I AM not alone in the reaction to the report on your front page (May 28). I would never recommend teacher training to anybody as the end result is a large student debt and no job. Each year the colleges turn out new teachers who then join the dole queue
Hibernian manager, Alex McLeish, said yesterday that striker John Robertson, who has been released by Hearts, was the type of player he believed could propel his club back into the new Premier League. McLeish, who made his comments as Hibs
PAT Haslam achieved a notable milestone yesterday at Hamilton Park when Happy Wanderer gave the Middleham trainer his 600th winner - Flat and jumps combined - in the Robert C Brown Classified Stakes. Haslam was based at Lambourn in Berkshire when Rooster
BRITAIN is to form a Vietnam-style ''air cavalry'' brigade equipped with gunship and troop-carrying helicopters to add punch and mobility to future peacekeeping and United Nations intervention operations worldwide, writes Ian Bruce
NO-ONE deserves sympathy and encouragement as much as someone trying to give up smoking, which is why The Herald is supporting the Quitter of the Year Award and offering prizes to boot. The award is open to people who have successfully quit and can inspire
Coca Cola Schweppes and Boots the Chemist began sweeping thousands of bottles of potentially contaminated mineral water off shop shelves yesterday as a major scare swept through the soft drinks industry. All bottles of sparkling Malvern water were being
It was a magic moment when the ticket for the Brazil-Scotland ticket popped through the letterbox. So long a dream, the World Cup was becoming a reality. My own ticket, my own seat for the opening game of France 98 in the Stade de France. I studiously
A consultant told the E-coli inquiry yesterday that he had asked for reassurances about cross-contamination of products sold by Wishaw butcher John Barr. Dr John Cowden, consultant epidemiologist with the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental
Lana Morris, who died suddenly aged 68, was a 1940s and 1950s starlet whose career gained a second wind with the glamour soaps of the 1980s. She was born from a long theatrical line in 1930 in Ruislip, Middlesex, the daughter of a skirt manufacturer
THREE other Glasgow schools included in the council's rationalisation plans could equally lay claim to have been given the political football treatment, writes Carlos Alba. Notre Dame was recently the subject of an informal consultation on removal
THE Scottish lamb trade is to receive a promotional boost as the Scotch Quality Beef and Lamb Association seeks to redress the balance which, in the wake of the BSE crisis, has been tilted in favour of beef. Association chairman John Ross, said he was
THE battle for control of Rolls- Royce Motor Cars took a new turn yesterday with a group of enthusiasts promising to table a ''comfortably higher'' bid than Volkswagen's #430m in time for Friday's key shareholders'
A 10-strong team of official inspectors yesterday moved into Dounreay to begin the major safety audit which was announced two weeks ago by government watchdogs and endorsed by the Secretary of State Donald Dewar. But yesterday the plant's director
FEW things are quite as bubble-bursting as cancer. Fizz is fun, not least for the effervescence it injects into the copywriters' cliches, but the discovery of the carcinogenic chemical benzene in carbon dioxide from the UK's major manufacturer
ON Tuesday night English hope died. The Falklands war was re-staged on a football field and the bad guys won. The immediate cause of England's defeat was the failure of Paul Ince and David Batty to beat the Argie goalkeeper in the penalty shoot-out
FIFTY traumatised travellers called off their holiday plans yesterday after a 26-hour flight delay. More than 250 people were hoping to fly to Ibiza on Saturday night, but a dispute by Spanish air traffic controllers and technical problems with the plane
June 2, 1972 n THE Herald reported: ''The number of strikes in Scotland has risen every month this year, and in May the total was almost three times the figure for January. The position, particularly in the West of Scotland engineering industry
AFTER the party, the hangover. It is too easy to celebrate the devolution vote as a triumph for democracy. The reality may be altogether different: that ordinary people - particularly young people - see the democratic process as increasingly irrelevant
With Scottish charities feeling the pinch, some are taking lessons in cut-throat marketing techniques, discovers Kirsty Scott NEWS that the UK's top charities have seen their biggest rise in donations for 10 years has rather a hollow ring in Scotland
AT the age of 69, when most men are contemplating the quiet life, a Scottish explorer is setting off on a dangerous adventure, seeking one of the ornithological finds of the century. Peter Gladstone, a great-grandson of the Victorian Prime Minister William
The Rev Andrew Gillespie Jenkins; born November 14, 1915, died, May 22, 1998 Andrew Jenkins's ministry covered 40 years' full-time service, followed by 10 years' retirement, in which he preached in almost every charge in the Presbytery
Now that Dolly the clone has a little lamb, this is a timely study. The monster motif was supplied by Mary Shelley, sister of the doomed poet, during a rainy summer in Switzerland in 1816. Byron proposed that the party write a ghost story, and Mary&apos
AN oil fabrication yard is set to increase its workforce with a major expansion and upgrading programme. Lewis Offshore, based at Arnish, near Stornoway, is investing #725,000 in upgrading its main workshop and constructing a paint shop, enabling it
Boxing KEITH Knox last night failed for the fourth time to win a major professional title when he was stopped in the eighth round of his challenge for the Commonwealth Flyweight Championship at the St Andrew's Sporting Club in Glasgow. The little
aDame Vera Lynn's husband, Harry Lewis, has died in London aged 83. Saxophonist Harry played with various London bands in the 1930s and met his wife when they were both with the Ambrose Orchestra. He joined the RAF at the start of the Second World
Only one in four Britons will send back a bottle of wine if it is off, it was revealed yesterday. On average, one bottle in 20 of the 930 million bottles drunk in this country every year is off, according to industry figures. Yet it is estimated that
THE resemblance is undeniable. The lead singer of The Blind Boys of Alabama looks and sounds exactly like Bleedin' Gums Murphy - the cartoon music man from The Simpsons. His motto is: ''The blues isn't about making yourself feel better
THERE is an abortion in the Western Isles every fortnight on average, the Rev Ian Paisley said last night. ''The world shakes at what terrorism has done to Ulster. It has killed 3000 people,'' he said. ''But what about the
THE Crown Prosecution Service in England and Wales is to be dramatically overhauled following publication of a damning report yesterday which condemned the present system for tying down top lawyers in management duties rather than letting them get on
footballer Vinnie Jones bit, punched, and kicked a neighbour in a row over a stile, a court was told yesterday. Riding school owner Timothy Gear, 27, of Redbourn, Hertfordshire, said Mr Jones had punched him to the floor and stamped on his head. Mr Jones
THE textile industry in Scotland was dealt another severe blow yesterday with the announcement that Delta, an East Kilbride-based sportswear manufacturer, is to pay off 95 of its 160-strong workforce. The announcement was the fifth jolt to hit the industry
PACKAGING company Macfarlane Group (Clansman) issued a profits warning yesterday which wiped 8% off its share price. Similar information was released to Macfarlane shareholders at the company's annual meeting last week. But the Glasgow-based group
A WARRANT has been issued for the arrest of a man accused of threatening to shoot the children of Dunblane. Clive Hill, 29, of The Avenues, Norwich, is alleged to have phoned a Dunblane woman and told her Thomas Hamilton ought to have killed all the
It was typical of Kevin McKenzie to be the man to stick his head above the parapet yesterday. Although delighted at being given his first start on tour in today's meeting with New South Wales Country at Bathurst, he was prepared publicly
HILLSDOWN Holdings yesterday reported operating profits for the first four months of the financial year broadly in line with those for the same period in 1997. The statement followed speculation in the City that the company found trading conditions tough
ON paper, the Tolbooth's Le Weekend, three days and nights of sounds from the margins of modern music, looked like a venture deserving of a VC - especially in these days of arts funding uncertainty. But by the time Friday's second house went
Fears of public alarm over mad cow disease preoccupied Government officials at the time Ministers were first informed of the problem, the BSE inquiry heard yesterday. A confidential memo to a Junior Minister at the Ministry of Agriculture in July 1987
THE Emap media group is getting the message through to the City that it is still very much on the expansion route and will be spending even more on new magazine launches this year than the #13.5m of last year. Chief executive Robin Miller said that the
Gordon Smith returned from work to his home in Park Crescent, Newtown St Boswells, last night to learn that his attacker, Paul Paterson, had been jailed for six years. The 50-year-old bachelor, a warehouseman in the Galashiels cloth finishing works of
POLICE last night appealed for witnesses after a 74-year-old partially blind woman was left unconscious during a daylight mugging as she waited with a friend at a bus stop outside the Odeon cinema in Glasgow's Renfield Street last Friday. A man
SCOTLAND'S largest mass-participation sports event is about to become a worldwide celebration. The IRN-Bru XS Great Scottish Run was launched yesterday by Glasgow's Lord Provost, Pat Lally, with the biggest promotional package in
DURING a recent speech, Donald Dewar referred to the anomalies of the current first-past-the-post system in local government elections. Citing the example of Glasgow, he stated that the last election had only produced nine opposition councillors for
I MUST respond to the numerous misapprehensions in today's letters regarding the recent traffic jam on the A80. Unlike many of the most vociferous opponents of the so-called Kelvin Valley route for the completion of the M80, who I understand have
THE plight of manufacturing industry, which has been in recession since the autumn, is set to worsen with the latest Purchasing Managers' Survey showing that the sector contracted for the second month in succession. The strong pound has hit export
MEDICAL Humanities is a phrase which could baffle the uninitiated, writes Marian Pallister. It sounds as if it would have tripped easily from the tongue of philosopher David Hume, but then, those who have been summarily dismissed by a lofty NHS consultant
WILLIAM HAGUE stepped up his campaign to rebuild the Tory party yesterday with a limited reshuffle that only partially swept away the remnants of John Major's failed administration. The changes catapulted the redoubtable Ann Widdecombe into the
Geraldine Abrahams considers the benefits of taking training programmes to an outside source Looking around at the major service-based companies in Britain today, it is clear that training plays a vital role in their success. What may be surprising
A VICAR and his wife said to have been responsible for the neglect of a colony of 76 stray and unwanted cats were yesterday disqualified by Berwick magistrates from keeping cats and dogs for five years. Following a tip off, RSPCA officers were summoned
THE safety of children in Edinburgh's residential care homes is being compromised by lack of funding and chronically low morale among carers, the city's director of social work said yesterday, writes Amelia Hill. Leslie McEwan told the first
BORDER Television is applying for an early renewal of its ITV licence with the promise of more Scottish news for viewers north of the Border. The Carlisle-based broadcaster yesterday pledged to broadcast more Scottish news and to extend Scottish news
Football theatre is helping to overcome prejudice. Carole Woddis reports Ever looked on the football pitch and wondered why there are no Asian faces? Twenty years ago, the same might have been said about British-born Afro-Caribbean players. With the
THE Lord Advocate, Lord Hardie, dismissed as ''absolute rubbish'' the claim that the accused in the Balerno killing case were treated favourably by the legal system because they were middle class. In a wide-ranging interview with
YOU don't hear much about Superwoman these days, but the question of whether feminism is in retreat is raised quite frequently. Mind you, it's doubtful whether Shirley Conran's Superwoman was ever really a feminist. Despite her radical
Police are trying to trace two masked men who made off with a four-figure sum after robbing an Edinburgh pub at gunpoint. Staff and customers were powerless as the pair burst into the City Cafe, Blair Street in the early hours armed with a gun and a
There is an overwhelming case for the rationalisation of school provision in Glasgow because of the problem of over-provision. That is accepted by everyone but it is equally clear that the only reasons for closing one school or keeping another open should
NEARLY half the people being given the Alzheimer drug Aricept in an informal trial in the Glasgow area have shown a significant response, the doctor in charge of the programme said yesterday. The patients who have taken part in the evaluation were chosen
JIM SWAN is convinced the NHS could ''save a fortune'' if the project he has worked on for two years were implemented Scotland-wide. The Lothian Occupational Health Project was set up to raise awareness about workplace illness and
A garage boss was jailed for 12 months yesterday and banned from driving for four years after putting a female pillon passenger through a terrifying ordeal as he rode a motorbike at up to 120mph while over the drink-drive limit. John Fraser, 49, of Crookston
Pastor T C McCurry, minister of The Glasgow Evangelical Church,Cathedral Square; born May 26, 1926, died May 25, 1998 PASTOR Thomas Caleb McCurry, who died in the Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley, was minister of The Glasgow Evangelical Church, Cathedral
James Whiteford, who has died aged 76, played a prominent role in Scottish farming and curling circles. Born at Inchinnan in 1921, he was the youngest of a large farming family which moved to Wellsgreen at Windygates, Fife, in 1928. Educated at Buckhaven
The ankle injury suffered on club duty before he belatedly joined the rest of the squad forced flanker Simon Holmes out of Scotland's side to meet New South Wales Country today, but he will remain on tour. Coach Jim Telfer made it clear yesterday
The reshuffle gives an insight into the parlous state of the parliamentary party AS reshuffles go, it hardly merits the name. This is William Hague's first, so there's not much of a ''re'' about it. Reshuffle also suggests
A PRESSURE group called yesterday for a Minister of Equality to be appointed in the Scottish Parliament to help combat what it sees as institutionalised homo-phobia and gender-based discrimination in Scottish society. Equality Network, which represents
A POLICE investigation into allegations of abuse against the headteacher of a school for the deaf was thrown into disarray yesterday after the original complainer withdrew her accusations. Mr David Scott, the principal of Donaldson's College in
THE profits of FirstGroup's Scottish bus operations fell in the year to March 31 because of fierce competition from rival Stagecoach but, with all other businesses performing strongly, the transport company's overall pre-tax profits jumped
CONSUMERS with complaints about financial services companies are being urged not to be shy to call the new hotline set up by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). The new watchdog does not yet have to power to take up complaints directly but will pass
There is a happy conjunction of aims in William Hague's freshening of the Shadow Cabinet. The most important one is the absolute need for the country to have a vigorous and effective opposition; probing, questioning, and generally harrying a Government
ALAN Taylor, Managing Editor of the Scotsman, writes that Scotland's literary stock has rarely been higher yet publishers here are only interested in tourist-trap pap, etc (May 30). I spend about #10 a week on Scottish non-fiction of quality as
WELFARE to Work, the Government's New Deal Initiative to help young people back into employment, is going to jail in an effort to help Glasgow's young recidivists break the crime circle. Barlinnie Prison has been chosen to pilot a scheme in
surgeons had to rebuild the face of a man who was kicked and stamped on again and again in a savage, unprovoked attack as he walked home in a Borders town. Gordon Smith, 50, suffered fractures to both sides of his palate, both eye sockets, both cheek
Let us pray: Archbishop Keith O'Brien and the Very Rev Sandy Macdonald, former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, share a joke above Mr Tom Farmer, of Kwik-Fit, Professor Neil Hood, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, and Mr Jim
LABOUR's manifesto pledges on education included the unequivocal commitment that every child would be treated as an individual with individual needs and individual aspirations. The Tories, they tried to argue, had become obsessed with meaningless
Tour match South Africa's second-string attack bounced back from the disappointment of their first-innings display to claim an emphatic 167-run victory over Gloucestershire at Bristol yesterday. Fighting for places in this week's first Test
Ultraframe, the conservatory roof maker which floated on the stock market last October, yesterday revealed plans to create 60 jobs. The jobs, expanding the workforce of around 600, will come at the group's sites in Clitheroe, Lancashire, Bedford
HEARTS' most loyal servant and top goalscorer, John Robertson, was told yesterday he was being allowed to leave after 18 years. The 33-year-old, who has attained deserved legendary status among the Tynecastle faithful, said he had been saddened
n They say slapstick is the simplest yet most effective form of comedy, but you'd be a brave jester to try falling off your seat in the middle of a first date in the Cafe Gandolfi, Glasgow. One man, however, who has never been too embarrassed to
LIEUTENANT Colonel Douglas Robertson, who has died aged 88, was a member of a distinguished Scottish family with the tradition of service in the British army, and was awarded an MC for gallantry on the North-west Frontier of India in 1937. Frank Douglas
The man charged with turning around the beleaguered Grampian Police force and renewing public faith in its operation officially took up his post yesterday. Taking over the role vacated by Dr Ian Oliver, Mr Andrew Brown, 53, immediately demonstrated he
Mendelssohn's Elijah once rivalled Messiah as the most popular of all the great Oratorios so admired by the Victorians, but it is a less common concert item these days. In keeping with their policy of exploring the major landmarks of the choral
Scotland internationalist Darren Jackson spoke last night of his deep disappointment over how his close friend, Paul Gascoigne, had been ditched from Glenn Hoddle's World Cup squad. Jackson and Gascoigne have been pals since they played together
THE prospect of World Cup fans being stranded - and even missing games - has soared as French unions yesterday held to ransom their government as well as employers. Air France pilots underlined the potential for massive transport disruption, leaving
Mary Brennan reports on a new work inspired by the beautiful game THIS is a story of hard work, guts, and determination. A story of how a dream became a reality, of how a team was slowly drawn together, a team like there's never been before. Of
ETHIOPIA'S Haile Gebrselassie reclaimed the 10,000 metres world record which he lost to Paul Tergat by clocking 26min 22.75sec in Hengelo, Holland, last night. Racing outdoors for the first time this season, he took more than five seconds from the
IT is 70 years today since all women over 21, married or single, with or without property, were granted the right to walk into a polling booth and cast their vote in a British election. The Equal Franchise Act seemed at last to recognise that women were
Canon John Hopkins, Episcopalian rector; born May 17, 1914, died May 12, 1998 John Hopkins was a Welshman, educated at Llandovery College, University College Oxford, and St Michael's Theological College in Llandaff. Ordained in 1937 for the Diocese
tartan-clad Sir Jimmy Savile jogs from Glasgow's City Chambers yesterday, following the launch of the Irn-Bru XS Great Scottish Run, which is to be held on August 23 and is expected to attract more than 12,000 entrants. Going global Page 30.
MARK Twain noted that ''a lie can travel halfway round the world before truth can get its shoes on''. Your report and editorial comment (The French connection, May 25) confirm the astuteness of his observations. Misinformation be
Gilbert Coates MBE, savings bank executive; born May 20, 1918, died May 15, 1998 Gilbert Coates, who has died at the age of 79, was awarded the MBE for his services as Higher Executive Officer with the Savings Bank at Cowglen. He will be remembered
THE Prime Minister will fly back to Northern Ireland today in the latest phase of his drive to bring lasting peace to the province. He is expected in Belfast for his fourth visit in five weeks maintaining the Northern Ireland issue at the top of his
A surgeon infected with hepatitis B continued with an operation despite the fact his finger was ''oozing'' with blood after he cut it on a scalpel, the General Medical Council heard yesterday. Sanjay Ingley insisted on continuing
ALISTAIR D McConnachie of Edinburgh condemns ''aggressive'' beggars for denying people the ''right'' to walk down the street ''without being intimidated or subjected to an unwarranted intrusion into their
A MAJOR campaign was launched yesterday to tackle Scotland's chronic legacy of asbestos-related illnesses, which is among the worst in the world, writes Aine Harrington. An umbrella group of health workers, campaigners, council officials, and lawyers
A Scottish computer training company, which only a year ago was the subject of a management buy-out, is now preparing to go on the acquisition trail. Bill Templeman, managing director of Prophet Computer Training, led an MBO of the company in June 1997
CONFIRMATION that Gordon Brown intends maintaining his Iron Chancellor image, by keeping the Budget in surplus in the face of loud calls for extra public spending, came yesterday from Downing Street. Mr Brown's tough approach prompted fears among
THEY say lightning never strikes twice! The Scottish public must be horrified to hear of the latest events in North Lanarkshire, following the #3.4m deficit run up by Monklands Council in its final year (and still to be paid for), the alleged Internet
Walter Carr, actor and comedian; born December 26, 1925, died May 30, 1998 The handsome young man named Walter Anderson who joined the popular repertory company The Wilson Barrett Players for their record-breaking seasons at Glasgow and Edinburgh back
SINGER Billy Joel popped into Glasgow's Horseshoe Bar yesterday as he prepared for a concert at Ibrox tonight with Elton John. The pianists will be playing to 40,000 fans as part of a six-month world tour. Despite enjoying almost parallel careers
CONSTABLE Smiley, from Strathclyde Police, could replace Glasgow's civic logo of Mr Happy, writes Ann Donald. The giant-sized photographic montage of friendly police-officers will be the first sight to greet the three million passengers arriving
Foreign Secretary Robin Cook last night urged India and Pakistan to ''stop testing and start talking'' amid fears of an escalating nuclear arms race in South Asia. In a Commons statement, Mr Cook said he was ''dismayed&apos
THE beleaguered North Lanarkshire council yesterday suspended two more officials as the Government tightened the screw over its #4m direct labour fiasco by cutting the time the authority has in which to respond. Meanwhile, the council's chief executive
The Scottish branch of the British Association of Shopping Centres held a luncheon in Glasgow last week. (No, hold on, we're just setting the scene here.) An English chap is charged with the task of saying grace. He delivers the following: Some
EXCLUSIVE THE Labour council hierarchy in Glasgow was last night facing an explosive backlash from parents accusing them of putting political interests before children's education in deciding school closures. A special meeting of the city council
PROPOSALS which would split the National Cattle Association into beef and dairy factions are expected to meet heavy opposition at an extraordinary meeting today. A straw poll of the various bodies involved showed dairy societies very much against and
THE time when parachutes blossomed above a battlefield, each bringing one of Britain's toughest soldiers into the fray, and terror to the hearts of the enemy, ended effectively with the introduction of the shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile. Lumbering
ONE of Scottish Opera's early ambitions was to stage The Fair Maid of Perth in Perth. The opportunity still knocks, but it was Owain Arwel Hughes and the RSNO who faced the challenge by performing the orchestral suite from Bizet's opera in
THOSE who can do - those who can't are deserting the teaching profession in droves, if recently published figures are to be believed. It seems the classroom - traditional magnet for an eclectic mix of the dedicated, the vocational and the undecided
Men's hockey WESTERN Grasshopper completed their season's ambition when they added the C Division trophy to the League and Cup double to set them up for their centenary season which begins in a few weeks' time. By their success over the
SCOTRAIL yesterday claimed an increase of 10% in first-class passengers using its five sleeper routes last year. It recorded a rise of 5000 first-class travellers compared to 1996-1997, taking last year's total to 50,000, and now plans to woo other
PLANS to make Edinburgh the first city in the UK to ban dogs from public parks have been thrown out after massive public opposition, writes Raymond Duncan. In the biggest consultation exercise undertaken in Scotland on the problem of dog fouling, the
TO hear Durufle's Requiem is to be reminded of Raymond Postgate's dying wish: to have a bottle of Chateau d' Yquem siphoned into his mouth. But the large audience for Glasgow Chamber Choir's performance last week suggested he wasn
MAJOR changes in the regulatory regime applying to financial matters have formally come into effect and, for consumers, there is now just one number to telephone in case of complaint. Before, the large number of regulatory organisations and ombudsmen
THE scars of its Scottish bus wars with Stagecoach were about the only sore points in FirstGroup's annual results yesterday. Furth of Scotland, bus passenger numbers are rising and profits are motoring ahead. The numbers coming through from passenger
MARTIN SHEEN and Anjelica Huston were on the guest-list for cocktails with Gerry Adams at the World Trade Centre last week in New York. They were said to have paid Sinn Fein $1000 each for the privilege of seeing its leader in close-up. This is roughly
Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam yesterday defended her controversial decision to invite Sinn Fein leaders to a royal garden party at Hillsborough Castle later this week. Challenged by Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary Andrew Mackay in the Commons
A WOMAN was accused of causing the death of her sister in a four-car pile-up after driving the wrong way down a dual-carriageway while drunk, when she appeared at Stirling Sheriff Court, yesterday. Mother-of-three Mary Murty, 36, was killed in the crash
A SCIENTIFIC charity at the forefront of the fight against agricultural disease yesterday pledged to create 2000 jobs and made a bid to have the headquarters of the Food Standards Agency in Scotland located in Midlothian, writes Lynne Robertson. Speaking
Drug giant American Home Products agreed yesterday to buy Monsanto for $33bn (#21bn) in stock, creating a company with products ranging from over-the-counter drugs to genetically-engineered seeds. In what the companies called a ''merger of
LIVINGSTON-based Magnum Power hopes to further distance itself from the image of a ''struggling hi-tech company'' after signing a second major contract within the past month. The deal is a licensing agreement with ABB Power Supplies
Cricket Captain Brian Lara was yesterday fined #2000 by Warwickshire's disciplinary committee for turning up late and missing Sunday's AXA League defeat by Somerset at Taunton. The brilliant West Indian flew back home to Trinidad early last
NOT eight years have passed since Paul Gascoigne - as Niobe, all tears - broke down on a football park at World Cup Italia and, as they say, was swept to a nation's heart. Nor have seven years gone since an English judge, on the bench, won national
Plans to introduce tolls on one of Scotland's busiest motorways came under fire yesterday Mr Peter Burdon, chief executive of Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, is calling for motorists using the M74 to pay a toll of about 50p. The cash raised would be
AS integrated transport projects go, the new Hong Kong International Airport is streets ahead of the United Kingdom in taking account of the needs of the travelling public. While Britain still grapples with effective public transport strategies for its
David Jordan, the chief executive of Glasgow district, has confirmed that the new Glasgow/Caledonia team will be playing many of their selected big games next year in football stadia, and that will include one at a city venue. I understand that will
IT is a perplexing source of conjecture why Hillhead High should be feeling the sharpened blade of the axe hanging over its head when it out-performs its West End neighbour, Woodside Secondary, in virtually every meaningful respect. The red brick monument
IN the 1960s the City Fathers had a vision of a ring road round Glasgow; there were to be two river crossings, the Kingston Bridge and another near High Street. Admittedly the proposals were then somewhat insensitive to the historical portions of the
