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What is today's Framed? July 31 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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What is today's Quordle? July 31 word puzzle hints and answer
End the month on a winning streak by cracking today's Quordle word puzzle. 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 by some as 'Wordle on steroids
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What is today's Heardle? July 31 song hints and answer
Finish July on a high by keeping up with your Heardle streak and we've even given you a few helpful hints to help you crack it. If you're anything like us, you've been agonising over the New York Times' mind-bender for months now. Described
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What is today's Wordle? July 31 hints and answer
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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Hearts 2-1 Ross County: Forrest and McKay on target as Jambos make winning start
IT was not surprising that Robbie Neilson, the Hearts manager, was more keen to look forward rather than reflect on this hard-fought victory over Ross County. The Gorgie side rode their luck during a lacklustre first half display that saw the visitors
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Kilmarnock 1 Dundee United 1: Taylor snatches point at death for hosts in top-flight return
KILMARNOCK marked their return to the Cinch Premiership with a rousing finale as they claimed a deserved point from their meeting with Dundee United. A powerful volley from Ash Taylor in the 91st minute of what had been an entertaining tussle cancelled
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St Johnstone 0 Hibernian 1: Lee Johnson's side buoyed by dramatic late winner
CHARACTERISED as a meeting of two teams already in crisis before a ball had been kicked in the new Premiership campaign, Hibernian finished it buoyed by the hope of a dramatic late winner. It was a victory laced in controversy, however, after St
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Wes Goosen relishing competition in Mike Blair's Edinburgh squad
WES Goosen believes that the “winning, competitive culture” he was part of with the Hurricanes in New Zealand can help Edinburgh keep up the progress they showed last season. The 26-year-old winger, who signed for the capital club in May, was born
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The Burrell: A jewelled case for a treasure trove
WORDS: Jonathan Black PICTURES: GEMMA POWELL In 1944 Sir William Burrell and his wife, Lady Constance Burrell, donated some 6,000 pieces from their private art collection to the city of Glasgow – one of the most substantial endowments
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Books: The history of Scotland's influence in the world and the world's on Scotland
Scotland: The Global History Murray Pittock Yale, £25 REVIEW BY ROSEMARY GORING Such was people’s desire to learn about Scotland’s past that, at one point in 1999, Tom Devine’s History of the Scottish Nation outshone Harry Potter
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Drink: Five non-alcoholic drinks to try
As thousands of hospital admissions and deaths are caused by pandemic drinking, it's time to be more mindful, says Sam Wylie-Harris. The mindful drinking movement has been gaining traction for some time now - and it turns out, getting the non-alcoholic
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Gardening with Dave Allan: Out of the airing cupboard and into your garden borders
Lavender is a Mediterranean plant that’s benefited from the recent hot, dry spell we’ve been enjoying in Scotland. I simply must have several lavender plants throughout the garden. One little bush straddles a dyke round the side of the house and
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Motoring: Seven of the best cars for camping trips
Looking for a camping adventure this year? These are the best cars for the job, says Ted Welford. Camping has really grown in popularity in recent years, as many appreciate just how fantastic it is to spend time in the great outdoors. But whether
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Technology: SwitchBot Curtain Rod 2
What is it? A smart home, curtain rail automation system. Good points? Retro-fitting modern technology to a home is rarely easy but SwitchBot has made it straightforward with the Curtain Rod 2. You simply place the device between the
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Agenda: Shared meals and new friendships show a brighter future
By Thomas Black TODAY is the International Day of Friendship – a good day to celebrate the remarkable story of a beautiful friendship in South Sudan, started by the simple act of sharing a school meal. Mary’s Meals is a charity serving a daily
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Travel: Could this remote Zambian Park be Africa's wildest, once-in-a-lifetime safari destination?
Shrouded in legend and folklore, Liuwa Plain is an off-the-beaten-track adventure, says Sarah Marshall. Few people would happily reside next door to lions. But in Zambia's Liuwa Plain National Park, where communities still live inside the protected
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'Full disclaimer, this is NOT a nude show': Our Fringe comedy picks
HELEN BAUER Sum up your act in 5 words: Arguably too much basic chat Comedy heroes: I love Julia Davis, Gina Riley and Jane Turner. They are my absolute dream and have really shaped my comedy. Also Ja yde Adams she always makes me howl with
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Garden of the week: The art of beauty: hail to thee, gardens of Cawdor
Cawdor Castle Nairn Moray AV12 5RD Why Should We Visit? There has been a castle at Cawdor since 1179, long before Shakespeare awarded the title of Thane to Macbeth and set him on his murderous path. All that remains of that earlier
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Paperback: Common Decency by Susannah Dickey
COMMON DECENCY Susannah Dickey (Doubleday, £14.99) It must be stressful enough to carry on an affair with a married man, with all the uncertainty, anxiety and insecurity that it entails. But if, at the same time, you’re unknowingly having
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Theatre: Can the matchmaker find love for herself in Two's Company?
CARRY on loving. That will be the message to emerge once Rishi and Liz have stripped each other bare and ravaged each other, in a political sense of course, because we all know that in a few weeks they’ll be sitting cosy comfy holding hands (figuratively
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Travel: Why hostels are the best option for a bargain European break
No longer restricted to backpackers, hostels are more appealing than ever. By Sarah Marshall. Anyone who's taken a gap year or backpacked across continents has probably stayed in a hostel at some point along the way. Cheap and cheerful, these simple
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Books: Bolu Babalola's new novel is the July pick for Reese Witherspoon's book club...
Fiction No Country For Girls Emma Styles Sphere, £16.99 (ebook £9.99) Accidental outlaws Nao and Charlie's paths collide when they both inadvertently become involved in a gold theft - and suddenly find themselves on the run for murder
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Kelly explains Alexander’s Motherwell exit as he details 'toxicity' behind departure
GRAHAM Alexander’s departure from Motherwell was in part aided by the “toxicity” from the fans, according to Liam Kelly. Growing supporter unrest around Alexander’s tenure boiled over in the wake of the European defeat by Sligo Rovers on Thursday
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Queen Street Station: The story of Glasgow’s shiny new gateway
Words: Donald Erskine Pictures: Gemma Powell It's taken more than 175 years but Glasgow's Queen Street Station has arrived at its destination as a modern masterpiece. The station is the city’s gateway to the east and north of the country. Since
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Edinburgh's High Street: the busy, buzzing heart of the festival city
Peer up the High Street in Edinburgh on any given Sunday in January or February, say, and you probably won’t see much in the way of people. Empty pizza boxes, yes. Rain, probably. But people? Less so. You certainly won’t see jugglers on stilts, street
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Keir Starmer's Week: I'll not be singing 'You don’t get me I’m part of the union’
As imagined by Brian Beacom WELL, yes, you may say it’s been a Rebekah Vardy of a week for me. And, yes, Angela stared hard at me yesterday, her Medusa eyes saying, ‘Where I come from, if you sack somebody’s boyfriend for no real reason then
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Robert McNeil: Why do the police never seek clean-shaven, sociable felons?
HERE’S something that caught my eye. Aye. A police chief in yon Greater Manchester wants his clerks, sorry officers, to smarten up. In particular, this includes no stubble. As it happened, I agreed with Chief Constable Stephen Watson about pressed
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Livingston vs Rangers: TV channel, live stream & kick-off time
THE domestic football season is back. It's been a long couple of months without our beloved clubs in action, but this weekend brings an end to the weekend boredom. The SPFL campaign gets underway on Saturday across all four of its divisions
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All the world's a stage: our pick of the Edinburgh International Festival shows
The Edinburgh festival is almost upon us, so here's our pick of 10 of the best shows from the Edinburgh International Festival Herbie Hancock There aren’t many bona fide jazz legends still standing, but Herbie Hancock is one. Now 82, the Chicago-born
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Galleries: On a good day, you can see the best of our art and history
Ayr Market 30-31 July. Entry free. Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Murdoch's Lone, Alloway, Ayr KA7 4PQ. Glass artist Leona Stewart has organised an event at the Robert Burns Birthplace museum to showcase 20 local creative makers each day of
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Readers' Editor: Scotland gets ready for world's greatest arts festival
ALL of us living in Scotland have so much to be grateful for: our country’s dramatic natural beauty, world-class universities, a green energy sector that could be transformative and a history of innovation, not to mention our naturally cheery and positive
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Camley’s Cartoon: The Commonwealth Games get under way
Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on the climate surrounding the start of the Commonwealth Games on Saturday, July 30, 2022. Framed prints of Steven Camley's cartoons are available by calling 0141 302 6210. Unframed cartoons can be purchased
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Alan Cumming: 'I’m very lucky to be from Scotland – I share its values'
ON THE cover of his new memoir, Alan Cumming appears to be levitating. The image raises a smile because you can’t help but wonder if it’s a metaphor for how he sees himself? Is he a superhero in the Marvel Comics vein, (he once appeared in the X-Men
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Food: Ukrainian chef Olia Hercules on cooking as an act of resistance
The chef speaks to Prudence Wade about setting up the Cook for Ukraine campaign, and how food can connect everyone - regardless of where you're from. For Olia Hercules, cooking is normally her therapy, her safe space - but she lost this when Russia
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Scottish Premiership 2022/23: Our writers predict the final league standings
THE new season is almost under way. This afternoon, tens of thousands of supporters across the country will head to stadia to cheer on their team, full of hope and expectation about what the following ten months will bring as the Premiership returns
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Motherwell 2022/23 season preview: How will Steelmen react to Graham Alexander exit?
PRE-SEASON is normally a time of boundless – and often groundless – enthusiasm over how the coming campaign may go for your favourite team. Not for Motherwell fans this time around though. The domestic season hasn’t even started yet and all hell
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Dundee United 2022/23 season preview: Can Jack Ross keep the good times rolling at Tannadice?
DUNDEE UNITED find themselves in a somewhat unusual situation going into the new campaign. The fourth-placed finish achieved last term – the Tayside club’s highest final league position since 2014 when the first team featured the likes of Andy Robertson
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Gaelic place names reveal how widely Scotland’s ‘second language’ was spoken
Gaelic place names are an important reminder of how widely Scotland's "second language" was spoken, a linguistic expert has said. Dr Simon Taylor, one of Scotland's leading place-name specialists, said many people are not aware that Gaelic had
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Alison Rowat's TV review: The Newsreader; Neighbours; The Great; The South Bank Show: Helen Mirren
SINCE the movie Broadcast News any drama set in a TV newsroom must include a running scene. You know the type of thing: it’s a minute to air time and there’s a change to the big story. Some lowly staffer does a Chariots of Fire with the tape, jumping
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'Don’t rely on the sat nav to find it, but it’s worth it to discover this gem in the suburbs' Ron Mackenna's review
True story then: a reader sends an email saying he and his wife would love to wake up one Saturday morning and see a review of their current favourite restaurant in The Herald, which they still have hand delivered to their actual front door. Wow
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Brian Taylor: They should make the Tory leadership contest a Commonwealth Games event
OVER the decades in which I have covered politics, I have frequently found the accompanying discourse to be infantile or, at best, a few grapes short of a vineyard. Politicians seem to feel they need to sustain every comment with a burst of bogus
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David Leask: What is Spain? And why this question matters to Scots
HE was, I thought, only stating the bleeding obvious. But that can be a helluva dangerous thing to do in politics. Late this spring Elías Bendodo, a very senior Spanish conservative, smashed one of the great taboos of his movement. He admitted
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Shuggie Bain author admits Glasgow Cathedral event will be a 'little intimidating'
IT takes part of its name from the patron saint of Glasgow and is the second novel to be published by Booker prize-winning author Douglas Stuart. However, the Shuggie Bain writer admits he’s honoured but a little intimidated to be discussing literature
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Alison Rowat's TV preview: Code 404; Vicky Pattison: Alcohol, Dad and Me; Worst House on The Street
FROM playing a skinhead thug in This is England to a prison officer under pressure in Time, Stephen Graham’s finest roles are not at the sunshine and lollipops end of the business. So it was good to see him cast in Code 404 (Sky Comedy, Thursday
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David Coombs: How the race to be Conservative Party leader could bring recession or inflation
By David Coombs The Conservative leadership election is down to the last two, one of whom will become our next prime minister. Economically, the two different candidates offer two very different policies. On the one hand we could have tax rises
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Distillery prepares for £30m cash injection
One of Scotland's oldest licensed distilleries is set for a £30 million expansion to help meet soaring demand for its single malts. Global drinks group Brown-Forman, owner of The GlenDronach Distillery in the Valley of Forgue in Aberdeenshire,
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Herald Diary: A mystic mum, a jumpy juror and a stupefied student
Picture this THE media has become all-pervasive. We don’t just mean that used copies of The Herald regularly make their way into readers’ toilets, where they prove useful when the Andrex runs out. No, the media lurks in every jacket pocket
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Police launch investigation into college theft and fraud claims
Police are investigating claims of theft and fraud at a Scottish college, The Herald can reveal. Staff within the construction faculty at South Lanarkshire College (SLC) allegedly benefited from the use of its materials and lecturing time to “build
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Energy company pushes ahead with 'one of the North Sea’s largest undeveloped oil projects'
PARKMEAD GROUP, the energy company headed by former Dana Petroleum chief Tom Cross, is looking for commercial partners to invest in what it is billed as one of the North Sea’s largest undeveloped oil projects, writes Scott Wright. The company has
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Scottish-headquartered banking giant pays out £2.1bn in dividends
By Scott Wright SHARES in Royal Bank of Scotland owner NatWest Group closed up around eight per cent last night after the bank unveiled plans to pay out £2.1 billion to investors in dividends. The bank announced a 17% hike in interim dividend
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Sustainable Scottish coffee roaster ships beans by sailboat
IT took three months but the precious cargo's arrival has marked a milestone for one sustainable coffee company after it started shipping beans to Scotland from Colombia by sailboat. Glen Lyon Coffee Roasters collaborating with New Dawn Traders
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Letters: Now more than ever we must preserve the unity of the UK
BRITISH workers are restless. Be it in education, police, NHS, local government, civil service or national companies et al, there is a howl for increases in remuneration and working conditions. And the unions are agitating on behalf of members. It
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SNP told by ex taskforce chief to focus on what can be done to cut drugs deaths
Exclusive Kathleen Nutt Political Correspondent THE former head of Scotland's drug deaths taskforce has said ministers in Edinburgh should stop blaming Westminster legislation for the high number of people dying through drugs misuse and
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Austerity, Covid, and the cost of living make for a health inequalities tragedy
TWENTY years ago in Scotland, you were 10 times more likely to suffer a fatal overdose involving illicit drugs if you were living in the most deprived areas of Scotland compared to the most affluent. By 2013, that difference had crept further apart
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Brian Donnelly: Rishi Sunak UK furlough triumph not quite what it was made out to be
FORMER chancellor Rishi Sunak is lauded by his supporters for his role in the introduction of the UK furlough scheme during the worst of the pandemic. However, the job retention plan set out by Mr Sunak, who during some speeches was at risk of
