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Hostage situation at German airport after armed man broke through gate
Police in Hamburg said they are dealing with a hostage situation at the airport after reports that a car broke through security and entered the premises. An armed man broke through a gate with his car and fired twice into the air with a weapon,
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Luis Palma on making Honduras Celtic supporter's club proud in Champions League
WHEN Luis Palma steps out for Celtic in the Champions League, he isn’t only representing his club, his family or even his extended network of friends. He is carrying the hopes of an entire nation. As the sole Honduran operating in the world’s premier
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Barry Robson hails Aberdeen’s ‘character and spirit’ to reach Viaplay Cup final
Barry Robson praised his Aberdeen side’s “spirit and determination” amid a busy fixture list after progressing through to the Viaplay Cup final with a 1-0 win over Hibernian. After a dour first half at Hampden Park, the Easter Road side were denied
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Kirk’s Moderator gifts Pope Francis Scottish artwork to display in Vatican
Pope Francis was “very taken” by Scottish artwork gifted by the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Reverend Sally Foster-Fulton met with the Pope at the Apostolic Palace, his official residence in Vatican City. She
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Aberdeen 1 Hibs 0: Bojan Miovski sucker punch puts 10-man Dons into final
BOJAN MIOVSKI hit a stunning winner as 10-man Aberdeen performed a Hampden smash and grab on Hibernian to reach the Viaplay Cup Final. Aberdeen full-back Jack MacKenzie was ordered off for a quite stupid second bookable offence with 15 minutes
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Sheffield United break Premier League duck after dramatic win over Wolves
Oliver Norwood’s penalty with the last kick of the game finally gave Sheffield United their first win of the Premier League season as they beat Wolves 2-1 at Bramall Lane. The skipper smashed home from 12 yards after Fabio Silva fouled George Baldock
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Jeremy Doku stars as Manchester City thrash Bournemouth
Jeremy Doku produced a stunning performance as champions Manchester City overcame the loss of Erling Haaland to thrash Bournemouth 6-1 on Saturday. Doku was the architect of an emphatic success, scoring their opener and having a hand in four other
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Emma Hayes to leave Chelsea at end of the season
Chelsea boss Emma Hayes will depart the Blues at the end of the season for a position “outside club football” after more than a decade in charge, the Women’s Super League club have announced. Hayes is among the most respected and successful managers
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Ballon d’Or ceremony hardly portrayed the women’s game in a positive light
Tick a box. Move on. In a world obsessed by optics, this week’s Ballon d’Or ceremony hardly portrayed the women’s game in a positive light as it brought into sharp focus the disparity that continues to resonate. As she showcased all the juggling
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Aberdeen fans ignore SFA & SPFL pyro warnings prior to Hibs clash
Aberdeen fans displayed flares at Hampden ahead of their League Cup semi-final against Hibernian despite pleas from the SPFL and SFA not to bring fireworks to the fixture. It comes after the recent fixture between Dundee and Rangers at Dens Park
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Kilmarnock 1 Motherwell 0: Innes Cameron continues Killie's fine form
Innes Cameron scored his first league goal of the season as Kilmarnock edged out Motherwell 1-0 at Rugby Park. The striker, who came on to replace injured skipper Kyle Vassell early in the match, blasted David Watson’s cutback high into the roof
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The Buccaneers: New Apple TV+ show filmed in Scotland
SCOTLAND is no stranger to being a star of the screen, with a raft of big-name TV shows and movies having been filmed here in recent years. It has become an in demand shooting location for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, as well as global streaming
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Malky Mackay in Ross County vs Celtic opener added on time query
Malky Mackay insists it was 'surprising and interesting' that Celtic scored the opening goal in their 3-0 victory over Ross County after the allotted amount of injury time. David Turnbull struck just after the six minutes added on at the end of
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Man charged in connection with death of man found seriously injured at flats
A 31-year-old man has been arrested and charged in connection with the death of a 23-year old man in Glasgow. Around 7pm on Friday, police were called to a block of flats on Southcroft Street and the man was found seriously injured within.
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Ross County 0 Celtic 3: Brendan Rodgers' rotated pack comfortable in Dingwall
Celtic comfortably defeated Ross County 3-0 to go eight points clear at the top of the Scottish Premiership. Staggies manager Malky Mackay will have been hoping to keep it tight and bitty in the opening exchanges. However, this notion was blown
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Scots Word of the Week: Mince and tatties
This well-known combo could be described as Scotland’s "other national dish", to paraphrase an old advertisement relating to Scotland’s "other national drink". One aspect of its meaning is recorded in the Dictionaries of the Scots Language (DSL) as
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Prime Glasgow West End property boasts period elegance and modern flair
Conversions can be an ideal compromise when you only want a portion of the period elegance and spatial hallmarks of traditional property, without having to pay for a full serving, while the bonus is generally a home with unique status and a contemporary
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Bruno Fernandes fires injury-time winner for Man Utd at Fulham
Bruno Fernandes fired home an injury-time winner to secure a much-needed victory for Manchester United at Fulham. United came into the Craven Cottage clash under a cloud after the midweek Carabao Cup defeat at home to Newcastle. They were quiet
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'Scotland’s loneliest sheep' rescued after being marooned at foot of cliff for years
A ewe dubbed ‘Scotland’s loneliest sheep’ has been rescued after being marooned at the foot of a cliff for at least two years. The solitary sheep was first spotted by a kayaker on a shingle beach at the bottom of some steep, rocky coastline in
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Crowe and Walker crowned Scottish XC Champions
Jamie Crowe and Eloise Walker were crowned Scottish champions at the Lindsays Scottish Short Course Cross-Country Championships on a surprisingly dry and mild day in Lanark. The event took place at Lanark Racecourse, which was the venue for the
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Sarina Wiegman’s sister told her to ‘seize this prize’ at Euros before her death
Sarina Wiegman has revealed her sister told her to win the European Championship with England prior to her death from cancer just before the tournament. The Lionesses boss took time out from the preparations last summer to be at home in the Netherlands
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Radio review with Teddy Jamieson, a journey around Iceland
AS the nights draw in radio comes into its own. Disembodied voices whisper softly to you in the dark night. You can steep yourself in the news and despair at mankind or you can cast around for something else. Something other. Last Sunday’s Between
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Ange Postecoglou backs ‘massive asset’ Son Heung-min to get even better
Ange Postecoglou has sent a warning to the rest of the Premier League by claiming Tottenham captain Son Heung-min can be even more of a goal threat. Son has enjoyed a superb start to the campaign, scoring eight times to sit joint-second in the
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Pep Guardiola defiant after Roy Keane criticises post-match coaching on pitch
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola will not change his habit of coaching his players on the pitch in the immediate aftermath of games despite Roy Keane’s claim that it is “all for show”. Guardiola was seen talking to Erling Haaland after last Sunday
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Lightning strikes twice for Partick Thistle ahead of Arbroath trip
The nomadic Queen’s Park have pitched up at various grounds around the country in recent years. Falkirk stadium, Firhill and Ochilview have all welcomed the Spiders as they couch-surfed their way through the leagues. A return to their true home turf
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Curlers raise funds for Doddie Weir charity while competing in Sweden
A squad of 20 women curlers from across Scotland are in Sweden to raise money for a charity launched by rugby legend Doddie Weir. The Royal Caledonian Curling Club, made up of 20 women from Kelso, Ayr, and Perth, to Kinross, Aberdeen, and Inverness
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TV reviews: When Kevin the contract killer met Johnny the Tory MP in Banged Up
Imagine, if only for a moment, the horror of it. Stuck in a cell for 23 hours a day. The constant threat of violence. The grub. The toilets. The smell. My God the smell. Then, just when a body can’t stand a minute more the door opens and in walks
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What's on the radar... From Eddie Izzard, Grayson Perry to Classical music
CLASSICAL In Sync, Scottish Ensemble, Aberdeen Music Hall, Aberdeen, 2pm & 7pm, today; Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, November 9 Originally seen last year, the Scottish Ensemble in collaboration with MishMash Productions is reprising
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Chef Gary Maclean on Scottish celebrations and festive family traditions
As generous chunks of black pudding sizzle into a pan of butter, garlic and kale, Chef Gary Maclean maintains a conversation with remarkable ease – a skill that has been honed over years of live cooking demos and TV appearances. Moving on to
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Erik ten Hag says Marcus Rashford going out after Man City defeat ‘unacceptable’
Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag says it was “unacceptable” of Marcus Rashford to go to a nightclub party after last weekend’s embarrassing derby defeat to Manchester City. The homegrown talent has managed just one goal for the misfiring
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Travel: Actor and comedian Kieran Hodgson on his love for 'France’s hidden gem'
Where is it? The city of Besancon, aka “France’s hidden gem”. Why do you go there? It all stems from Besancon being twinned with Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, where I grew up. I've been there for a school French exchange, a week of sixth
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Gardening: In the chilling fields, the ground rules for the winter veg patch
Only the toughest plants cope in the winter veg patch. Temperatures swing from mild to very cold, rain, snow and winter gales are on the cards, and there are queues of hungry critters bent on a winter feast. So what are the best ways of getting the
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Agenda: Opening minds to a career in science
How often have you wondered if you chose the right career? What is that alternative vocation that might have suited you better, made you happier, richer or whatever matters to you? Why not treat yourself to 30 seconds of idle thought now to wonder
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Agenda: It’s good to talk. Especially about money
Monday sees the start of this year’s Talk Money week. Launched as an awareness campaign, Talk Money Week is about encouraging people to open up about money, talk about their finances, and thereby improve both their financial wellbeing and their mental
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First lesson from Covid inquiry?: Don't put Boris Johnson in charge of a pandemic
If the purpose of the UK Covid inquiry is to "learn lessons" for future pandemics, then lesson number one is probably to make sure we never put Boris Johnson in charge of any future national crisis which depends on scientific literacy and decisiveness
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Wedding dress linked to Oppenheimer added to Edinburgh museums collection
Museums & Galleries Edinburgh has recently acquired a wedding dress that connects Edinburgh to the groundbreaking American nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The dress in question was worn by Maria Thereza de Rio Branco on her wedding day
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Camley’s Cartoon: The row over Scottish Government WhatsApp messages
Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on the row over Scottish Government WhatsApp messages on Saturday, November 4. Framed prints of Steven Camley's cartoons are available by calling 0191 603 0178. Unframed cartoons can be purchased by visiting
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Cat Boyd: Keir Starmer's tough guy act over ceasefire shows his real weakness
Hospitals bombed; electricity, water and communication cut off; journalists and aid workers killed in their beds; hundreds of videos of wailing rescuers, lifting lifeless children’s bodies from piles of ashen grey rubble. Apocalyptic scenes, but none
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Boy, 14, arrested in connection with drugs offence after death of teenager
A 14-year-old has been arrested in connection with a drugs offence in an ongoing investigation after a teenage boy died in Fife last weekend. Police were alerted that the 16-year-old had taken unwell at a property on Kirkland Avenue in Ballingry
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Vistas bring the anthems but little variety in Glasgow - live music review
A Scottish band playing a sold-out Academy on a Friday night is basically a slam dunk - particularly when that band's oeuvre is packed with arm-around-the-shoulder, pint-in-the-air singalong-friendly anthems. Edinburgh's Vistas take to the stage
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Scottish Lib Dem leader to call for tax on social media giants to be trebled
Trebling a tax levied on social media giants could raise cash to provide “world class mental health services”, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton will say. Speaking out about the “dark side of online abuse”, he will insist that
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Explained in five minutes: Why is Aberdeen looking to close six libraries?
Nearly eight months after voting to shut down six library branches, Aberdeen City Council says it is reconsidering. But campaigners are wondering whether it is too little, too late. A controversial decision to close Cornhill, Cults, Ferryhill
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A fight worth winning: inside the fight to halt Aberdeen's library closures
Looking in from the street on a rainy day, Ferryhill Library isn’t the most inviting picture. The Aberdeen City Council sign out front is faded and half-hidden. Bushes press against the centuries-old stone walls. What can be seen of the inside
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20 festive food and drink gift ideas for 2023
My auntie used to say: “If I can’t eat it or drink it I don’t want it!”, which blew my mind as a child but is now a sentiment I enthusiastically endorse. While we’ve all been keeping a close eye on our food budgets this year, surely Christmas is time
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Herald View: Covid inquiry shows poor leadership at heart of government
EVEN those of us inclined to be cynical about the competence of those who run the country have been taken aback by the evidence emerging from the UK Covid Inquiry. We can allow for the fact that Covid was a colossal public-health issue, the greatest
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The Scot behind the 'Tush Push' on the controversial NFL play that's dividing America
THE Scot who has helped a leading American football franchise to perfect a revolutionary but hugely controversial move that has polarised opinion in the United States has spoken for the first time about his work and dismissed growing calls for it to
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'Safe pyro' is a myth - only stand closures will snuff out Scotland's flare shame
FURTHER proof that the Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Articles (Scotland) Act which MSPs at Holyrood passed last year is not worth the paper it is written on came at Dens Park on Wednesday evening when Rangers ultras decided to have an impromptu pre-Guy
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'Best preparation' - Shinnie hopeful Lesser Hampden training base boosts Aberdeen
When it comes to a semi-final match at the national stadium, there is no better place to be situated than a stone's throw away at Lesser Hampden. That's exactly what Aberdeen chiefs arranged to assist Barry Robson's side and remove countless hours
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Barry Robson recalls bonkers Aberdeen 'carry-out' deal after 2014 League Cup triumph
Take a wander through Barry Robson's family home and you'd be forgiven for wondering if he even lived there, never mind was a professional footballer with a Scottish Premier League and two League Cup winners medals. In fact, unlike displays or
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'Joe coughs and splutters and screeches his chair back at the very first mouthful'
Satu-Satu, St George Road, Glasgow I make the desserts,” the lady says, midway through our friendly chit-chat and at this our eyes are suddenly magnetically drawn to the dinner debris littering our table which includes, awkwardly, an untouched
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Unspun: The Herald political diary
Green with envy Ash Regan’s first week as an Alba MSP didn’t exactly go swimmingly. Besides failing to take part in her first vote, she has struggled to find a new office at Holyrood. The SNP want her off the third floor of the MSP block, and the
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New kid on the block, Natasha Phillips, leads the next generation of Scottish runners
It may be the current crop of Scottish athletes who are grabbing the spotlight at the moment but there’s one particular individual leading the charge of the next generation. And already, she’s showing signs that she can scale heights comparable
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Letters: Sturgeon was no hero. She simply followed the UK's lead
RUTH Marr (Letters, November 3) 2023 describes Nicola Sturgeon’s performance during Covid in heroic terms. That is not my recollection. She certainly outperformed Boris Johnson and his team on communication skills and delivery (Bojo’s bouncing-along
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Scottish Government off track cleaning up its own fleet of vehicles
The Scottish Government has been warned it is on course to miss a target to clean up its vehicles after new statistics revealed only a quarter of its fleet is zero-emissions technology. Ministers have set a target of completely phasing out petrol
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Brian Taylor: The Covid inquiries – are they already ruined by the WhatsApp row?
Harold Wilson was much given to pithy comment. He it was who reminded us that a week is a long time in politics. How true. And the former Prime Minister spoke for many when he warned that Royal Commissions of inquiry were inclined to “take minutes
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Ash Regan says 14 or 15 SNP MSPs are 'on the edge'
Ash Regan, the former SNP leadership contender, who has joined Alba says many of her former colleagues in Humza Yousaf's party are very unhappy. She said: "There are many in the party who are very disgruntled and maybe around 14 or 15 MSPs are
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National Cross-Country Champs breaking more records
A record 1511 athletes are on the start-list for the Lindsays Short Course Cross-Country Championships, which take place at Lanark today, marking the highest-ever in the event’s history. The figure betters the previous best of 1377 entries in 2018
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Demolition of 'stain' on Glencoe's glorious landscape can't come soon enough
It is a stretch of the A82 where it's almost impossible as a driver to focus on the road. Best experienced in the early morning light, Glencoe's almost other-worldly beauty leaves visitors and natives spellbound at every twist and turn of the road
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Teacher and rugby coach who worked with pupils who needed extra help with maths
Thomas Fairley Born: January 4, 1928; Died October 9, 2023 In a 40-year long career in secondary education, Thomas Fairley, who has died aged 95, steered a steady course through a number of changes to school organisation and to the curriculum
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'Discrimination': Scots islanders staging public demo over ferry tickets 'failure'
Up to 200 people are expected at a public demonstration on Saturday over what is described as a ferry ticketing 'failure'. The Cumbrae Ferry Committee say islanders have been left "up the creek without a paddle" with a range of ticketing issues
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Accountant who played key role in building whisky group into major business.
Sir Ian Good Born: September 25, 1943; Died: October 29, 2023 Ian Good, who has died aged 80, was an accountant who played a key role in building the Scotch whisky group Edrington – which produces The Macallan, Famous Grouse and Highland
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Hong Kong opportunity a timely reminder to keep living in the present
After what felt like losing a week to the flu I was determined to get my body moving again. I’m determined to make the most of these last few weeks before I go into surgery No.7. Several months ago I spoke with Martin Murray – a fellow Scot
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Brian Donnelly: Michelin star chef toasts first Scottish restaurant launch
It was especially sad to see the closure after almost 20 years of a popular family-run fine dining restaurant that holds particular memories for me. Better news was that the prime site premises were snapped up by a Michelin-starred chef who plans
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'Don’t forget about us': Firms face going bust month after being cut off by landslide
Businesses face going bust after being cut off a month ago by a massive landslide. Companies in the Craignish peninsula in Argyll are looking at the prospect of continued weeks of disruption with the partial closure of part of the A816 near Ardfern
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Home should not always be where the heart is for investors
By David Thomson Home is a powerful psychological idea. Whether it’s a childhood home, a new home, or the home ground of a football team; we all know how important home is. And it is the same for investment. In pretty much every country
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Historic Scottish castle designed by famous bank architect put up for sale
A historic Scottish baronial castle designed by the architect behind Fettes College and the Bank of Scotland head office building on The Mound in Edinburgh has been brought to market. Ellisons Property is handling the sale of Ormiston Castle, Kirknewton
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Scottish insurance business bought
Glasgow-based business insurance specialist Neilson Laurence & Neil has been acquired by Howden Scotland, previously known as Bruce Stevenson. Howden Scotland declared the deal strengthened its presence in Scotland and underscored its “dedication
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Rab McNeil: Harold Macmillan was right but yon 10,000 steps malarky is very wrong
PERHAPS you recall the groundbreaking study which showed that 1957 was the happiest year in recent British history (in this case meaning since 1776). Not un-coincidentally, 1957 was the year that urbane and respectable prime minister Harold Macmillan
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Souter acquires former Murray steel business
A specialty steel business employing more than 20 people in Edinburgh has been acquired by Souter Investments, the family investment office of Stagecoach co-founder Sir Brian Souter. Souter Investments has taken a majority shareholding in Premier
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‘Development’ property on famous tourist route for sale
A mixed-use property with development potential on the North Coast 500 route has been put up for sale at offers over £500,000. Shepherd Chartered Surveyors has been appointed to sell the property on Main Street in Lybster, which features three
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What is today's Wordle word? November 4, 2023 hints and answer
Are you wondering where to start with today's Wordle word? Here are some hints and the answer for November 4. A 5-letter word must be found in just six attempts and players are given a new word to guess daily. The game uses the same rules as
