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What is today's Framed? July 25 movie hints and answer

If you're not a fan of the hit games Wordle or Heardle then maybe try the movie spin-off Framed.  Described as a game for 'cinephiles and casual movie watchers alike' it is inspired by the worldwide popular guessing games.  The game sees a

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Weaver word game July 25 hints and answer

Daily word ladder game, Weaver, brings the original format of an age-old puzzle, into the 21st century. The idea is reported to have been devised by novelist Lewis Carroll for his children, Julia and Ethel Arnold, on Christmas day in 1877, calling

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What is today's Heardle? July 25 song hints and answer

If you haven't cracked today's Heardle and immediately added it to your Spotify playlist yet, we can help you out. If you're anything like us, you've been agonising over the New York Times' mind-bender for months now. Described as "a respectful

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What is today's Quordle? July 25 word puzzle hints and answer

Turn up the heat on your daily brainteaser by swapping your regular Wordle for a Quordle mind bender. Whether you've aced the music spin-off Heardle and you've got the Film version Framed beat, it might be time to raise the stakes.  Described

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What is today’s Wordle? July 25 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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Joe Hart reveals Ange Postecoglou's message to Celtic squad ahead of new season

JOE HART insists that Celtic are ready for the new campaign to begin ahead of Aberdeen’s visit to Parkhead on Sunday. The Premiership champions will be celebrating flag day in Glasgow’s east end this weekend as they aim for a second consecutive

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Celtic legend Brown eagerly anticipating managerial bow after five long months

SCOTT BROWN says he is eagerly anticipating his competitive managerial bow after almost five months missing a matchday buzz. The Celtic legend begins his new career for real when taking Fleetwood to Port Vale for their League One season opener

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Joe Hart insists he can hit new heights further up the park for Celtic

IT can take a little time to get to grips with Ange Postecoglou’s vision, Joe Hart admits. The Celtic goalkeeper, who recorded a clean sheet in the team’s final pre-season outing against Norwich City on Saturday, has been working under the Greek-Australian

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Rangers claim first-ever City of Glasgow Women's Cup with win over Celtic

RANGERS, who were knocked out of the League Cup and Scottish Cup by Celtic last season, beat their oldest rivals 2-1 to win the first-ever City of Glasgow Women's Cup match at the Excelsior Stadium yesterday. Although Rangers captain Nicola Docherty

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Aberdeen cruise to win over Raith Rovers as Goodwin plays down Martin Boyle link

ABERDEEN'S recruitment over the summer has been super-charged with seven new faces brought in to bolster their ambition to challenge for honours this season after flopping last term and finishing in 10th place in the Premiership. But while manager

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Transparency demand over steel tycoon's £586m Scottish loan deal

Scottish ministers are facing calls for greater transparency after it was reported a metal tycoon under investigation for fraud paid just £5 towards the acquisition of a Highlands smelting plant – with taxpayers financing the rest of the £330million

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Premier Sports Cup second round draw in full

CELTIC will begin their defence of the Premier Sports Cup with a trip to take on Ross County in the Highlands. Ange Postecoglou's side were drawn as the away side in the final tie out of the hat for the second round. Meanwhile, Glasgow rivals

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Premier Sports Cup second round draw RECAP: Rangers play QotS as Celtic face trip to Ross County

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Watch: Take a tour round £55m artificial surf park as it hits key milestone

SCOTLAND’S first artificial wave park is expected to open in 2024 after securing £26 million backing from the Scottish National Investment Bank. The Wavegarden Scotland development of Craigpark Quarry at Ratho, near Edinburgh, will bring a 23-hectare

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Scots Word of the Week: Feet washing

FEET WASHING DICTIONARIES of the Scots Language defines this pre-marital tradition as “the ceremony of washing the feet of a bridegroom (or bride) performed by his (or her) friends on the eve of the wedding”. This custom is mentioned as early

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SNP embroiled in new 'sexual misconduct' scandal

THE SNP has refused to say what it knew about a sexual misconduct allegation against one of the party’s rising stars before he was allowed to become a council leader. Opposition parties said the SNP would be “sullied” if it failed to address the

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'Couldn't see racism if it hit them in the face': Lawyer says Cricket Scotland board resignations 'not enough'

THE lawyer representing two players at the centre of a Cricket Scotland racism 'scandal' has said that the board's resignation is "not enough". The entire board quit with immediate effect on Sunday before the publication of a sportscotland-commissioned

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Former Tory Scottish Secretary savages Truss tax plans

A FORMER Tory Scottish Secretary has slated Liz Truss’s plan to borrow money to fund £30billion in tax cuts, saying Margaret Thatcher would be “very unimpressed” by it. Sir Malcolm Rifkind, who was Scottish Secretary in Mrs Thatcher’s cabinet for

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Gardening: Short on Space? Kate Humble recommends growing these things at home

From leafy greens to chillies, anyone can grow their own produce. You might think you need a vast backyard and a green thumb to grow your own veg and herbs at home, but Kate Humble couldn't disagree more. "Even if you've just got a windowsill

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Wellbeing: How to navigate eco-anxiety in extreme weather

A psychotherapist tells Prudence Wade why she thinks we've moved past the anxiety stage and are now experiencing 'eco grief'. With such extreme temperatures this week, it can be tricky not to think about climate change right now. While these

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Food: How to teach your teenager to cook on a very tight budget

From a spice-themed week to letting your teen choose the menu, Gemma Bradley discovers there are many ways to inspire young people in the kitchen. Leaving home and starting university is a daunting experience - even more so if you don't know a

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All staff made redundant as building firm fails

By Ian McConnell Business Editor A SCOTTISH building and home improvements business has fallen into liquidation, with all 51 staff made redundant. Callum Carmichael and Chad Griffin, partners with FRP Advisory, have been appointed joint

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Entire board of Cricket Scotland resigns immediately ahead of damning racism report

The entire board of Cricket Scotland has resigned with immediate effect before the publication of an independent review that is expected to find that there is evidence of institutional racism. The report, due to be published on Monday is expected

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Premier Sports Cup draw: where to watch as Celtic, Rangers, Hearts, Dundee United and Motherwell enter hat

THE draw for the last 16 of the Premier Sports Cup will take place on Sunday as the Premiership's big hitters enter the competition. The five Scottish teams involved in European competition this term - Celtic, Rangers, Hearts, Dundee United and

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Reekie hopes to find sparkle at Commonwealth Games after semi-final heartbreak

JEMMA REEKIE will pick herself up, dust herself down and then be ready to go for the Commonwealth Games after her world championships were blown apart. Rather than hunting a medal in tonight’s women’s 800 metres final in Oregon, the Scots star

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Jake Wightman joins Scottish greats with stunning World 1500m title

ANDY MURRAY becoming Wimbledon champion. Celtic winning the European Cup. Josh Taylor becoming undisputed champion of the world. For a small country, Scottish sportspeople have achieved some astonishing things. In winning the world 1500m title

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Where would Scottish Women's Cup moving to SFA leave SWF?

CELTIC'S first-ever Scottish Women's Cup success in May could be one of the last under the auspices of Scottish Women's Football. I understand senior figures at the Scottish FA are keen to bring the national knock out competition into their portfolio

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Scotland's fire and rescue meltdown: 'Job losses have left service on 'the bones of its a***'

MINISTERS have been warned that lives are being put at risk through a crisis in Scotland’s fire service which has seen nearly 1000 jobs already go in the past ten years and hundreds more expected with planned real term cuts over the next five years

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Scots Gov is accused of ignoring experts after overturning almost HALF of all appealed planning decisions

MINISTERS have come under fire for ignoring specialist decision-making as it emerged they overturned nearly all appealed planning decisions made last year by the agency it tasks with protecting the nation’s heritage and half of those made by local

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Glasgow bagel business helps young LGBT Scots through inspirational fundraiser

IAN Brooke still looks over his shoulder when walking along a street when his husband takes his hand. The 42-year-old does it instinctively to see who might be there, partly for their own safety, but he longs for the day when a same-sex couple

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Letters: So Labour says it will not work with the SNP? It must like being in opposition

“I’M no psychic,” modestly asserts David Bone (Letters, July 17), but then his crystal ball “sees” an election on the horizon, and tells him that one of the only two parties big enough to form a Westminster government, is at best, a “fever dream”.

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'Mum has suffered enough': Where Covid masks could be doing more harm than good

Alison Walker's mother no longer recognises her. The window of opportunity for normal, family interactions in advanced dementia is short. However, she is convinced that 89-year-old Olive’s symptoms have accelerated more rapidly because for

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'The cancer disappeared...if I hadn't had CAR-T therapy, I wouldn't be here'

"IF someone had told me when I was diagnosed that I'd be feeling this way, and in remission, I'd have bitten their hand off," said Allan McLean. The 48-year-old civil servant from Cumbernauld in Lanarkshire was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

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Herald Diary: What to do about Burns, a loss of taste, and knowing the drill at the dentist

Taking the biscuit THE Diary is obsessed with the Tory leadership contest, and no wonder, with such charisma on display. First there’s Rishi Sunak, who has the magnetic intensity of a trainee call centre manager with his very own cubicle to

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Pupil indoctrination row over Queen's jubilee book as 'petty' SNP ministers criticised

It tells the story of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and was intended as a gift to every child in state-funded primary education. But a commemorative book commissioned to mark the Queen’s platinum jubilee is at the centre of a political row

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Former First Minister Henry McLeish: Why devolution was one small step for the UK, and one giant leap for Scotland

To mark the 25th anniversary of the day the White Paper on Scottish devolution was presented to the House of Commons, former First Minister Henry McLeish writes exclusively on its significance and why the occasion was his colleague Donald Dewar’s ‘

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David Pratt's Four Corners: Black Sea deal offers a grain of hope – but it won’t end this brutal war

Personal insights on stories from across the world by Foreign Editor David Pratt    Ukraine  Grain deal gives hope but will not stop the war    It’s the first bit of good news from the region in a while. With the warring neighbours

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THE BIG READ: Meet the women fighting to stop Scotland’s devastating 'escalator to extinction’

Picturesque locations such as the Cairngorms may be easy on the eye, but hidden from plain sight is what conservationists call the ‘escalator to extinction’. And now, botany experts Dr Aline Finger and Martine Borge are not only highlighting this disturbing

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Michael Settle: One thing's for sure, whoever is the next PM will feel serious heat on the only issue that really matters

DURING this week’s searing heatwave, one stark comment stood out. It came from Tim Stock, who, having witnessed his family home of 60 years go up in flames, said: “It was like a scene from the Blitz.” As smoke billowed over his home village in

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Iain Macwhirter: Human hand grenade Liz Truss would lead the Tories to their worst defeat since 1997

It started as a demolition derby and turned into a weird version of The X Factor for Margaret Thatcher tribute acts. In this fractious Tory leadership contest it looks as if the top clone, the Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, has won the votes of elderly

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Spotlight returns to Fife as hit show to return for second series

IT was a series that took viewers behind the scenes at one of Scotland’s largest holiday parks that captivated audiences, drawn to the stunning coastal scenery that also featured. Now ‘Life on the Bay’, is returning later this year, as Pettycur

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This week in the Herald Diary: Tales of a nonchalant naturist, a petulant pirate and a heinous ham

The money shot WE mentioned that chivalry isn’t dead in Scotland. It’s merely like the unfortunate black knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Sans arms, sans legs; all that remains is a bleeding torso. Which reminds Robin Gilmour from

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Cancer hope: The genetically-engineered immune cells 'curing' the incurable in Glasgow

"This is a different way of treating cancer, and it provides an answer for patients in whom there really might not be any good options." Dr David Irvine, a consultant haematologist at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, is talking