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Happy Gilmour’s 10th victory leaves an indelible mark
IT could have been a demoralising week for Britain’s No.1 badminton player but Kirsty Gilmour’s response to show that she was undaunted by the threat to her livelihood was to win the first international tournament she has played in this year at the Austrian
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Muirhead and Murdoch back in the old routine as Olympic focus narrows
Team Muirhead will be upgraded from being the obvious choice to represent Great Britain at next year’s Winter Olympics to an automatic selection if they win a medal at next month’s World Championships and the prospects of fellow Sochi medallists joining
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Upbeat Hamilton taking positives from Celtic defeat despite dropping to bottom of the Ladbrokes Premiership
MICHAEL Devlin has insisted nobody at Hamilton is downhearted despite the SuperSeal Stadium club dropping to the foot of the Ladbrokes Premiership table at the weekend.The centre half is adamant Martin Canning’s side can take positives from how they played
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Michael Jamieson opens up on depression as he calls time on competitive swimming
MICHAEL Jamieson, the Olympic silver medalist and one of the faces of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, has retired from competitive swimming at the age of just 28. Jamieson came to prominence when claiming one of Britain's three swimming medals
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Morgan backs St Mirren to pull off great escape and credits team meeting behind recent upturn in form
LEWIS MORGAN believes St Mirren’s upturn in form can be traced back to a recent team meeting. Having made wholesale changes to his squad in the January transfer window, manager Jack Ross called his players together to lay out his vision for the remainder
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"Uncertainty over the new Rangers manager isn't to blame for poor form - the players must take full responsibility"
MARTYN Wagorn last night denied the failure of the Rangers board to appoint a new manager is responsible for the dire run of form which is endangering the Ibrox club’s hopes of qualifying for Europe this season. Waghorn and his team mates were
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Gary Armstrong: Scotland's one-two combination has made fans forget all about injury to Greig Laidlaw
BIT of a spring in the step yesterday, you could say for the first time in 10 years. It had been a while since we’d managed to beat the Welsh, but while a great many of us thought it possible (rather than probable), the manner and margin of the win
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'Lots to work on,' says England's Joe Launchbury after hard-fought win over Italy
LOCK Joe Launchbury admitted England must improve following Sunday's unconvincing 36-15 RBS 6 Nations triumph over Italy. Despite Dan Cole's early try, Eddie Jones' men trailed 10-5 at the interval before second-half scores from Danny Care, Elliot
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Barry Ferguson 'not being considered' for Rangers role
RANGERS are closing in on at least one key appointment to their coaching staff this week - but that man won't be Barry Ferguson. The 39-year-old, who played his part in five Scottish top flight titles during his two spells at the club, resigned
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Jonathan Davies laments Wales lack of cutting edge in Scottish 22
FOR the last couple of years the plaintive cry coming from the Welsh fans has been "where will the tries come from?". They still haven't heard a satisfactory answer and in the minds of the red-shirted flowing away from BT Murrayfield at
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Cristian Gamboa: The secret of Celtic's record-breaking run under Brendan Rodgers is having a strong squad
CRISTIAN Gamboa, the Celtic right back, claimed last night that having a strong squad has been the secret to the the Parkhead club’s record-breaking unbeaten start to the domestic season. Gamboa came in for the injured Mikael Lustig in the Ladbrokes
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“Can Celtic striker Moussa Dembele play for a top English club? He can play for Real Madrid. He's worth £50 million.”
THE Celtic players who have secured the moves to the Barclays Premier League they have hankered after in recent years have all, to a man, joined clubs in the middle or lower reaches of the table. Fraser Forster, Virgil van Dijk and Victor Wanyama
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Sam Nicholson hits out at 'embarrassing' Hearts after dismal defeat to Partick Thistle
In the aftermath of damaging defeats during his short reign as Hearts manager, Ian Cathro has at times stood accused of being less than forthright with his explanations of what has gone wrong, and appearing awkward in his dealings with the media. Winger
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Exclusive: Sam Gallagher is a Premier League star in the making - Owen Coyle
OWEN Coyle feels Scotland will be getting a bona fide Barclays Premier League striker of the future if Gordon Strachan can persuade Sam Gallagher to change his international allegiance from England. Reports yesterday suggested that the Scotland
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Fortnight off a mixed blessing as play-off hopefuls position themselves for final push
TAM O'Ware, the Morton defender, believes a fortnight's rest is a mixed blessing as they seek to rubber stamp their place in the Promotion play-offs. The Greenock side left Tannadice with another priceless point on Saturday - it might have been
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Frustrated Farah insists he is clean after further Salazar doping allegations
SIR Mo Farah insisted last night that he is a "clean athlete" and spoke of his "deep frustration" about continually having to defend himself after a leaked report suggested that his coach Alberto Salazar that he may have broken anti-doping
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Rory McKenzie bags wonder goal then backs Lee McCulloch for Killie
THERE was much chatter before this match centring on that aspirations of both managers but the mood music was playing a very different tune for both at full-time.Reputations are forged over whole careers and not in just 90 minutes but this richly-deserved
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London calling as local lad Visser believes Scotland can storm Fortress Twickenham
AS a Harlequins player, a fair chunk of Tim Visser's daily existence takes place in the shadow of Twickenham. The 29-year-old wing plays his club rugby at the Stoop, just the other side of the Chertsey Road from the formidable citadel where England
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Billy McKay: Last-gasp Rangers win has given Inverness Caledonian Thistle the belief we can avoid relegation
BILLY McKay has predicted the dramatic late win over Rangers on Friday night will give Inverness Caledonian Thistle the confidence they need to secure their Ladbrokes Premiership survival this season. McKay scored with a spectacular overhead kick
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Kenny McLean insists Aberdeen focus is all on themselves despite forging nine points clear of Rangers in second spot
LIFE is good down Pittodrie way. With a nine-point cushion over Rangers in second place in the Ladbrokes Premiership, it would be unsurprising if the Ibrox supporters were looking in the direction of the Granite City for the answer to the current managerial
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Scotland's superb second half sets up Twickenham showdown
Scotland 29 Wales 13 SCOTLAND’S Six Nations season so far, if judged solely by results, looks like the stereotypical rollercoaster: win, loss, win. Put some flesh on those bare bones by assessing the performances, however, and it becomes clear
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Scotland forward John Hardie ruled out of rest of Six Nations
JOHN Hardie has become the latest Scotland player to be ruled out of the rest of the Six Nations Championship after injuring a knee in the 29-13 win over Wales on Saturday. The Edinburgh forward lasted only 25 minutes before coming off, to be replaced
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Cross Country set show their super human qualities
After 10 kilometres of racing one another over the most treacherous of terrain on a day of severe storms the male mammals should have been taking the shelter that was available. Instead, partly at least for the entertainment of the next generation,
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Bill Paxton: Tributes pour in from stars after actor's death
Tributes are pouring in for US actor Bill Paxton, who has died aged 61. The star of films including Twister and Aliens died on Saturday after complications following surgery. Actor Peter Mayhew, who plays Chewbacca in the Star Wars movies,
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Welsh rugby star killed in car crash aged 20
The family of a Welsh rugby international killed in a car crash have paid tribute to her as "loved and valued by many". Elli Norkett, 20, sustained fatal injuries in the collision in Neath Port Talbot, south Wales, at 7.40pm on Saturday. Miss
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Scotland faces ice, snow and high winds as Storm Ewan is on its way
SCOTLAND is facing icy conditions, high winds and snow as Storm Ewan is set to batter the country. The Met Office issued the severe weather warnings for much of Scotland running to 9am on Monday just days after Doris wreaked havoc across the UK
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Woman charged after man's death in Perth
A woman has been charged over the sudden death of a man in Perth. Douglas Anderson, 39, was pronounced dead at a home in the Dunnock Park area on Saturday after emergency services were called to the address. A 36-year-old local woman has been
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Corbyn: Labour needed more than ever, but we must stay united
Under-fire Jeremy Corbyn has insisted Labour and its policies are "needed more than ever" but told his party they must "remain united" if they are to win. The Labour leader has been under mounting pressure in the wake of the party's humiliating
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Malaysian police carry out terminal sweep over killing of Kim Jong-Un's half-brother
MALAYSIAN police have started 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.The check
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PM urges voters to make clear they do not want second Scottish referendum
The Prime Minister has urged voters in Scotland to use May's council elections to make clear to Nicola Sturgeon that they do not want to have another independence referendum. Theresa May said voters should choose the Conservatives in the local
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Bill Paxton dies aged 61 after surgical complications
Hollywood actor Bill Paxton has died at the age of 61. Paxton, known for films including Twister, True Lies and Aliens, died on Saturday after complications from surgery. A family representative said in a statement: "It is with heavy hearts
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Storm Ewan: Wind, ice and snow hits parts of UK
High winds, icy conditions and snow are predicted to hit parts of the UK as Storm Ewan sweeps across Ireland. Temperatures could drop below freezing overnight, with gusts of up to 60mph expected in the north-west before the official start of spring
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Khan 'very clear' he did not accuse SNP of racism, insists Dugdale
The London mayor has been "very clear" that he was not accusing the SNP of racism, Kezia Dugdale has insisted following a row over comments made by Sadiq Khan during a visit to Scotland. Ms Dugdale, the leader of Scottish Labour, said she "utterly
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Man held by police following deaths of two people in Dundee street
A MAN has been held by police following the deaths of another man and a woman in Dundee. A 32-year-old man and 43-year-old woman were found dead in Drumlanrig Drive, in the east end of the city on Sunday morning. A Police Scotland spokesman
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Ferguson resigns from Clyde amid speculation over Rangers post
BARRY Ferguson has resigned as manager of Clyde. The 39-year-old steps down from the Broadwood side after a poor run of results which has left the Bully Wee third from bottom of League Two and amid fevered speculation that his departure could pave
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Neil Cameron: Billy McNeill's dementia is hard to accept given what a true legend he is
FOR a while we couldn’t work out why it was taking so long for everyone to get through passport control. This was at Lisbon Airport the day after Celtic had lost to Benfica in a Champions League match. All the players, management team, directors
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Mediation can cut the cost to kids of family strife
By the time Campbell Taylor and his wife separated after 10 years of marriage, his daughters had already been exposed to considerable domestic strife. The break-up, unsurprisingly, didn’t make things any easier.“We struggled to agree on anything. I wanted
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Disability benefit changes needed to roll back 'some bizarre decisions'
The head of Theresa May's policy unit has defended changes to disability benefits by suggesting the money should go to "really disabled people" rather than those who are "taking pills at home, who suffer from anxiety". George Freeman said reforms
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No sudden drop in post-Brexit immigration, says Rudd
Immigration will not suddenly fall once Britain leaves the European Union, Home Secretary Amber Rudd has suggested. Ms Rudd said the Government was "against cliff edges" as she revealed businesses and others will be consulted on plans for a new
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Iran ex-president applauds immigration to US in letter to Trump
Iran's former hard-line president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sent a 3,500-word letter to US president Donald Trump that applauds immigration and says it shows "the contemporary US belongs to all nations". The missive strikes a somewhat conciliatory
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Brexit Bill should go through Lords without changes, insists McLoughlin
Theresa May will not back down in her battle with the House of Lords over Parliament getting a veto on the final Brexit deal despite a Tory rebellion threatening a defeat for the Government, the Conservative Party chairman has said. Sir Patrick
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May urged to use relationship with Trump to reverse media ban
Theresa May should use her relationship with Donald Trump to ensure British media organisations are not affected by the US President's clampdown on the press, Tom Watson has said. The Labour deputy leader spoke out after the BBC, The Guardian and
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3 critically hurt after car collides with pedestrians in London
Two men and a woman are in a critical condition after five people were mown down by a car in south-east London. Police, paramedics and an air ambulance were called to Bromley Road in Bellingham at 8.20am on Sunday after a Mercedes hit a wall and
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Supporters must back Corbyn, says Watson
Labour deputy leader Tom Watson has challenged union boss Len McCluskey and other Jeremy Corbyn supporters to back their man amid mounting pressure on the Labour leader. Mr Watson said those who backed Mr Corbyn in last year's leadership elections
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Search for 18-year-old who fell from Arbroath Cliffs to resume
A search will resume on Sunday following reports an 18-year-old man fell from a cliff. Police were called to Arbroath Cliffs in Angus at around 1pm on Saturday. A coastguard helicopter, rescue teams and lifeboat crews were all involved in carrying
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Theatre review: Death of A Salesman, Dundee Rep
TheatreDeath of A SalesmanDundee RepNeil Cooperfour starsA WOMAN dressed in black plays the flute as she walks mournfully onto a dust covered stage flanked by rows of ash cans. At its centre, a man is elevated up from a life-size hole in the ground and
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Named person scheme consultation in 'veil of secrecy' accusations
Campaigners opposed to the Scottish Government's named person scheme have accused ministers of "throwing a veil of secrecy" around its progress to reform the policy. Education Secretary John Swinney announced an ''intense'' three-month consultation
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Sudden death of Perth man being treated as 'suspicious', police say
An investigation into the sudden death of a man in Perth is now being treated as suspicious, police say. Officers were called to a property in the Dunnock Park area following reports of the death in the early hours of Saturday. Scottish Ambulance
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Music review: Busted, Usher Hall, Edinburgh
MusicBustedUsher Hall, EdinburghFiona McKinlayfour starsTHEIR initial ascent to pop stardom was too rapid for Busted to have bothered with a theatre tour on the way up, so their giddy reaction as newcomers to the Usher Hall's beautiful interior is
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Music review: Szymon Mika Trio, Jazz Bar, Edinburgh
MusicSzymon Mika TrioJazz Bar, EdinburghRob Adamsfour starsIT ALMOST goes without saying that jazz musicians are composers. Their music, at its best, is in a constant state of recreation and ideas happened upon while exploring one piece might well reappear
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Matthew Lindsay: More research into the long-term damage caused by heading the ball is urgently required
THE old leather footballs which were used in the professional game right up until in the 1980s have, mercifully, long since been replaced by far lighter and safer synthetic versions. So it is to be hoped the instances of former players suffering
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Video: Fan fury at BBC over Glasgow ticket tout fiasco described as 'the real rock 'n' roll swindle'
THE BBC has outraged music fans who claim they are collateral damage in the broadcaster's new war on ticket touts. The taxpayer-funded broadcaster has warned fans buying resold briefs for the BBC Radio 6 Music Festival in Glasgow which have been sold
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Video: President Pants On Fire: Two thirds of Trump's major claims are bogus
TWO in three major statements made by Donald Trump and fact-checked since he said he was standing for president are either mostly wrong, false, or 'pants on fire' fibs, according to an independent study. The rolling analysis covers 370 of the most
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Call for the PM-backed kebab to become a British national dish - as the number of Scots outlets soars
IT'S the post-pub favourite which some say is a poor dietery choice but is now being claimed as a British institution with politicians including the Prime Minister queuing up to be associated with it. It has emerged that such is the growth of the
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Watch: Subbuteo is 70 and still finger-flicking good in Scotland - but can it still survive
IT'S the children's table football game that had become an obsession for a generation of Scots, and men have never forgotten. And for those raised on Tetris and Sonic the Hedgehog, Subbuteo may be considered as prehistoric as eight-track cartridges
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Scotland coach Vern Cotter praises second-half fightback
SCOTLAND travel to Twickenham in a fortnight knowing a win will deliver their first Triple Crown since 1990 after defeating Wales 29-13 at Murrayfield yesterday. Behind by four at half-time, Vern Cotter’s team roared back after the break with 20 unanswered
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The world according to RD Laing is a peculiar place
Is insanity sweeping the planet, or is is just flashes of bizarre "news" wrestling for headlines? Certainly a read of last weekend's Sunday Herald raises that question. Without doubt it was an appropriate week to highlight RD Laing, a self-publicist
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Vicky Allan: Ditching Milo won't make the alt-right any cleaner, nicer or more empathetic
WHEN footage of Milo Yiannopoulos apparently making light of gay sex between older men and 13-year-old minors, and in particular his own experience of it, was posted last week, my reaction was a numbed shrug. The former Breitbart technology editor'
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Victory over Rangers is one to remember for on-loan Celtic kid Jamie McCart
JAMIE McCART got used to beating Rangers while playing for Celtic in the youth leagues. However, the victory over the Ibrox men on Friday night, his first in a senior game, will be long remembered as the best day of his career so far, due to the
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Captain Lee Wallace admits Ibrox men are crying out for leadership
LEE Wallace, the Rangers captain, has admitted the under-performing players have let down everyone at the club before and after Mark Warburton’s shock exit from Ibrox this month. He didn’t attempt to hide from the fact his side, who have just one
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Craig Chalmers: Best Scotland side since my playing days
SCOTLAND have a team capable of going to Twickenham and winning. That is the big takeaway from their performance against Wales at BT Murrayfield yesterday. It is a huge ask, but they showed they have the spirit, skills, physicality and ability to surprise
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Scotland stand-off Finn Russell relishes chance to take on England
AFTER that bizarre missed conversion from in front of the posts against France, Finn Russell was back at his confident best yesterday, deservedly being named man of the match in Scotland’s 29-13 victory over Wales at Murrayfield. Not only did he score
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Scotland 29 Wales 13: second-half shut-out seals home win
A FIRST win over Wales for 10 years. A second half of 20 unanswered points. And next: a crack at the Triple Crown against England at Twickenham, where Scotland have not won for more than 30 years.That latter match will be tough, of course, and Vern Cotter
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Edinburgh show Cockerill the huge challenge that awaits him
SOMETIME over the next day or two, Richard Cockerill will sit down and analyse the recording of Edinburgh’s dispiriting 18-17 defeat on Friday night. After he does, he might be tempted to ring up the SRU and ask them to tear up the head coach contract
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Magnificent seven for both Muirhead and Murdoch at Scottish curling champs
A YEAR out from the Winter Olympics the teams that earned half of Britain’s medals last time around could not have made their intentions of being in Pyeonchang any clearer as Team Muirhead and Team Murdoch added to their formidable title hauls at the
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Russell Knox used to highs and lows
AFTER being left deflated at sea level in Florida, Russell Knox heads to this week’s inaugural WGC-Mexico Championship buoyed at the thought of teeing-up a mile-and-a-half high in Mexico City.Just minutes before being confirmed on Friday night as Scottish
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Hawkins and MacLarty brave the Falkirk mud to win national XCountry titles
IT was mud packs all round at Falkirk yesterday and the ruddy health of Scottish athletics was summed up by the winner of the women’s race at the Scottish Cross Country Championships in Callendar Park.Morag MacLarty, who contested the 1500m at the 2006
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Wales bemoan second half sloppiness as Scots march onto Twickenham
ROB Howley, the Wales head coach, bemoaned the sloppiness which led to his side's first defeat at Murrayfield for 10 years but said Vern Cotter's team had all the "ingredients" to overcome England at Twickenham in a fortnight to complete
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Scotland women's coach Munro looks to build on stunning win over Wales
SCOTLAND women’s head coach Shade Munro believes his side have the ability and confidence to kick on after their first Six Nations win for seven years on Friday night. The Scots sensationally beat Wales 15-14 at Broadwood Stadium, with Sarah Law
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Three injured in car attack in German city
Three people were injured in the German city of Heidelberg after a man drove a vehicle into a central pedestrian square.It is believed the attacker was also armed with a knife as he ploughed the rental car into pedestrians on Saturday afternoon.He fled
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Corbyn 'takes share of responsibility' for Copeland defeat
JEREMY Corbyn will use his speech to Scottish Labour's conference today to set out plans to revive the party in the wake of the "deeply disappointing" by-election defeat at the hands of the Tories in Copeland. Speaking ahead of the conference
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Aberdeen 1 Ross County 0: Adam Rooney ensures Derek McInnes' side go nine points clear of Rangers
THE first thing to say about this game is that it was not pretty, nor even remotely attractive to watch.But then Derek McInnes has never purported to favour entertainment over results and if you’re an Aberdeen supporter, to see your team sit nine points
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St Johnstone 0 Kilmarnock 2: Unhappy anniversary for Wright and Co as McKenzie and Sammon strike
AS milestones go it did not quite trip off the tongue but St Johnstone’s 132nd anniversary turned into one to forget as they succumbed to defeat against Kilmarnock.Festivities for the young home fans included free goodie bags, flag give-aways and face
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French presidential hopeful Francois Fillon faces full probe over 'fake jobs'
French presidential hopeful Francois Fillon is facing a full judicial inquiry over jobs he gave to his wife and two of his children, casting new doubt on the viability of his candidacy. The conservative candidate was once the frontrunner in polls, but
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No kicking miscues for Russell as Scots fight like Lions to send Wales home with scarlet faces
BEING good at rugby is part of Welsh identity, the same way that being rubbish at football has become part of being part of being Scottish. So efficient are they at churning out heroes of the oval ball game down in the Valleys that you might believe the
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Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe marks 93rd birthday with show of strength
Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has celebrated his 93rd birthday surrounded by thousands of supporters in a defiant show of strength after nearly four decades in power.Wearing dark glasses and a multi-coloured jacket bearing an image of himself in
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Former X Factor winner James Arthur still suffering from anxiety after glass attack
Former X Factor winner James Arthur says he fears long-term damage after a vicious attack left him needing five staples in his head.The 28-year-old singer was drinking with friends in Redcar last summer when Christopher Revell ran towards him from behind
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Police probe Perth man's 'unexplained' death
THE sudden death of a man in Perth is being treated as "unexplained".Police were called to a property in the Dunnock Park area following reports of the death in the early hours of Saturday. An investigation is under way.A Police Scotland spokesman
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SNP MP: make Scottish football stadiums breastfeeding-friendly
An MP is campaigning for all football clubs in Scotland to declare their stadiums breastfeeding-friendly.Alison Thewliss, the SNP MP for Glasgow Central, has written to all 42 league clubs north of the border to press her case that it "need not be
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Dan Purvis seeks Rio redemption as he heads for Scottish Gymnastics Championships
IT has been a while since Dan Purvis took to the floor, spun about on the pommel horse and pirouetted on the parallel bars amid the cut-and-thrust of top level competition. His last event was the London Open last summer and it’s hardly surprising that
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Tom Watson says Labour alliance with SNP is a gift to Tories
LABOUR deputy leader Tom Watson said a pact with the SNP would be an “electoral dead end” and a “gift to the right”, as he delivered one of the most hardline speeches yet on the issue by a senior figure in the party.Watson told the Scottish Labour conference
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Revealed: Grangemouth Ineos boss urged Osborne to break unions
THE boss of Grangemouth petrochemical giant Ineos secretly lobbied George Osborne when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer to muzzle the unions, cut company taxes and back fracking. Emails and briefings released under freedom of information law
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Police must tighten purse strings
In December, Audit Scotland published a report that should worry everyone with an interest in the future of policing.The watchdog projected a potential long-term deficit of £188m in policing finances and warned of continued “weak financial leadership
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Protecting the natural beauty of Scotland is paramount
Scotland and lochs are synonymous. Those huge deep primordial stretches of water that divide the land, reflect the hillsides and sparkle in the sun characterise who we are, and how we are perceived, at home and abroad.They are famous across the world
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Revealed: Scandal of 45 Scottish lochs trashed by pollution
AT least 45 lochs around Scotland’s coast have been contaminated by toxic pesticides from fish farms that can harm wildlife and human health, according to data released by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa). Levels of chemicals used
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The psychology of destruction: Inside Islamic State in its death throes
Like so many images of its kind it now has an eerie presence. Sitting inside the 4x4 vehicle and grinning broadly, the driver is seen surrounded by wires and what might be a detonation button. The photograph is said to be the last taken of
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The terror and the joy of crossing the threshold into adulthood
WHEN it comes to the traditional milestones of adulthood, Angela Murray is knocking them off early. By the time she turned 18 she had already been out of school for two years, having managed to get a job in a major company before she had even done
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Paul Hutcheon: Scottish Labour loathes the SNP more than the Tories
ANALYSIS: SADIQ Khan’s incendiary comparison between Scottish nationalism and racism reflects a broader divide in Kezia Dugdale’s party. As Scottish Labour drowns in the hellbroth of third place, the key split is not left and right, Kez versus
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Sermanni out of the running for Scotland job
TOM Sermanni, the Glaswegian who has been head coach of the Australian women’s team (twice) and the United States, will not be Anna Signeul’s successor. Applications for the post closed on Friday evening without Sermanni having declared an interest
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The View from America When a seven-year-old transgender kid becomes the fracture point in Trump's America
The day before half term, our seven-year-old son came home with a letter from school announcing that a boy in his class is becoming a girl. Nicholas, a “transgender student,” will henceforth be known as Nicole, and when term resumes tomorrow “will
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Doctors' leaders call for laws to tackle drug-driving on Scotland's roads
DOCTORS’ leaders have urged the introduction of new legislation to tackle drug-driving in Scotland and prevent lives being put at risk.The British Medical Association (BMA) Scotland said it believed measures such as roadside 'drugalyser' saliva
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Cash-strapped Police Scotland pay £14k to Hillsborough lawyer for spy scandal case
CASH-strapped Police Scotland spent nearly £14,000 securing a top QC in the scandal over illegal spying on the suspected sources of journalists. Jeremy Johnson acted for the force in the case and opposed compensation for one of the individuals
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Hardeep Singh Kohli: Forget all that streamlined lycra. When it comes to fitness wear, I'm with BoJo
I HAVEN'T seen Martin Thomson for a couple of years. Cardonald’s finest and I will soon be back together, after a hefty hiatus. From this week on, we will spend an hour, thrice weekly, in each other's company. He will stand over, beside and behind
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Energy drinks, quick snacks, a 1am start – how to watch the Oscars from home
IT'S the all-nighter that most of us have pulled at one time or another – even if we live to regret it the next day. The Oscar ceremony – all those trophies, all those tears, all those stupendously expensive and revealing dresses – this year have
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Angela Haggerty: BBC scraps won’t satisfy an ambitious people who realise their own worth
IT'S not too often on social media that hardline unionists and nationalists find themselves on a similar page, but last week's surprise news about the creation of a standalone BBC Scotland TV channel was one of those times. For those on the most
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Dirty Diary: TV mumblers, roly-poly goalies and a garden sculpture to scare the neighbours
Caledonia mumblingSO Scotland is being given a new BBC channel all of its own, funded to the tune of £30 million a year and due to launch in the autumn of 2018, around the same time as the mooted second independence referendum. Good news, I think. It&
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Still daring to dream: why we can't get enough of The Wizard Of Oz
THERE’S a storm coming. A girl and her dog are caught up in it. The dog isn’t a little black terrier, it’s a great big Alsatian. The storm lifts them up into the air. They are not in an old wooden house, they are in a Land Rover. The girl and the dog
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Letter: Shop around before you switch
Thanks for your personal finance editor’s warning about increases in electricity and gas prices (Keep switching to get the best energy deal, Your money, February 19). Readers should also be aware they might be consigned to automatic renewal at the end
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Letter: Yet more unpalatable truths about fracking
Your feature on fracking generally identifies and addresses the main issues surrounding this topic (The truth about fracking in Scotland, State of the nation, February 19). However, from a climate change perspective it is perhaps not irrelevant to point
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Letter: All is not well in the NHS
While I am pleased that Ruth Marr had good experiences with the NHS, I feel compelled to put my oar into this discussion (Our NHS is rising to the challenges, Letters, February 19). I worked in front line NHS services for 40 years, and for at least the
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Theatre review: The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-timeSeen at Festival Theatre, EdinburghTouring the UK until September 16 Reviewed by Mark Brown Simon Stephens's play The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time, based upon the best-selling novel
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Andy Gemmell's Drinks Cabinet: Tomatin Distillery, Inverness-shire
Tomatin DistilleryTomatin, Inverness-shireHistory: The Tomatin Spey District Distillery Ltd was opened in 1897, at the peak of the Victorian whisky boom, by three men – John MacDougall, John MacLeish and Alexander Allan, backed by a handful of investors
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The sugar seduction
At our gym Everyday Athlete healthy eating is important. When coaching our nutrition clients, we find they crave carbohydrates that are loaded with sugars. The most common culprits include white bread, cereals, doughnuts, cookies and indeed anything that
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Damien Love's TV highlights
MONDAYBroadchurch9pm, STVBroadchurch is back, but do we want it? A Scandi-styled drama following the investigation into a young boy’s murder and its effect on his small community by the sea, the original series became a phenomenon in 2013, the kind of
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Drink: Pete Stewart recommends ... small-batch gins
IN my 21 years in the drinks trade, I’ve never been asked to suggest a wine match for a dropped scone. So, instead of wrestling the Scotch pancake direct, I thought I’d look at what is fast becoming a contender for Scotland’s new national drink.
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Journey to the underworld: interview with Jake Arnott, author of The Fatal Tree
THE metal door clangs shut, plunging the tiny, miserable space I have just entered into inky darkness. I am imprisoned in a cell buried below an old “boozing-ken” close to the Old Bailey – “the great theatre of crime and punishment” – which stands
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Yuki Chan In Bronte Country and other paperback reviews
Yuki Chan In Brontë Country by Mick Jackson (Faber & Faber, £7.99)With very little English at her command, Yuki has come to Britain from Japan, ostensibly to visit her London-based sister, but the real purpose of her journey is to reconnect with her late
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Joanna Blythman reviews The Newport Restaurant, Newport-on-Tay
The Newport Restaurant 1 High Street, Newport-on-Tay 01382 541449732 Lunch: £30-£35 Food rating: 8½/10 I DON'T watch Masterchef, or any other competitive cooking or baking programme. I can’t take those "this will change my life”
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Dugdale warns Corbyn to heed "canary down the mine" of Scottish Labour
UK Labour faces the same kind of electoral slaughter as the party in Scotland unless it reconnects with its core voters, Kezia Dugdale has warned.The Scottish Labour leader said her party had been “the canary down the mine, in terms of losing faith in
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'I'm glad the BBC have acted, but this is not the end of the story. Scotland is watching.'
This week’s announcement of a new BBC Scotland TV channel marks a significant shift in the thinking of the corporation, it was only 12 months ago that it was dismissing the proposal.We’ve long advocated the creation of a new channel, and as the First
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Ten top Scottish walks and bike trails
TEN TOP CYCLE ROUTES IN SCOTLAND1. Tyndrum to Port AppinFortify yourself at the Green Welly Stop in Tyndrum (whisky, scones, fry-ups, stovies, boiled sweets, Highland Toffee) in preparation of a 50-mile cycle through some of Scotland’s most jaw-dropping
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Clutha crash: accident investigators deny pilot has been cleared of blame
CLAIMS that the pilot of the helicopter which ploughed into the Clutha bar in Glasgow, killing 10 people, was exonerated in a draft accident report of the incident have been comprehensively rebutted by crash investigators.David Traill was at the controls
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Rodgers reflects with record in sight on return to the Highlands
THERE have been no passengers in Brendan Rodgers’ team this season, but the Celtic boss has undoubtedly been quite content to be along for the ride. On and off the pitch.The trip to Inverness on Wednesday gives Rodgers a chance to appreciate the view
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Glasgow's young guns are locked and loaded
YOU can look at the circumstances that lead to a coach force-feeding his youngsters into the team in two ways. In one, it can be proof of how desperate things have become that he is having to drain the Academy to fill the first-team pool. In another
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Secret Brexit funders to bankroll a Scots 'No' campaign
A SHADOWY group of business leaders who funnelled more than £400,000 through the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland to support the Brexit campaign are prepared to bankroll opposition to Scottish independence if a second referendum is called.The
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The great rock'n'roll swindle: fans suffer as BBC wages war on ticket touts
THE BBC has gone to war with ticket touts while warning that fans buying resold briefs for a major music festival in Glasgow at up to 30 times their face value will be barred. Tickets for synth-pop band Depeche Mode, headliners of the BBC Radio
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Sheesh, who'd have thought it: why the kebab is now king of the high street
IT'S the post-pub favourite seen as the ultimate in bad diet choices - but the humble, or is that hideous, kebab is now being claimed as a great British institution. It may sound crazy but the Prime Minister - yes, the actual Prime Minister of
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Mundell accused of failing to understand Brexit talks
SCOTTISH Secretary David Mundell has been accused of failing to understand the Brexit process by SNP minister Mike Russell.Russell, the SNP's Brexit minister, said Mundell has wrongly claimed "work is progressing well", when talking about
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Two out of three is bad: Trump statements mostly bogus
TWO in three major statements made by Donald Trump since he first stood for president have been found to be mostly bogus, false, or 'pants-on-fire' fibs, according to an independent study which fact-checked his claims. The rolling analysis covers
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Sadiq Khan racism row overshadows Scottish Labour conference
LONDON mayor Sadiq Khan was forced into an embarrassing U-turn which overshadowed Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale’s keynote conference speech yesterday after he was forced to clarify remarks that suggested Scottish nationalism was racist.
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Woman charged over fatal dog attack on three-year-old boy
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 Dexter Neal, Essex Police said.The young boy
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Trump adviser asked FBI to dispute Russia reports, White House officials say
WHITE House chief of staff Reince Priebus asked top FBI officials to dispute media reports that President Trump's campaign advisers were frequently in touch with Russian intelligence agents during the election, according to three White House officials.The
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Why has the SNP failed to tackle drug-driving?
Today leading doctors' association BMA Scotland becomes the latest organisation to back the Sunday Herald’s campaign for new legislation to tackle drug-driving. The horrific toll of drug-driving in Scotland was revealed earlier this month, by an analysis
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Brexit, the border and bigotry: elections Ulster-style
There’s a scene in Trainspotting 2 in which Sick Boy and Renton go on a pickpocketting rampage in a Scottish loyalist club only to find their exit barred by a tattooed heavy who accuses them of being outsiders. They are forced to take the stage to prove
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The Walking Dead: Former Scottish model turned actor takes on her biggest role fighting zombies
SHE was one of Scotland’s most successful models, before making her name as an actor known for taking on a series of eclectic roles. Now Pollyanna McIntosh has been unveiled as a new character in one of America’s most popular TV shows. The 37-year-old
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Grace Reid looks to step up as she makes debut in Diving World Series
THE Olympic Games was a great experience for Scottish diver Grace Reid and she will be hoping to progress further this week as she makes her debut at the Fina/NVC Diving World Series in China.The 20-year-old from the Edinburgh Diving Club finished eighth
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Mike Smith the man to follow at Ayr
WE’RE in for a busy racing week in Scotland and the action starts with a valuable card at Ayr tomorrow. I notice Mike Smith has a few entries and he could be worth following now his Galston yard has hit peak form.The concluding bumper catches my eye as
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Corbyn ally is still 'very torn' over his Remain vote
JEREMY Corbyn’s closest ally in Scotland has confessed that he is "still very torn" over whether he did the right thing in voting against Brexit in last year's EU referendum.Labour MSP Neil Findlay said he had decided to vote Remain at the
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Gabriele Marcotti: Foxes threw Ranieri to the wolves
MAYBE there was no other way to do it. Maybe the story of Leicester City winning the Premier League in 2015-16 was always going to be so unlikely, treated as somewhere between fairy tale and twilight zone, that the manager’s departure would be spoken
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Hundreds of unregulated botox clinics in Scotland fail to register with watchdog ahead of crackdown
HUNDREDS of private clinics carrying out cosmetic procedures such as Botox injections, lip fillers and teeth whitening in Scotland are still to register with the industry watchdog just weeks before a new crackdown on the profession comes into effect.
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Graeme Macpherson: Rangers are approaching ground zero once again - this time they must get it right
RANGERS have endured more false starts in recent years than the 100m dash for athletes of a nervous disposition. If professional football is the accountancy basketcase that allows clubs to go into liquidation and yet go on as before – and history shows
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Graeme Murty on Southampton's meteoric rise: "If clubs are looking to build and invest, I'd look at how they've done it"
GRAEME Murty believes his former side Southampton should be held up as the blueprint for how to get the most out of a youth academy. Rangers’ interim manager had a season as a player at the St Mary’s side, and then worked in their academy as a youth development
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From a new Parliament to NHS rows and fears over independence ... life in Scotland in 1999 as the Sunday Herald launched
SOMEWHERE in Glasgow – or perhaps further afield? – there's an 18-year-old whose name includes all the names of the Rangers team. Not just any Rangers team, either. This was the Rangers of 1999, the domestic treble winners, of Lorenzo Amoruso, Giovanni
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Scots public schoolgirl goes from z-list horror films to Trump’s White House (no change there then, eh?)
WHEN US Treasury Secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin arrived for Donald Trump's inauguration, he had on his arm his fiancée, an eye-catching blonde clad entirely in white. At his swearing in ceremony at the Oval Office a month later, there she was again
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Lawrie McMenemy on the four Scots at the heart of Southampton's most famous victory
SOUTHAMPTON head to Wembley for this afternoon’s League Cup final against Manchester United looking to claim what would be only their second major honour. The first came 41 years ago at the same ground and against the same opposition. And four Scots were
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Val Burns: We all need a baloney detection kit to protect us from sociopaths
WE are all susceptible to deception, both by ourselves and by others. Yet we all like to think we can detect the phoneys and sociopaths from a mile off. Closer to the truth is this: we tend to believe what we need and want to believe, especially in matters
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What's your favourite winner of the Best Picture Oscar?
THE Academy Award for Best Picture has, over the decades, gone to some great movies. Here, we asked 10 people, all of them highly knowledgeable about films, to nominate their personal favourite out of all the winners. Karen Guthrie, director of
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Lanarkshire Baby Bank charity bid turned down over salary concern
REGULATORS rejected a bid by the controversial Lanarkshire Baby Bank to become a charity over the planned creation of a “high salaried” post that was being lined up for its founder. The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) concluded
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McColgan heads for European indoors hopeful of a stellar year for Scottish athletes
SCOTTISH sport has suffered more than its fair share of false dawns but it is hard to shake the feeling that 2017 may well be the year our rising crop of athletes finally convert potential into medals. Leading the pack is middle-distance runner Laura
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Roxanne Sorooshian: A veg too far
It’s been a good week for ... health tipsNutrition gurus have moved the bowl-posts yet again. Having persuaded the public that five fruit and veg portions is the daily zenith, another bunch of scientists comes along and tells us to listen up, swallow
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Letter: Cybernats and Brits as bad as each other
"Cybernats", often single individuals representing nobody but themselves, got enormous publicity, used to discredit the Yes side in the 2014 independence referendum (The truth about Scotland and online abuse: 'cybernats' and 'cyberbrits
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Iain Macwhirter: how home rule came of age with the Sunday Herald
BLISS it was to be alive in those early days of devolution – except that it wasn’t. The rebirth of Scotland’s democracy after 300 years in spring, 1999 proved to be a painful affair, and plunged Scotland into a period of post-natal depression, which
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Rangers prospect Billy Gilmour in line for first-team debut
RANGERS prospect Billy Gilmour could be handed his first-team debut in next weekend’s William Hill Scottish Cup tie against Hamilton. The highly-rated 15 year-old is being tracked by a number of leading English and European clubs, with the Ibrox club
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Gripping celebration of everyday heroism: film review of Patriots Day
Patriots Day (15)PETER Berg’s recreation of the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013 has all the trappings of a dramatic thriller – a manhunt, spectacular gunfights, clashes between police and the FBI – but with the terrible, tragic frisson of real life.
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The 18 year life of a paper that defines modern Scotland
SO it's Happy Birthday to us. We're 18. All grown up.Eighteen years ago, as the crime and investigations editor of the Sunday Herald, I was part of the launch team of this paper. Today, as editor, I have the pleasure of leading one of the hardest-working
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Should Scotland's railways be nationalised?
WHEN Scotland's transport minister made an emergency statement to Holyrood last November, admitting that the nation's railways were not "up to scratch", it was for many a new low for a train network already beset by crisis.Yousaf made
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Calls for double decker train service between Glasgow and Edinburgh
INTRODUCING European style double decker trains between Glasgow and Edinburgh would help solve Scotland’s rail crisis, former Transport Minister Alex Neil has said.However, union leaders described the idea as 'pie in the sky'. The cost of such
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How to survive a midlife crisis: Miranda Sawyer interview
MIRANDA Sawyer first realised she might be going through a midlife crisis at the age of 44. She was working on her laptop in the kitchen, marvelling at her baby daughter, when it occurred to her: “By the time you’re 18, I will be 60.” A whole cascade
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Aiming for the top: Scottish walker Vicky Jack prepares to scale Everest
THE streets of Namche were thronged with climbers, porters and tourists, and Vicky Jack was in her element, relishing the excitement of being here – on her way to Everest at last, 50 years after the first ascent by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
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Pancake heaven: Shirley Spear makes drop scones
MANY Scots are introduced to baking at home, when helping their mothers and grandmothers to make drop scones. These dainty Scotch pancakes, as they’re also known, are easy to make and there is nothing quite like the taste experience of biting into one
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The Replacement stars Morven Christie and Vicky McClure on challenging misogyny and the myths of motherhood
IT is lunchtime in a busy Glasgow restaurant, where Morven Christie and Vicky McClure are chatting like old friends catching up, their loud peals of laughter carrying across the room. The duo are shooting BBC psychological thriller, The Replacement
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If Co-operative Bank is taken over are there other ethical alternatives?
In putting the Co-operative Bank up for sale earlier this month, its management was attempting to shore up the bank’s balance sheet after its failure to return to profit following its ill-fated merger with Britannia Building Society in 2009. The
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Motherwell 1 Dundee 5: Fans protest as Mark McGhee admits he's under pressure
It’s not been a good week for Leicester City managers, past or present. Well… past and past now.On Thursday night Claudio Ranieri received his jotters only nine months after guiding a pretty bang average team to the Premier League title and into the last