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Tynecastle open for business but work still to do for Hearts
ALMOST build it and they will come. This was the day thousands of Hearts fans had waited for to catch a glimpse of their new, shiny main stand. It was a day that almost didn’t arrive. Uncertainty enshrouded the Gorgie side’s return to their spiritual
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Murty uncertain of future as Accies inflict first black mark against Rangers' interim manager
EXISTING week-to-week without a permanent manager is fine when you are winning games. When you are going down at home to Hamilton Accies for the first time on league business for 91 years it doesn’t seem quite so clever. Graeme Murty admits he
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Bruce Mouat makes history by leading first Scottish men's team to Grand Slam curling success in Canada
Edinburgh’s Bruce Mouat made curling history last night when he and his team became the first Scottish men’s team to win a Grand Slam event in Canada at The Boost National in Ontario, beating Korea’s Team Kim 9-4 in the final.It was just the second time
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No third party involved in ‘unexplained’ death of teenager Gaia Pope
No one else was involved in the death of teenager Gaia Pope, according to police. The 19-year-old's body was found on Saturday afternoon by specialist search teams on land south of Swanage - close to where clothing positively identified as belonging
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Cross-sector group formed to tackle gender inequality in Scotland
LEADING women from across the arts, business and third sector have joined together in a new action group to tackle gender inequality. The Advisory Council on Women and Girls will work together to bring attention to inequalities experienced by women and
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Salmond’s Kremlin TV show could scupper his Scotsman board bid
Alex Salmond’s show on a Kremlin disinformation outlet may end his bid to join the board of The Scotsman’s parent company. The former first minister had been tipped to chair Johnston Press if businessman Christen Ager-Hanssen succeeded in a bid
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Fire breaks out at pub in West Lothian town
Firefighters have tackled a blaze at a pub in Bathgate. Emergency services were called to the incident at the Ballencrieff pub in Hopetoun Street in the West Lothian town at around 8.30am on Sunday. Four fire appliances went to the scene and
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Review: Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – Soul of a Woman
Sharon Jones & The Dap-KingsSoul of a WomanDaptoneWITH her own gospel number Call on God making the other perfect bookend, the last album by the late Sharon Jones with Brooklyn’s soul combo par excellence opens with a classic from the pen of guitarist
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BiFab saved from administration three times as short-term future secured
Troubled engineering firm BiFab was on the brink of administration three times last week as intensive talks to secure its future took place, Scotland's economy secretary has said.An agreement was reached on Saturday that will lift the threat of administration
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Fake Twitter accounts send 400,000 independence messages
FAKE Twitter accounts sent nearly 400,000 messages about independence in just 18 months, new research has revealed as concern mounts about Kremlin meddling in Scottish and UK politics. So-called “bots” - many believed to be linked with a Russian
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Tim Horan: Scottish rugby has always been good at delivering wake-up calls
WHEN I rang, Tim Horan knew it would be me calling him. Who else would be speak to the double World Cup winning former Australian Test centre at 6.30am in the morning. Thankfully, Tim was already up and on the move, part way through a two hour drive
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UK sailor killed when swept overboard in Indian Ocean on round-the-world race
A British sailor has died after being swept overboard during a round-the-world yacht race, organisers said. Simon Speirs, from Bristol, was taking part in the Clipper Round the World Race from South Africa to Australia. The 60-year-old retired
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Robert Mugabe removed as leader of Zimbabwe’s ruling party
Zimbabwe’s ruling party is sacking President Robert Mugabe as party leader and replacing him with recently fired vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa. The emergency meeting of the Zanu-PF party is also removing first lady Grace Mugabe as head of the
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Satellite signals detected in search for missing submarine
Argentina’s navy has detected seven brief satellite calls that officials believe may have come from a missing submarine with 44 crew members on board. The communication attempts “indicate that the crew is trying to re-establish contact, so we are
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Review: RSNO, Usher Hall, Edinburgh, four stars
MusicRSNOUsher Hall, EdinburghKeith Brucefour starsIT WOULD have been a major disappointment if RSNO principle Aleksei Kiseliov had not returned to the stage after his performance of the First Cello Concerto of Camille Saint-Saens to play The Swan with
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Obituary - Dudley Simpson, television composer and conductor
Composer and conductor Born October 4th 1922 Died November 4th 2017 Dudley Simpson, who has died aged 95, was an Australian composer and conductor who spent much of his professional life in England working on a number of television productions
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New Zealand ended up time wasting at Murrayfield - that's how good Scotland were
WE were all on our feet.Every last of 67,000-plus crowd as Stuart Hogg danced past one, two, three and almost four black shirts, and had the white line in his sights with seconds to go. Had he touched down, it would have made it 22-22, giving Finn Russell
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Hogmanay fireworks in Edinburgh to feature special score
The fireworks display at Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations will be choreographed to a score written for the occasion for the first time, organisers have announced. Event producers Underbelly have commissioned Niteworks, a band from from Skye, and
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All Blacks praise Scotland and "super" Stuart Hogg
STEVE HANSEN, the New Zealand coach, was full of praise for Scotland and Stuart Hogg in particular after his all-conquering world champions came within a few yards of being at the wrong end of huge upset at Murrayfield.Only a brilliant last-gasp tackle
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New movie releases: Justice League and Ingrid Goes West
Justice League While the tills are still ringing with Marvel's box office takings for its latest offering Thor: Ragnarok, DC is hoping for a massive hit with its first gathering of its biggest superheroes. A lot is riding on the project after tepid
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Wine: Pete Stewart recommends
VENISON is a relatively easy wine match … you just need a bottle with a bit of spicy oomph, which is a very technical wine term. So you could choose a peppery Syrah/Grenache blend from the Rhone valley or a lovely Nebbiolo from Piedmont in northern Italy
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Damien Love's TV highlights
Saturday Witnesses: A Frozen Death9pm, BBC FourDamn you, BBC Four. These are real people’s emotions you’re playing with.I speak on behalf of the countless lost souls – don’t try telling me it’s only me – who have spent month after month scouring the internet
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Budget to bring driverless cars closer as Chancellor invests in new tech
Driverless cars will be given the green light for testing on roads nationwide under plans in the Budget designed to ensure the vehicles are being used in Britain in as little as three years. Chancellor Philip Hammond will announce changes to regulations
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Andy Gemmell's Drinks Cabinet: Annandale Distillery
Annandale DistilleryAnnanDumfries & GallowayHistory: Historically, many of the distilleries around Scotland closed due to hard times. Only recently, because of the boom in Scotch, are we starting to see these distilleries brought back to life. The original
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Sumayya Usmani's culinary journey: comfort and joy in the Highlands
AS days grow shorter and nights feel longer, I begin to crave slow cooked comfort. I never grew up with the feeling of what early darkness bought with it, a sense a loss and a sort of parody of a day. When I moved to Scotland, I began to understand
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Joanna Blythman reviews Banana Leaf, Glasgow
Banana Leaf 67 Cambridge Street, Glasgow 0300 124 5099 Lunch/Dinner: £10.50-£37 Food rating: 7/10 MY appetite is regulated by seasonal rhythms. Come the hour change in October, it’s as if a switch has been flipped. You can keep
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Wild and wonderful: Shirley Spear cooks Venison Collops-in-the-Pan
AS winter snow begins to cover the Highland hills, wild red deer head for lower ground. Driving through Scotland, I see many beautiful sights, often including deer discreetly camouflaged against the landscape. Whole herds can be seen peacefully grazing
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No such thing as 'unemployed' people, claims Chancellor
Chancellor Philip Hammond has risked a backlash after he declared: "There are no unemployed people."Mr Hammond's comments came just days after latest jobless figures showed the UK total of unemployed is more than 32 million.The period covering
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Songs Of Praise star Aled Jones denies inappropriate behaviour amid BBC probe
Songs Of Praise star Aled Jones will not appear on the BBC while the broadcaster investigates alleged inappropriate behaviour more than a decade ago. The singer and TV presenter, who found fame at the age of 12 with his top five Christmas hit Walking
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Scots get agonisingly close to historic win over All Blacks
For the briefest of moments John Barclay thought he was about to be the man who had led Scotland to a first victory over New Zealand as the man whose performance had lit up BT Murrayfield raced clear.Only the speed of Beauden Barrett, the fastest stand-off
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Heartbroken Stuart Hogg reckons Scotland team can go on to greatness after narrow defeat to All Blacks
After putting in a man of the match winning performance as Scotland pushed the world’s best team to the limit at Murrayfield yesterday Stuart Hogg claimed that the national side is poised to go on to great things.The full-back came close to snatching
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May’s Government on a slow retreat to oblivion, says Labour’s John McDonnell
Theresa May’s Government is “on a slow retreat to oblivion” and has “no objectives, no mission”, shadow chancellor John McDonnell has said ahead of Wednesday’s Budget. In an interview with The Observer, Mr McDonnell accused the Government of “alienating
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Winter is coming: Commuters could face disruption tomorrow due to snow
The first significant snowfall of the season is expected to hit parts of Scotland overnight - and could cause some disruption for the morning commute. Forecasters are predicting a few centimetres of snow for the region just north of Glasgow and
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Ministers set up group to offer advice on tackling gender inequality
A new group has been set up to advise the Scottish Government on issues of gender inequality. The advisory council on women and girls will be chaired by Louise Macdonald, chief executive of Young Scot. The panel will include representatives
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Zimbabweans call for Mugabe to quit now, but more talks planned
Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe is to meet with the military commanders who put him under house arrest as their talks continue on the longtime leader’s expected departure. On Saturday, thousands of demonstrators rallied in Zimbabwe’s capital
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Future Shock: Not even Han Solo can save us now
THE SILENCING OF SCIENCE YOU might not have noticed, especially with all the great stuff on Netflix at the moment, but all hope finally died this month. And it was not a Priest or paramedic who uttered the last rites - it was Harrison Ford. Yes
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The dangerous vanity of new Trident subs
The new class of Trident nuclear submarines planned by the UK government for the Clyde are to be called Dreadnought. Is that a sensible name?Is it wise to 'fear nothing'? Surely there are some things we should all be afraid of – like making hugely
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Labour: one step forward, two steps back
SCOTTISH Labour members are not renowned for showing good judgement when picking leaders. In the last decade, Labour has chosen Iain Gray, Johann Lamont, Jim Murphy and Kezia Dugdale, none of whom inspired voters.Yesterday - finally - Labour elected a
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Leonard crowned Labour leader but victory is overshadowed by Dudgale 'I'm A Celebrity' row
RICHARD Leonard's election as Scottish Labour's leader has been overshadowed by a bitter row over his predecessor Kezia Dugdale's decision to appear on reality TV show I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here. Leonard said Labour MSPs will consider
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The trauma haunting Mosul's survivors
“They brought back the corpses, but their heads had been cut off,” says Moqtaz quietly, glancing down towards the floor as if the bodies had appeared before him. We are in a clinic in the backstreets of Mosul his home city. Inside the dingy room
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'I was sexually assaulted by top Scottish Labour MP in front of his wife'
A FORMER Scottish Labour MP has been accused of sexually assaulting a female councillor at a social event while his wife sat across the table. Carol Hughes, who stood down as a councillor in 2007, said the senior party figure put his hand up her
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SNP calls for US-style investigation into Kremlin links to Brexit vote
RUSSIAN interference in the EU referendum must be investigated by UK security services in the same way that the US intelligence chiefs are probing similar “meddling” in the US presidential election, the SNP has said. A senior MP involved in a high-level
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Time to discuss restoring student grants
THIS newspaper believes free university tuition stands as one of the genuine gains of Scottish devolution.The SNP still deserves praise for ensuring students are spared fees of nearly £10,000 a year that many of their English counterparts face. Free tuition
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BiFab: Inside the Occupation
THE revving of a forklift truck being used to barricade a factory gate abruptly interrupts the silence during a serene winter's morning on the northern shore of the Fife coastline. There's approving cheers from the morning shift workers as the
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Rangers 0 Hamilton Academical 2: Graeme Murty's third successive win eludes him as Accies emulate Adrian Sprott
THE name Adrian Sprott can finally fade quietly away into the background. This result will not send shockwaves around world football in the manner that the midfielder’s famous winning goal at this venue in a Scottish Cup tie did back in January 1987 but
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Un-merry Christmas for thousands as Universal Credit payments delayed
THOUSANDS of people on universal credit may not be paid over the festive season or may get a reduced payment. The investigation by the BBC Money Box programme has calculated that thousands of the 67,000 people who claim the benefit while working – and
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Dead helicopter crash pilot named
THE helicopter pilot who was among four people to die after a mid-air collision with an aircraft has been named locally as Captain Mike Green. Captain Phil Croucher, who served in the army with Green, said his death in the crash over Waddesdon,
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Woman injured in airship accident
A WOMAN was taken to hospital after the world's largest aircraft, Airlander 10, came loose from its moorings causing its hull to rip and deflate. The part-plane, part-airship, which is the length of a football pitch, collapsed in Cardington Airfield
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Body of Gia Pope is believed found
A BODY was found yesterday in the hunt for missing teenager Gaia Pope. Police said they were “confident” the remains were those of 19-year-old. The discovery was made on land south of Swanage in Dorset, close to where clothing positively identified as
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Iraqi forces takes the last town from IS
IRAQI forces backed by the US-led coalition have retaken the last town in the country held by the Islamic State group, more than three years after the militants stormed nearly a third of Iraqi territory, officials said. At dawn, Iraqi military
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Gerry Adams sets out plans for retirement at Sinn Féin conference
SINN FÉIN president Gerry Adams last night confirmed that he will he will step down as president of Sinn Féin next year and he will not run again for the Irish Assembly, the Dáil Éireann. Adams who has led Sinn Féin since 1983, outlined his plans at the
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Lebanon leader on his way home
LEBANON'S leader Saad Hariri is expected to return home next week for the first time since making a strange resignation announcement from Saudi Arabia that unleashed fears of a political crisis. The prime minister and his family yesterday met French
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Legendary AC/DC guitarist Malcolm Young dies after battle with dementia
TRIBUTES have been paid to legendary Australian guitarist and AC/DC co-founder Malcolm Young, who has died aged 64 after a long battle with dementia. Young, who will be remembered for the powerful rhythm guitar riffs and was an essential part of
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Sturgeon unveils BiFab rescue package
JOBS at a troubled windfarm engineering firm facing collapse have been saved after Nicola Sturgeon unveiled a rescue package. BiFab was facing the threat of administration with the loss of 1,400 jobs at yards in Fife and Lewis. Last night,
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Zimbabwe prepares for removal of Mugabe
IF Zimbabew watchers are correct, Robert Mugabe is expected to be dismissed as leader of Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party today, bringing to an end four decades of power which saw the country’s economy collapse as the 93-year-old accumulated assets worth
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Trident submarine plans facing a ‘perfect storm’ of problems, says MoD report
UK Government plans for the next generation of Trident submarine reactors are under threat from staff shortages and spending cuts, according to an expert report for the Ministry of Defence.The report criticises the MoD’s nuclear submarine programme as
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Scotland uses space tech to bring clean water to developing world
IT WAS once used as a cleaner for the solar panels on Soviet space craft. But now the early space technology, developed 40 years ago, has been revived by two Scottish firms who are using it to provide clean water for 100,000 people in Pakistan and save
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Andy Murray in no hurry over new coach
Andy Murray will focus on regaining full fitness before appointing a new coach after the announcement late on Friday that his second spell with Ivan Lendl has come to an end. Off the Tour since Wimbledon with a serious hip injury that has affected
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Dugdale dumps vow to donate all outside earnings to charity
KEZIA Dugdale has dumped a commitment to donate her outside earnings to a motor neurone disease charity. The move will allow her to pocket a hefty fee for appearing on reality TV show I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here. The former Scottish Labour
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Six million potatoes a day, 24 million slices of bread: the astonishing scale of our food waste
ACROSS Scotland we are almost as good at feeding our bins as we are at feeding our bellies. In 2013 we wasted around 1.35 million tonnes of food and drink, or almost 600lbs (270kg) per person. And we are part of a world-spanning problem, in which
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Royal Navy joins hunt for missing Argentinian military submarine
THE Royal Navy has sent a ship to help with the hunt for a lost Argentinian navy submarine with 44 crew on board.Argentina's navy said communications with the ARA San Juan were lost on Wednesday when it was returning to its base at Mar del Plata,
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Pict on by the Romans: our ancient ancestors were civilised sophisticates not hairy savages
ARCHAEOLOGICAL digs could reveal new evidence that the ancient Scots known as Picts were a sophisticated people who could read and write – not the tattooed, half-naked barbarians portrayed in Hollywood blockbusters.The Picts – a pejorative Latin term
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Scotland cricketers warm up for crucial double-header
SCOTLAND’s cricketers will this week embark on their final eight days of competition in what has been an action-starved year.Two ODIs against Papua New Guinea, an Intercontinental Cup encounter with Ireland and a crucial World Cricket League Championship
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Roxanne Sorooshian: O come all ye pastries
It’s been a good week for ... advent calendars It seems the humble advent calendar is having a bit of a makeover. Gone are the days when chocolate-filled boxes were the height of indulgence, providing the ideal sugar rush before breakfast for already
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Russian Twitter accounts linked to Scottish independence debate
RUSSIAN Twitter accounts suspected of interfering in the US presidential election also posted messages on the Scottish independence debate. Professor Laura Cram, who is scrutinising social media posts as part of a research project into Brexit,
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The remote tribe in Papua New Guinea that explorer Benedict Allen never forgot
THE explorer-adventurer Benedict Allen has crammed several lifetimes’ worth of experiences into his 57 years, but he has never forgotten his first encounter, made when he was 26, with the remote Yaifo tribe of Papua New Guinea.Two of their members descended
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Hardeep Singh Kohli: Harrods grotto visitors will meet a superiorly dressed Santa that smells of Givenchy rather than gin
IS it purely a coincidence that the word “grotto” is but a single letter away from the word “grotty”? It’s that time of year again; a time that harkens, like the herald angels, the fact that Christmas is but six weeks away. On Friday, Harrods, that Knightsbridge
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Angela Haggerty: Monica Lewinsky is right – the way to challenge cruelty is with kindness
SOMEONE once told me that the perfect way to deal with a flasher is to point and laugh at them. Apparently this is the kind of thing that really winds them up. If their objective is to cause fear, alarm, shock and humiliation, laughter rather spoils
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Let me tell you that I love you....and fund your regeneration project
SCOTLAND'S most deprived towns could be regenerated by nostalgic US ex-pats under a new scheme which will tap into the successful crowdfunding platform that helped rebuild a bankrupt Detroit. The proposal for the initiative, labelled Tartan Cent,
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Val Burns: Shamed into watching Blue Planet, I now understand the psychological power of nature documentary
MOST of the planet seems to be watching Blue Planet II. At last count, 14 million people sat down to drink in the wonder of the most recent episode last Sunday night (only to be beaten by the 2014 World Cup Final and last year’s Great British Bake
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Beth Potter's brave switch to triathlon paying dividends
BETH Potter is the first to admit that her decision to switch from athletics to triathlon was “crazy”. In January, the 25-year-old, who had risen through the athletics ranks to become established as one of Britain’s top 10,000m runners, announced she
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A modern fairytale romance to break your heart: review of Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool (15)
Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool (15)Paul McGuiganAN ordinary person and a movie star fall in love. It’s the stuff of film fantasy, the best-known version of which is the romance between Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts in Notting Hill. But a new film reminds
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''I wasn’t worried about any sleaziness or about the film being a misrepresentation of sexuality': Beach Rats star Harris Dickinson
THERE are quite a few moments in Beach Rats, the new movie from award-winning filmmaker Eliza Hittman, when all you see of its main character, Frankie, is his face bathed in the blue light from a computer screen. Frankie is 19 years old and leading a
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Experience the magic of music: mindfulness by Martin Stepek
MUSIC is the most mysterious of human phenomena. How can a series of sounds, without lyrics, move you to tears, lift you to joy? It’s just vibrations that travel through the air. We evolved over millions of years to have ears and brains that, together
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Sleigh your fears in Lillehammer
BY MARK LATHAM “SO, it never flips over right?” I ask as nonchalantly as possible while angling for assurance that the bob raft I'm about to step into is incapable of overturning. “Rarely, but yes, it does happen occasionally,” comes the matter-of-fact
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Jesse Jackson suffering from Parkinson's
US civil rights campaigner Jesse Jackson his suffering from Parkinson's disease. In a letter to supporters the 76-year-old said family and friends noticed a change in him about three years ago. He said he could no longer ignore symptoms of
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Brendan Rodgers: Nir Bitton has become the best centre half in Scotland outside of Celtic - he can cope with PSG
BRENDAN Rodgers last night claimed Nir Bitton has become the best centre half in Scotland outside of Celtic ahead of his side's Champions League group match against Paris Saint-Germain next week. Bitton, the Israel internationalist who has been
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Mindfulness: be inspired by the words of Maya Angelou
AN area where mindfulness has proven to be of immense value is among people suffering from major illnesses, and their families. Not that mindfulness can in any way cure physical conditions, but it can help with the way we react to having such ailments
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Massimo Donati recalls the night Celtic stunned AC Milan as Hoops prepare for another gargantuan Champions League task
BIG European nights may be a thing of the past for Massimo Donati as he spends the tail-end of his career in the red-and-white hoops of Hamilton Accies, but his recollections of a famous night under the Celtic Park floodlights remain as vivid as ever.Propelled
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Toni Kombouare: Paris St Germain are relentless right now and I fear the worst for Celtic
ANTOINE "Toni" Kombouare is speaking from experience when he describes Paris St Germain as a footballing juggernaut which cannot and will not be stopped until they win the Champions League. Not only is the former Aberdeen defender quoting almost verbatim
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What to do with a talent like Niko? Graeme Murty ponders getting the most out of Kranjcar for Rangers
NOBODY needs to tell Graeme Murty how good Niko Kranjcar is. The Rangers interim manager has first-hand experience of the genius of the Croatian when he was at the peak of his powers.Murty still winces at the mere mention of a crazy afternoon in the autumn
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Jamie Murray misses out on a grand finale at the ATP Tour Finals
JAMIE Murray will have to wait at least another year to win the ATP Tour Finals after he and Bruno Soares were outplayed by his former partner John Peers and Henri Kontinen in the semi-finals at London’s O2 last night.Their 7-6, 6-2 defeat by the defending
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Rare Tintin drawing fetches $500,00 at Paris auction
A RARE India ink drawing of young reporter Tintin and his faithful dog Snowy has been sold for almost $500,000 (£380,000) at auction in Paris. The picture from the 1939 comic album King Ottokar's Sceptre was among items by Hergé, the Belgian artist
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Protesters urge UK Government to close Dungavel detention centre
HUNDREDS of people have taken part in a protest outside Dungavel Detention Centre calling for it to be closed down immediately. Stop Detention Scotland (SDS) said campaigners, including ex-detainees and asylum seekers, surrounded the centre in
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Private Ryan star denies sex allegation
TWO more US actors have denied allegations of sexual misconduct amid a growing wave of reports of abuse and inappropriate behaviour. Saving Private Ryan star Tom Sizemore addressed recent allegations that he groped an 11-year-old Utah girl during
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Aberdeen 0 Motherwell 2: Louis Moult sounds warning to Celtic with double against disappointing Dons
LOUIS Moult showed the Aberdeen fans why Derek McInnes tried to recruit him for the Dons in the summer. The Motherwell front man sank the hosts with a double that brought his scoring tally for the club to 50 as he and his team-mates sent a warning to
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Hibernian 1 St Johnstone 2: Last-gasp winner in crazy finale delights Tommy Wright
St Johnstone manager Tommy Wright was full of pride after hailing the dramatic late victory over Hibernian as one of the most satisfying of his reign.Steven MacLean secured Saints’ first win in seven matches with a last-gasp goal after Anthony Stokes
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Exposed: Ineos links to Paradise Papers firm
THE Grangemouth petrochemical giant Ineos has links with the controversial offshore tax haven firm exposed by the recent Paradise Papers leak.The Appleby Trust had share capital in Ineos from 2012 to 2015, while its successor, Estera Trust, had shares
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Hammond to use budget to promote driverless cars
CHANCELLOR Philip Hammond is expected to use his budget on Wednesday to set out plans to test driverless cars.He is set to announce a series of measures to promote new technologies and artificial intelligence, including plans for on-road testing to put
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Snakes, rats and venomous spiders... no it's not the Scottish Labour Party, it's Kezia Dugdale in I'm A Celebrity
I’M A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! was already stretching the definition of a star when Boris Johnson’s dad became a contestant but the barrel was well and truly scraped when backbench MSP Kezia Dugdale got an 11th-hour call-up for the 17th series of
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Westminster urged to back urgent changes to Brexit bill
A CROSS-party group of MPs has demanded “urgent” changes to Theresa May's Brexit bill following concerns that powers being repatriated from Brussels are being hoarded in London.Westminster's influential Scottish affairs committee said that UK
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Strength of character keeps City in a league of their own
ONCE again Glasgow City’s consistency and professionalism has delivered a league title, their 11th in succession for the stand-alone women’s club. And once again, Scotland’s men’s clubs have been found wanting in relieving City of their superiority.The
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Is there anybody out there? Scientists step up the search for extra-terrestrial life
OUR planet is just one of billions, circling a sun in one galaxy among billions more. But is anybody else out there? Statistically it’s likely. Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking says that in a universe with 100 billion galaxies, each containing hundreds
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Paul Hutcheon: Anas Sarwar was a woeful candidate who reeked of insincerity
ANALYSIS THE most remarkable aspect of Scottish Labour’s interminable leadership contest is that Anas Sarwar managed to get 43 per cent of the vote. By any yardstick, the millionaire Glasgow MSP was a woeful candidate and a highly implausible
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Gabriele Marcotti: Socially mobile international football beats club game for drama
NOW we know the 32 nations that will be heading to the World Cup. The cast of those who miss out includes a side that reached the semi-finals in the past two tournaments (Holland), a four-time winner and Euro 2012 finalist (Italy) and the side that
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Maureen Beattie: 'Why I am going to stamp out sexual harassment in showbiz'
MAUREEN Beattie, the iconic Scots actor known for her appearances in The Bill and Casualty has, as vice president the actors' union Equity, launched a far-reaching investigation into sexual harassment in the entertainment industry. In an interview
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Dirty Diary: This week I'm talking foul-mouthed presidents, silver-tongued burglars and grandparents who **** you up with sweeties
Bad nan cometh THEY **** you up, your nan and granda/They may not mean to, but they do/They fill you with the cakes they had/And add some extra, just for you.” OK so that's not quite what Philip Larkin wrote in his famous poem This Be The Verse
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Iain Macwhirter: Brexiteer, the mad uncle in the attic
THE worst thing about the Brexit bourach is that there is no escape from it. The endless acronyms: EEA, EFTA, CETA, ESM. The Customs Union, Norway minus, Canada plus, bespoke access. The divorce bill that goes up and up. The metaphysical speculation
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Campaigners demand generous grants system for students
MINISTERS are facing calls to introduce a more generous maintenance grant system to help poor students get into university.Last night, student leaders and trade unions warned of dangerous levels of debt facing young people.The National Union of Students
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The Big Read: our troubled relationship with the demon drink
WITH Wednesday's unanimous decision by the UK Supreme Court to dismiss a legal challenge from the Scotch Whisky Association and rule that Scotland can set a minimum price for alcohol, the issues of booze and our relationship with it are once again
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Vicky Allan: We're not jealous of your fabulous lifestyle, Tamara – we're outraged
THE super-rich seem to assume we want what they’ve got. Since they live in a world where everyone is accumulating designer bags, cars and mansions, they imagine everyone else must want them. So, when we criticise them, they write it off as jealousy
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Psychedelic society launches in Glasgow to try to change the law on mind-altering drugs
A SCIENTIST who has researched the therapeutic use of hallucinogenic drugs has launched a new Scottish psychedelic society set up to campaign for a change in the law. Dr Robin Carhart-Harris, the Head of Psychedelic Research at Imperial College
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The new rules of attraction and other Sunday Herald letters
ARE THE NEW RULES OF ATTRACTION UNREALISTIC?Topic of the week: sexual harassmentVICKY Allan’s article offered guidance on how, men mainly, can avoid accusations or embarrassment (The new rules of attraction, The big read, November 12). Making the first
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Students could receive a guaranteed income of £8000 a year
STUDENTS would receive a guaranteed minimum income of more than £8,000a year under a radical shake-up of education funding recommended to Scottish Ministers. The sum is based on the pay of workers receiving the Scottish Government's living wage
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Senior Police Scotland officer demoted three ranks after sectarian comment probe
A SENIOR police officer who led Police Scotland's Human Trafficking Unit has been demoted three ranks after allegedly making a sectarian comment. Ruth Gilfillan has fallen from detective chief inspector to constable following an internal probe
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Neil Cameron: I love The Ashes and support England - there, I've said it
MY insomnia could only ever be described as a good thing once every four years at a time when the festive season is approaching.And for all of us restless sleepers, at least those who know our gullies from our short-legs, very soon it will be Christmas
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Brendan Rodgers hopes Celtic show their true personality in Paris
BRENDAN Rodgers recoiled ever-so-slightly at the perception put to him that his midweek trip to Paris was, in football terms, a free hit.After all, this is a city, and in PSG a football club, in which the word free is rarely used; however, the result
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Zoey Clark and Sammi Kinghorn rewarded for their medal-winning summer exploits
WHEN British Athletics announced recently which athletes were to be included on the funding list for the coming season, there was cause for celebration for two of the Sunday Herald’s ‘Six to Follow’. Zoey Clark was included in the funding pool for the
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Theatrical meditations and musical majesty: review of Tabula Rasa
Tabula RasaSeen at Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh;Playing Tramway, GlasgowNovember 22-24 Reviewed by Mark Brown FROM the moment it was established in 1999, it was clear that Glasgow-based theatre company Vanishing Point was part of a tradition of distinctly
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'Sexual harassment is in the marrow of our business': actor Maureen Beattie on her determination to take the fear out of the acting industry
WHEN Maureen Beattie was a young drama student, someone in a position of power made a comment that deeply troubled her. “That person suggested to me,” she recalls, “that although my work was good as an actor, it lacked depth and I was never going to
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'Jackie Kay's poems are bound together by a generous, humane spirit': review of Bantam and other paperbacks
Bantam by Jackie Kay (Picador, £9.99)This is Kay’s first collection of poetry since becoming Makar, and several of these pieces are commissions, the most famous being Welcome Wee One, the poem she wrote for inclusion in the Scottish Government’s baby
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Hearts v Partick Thistle: Game on as safety certificate issued for new main stand at Tynecastle
HEARTS’ Ladbrokes Premiership fixture against Partick Thistle will go ahead after the new main stand at Tynecastle Park was given the necessary safety certificate just 18 hours before kick-off. City of Edinburgh Council officials carried out a final inspection
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Hearts game finally gets the go-ahead
HEARTS’ Ladbrokes Premiership fixture against Partick Thistle will finally go ahead after the new main stand at Tynecastle Park was given the necessary safety certificate just 18 hours before kick-off. City of Edinburgh Council officials carried
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Craig Chalmers: It was a performance that had everything, except a perfect ending for Scotland
SO near, yet so far. By far the best performance against the All Blacks since 1990 in Auckland but, in the end, another heartbreaker and another in the long list of games where Scotland could have got that scalp they so desperately want – but didn't
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Dundee 0 Kilmarnock 0: Welcome point and first clean sheet of season pleases Neil McCann
DUNDEE had a combination of the profligacy of Lee Erwin, the awareness of their goalkeeper Elliot Parish and the frame of his goal to thank for preventing their losing streak from stretching to six matches.Erwin only had Parish to beat seven minutes from
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Sublime free-kick winner timely for Leigh Griffiths as Celtic prepare for Paris Saint-Germain rematch
FOR a so-called free-kick specialist, Leigh Griffiths has enjoyed little success in that area of late. Indeed, the Celtic striker had failed to convert even one in the 25 competitive matches he played for both club and country after netting his famous
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Inside the volcano...Scots adventurer braves lava bombs, burning rocks and poisonous gas
LAVA bombs, burning rockfall and poisonous gas clouds – just some of the threats Scots adventurer Aldo Kane faced down when he went inside the world’s deadliest volcano for a new two-part BBC documentary. The former Royal Marines Commando from
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Paris St Germain outclass Celtic in seven-goal rout
Celtic suffered another night of European anguish against Paris St Germain in a 7-1 thrashing in the Parc des Princes. Former PSG youth player Moussa Dembele fired Celtic into a stunning first-minute lead but the home side reacted to the loss of