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Celtic 2 Hamilton Accies 0; Hoops stroll continues
The stroll continues. Every game seems like a walk in the park for a team who are on a winning run that now stretches to 21 successive league wins and 32 games in all domestic competition without defeat this term. Spring has sprung eternally at Celtic
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Scott Brown confirms availability for Scotland v Slovenia - but unlikely to play against England in June
Scott Brown, the Celtic captain, has confirmed that he will return to the international squad for Scotland’s FIFA World Cup qualifier against Slovenia at Hampden.The midfielder announced his retirement from international football in order to focus exclusively
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Partick Thistle 2 Hearts 0: Ian Cathro asks for more fight as deployment of Lennard Sowah backfires spectacularly
Did you know that 12 publishers turned down J.K. Rowling before someone took a chance on her Motherwell-supporting wizard and his Hogwarts chums? Or that Decca Records had the chance to sign The Beatles but thought that guitar bands were falling out
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Parents' disgust over mouldy baby food prompts Cow & Gate apology and investigation
COW and Gate has apologised after parents inundated the baby food company with complaints over finding mould and lumpy objects in pots of yoghurt. Dozens of mothers and fathers buying fruit pots, as well as yoghurts and some formula powders, have
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Ayr United 0 St Mirren 2: Jack Ross' side gain relegation lifeline after triumphing in "must win" game
IT is often said it is the hope that kills you but St Mirren will take their chances with that right now. Jack Ross’ side remain rooted to the foot of the Championship but this hard-fought but deserved victory over Ayr United, the team closest to them
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Search underway at Arbroath Cliffs after man falls
Emergency services were searching for a man who reportedly fell off a cliff in Scotland. Police were called to Arbroath Cliffs at around 1pm on Saturday. The coastguard helicopter, rescue teams and lifeboat crews were carrying out a search
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German police shoot man after car ploughs into group in Heidelberg
A man drove a car into pedestrians in a central square in the German city of Heidelberg on Saturday, injuring three people. He then fled and was shot after being tracked down by officers, police said. One of the three people hit outside a bakery
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Celtic 2, Hamilton 0: Moussa Dembele at the double as Celtic extend unbeaten domestic run to 32 games
MOUSSA Dembele took his tally for the 2016/17 season to 29 with a double against Hamilton Academical at Parkhead today to extend Celtic's stunning unbeaten domestic run to 32 games. The French striker netted a delightful individual goal just before
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Website to oppose second Scottish referendum launched by Labour
A new website for people to pledge their opposition to a possible second Scottish independence referendum has been launched by Labour. The party's Scottish leader Kezia Dugdale unveiled the move as she vowed she would "work tirelessly" to keep
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Six Nations 2017: Scotland battle back to earn first win over Wales in 10 years
Scotland ended 10 years of hurt against Wales as they kept alive their RBS 6 Nations title hopes at Murrayfield. Wings Tommy Seymour and Tim Visser scored second-half tries, while 19 points from fly-half Finn Russell saw Scotland home 29-13 as
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Woman charged over death of 3-year-old boy attacked by dog
A woman has been charged over the death of a three-year-old boy who was attacked by a dog in Essex. Jade Dunne, 29, has been charged with owning a dog dangerously out of control that resulted in the death of three-year-old Dexter Neal, Essex Police
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Raise human rights abuses with Egyptian president, Johnson urged
Boris Johnson has been urged to raise "appalling" human rights abuses with Egyptian president Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and work to secure the release of an Irishman languishing in "horrific" prison conditions. The Foreign Secretary is in Egypt for a
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Death of Renfrewshire man found in house treated as 'unexplained'
A man's body has been found at a house in Renfrewshire. Police were called to the property in Greenend Avenue, Johnstone, at around 10.45am on Saturday. Officers are currently treating the death as "unexplained". A Police Scotland spokeswoman
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In Pictures: Fire-damaged casts at Glasgow School of Art are works of art again
RESTORATION experts have completed their work to stabilise the fire-damaged casts from the Glasgow School of Art. A number of the school’s famous plaster casts were damaged in 2014 when a fire partially destroyed the west end of the famous Mackintosh
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Scottish nationalists are not racists, says Sadiq Khan in speech change at Labour conference
SADIQ KHAN has made changes to his speech to the Scottish Labour conference following outrage at his comparison of Scottish nationalism to racism. In a modification to a draft of his speech released earlier, the Mayor of London told conference
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Bring Scotland's railways back into public ownership, unions demand
Scotland's railways should be brought back into public ownership "lock stock and barrel", unions leaders have demanded. Representatives from Aslef, the train drivers' union, and the Transport Salaried Staff Association (TSSA) spoke out in favour
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Kim Jong Nam: Malaysia to sweep airport for toxic chemical
Malaysian police are to carry out a sweep of the terminal at Kuala Lumpur's airport where North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un's half-brother was killed to check for possible traces of the toxic chemical suspected to have been used in the attack. A police
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British teenagers face court over 'plans to join IS in Syria'
Four teenagers accused of planning to travel to Syria to join IS have appeared in court on terror charges. The young men, who are all from London, were said to be plotting to carry out acts of terrorism abroad. A fifth boy, aged 15, is accused
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SNP and Westminster coalition an 'electoral dead end', says Labour deputy leader
A coalition with the SNP at Westminster is an "electoral dead end", Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson has said. Mr Watson told the Scottish Labour conference in Perth that the idea of a "progressive alliance" with other parties was a "road to nowhere
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Music review: Scottish Chamber Orchestra, City Halls, Glasgow
Music Scottish Chamber Orchestra City Halls, Glasgow Keith Bruce four stars TO the list of recent acclaimed deputising at concerts in Glasgow – conductor Elim Chan and pianist Louis Schwizgebel with the RSNO and pianist Steven Osborne
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Flower power urges women not to ignore smear test invite
A giant wall of flowers has decorated the centre of Glasgow to highlight a new drive encouraging women to go for their smear test. The Flower campaign aims to raise awareness of the importance of the routine test, which can detect cells that could
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Defiant Robert Mugabe celebrates 93rd birthday
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has celebrated his 93rd birthday, defying calls to resign after nearly four decades in power. Thousands of government supporters, some wearing clothing adorned with Mugabe's image, converged in Matabeleland for
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Squatters near Buckingham Palace evicted over 'security risk'
Squatters shacked up in a grand building metres away from Buckingham Palace have been evicted in an early morning "stealth mode" operation. Activists were branded a possible risk to the Queen's security for occupying the seven-storey property on
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Major police operation launched after body of man found with stab wounds in Perth
A MAJOR police operation has begun after the body of a man was found with stab wounds in Perth. Door-to-door inquiries were carried out in the city's Muirton area following the discovery of the body in the early hours of this morning. A home
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Cannabis farm trio in court on slavery charges after raid
Three men have appeared in court charged with drug and slavery offences after police discovered a cannabis farm in an underground nuclear bunker. Martin Fillery, 45, Plamen Nguyen, 27, and Ross Winter, 30, appeared at Swindon Magistrates' Court
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I met Myra Hindley but we didn't dwell on violent past, says former wife of Jimmy Boyle
THE former wife of notorious gangster-turned-artist Jimmy Boyle has revealed she regularly visited Myra Hindley in prison but the pair never discussed the Moors murders. Sarah Trevelyan became a noteworthy figure nearly four decades ago when
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Elderly Paisley couple's home targeted by gang in break-in
A gang has stolen a "significant" sum of cash after breaking into an elderly couple's home. The victims are said to have been left highly distressed by the daylight incident at their Paisleyhouse on Wednesday. The group of men forced entry
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Extra £30m to help fix Scotland's crumbling road network
SCOTLAND’S crumbling roads network is to receive an extra £30 million over the next 12 months in a bid to speed up a maintenance backlog. Government officials said the maintenance budget for Scotland’s trunk roads will increase from £165m last
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Music review: RSNO, Usher Hall, Edinburgh
MusicRSNOUsher Hall, EdinburghHazel Rowland three starsAN EVENING of film music certainly feels appropriate for the run up to the Oscars, but despite the popularity of John Williams’s film scores, pulling off such a concert is no easy task. On Friday
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Glasgow to Edinburgh travel disruption as electric trains hit by lines fault
COMMUTERS between Glasgow and Edinburgh face delays today as all electric trains have been disrupted due to a fault with overhead lines at Haymarket. Services between Helensburgh Central and Edinburgh and Milngavie and Edinburgh via Airdrie and
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Muhammad Ali's son detained at airport and asked 'are you Muslim?'
The son of boxing legend Muhammad Ali was detained by immigration staff at a Florida airport, who repeatedly asked him "Are you Muslim?", a lawyer has said. Chris Mancini told the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, that the incident happened
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Suspect in death of Kim Jong Nam was paid for 'prank' nerve agent attack
The Indonesian suspect in the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's half-brother was paid 90 dollars (£72) to help carry out the attack involving VX nerve agent, said Indonesia's deputy ambassador to Malaysia. But Deputy Ambassador Andriano
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My dream died when Leicester sacked me, says Claudio Ranieri
Claudio Ranieri has said his "dream died" when Leicester sacked him. The Italian led the Foxes to a shock Premier League title last season but was axed on Thursday with the club a point above the relegation zone. Leicester have lost their last
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Labour 'further from power than any time in my life', says David Miliband
Labour under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership is further from power than any time in the last 50 years, David Miliband has said. As Mr Corbyn made clear he is determined to continue as Labour leader despite a humiliating defeat in the Copeland by-election
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Sturgeon criticises Sadiq Khan for comparing Scottish nationalism to racism
NICOLA STURGEON has criticised comments made by Labour's Sadiq Khan comparing Scottish nationalism to racism. The Mayor of London said there is little difference between voting for Scottish independence and “trying to divide us on the basis of
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Mortons Rolls owner is struck off in money-laundering probe
ONE of Scotland’s most prominent chartered accountants has been struck off after breaching money-laundering rules in the multi-million-pound takeover of the Glasgow bakers Mortons Rolls. John Devlin was found guilty of both misconduct and incompetence
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Anger as Trump’s press chief bars UK news outlets from White House briefing
Donald Trump’s press secretary has barred news organisations, including the BBC, from a White House press briefing. The Guardian and The Daily Mail were also blocked from the meeting on Friday in a move that has angered supporters of a free press
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Herald Sport Diary: Floating casinos, golfing love rats and the killer Fish – another normal sporting week
DAVID McCRACKEN, captain of Championship Falkirk, is surely now a shoe-in for Player of the Year. Storm Doris meant he along with thousands of others were left stranded on the M80 as Scotland suffered its first snow fall in the country’s history
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My Sporting Saturday: Scottish football commentator Derek Rae
Aberdeen was my home city and that is where my life-long love affair was first kindled. The first game I ever attended is still vivid in my mind all these years on. My Dad and I were playing pitch and putt down by the beach. Aberdeen were playing
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Obituary - Cathy Paver, Scots founder of the Pavers empire
Founder of the Pavers shoe empire Born: May 5, 1928; Died: February 16, 2017 CATHERINE Kinloch Paver, who has died aged 88, was a Scottish retailer who started the Pavers shoe company in 1971. Over 40 years, the firm expanded to become
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Tour of Ayrshire celebrates golden age of cycling with classic race
FOR many cycling enthusiasts, the 1970s and 80s is the golden age of the sport. The European riders taking part in the Tour de France back then were not only at the top of their sport, but also the epitome of cool. They even had their own song, Tour
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Obituary - Kenneth Arrow, economist known for the Impossibility Theorem
Economist Born: August 23, 1921; Died: February 21, 2017 KENNETH Arrow, who has died aged 95, was a hugely respected Nobel prize-winning economist whose theories on risk, innovation and the basic mathematics of markets influenced thinking
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French judges begin hearing giant tax case
ONE of Europe’s highest-profile tax evasion cases will go to a Paris court on Monday for the first time.The so-called “France Offshore” Affair has been in the headlines for years.Now French judges will finally start to hear the prosecution case alleging
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Jimmy Boyle, Barlinnie and me, by the woman who married Scotland's notorious gangland killer
SARAH Trevelyan is the woman I went to prison for. Well, technically it was the prison car park, and not the prison itself. But I should explain.It was a dank, dark morning in January 1980, with snow on the hills. The whole of the Glasgow media was scrambled
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Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger on giving up booze and betting, and his first Scottish shows
“SO, MARK," I say to the Turner Prize-winning artist sitting in front of me. “When you say you made these new paintings with body parts, we are talking about your hands, aren’t we?” “Yeah, thankfully,” Mark Wallinger laughs. “We’re safe there.”
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Comment: A campaign should already be in place to defeat independence
By Richard Cook SHOULD there be another independence referendum? Not for a generation, were you to believe a word the SNP says. But, as we all know, and you don’t have to be a Unionist to believe this, there’s no point in doing that. It wasn
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Brexit donation group blamed for harming Scottish interests
BUSINESS leaders who have pledged to fund a defence of the union in any future independence referendum are warning about the dangers of running another Project Fear: the Refrightening campaign. Richard Cook, the chairman of the Constitutional Research
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Coming attractions: the star-studded new films and TV shows shot in Scotland
AS new BBC psychological thriller The Replacement – set in Glasgow – airs this week, here's some of the other big name TV shows and films shot in Scotland that will be soon gracing our screens. THE WIFE Christian Slater, Glenn Close and Jonathan
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Forget cops and serial killers: how architects became the new TV heroes
THINK of Glasgow on the small screen and images of dour police detectives, murky ganglands and grisly murders probably spring to mind. A new psychological thriller, The Replacement, is about to turn those cliches on their head. It is dark, yes,
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Joe Wiggins: How fund of funds investing can diversify your portfolio
As the nights get lighter and we start to have more confidence that spring is finally on its way, within financial markets there is also more confidence about the economic outlook. However, the Met Office predicts a mixed forecast before the month is
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Letters: Your tea's out
WITH the news that kitchens in hotels in Edinburgh are among the UK's worst for hygiene (“Hotels in Edinburgh among UK’s worst for hygiene”, The Herald, February 22) and until food establishments are legally obliged to display their hygiene rating,
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Consumer credit rise ‘likely of concern’ to Bank
THE pace of growth of unsecured consumer credit in the UK accelerated in January, in spite of a further drop in retail sales on the official measure, figures from the British Bankers’ Association show.Lending to non-financial businesses by the big UK
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Letters: Scottish football is in dire straits
JOHN Connor (Letters, February 22) is correct when he states that Malky MacKay's Project Brave will not make a scrap of difference to Scottish football. Apart from clubs using foreign players, the biggest setback for Scottish players stems from the
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Standard Life plays down Brexit impact
STANDARD Life chief executive Keith Skeoch has said the company will only need to move tens of people not thousands to other European countries following Brexit and noted the company is used to dealing with regulatory complexities overseas. Asked about
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Letters: There can be no defence for advocating Nato membership
MARTIN Docherty-Hughes (“A European war we no longer thought possible”, The Herald, February 23) is a member of a party that was until not so long ago anti-Nato but has now fallen into line with the rest of the right-wing establishment. We were
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Labour claim SNP have 'no mandate' for Scottish independence referendum
SCOTLAND’S sole Labour MP has claimed Nicola Sturgeon has “absolutely no mandate” to hold a second referendum, despite a specific pledge in the SNP’s Holyrood manifesto. Ian Murray, who held Edinburgh Southern in 2015 while Labour lost 40 other
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Dugdale vetoes cross-party No campaign in second referendum
KEZIA Dugdale has ruled out another cross-party Unionist campaign along the lines of Better Together if there is a second independence referendum.After thousands of Labour supporters deserted the party when it allied with the Tories in 2014, the Scottish
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Scottish beef herd continues trend towards spring calving
SCOTTISH calf registrations for the whole year show a continued trend to calving in March, April and May, with 50 per cent of Scottish calf registrations relating to the period during 2016.According to the latest analysis by Quality Meat Scotland (QMS
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Unspun: the political diary
KEZIA Dugdale opened her heart at Scottish Labour conference in Perth yesterday, speaking about the personal sacrifices of leadership. But she was less forthcoming when asked what she’d be doing five years from now. “First Minister!” shouted a supporter
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Herald View: Still miles to travel for Royal Bank on road to recovery
IT is almost tempting to think that Ross McEwan is a glutton for punishment. Asked about his own future yesterday as the Royal Bank boss unveiled a breath-taking £7 billion loss, Mr McEwan said he hopes to be given the chance to lead the lender
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Maurice Smith: Brexit threatens Gaelic as a living language
THERE is a hoary myth going round about a wilful Scottish Government wasting taxpayers’ money on the flagrant imposition of bilingual signs at every Scottish road and railway station, presumably as part of a dark conspiracy to make us all speak Gaelic
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Herald View: A grounded approach that can still reach for the sky
ATMOSPHERE is said to be everything at football now and the one existing at Cathkin Park, in Glasgow, today is frequently described by visiting nostalgists as eerie, even ghostly. Where once stood crowds of roaring men (few ladies then) today stand
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Herald View: Vote stokes up the troubles for Corbyn
There will be more than a few heavy hearts among Scottish Labour Party activists at their conference in Perth. Barely hours after the UK party lost the Copeland by-election to the Conservatives, Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale was insisting she
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Tom Gordon: Labour’s challenge - Survive to thrive
IT is obviously bad but how bad? That was the question running round the Scottish Labour conference in Perth yesterday as delegates pondered the loss of the Copeland by election to the Tories, the worst result for an official opposition in 35 years
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McEwan vow to see Royal job through
ROSS MCEWAN has declared his hope that he will still be in charge of Royal Bank of Scotland when it returns to profitability, as the state-owned lender unveiled a bruising £7 billion annual loss and signalled further heavy job cuts are in store.The Royal
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Douglas Gordon on his Glasgow School of Art years, and his pro-indy tattoo – We Never Said No
DOUGLAS Gordon and I have only just met but already he is leading me into uncharted territory. Namely the Stygian gloom of the gentlemen's cloakroom on the ground floor of the world-famous Mackintosh Building at the Glasgow School of Art,It all feels
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'Interesting take on the dreaded pan-Asian concept' – Ron Mackenna reviews Mamafubu, Glasgow
MamafubuGlasgowI CHANGE the order so the Chinese sausage is swapped out of the Vietnamese banh mi and into the hot Taiwanese bento box. Meaning the banh mi – the classic Vietnamese sandwich – is now going to be filled with braised beef flank. This is
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It is not just in France that new music is lost
THERE must be some clause in the Scottish music documentary-maker's handbook that insists on a ferryboat shoot. After the cruise down the Clyde in Paul Fegan's Where You're Meant To Be, there are scenes aboard a cross-Channel vessel in Niall
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Life coach Sandie Robertson: What it feels like to...break your back
Sandie Robertson, 38, showjumper WHEN I hit the ground I remember the almighty ringing sound. I remember thinking, ‘oh, no’ and hearing a really funny noise. Then I realised the noise was me trying to breathe. I remember the ambulance crew
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'These two cook books say a lot about the current, confused state of our food culture'
IT IS surely unprecedented for two cookbooks, authored by young women, to launch in the same week – and match each other not only in price but also apparently in theme and content.This rather intriguing scenario has arisen with Flora Shedden’s first book
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Technology: LG Ultra Short Throw Projector
What is it?A compact but powerful LED projector. We've all seen those American TV shows where a bunch of sports fans are perched in front of a giant screen. They are yelling and seemingly having the time of their lives, but upon trying to recreate
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'Delves into the relationship between mothers and daughters' – Review: The Daughter of Lady Macbeth, by Ajay Close
The Daughter of Lady MacbethAjay Close Sandstone Press, £8.99Review by Alastair MabbottTHIS is a tale of two pregnancies, and one which takes a very hard look at motherhood and marriage. Freya, who is 43, and her sports presenter husband Frankie are childless
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The Herald Magazine recipe: seaweed-cured trout
Curing fish is a technique that goes back hundreds if not thousands of years and is hugely satisfying both to master and practise. This week's recipe is a twist on the classic Nordic gravlax – salmon cured in sugar, salt and dill – but using Asian
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Letters: We should clamp down on cheats
MANY will empathise with the frustrations expressed by Patricia M Allison (Letters, February 20). Perhaps the answer in dealing with those couldn’t-care-less cheats in public car parks lies with the applicable local authority introducing the dreaded
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Remembering a killer doctor
IN a Those Were The Days article Ken Smith tells of a hunt for body parts in Moffat in 1935 (“Gruesome find led to murder hint and new forensics technique”, The Herald, February 14). I was reminded that in the late 1930s there was a popular song to the
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Kevin McKenna: Deep-rooted loyalty has been betrayed by greed and venality
NOTHING, it seems, remains innocent or uncontaminated for long in the dark, satanic mills of English football. If Dante’s Divine Comedy were to be updated an extra circle of hell would have to be added for some of the characters who leech a living
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Keep city's heritage alive
JUST the other evening I went to the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow to see The Life of Benny Lynch, about the Gorbals boy who became the flyweight champion of the world and the greatest boxer Scotland ever produced. It was an inspiring performance which
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Teenager's disappearance may never be solved
IT IS one of the longest-running unsolved disappearances in Scotland, dating back to 1967, when a young Dumfries woman who had been on a trip with a friend to Glasgow failed to come home. Fifty years on, police sources are still convinced 17-year-old
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Sorry, Plato, but democracy doesn't always get us the leaders we deserve
I APPLAUD Maurice Smith for his excellent article (“Proud to be the nowhere man who is a citizen of the world”, The Herald, February 23). Like him, I reject Theresa May’s narrow-minded comment: “If you believe you’re a citizen of the world, you’re a citizen
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Letters: Beware making the constitutional debate a Scotland-only issue
TO some extent, I share the cross-party welcome for the BBC proposal to introduce a Scottish digital television programme (“‘Scottish Nine’ will lean new £30m BBC channel”, The Herald, February 23). As noted by many of those welcoming this innovation,
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Scottish start-up Make It Social is just the ticket for hit musical Wicked
A SCOTTISH technology start-up has entered into a commercial partnership with a hit West End musical.Software company Make It Social is providing a ticket selling service for Wicked, which charts the story of the witches in The Wizard Of Oz from their
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Recruitment targets missed for English and maths teachers
SCOTLAND is facing a teacher recruitment crisis in mathematics and English, new figures have highlighted.Scottish Government statistics show suitable applicants for teacher training places in both subjects in 2016 were well below target.The target for
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Poem of the Day: The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
ROBIN Hume, the distinguished Scottish sculptor and artist who died earlier this month, was a long-time reader and supporter of The Herald’s poem of the day. Robert Frost’s ‘The Road Not Taken’ - working both at the literal level and as an allegory of
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A new private heartache for the golden boy of 1970s pop
GO to any pop or rock concert and you are sure to be surrounded by people filming the show on their mobile phones. There was something sad and sobering, though, about the videos shot by fans at a recent David Cassidy concert. The footage showed him forgetting
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Photography is women's work
Observing Women at WorkThe Reid Gallery, Glasgow School of Art4 March 4 – 27 April 27www.gsa.ac.ukFRANKI Raffles, who died at the age of just 39 in 1994, was an Edinburgh-based photographer. She photographed women at work and in their everyday lives,
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The art of truth and lies at GoMA
I AM not sure how I have managed to exist in this world for five decades and not know what a polygraph is. Maybe I was too busy watching Pollyanna-style films and not enough James Bond movies as a kid. But there you have it. The truth will out eventually.Thanks
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Books: 'Celebratory study of female desire that embraces its reactionary as well as progressive aspects'
Heartthrobs: A History of Women and Desire Carol DyhouseOxford University Press, £20Review by Lesley McDowellWHEN the BBC aired its updated version of Poldark in 2015, the actor playing its eponymous hero almost caused an internet meltdown. A shirtless
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It's Scotland's soil: Jim Carruth - the rural rebel poet
By David RobinsonTHERE’S a story Glasgow Poet Laureate Jim Carruth’s mother used to love to tell about how, when he was eight, he ran away from home. He’d been reading about Dick Whittington and had thought that he too would head off for the big city
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'Awe-inspiring bravery and self-sacrifice' Review: Lonely Courage, by Rick Stroud
Lonely Courage Rick StroudSimon & Schuster, £20Review by Rebecca McQuillan“WOMEN have a far greater capacity for cool and lonely courage than men,” said Special Operations Executive (SOE) recruiting officer Selwyn Jepson to Winston Churchill in 1942.
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Fidelma Cook: Why I need a lady's companion
WHEN I was a very little girl I became fascinated by the silent women who often came to afternoon tea with my grandmother’s friends.As my grandmother poured from the silver teapot that now sits unused on my side table, these women were served last and
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Rainbow warriors: irises tough enough for Scottish soil
The iris season is getting under way and, by choosing carefully, you can enjoy these gorgeous flowers right through until high summer. Iris flowers may look hopelessly tender, but the ones I mention here will stand up to almost anything a Scottish winter
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Inflation wipes out what little interest savings accounts are paying
THE rising cost of motor fuels and food prices have helped to push UK inflation to its highest rate for more than two years, with the Consumer Prices Index rising to 1.8 per cent in January, up from 1.6 per cent in December, according to the Office for
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When The Queen was all aquiver with her bodyguards
GOOD to see the Queen looking so relaxed, and she can really rock those sunglasses. Surely the smile is not caused by the splendidly attired chap behind her tickling her with an eagle’s feather?The Queen is in Edinburgh in 1956 accompanied by members
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How to make a return when savings rates hit rock bottom
Savings rates may have hit rock bottom but, with most people still seeing the value of putting cash away for the future, there are still risk-free ways of making your money work harder.A survey from West Brom Building Society found that 72 per cent of
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Nuclear plant police security fears as armed officers told to work to 68
HEAVILY armed police officers guarding Scotland’s nuclear plants have accused the UK Government of jeopardising national security by expecting them to work until their late 60s.The body representing the Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC), which has several
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Arnold Clark to take on 270 apprentices
ARNOLD Clark is giving 270 apprentices the chance to join the group, as part of a programme open to 16 to 19 year-olds.The apprentices will receive both on-the-job training at an Arnold Clark branch, and attend a number of weeklong training blocks at
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Oscars presenters prepare with a dram
PRESENTERS at tomorrow night’s Oscars ceremony will be taking home a prize of their own courtesy of Glengoyne Highland Single Malt Scotch whisky. The distillery, north of Glasgow, was approached by the organisers of the 89th Academy Awards, after the
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Salmon group revenue up but harvest misses target
HIGH mortality rates continue to impact harvest numbers at The Scottish Salmon Company, but an increase in market value has seen revenue leap 10 per cent to £110 million.Harvest volume was down five per cent to 24,342 tonnes, missing guidance of 30,000
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An eventful career for SEC chief with bold ambitions
IN January 1984, while the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre was being constructed, its chief executive Chris Garrett made his first appointment, an events sales executive called Peter Duthie.Some 33 years later and as chief executive himself,
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Catriona Stewart: Marriage is outdated so why not offer an alternative?
SOME people are so keen on marriage they’ll do it several times. Others wouldn’t countenance it, seeing it as patriarchal tool of church and state.Both perspectives are deserving of respect but the former seems to reap far more public approval than the