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Concern growing for missing 36-year-old Fife man
Police are growing increasingly concerned for a missing man not seen for four days. John Carr, 36, was last seen at an address in Strathore Road, Thornton, Fife, on Tuesday afternoon. Officers said he has never been missing before and his disappearance
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Praise for Labour MP who spoke out over ‘unwanted attention’ from Kelvin Hopkins
Women MPs hailed Kerry McCarthy for her “bravery” after she told of her upset at suffering unwanted attention from MP Kelvin Hopkins spanning 20 years. The Labour former frontbencher said the Luton North MP sent her a series of letters and cards
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Disneyland shuts cooling towers after Legionnaires' cases
Disneyland has shut down two cooling towers after people who visited the Southern California theme park came down with Legionnaires' disease. A dozen cases of the bacterial lung infection were discovered about three weeks ago, the Orange County
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Catholic diocese 'has no objection' to Enniskillen bombing memorial
Senior officials at a Catholic diocese have moved to reassure all members of the community amid a row about the proposed location of a memorial to the 1987 Enniskillen bombing. Rt Rev Joseph McGuinness, administrator for the Diocese of Clogher,
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Scott Jamieson leads at final round of lucrative Nedbank Golf Challenge
SCOTT Jamieson will go in search of the biggest title of his career when he takes a one-shot lead into the final round of the Nedbank Golf Challenge hosted by Gary Player on Sunday.The Scotsman won the weather-shortened Nelson Mandela Championship in
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Liberal Democrats support motion for gender neutral school uniforms in all schools
Liberal Democrats have backed a motion calling for all schools to have gender neutral uniforms for students. Campaigner Jess Install, 15, said allowing girls to wear trousers and boys to wear skirts could result in happier students, better exam
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Thousands demand release of jailed separatists in Barcelona
Thousands of people backing Catalonia's bid to secede from Spain are staging a rally in Barcelona to demand the release of jailed separatist leaders. The rally's grassroots organisers are calling for 10 prominent members of the secessionist movement
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Lib Dems leader says Scotland needs 'clear-out' of Tories
Scotland needs a "clear-out" of the Conservatives, Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said as he condemned Tory "incompetents". The Scottish Lib Dem leader mounted a fierce attack on the Tories both north and south of the border, blasting the
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Trump and Putin ‘agree on defeating Islamic State in Syria’
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump have agreed to defeat the Islamic State group in Syria, the Kremlin said. The Russian and US presidents reached an agreement during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference in Vietnam on Saturday. A Kremlin
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Star Trek’s George Takei denies sexual misconduct claim
Former Star Trek actor George Takei has denied a historical allegation of sexual misconduct. The US star posted a lengthy statement on Twitter, in which he said that an account given by model Scott R Brunton to The Hollywood Reporter “simply did
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Looking after financially vulnerable consumers
IONA BAINDo you see yourself as a “vulnerable” consumer? Maybe not - but as much as half of the population needs greater protection from possible money disasters, harmful psychological tendencies and exploitative behaviour by financial firms. That’s according
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THOSE WERE THE DAYS
IS Leslie Caron unsightly? Does Fred Astaire’s picture cause offence? These were the unseemly questions troubling the Evening Times on August 16, 1955, as it reported, on its front page, a skirmish between La Scala cinema, on Sauchiehall Street, and the
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Review: Spinning Coin – Permo
Oh, to have been a fly on the wall of Edwyn Collins’s Sutherland studio when he was producing parts of Glasgow quintet Spinning Coin’s debut album. Ebullience, youth, romance and the choicest chord shifts this side of Big Star: what’s not to like?
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Technology: Microsoft Surface Studio
What is it? A premium one-piece desktop computer. Desktop computers have been on the back foot for some time now with the increasing popularity of tablet-based systems such as Microsoft's surface. While the latter provide huge benefits in portability
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William Boyd: 'The film industry is full of inadequate men. Hollywood is a boys’ town'
THE first story in William Boyd’s fifth collection – The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth – is The Man Who Liked Kissing Women. Ludo Abernathy is an art dealer who is not “on the pull” any more. After three decades of adulterous affairs, three marriages, three
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All aboard for a trip round Scotland's whisky island
By Robin McKelvie "TERROIR is not important for whisky, only wine,” a barman once dismissively informed me in the Marais in Paris. I wish he was here with me now as I sail into Port Ellen past Ardbeg, Laphroaig and Lagavulin. My three favourite
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Review: Gregory Porter, Nat “King” Cole & Me
Gregory Porter Nat “King” Cole & Me Blue Note Review by Keith Bruce AS everyone who has seen Alfred George Bailey’s fine biographical documentary Don’t Forget Your Music (screened at Glasgow Jazz Festival) already knows, a Fringe
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'Multi-layered war novel' – The Good Lieutenant, by Whitney Terrell
The Good LieutenantWhitney Terrell Picador, £8.99Review by Alastair MabbottIN writing his new novel about the Iraq War, Whitney Terrell wanted to avoid one of the conventional tropes of war stories, which was presenting combat as the climactic event:
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Top tips on choosing new roses
A NEW rose will be with you for decades, so choose with care. You’ll be stuck with your purchase even if you’re scunnered with it after a while because you can’t easily plant another one in the same place. As a rose gets established, it builds
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Keith Bruce: 'Lessons Scotland could learn from Poland's 'festival city'
LIKE Glasgow it has been a European City of Culture, and like Edinburgh it is a Unesco City of Literature. Krakow, which has a rivalry with the Warsaw that probably outstrips that between the two Scottish cities, is wooing both with its appointment
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Galleries: John Akomfrah: Vertigo Sea, Talbot Rice Gallery
ARTIST John Akomfrah’s award-winning film pits vast historical narratives against individual human stories. Deeply affecting, his stunning three screen 2015 Venice Biennale work, Vertigo Sea, gives the title to the exhibition, showing in the main gallery
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Review: Winter, by Ali Smith
Winter Ali Smith Hamish Hamilton, £16.99 Review by Lesley McDowellFOLLOWING on from last year’s Autumn, the second in Smith’s quartet of the seasons should be the grimmest of the four. Winter is death, as the first pages remind us. Death is everywhere
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Second World War veteran, 99, ‘remembers faces of dead pals every day’
A 99-year-old Second World War veteran dubbed “the luckiest man in the desert” after surviving being blown up and shot has described seeing the faces of his dead pals every day. Les Cherrington was a young man when he and his comrades advanced
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Saturday Interview: Eyes to the front as optician boss gets firm ready to stir the senses
SPEAKING to Michelle Le Prevost just a couple of days after she signed off Black and Lizar’s accounts, she is optimistic, chatting vibrantly about the current year and the optical firm’s expansion plans.She even compares the day of filing to Hogmanay
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Glasgow bid for first Adina hotel in UK
PLANNING permission has been lodged to develop in Glasgow what would be the first Adina Apartment Hotel in the UK.A fresh application for the project at 249 West George has been lodged by Mosaic Architecture + Design. The architect had already secured
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Mike Dailly: Don’t get fleeced with sneaky fees when abroad
FESTIVE adverts are upon us as retailers vie for our seasonal spending sprees. Some of us will be lucky enough to travel abroad for Christmas shopping trips, while others are already busy saving up for next year’s holiday in the sun.If you find yourself
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Producer share of retail price falls during October
The share of retail prices received by sheep meat producers in October fell 4 percentage points to 45.8 percent, the lowest share since November 2015. The measure has now recorded four consecutive months of decline.Retail demand for lamb has struggled
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Independent hails prospects for Harvey North Sea field
INDEPENDENT Oil & Gas (IOG) has declared its Harvey licence in the Southern North Sea has the potential to become its biggest gas asset after the field was given a valuation of £79 million, writes Scott Wright.Chief executive Mark Routh said the valuation
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Jason Hollands: Has Trump made investing in America Great Again?
THIS week saw the 12-month anniversary of maverick real-estate mogul Donald Trump’s shock victory in the US presidential elections. It has certainly been an eventful year since, with his chaotic administration mired in controversy and international diplomacy
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'Manga-style decor is the highlight' – Ron Mackenna reviews Nam Tuk Tram Stop, Glasgow
Nam Tuk Tram StopGlasgowMAYBE it's because Nam Tuk here desperately needs to be noticed that its owners have gone for full fat garish when it comes to the decor. Myself, Gordon and Greg are certainly momentarily silenced when we walk in and are whacked
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"Women are not allowed to get old ..." Catastrophe star Ashley Jensen on Hollywood's ageism issue
LONG before Ashley Jensen became a household name thanks to Extras, Ugly Betty or Catastrophe, there was a lesser known role in a touring production called Drink, Smoking and Toking. The poignant, coming-of-age tale – set in deepest, darkest West
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The Herald Magazine recipe: baked vanilla cheesecake
There’s often a debate over which cheesecake is better – baked or set. Here the recipe calls for cream cheese. Use the best you can find, which is easier now than ever due to the widespread availability of premium products. The resulting cheesecake is
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The abandoned war graves: Will we remember them?
THOUGH people have been laid to rest here since the 12th Century, Kirkintilloch's Auld Aisle Cemetery is, at least on the surface, a graveyard like another other. It is sombre and respectful, but also beautiful, sloping gently southward as it reaches
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Agenda: We must keep up the fight against everyday sexism
By Margaret McIntosh, former headteacherTHOSE of us of a certain age might be forgiven for feeling weary when we read of the crass, sexist behavior of leading figures in politics and elsewhere. Has nothing really changed? All that work we did in education
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What it feels like to be on a TV reality show
Jimmy Mackellar, artist and The Big Painting Challenge contestant I STILL can’t believe the whirlwind of events which followed a suggestion, from the award-winning artist Rosemary Beaton, that I should enter a TV reality competition. But I did
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The most moving books about the First World War
JUST over 100 years ago, in October 1917, Lieutenant James Burnett Lawson, a young officer serving in the 2nd Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), wrote to his father from the Western Front arguing that the best was still to come and that the fighting spirit
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Fidelma Cook: Money, me and a fairytale of fiscal responsibility
ONCE upon a time in a land far away lived a woman who had a magic touch when it came to finding money. From an early age she found the locks on the portals of the money palaces opened at her glance and the guardians smilingly filled her coffers with coins.When
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'People were throwing bottles and knives at us' – On the road with Blondie's Clem Burke
Jonathan GeddesYOUTUBE can be a treasure trove of delights. If you’re looking for a band, it can provide a host of old footage, from TV appearances to radio sessions and bootlegged gigs. Such is the case with Blondie, where a search can reveal the history
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Our Remembrance Day tribute to those who fought and fell
THEY were known as Glad and Rats and in the heart of war they were the best of friends. Glad was William Gladstone-Millar, a newly qualified Church of Scotland minister whose first parish was in the Gorbals in Glasgow. Rats was William Radcliffe, a young
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Prison staff attacked by inmates 'every two days' in Scottish prisons
A member of staff in Scotland's prisons is assaulted every two days by an inmate, according to the Scottish Conservatives. Information obtained by the party under a Freedom of Information request shows that in 2016/17 190 staff were attacked by
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Schism in Scottish architecture as 100 architects accuse RIAS of secrecy and "insufficient financial accountability"
MORE than 150 of Scotland’s leading architects have launched an unprecedented attack on their professional body, accusing it of being financially inept and a “secretive and autocratic” organisation. The group, calling itself A New Chapter, delivered
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A new film on Bill Shankly is respectful and revealing of an unique Scottish icon
FOR tens of thousands, the blink-and-you’d-miss-it deserted former mining village of Glenbuck is their Graceland. Pilgrims make the journey every year to what now could hardly be called a hamlet a few miles south of Muirkirk to pay tribute with
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Matthew Lindsay: Windsor Park injustice highlights urgent need for video referees in football once again
THAT football took another significant stride towards belatedly entering the 21st century at Wembley last night when a video referee was used for the first time in an official game in the United Kingdom will have done nothing to lift the spirits of Northern
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Obituary - David L Thomson, lawyer, writer and expert on Glasgow trams
Lawyer, writer and expert on Glasgow tramsBorn: August 6, 1939;Died: August 25, 2017DAVID Thomson, who has died aged 78, was a lawyer with the Glasgow firms McGrigor Donald and latterly Stenhouse but in a life away from legal practice, he produced four
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Josh Taylor can be the first to knock Miguel Vazquez out, says Barry McGuigan
MIGUEL VAZQUEZ, who Josh Taylor fights for the WBC Silver Super Lightweight title this evening, has had 44 professional bouts, including six successful defences of the IBF world lightweight title, has never been knocked out. Barry McGuigan believes that
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Obituary - Tom van Vollenhoven, rugby league player
Tom van VollenhovenRugby league playerBorn: April 29, 1935;Died: October 21, 2017TOM van Vollenhoven, who has died aged 82, was an outstanding rugby player who made his name initially in the union code representing his native South Africa before turning
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Letter: Who's the real danger man?
SO Kevin Spacey's image is to be removed from a movie (“Spacey to be cut from film”, The Herald, November 10) on account of his groping activities. How strange that another man with a self-professed and well-documented record of groping should
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Kevin Scott: looking to its heritage is key to Laings’ future
The acquisition of Laing the Jeweller by its sister company is a deal that makes a lot of sense. For a start the two were actually one for 166 years before brothers Stuart and Michael Laing divided the assets of the family business to avoid succession
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Top Glasgow jeweller set to sparkle after acquisition deal
The chief executive of Laings has said organic growth is the focus for the jewellery company now it has integrated the other half of the original family business, which it acquired in September.The acquisition reunited two halves of a 177 year-old business
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Herald View: Rugby tries to play its part in boosting pupil performance
THAT rugby is helping young people to become not just fitter and healthier but more self-disciplined and purposeful will come as no surprise to those who know and love the sport. What is a little more wonderful is that this is not taking place only in
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Tom Gordon: Salmond playing Russian roulette with the SNP's cause
THE scene: a deserted TV studio. Two empty leather chairs wait invitingly on a cold concrete set. Enter stage left a portly figure in a brown three-piece suit. His lilac face is buttery with make-up, red-rimmed eyes smarting under the lights. It looks
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Oil and gas output rises sharply
UK oil and gas extraction rose 2.7 per cent month-on-month in September, the latest official figures show.The figures, from the Office for National Statistics, also reveal UK manufacturing output rose by a better-than-expected 0.7 per cent in September
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Letter: Politics staff need own HR
I AGREE with many that there appears to be a climate of disrespect towards women in Westminster and Holyrood. This climate needs to change and soon. For me the easiest way to solve this problem, along with the host of other problems that all staff
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Letters: SNP dream team could be about to crash and burn
NOT that long ago, Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon were the feared "dynamic duo" of British politics. Now Nicola Sturgeon is coming under increasing pressure as yet more failures in the system come to light ("Dire police failings on 200 emergency
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Energy giant spends billions on contract drive
SCOTTISHPOWER has declared that it has invested a record £5 billion in contracts across its operations in the last two years, with projects including multi-million pound schemes to develop major wind farms around the UK.And in spite of the uncertain political
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Unspun: the political diary
THE VIP box at FMQs was crammed on Thursday thanks to a visit of politicians from Morocco. There was also a meet-the-MSPs lunch in the Member’s Restaurant afterwards for them, where bespectacled Nat John Mason tried to converse in his schoolboy French
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Jobs axed as Rangers pitch supplier goes bust
A CUMBERNAULD company which has provided sports turf and pitch services to Scottish Premiership football clubs such as Rangers and Partick Thistle has gone bust, with nearly 50 jobs expected to be axed.Administrators have been called in to Souters Sports
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Herald View: Salmond TV show creates a serious problem for SNP
ALEX Salmond has a point. Should his show for TV station RT turn out to be Kremlin propaganda, then people will be entitled to “slate” him. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has a point too. Mr Salmond is currently not an elected politician and is free to
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Kevin Mckenna: Who can save Scottish Labour from hectic race to the bottom?
PERHAPS when Labour’s new Scottish leader is announced next Saturday he may consider adding a small chore to the list of matters requiring urgent attention. Thus someone may be dispatched to persuade Gordon Brown to tone down some of his grand testimonies
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The allegations surrounding Chief Constable Phil Gormley, explained
THE bullying allegations faced by Chief Constable Phil Gormley first surfaced in late July this year and now number a handful of separate claims. The embattled police chief, who continues to collect a £214,000 salary, stepped aside in September
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As bullying allegations pile up around Chief Constable: The trials and tribulations of Police Scotland
ANALYSIS: The allegations against Chief Constable Phil Gormley IT WAS launched with the aim of transforming frontline policing in a way the country had never seen before. Criminals did not observe neat lines, it was argued, so why should the
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Sturgeon rebukes Salmond for hosting Russian government backed TV show
NICOLA Sturgeon has issued an unprecedented slap-down to her predecessor Alex Salmond, as the controversy over his role with a Kremlin propaganda TV station intensifies. The First Minister, who until now has kept her silence over Mr Salmond’s activities
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Anti-Catholic graffiti spikes in Glasgow
THE volume of anti-Catholic graffiti daubed around Glasgow has more than doubled over the past year, prompting campaigners to demand an end to community divisions. The defacing of derelict buildings or other spaces has long been commonplace, but
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BrewDog rampant as it looks to boost team
BREWDOG has declared that sales were running more than 90 per cent ahead of 2016 in the year to September, with growth driven by its flagship Punk IPA ale.The Ellon-based brewer, which made a £3.7 million profit on revenue of £71.8m last year, said its
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Letter: Boris Johnson creases me up
AS usual, when tackling a crease on one of The Herald’s pages, I placed the paper on a worktop, slightly dampened the crease (November 9, Page 13, running from “the great stink to the invisible inebriates”), laid over it a length of toilet roll and
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Letter: Musing on the horror of war
I NOTE the correspondence about the poppy and its meaning for many people (Letters, November 3, 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10). Opinions are divided, but none shows disrespect of the sacrifice which many made – some willingly, some not. Perhaps this little piece
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Export fall is drag on growth in third quarter
THE UK’s global goods trade deficit narrowed in September, official figures show, but economists noted a fall in exports and a rise in imports in volume terms during the third quarter would have been a drag on economic growth. Figures published
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Rennie: Scottish LibDems must champion benefits of migration
MIGRANT workers help keep down food prices, staff the NHS and contribute billions in taxes, and the LibDems should loudly champion their cause, Willie Rennie will say today. At his party’s annual conference, the Scottish LibDem leader will tell party
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Alison Rowat's week: Look for the bear necessities of life; Jack McConnell, Trump slayer; Priti leaves a vacancy
BEAR NECESSITIES GOOD morning. How wonderful to see you. May I say, in a wholly non-sexist way, how lovely you look? Would you like a cup of tea, a bun, a foot massage? It is no trouble at all. Right. That is quite enough of that. It is not as
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State schools scrum down with rugby to tackle classroom rucks
IT IS THE game of hard-knocks invented at a private school with well-heeled alumni still dominating the sport. But since being introduced into a string of Scottish comprehensives, the noble past-time of rugby has been credited with boosting discipline
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Lord Advocate "confused" over block on safer injecting centre, says charity chief
THE head of a leading alcohol and drugs charity has warned of more drugs deaths after the Lord Advocate announced he would not back a safer injecting facility in Glasgow.The ruling, by Scotland's most senior prosecutor means the 'shooting gallery
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MS patient says Mexico stem cell transplant has 'reversed' symptoms
A MULTIPLE sclerosis patient said she wants to fight for more sufferers of the disease in Scotland to get access to a pioneering stem cell therapy after undergoing the treatment successfully in Mexico. Rona Tynan, from Inverness, said she has "
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Famous colours return to UK as Royal Line goes for glory at Doncaster
Racing is often accused of being stuck in a time warp.Twenty-five years ago the maroon-and-white colours of Sheikh Mohammed were a ubiquitous sight until he founded the Godolphin stable and carried by the likes of Oh So Sharp, Pebbles and Singspiel, Now
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Callum Hawkins 'only just beginning to show his potential,' says UK Athletics supremo Neil Black
Callum Hawkins has potential yet untapped but the Scot should now be considered a legitimate contender for Olympic gold, UK Athletics supremo Neil Black has claimed.The marathon specialist, who was fourth at this summer’s world championships in London
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Ryan Fraser believes Ryan Jack proved Kris Boyd's rant wrong
Ryan Fraser came through the ranks at Aberdeen with many of those who found themselves in Kris Boyd’s sights during the week, so it is natural that he even more than most bristled at the comments made by the Kilmarnock striker about his fellow professionals.Stuart
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Fast developing European Junior champion Reekie is an undervalued Jem
Coach Andy Young reckons Jemma Reekie may not be getting the recognition she deserves because of the current success of Scottish athletes.While he is acutely aware that it can be a mistake to try to project too far ahead when dealing with young athletes
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Scots must brace themselves for a motivated Samoan side that means business
One of the enduring criticisms of the November Tests is that they are essentially friendlies with only pride at stake. That’s not true at BT Murrayfield today where Samoa have a huge amount to play for, even if their opponents don’t.The issue for the
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Sol Sweeney is showing potential to be main man in Andy Young's training group
It is the leading ladies in Andy Young’s training camp who have dominated the spotlight, but new recruit Sol Sweeney is threatening to steal some of their thunder.The 18-year-old from Perth demonstrated his stamina in winning the Scottish Universities
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Gregor Townsend's team can set tone for his time in charge in his first match as head coach at Murrayfield
Invited to set a tone at the first of umpteen set-piece press conferences to be staged in the Scotland camp this autumn Mike Blair’s opening comments would normally have passed as standard platitudes and perhaps that is all they were.However there seemed
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New forward coach Dan McFarland challenges Scots to follow grand traditions of David Sole, Finlay Calder and John Jeffrey
English-born, Ireland supporting Scotland forwards coach Dan McFarland has challenged his players to live up to his adopted country’s Grand Slam traditions as he plays his part in developing the national team’s style of play.Building on head coach Gregor
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Gregor Townsend has brought a different coaching approach from Vern Cotter but playing style will be similar says vice captain Ryan Wilson
Scotland’s players must get used to different coaching methods but there should be little change in the way they attempt to play the game according to vice captain Ryan Watson.The back-row forward, who was appointed to the Glasgow Warriors captaincy immediately
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Looking after Laura Muir is a full-time job for coach Andy Young
Presuming Laura Muir is not too shattered following the near 26 hour shift she started at 8.30am on Thursday and was due to complete around 10am yesterday then she will, as ever, be on the start line at the Lindsays Scottish Short Course Cross Country
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Poem of the Day: The Flowers of the Forest by Jean Elliot
The lament for the Battle of Flodden (1513), and the needless loss of so many fine young men, has a timeless significance. It probably existed as a folk song before being taken up by the two eighteenth-century female poets, Alison Rutherford and
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"Kieran Tierney can emulate Kenny Dalglish by winning 100 Scotland caps - and captain his country for 10 years"
MALKY Mackay last night tipped Kieran Tierney to emulate Kenny Dalglish by winning over 100 caps for Scotland – and predicted he can captain his country for the next 10 years. Mackay also believes Tierney can be a long-term solution to the national team
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Lee McCulloch: Kenny Miller was "hung out to dry" at Ibrox - you need Rangers players to speak their minds
LEE McCulloch last night claimed his ex-Rangers team mate Kenny Miller was “hung out to dry” by “certain people” at the Ibrox club when he was disciplined and dropped earlier this season. Miller found himself frozen out of the first team following a fall-out
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"Ibrox is a managerial graveyard - but Derek McInnes understands Rangers and is the perfect man to take over"
A FAVOURITE phrase of Ally McCoist’s has popped into Lee McCulloch’s head in recent days as speculation over who Rangers will appoint as their new manager has continued unabated and new contenders for the vacant position have emerged. “Ally used to say
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"The way Rangers man Ryan Jack dealt with Pittodrie boo boys shows he can play right back for Scotland"
MALKY Mackay believes the way Ryan Jack handled being booed by Scotland supporters on his international debut shows the Rangers midfielder can play at right back for his country in future. Jack, who moved from Aberdeen to their fierce rivals on a free
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First non-religious Remembrance Day service held in Scotland
THE first non-religious element of a Scottish Government commemoration to mark Remembrance Weekend has taken place in Edinburgh. Edinburgh celebrant Tim Maguire is the first Humanist to have been invited to address the Scottish Government Remembrance
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Catriona Stewart: Police Twitter shows the friendly face of the force
WELL, Twitter has gone and done it: users now have 280 characters to play with. In brief, as Twitter used to be, some people are happy and others are raging. Twitter is about brevity, says one camp. Give the people more letters to play with and
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Album Review:EERA: Reflection Of Youth (Big Dada)
EERA: Reflection Of Youth (Big Dada)London-based but Norwegian by birth, Anna Lena Bruland shares a label with British hip-hop royalty Roots Manuva and (the pretenders to his throne, perhaps?) Edinburgh's Young Fathers. But although she cites trip-hop