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What is today's Wordle? September 5 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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What is today's Quordle? September 5 word puzzle hints and answer
How good is your word puzzle game? Put your skills to the test by trying your hand at Quordle. Whether you've aced the music spin-off Heardle or you've got the film version Framed beat, it might be time to raise the stakes. Described by some
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What is today's Heardle? September 5 song hints and answer
If you are mad about music, Spotify's music intro game Heardle is the game you need to be playing. If you're anything like us, you've been agonising over the New York Times' Wordle mind-bender for months now. Described as "a respectful homage
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What is today's Framed? September 5 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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Montano relishes change in position as Livi head to Celtic Park full of belief
THE list of forgettable Premiership footballers is as long as it is uninspiring. David McMillan, Giannis Skondras, and Davide Grassi … the type of names that’ll even have club historians rushing to their search engine of choice (for the record those
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KEVIN MCKENNA'S DIARY: Kevin Bridges has a novel approach to comedy
WHEN I told some friends that I was enjoying Kevin Bridges’s first novel the looks around the table could have toasted the cinnamon on top of their artisan lattes. During the holiday season media types like us are fond of recommending summer reads.
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UK refugees minister resigns
LORD Harrington, who was appointed refugees minister in the wake of the war in Ukraine, has quit the Government before a new leader takes over. In Government since March, Lord Harrington stressed his resignation is no reflection on either Liz Truss
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Scots star of 1980s children's TV mugged for charity money in London street
SCOTTISH actress-turned-critic Kate Copstick was attacked in a London street at the weekend by muggers who stole £8500 saying she thought "they were going to kill me". The 66-year-old, who had a long TV career hosting and featuring in children's
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Cross party tributes made to former Glasgow Labour chief who has died
NICOLA Sturgeon is among politicians who have paid tribute to the former Labour group leader in Glasgow city council Malcolm Cunning who has died aged 65. Mr Cunning's passing was announced this afternoon on social media by Scottish Labour leader
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Truss says cutting taxes for rich is fair as refuses to detail help with bills
LIZ Truss has insisted her plan to cut taxes for the wealthiest people in the UK is "fair". The Foreign Secretary, who is the frontrunner in the race to become the next Prime Minister has pledged to “start cutting taxes from day one” and reverse
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Gerard Richardson: It's summer so what could be finer than port?
Anyone for port? Yes, I did say port and, yes, it's still the summer, but I'm talking about two particular styles that come into their own at this time of the year, white and tawny. White port is something that took me a long time to get used to
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How to grow your own blackberries
IT'S blackberry season, and if you're lucky enough to live in the countryside or near hedgerows, you could be picking tubs of them now to freeze, rather than spending £2 a punnet at the supermarket. Blackberries are delicious in crumbles, compotes
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Scots Word of the Week: Hooch
HOOCH DESERVEDLY or undeservedly, Scots have a reputation for dourness and generally taking life very seriously. However, we have our moments of exuberance – especially on the dance floor. The definition of hooch in the Dictionaries of the Scots
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Shining alight on the dark evils carried out against women claimed to be witches
WE are fast headed into the season of pointy hats, broomsticks and spells as parents conjure up ideas on how to make their progeny look even more frightening than usual. Yet, Paisley-born playwright Martin McCormick wasn’t thinking of Halloween
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Crime writer GR Halliday on discovering a little slice of Scottish paradise
GR HALLIDAY, CRIME WRITER Where is it? North Erradale, Ross-shire. Why do you go there? My partner Sarah’s family live in North Erradale and since they moved there, we have had an amazing time exploring the area. Sarah and I are both
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John Michael McDonagh: 'They almost killed me...that’s a pretty good reason to fire someone'
ABOUT halfway through our conversation John Michael McDonagh tells me about the moment on his latest movie The Forgiven, filmed in the desert in Morocco, when he could have died. “A driver was speeding me from one location to another into the sand
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Is a Harry Styles concert ticket now a luxury beyond most Britons?
On Friday, as Harry Styles fans queued online to pay three figures for tickets to gigs still a year away, the English Premiership congratulated itself on a record-breaking £1.9 billion spend in the football transfer window and I wondered if I really
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Galleries: From the story of Scottish whaling to a well-kent face on the art scene
Machair Exhibition 3 September-3 October. Entry free. The Machair Bar, 372 Great Western Road, Glasgow, G4 9HT. Artist Joy Bain travelled to North Uist to photograph the Machair to use as inspiration for her oil paintings. The Machair is a
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TV: Cobra Kai – the nostalgia-laden Netflix show returns for new series
What’s the story? Cobra Kai. I’ll need more information. The nostalgia-laden, smash-hit Netflix reboot – starring Ralph Macchio and William Zabka – returns for a much-anticipated fifth series. Cobra Kai is based on The Karate Kid franchise
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7 reasons why you should visit Tampa Bay, Florida
Tampa Bay is not a typical Florida city, though the weather is as beautiful, it is rich in culture and history, and roosters rule the town. As travel slowly resumes, North America is emerging as a number one long haul destination for British travellers
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Doubters spurred me on to medal at Commonwealth Games, insists Beth Potter
BETH POTTER does not like to say she is driven by the desire to prove people wrong. But nevertheless, five years into her triathlon career, she admits she derives more than a little satisfaction from doing just that. Potter’s bronze medal at the
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'Changing rules of democracy': Sturgeon slams Truss over new threshold for indy bid
NICOLA Sturgeon has accused Liz Truss of wanting to 'change the rules of democracy' following reports her team are considering measures to require a higher vote threshold for a Yes victory than a simple majority vote. The First Minister last night
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Sturgeon: Truss will be disaster as PM if she governs as she has campaigned
NICOLA Sturgeon has said Liz Truss will be a “disaster” as Prime Minister if she governs how she has campaigned, but she hopes for a “constructive” relationship with her. Ms Truss is the frontrunner to become prime minister on Monday, and will
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How two Victorian gentlemen’s hobby is helping improve understanding of nature
They lived in an age of discovery, and two Victorian nature enthusiasts – perhaps inspired by the exploits of adventurous plant-hunters in far flung places – were about to undertake their own remarkable quest. Over three years, they trekked the
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Truss team consider bill to wreck indyref2 campaign
CONSERVATIVE ministers are considering introducing a referendum act that could wreck the campaign for Scottish independence, according to reports today. The plan would require more than half of Scotland’s entire electorate, rather than a simple
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UN climate envoy and his stake in huge North Sea oil field
By Paul Dobson The UN climate envoy, Mark Carney, is a senior leader at an investment firm which owns a key piece of infrastructure expected to be used at a controversial new oil field in the North Sea. Carney — who was governor of the Bank
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Golf’s civil war should be a warning to other sports
WATCHING the players sign up for the recently-formed LIV Golf tour is like some kind of rapacity bingo: who will be next to make the leap to the Saudi-backed venture in return for fortunes? The latest is Cameron Smith, the world No.2 and reigning
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End of the road for the dancing ladies that saved an island
Faith, Hope and Charity burl wildly in the relentless west coast wind, their long arms spinning around at such a rate that when it gets too gusty, they simply have to be calmed down. “They’re 30 years old now,” explains Andy Clements. “We have
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New details of Edinburgh influence on the nation's most powerful war poets
Their powerful poems evoke all the misery, pain and horror of a brutal war that robbed a generation of its youth and would change the world forever. Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon’s First World War poems have become synonymous with annual Remembrance
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Iain Macwhirter: Nuclear is the worst possible way to back up wind power – except for the others
Atom Kraft? Nein Danke, as the stickers said on crumbling 2CVs. My parents drove a VW, but they were dedicated anti-nuclear campaigners who refused to differentiate between civil and military uses of nuclear power. We were doomed either way. I inherited
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'Another fine mess' - Islanders' anger as Scottish harbours unable to take in delayed ferries
SCOTS island port harbours are unable to take the ships at the centre of Scotland's ferry-building fiasco which have been delayed by up to five years, the Herald on Sunday can reveal. While the delays and soaring costs over the completion of the
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Campaign groups launch legal action over Scots Gov breach of international law over environment fails
THE SCOTTISH Government is facing legal action after an 11-year breach of international law through a failure to have a public right of challenge over decisions that would damage the nation's precious environment, landscape and wildlife. A coalition
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Brussels experts in warning over Scottish skills shortage in European languages
Exclusive Kathleen Nutt Political Correspondent SCOTLAND may struggle to participate fully in the EU in future years because of a lack of skills and relevant knowledge among the country's workforce, according to leading Brussels experts
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NEIL MACKAY’S BIG READ: Trafficked in a lorry, humiliated for being an Asian in Glasgow … Scotland's fight for refugees gets personal
Six months on from the start of the Ukrainian asylum crisis, two leading campaigners for refugees launch a devastating attack on British Government cruelty and Scottish Government complacency – and both reveal the dark personal stories which turned
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Michael Settle: New PM will soon realise the UK's 'Dunkirk moment' is almost in sight
COME tomorrow lunchtime the country will see another turning of the page for UK politics with the fourth prime minister in just six years; a clear sign of turbulent times. Boris Johnson will leave the stage, no doubt in his own idiosyncratic way
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DAVID PRATT IN UKRAINE: Devastating snapshots of a brutal conflict with no end in sight
I’ve been visiting Ukraine long before its invasion by Russia earlier this year. Back in 2004 I witnessed the rise of pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Donbas region which quickly morphed into a somewhat limited war. Since February of this
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Experts warn over skills shortage crisis amid 'lack of focus on STEM' in schools
A 'FAILURE' to focus on STEM education will leave the country facing a skills shortage crisis in the coming years, experts are warning. OPITO, a global not-for-profit skills and standards body for the energy industry, said not enough is being done
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Letters: Scottish football is in need of radical reform – starting with the departure of Rangers and Celtic
ABERDEEN FC were the last team to win the Scottish League, outwith the Old Firm, in 1985, 37 long years ago. Scottish football is in desperate need of a root and branch reform. The 0-9 scoreline last Sunday at Tannadice was the perfect illustration
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Anxious Tory minister told SNP’s Michael Russell ‘we need you’
By Kathleen Nutt Political Correspondent SCOTLAND’S former Constitution Secretary has told how a Conservative minister described Boris Johnson’s Government to him as a “madhouse being run by the inmates” during no-deal Brexit discussions.
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FM told to give new inflation-busting rise to Scottish Child Payment amid cost of living crisis
By Kathleen Nutt Political Correspondent NICOLA Sturgeon is being urged to give an inflation-busting raise to a benefit given to the country's poorest families when she unveils her programme for government this week. John Dickie, director
