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Brothers go beyond to give Great Britain a priceless Davis Cup lead
ADVANTAGE Great Britain. With a special mention for Dunblane, Scotland. A gargantuan effort from Andy and Jamie Murray at the Emirates Arena yesterday gave Leon Smith's side a priceless 2-1 lead going into the final day of their Davis Cup semi-final
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Murray brothers pull together to give Britain Davis Cup advantage
PARENTS go through quiet agonies watching their children play sport. There is a form of torture in standing helplessly on the sidelines as your pride and joy risks life and limb throwing themselves into tackles or otherwise performs in matches which
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Fluctuating fortunes as PGA Cup stays evenly balanced
There were plenty of oohs, aahs, gasps, groans, hoots and hollers on the 18th green at CordeValle this morning as Great Britain & Ireland’s club professionals hauled themselves back on to level terms with their US counterparts on day two of the PGA Cup.The
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TV review: Doctor Who returns with The Magician's Apprentice
This review contains spoilers I’m used to being alone in my pursuits; after all, not many share my appreciation of Jeremy Paxman and nuclear bunkers. Visiting an Edinburgh bunker last week I had the rare experience of being amongst like-minded
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Ex-SNP leader launched outspoken attack on Police Scotland
A FORMER leader of the SNP has launched an outspoken attack on his party's flagship policing reforms, saying the national force should be broken up.Gordon Wilson, who led the party between 1979 and 1990, branded senior figures at Police Scotland "
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South Africa 32 Japan 34: The greatest upset in rugby history
JAPAN shocked South Africa - and made the rest of the tournament sit up and take notice - with an extraordinary, historic victory over the former world champions. The Japanese had not won a game in the Rugby World Cup since 1991 before this, but they
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Sunday's Davis Cup singles match-ups
Andy Murray v Bernard TomicTHE World No 3 will be back on court at the Emirates Arena at 1pm, some 18 hours after he finished up in his epic doubles outing, to contest the singles rubber which could book Great Britain's first Davis Cup final since 1978
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Hamilton 1 Motherwell 0: Imrie goal grabs derby glory for Accies
Hamilton maintained the bragging rights in the Lanarkshire derby with a narrow win over Motherwell at New Douglas Park. A header from Dougie Imrie with 18 minutes remaining was enough to separate the sides in a scrappy affair with few genuine moments
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Dumbarton 1-2 Rangers: Warburton's side warm-up for Saints showdown with another Championship triumph
RANGERS stretched their winning run to eleven games with victory over Dumbarton this afternoon.But Mark Warburton’s side were once again far from their best as they had to grind out the three points at the Rock.The Light Blues held a dressing room inquest
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Murray brothers confirmed for Davis Cup doubles rubber
THE Murray brothers will take on Australian pair Lleyton Hewitt and Sam Groth in today's crucial doubles rubber in the Davis Cup semi-final, it has been confirmed. With the World No 3 taking just 107 minutes to take care of Thanasi Kokkinakis in Friday's
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Edinburgh City Council may have to change redundancy policy to find thousands of job cuts
Edinburgh City Council is to encourage 2000 workers to take voluntary redundancy in a bid to address a £126m budget shortfall over the next four years. The council has a policy of not making compulsory redundancies, but may have to go back on this
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USA roar back as GB&I fall behind in PGA Cup
The problem with history is that it has a habit of repeating itself. Great Britain & Ireland’s club professionals are chasing their own little bit of history here in California as they look for a first ever win on American soil in the PGA Cup. The visitors
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Male Order: I had hoped Jesus College Cambridge might provide a University Challenge contestant with long hair and a beard
It may be a stretch to try to present University Challenge as a prism through which to view young men's changing attitudes to fashion and self-expression – but here goes anyway.The idea that it might be comes courtesy of one Kamel Shah, a member of the
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Catriona Matthew hopes point will lead to prizes for Europe in Solheim Cup
Catriona Matthew’s Solheim Cup adventure continued at St Leon-Rot in Germany yesterday as she claimed a point and helped propel Europe towards a history making third victory in a row.All square with the USA after the morning foursomes, the home team got
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Government bid to keep minutes of Sturgeon's meeting with pro-fracking billionaire secret
THE SNP Government has blocked the full release of an account of a meeting between Nicola Sturgeon and Ineos chief Jim Ratcliffe, which took place while ministers called a temporary halt to fracking.The summit between the First Minister and the billionaire
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Jeremy's first week - controversy, controversy and more controversy
IT has been quite a week for one Jeremy Bernard Corbyn from Islington. At 11.30am last Saturday, the onetime peripheral left-winger was thrust into the centre of British politics by becoming Labour’s new leader. Not just that, he won by a not inconsiderable
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Jonny Gray completes World Cup journey from armchair to boiler room
HOW many schoolboys dragged themselves out of bed in the early hours of the morning four years ago to watch the World Cup? Probably not many – though it might have added a bit of extra motivation if their elder brother was playing. Family loyalties have
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'Some of us are desperate for another referendum... we need to strike while the iron's hot'
THE message from Nicola Sturgeon to the gung-ho within her party was a clear "simmer down". All 24 polls on the constitutional questions in the last year, she acknowledged, had shown support for independence higher than it was on referendum
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The real Jake Taylor hopes to stand up in Lanarkshire derby
Jake Taylor, by his own admission, has yet to show his best in claret and amber since his loan move from Reading to Motherwell.He insists though that he is ready to show the Motherwell fans the real Jake Taylor, and what better place for him to start
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Newsquest (Herald & Times) sees profits rise 26 per cent
Newsquest (Herald & Times) has reported a 26 per cent rise in profits for its most recent financial year.Accounts being filed at Companies House by the company, the publisher of The Herald, show flat turnover of £53.75 million for the 52 weeks to December
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Loy: Dee not banking on Celtic Euro hangover
Dundee striker Rory Loy says that there will be no advantage gained from playing Celtic just three days after their gruelling match in Amsterdam against Ajax.The Hoops had to dig deep in the last half-an-hour of the match when down to ten men to claim
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Scots aid worker caught up in tear gas stand off between migrants and Hungarian police
A SCOTTISH aid worker has told how she was caught up in the clashes on the Serbia and Hungary border as police fired tear gas and water cannon to force migrants back. Laura Gilmour, a communications officer with the CARE International aid organisation
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Sir Peter Heatly
SIR Peter Heatly CBE, Multiple Empire Games diving champion, Olympian, and sports administrator. Born 9th June 1924 Died 17th September 2015 SIR Peter Heatly who died this week, was an iconic figure whose significant achievements as
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Letters: Many who voted Yes did not do so for objective reasons
I NOTE the First Minister’s tiresome refusal to accept the sovereign will of the people of Scotland on the year-old referendum result (“Sturgeon: The Union is living on borrowed time”, The Herald, September 18). The attitude of the SNP gives me the impression
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Martin Wishart: Lemon cake with saffron syrup
This deliciously moist cake, fragrant with saffron and lemon, is unbeatable when served with a couple of spoons of clotted cream or creme fraiche. When baked the smell will fill your home with a flavour of the Mediterranean.Lemon cake with saffron syrupServes
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Food: Secrets of Scotland's Jacobite cooks
Of all the themed events taking place to mark Scotland’s Year of Food and Drink, one is particularly fascinating to me as a lover of food history and the politics of food. It reveals a lot about how we ate 100 years ago and even, as I serendipitously
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Kinnect2 founder has big plans for growth
A SCOTTISH entrepreneur hopes to double the staff working on a new social network to around 60 by the end of this year.Amina Nabi has already raised around £700,000 of private investment from friends and family to get Kinnect2 off the ground.The social
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'We hit a rock face and rolled the car six times. It went 30 feet down a ravine. It happened in seconds but it seemed to go on forever'
Stuart Loudon, co-driver and biscuit engineerI remember going to watch my dad Fergus compete as a co-driver in the Scottish Rally Championships in the early 1990s and from a young age I wanted to be a rally driver. Dad suggested I try co-driving as, for
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Farming market round-up
Messrs Craig Wilson Ltd sold 1040 correct Blackface ewes at the firm's annual sale at Ayr on Thursday to a top of £74 for a pen off James Murdoch & Sons, Knockdon Farm, Straiton and an average of £63.81 (-£9.27 on the year), while 404 Blackface gimmers
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They still tell tales in the Kyles, but will this cup final be a Lovat story?
Kyles Athletic will attempt to lift their 22nd Scottish Hydro Camanachd Cup today against Lovat, abetted by a winning ingredient which has helped sustain them for decades.Strategists suggest all great teams require togetherness, leadership and match winners
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Herald View: Ravenscraig developers must not repeat mistakes of the past
To say the redevelopment of Ravenscraig has been a long haul is an understatement. The former Lanarkshire steelworks closed in 1992, but over the last few years progress has been made, with more than 300 homes, a new college campus, sports facility and
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Hugh Dan Maclennan: A final rich in shinty heritage
It is one of my greatest regrets. I was never good enough to play shinty in a Camanachd Cup Final. The teams I played in were never good enough to get me there. However, since 1983 I have been privileged to have commentated on these great occasions with
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Herald Scottish Family Business Awards return
The search is underway to crown this year’s finest family businesses in the 2015 Herald Scottish Family Business Awards.Now in their fourth year, these important industry awards, staged by The Herald in association with Business Gateway, celebrate the
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Taylor: 'Well fans ain't seen nothing yet
Jake Taylor is ready to show Motherwell fans the best of him, and he says there’s no better place to start than the Lanarkshire derby today.Taylor’s only other experience of a derby came in the Dover version, playing for Exeter against Torquay.He says
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Oregon Timber Frame to double capacity after buying new factory site
Oregon Timber Frame is investing a significant six figure sum in expanding its manufacturing capacity as it looks to capitalise on the demand for new housing.The company, which makes timber frames for house builders, is buying an empty retail store adjacent
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Jim Doherty
James Dohertyfootballer and engineerborn January 31 1954died September 12 2015Jim Doherty, who has died aged 61, was an engineer and junior footballer who went on to enjoy a professional career with Notts County FC.Born in 1954 and raised in the small
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Indyref anniversary sparks calls for more devolution to the UK's cities
SCOTLAND must move forward from the independence referendum and hand more powers to cities and metropolitan areas, the leader of the country's largest council has claimed. The comments by Frank McAveety, leader of Glasgow City Council, come as
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Council leader urged ministers to act over crisis college
THE former city council leader urged ministers to intervene in the ongoing crisis at a further education college to prevent "damage" to the education system. Gordon Matheson, who stepped down earlier this month at the helm at Glasgow City Council
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Harry Cousin
Harry CousinNewspaper advertising executiveBorn 23rd December 1929died September 3rd 2015.Harry Cousin, who has died aged 85, was an advertising executive in the newspaper industry, latterly working for The Glasgow Herald and Evening Times. He was the
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Johnstons of Elgin directors take pay cut in spite of return to profit
Directors of Johnstons of Elgin have seen their collective pay fall during a year in which the textile company’s profits surged.Annual accounts for James Johnston & Co of Elgin show total directors’ remuneration was £567,000 in 2014, down from £719,000
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Business as usual for Accies in derby says Imrie
Dougie Imrie insists that the Hamilton players are treating the Lanarkshire derby like any other game as they look to get their season back on track.Hamilton were flying prior to the international break, winning three in a row including a win over high-flying
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Doug Marr on lonely hearts
The hacking of dating and similar websites has revealed the widespread interest in such things. I have to admit being an avid reader of the low-tech version - the newspaper lonely-hearts column. My interest is purely for research purposes you understand
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Clydebank MP Martin Docherty calls for posthumous award recognising wartime service of Clyde-built RMS Queen Mary
CLYDEBANK MP Martin Docherty has joined calls for John Brown-built RMS Queen Mary to be given a posthumous award in recognition of her years of service during the Second World War.If achieved, the commemoration will come as the ship, now a floating hotel
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Lady Barbara aims to enliven Institute of Directors
TALKING over coffee in a smart Edinburgh restaurant, Lady Barbara Judge is looking forward to heading on to Gleneagles but intent on avoiding the hotel’s famed golf course when she gets there.The American businesswoman recalls past disappointments suffered
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Treasures glitter among the silversmiths' art
The distinction between craft and art is one that has plagued the applied arts of ceramics, glassware and smithing since humankind first began hammering metal and blowing glass. It’s a sometimes misleading argument, not least for its differing emphases
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If it hadn't been for Maggie's I'd have taken to my bed a year ago and never got up
By Marianne Taylor The first thing that strikes me as I walk into Glasgow’s Maggie’s centre is the extraordinary sense of calm. The design of the building in the grounds of Gartnavel Hospital helps, of course; its renowned architect Rem Koolhaas
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Canongate's Jamie Byng balances the books for 21 years
Jamie Byng rolls into Edinburgh's Canongate office dragging a case on wheels behind him, and though he still has the tousled, laid-back air of someone who might have just come off a big party night, that’s not where he’s at. He spent the morning on
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Rosemary Goring: writers and their relationship with drink
It could be because I grew up beside the brewery in Belhaven, but I’ve always liked pubs. The smell of roasting hops would fill the air at midday, and the malty scent of an open pub door is forever the smell of childhood. Though one sip of beer was enough
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REVIEW: Joyce Carol Oates: The Lost Landscape – A Writer’s Coming Of Age (4th Estate)
Dorothy Parker said she'd rather cut her own throat with a blunt knife than write a memoir. This seems good advice to all. Joyce Carol Oates has written oodles of books, including memoirs. No Pulitzer has yet accrued, but the Guinness Book of Records
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REVIEW: Jackie Kay: The Empathetic Store – Poems (Mariscat Press)
This chapbook shows Jackie Kay – as per usual – stirring up the political and personal in her poetry, although the Scottish landscape makes its indifferent presence felt throughout. The opening poem, The Imaginary Road, is a sort of broken ballad to the
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REVIEW: Christos Tsiolkas: Merciless Gods (Atlantic Books)
This collection of short stories is full of self-abusing outcasts thrown together in foreign countries. Tsiolkas confronts the reader with human nature at its most bestial: drug addiction, violence, graphic sex and racism. But there are too many silly
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REVIEW: Raif Badawi: 1000 Lashes – Because Of What I Think (Greystone Books)
In 2012 Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi was sentenced to death for "insulting" Islam. After an appeal his sentence was reduced to 10 years' imprisonment, a fine of a $250,000 and 1000 lashes. In January Badawi received the first 50 of these
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REVIEW: Douglas Watt: Pilgrim Of Slaughter (Luath Press)
The third in Douglas Watt’s series of murder mysteries set in 17th-century Scotland and featuring lawyers John Mackenzie and David Scougall takes place as William of Orange is on the verge of usurping James VII and II. The streets of Edinburgh are aflame
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Travel: Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way
By Tom AdairWhat better place to begin a trip along the Wild Atlantic Way than from the Atlantic Bar in Buncrana. As I was heading out into the weather, someone shouted “Wear a cape or take an umbrella. You’ll get over 20 miles to the gust.” I had to
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Technology: JBL Xtreme portable wireless speaker
What is it?Party-inspired portable wireless speaker.How will it change my life?If life has taught me anything, it's that useful things are only advantageous when they are easily at hand. Take a few months ago when a gang of us were staying in a quiet
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Gardening: Kail
Gardeners who grow their own should make room for some kail, or kale as it’s spelled beyond Scotland's borders. You can grow kail whatever the scale of your garden and harvest it like cut-and-come-again or in the traditional way.Between the 15th and 18th
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Ron Mackenna: Bo Kantina, Glasgow
The waitress doesn’t really hesitate when we ask if they sell much of this Korean Bo Ssam stuff; it being a salty £26 a sharing platter. We’ve sold four already tonight, she says, looking round this half-full basement joint. And indeed later, much
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Fidelma Cook: On the elderly woman who inspires me every day
Every morning after all the rounds have been completed and the corridor returns to silence, I wait until I hear the familiar sound followed by the quavery "Bonjour." The sound is the tap, tap, slap, slap of a walker interlaced with the shuffle
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REVIEW: Misha Glenny: Nemesis – One Man And The Battle For Rio (The Bodley Head)
No one is quite sure how many people live in Brazil's favelas. According to the 2010 census, 11.25 million individuals in a population of around 205 million are contained in these sprawling, ever-evolving shanty towns. In reality the figure, like most
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Fortress Europe will not do in the face of human catastrophe
With Hungary passing laws apparently in breach of the Geneva Convention to prevent refugees crossing its borders and Croatia resorting to the even cruder method of lining its frontiers with razor wire, optimism about the European response to the refugee
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A battle is looking over Holyrood's new powers
A year ago today, Prime Minister David Cameron greeted the result of the independence referendum with the words: "The people of Scotland have spoken."He said it would "have broken my heart" to see the UK broken up but he also paid
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Inconvenience at Tweedbank
HAVING now experienced the Borders Railway line behind the steam loco Union of South Africa, the journey was enjoyable until my arrival at Tweedbank. There are no toilets for the benefit of ScotRail customers.There is a disabled toilet for staff only.The
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Labour leader needs to rise to the challenge, and fast
Alistair Darling says he is confused about what his party's leader, Jeremy Corbyn, stands for. Labour is where it is now, though, partly because so many members and voters were increasingly baffled as to what the party stood for under its previous leadership
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Nash nice, Crosby cross
HAVING attended the concert this week at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall given by this Crosby, Stills and Nash, I couldn't but agree with Rob Adams’s very positive and honest review of their performance (Herald Arts, September 17). However, I feel that
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A chill wind from Australia?
I NOTE the news that Australia is to have a new Prime Minister with Tony Abbott being replaced by Malcolm Turnbull (“Abbott ousted as premier”, The Herald, September 15).Malcolm Turnbull was, of course, previously chairman of the Australian Republican
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Remembrance should not be not an opportunity for petty political point-scoring
WATCHING BBC 1’s Question Time (September 17), I was disappointed but not surprised that time was given over to the Jeremy Corbyn national anthem issue (this is the BBC after all). Mr Corbyn is an avowed atheist and republican and to sing a song that
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Bus king Souter adds to his luxury brand portfolio
Souter Investments, the family investment office of transport tycoon Sir Brian Souter, is part of a consortium which has bought the luxury fragrance and interiors brand Clive Christian.The business has been acquired for an undisclosed price by EME Investments
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Golden Casket signals expansion plans
GOLDEN Casket (Greenock), the confectionery company owned by veteran businessman Douglas Rae, has signalled plans to ramp up its manufacturing output, as new accounts show it lifted turnover to nearly £21 million in its latest financial year.The company
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Mackays posts loss but sees trade lift as family passes reins to new generation
Mackays Stores has posted a pre-tax loss of £2.1m and revealed that Iain McGeoch, 70, has stepped down as chairman and chief executive 52 years after co-founding the business.Mr McGeoch has handed on one of Scotland’s most successful but more publicity-shy
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Scottish Water harnesses skills of long-serving staff for new skills academy
SCOTTISH Water has launched a skills academy to develop hundreds of water engineers at a purpose-built training facility in Glasgow.The publicly-owned utility said that up to 400 employees each year were expected to benefit from its academy at Balmore
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Fed up with waiting for the rate rise markets have already priced in
TOM BECKETIt is now nine years since the US Federal Reserve was last able or willing to raise interest rates. Given the omnipotence of the Fed and the impact of their actions on global markets, this is clearly a major decision for markets. The last time
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Raxin fir the Dawn
RAB Wilson reaches out for the dawn in his prize-winning entry from 2012’s McCash Scots Poetry Competition. It serves as a final reminder that this year’s competition entries must be in by tomorrow.RAXIN FIR THE DAWINAe nicht, i the back o the year wis
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Pensions gold rush may mean unnecessary tax bills
Evidence is mounting that people are cashing in pensions without understanding their options or their tax bill - but it will be six months before the government responds to the fall-out from April’s pension freedoms.Royal London, the UK’s biggest mutual
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One year on, the numbers still don't add up
It would be fun to know, for curiosity’s sake, who came up with David Cameron’s referendum anniversary gift for Scotland. Did the brainwave originate in Downing Street, or did grist for the mill come from these parts? If the former, can we presume
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Dave's Evel dilemma: dog's breakfast or justice for England?
ITS critics have described it as “a dog’s breakfast” and “constitutional bilge”, its supporters “sensible and pragmatic” and “justice for England”. English Votes for English Laws(Evel) has opened up a parliamentary chasm that, it seems, David Cameron
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Drink: Why we'll all be drinking Aussie wine again soon
“Let’s not forget Australia is still number one in the off-trade,” says Laura Jewell, Wine Australia’s director for the UK, its biggest market. The country that achieved the unthinkable in 2003 and toppled French wine from its centuries-old pinnacle,
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The Morningside home of ballet, satire and young Nigel
Among the welter of cultural anniversaries that we have been swamped with this year, 50 years of the Royal Lyceum and 70 of the Glasgow Citizens among them, it had entirely escaped my attention that the capital's Church Hill Theatre was also celebrating
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Charity classical concert deserves a special mention
I’m always slightly resistant and a bit reluctant to write about good causes for a variety of reasons, not least that there are so many of them out there. Even as I write this, I’ve just received an email about yet another one which will feature a
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Collins looks for united front
The Celtic dressing room may be reminiscent of a United Nations conference given the multitude of worldwide languages within earshot. The challenge for the Parkhead side over the coming weeks is to unite those dialects into a single, solid voice.The arrivals
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Collins: no spat with McInnes
John Collins, the Celtic assistant manager, has admitted to some regret after publicly revealing his opinion last month that Scottish players were not “clever enough” or “quick enough thinkers” to punish Celtic the way that European teams can.While Collins
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Agenda: LibDem leaders insist they can bounce back from electoral disaster
By Willie Rennie and Tim FarronOver the past 12 months, politics in Scotland and right across the UK has changed fundamentally.The referendum on independence for Scotland was the first in a series of events that has led to a political landscape that combines
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Virtue signalling is the mating dance of hipsters - and I'm wooed
IT sounds like a mating dance for hipsters: virtue signalling. My gran used to have a cross stitch with the words, “Do not choose for anyone what you do not choose for yourself.” She also had a wooden spoon that read, “You’re never too old to spoon,”
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Veteran art critic Brian Sewell dies aged 84
Veteran art critic and broadcaster Brian Sewell has died after a year-long battle with cancer. He was 84. Tributes from across the art world have been paid to Mr Sewell, whose acerbic wit and sharp tongue won him many admirers - though he was typically
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Ross County 1 Partick Thistle 0
Liam Boyce scored his sixth goal of the season to earn Ross County a 1-0 victory in a close encounter with Partick Thistle at the Global Energy Stadium. Boyce struck in the 18th minute when he got on the end of a high and swinging ball from Jamie
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Dundee Utd 1 Inverness CT 1
Dundee United ended their recent losing streak as they fought out a 1-1 draw with Inverness in a Ladbrokes Scottish Premiership match at Tannadice. Jackie McNamara's side had suffered a run of of four successive league defeats going into this encounter
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Kilmarnock 2 St Johnstone 1
Kilmarnock came from behind to beat St Johnstone 2-1 at Rugby Park but it took a freak own goal to earn their first home Ladbrokes Premiership win of the season. Killie striker Josh Magennis' header in the 40th minute cancelled out midfielder David
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Man and three teenagers injured in South Lanarkshire crash
A man and three teenagers have been injured following a two vehicle crash. The collision between a black Mazda 2 travelling north and a black Vauxhall Corsa travelling south happened at around 9pm on Thursday on the A73 at Thankerton, near Biggar
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Woman sexually assaulted in cemetery
Police are hunting a man who raped a woman in a cemetery in a night-time attack in Edinburgh. The woman, aged 20, had been on a night out when she made her way to the north end of Easter Road at around 11.30pm on Friday to catch a bus home from
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Chelsea 2 Arsenal 0
Jose Mourinho's Chelsea restored order with a battling 2-0 win over nine-man Arsenal at Stamford Bridge. The champions won at home for the first time in the Barclays Premier League this season as Kurt Zouma headed in and Eden Hazard's late shot
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Labour to review tax legislation
Labour will perform a full review of tax legislation and the Treasury as part of a bid to clamp down on big business tax avoiders, shadow chancellor John McDonnell announced as he laid out his party's plans for the economy. Mr McDonnell said there
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Scottish independence supporters hold anniversary rally
Supporters of Scottish independence have gathered for a large rally in Glasgow a year on from the referendum result. Crowds of people carrying saltires and Yes banners gathered in the city's George Square to hear dozens of speakers and bands at
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Police discover explosives after alert in Belfast
POLICE investigating dissident republican activity in Northern Ireland have discovered Semtex explosive, bomb detonators and almost 200 rounds of ammunition in west Belfast. The find came as a UK Government-commissioned three-person panel launched
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Resigned to years of austerity, Greeks head to the polls
For once, Greek politicians are not bearing gifts. Six years into the country's worst post-Second World War financial crisis, Sunday's early parliamentary election is not being fought over austerity, promised debt forgiveness, public sector jobs
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Pistorius' parole review hearing postponed for two weeks
A second hearing to decide whether Oscar Pistorius should be released early from prison has been postponed for two weeks. The Department of Correctional Services said that its parole review board met on Friday to consider a number of cases but
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Thousands head for Munich's Oktoberfest
The beer is flowing again at Munich's fabled Oktoberfest. Mayor Dieter Reiter inserted the tap into the first keg today with two blows of his hammer and the cry of "O'zapft is" - "It's tapped." Some six million visitors are expected to arrive
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Tim Farron: Lib Dems matter more now than for a generation
The Liberal Democrats matter more than in a "generation", leader Tim Farron has insisted as he arrived at the party's conference to launch a post-election fightback. Mr Farron hopes to stake a claim on the centre ground of politics in the wake
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Syria crisis 'complicated' by Russian involvement says Philip Hammond
The crisis in Syria is becoming "more complicated" by Russian involvement in tackling Islamic State, the Foreign Secretary has said after talks with his US counterpart. Philip Hammond said the possibility of a fresh vote on British military action
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Saudi - led air strikes kill 29 in Yemen capital
The Saudi-led coalition's air strikes against Yemen's Shiite rebels and their allies have killed 29 people, including civilians, in the capital Sanaa, according to officials. The air strikes hit an apartment building in the centre of the capital
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Jeremy Corbyn does not look like next Prime Minister according to poll
Voters overwhelmingly do not believe Jeremy Corbyn looks like Britain's next prime minister and a significant number of Labour supporters are ready to turn their back on the party, according to a poll. Nearly three in four people do not think the
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Karen Buckley killer launches appeal against sentence
The killer of Irish student Karen Buckley is to appeal against his sentence. Alexander Pacteau, 21, was jailed for a minimum of 23 years after admitting bludgeoning Miss Buckley to death with a spanner in April. The former public schoolboy
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Rescuers attempt to reach paraglider stranded on cliff after mid-air collision
A rescue operation has been launched after a paraglider crashed in to a cliff following a mid-air collision with another paraglider. One of them managed to land but the other crashed in to the cliff at Catacal on the Isle of Arran and was left
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Rugby World Cup: Tonga 10 Georgia 17
Georgia claimed only the third win in their World Cup history as captain Mamuka Gorgodze inspired them to victory over Pool C rivals Tonga at Kingsholm. The Toulon back-row forward epitomised Georgia's unrelenting spirit and physical prowess by
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Tougher fines and licence rules urged to counter 'misery' of rogue landlords
Rogue landlords should be dealt tougher fines and more stringent licensing rules to avoid tenants being exploited, the Local Government Association (LGA) has said. Fines that better reflect the housing offences committed, and a wider range of penalties
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The Who postpone 50 tour dates due to Roger Daltrey's viral meningitis
The Who have been forced to postpone all 50 dates on their North American tour because frontman Roger Daltrey has viral meningitis. The British band had already delayed the first four concerts of their anniversary tour The Who Hits 50! because
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Horse on song for music masterclass
SINGER-songwriter Horse McDonald knows a thing or two about the music business having racked up 20 years at the top since her debut album The Same Sky. The Fife-born star, who has toured with Tina Turner and has been described as one of Scotland
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Migrants flood into Austria as European crisis continues
Thousands of migrants have flooded into Austria, seeking refuge after shuttling for days between bordering countries that were unable or unwilling to offer them shelter. Austrian police said some 6,700 people travelled to the central European country