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Jeremy Corbyn under fire from own party after 'backing second referendum'
Jeremy Corbyn has come under fire from his own party members for saying it is “absolutely fine” for another Scottish referendum to be held. Speaking at Labour’s economic conference in Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Saturday afternoon, Mr Corbyn
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Whitehouse intruder arrested after breaching grounds of presidential home
An intruder carrying a backpack is under arrest after climbing a fence and getting into the grounds of the White House where President Donald Trump was in residence. The US Secret Service said the breach happened shortly before midnight on Friday
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Caixinha pledges to 'provide a winning and entertaining' Rangers team
New manager Pedro Caixinha vowed to "provide a winning and entertaining Rangers team" after signing a three-year deal with the Ladbrokes Premiership side. The 46-year-old Portuguese coach arrived at Glasgow Airport on a flight from Dubai at midday
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Corbyn: Second Scottish independence referendum is 'absolutely fine'
Labour is prepared to fight to keep Scotland in the UK for a second time, with leader Jeremy Corbyn saying it is "absolutely fine" for another vote to be held. Mr Corbyn said he did not think that Westminster should seek to block another independence
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Police issue fresh appeal over Glasgow attempted murder
Detectives have issued a fresh appeal for information about a targeted shooting. The attempted murder of a 34-year-old man happened in the Shawlands area of Glasgow at around 8.10am on Thursday. The victim was getting into his car outside his
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Simple ‘safe word campaign’ to reduce sexual assaults finally comes to Scotland
Aberdeen has become the first city in Scotland to adopt a simple ‘safe word campaign’ to help people who do not feel safe while on a date or a night out. The ‘Ask for Angela’ initiative lets bar and restaurant staff know when a customer feels unsafe
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Jeremy Corbyn pictured campaigning in Glasgow's west end
Jeremy Corbyn has been pictured on Byres Road in the west end of Glasgow as he campaigns against SNP cuts. The Glasgow branch of the Scottish Labour Party, Put Glasgow First, was among the first to welcome its party’s leader. In a tweet, the
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German shopping centre told not to open after attack threat
Police ordered a shopping centre in western Germany not to open on Saturday after receiving credible tips of an imminent attack. The mall and adjacent car park in the city of Essen stayed closed as about 100 officers - many armed with machine pistols
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Rangers' new manager Pedro Caixinha spotted on flight to Glasgow
The man set be crowned Rangers' new manager is believed to be jetting into Glasgow today. Portugese coach Pedro Caixinha is thought to be on board a flight to Scotland ready to sign on the dotted line with the Ibrox side thanks to a social media
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Meet the Old Firm horses: Mounted Unit are tested ahead of match
AROUND 60,000 football fans will converge on Celtic Park tomorrow as the third Old Firm league match of the season gets under way. And while extra manpower will be draft in to manage the major event, Police Scotland is calling on an extra resource
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'England can’t afford slow starts, because the Scots are talented guys, with tricks and plays and confidence,' says Jamie Noon
As you would expect from someone who donned the famous red rose on more than thirty occasions, Jamie Noon wants an England win in today’s Calcutta Cup clash against Scotland at Twickenham.Having sampled the atmosphere, intensity and thrill of this game
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How the Queen Mum helped Rory Duff’s dad secure Scotland’s greatest Twickers triumph
Seventy nine years after the last time that Scotland won a Triple Crown at Twickenham Kevin Ferrie looks back on ‘Wilson Shaw’s match’ with the son of the man who received a regal order to continue leading the visiting pack that dayIt is known by rugby
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Beattie keen not to extend record and hopeful a Scotland win will earn more Lions calls
He was part of one of the strongest Scotland squads ever assembled but as he reflects upon their record that is marked this weekend there is no sense of achievement for John Beattie.Thirty four years since Scotland last won at Twickenham surpasses the
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Ticket touts to face unlimited fine in crackdown on resale website
Tech-savvy touts who use computer programs to mine for concert tickets in vast quantities before selling them for huge profits are to face unlimited fines. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport will announce the measure in a crackdown on
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Herald Sport Diary: Alan Brazil is our new hero along with a man called Chips
WITH a heavy heart and an empty mind, I have to return to talkSport, the radio station doing more for Scottish Independence than anything oor Nicola could come up with. According to every white van man’s favourite station, Scottish football is
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Obituary - Sir Howard Hodgkin, painter
PainterBorn: August 6 1932;Died: March 9 2017SIR Howard Hodgkin, who has died aged 84, was one of the most important British painters of the late 20th century; critically lauded, a pillar of the art establishment and popular with the viewing public, he
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Obituary - Raymond Kopaszewski, French football legend
French football legendBorn: October 13, 1931;Died: March 3, 2017RAYMOND Kopa, who has died aged 85, was one of the first superstars of the game, when the European Cup began in the mid-1950s. Nicknamed “the Little Napoleon” the midfielder was the guiding
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Herald View: Tax could be last straw for disabled
THE idea of disabled and seriously ill people being able to control the care they receive is sound in principle. Anyone with serious care needs should be able to make informed choices about their daily lives, the ultimate aim being to allow people
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Watch: How two ex-Rangers stars were included amongst the best players Celtic's Scott Brown has played with
CELTIC captain Scott Brown picked two former Rangers stars when he was asked to pick the best 11 players he has played with. With Sunday's Old Firm derby beckoning, the 31-year-old midfielder was asked to chose a team of the finest footballers
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Kevin McKenna: The challenge for Sturgeon in winning a Yes vote
Was there ever a period in Scotland’s recent political history when the stars portending a vote for independence were all favourably aligned? Perhaps at some point in the late 1990s with oil revenues buoyant and the contents of the McCrone Report divulged
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Unspun: the political diary
THE Scottish LibDems are having their spring get-together in Perth this weekend. Not that you’d know it from the daily conference newsletter, however. Item one on the agenda is “Welcome to Edinburgh”. Media boss Tim Hustler was confident who was to
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Poem of the Day: Ode to Didcot Power Station by Kit Wright
Another poem about the power of books, this time from Kit Wright’s Ode to Didcot Power Station (Bloodaxe Books, £9.95). Tennyson, whose great poem Ulysses featured on Thursday, provides the starting point. A DEDICATION RESTORED FROM 1860
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Edinburgh Partners’ faith in oil pays off for investors
AN INVESTMENT trust that counts oil majors Royal Dutch Shell and BP among its largest holdings put in a solid performance last year, outperforming the FTSE All-Share index by eight percentage points, writes Margaret Taylor.Edinburgh Partners’ Global Opportunities
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International traffic lifts Edinburgh Airport
EDINBURGH Airport has unveiled its highest-ever February passenger numbers, on the back of strong international traffic.The airport said passenger numbers in February totalled 811,804, up 5.4 per cent on the same month of last year. This increase was
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Scotland must use pain of Twickenham mauling to fire them to bettter things
TWICKENHAM has always been a hard place for a Scotland team to play but this was as bad an afternoon as I can remember in all the years I have experienced the stadium. A lot of people travelled in hope that Scotland might do something – me as well – so
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It is a fact that renewables generation requires subsidy in order to be competitive
IN your report on its Employment Trends and Business Confidence Study, Scottish Renewables was joined by WWF and yet again expounded their demonstrably erroneous assertion that “onshore wind and solar are the two cheapest forms of electricity” (“Warning
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Anti-malaria drug Lariam and the Scots who paid the price for taking it
By Alasdair SoussiCOOLAMON in Australia’s New South Wales may be little known to the wider world but it is home to Jane Quinn. The sparsely populated wheat-belt town, 300 miles south-west of Sydney, has been Quinn’s address for eight years. In that time
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Unisex toilets and a sad lack of gentlemen
RUSSELL Leadbetter writes “that to date not one reader has thought it worth writing to The Herald Letters Pages to express either approval or outrage” (“Online hostility to issues of gender identity”, The Herald, March 9). He is referring to the proposal
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Fracking would put the homes of thousands in the central belt at risk
ALTHOUGH I have not read the report of which he speaks, I must take issue with Mark Openshaw ( Letters, March 9). In addition to the points he mentions, there is much that his letter misses out that is undoubtedly relevant.He reports that “regulatory
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Letters: Anti-independence campaign will be much stronger next time
JOHN Swinney was confronted at Holyrood on Thursday with slam-dunk evidence from his own Scottish Growth Commissioner that the SNP knew fine well in 2014 an independent Scotland could not rely on oil tax revenues to plug the deficit that, it turns out
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Nick Clegg: Westminster should not impose 'fatwa' on second referendum
THE UK Government should not block a second referendum by imposing a “fatwa” against Scottish independence, former deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said. The former Liberal Democrat leader also warned Theresa May’s slow methodical nature and “rigidity
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He never walked alone: Final tributes and shared memories at Gemmell funeral
IT was Lord Haughey, the former Celtic director, who summed up what everyone – family, friends, old colleagues – was feeling as Celtic said an emotional farewell to one of its own. He simply said: “RIP, legend.” Daldowie Crematorium was crowded
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A range of factors are affecting current prime hogg prices
HISTORICALLY after a short dip in early January, prime hogg prices have increased through late winter and spring. This year's prices, however, have remained fairly flat and, as a consequence, are currently 10 per cent lower than this time last year
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Michael Settle: As May moves towards triggering Article 50 is Sturgeon preparing to trigger indyref2?
TIME is pressing as the constitutional game of three-dimensional chess between London and Edinburgh moves towards a possible conclusion. Theresa May, recovering from the post-Budget turbulence of the NICs row, is preparing for her big move: triggering
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Pub boss Martin says tax is the biggest threat
THE boss of JD Wetherspoon has declared the survival of the pub industry depends on the UK Government ending the tax disparity between supermarkets and the licensed trade.Tim Martin, a vocal and long-standing campaigner for VAT to be cut for the hospitality
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SNP MP's 'chillingly intolerant' attack on Catholic schools was recorded
A SENIOR SNP MP has been recorded outlining plans for the piecemeal eradication of Catholic schools in Scotland. The remarks by Tommy Sheppard, MP for Edinburgh East, have been condemned by the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland as “chillingly intolerant
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Investors show interest in North Sea
NORTH Sea-focused i3 Energy has secured $7.6 million (£6.2m) backing from private investors to help fund work on the Liberator oil discovery in the Moray Firth. The company, which was founded by former Iona Energy directors Neill Carson and Graham Heath
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Herald View: The special relationship rooted in historic ties
ALL relationships have their ups and downs. If everything always went swimmingly, they wouldn’t have to be worked at. And they do have to be worked at. Thus Great Britain and the United States of America. Not just a relationship, but a special relationship
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Hartop building Hampden on best banking traditions
WITH the fortunes of Scotland’s national rugby team on the up, it was no surprise to find former Hawick and Edinburgh Academicals player Graeme Hartop in ebullient form.But the upbeat demeanour of the one-time Scotland schoolboy international, who is
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Alison Rowat's look back at the week
THE list of those elected rectors of the University of Glasgow is an illustrious one, the kind of roll call that should be accompanied by trumpets proclaiming and choirs divine. Philosopher kings and prime ministers, warriors in words and deeds, individuals
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How female double act The Dolls cleaned up in the world of Scottish comedy
THE Dolls are taking over the world. Or at least the world that is Scottish theatre. The relatively unknown – certainly to mainstream audiences – comedy double act has been selling tickets faster than your granny grabbed washing off the line at the first
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'Warm, comfortable and nicely laid out. But ...' – Ron Mackenna reviews The Mallard, Glasgow
IT'S not a good sign when, long after your stomach starts rumbling, the waiter is back at your table. 'This is a bit shambolic, isn't it?' he confesses.Bear in mind that he's saying this ages after we initially shuffle in, wait awkwardly
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A toast to the lassies: the cocktail creators paying tribute to literature's leading ladies
SUPPING cocktails on a Thursday afternoon in one of Glasgow’s most sumptuous bars … It’s a tough job but somebody’s got to do it. In my experience journalists tend to be a glass-half-empty bunch, but every now and then you get an assignment that doesn
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Case study: "I don't want to manage my life - I want to live my life."
DUGALD McArthur was 26 when his life changed overnight after he suffered a devastating spinal cord injury while playing rugby. The injury in 1996 left Mr McArthur, from Edinburgh, paralysed from the shoulders down and requiring round-the-clock
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Taxman u-turn threatens to bankrupt care centres for disabled with 20 per cent hike in costs
HUNDREDS of disabled and seriously ill people in Scotland who employ full-time professional carers are facing a 20 per cent hike in their care bill after u-turn by the taxman which would see them made liable for VAT.The shake-up could bankrupt support
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Reverse psychology
IN this topsy-turvy world with some wanting the UK to leave the EU, and others wanting Scotland to leave the UK, can it be very long before some in the US decide independence from the Crown was a terrible mistake? John Dunlop,9 Birnam Crescent, Glasgow
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The hedge of reason: welcome wildlife to your garden
Hedges are a haven for wildlife, providing irresistible supplies of food and shelter. They harbour a great diversity of species from invisibly tiny organisms to insects, beetles, spiders, birds and larger mammals such as hedgehogs.Well-established hedges
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The tale of a pathologist and a salient witness
MAY I add a postscript to R Russell Smith’s mention of the renowned Dr John Glaister’s involvement in solving the famous Ruxton case (Letters, March 7)? In the early 1950s, as part of my law degree course at Glasgow University, I sat enthralled in the
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Uuni smashes £40,000 target
THE Scottish firm behind what is believed to be the first ever portable wood-fired oven has raised more than half a million pounds in a crowdfunding campaign. Kristian Tapaninaho and Darina Garland, who founded the Uuni brand in 2013, had set out to raise
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Tom Gordon: Sturgeon will have to go back to basics
ALL eyes are on Aberdeen this week, and not for the Northern Lights. According to the electoral calendar, the SNP spring conference ought to be a simple rally ahead of the council polls in May. But the event has taken on a life of its own. Not a stall
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Ricky Murray: 'As any boring accountant knows, the spreadsheets only tell you half the story'
“This is the spreadsheet bit”, said Philip Hammond in the opening section of his first spring Budget on Wednesday. He was playing to the galleries by acknowledging his reputation for being a bit of a boring accountant; but as any boring accountant knows
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TV review: Women behaving madly on The Replacements, and the return of Top Gear
The Replacement (BBC1), Top Gear (BBC2), The Nightly Show (ITV1)THE Replacement, a not so everyday tale of maternity cover folk, entered full bunny boiler territory this week with nostrils flaring, babies squalling, and male eyes rolling. Yes, it'
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What it feels like ... to be an ambulance driver
Kit Wharton, ambulance technician and driver I'VE worked as an emergency ambulance driver for 14 years. All of human life is here: good and bad, drunk and sober, old and young. I've written a book about the more crazy stories dealing with everything
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Technology: Winstars Communicator C2 hard disk dock
What is it? A hard disk dock for retrieving data from internal computer drives. Before cloud storage revolutionised data management it was a major hassle to take efficient backups. External hard drives allow a transfer of files as a precaution
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The Herald Magazine recipe: courgette and aubergine parmigiana
This week's recipe is my take on an Italian staple that was introduced to me by one of my chefs, who comes from Sicily. It's a simple but rewarding vegetarian dish that's easy to make either as a starter or a main course, through I prefer
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Fidelma Cook: The precious bond of a common language
AFTER we’d done a tour of the storm damage, the man representing the company designated to fix it came in for a coffee while I signed the consent forms.His accent was so negligible it was a pleasure to chat without entering the parallel universe of most
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Care bills to rocket as tax u-turn puts centres for disabled at risk
HUNDREDS of disabled and seriously ill people in Scotland who employ full-time professional carers are facing a 20 per cent hike in their care bill after u-turn by the taxman which would see them made liable for VAT. The shake-up could bankrupt support
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GPs warn that seven day surgeries would be 'unsustainable'
FAMILY doctors have voted unanimously against any attempt to alter their public holiday entitlement or introduce seven-day opening for GP surgeries in Scotland, as the Health Secretary confirmed that general practice would receive an extra £250 million
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Case study: "I don't want to manage my life - I want to live my life."
DUGALD McArthur was 26 when his life changed overnight after he suffered a devastating spinal cord injury while playing rugby. The injury in 1996 left Mr McArthur, from Edinburgh, paralysed from the shoulders down and requiring round-the-clock care from
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How to beat rising car insurance costs? Avoid auto-renewal
An unpleasant surprise awaits the millions of drivers renewing their insurance over the next few weeks, with premiums expected to rise substantially on the back of changes to the way compensation payments are calculated.The Government’s decision to alter
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Baillie Gifford’s McCombie soars to top of league table
BAILLIE Gifford’s Iain McCombie rocketed to the top of The Herald’s league table of Scottish fund managers last month after climbing 572 places in Citywire’s ranking of over 3,000 global managers.Mr McCombie, who runs the Baillie Gifford Managed Fund
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Clydesdale boss gets £1.5m bonus
THE chief executive of Clydesdale Bank parent CYBG has been awarded a bonus package worth £1.5 million, payable over the next three years.The package awarded to David Duffy comes via the group’s deferred equity and long-term incentive plans, with some
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Will Shepherd: How to protect your cash against currency fluctuations
Brexit and Trump have become synonymous with instability. The UK’s referendum on EU membership and US presidential election shattered conventional standards and the consequences have reverberated beyond the corridors of power and into the pockets of private
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PM insists she is "fully committed" to controversial NICs tax hike for self-employed
THERESA May is “fully committed” to pressing ahead with her controversial plan to hike National Insurance Contributions for the self-employed, No 10 has insisted, after she was accused by Labour of being in disarray over the policy.It has emerged the
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Glasgow’s space sector takes off
SCOTLAND’S role in the UK Space Agency’s ambition to hold 10 per cent of the global space market by 2030 has been highlighted after the awarding of a grant to the Scottish Centre of Excellence in Satellite Applications (SoXSA), based at the University
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Catriona Stewart: Nostalgia shows Millenials have some growing up to do
OUR comfort seeking brains enjoy the familiar. Such temptation there is to hibernate in the past, swaddled in straw layers of the well-kent and personally poignant. This desire explains the success of Downton Abbey and Call the Midwife and the proliferation
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Think tank warns of Brexit pain for cash-strapped councils
CASH-STRAPPED councils face soaring wages bills and higher debt payments as the ‘the spectre of Brexit’ hangs over Scots local government, a leading think tank has warned. Calling for an urgent debate on the role of councils, the Fraser of Allander Institute
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WILLIAM HILL GETS NEW BOSS
BOOKMAKER William Hill has named its finance chief Philip Bowcock as chief executive. The appointment brings to a close a lengthy hunt for a successor to James Henderson, who left the bookmaker in July. Mr Bowcock joined the group as chief financial officer
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Infrastructure spend falls 26%
A DECLINE in infrastructure projects led to a £200 million drop in total output from the Scottish construction industry in 2017. Figures from the Office for National Statistics ONS) show total output of £14.5 billion last year, with the infrastructure
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Profits at Tennent’s owner hit by sterling weakness
THE owner of Tennent’s Lager has signalled its operating profit will be as much as 10 per cent lower than last year as a result of the weakness in sterling.Dublin-based and London-listed C&C Group said the volume of its three principal brands – Bulmers
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Medical tech firm makes unicorn bid
THE founder of medical technology firm Snap40 has said the company has the potential to become Scotland’s next unicorn business, with a value of more than £1 billion.Labelled the ‘doctor on your arm’, Snap40's kit works by using wearable technology