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Nicola Sturgeon has not spoken to Alex Salmond since he was charged
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has not spoken to her predecessor Alex Salmond since he was charged with a series of sexual assault offences earlier this year, she said. The former first minister pleaded not guilty to 14 separate allegations
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Neil Lennon all the better for maintaining his cool
THEY sing about the heat of Lisbon. But there is nothing in verse about the suffocating temperatures in Seville. Or anything that recalls the sight of Neil Lennon, in an unseasonable early summer Spanish heat wave, warming up complete with head-to-toe
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Neil Lennon: Lewis Morgan's going nowhere in January - Celtic winger can kick on after Rennes display
NEIL Lennon last night ruled out Lewis Morgan being sent out on loan in January and backed the Celtic winger to use his performance in the Europa League win over Rennes to kickstart his season. Lennon sprang a major surprise in the Group E match
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"Rennes win showed Celtic can cope without Odsonne Edouard - but I may still target a striker in January"
THERE were many positive aspects of Celtic’s win over Rennes on Thursday evening for Neil Lennon; the performance of Lewis Morgan up front, the world-class saves that Fraser Forster once again pulled off and the contribution of Mikey Johnston as he
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James Tavernier ready for his biggest month at Ibrox as Rangers prepare for domestic and European showdowns
EIGHT games, four weeks, three competitions. It is potentially defining and historic at Ibrox. For James Tavernier, it is the most significant spell of his Rangers career, a run that could finally give him the success he has spent years striving
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Steven Gerrard confident Rangers' character will shine through over crucial run of fixtures
STEVEN GERRARD knows his players have the talent to be successful this season. Now he needs them to show their mentality in a run of games that could make or break those silverware ambitions. Over the next four weeks, Rangers will play eight games
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Steven Gerrard won't cash in on key men as he looks to trim Rangers squad in January
STEVEN GERRARD has reiterated his firm stance that none of his key players will leave Rangers this winter as he looks to trim his Ibrox squad. The Light Blues boss has been forthright in his answers when questioned about the future of star striker
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Watsonians seek to raise their game in battle with the Bulls
SECOND plays first in Super6 this afternoon as Ayrshire Bulls try to inflict a first defeat of the fledgling season on Watsonians. The Edinburgh side are four points clear of the Bulls after winning their first three games, but have looked vulnerable
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Rangers boss Steven Gerrard offers support to Jordan Rossiter after midfielder is ruled out for the rest of the season
STEVEN GERRARD has backed midfielder Jordan Rossiter to recover from his latest injury setback after he was ruled out for the rest of the campaign with a knee injury. The former Liverpool kid clinched a loan deal to Fleetwood in the summer as he
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Dave Rennie confident Huw Jones can step up following return to Warriors starting line-up
FOR Huw Jones, the importance of Glasgow Warriors clash today with Leinster in the Pro14 cannot be overstated. The centre has fallen out of favour with head coach, Dave Rennie, and after missing out on Scotland’s World Cup squad, has made just three
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Nicola Sturgeon infuriates Brexit party chair in election TV debate
NICOLA Sturgeon has clashed with the chair of the Brexit party over the future of the NHS. The First Minister got under Richard Tice’s skin in a seven-way debate on the BBC. It followed Labour’s Rebecca Long-Bailey insisting that, despite his
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As it happened: Candidates discuss Brexit, Trident and NHS in heated live BBC General Election debate
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More urgency needed to tackle red deer numbers, warn charities
With its magnificent branching antlers, russet-brown coat, physical strength and speed, the red deer has become one of Scotland’s most popular and enduring natural icons. It thrives in the Highlands and Islands, where forests and secluded glens
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FTSE 100 slumps into red as US-China trade tensions weigh on stocks
THE FTSE 100 closed out Friday's trading session firmly in the red after stuttering US trade talks with China and a dearth of economic news weighed on the index. London's top flight closed 69.9 points lower at 7,346.53 at the end of trading on Friday
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Fireworks fly in Rotterdam as Morelos hits the mark
Stewart Fisher at De Kuip ALFREDO Morelos wrote his name into the history books but Rangers still can’t quite write theirs into the draw for the last 32 of the Europa League. There were fireworks off the pitch and on it and when the sulphur
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Police treating London Bridge knife rampage as terror-related
A man has been shot by police on London Bridge after a knife rampage which police are treating as a terrorist attack. Several people were stabbed by the knifeman before he was grappled to the ground and disarmed by members of the public. Footage
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Mo Farah in track u-turn, Callum Hawkins to benefit
MO FARAH has performed a u-turn on his decision to retire from the track, announcing that he will defend his 10,000m title at the Tokyo Olympics. Two years ago, having won four Olympic gold medals and six World Championship gold medals at 5000m
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Business Bulletin: Daimler to cut thousands of jobs worldwide | Student flats firm acquires rival for £1.4bn | Estate agent sells commercial arm
Daimler has said it plans to cut thousands of jobs worldwide by the end of 2022. The German carmaker said it plans not to fill some vacant posts and to offer severance packages in Germany to reduce administrative jobs. The company had said
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Multiple injures as police respond to London Bridge stabbing being treated ‘as terror-related’
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Police and ambulance called to London Bridge over claims of shots being fired
Emergency services have been called to London Bridge amid reports of shots being fired. The Metropolitan Police said: “We are currently dealing with an incident at London Bridge. Please stand by for updates.” The London Ambulance Service said
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Rennie says he would not accept Indyref2 as price of stopping Brexit
WILLIE Rennie has said he would put stopping independence ahead of stopping Brexit if the general election results in a hung parliament. The Scottish Liberal Democrat leader said he would not want a second independence vote to add to the existing
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The data that shows Scotland have jumped to 13th in the coefficient rankings
Scotland’s coefficient was once again boosted last night with Celtic securing a win against Rennes and Rangers holding out for an away draw against Feyenoord. Only a handful of countries have gained more coefficient points than Scotland this year
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Javid accuses Sturgeon of 'getting into bed' with party 'riddled' with anti-Semitism
SAJID Javid has accused Nicola Sturgeon of “getting into bed” with a party “riddled” with anti-Semitism in order to secure an independence referendum. The Chancellor said Ms Sturgeon “would have to explain how she can prop up” Jeremy Corbyn despite
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Watch: Scottish Climate Hustings as politicians face debate on environmental issues
The Herald will present a special debate on the future of Scotland’s climate exploring how the main parties will deal with environmental issues ahead of the December 12 vote. We were having some technical difficulties and apologise if you tuned
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Review: BBC SSO/Hermus, City Halls, Glasgow
Music BBC SSO/Hermus City Halls, Glasgow Keith Bruce **** ON THE day before the RSNO introduced Scotland to the force of nature that is violinist Sandy Cameron at its Danny Elfman gala concerts, the guest soloist with Scotland’s
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Dozens of football fans detained after Feyenoord - Rangers clash
Over 40 football fans have been detained or arrested outside Feyneoord’s De Kuip stadium following Rangers Europa League clash with the Dutch giants. Police in the Netherlands reported no “major incidents” in the hours before or after the match
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Campaign to preserve Robert the Bruce letter from 1312
A letter written by Robert the Bruce in 1312 is the subject of a crowdfunding campaign to preserve the historic document. The National Trust for Scotland hopes to raise £24,000 on St Andrew’s Day to put the letter back on display and protect it
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PODCAST: Fallout from Rangers and Celtic AGM's
ON this week's episode of On The Same Page, Paige Beresford and James Cairney discuss the fallout of both the AGMs from Celtic and Rangers. The pair discuss everything from Dave King's time at Ibrox, Alfredo Morelos, both club's financial turnovers
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Obituary: Sir Jonathan Miller, writer, director, doctor and actor
Writer, director, doctor and actor Born: July 21, 1934; Died: November 27, 2019 SIR Jonathan Miller, who has died aged 85, had dazzlingly successful careers in half a dozen different fields, any one of which might have seemed sufficiently
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Scottish Natural Heritage apologises for killing hundreds of trees
An environmental organisation has apologised after deliberately killing hundreds of trees on an island in Loch Lomond. Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) said it should have informed the landowner before poisoning all the beech trees on Inchtavannach
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Scottish Climate Hustings LIVE: Politicians face debate on environmental issues
Representatives from across the political spectrum are set to be quizzed on their response to the climate emergency as part of an environmental hustings. The Herald will present a special debate on the future of Scotland’s climate in partnership
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Boris Johnson confronted by single mother on live radio show over his 'illegitimate' comments
Boris Johnson has defended disparaging remarks he made about single mothers, telling a voter they were made before he was “even in politics”. An article written by the Conservative Party leader for the Spectator magazine in 1995 has been unearthed
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Arsenal sack Unai Emery
Arsenal have sacked head coach Unai Emery, the Premier League club have announced. Speaking on behalf of the Arsenal board and our owners Kroenke Sports and Entertainment, Josh Kroenke said in a statement: “Our most sincere thanks go to Unai and
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Legends set for EURO2020 draw in Bucharest
Some of the biggest names in European football history will be in attendance for the UEFA EURO 2020 final tournament draw in Bucharest on Saturday evening, boasting eight winners' medals and 109 finals appearances between them. Five members of
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Watch: Michael Gove turned away from Channel 4 climate debate
This is the moment Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Surrey Heath Michael Gove attempted to be included on Channel 4's climate debate but was denied entry. The Conservatives have made a formal complaint to Ofcom's election committee as an
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Business Bulletin: Npower 'to cut 4,500 jobs' in restructure | Windfall for bank customers | Ocado in Japan expansion
Energy giant Npower has announced plans to restructure its UK business, leading to the loss of up to 4,500 jobs and the closure of a number of call centres. The news was described as a "body blow" by unions, especially coming just weeks before
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Celtic and Rangers club coefficient hits five-year high
Celtic and Rangers have excelled in the Europa League this season with both clubs enjoying a number of famous wins in the competition. And while the wins have seen Scotland rise to 15th in the overall nation coefficient, both Celtic and Rangers
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Business Week: Sir Ian Wood in Brexit change of heart | Building society branch boost | Jenners to quit Princes Street
Oil services tycoon Sir Ian Wood has said he now favours Brexit as he underlined his view that independence would be bad for Scotland’s economy. READ MORE: Sir Ian said he had voted in favour of remaining part of the European Union in 2016 but
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Mother of Milly Main says her daughter would be alive if hospital had acted on contamination reports
The mother of a girl who died from an infection at a Glasgow hospital believes her daughter would still be alive if action had been taken when contamination risks were discovered shortly before it opened. A report leaked by a whistleblower revealed
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Watch: Celtic clinch top spot with comfortable 3-1 win over Rennes
Celtic clinched top spot in Europa League Group E with a solid 3-1 win over Rennes at Parkhead. The Hoops had already qualified for the last 32 of the competition but boss Neil Lennon had stressed the importance of winning a group for the first
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Watch: Highlights as Alfredo Morelos scores twice to earn Rangers a draw at Feyenoord
Rangers face a nervy final game in the Europa League after securing a 2-2 draw with Feyenoord. Alfredo Morelos became the first Rangers player to score in four consecutive European clashes when he cancelled out Jans Toornstra’s opener in Rotterdam
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Debate to be had about future of monarchy says Nicola Sturgeon
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said there is a debate to be had over the future of the monarchy in the wake of the controversy over the Duke of York. Andrew stepped down from public duties after mounting pressure following his BBC Newsnight
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Last single-sex state school to admit boys for the first time
The last state-funded all-girls school in Scotland is to admit boys for the first time, after councillors voted unanimously in favour of the change. Notre Dame High School will now become co-educational with the first male pupils admitted to S1
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Scotland’s Craig Moore outnumbered in the Glasgow Clan dressing room, but things couldn't be better
GLASGOW CLAN’S Craig Moore may have been born in Kirkcaldy, but he speaks with an unmistakable North American twang mixed in with his Scottish accent. The 24-year-old spent the bulk of his childhood in Scotland but in his mid-teens, he moved to
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Ian McConnell: So who is fooled by Boris Brexit propaganda? Sadly the many, not the few.
WE do truly live in the age of the vacuous slogan. Some, in the likes of the advertising industry, are harmless enough. Others are dangerous. While we should by now be inured to Boris Johnson and his bizarre Brexit odyssey, a newspaper picture
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John Menzies’ profits set to ‘substantially increase’
JOHN MENZIES chairman Philipp Joeinig has said he believes the company will be well placed to “substantially increase” profits in 2020 after the firm navigated through a difficult trading backdrop this year. The Edinburgh-based aviation logistics
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Oil and gas entrepreneurs take North Sea firm on to stock market
NORTH Sea-focused Longboat Energy has completed a stock market flotation. Trading in Longboat Energy’s shares began on the Aim market yesterday. Former Faroe Petroleum bosses win investor backing for North Sea acquisitions Founded by former
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Be grateful for Neil's ability to puncture the arrogance of our politicians
MIRROR, mirror on the wall. If, as we're so often led to believe, "honesty is the best policy", and if, as we're all duty-bound to affirm in court that what we say will be "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth", who in the land is best
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Letters: The SNP's manifesto is riddled with hypocrisy
NICOLA Sturgeon launched the SNP election manifesto with a series of damming statements about the other political parties, their track records and promises slip ("Every vote for SNP is a vote for Indyref2 – Sturgeon", The Herald, November 28). As
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Oil services tycoon in Brexit change of heart
Oil services tycoon Sir Ian Wood has said he now favours Brexit as he underlined his view that independence would be bad for Scotland’s economy. Sir Ian said he had voted in favour of remaining part of the European Union in 2016 but now felt it
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Labour's lost chance on education
ROSEMARY Goring writes that, if the Labour Party is able to form a government following the imminent General Election, and was able as a result to implement its election manifesto, including the abolition of all fee-paying schools, it would be guilty
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Shares in Aberdeen oil firm plunge after North Sea setback
SHARES in North Sea-focused i3 Energy have plunged around 40 per cent after the firm suffered a drilling reverse. The company said a well drilled on the Liberator West prospect in the Moray Firth had encountered a thinner layer of oil than was
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Agenda: Tech firms in line for fast-track disputes scheme
By Rebecca Roberts TECHNICALLY complex, time-consuming and often expensive, technology disputes are in desperate need of an overhaul. This is what educational charity, Society for Computers and Law (SCL), has set to deliver by way of its new adjudication
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Issue of the Day: Black Friday
TODAY is one of the biggest shopping days of the year, with consumers ignoring political and economic uncertainty to splurge billions in a retail bonanza, so how did Black Friday become such a global phenomenon? It has its roots in the US? Back
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Failing health boards ‘need help earlier’ before problems spiral
A failure to monitor health boards’ performance effectively has contributed to a breakdown in services and increasing reliance on taxpayer bailouts, MSPs have warned. Holyrood’s Health and Sport Committee said more needed to be done to detect problems
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Why it is feared Scotland's wind power economic boom is all hot air
It is the green energy revolution that aims to transform the renewable economy in Scotland and the rest of the UK. Nine years ago, the Scottish Government said large-scale development of offshore wind represented “the biggest opportunity for sustainable
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Clydesdale owner sees shares lift as bank sets millions more aside for PPI
By Scott Wright SHARES in Clydesdale Bank owner Virgin Money have surged nearly 20 per cent, despite the lender making a “frustrating” provision for payment protection insurance (PPI) claims causing losses to widen and prompting it to cancel its
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McLaren celebrates 40th with new record
MCLAREN Packaging Group has marked its 40th anniversary with a record turnover and investment in new capital equipment. Set up as an independent supplier of corrugated cases to the whisky industry, the family-run McLaren Packaging has expanded
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67m meals will be thrown away next month
Nearly 70 million meals will go to waste in Scotland next month, a study by Zero Waste Scotland has revealed. In total, 67m meals will end up being thrown out and 84 per cent of households will have food left over from Christmas Day. Festive
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Forgotten embroidery pieces to star in university exhibition
For more than half a century they lay forgotten in a university cupboard, a neglected remnant of a once nationallyimportant collection. But now a treasure trove of textiles is to go on show once more after being rediscovered by staff at the Edinburgh
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Claire Mack: Scotland is only at the start of its off-shore wind journey
Make no mistake about it: the announcement of contracts for the Neart Na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Farm show that this sector in Scotland is truly up and running. The contracts announced yesterday will create jobs in the Scottish Borders, and in Fife
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Scotland left with 'scraps off table' in £2bn wind farm boom
Scotland has missed out on hundreds of millions of pounds of work in the creation of one of the country’s biggest offshore wind farms to overseas firms, the Herald can reveal. Unions are furious at what they see as “the scraps off the table” that
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Former Scottish Enterprise chief lands role at Edinburgh accountant
FORMER Scottish Enterprise boss Lena Wilson has added a further boardroom role to her portfolio after being appointed chairman of Chiene + Tait, writes Scott Wright. Ms Wilson, who ran Scotland’s economic development agency for eight years before
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Number of Scots living with cancer soars to 250,000, says new study
The number of people living with a cancer diagnosis across Scotland has risen to nearly quarter of a million, new analysis suggests. Cancer charity Macmillan Cancer Support calculated the figure from national cancer registry data and estimated
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Helen McArdle: NHS Highland's whistleblowers have been let down again in compensation row
IS it ever worthwhile to whistleblow in the NHS? For the clinicians who first spoke out just over a year ago about bullying and intimidation in NHS Highland, this week has been a bitter blow. Despite the vindication of the independent Sturrock
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Suggesting that people should reduce the amount of red meat they consume is not the answer to improving the UK’s environmental impact
THIS week’s BBC 1 programme, Meat: A Threat to our Planet (November 25) gave an unbalanced and inaccurate view of the environmental challenges facing livestock production, potentially misleading UK consumers about how their meat is produced. By concentrating
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Those were the days - The fire at the St Andrew’s Hall, 1962
“THIS”, declared Glasgow’s Lord Provost Jean Roberts, who was on the scene early, “is a tragedy. St Andrew’s Hall has been the cultural and political centre of the city for generations”. As she watched - hatless, and dressed in a fawn camel coat
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Catriona Stewart: Boris Johnson acknowledges his immoral bumbling - so why don't voters?
ANYONE who’s watched a Gen Z-er overshare their private life on social media has breathed a sigh of relief that they were never compelled to display the inner workings of their unformed minds on permanent record on the internet. Every half-formed
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Rebecca McQuillan: A vote for the Tories is a vote for independence
AND there we were, imagining this election was about Brexit. Nicola Sturgeon has other ideas. Launching her party’s manifesto, she insisted that a vote for the SNP on December 12 was a vote for a second independence referendum. (And a vote to stop
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Mark Smith: 'Vegan'? 'Allergic'? No, just a little bit stupid
I’M preparing lunch for the six-year-old daughter of a friend of mine. “Oh, she doesn’t like brown bread, do you have white bread with the crusts removed? Oh, she doesn’t like round burgers, could you cut them into squares. Oh, she doesn’t like that
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Herald Diary: Owzat, Clive
Batty about cricket THE death of writer and TV presenter Clive James will sadden anyone who takes pleasure in wit and erudition packaged inside an Australian accent. Reader Stephen Murray saw Clive perform a one-man show at the Edinburgh Fringe
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Who will leave the greater legacy at their club, Dave King or Peter Lawwell?
IF this week of AGM’s in Glasgow has taught me anything, it is to be a bit more judicious when selecting my annual leave days next year. Lesson learned. As it was, I traipsed along to the annual meeting of Celtic’s shareholders on Wednesday morning
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Consumer confidence 'flatlines' amid uncertainty over election
CONSUMER confidence has "flatlined" in the face of Brexit and election uncertainty, four years since it was last in positive territory, according to a long-running survey. GfK's Consumer Confidence Index remained unchanged at minus 14 in November
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Engineers see orders tumble amid woe on Brexit
SCOTTISH engineers have suffered a further sharp slide in UK and export order intake in the latest quarter, amid continuing Brexit uncertainty, a key survey has revealed. The rate of increase in employment in the sector meanwhile slowed, according
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Poll blow sees Labour and LibDems in strategy shift
Labour and the Liberal Democrats will try to reboot their campaigns in the final fortnight of the election after a new poll showed them being hammered in Leave constituencies. Jeremy Corbyn and Jo Swinson are being forced to change tack by the
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Scotland edge closer to getting two clubs into the Champions League with Celtic and Rangers results
SCOTLAND have taken a giant step closer to getting two clubs into Champions League qualifying - and having another representative in Europe. Celtic’s win over Rennes at Parkhead and Rangers’ draw with Feyenoord in Rotterdam last night saw the country
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Ryan Christie says Celtic have proved they are a big European side once more
RYAN CHRISTIE believes that Celtic have shown they are a big European side again, rising to manager Neil Lennon's challenge to make a mark on the continent. Celtic clinched top spot in their qualification group with a comfortable 3-1 win over Rennes
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Suspended SNP candidate apologises 'unreservedly' over anti-Semitic language
A candidate suspended by the SNP has apologised "unreservedly" over anti-semitic language in social media posts. The SNP has said it was taking "tough action" against anti-Semitism as it suspended Neale Hanvey, one of its candidates for next month's