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Chancellor needs to be ‘clever’ to help UK through cost-of-living crisis
COMMENTS by Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey who gave an “apocalyptic” warning over rising food prices and blamed global factors including the war in Ukraine, have under under fire from Scottish entrepreneurs Sir Tom Hunter and Lord Willie Haughey
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Iconic Scots fashion brand Crombie returns under new ownership
IT’S the iconic Scottish coat brand famously worn by President John F Kennedy at his inauguration in 1961 that also found favour with Winston Churchill and Doctor Who. Now Crombie is back in the fashion spotlight with new owner Crombie 1805, headed
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What is today’s Wordle? May 23 hints
Wordle has taken the world by storm, and if you’ve not given in to playing the daily game, we can guarantee you’ve seen the elusive squares all over social media. The aim of the game is to find a 5 letter word in only six attempts. The game
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Jake Wightman forced to draw up plan B after sub-par showing at Diamond League in Birmingham
Jake Wightman admits he’s on the back foot after a sub-par showing at Saturday’s Diamond League in Birmingham that’s forced the Scottish star to formulate a Plan B. The Tokyo Olympic 1500m finalist was only fourth in the men’s 800 metres in a time
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Callum Davidson continues furious Bobby Madden blast and calls for 'a couple of good decisions' in St Johnstone's favour
CALLUM DAVIDSON has taken another swipe at referee Bobby Madden ahead of St Johnstone’s do or die Scottish Premiership play-off against Inverness. The McDiarmid Park boss fumed following his side’s 2-2 draw with Inverness in the Highlands after
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Lennon Miller has eyes set on Motherwell impact after combining exams with Scotland Under 17s stint
LENNON MILLER has combined playing for Scotland at the Under 17s Euro Finals in Israel with taking his exams and he admits he's also studying hard to make a first team impact at Motherwell next season. Scotland kids face their third game of the
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Callum Davidson hoping for no repeats of Blackburn relegation as St Johnstone face off against Inverness
CALLUM DAVIDSON suffered relegation as a player with Blackburn Rovers back in the 1998/99 season and, to this day, he still pinpoints the experience as the worst of his career. The 45-year-old is now just 90 minutes away from facing a similar
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Luke Crosbie unfazed by Stormers test and eager to carry on winning after derby lift
Luke Crosbie’s impersonation of a jack-in-the-box at the start of the second half of Saturday evening’s 1872 Cup clash at Murrayfield was a decisive, tone-setting moment in the match, putting Edinburgh firmly onto the front foot ahead of Magnus Bradbury
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Ali Price urges Glasgow to 'be better' as tough Leinster challenge looms
WHERE do Glasgow go from here? Dublin, is the literal, physical answer, and if they win their URC quarter-final against Leinster early next month their season will have been deemed a success no matter what happens thereafter. But the Warriors will
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Health: How do you really listen to your body when it comes to food and exercise?
A GP and personal trainer breaks down how - and why - we might want to start being a bit more intuitive with our diet and workouts. By Prudence Wade. We're often told to be a bit more intuitive when it comes to our personal health and listen to
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Kathyrn Joseph leaves us lost for words
Kathyrn Joseph The Great Eastern Festival The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh **** Kara kennedy Kathryn Joseph is back with her new album a success in Edinburgh festival “I’m not very fun,” claimed Kathryn Joseph in between songs at
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Nominations for the Scottish Bar & Pub Awards are open - Vote for your favourite
Nominations for the Scottish Bar & Pub Awards are now open but your favourite spot needs your help. Now in their 27th year, the Scottish Bar & Pub Awards is on the hunt for the best of Scottish hospitality. Each vote counts and you can cast
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Glasgow landmark set for demolition
AN APPLICATION has been submitted to demolish a landmark Glasgow city centre building and replace it with a £75 million office development with ground-floor retail space. Originally constructed in the mid-1960s, Princes House was formerly home
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Technology: Beelink SER4 AMD Ryzen mini workstation
What is it? A small but highly capable PC from Beelink. Good points? Mini PCs fill a novel gap between portable laptops and powerful PCs that allow business users to move the computer from home to office and back with no fuss. Sporting
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Union says minister's claims over Scotrail dispute 'not credible'
A TRADE union has hit out at a Scottish Government minister for asking workers to be 'sensible' about pay. Richard Lochhead, employment and fair work minister, said this morning that workers from Scotrail, and elsewhere, had to be "sensible" due
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Tiger Woods withdraws from US PGA following his worst round at event
Tiger Woods withdrew from the US PGA Championship on Saturday evening, hours after recording his worst score in the event. Woods made the halfway cut with a shot to spare at Southern Hills, but struggled to a nine-over-par 79 in the third round
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Cabinet minister squirms over 'sleekit' Sue Gray meeting
THE UK Government's education secretary has been unable to say who organised a meeting between Boris Johnson and the civil servant investigating lockdown breaking across Whitehall. Boris Johnson met with Sue Gray several weeks ago however a briefing
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Jobs minister claims Scottish Government cannot intervene over Scotrail dispute
THE Scottish Government's employment minister has said he hopes the Scotrail strike problems will be "sorted soon" but distanced Holyrood's ability to intervene. Richard Lochhead, speaking to the BBC's Sunday Show, said he hoped the dispute at
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TV: David Harbour and Brett Gelman talk Stranger Things' terrifying fourth season and 'heavenly' co-star Winona Ryder
Rachael Davis sits down with two stars of Netflix's hit sci-fi horror series to find out why this season is the most epic yet Residents of the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana often say that it is cursed. Hawkins is the kind of small, sleepy
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Book is essential reading for anyone wondering what a new Yes Scotland campaign might look like
A New Scotland - Building an Equal, Fair and Sustainable Society Edited by Gregor Gall Pluto Press, £14.99 IT has dawned on the nationalist left that the SNP is not exactly socialist. It is barely social democratic, for all the rhetoric
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Proclaimers' Sunshine on Leith returns to the stage - with added songs
Brian Beacom HOW do you create a Broadway-style musical packed with Scottish songs which suggests dramatic narrative, resonates politically – and provides all the emotional uplift of a hug from your granny at Christmas? Thankfully, Stephen
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Letters: SNP’s dream of nationalised rail has become a nightmare
IT appears that the SNP’s dream of a nationalised rail service has quickly turned into a nightmare, with services decimated and workers – the new owners of Scotrail – unable to get home from their jobs without significant costs, delays and inconveniences
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Stirling University: a perfect combination of concrete, glass and greenery
IT WILL be 40 years this autumn since I first arrived at Stirling University. Four decades since I was a student on perhaps the most beautiful campus in the country. Much has changed in the interim. The halls of residence I stayed in were knocked down
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Susan Swarbrick: Why I'm doing a digital detox – and you should too
YOU join us as today's scheduled column is interrupted. There I was, typing up a storm at my desk, when suddenly the screen in front of me faded to black. All the words vanished. I sat momentarily bewildered. It took a few seconds for me to realise
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Is time running out for Scotland’s Highland Games?
For the excited crowd drawn to a field near Inverness, the Highland Games of 1822 were much as might be expected today, with one grim exception. At a spot on the south-west of the city, traditional sports such as throwing the hammer and putting
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Tiger Woods withdraws from US PGA following his worst round at event
Tiger Woods withdrew from the US PGA Championship on Saturday evening, hours after recording his worst score in the event. Woods made the halfway cut with a shot to spare at Southern Hills, but struggled to a nine-over-par 79 in the third round
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Matt Fitzpatrick relishing chance at securing first major title
Matt Fitzpatrick is relishing the opportunity to win a first major title in the 104th US PGA Championship at Southern Hills. A third round of 67 means Fitzpatrick trails leader Mito Pereira by three shots and will partner the PGA Tour rookie from
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Hopes are rising that new app might reduce misery of a deadly horse illness
For more than a century, it’s been a mysterious death sentence for horses which has left vets baffled and owners heartbroken. First identified in Montrose in 1907, equine grass sickness seems to strike out of the blue, leaving affected horses fighting
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As the climate shifts, new visitors are winging their way north
With its varied landscape of beaches, hills, lochs, marshes and sandy beaches, the island of Mull is a wildlife haven and home to some of the most delightful and impressive birds. For those with a keen eye, soaring above the hundreds of miles of
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Trailblazers Glasgow City merit seat on board as new chapter in women's football in Scotland begins
A NEW chapter for women’s football in Scotland will begin on Wednesday when the inaugural annual general meeting of the top 20 clubs is held at Hampden. As outlined last week, five representatives will be voted on to the new SPFL subsidiary board.
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Daniels announcement does men's game huge service, but there's more to do
EVERY so often, someone makes a mark in sport that’s far larger than their ability indicates. Jean-Marc Bosman is one. So, too, is Colin Kaepernick. And last week, another may have surfaced when 17-year-old Blackpool forward Jake Daniels
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Scotland's 10 best underground adventures: Caves, tunnels, bunkers, mines and crypts to explore
THE wild and rugged landscapes of Scotland may inspire poetry and grace calendar pages, but a raft of hidden gems can equally fire the imagination. From caves and tunnels to bunkers, mines and crypts, here's our pick of the 10 best underground
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'Living on planet Mars': ScotRail service cuts chaos as union brands ministers' vow of 130 new drivers 'a joke'
UNION leaders have warned that state-controlled ScotRail’s plans to bring in 130 new train drivers will not end a staff shortage which has led to two weeks of rail chaos and cuts to one in three services across the nation from tomorrow. Transport
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Revealed: Ministers don't know what state £250m ferry fiasco vessels are in - despite public assurances
MINISTERS have been advised that their experts have been unable to establish what state the two vessels at the centre of Scotland’s £250m ferry fiasco are in - despite official assurances that they will be ready next year, the Herald on Sunday can
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Best European summer holiday destinations to travel on a budget revealed
Dreaming of soaking up the sun on a summer holiday but don't want to blow the budget? Discover Cars is here to help. Exploring 11 top European cities and summer tourist hotspots, DiscoverCars.com has crunched the numbers on a getaway to the top
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David Pratt's Four Corners: It’s now clear Vladimir Putin aims to ‘save’ Ukraine by destroying it
Ukraine: Mariupol - a pyrrhic ‘victory’ It’s a phrase that has become among the most iconic in our political discourse. Most attribute its origins to journalist Peter Arnett’s famous Vietnam dispatch for the Associated Press that included
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NEIL MACKAY'S BIG READ: 'The EU would welcome an independent Scotland ... but currency is going to be the main problem' says former French ambassador
Sylvie Bermann was the French ambassador to the UK during Brexit. She spent an evening with our Writer at Large Neil Mackay in Glasgow discussing Scottish independence, the UK leaving Europe, what she really thinks of Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon
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Michael Settle: Downing Street's 83 lawbreakers certainly prove honour is an alien concept to Johnson
IT was, to say the least, quite a shameful achievement. The very place where the Covid laws were hatched was the one where they were most egregiously and most often broken. No fewer than 83 people in Downing St, including Boris Johnson, wife Carrie
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'Independent Scotland will have to keep Trident for 10 years to join Nato'
AN independent Scotland would have to accept keeping Trident for more than ten years if it wanted to join Nato, a leading defence expert has warned. Professor Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director general of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI
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I am confident Holyrood will legalise assisted dying, says MSP behind plans
THE MSP behind new assisted dying proposals is confident Holyrood will support them. Liam McArthur said conversations he has had with colleagues across parties have convinced him there has been a change in the ‘political mood’ since previous bills
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Sir Tom Devine: 'Sturgeon's legacy will be defined by delivery or not of independence'
NICOLA Sturgeon’s ultimate legacy as First Minister will be determined by whether she can deliver independence, according to Scotland’s leading historian. Professor Sir Tom Devine, inset, said he believed future scholars would give a positive assessment
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Iain Macwhirter: Scotland's newly-nationalised rail service is already in a death spiral
How will a worker on average pay feel about not being able to get to or from work because of a strike by train drivers who earn £52,000 a year basic (around twice the median Scottish annual wage)? That was the question posed by the presenters of
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Salmond issues warning to Sturgeon if Indyref2 doesn't take place in 2023
By Kathleen Nutt Political Correspondent ALEX Salmond will today say Nicola Sturgeon should be congratulated as she becomes Scotland's longest serving First Minister next week - beating his record. But the former SNP chief, who now leads
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Boris Johnson: is the greased piglet running out of wriggle room?
How does Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson do it? The wriggling out of things, I mean. The not getting snagged or nabbed. We’re all scratching our heads. We all want to know, only not really because that would mean peeking behind the curtain and ruining
