The scheme for construction contracts, set to cut the number and length of disputes in a bid to lower costs and improve profits within the industry, came into force earlier this month. However, the scheme is only part of the answer. All parties involved
ERIC N Smith Limited is celebrating 25 years in the jewellery business, with a level of renown and success which could never have been anticipated when Smith started art school 30 years ago and began producing his first designs. The company is recognised
WE refer to Mr Hepburn's letter (May 16) regarding rehabilitation work carried out on the sewerage system at Westbourne Gardens, Glasgow, on May 13. The work being carried out in this area was undertaken by our company. Unfortunately, due to a series
SHANKS & McEwan has high hopes of an extension for a three-year Government contract to dispose of cattle carcasses following the BSE scare. Its Rechem subsidiary has a #9m deal to dispose of 45,000 tonnes of waste from the cull scheme but Shanks believes
DEMAND for a public inquiry into Dounreay grew yesterday as the confusion surrounding the missing 170kg of highly enriched uranium intensified with the chief executive of the UK Atomic Energy Authority appearing to dismiss his own agency's findings
THE ''blistering attack'' by Lord Hattersley (May 30) on the New (not Labour) Party is long overdue. To add to Lord Hattersley's condemnation, and indicative of the ''New Party'', it will suffice to comment
ONE of the most significant developments for human rights that the world has seen for half a century is taking place almost unnoticed. Within the next two weeks the world's governments are due to meet in Rome to set up the International Criminal
ALL the world's a stage for surgeons who will perform at a #7m theatre complex opened at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow yesterday, writes Alan MacDermid, Medical Correspondent. The facilities include television camera and radio
AS the adapter Andy Farrell points out in a programme note, Swift's book is about many things. His adaptation and Walk the Plank's staging aboard their theatre ship is concerned with just one: the power of the imagination and of fantasy. It
LONDON-based Gartmore European Investment Trust has not given up hope of a friendly takeover of Friends Ivory & Sime's #160m European Assets Trust, even though its prey appeared to give its proposals the cold shoulder on Tuesday. Simon Stevens,
THE Justice of the Peace heavily criticised for failing to ensure election agent Margaret Curran signed Mohammad Sarwar's expenses declaration in his presence yesterday defended his actions. Glasgow councillor Stephen Dornan claimed it was common
Stamperland's Graham Barclay, a former beaten finalist in the Scottish singles champ-ionship, edged through to next week's quarter-finals in the Regal Glasgow championship when he held off a late fightback to beat Partickhill's Ian Gavin
THE Scottish Tories are back this week. You remember us - we were the wicked ones whose fault it always was, who were the Government party for ages and ages, the lot you used to threaten the children with if they didn't stop making rude faces. &
sinatra: night and day Fred Dellar and Mal Peachey Chameleon, #14.99 Apres la mort, le deluge. As the scabrous biographies fly from the shelves in the wake of the Hoboken Hoodlum's eventual demise, true fans might be looking for a lighter memento
THERE is an obvious connectivity between Austen's work and that showing on the floor above - Indian Botanical Drawings. Both shows have a delicacy of touch and a sureness of line as well as their organic starting points; but where the botanical
Waste not, want not - a truly sound maxim that should drive the market valuation of Shanks & McEwan forward. Five years ago, the company was having a dreadful time as the roof fell in - no thanks to the horrific losses from its civil engineering interests
every time we say goodbye: the story of a father and a daughter Anna Blundy Century, #12.99 DAVID Blundy was the journalist's journalist. As a foreign correspondent his copy was judged to have no equal and is now regarded as text book material for
SCOTTISH hockey was mourning the loss yesterday of its only full-time correspondent, Joe Dillon. Since leaving Honeywell, where he was a computer technician, Mr Dillon, who was 58, had travelled the world reporting the game for some 30 years for The
Stakis Hotels has launched its ''Assured Meetings'' brand across 45 of its 52 UK hotels, to offer a guaranteed standard of facility for small meetings. The group has invested #1.6m to develop the brand as a leader in the #2000m small
Basketball Budweiser League basketball arrived in Edinburgh yesterday, with high hopes of success. From Septemeber a yet-to-named side will take part in the league, playing their games at a new, refurbished Meadowbank Stadium, and already optimism is
A change in the law was demanded yesterday to help a Scottish island community deal with an epidemic of homelessness. Orkney is said to be facing a social crisis described as worse than in many of Scotland's urban areas. Next week, a councillor
siegfried sassoon: the making of a war poet Jean Moorcroft Wilson Duckworth, #25 PRAISE the Lord and pass the ammunition and the rhyming dictionary. The canon of works on the Great War poets has finally been augmented by a biography of the most influential
Fiona Smith and Jane Burt both hail from Prestonpans, and shared a desperate need to sharpen up their look for jobs in the ''big city'' - Edinburgh. Out had to go the unco-ordinated casual clothes, the dowdy hair colour and the clumpy
SCOTTISH Secretary Donald Dewar last night announced he is to ask the independent Accounts Commission to conduct a full audit of all 32 council direct labour organisations in the wake of the North Lanarkshire scandal. The new inquiry, to be ordered next
THE election agent for Govan MP Mohammed Sarwar yesterday won a court order which clears the way for her to put her name forward as a candidate for the Scottish Parliament. It also means that a pending criminal charge against her at Glasgow Sheriff Court
My first time back in Scotland in five years and I find the country in something like denial. Where I expected to find people of feisty spirit, brimming with self-confidence as they looked forward to independence, I found instead a society in denial
The Sopranos Alan Warner Jonathan Cape, #9.99 The soaring ascent of Alan Warner's literary star has recently burst into a firework display of cinema economics. He has, reportedly, been paid #500,000 for the film rights to his third book, The Sopranos
Test team selection Glenn Metcalfe was preferred to Derrick Lee at full-back for Saturday's meeting with New South Wales in what looks a significant move ahead of the two Test series with Australia, given the importance Scotland's management
Mr Muscle might be a great help around the home but most chaps are still big wimps when it comes to domestic chores. A recent survey confirms that while men might deign to do the dishes occasionally - apparently their favourite task is the oh-so-arduous
WHEREVER they set foot - in Scotland, Ireland, Brittany or beyond - the Celts left a lasting imprint of music, song, and traditional dance, writes Mary Brennan. Scottish singers Alyth McCormack and George Drennan, left, will be helping to trace that
One O' Clock gang: A turret-style clock which will sit atop the commentary box in the main ring of the Royal Highland Showground at Ingliston was unveiled yesterday. Edinburgh Castle's One O'Clock gunner, Staff Sergeant Tam Mackay, was
Greek Dance could start favourite for Saturday's Derby as current market leader Second Empire has continued to ease. One leading firm of book-makers made perhaps the most significant price change yesterday as they pushed the Irish 2000 Guineas third
MANAGEMENT of Prestwick Airport has backed plans to turn an RAF airbase in London into a commercial airport in order to challenge the dominance of Heathrow, writes Ken Smith. Owners of the Ayrshire airport yesterday told MPs on a Transport Select Committee
Political Editor CLARE SHORT'S office is an oasis of quiet away from the storm of words raging about her. From her desk she can gaze on the giant multi-coloured map of the world that dominates one wall. It serves as a daily reminder that her work
FORMER television broadcasting engineer Alan Renwick was able to enjoy the fruits of three years' labour and a #250,000 investment as broadcaster and writer Jimmie Macgregor MBE opened his cherished bunkhouse at Tulloch yesterday. Situated in a
HE nuts and bolts of this cross-art-form commission for the Highland Festival are to be found in the handiwork of sculptor Helen Denerley. Wolves, deer, and birds, constructed from agricultural scrap, peer out from among marauding shadows with a genuine
HOGMANAY 1999 is to be a Bank Holiday to let people to see in the millennium with a four-day break, Culture Secretary Chris Smith announced yesterday. Thousands of workers in Scotland could have at least a five-day break with January 1, 2000, falling
HOPES that jailed Scots Guardsmen Mark Wright and Jim Fisher may soon be freed rose last night after Prime Minister Tony Blair revealed that their case was being reviewed. The admission took Conservative leader William Hague by surprise after he raised
THE scandal of the councils' missing millions deepened yesterday when it emerged that two more authorities have become embroiled in the direct labour organisation fiasco. In addition to the #4.8m deficit at North Lanarkshire and #3m at East Ayrshire
They have done it, they have seen most of it. And they can still talk a good game. Both Ally McCoist and Gary McAllister, out of the World Cup for different reasons, came together yesterday and shared the disappointment of not making the tournament.
A World Cup prediction from Frank McAvennie: ''My heart says Scotland, my head says Brazil, but my nose says Colombia.'' This is not the real Frank McAvennie speaking but the ''Where's the burdz?'' TV persona
TORIES pledged to think the unthinkable to revive party fortunes in Scotland have come up with the ultimate policy - virtual independence. The Tuesday Club, a radical grouping within the party, yesterday published a discussion paper accepting the bulk
I READ with interest your education correspondent's expose of the Glasgow Education Convener's involvement in the preparation of the formal consultation proposal for the future Woodside/Hillhead secondary school. Dr Green repeatedly justified
THE clearest evidence yet of a slowdown in the service sector, which has been spearheading the recent rapid growth of the British economy, emerged yesterday as the nine-strong monetary policy committee gathered at the Bank of England for its two-day
A doctor was yesterday found guilty of supplying LSD to friends at a party last summer. Michael McKenzie, 25, who was formerly a specialist in obstetrics and gynaecology at Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital and now works in England, denied he had given
GRAMPIAN Police Force have started a recruitment drive, writes Graeme Smith. They have been hindered by high salaries and low unemployment in the area. They are looking for 46 officers and 30 support staff. Current numbers of unpaid special constables
COUNCILLOR Craig Roberton (Letters, June 2) is wrong when he says that a future elected mayor of Glasgow could only be chosen by first-past-the-post. He is, however, correct when he says that such a method could mean being elected with just 21% of the
The fog of confusion around Dounreay is as impenetrable as ever and there is no point in the prime minister accusing others of alarming the public by asking questions. The alarming element in all of this is the incompetence and secrecy of Dounreay historically
THE blocking of film star Sean Connery's knighthood and his #4800 monthly donations to the Scottish National Party were raised at a meeting in Edinburgh yesterday of the Neill Committee, examining the funding of political parties. SNP vice convener
David Belcher and friends blow the whistle on this year's cash-in crop of World Cup records LIKE Bill Shankly, some people believe football-related pop songs are a matter of trite lyrics aimed at tone-deaf punters, but I can tell you it's
DOWN in the basement of Scottish Ballet, inside the Tardis-cum-Aladdin's Cave that is the Wardrobe, Lez Brotherstone is talking tights. What denier, in black, would be best for the Transvestite? Fishnet gets a brief mention before he turns our attention
A SIGNIFICANTLY improved pay and conditions restructuring deal, including a basic salary of #21,232, is to be put to Scot-Rail's 820 drivers who have thrown out three earlier packages, writes Roy Rogers, Industry Correspondent. The executive of
Franklyn Rose ensured it was a bad opening day for the Red Rose county as he claimed five for 65 to reduce Lancashire to 152 for eight off the 39.4 overs possible because of the weather against Northamptonshire at Wantage Road. Andrew Flintoff (46) offered
Ally McCoist has announced that he wants to keep playing for at least another year but, as expected, it almost certainly will not be at Ibrox. The Rangers striker said he has had talks with club chairman David Murray, who told him he would do all he
The number of passengers and freight trains carried on Britain's rail network soared in the year to March, helping train infrastructure group Railtrack to bumper profits. The company said an additional 50 million passenger journeys were made during
at the end of the day The cliche is the most difficult feature of language to pinpoint. We know instinctively what a cliche is but most of us would hesitate to commit ourselves if we were faced with having to give an exact definition. A waving of the
IT IS enough to make the blood run chill in the veins of even the most loyal Conservative Party member. Lady Thatcher has been opining about what is and what is not acceptable in today's Tory party. More specifically, she has been telling people
TOUGH new rules on the choosing of Labour candidates for Westminster were roundly criticised by back bench MPs yesterday who feared the loss of local control over who should stand, writes Ken Smith. The proposals were put forward at yesterday's
Sainsbury and Safeway have no plans as yet to follow Tesco, which will become the first supermarket to offer pensions thanks to its tie-up with Scottish Widows. Sainsbury's Bank, which is 45% owned by Bank of Scotland and which is using Standard
TRAVEL chaos during the World Cup is seemingly spiralling out of control and threatening to overwhelm next week's opening. Yesterday, French train drivers, conductors and engineers announced strikes, and Air France pilots - and baggage handlers
Thanks to Princess Diana, finding a partner for life has become distinctly elusive for some of the world's most eligible bachelors, says Katie Grant The Princess of Wales made it easy for women to say 'I want out'. She also made it
EVIDENTLY, what the geezer sitting next to me most dug last night were the explosions. There were several. At each loud report and cascade of white sparks, he clapped like a hyper-active seal. He probably cheered, too. Impossible to tell over all the
Tennis: French Open Cedric Pioline reached the French Open semi-finals for the first time in 10 attempts by beating Moroccan Hicham Arazi in a five-set marathon yesterday. Local player Pioline paid tribute to the centre-court crowd who gave him a standing
The estranged husband of Elgin woman Arlene Fraser, who vanished five weeks ago, yesterday broke his silence to appeal for help in finding her. Mr Nat Fraser, 37, who is on bail facing a charge of attempting to murder his wife weeks before her disappearance
GIVEN the very serious implications of the statements in Mr Martyn Imrie's letter (June 1), I felt the need to clarify the position of HMI in relation to the Nicolson Institute, Stornoway. The HMI report on the care and welfare of pupils in the
THE demise of the tea-break on the factory and office floor where employees could ''switch off'' for a time was highlighted yesterday as a possible contributory factor towards depression in the workplace, writes Raymond Duncan. The
n Melinda Messenger came to the fore last year as the sexpot with the dubious honour of outsexing Californian booby queen Pamela Anderson. This earth-shattering conclusion was arrived at by a league of the country's experts in these matters - the
Logic dictates that there is only one way for the Scottish Tories to travel - and that is up. The problem is that there is no rule of politics that insists the journey must be quick. When they gather tonight in Glasgow for their annual conference the
the link between health and what we eat is now well established but the majority of Scottish men are still failing to take action. Over the next six weeks, we aim to advise men in their 20s (hoping to avoid skin problems); 40s (desperately trying to
For those who feel the need to get away from the relentless pace of life during the next six weeks, Peter Irvine, who has no problem abstaining from World Cup fever, shows us how to escape to the places television just cannot reach While the World Cup
THE Herald reported: ''Greenock and Port Glasgow bore the brunt of two nights' air raids on Lower Clydeside last month, it may now be revealed. The neighbouring burgh of Gourock also suffered to a lesser degree. ''The attacks
mash The mainstay of all trendy menus these days, from Sydney to the Outer Hebrides, would appear to be the mighty mashed spud (or pommes purees in more pretentious eateries). Mashed tatties can be sublime or, as is more often the case, rotten, under-seasoned
Whatever happened to political theatre? Actually, it never went away but just got redefined by some - feminist, lesbian and gay, ''ethnic'' (ghastly word), and the even less happily named ''disabled'' lobby - who
JUMP racing's newest partnership makes its racecourse debut at Perth's opening meeting of the new jump season this afternoon. Trainer Micky Hammond and his newly appointed stable jockey, Brian Harding, team up with Honeyschoice in the Scottish
CAITHNESS has clinched its first major Japanese inward investment with the help of a #7.2m funding package from Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE). The deal, which involves three major hi-tech companies, is for the development of a #12m battery-cell
WOOD Group yesterday announced its biggest-ever contract, a 16-year deal worth $800m (#490m) to boost oil output from fields in the Lake Maracaibo area of Venezuela. The Aberdeen-based engineering company is leading a consortium that will take over an
Clare Short believes shock tactics to appeal for cash in crises are wrong, but Kirsty Scott finds charities disagree HE LOOKS less than a year old but he's actually 18 months because in its harshest form life can crumple age and features. Nature
Visitor experience, they call it: people at Edinburgh Zoo are this week being invited to poke into projects set up by its 100-odd volunteers, such as tactile displays of tusks, bones, skins, and a tiger's head. The finger is attached to nightmare-proof
Scotland's only municipal bus group seems set to join forces with a consortium, including bus company Stagecoach, in a bid to develop a transport system in Edinburgh, writes Raymond Duncan. Lothian Region Transport is expected to be confirmed as
ENTREPRENEURS Avril Tait and Nigel Boyd, whose complaints over their treatment at the hands of former Business Ventures boss George Hammersley led to his sacking, are calling on Scottish Secretary Donald Dewar to help them get compensation from the Scottish
WOODSIDE Secondary School Board wishes to respond to a number of points in The Herald (June 2) concerning Glasgow City Council's proposals on the future of Hillhead High School and Woodside Secondary School. From the outset, last November, of the
US stocks ended lower yesterday on renewed earnings jitters, particularly for the technology companies with interests in Asia. The Dow Jones industrial average gave up 87.44 points at 8803.80. In the broad market, declining issues led advancers by a
WOOD Group has come a long way since it relied on fishing boats to earn a modest living 30 years ago. The family-controlled company has branched out into providing offshore services for the North Sea oil industry and from there into other sectors of
A MUSIC teacher who subjected a young pupil and her elder sister to seven years of sexual abuse was jailed for three years yesterday . The sentence was the maximum possible under sheriff court rules. Daniel Stewart, 65, a retired railway linesman who
A DIRECT Eurostar Chunnel service between Scottish cities and Europe seemed as remote as ever last night. This is despite the proud boast of Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott that his tough negotiating stance had salvaged a deal that would ensure Britain
BOOK of the DAY BREAKFAST IN BRIGHTON: Adventures on the Edge of Britain by Nigel Richardson Gollancz, #16.99 OVER the three evenings when I was reading this book Brighton appeared on television four times: as the setting or Lynda La Plante's Killer
Dark Horses Karl Miller Picador, #16.99 A career in literary journalism seems an unpromising subject for a memoir: it implies a severely stunted social life: every friendship with a professional writer a minefield of sensitivities and ego, every wrangle
The headline rates for office accommodation in Glasgow are now back to the level they reached five years ago - and it may not be long before the peak rate of #20 per sq ft in 1991 is reached again. But that is still considerably less than the rates
SAY secret to most journalists and they begin to slaver. This Pavlovian response is generally healthy because it encourages an eager desire to unearth information that people in power would prefer to obscure. But it is also a desire that can distort
THE assistant editor of a climbing magazine, who was sacked after publishing a photograph of a dead climber, has won an unfair sacking claim and #12,140 compensation. An industrial tribunal in Glasgow heard earlier that Mr Garry Thomas 46, of Meadow
THERE is a certain persistent quality about Govan. Determination is in the air of the place, and the Govan Fair is an annual reminder of Govan insisting on being Govan. I have been inveigled into making it happen this year. This is giving me a fresh
I WOULD just like to point out that as the Councillor for the Anderston Ward in Glasgow, I have a duty and responsibility to put forward the views of my constituents who make up the School Board of Woodside Secondary School. The parents, staff, and
Poor John Hutton, Labour MP for Barrow and Furness and a man of whom you will have heard little but whose embarrassment yesterday lit up Westminster. It began at Prime Minister's Questions when one of the remaining members of Labour's awkward
An ambitious group of Rolls and Bentley enthusiasts yesterday failed to come up with a promised last-ditch bid to prevent the luxury marques from falling into German hands. However, they still maintain that their 11th-hour offer will be forthcoming today
VULNERABLE youngsters are placed at risk of abuse in children's homes because of lack of money, the Edinburgh child protection inquiry was told yesterday. Children's rights officer Linda McCracken said shortage of resources led to inappropriate
A man who claims to enjoy embracing the local culture whenever he travels, Rowen Shepherd's adaptability may well have revived his international career ahead of next week's first Test against Australia in Sydney. Certainly his inclusion in
breakfast on pluto Patrick McCabe Picador, #15.99 PATRICK McCabe's fifth novel is cross. It is comic. It is tragedy cross-dressed as comedy. It is a bitter political satire disguised as streetwise reportage on sex-wars. Within its comparatively
BRITISH painter and decorator Andrew Davidson, who witnessed the German rail crash, yesterday described the moment when the express train appeared out of nowhere and ploughed into the car on the line. He said: ''The train had no chance to stop
LIVE programmes on BBC television could be affected today because of a strike by the broadcasting union, Bectu. The 24-hour stoppage, which started at midnight, went ahead despite the fact that union officials and BBC chiefs started talks at the arbitration
SMALLER companies in the Scottish textile industry have been feeling the pressure for months according to the Scottish Knitwear Association, which says that since March two firms in Kilmarnock and one in Ayr have closed resulting in hundreds of job losses
One survivor said heavy ''rattling'' shocked passengers about minutes before the derailment. The rattling subsided, then restarted a moment before coaches jumped the tracks at 125 mph and jackknifed into the base of an overpass. &
THE leading 100 shares bounced back towards the 5900 level yesterday as confidence grew that the Bank of England will not raise interest rates today. The City is disregarding the more hawkish sentiments in the Bank's monetary policy committee, inclining
THE Convention of Scottish Local Authorities yesterday made a timely intervention into the furore over the missing council millions by highlighting the pressing need for councils to clarify where real accountability lies, writes Cameron Simpson. Against
STAFF at Dounreay fired dum-dum bullets from a high velocity rifle in an attempt to sink floating waste containers in its controversial shaft where chemical and nuclear waste was deposited, it emerged yesterday. It was revealed that these wastes floating
Two major investment deals have just been concluded in the west of Scotland, one in a Glasgow building and the other at the former Linwood car plant site. Now under massive redevelopment by Tilbury Phoenix, the Linwood site is home to dozens of industrial
INJURY has forced Alison Curbishley to abandon plans to switch to the 400 metres hurdles this year - the event at which Colin Jackson had predicted she would win the European and Commonwealth titles this summer, the world crown next year, and the Olympics
FIFE-based shopfitter Havelock Europa is set to implement a number of cost-cutting measures, including an unspecified number of job losses, in an attempt to combat increasing pressure on the company's operating margins. At Havelock's annual
Beware the ill-prepared golfer? Catriona Matthew was suffering from jet lag and had never seen the course, but she still shot a two-under-par 70 to finish just three shots off the lead after yesterday's first round of the Evian Masters in France
AT least 100 people were feared dead and 200 seriously injured after a high-speed passenger train apparently crashed into a car which had ploughed off an overpass in northern Germany yesterday. It is the country's worst rail disaster since the Second
EMPLOYEES of Robert Wiseman Dairies, which has 1900 staff at 13 UK locations, will not miss any of Scotland or England's games. They will be able to finish work early, start late, or watch on TV screens installed on site. Robert Wiseman, managing
A SURVEY conducted on behalf of the Confederation of British Industry has shown that 34% of companies believe job security has fallen over the past three years. This finding comes in spite of a growing number of firms seeking to boost the employability
DURING the dark days of the 1980s and 90s Scottish local government was the only democratic institution which stood up to the anti-Scottish policies of the Thatcher and Major Governments. The Labour Party finally got its act together to kick the Tories
SCOTLAND is leading a renaissance in hotel development. The broadening appeal of designer hotels has kick-started the hospitality industry into offering business and leisure travellers an increasing range of intimate inns that refuse to compromise on
William Russell has reservations about a movie with polish, but finds much to smile at in a surreal comedy SET in Montreal, although the setting is an irrelevance, Alan Rudolph's Afterglow is a mannered comedy about four deeply unhappy people. Julie
AYRSHIRE faced up to more job losses when Kelco announced yesterday it was shedding 62 staff from its 232-strong workforce as part of a restructuring plan at its Girvan plant. Kelco, which produces alginates used in foods, pharmaceuticals, textiles,
AND the Murdochs go marching on, on, on. The deal which Scotland's Premier Division sides have reached with Mr Rupert Murdoch's Sky satellite channel is undoubtedly a good one for the clubs since it will earn them #45m a year, a record for
MRS Thatcher once famously said that ''there is no such thing as society, only individuals'' and today Elizabeth Smith, Scotland's Conservative education spokesperson, rehearses that view with her criticisms of target-setting
FOR some West Side Story is the greatest musical of all time. I would find it hard to disagree. The original elements were blended by masters in their respective crafts and the music, the choreography, the tragedy and the spirit is still as potent today
Part 21: The 1800s Michael Fry continues his 40-part history of Scotland with accusations of sleaze in high places: Henry Dundas may have helped Nelson win Trafalgar, but what did he do with the equivalent of #4m of the Navy's funds? THE warm,
THE introduction of a voluntary scheme for labelling of beef has been condemned as a tax on butchers by Jim Laird, president of the National Federation of Meat & Food Traders. Speaking at the English-based federation's annual conference in Durham
Diane Theakstone, a 15-year-old pupil at the Royal Blind School in Edinburgh, describes her trip to London to meet the Education Secretary THE Government will next year move to implement legislation to set up the proposed Disability Rights Commission
It's trash, I know, sheer trash - but it had to be bought. Now magazine's current special on ''The World's Most Beautiful People 1998'' features ''over 100 fabulous STARS'', the balance about 60-
Brazil strolled to a 3-0 win over Andorra yesterday in a friendly which brought together the world champions and one of football's tiniest nations. The game was the biggest moment in Andorra's brief football history, but despite its romantic
Well, possums, you have to admire the courage of Kevin McKenzie in saying that the Scottish team had been training too hard in their fair dinkum tour of Australia. Now, hand on heart, but it's been the accusation levelled against the SRU training
RANGERS chairman David Murray has predicted that the new Scottish Premier League would flourish along the same lines as its English counterpart due to a multi-million deal with Sky television. Murray claimed that the TV deal would enable standards to
SHARES in Courtaulds dropped 21.5p to 444p yesterday after the Dutch Akzo Nobel chemicals and fibres giant and the PPG paints group decided to split the chemicals company up between them rather than start a takeover war. The Dutch company will proceed
NHS trusts in Scotland are being hampered by the financial requirements imposed on them when they were set up in the early 1990s, a report by leading accountants said yesterday, writes Alan MacDermid, Medical Correspondent. They conclude that the devolved
LEADING gay activist Peter Tatchell has made a fresh call for the age of consent for all sexual activities to be reduced to 14. His demand comes ahead of an amendment to the Crime and Disorder Bill in Parliament to be tabled by Labour MP Ann Keen which
EXCLUSIVE POST-school education is near crisis point and many further education colleges are on the verge of bankruptcy because of Government underfunding, according to Scotland's biggest teaching union. The Educational Institute of Scotland has
