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Brendan Rodgers: Uncapped Celtic midfielder Stuart Armstrong is capable of starting for Scotland
BRENDAN Rodgers declared last night that Stuart Armstrong, the uncapped Celtic midfielder, is capable of starting for Scotland in their vital Russia 2018 qualifier against Slovenia at Hampden on Sunday night. Armstrong capped another excellent individual
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BBL Trophy final: Leicester Riders 91 Plymouth Raiders 58
Leicester Riders retained the BBL Trophy with a 91-58 demolition of Plymouth Raiders at the Emirates Arena last night, the first leg of what looks odds-on to be a procession to claiming a domestic treble.The game’s Most Valuable Player Taylor King had
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PM begins her Brexit Grand Tour in Wales with visit to Scotland and possible meeting with FM expected next week
THERESA May begins her Brexit Grand Tour of the UK today with a visit to Wales, raising the prospect that she will visit Scotland for a showdown with Nicola Sturgeon next week.No 10 made clear that the Prime Minister’s visit to Wales today was part of
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JONATHAN DAVIES: WALES' LATE LOSS 'DID NOT SEEM RIGHT'
Centre Jonathan Davies has claimed "it just didn't seem right" after Wales' RBS 6 Nations campaign ended in controversial and crushing fashion against France.Wales were beaten 20-18, conceding a try and 100th-minute conversion in a game
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EDDIE JONES: ENGLAND WILL LEARN FROM DUBLIN DISAPPOINTMENT
Eddie Jones insists England will ultimately prosper from seeing a place in history denied by Ireland's Grand Slam ambush in Dublin.A 13-9 defeat at the Aviva Stadium brought the RBS 6 Nations to a fittingly captivating climax and left the champions
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League Two round-up
Goals were in short supply in League One but Iain Russell had the satisfaction of knowing his strike could be pivotal for his club.Airdrieonians saw off bottom club Stenhousemuir 1-0 in Lanarkshire due to his 56th-minute strike to revive their hopes of
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Armstrong celebrates victory in Borders rally stage
There are plenty who partake in celebratory jumps and leaps. Pete Townshend of The Who regularly took to the air when performing, while in the sporting world, Frankie Dettori is probably as well known for his flying dismount as he is any Classic winner
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Firing Celtic to the brink of another Scottish title takes Stuart Armstrong to the verge of an overdue Scotland debut
THERE have been occasions during the last few years when it has seemed as if James Forrest could lose a limb and still be selected to start out wide for Scotland. The Celtic winger is a huge favourite of national manager Gordon Strachan and has invariably
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Josh Taylor: I am ready for everything the tough South African Joubert can throw at me
JOSH Taylor reckons his lengthy amateur career and extensive sparring work in camp can prepare him for everything South African champion Warren Joubert has to throw at him at Meadowbank Arena on Friday night. The 26-year-old, who is defending his Commonwealth
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Hawkins pipped on the line in New York Half Marathon
Callum Hawkins confessed he had nothing left to give after being pipped to victory in Sunday’s United Airlines New York Half Marathon by Olympic marathon silver medallist Feyisa Lilesa.The 24-year-old look confident as he spearheaded a breakaway group
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ANDY MURRAY WITHDRAWS FROM MIAMI OPEN WITH AN ELBOW INJURY
World No.1 Andy Murray has withdrawn from the Miami Open due to a right elbow injury.Tournament organisers announced the Scot's absence from the event that begins next week.They issued a short statement from Murray, which read: "Sadly, due to
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Championship round-up
Forget the cliche of taking each game as it comes, this is the time of the season where teams starting scrutinising all of their remaining fixtures.Take Dunfermline Athletic. The 5-1 win over Dumbarton at the start of the month showed them to be in good
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League Two round-up
Leaders Forfar Athletic saw their advantage whittled to just one point at the top after a 1-1 draw at Elgin City.Forfar have now gone six league games without a win but manager Gary Bollan insists his players will rediscover their winning touch."
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Cerny nightmare rounds off bad week for Liam Lindsay after Partick Thistle star's Scotland snub
Partick Thistle’s Liam Lindsay must have thought a week that started off with the disappointment of missing out on the Scotland squad was on the up as the clock ticked onto 87 minutes at Rugby Park, with his side a goal to the good and seemingly cruising
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Pedro makes a positive first impression as bedding-in period begins
EMERSON Hyndman might have been on his way to San Jose by now, with a detour planned to Panama. But much as he would love to be part of Bruce Arena's national side for two crucial World Cup qualifiers against Honduras and Panama, the on-loan Bournemouth
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McDonald doesn't miss in criticism as Motherwell continue to toil
SCOTT McDONALD, the Motherwell forward, blasted individual errors for costing the Lanarkshire club a precious point in Stephen Robinson’s first game in charge.The Fir Park side helped gift St Johnstone two goals in this 2-1 defeat while passing up golden
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Cotter’s tear-stained tale of two cities just another curious chapter in endless story full of twists
It matched the best of Scotland’s Six Nations’ results sequences, but included its worst beating at the hands of its oldest enemy.For Vern Cotter the extremes of a very strange four year adventure were encapsulated in the tale of his last trip between
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Stuart Hogg celebrates new cap record in style
JUST about everything is going right for Stuart Hogg at the moment. He had a hand in three of Scotland’s four tries in the win over Italy on Saturday, put in what was surely the most impressive defensive performance of his 53 caps, and became a father
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Vern Cotter has brought the enjoyment back to watching and playing for Scotland
MOST international coaches leave their posts under a cloud and at a stroke. Vern Cotter, by contrast, has enjoyed a long goodbye to Scotland, and departs with the vast majority of supporters here wishing he had stayed for more than his three years.The
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Scotland sign off with bonus-point win over hapless Italians
Scotland 29Italy 0AT THE end of a Six Nations campaign which had seen Scotland beat Wales for the first time in a decade and win on the opening day for the first time since 2006, it was fitting that they should round things off with another indication
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Vern Cotter has 'worked wonders' for Scotland, says Stuart Hogg
SCOTLAND full-back Stuart Hogg has hailed outgoing head coach Vern Cotter for ‘working wonders’ in his three years in charge of the national team. Cotter, who will move to French club Montpellier in the summer, took charge of Scotland for the last time
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Rod Stewart leads Scotland's tributes to late rock and roll legend
SIR Rod Stewart has led Scotland’s tributes to Chuck Berry, revealing that the first album he ever bought was by the legendary musician. Berry, who is credited as one of the founders of rock and roll, died on Saturday night at the age of 90.
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Face to Face: Soldier turned barrister tells of journey from killing to court
A LITTLE daft laugh emerges on realising you’re walking around the bar of a swish Liverpool hotel looking for someone who has killed dozens of people. What is a trained killer supposed to look like? But just then Henry Gow emerges from the
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Young woman indecently assaulted in Glasgow city centre
DETECTIVES are appealing for information following a report of an indecent assault in Glasgow city centre. The incident took place on Saturday, March 18 at 12.15am on Renfield Street, close to West Regent Street. A 21-year-old woman was sitting
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New fears that time running out for Scottish film studios
Senior British film industry figures fear time is running out for a major new £200m film studio complex outside Edinburgh. Developers this weekend urged Scottish ministers to say when a final decision will be made on the development near Straiton in the
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Aye Write Festival review at various locations in Glasgow
Aye Write Weekend 2 Friday, March 17, Mitchell Library, Glasgow James Hanratty Saturday, March 18, Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow Frank Gardner; Jenni Murray; Val McDermid Immigration judge James Hanratty might have
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Gary Little and Julia Sutherland: Jailmates at Cottiers Theatre, Glasgow
Glasgow Live International Comedy Festival Gary Little and Julia Sutherland: Jailmates Cottiers Theatre, Glasgow Three stars As epistolary fiction is more than a little outdated (more often taking the form of emails or Tweets these
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Scots shun name Donald in Trump effect
Just seven boys were called Donald in Scotland last year as President Trump's first name lost its appeal.Like many traditional names, Donald has been increasingly unpopular in recent years, according to data from National Records of Scotland.But experts
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Theatre review: Chess at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Theatre Chess Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Four stars With the Cold War serving as the backdrop, tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union building, and back-room dodgy dealings and secret handshakes, perhaps there has not
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Dance review: Wolves at Tramway, Glasgow
Dance Wolves Tramway, Glasgow Mary Brennan five stars Many a choreographer would blench at the prospect of bringing some sixty amateurs - aged between 7 and 74 - onstage with their own professional company. Natasha Gilmore
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Dance review: Citizen at Traverse, Edinburgh
Dance Citizen Traverse, Edinburgh Mary Brennan three stars Themes of identity, of home and belonging, have often intensified the work of Frank McConnell, co-founder and artistic director of Plan B, the Ross-shire based company known for dance-making
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Music review: Elliot Galvin Trio at Jazz Bar in Edinburgh
Music Elliot Galvin Trio Jazz Bar Edinburgh Rob Adams FOUR STARS You’d never know that Corrie Dick is a recent arrival into pianist Elliot Galvin’s trio. The Glasgow-born, London-based Dick, who won the Young Scottish
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Toast as Scots marmalade is judged world's best
WHILE aficionados are chewing over the question of whether marmalade was invented north or south of the border, a toast is raised for the Scottish version that has been officially crowned best in the world. A farmer's daughter from Angus beat competition
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Dundee 1 Celtic 2; Narrow triumph takes Brendan Rodgers's side to brink of sixth consecutive Scottish title
A NARROW 2-1 win over Dundee at Dens Park this afternoon took Celtic to just one game of securing their sixth consecutive Scottish title. The Parkhead club, who triumphed thanks to a rare Jozo Simunovic strike in the first half and a Stuart Armstrong
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Nicola Sturgeon 'open to discussions' over later referendum date
The timing of a second independence referendum should not be determined by what is "convenient" for Theresa May, Scotland's First Minister has said. Nicola Sturgeon said it should be determined by what is right for the Scottish people, once the terms
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Brexit result 'could see price of loaf rise'
Brexit could put an extra 10 cents (8.7p) on the price of a loaf in Ireland, the milling industry warned. Eighty per cent of the flour used in the Republic for baked goods and other products comes from the UK, and may face an inflation-busting tariff
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Labour should offer 'chance of staying in EU' says Tony Blair
Labour should be prepared to offer voters the chance of staying in the European Union if the Government fails to secure its promised trade deal with the remaining member states, Tony Blair has said. The former prime minister said the Government
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George Osborne’s Evening Standard role ‘could lead to change in rules on MPs’ second jobs’
The rules on MPs taking second jobs could be changed after George Osborne's appointment as editor of the London Evening Standard, the chairman of the country's chief standards watchdog has said. Former chancellor Mr Osborne will take up his role
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Two arrested after man found seriously injured
Two people have been arrested after a man was found seriously injured in a flat. Emergency services were called to the scene in Torwoodlee Road in Galashiels in the Borders at around 1.30am on Saturday. The injured man, 30, was taken to Borders
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Ruth Davidson: Independence vote “against the majority wishes”
Calls for a second independence referendum would be "against the majority wishes", the Scottish Conservative leader has said. Ruth Davidson told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show that Nicola Sturgeon was "hell bent" on destroying the United Kingdom and
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Obituary - Chuck Berry, rock ‘n’ roll legend
Rock ‘n’ roll star Born: October 18, 1926; Died: March 18, 2017 CHUCK Berry, who has died aged 90, was one of the founding heroes of rock ‘n’ roll who blasted onto the scene in the 1950s with a distinctive
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Ex-PM Major unleashes attack on Tory ultra Brexiteers intent on complete break with EU
SIR John Major has launched a fresh attack on "ultra Brexiteers" within the Conservative Party accusing them of seeking to force a complete break with Europe.The former Prime Minister said that having won the referendum last year with "
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Poll shows support for independence now lower than it was in the 2014 referendum
Support for Scottish independence is lower than in 2014, according to a new poll conducted in the days after Nicola Sturgeon announced her intention to push for a second referendum.The Panelbase survey for The Sunday Times and LBC puts backing for independence
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Man taken to hospital after flat fire
A man has been taken to hospital following a fire in a flat. Firefighters were called to the scene in Queensferry Road, Edinburgh at 5.46am on Sunday. They extinguished the blaze in the basement flat and remained at the scene for a while to
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It can't be right that Craig Levein interferes during a match rather than allowing Ian Cathro to get on his job at Hearts
IAN CATHRO made sure the clear message he delivered after a rank bad day in Aberdeen was that nobody told him what to do at Hearts and the final decision on the team will always be his.But the only messages which counted for the Hearts head coach in terms
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Stephen McGinn on his cup final aspirations, plotting St Mirren's great escape, and why brother John is destined for the top
STEPHEN McGinn Sr. was said to have been a decent footballer in his day but never made a career out of the game. His wife Mary still plays netball socially, as does their daughter Katie. It speaks to an active family if not one of outstanding sporting
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Graeme Macpherson: When did following Scotland become such a laborious, joyless chore?
INTERNATIONAL week arrives with the same appeal as glancing across at the alarm clock on a Monday morning and reluctantly accepting there is no choice but to get up. It has become something of a struggle. There can be few bounding eagerly out of their
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Fraser Aird - A heart to heart with Scotland hero Ian Durrant convinced me to play for Canada
CANADA have a former Tartan Army hero to thank for the fact that Fraser Aird will be lining up for them, rather than perhaps against them, at Easter Road on Wednesday night. Ian Durrant would have won far more than his 20 international caps for his country
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Coulthard hoping for an end to the Mercedes monopoly as F1 gets under way in Melbourne
DAVID Coulthard's late grandfather was a Celtic fan. What relevance, you might ask, does this fact have to do with this year's Formula 1 championship, which gets under way with next weekend's Australian Grand Prix? Well, just as the Channel
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Cotter says his farewells at the end of an unfinished journey
Taking their cue from the tune that has become a Murrayfield standard, those who both witnessed first hand proceedings at Twickenham the previous Saturday and were still around as Vern Cotter completed his reluctant lap of honour really have shown their
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Italy marks for merit
Edoardo Padovani – failure to gather loose ball after Esposito was stripped of it just short of the line was costly, but made a few decent carries 6Angelo Esposito – most dangerous looking of the Italian runners, but very much a peripheral figures struggling
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Davies tips Scott Brown to become a successful manager when he hangs up his boots
CELTIC assistant manager Chris Davies has tipped Scott Brown to thrive in management when the midfielder finally hangs up his boots. Davies places Brown in the same category as leaders he has worked with before like Garry Monk, the former Swansea City
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Comment: We need justice for Syria
Naomi McAuliffe is Amnesty International Scotland's Programme Director As war crimes go unpunished in Syria, an Amnesty International campaign marking the sixth anniversary of the crisis calls on world leaders to deliver justice to the millions of
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Out-going Scotland coach takes his bow, leaving them begging for more
Vern Cotter’s players did everything they could on the final day to ensure that he left having taken them to new heights in the Six Nations Championship. Results elsewhere, however, meant his Scotland team once again finished in the bottom half of the
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Sturgeon vows: 'There will be an independence referendum'
NICOLA Sturgeon has vowed “there will be an independence referendum" regardless of any attempt by the Tories at Westminster to block a vote. The First Minister made clear her position in her speech to the SNP conference yesterday at the end of
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Scientist defends links between Big Tobacco and vaping industry
A LEADING e-cigarette scientist has defended links between the tobacco and vaping industries.Dr Konstantinos Farsalinos, of the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Centre in Athens, said attacks on research into vaping funded by Big Tobacco were a form of “academic
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A satisfying end - and there's a lot more to come from this Scotland team
JOB done. Some people might have thought all Scotland needed to do was turn up and win, but there was a lot more to it than that. They had lost badly last week, and were battered and bruised against England, and results like that can take a lot of getting
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Five highs and five lows of Scotland’s Six Nations campaign
Highs 1 Cutting edgeToo many Scotland teams in the recent past have been all promising approach work and little or no end product. This one, conversely, knows how to forge openings, and how to finish them off.2 ConsistencyIt is still only relative consistency
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Finn Russell pays tribute to outgoing coach Vern Cotter
IT IS one measure of the good work done by Vern Cotter in his three years in charge of Scotland that some players who had not even played a Test then are now firmly established as front-rank internationals. At the end of the New Zealander’s final game
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Scottish Government urged to give delivery date on film studio plan
THE developers behind a £200 million plan to build a international film studio complex for Scotland have urged the Scottish Government to tell them when a decision on the project will be made. The planning application for the privately-backed Pentland
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Scotland 29 Italy 0: bonus-point win rounds off Cotter reign
SOLID, relentless and thoroughly professional. Scotland got the win they wanted to bid farewell to Vern Cotter on a high note, and they also did it in a way that summed up the head coach’s approach.It was not a spectacular game, and Italy were disappointingly
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Shrigley's satirical thumbs-up to make way for new Fourth Plinth artwork
HIS 23-foot high thumbs-up caught out many with its irony, including the London mayor.David Shrigley, a Glasgow-based artist whose pictures and sculptures are known for their mordant humour, has had his protruding artwork adorn the Fourth Plinth in London
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The surest way to secure independence? Tell Scots they can't have it
SCOTLAND witnessed a profound clash of constitutional legitimacy last week between the Holyrood and UK parliaments, as Theresa May blocked a referendum on independence. Wars have been started for less – but this needn't end in conflict. Supporters
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The reasons why English clubs are a diminished Champions League force
THE numbers are pretty brutal. Leicester City’s improbable advance to the last eight of the Champions League brings the number of quarter-finalists from the Premier League in the past six years to five. That doesn’t just pale by comparison relative to
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Man shot dead after trying to grab soldier's gun at Paris airport
Soldiers at Orly airport in Paris have shot dead a man who wrestled one of their colleagues to the ground and tried to steal her rifle, French officials have said.Thousands of travellers were evacuated and at least 15 flights were diverted to the city
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Toxic pesticide ban scrapped after fish farm industry pressure
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency secretly ditched a plan to ban a toxic pesticide contaminating sea lochs and killing wildlife after pressure from the fish farming industry.Sepa had been intending to prevent salmon farmers from using emamectin
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Will integrating health and social care crisis save the Scottish NHS?
Every Thursday, Sheena Gilmour meets with a group of walkers to lead a stroll around her local area. “It has given me confidence in walking,” she says. “I had a knee operation last year and walking with the support of the others gave me my confidence
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Tomorrow's World
IN the Scotland of the future we will be looked after in our old age by robot assistants, give up on car ownership, live single lives in which our chatbots and home assistants are our most constant companions, and struggle to remember what privacy once
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Letter: How to read scripture correctly
What have Christians done to Doug Clark that he should twist New Testament teaching even more than Vicky Allen's politicians (Christianity and human values, Letters, March 12)? Eph.5.21 says submit to one another; 1Tim.2 is not about family, but church
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Secret moves to set up 'Yes Scotland 2' while Sturgeon seeks referendum deal
SECRET work led by SNP executive Peter Murrell has begun to prepare for the launch of a new cross-party independence campaign. It involves creating a war chest as part of work to help "design a new Yes Scotland 2-style body", a source confirmed
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Letter: Oil: let's move on and embrace a cleaner future for Scotland
That Scotland’s "black gold" has lost much of its lustre since 2008 is self-evident (What North Sea oil means for the Scottish economy, State of the nation, March 12). Russell Borthwick of Aberdeen & Grampian Chamber of Commerce talks about
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The truth about Trump's tower of lies
On Wednesday night at the Municipal Auditorium in downtown Nashville, Donald Trump found respite from the strain of governing in the adulation of his fans. News channels don’t broadcast his whole speech live anymore, but he still appears happiest at
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Letter: Nationalism, patriotism ... and love, not hate
Alexander McKay interprets George Orwell as saying that patriotism is love of one's country and nationalism hatred of other countries (Christianity and human values, Letters, March 12). If he wishes to use this as an argument against proponents of
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Pressure grows on Twitter and Facebook to answer to Holyrood over online abuse
PRESSURE is mounting to bring executives from Twitter and Facebook before the Scottish Parliament to account for the catalogue of death threats, rape threats, abuse and intimidation on social media.It follows revelations in the Sunday Herald last week
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Brian Cox forced to defend Scottish credentials against BBC interviewer
ACTOR Brian Cox had to move to defend his Scottish credentials and the right to speak out about independence after he was challenged by a BBC news interviewer. The 70-year-old, who is one of the most high-profile independence supporters and launched
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Police Scotland confirms secret G8 file on notorious undercover police unit
POLICE Scotland has confirmed that a secret file was created on the activities of a disgraced undercover unit at the G8 summit at Gleneagles. The "intelligence briefings" on the National Public Order Intelligence Unit, whose officers had
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Strachan eager to go again as Scotland get set for key double-header
ANYONE thinking Gordon Strachan has spent the last four months quietly stewing over Scotland’s struggles at the start of this already forlorn World Cup qualifying campaign would be very much mistaken.The gap between the 3-0 loss to England at Wembley
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From Thalidomide and freak shows to global celebrity and Richard III, it can only be the inimitable Mr Mat Fraser
“THRILLED, honoured, excited, & delighted!,” Mat Fraser tweeted to his 20,000 followers earlier this week. “People have said I could be a Dick, and now I can prove them right!”Thus did the ebullient actor react to the news that he will play Richard III
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Council official jailed for corruption told to pay back £22,000
A CORRUPT Edinburgh council worker who was jailed for taking bribes from a contractor has been hit with a £22,000 bill under proceeds of crime laws. Charles Owenson, who received cash payments and trips to lap dancing bars in exchange for
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Truth is a torch against the darkness of propaganda
WE are now embarked upon a political journey which, regardless of intransigence on the part of the Conservative Party, will inevitably result in a second independence referendum – a journey which this newspaper sincerely hopes ends with Scotland as an
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Union organiser at heart of Grangemouth dispute is now fronting Faslane strike row
THE trade unionist who was at the centre of the most bitter industrial relations dispute of the last decade is now the key figure in a strike at Scotland’s nuclear base. Stephen Deans was described by former Prime Minister David Cameron as a “
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Educating Rosie: for World Down's Syndrome Day, one father charts his quest to choose the right school for his daughter
"I'M sorry to say that your child has a condition. If you choose to go ahead with the pregnancy, she will have a 42 per cent chance of developing cancer in her lifetime, a 17 per cent chance of a stroke. Here is a leaflet detailing many of the
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Is this the end of the Faslane Peace Camp?
IT’S the world’s longest-running anti-nuclear protest camp – springing up near the Faslane naval base in 1982, less than a mile from the submarines which carry Trident ballistic missiles – but now its future is in peril.Thirty-five years on, the sprawling
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Heroes, heroin and the ghost from Alex Norton past
ALEX Norton is used to experiencing chills in Glasgow. They blew through the 1950s single end in the Gorbals he was born into, and they were the harbinger of' 'murdur' in every episode of Taggart.But when he steps back into the Gorbals and
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Angela Haggerty: Insults about freeloaders and traitors are designed to rile us. Don't fall for it, Scotland
WE may all want discussions about Scotland's constitutional future to be mature, civil and respectful but it's unlikely to happen, and here's why.While we hear a neverending rendition from figures like Scottish Tory and Labour leaders Ruth
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John Phelps's portfolio
OUR share tips took a relaxed view of the political jousting over a new Scottish Independence poll and the continuing Brexit wrangling to advance across a broad front last week.Share price gainers outnumbered fallers by a healthy majority of approaching
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Val Burns: We all think we're nice but who are we kidding?
HOW well do you know yourself? A recent UK study suggests that most of us are not nearly as nice as we think we are. Research by psychologists at Goldsmith’s College, University of London into how "nice" we believe ourselves to be, revealed
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Bring out your dead ... and fry them!
It's been a good week for … Maximus Decimus MeridiusLAST time we saw Ridley Scott’s Oscar-winning epic, Gladiator, Russell Crowe’s character was most definitely dead, having succumbed to wounds inflicted by his enemy, Commodus, in a duel in the Colosseum
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Damien Love's TV highlights
TuesdayInside No 910pm, BBC TwoThis week is our last visit Inside No 9 for the time being, which is cause for great sadness (or, depending on your appetite for black humour, awkward situations and blood, cause for some relief). Ushered in with that pesky
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An engaging beast ... and a bravura horror: Beauty And The Beast/Get Out film reviews
Beauty And The Beast (PG)Get Out (15)THOUGH some have questioned the need for Disney to produce live-action remakes of its animated classics, the variety in tone and approach of the films so far has more than justified the ambition, each finding a different
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The ridge of heaven: mountain walking between Ben Nevis and Glen Coe with author Ronald Turnbull
THE best of walking is ridge walking. Swoop downwards from the peak, level off along a rocky crest, then rise again to another summit; and then do the same thing again, four or five or even eight times over. Let the ridge sides drop steeply 900m to a
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The whole hog: Shirley Spear's pig-a-leekie recipe
AS a 17-year-old would-be journalist working as a lowly office junior on Family Star at DC Thomson in Dundee, one of my weekly tasks was to scour old magazines for information to re-use for the Household Hints page. I compiled this along with the horoscope
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Books: Vinegar Girl and other paperback reviews
Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler (Vintage, £8.99)Part of the “Hogarth Shakespeare” series, in which contemporary authors are commissioned to write modern retellings of the Bard’s plays, Vinegar Girl is an update of The Taming Of The Shrew. Kate Battista is
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Restaurant review: Joanna Blythman on The Mallard, Glasgow
The Mallard333 Great Western Rd, Glasgow 0141 339 4111Lunch/Dinner: £20-£30Food rating: 3/10WHAT do the words "crab cannelloni" mean to you? I’m imagining handmade pasta stuffed with fresh crabmeat, and I’m liking the sound of the (cryptic)
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Graceland for lonely wanderers: a weekend break in Wordsworth country
IF there’s one thing we Scots can get all snobbish and uppity about it's when anyone dares to suggest there might be other places within the British Isles that boast wonderful scenery to match our own.It’s not that we deny such alternative lovely
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John Swinney challenged over £100,000 salary payments for college bosses
EDUCATION Secretary John Swinney has been challenged by the leader of the Scottish teachers' union over claims that nearly 20 managers at Glasgow's biggest college are paid £100,000 a year.Swinney came under fire over pay for the "top level
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Sunday Herald up for top press awards
THE Sunday Herald's unflinching dedication to outstanding journalism has been recognised with a clutch of six nominations for the forthcoming Scottish Press Awards.Our front page from July that "Scotland is European", on the threat of the
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John Byrne reveals his grandfather was his real father
THE writer and artist John Byrne has revealed that he is the child of an incestuous relationship – and that the man he thought was his grandfather was actually his father.Byrne was brought up believing that he was the son of Patrick Byrne and Alice, formerly
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Doctor facing disciplinary hearing over Scots Ebola nurse
The Scots nurse who survived Ebola is expected to give evidence this week at a disciplinary hearing of a doctor who took her temperature hours before she was diagnosed with the disease.Dr Hannah Ryan is the latest health professional to face misconduct
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Calls for immediate law change over LGBT equality in schools
MINISTERS faced a heartfelt call at the SNP's conference to pass a law immediately to make it a legal obligation to include lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues in the school curriculum.The call was made as the party's conference
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Disney's plan to make Pocahontas star Scottish
IT is the romantic tale which has captivated the minds of generations, telling of the love affair between a native American princess and the young British explorer whose life she saves.But now exactly 400 years on from the death of Pocahontas, it turns
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Scotland in Union leader Graeme Pearson: I quit Labour over Corbyn
The leader of the most prominent pro-UK campaign group has revealed he has quit Scottish Labour after becoming disenchanted with Jeremy Corbyn.Ex-MSP Graeme Pearson, who is the chief executive of Scotland in Union (SIU), said Corbyn was not having an
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Revealed: why Spring is coming earlier and earlier each year
SOON the swallows will come swooping back to Scotland from South Africa, a traditional sign that winter has ended. It may seem as if all is as nature intended, but it is not. Swallows are now arriving 20 days earlier than they did in the 1970s - and it
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Winning portrait artist reveals dream to paint Andy Murray
HE has already had a brush with fame after winning a prestigious TV painting contest and discovering he is a relation of TV star Graham Norton along the way. Now Glasgow-based Gareth Reid, who has just been named Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year,
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Woman raped in early hours Glasgow attack
DETECTIVES are appealing for information after a woman was raped in Glasgow.The sex attack on the 36-year-old happened between 4am and 4.30am on Friday in a lane near Renfrew Street at Charing Cross.Police Scotland say there is no description of the suspect
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Scotland player ratings
Stuart Hogg: Had possibly his best defensive performance for Scotland, twice stopping apparently simple tries with excellent cover tackles. Opened the scoring with a long-range penalty. 8 out of 10Tommy Seymour: Had to wait patiently to get involved,
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Have you got the tingles? Why the Scottish accent is a hit when it comes to the latest online fetish craze
ELSA bends her perfectly coiffed head to her high-end microphone and whispers with care “peely-wally”. She pauses and adds, sotto voce: “That means pale and sickly in appearance.” The 40 minute video entitled “Teaching you Scottish slang for tingles”
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Pioneering Alaskan wellness healthcare comes to Scotland
SCOTLAND is testing out a pioneering system of healthcare developed in the remote American state of Alaska. The Nuka model of care is run for Alaskan native and American Indian people by a state-funded health system. It involves dedicated teams of GPs
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Record year for food and drink exports
FOOD and drink exports from Scotland rose to a record £5.5 billion last year, Government figures show.Significant growth in sales of seafood and whisky helped exports increase by £421 million – eight per cent – in 2016.Exports to EU countries were worth
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Turkey 'on the edge'
MAKE more Turkish babies in Europe. As political clarion calls go it might seem like a strange call to action, but not if you happen to be Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan right now. Embroiled as he is in a self-imposed battle for political
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Online writings 'diluting understanding of Shakespeare'
THE sheer volume of literature online could be diluting students’ ability to understand Shakespeare, a leading academic and writer claims.Professor Willy Maley, of Glasgow University, says that while the Bard’s popularity and saleability won’t wane, a
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Scottish basketball's golden girl Erin McGarrachan knows all about hanging tough
IT was a movement that Erin McGarrachan had processed unconsciously so frequently before. Part of the kinetic DNA of any basketballer, foot pushing off floor: vertical leap accomplished. Except this time, in front of thousands of Chinese spectators, came
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Pedro Caixinha should be allowed to clear the decks on his own terms at Rangers
THE earliest days of a managerial reign are undeniably uncertain but they are also the most important. If he hadn’t already considered it, Pedro Caixinha will know only too well the size of the task he has volunteered for at Ibrox and he will want, where
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Letter: Mary Berry was right about pork in Bolognese sauce
Damien Love can be quite funny (Last week's TV highlights, Sunday Herald Life, March 12). However, he should perhaps leave talking about food to people who know their subject, like Shirley Spear or Joanna Blythman ... or even Mary Berry, who has obviously
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Dirty Diary: This week I search for an eggsit whatsit, dad-dance like crazy and scream royal blue murder at the telly
Eggsitstential angstSO the First Minister and the Prime Minister have kicked off panto season eight months early with their “Oh no you won't!”/“Oh yes we will!” referendum routine. Wonderful. That means the rest of us can sit back, enjoy the show,
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Hardeep Singh Kohli: As a schoolboy, my turban might as well have been a target emblazoned across my back
I GREW up in a city ravaged by religion, scarred by sectarianism. Cleaved by Christianity, some Protestants and Catholics still define themselves by difference. It’s about the only thing that continues to hold my beloved Glasgow back from becoming a truly
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In every dream home ... reviews of Hay Fever and God Of Carnage
Hay FeverRoyal Lyceum, EdinburghUntil April 1;Transferring to Citizens Theatre, GlasgowApril 5-22 God Of CarnageTron Theatre, GlasgowUntil March 25 Reviewed by Mark Brown FIRST, a confession. Throughout almost a quarter of a century of reviewing theatre
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Andy Gemmell's Drinks Cabinet: The Permit Room, Dishoom, Edinburgh
The Permit Room, Dishoom3a St Andrew Square, EdinburghWhat is it? The Permit Room is 1000 miles away from the pub and snooker hall that preceded it. It’s located in the basement of the new award-winning Dishoom restaurant, which boldly occupies two floors
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Drink: Pete Stewart recommends ... wines to accompany pork
I HAD my first experience of cooking pork belly last week, as my assumption was always that it would be quite a fatty cut. This belief was echoed by my lovely wife Laura and we have subsequently always avoided that particular section of the butcher’s
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Operation Summer Fitness
YOU may have noticed that the morning’s getting a bit lighter and hints of spring are in the air. For a lot of people, now is the time to book the summer holiday. You have been back at work for over two months since the new year and you need something
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Photography as 'a form of seduction': Douglas Kirkland, the man who put Marilyn, Brigitte, Raquel and Sinatra in the frame
There was a time when stars and photographers got along. They invited them on tour, onto the set, into their homes, made them welcome. Sometimes, Douglas Kirkland says, they even became friends. Kirkland once spent a month with Judy Garland. A month following
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'Playing RD Laing confirmed to me that we are all just a breath away from mental fragility': David Tennant on his new role
DAVID Tennant arrives at the Glasgow hotel, smiling and relaxed. He’s quite striking; as tall as the wildest tale he appeared in as Dr Who (he’s six feet one), and wearing his Broadchurch beard, tight hipster jeans and what looks like a very expensive
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Speaking up for the hanged man: Dilys Rose on her novel about the last Briton executed for blasphemy
EVERY January, Dilys Rose acknowledges, she cannot help but think of that poor young man, Thomas Aikenhead, making a long and lonely walk to his death, trudging under armed escort through the snow and the slush of the city streets. He was, she adds, probably
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A mindful guide to Wabi-Sabi by Martin Stepek
SO, the actor Jessica Alba follows the philosophy or way of life called Wabi-Sabi. So does the rapper Will-i-am; and the tabloids are either loving it as the latest fad for celebs, or mocking it as yet more New Age junk for the gullible middle classes
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Are pensioners really the wealthiest members of society?
NOT SO long ago a report from the Resolution Foundation, an independent think-tank that aims to improve the standard of living of low and middle-earning families, highlighted that the average pensioner household is now better off than the average working-age
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Jaw-dropping insight into American freak shows
Truevine – Two Brothers, A Kidnapping And A Mother's Quest: A True Story Of The American SouthBeth Macy Macmillan, £18.99IN AMERICA in 1900 there were 98 travelling circuses, the biggest hauling three or more rings, hundreds of animals and up to 1000
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Motherwell 1 St Johnstone 2: New era at Fir Park continues to be bad for your health
IF there is one thing to take from Stephen Robinson’s tenure as Motherwell manager after just three games, it’s watching his team will leave you with more late cliff-hangers than a River City script writer.Already the Northern Irishman’s men through one