's adult male convicted prisoners, were yesterday described as resembling a prisoner of war camp by Mr Clive Fairweather, the chief inspector
SOCIAL workers are being assaulted at a rate of about three a week and some of their families have received death threats, Aberdeen councillors will be told next week For the past year the number and nature of violent incidents affecting the social
A MULTI-MILLION pound international black market operation has flooded Britain with 15,000 World Cup tickets, more than Scotland's total allocation for its three games, a TV documentary will claim tonight. The tickets allegedly come through three
BRITISH and other European stock exchanges were battered by a global meltdown in share prices yesterday. Stocks tumbled across the Continent amid fears over the health of Asian economies, a sharp rise in the value of the dollar against the Japanese
They'll be trampling out the vintage where the grapes and laughs are stored - in Shawlands. A former gospel hall on Skirving Street is being marketed as a restaurant opportunity. The first floor property has planning consent, and a licence, for
n Flower arrangers have their own show within this year's show, at which the Scottish Association of Flower Arrangement Societies will present a series of display entitled ''The Story of Scotland'' The Scottish Orchid Society
JULIE Tolentino is nervous. The last time she trod on Glaswegian soil was in 1995 with Ron Athey & Company's intensely liberating 4 Scenes in a Harsh Life - a radical, ritualistic performance revolving around images of suffering, torture, healing
Sometimes you have to concede victory. This week's reports that the Government's welfare-to-work regime will be relaxed, allowing young unemployed ''creators'' - musicians, writers, actors, artists - to develop their talents
PREJUDICE sits heavily on the shoulders of Mr Andrew Lockhart Walker (May 26), holding, as he does, a rather select and slightly old-fashioned view of the desirable student composition of a university. It is many years since the far-sighted Dr Kurt Hahn
ANGLIAN Water which serves the driest part of the British Isles opened the floodgates for shareholder prosperity yesterday. It raised profits before tax by 4.2% to #268m before exceptional items while the full year dividend has leapt 13% to 39p with
