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Lennon Miller on becoming a man at Motherwell, and handling links to Rangers
Lennon Miller has had to grow up fast. The Motherwell prospect’s talent has long outstripped his years, and at just 16, his manager could resist the urge to throw him into the Fir Park first team no longer. He admits that despite some sparkling
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A procession to a coronation as Schauffele canters to Open Championship glory
Eight years ago here at Royal Troon we got a titanic two-horse race as Henrik Stenson and Phil Mickelson conjured an Open Championship duel for the ages. Ahead of the final round of the 152nd championship yesterday, there were so many runners and
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US President Joe Biden withdraws from election and endorses Kamala Harris
Joe Biden has ended his bid for re-election saying it was in the " best interest" of the US for him to stand down. He endorsed his Vice President, Kamala Harris, to stand in his place. The decision comes after weeks of pressure from party figures
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Reason Rooney won't play in Valur vs St Mirren as Tanser injury update provided
To receive our full, free St Mirren newsletter straight to your email inbox, click here. Shaun Rooney will not be involved for St Mirren in their first-leg contest against Valur. The right-back, 27, is suspended for the UEFA Conference League
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Daniel Brown secures Open appearance at Portrush after top 10 finish
Ranked 272 in the world rankings and a major debutant to boot, Daniel Brown has just come through a meteoric rise over the past few days to become a recognised household name. Stunning the golf world after he carded a six under par first round
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Nairn's Calum Scott wins the silver medal as leading amateur at The Open
They’ll be getting the bunting up on the A96 through Nairn after this. Calum Scott’s Open Championship debut here at Royal Troon ended with a nice clump of silver to tuck in his pocket At eight-over-par – he closed with a 76 – the 20-year-old highlander
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The Eagle: An Open Championship Diary
Well, that’s it folks. By the time you read this, The Open circus will have rumbled out of Troon and the media centre will be getting razed to the ground and incinerated in an elaborate cleansing ritual. “Hopefully you’ll still be in it when they do
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Motherwell 'agree' six figure fee for Australian international striker
Motherwell are reportedly finalising a £260,000 transfer for forward Apostolos Stamatelopoulos from Newcastle Jets. In their search to find a replacement for Theo Bair, who earned a £1.6million move to AJ Auxerre last week, the Steelmen have identified
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Opulent and approachable, this seaside city escape is antidote to summer blues
Style and Substance A captivating view over North Berwick’s West Links and the Firth of Forth catches us off guard when we step inside the Marine Hotel on a pleasant Friday afternoon. Affectionately christened the “Grand Old Lady”, the hotel
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Oscar Piastri triumphant in Hungary as Lando Norris made to follow McLaren order
A furious Lando Norris was forced to give up the second Formula One victory of his career after he followed a McLaren team order to allow Oscar Piastri to win a controversial Hungarian Grand Prix. A mediocre getaway from pole position at the Hungaroring
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Black says Forbes's views 'extreme' as she warns SNP on move to right after defeat
The SNP must avoid a lurch to the right under the “extreme” views of Kate Forbes, the party’s former deputy Westminster leader has warned. Mhairi Black, who stepped down as an MP at the general election, called on the SNP to get its own house in
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Rafael Nadal suffers straight-sets defeat to Nuno Borges in Nordea Open final
Rafael Nadal missed out on a first title in two years after he lost in straight sets to Nuno Borges in the Nordea Open final. Nadal has not lifted silverware since his French Open triumph in 2022 after a spate of injury problems, which meant he
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Jimmy Thelin praises Aberdeen players long-awaited return in 4-0 League Cup victory
Jimmy Thelin has suggested Vicente Besuijen could still have a future at Aberdeen after the winger was given a first opportunity to revitalise his Pittodrie career. The Aberdeen boss reckons Besuijen made an impactful return to the Dons starting
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Recent rise in Scottish Covid cases may have peaked, says expert
The recent rise in cases of coronavirus in Scotland may have “peaked” according to the latest provisional data, a public health expert has said. Dr Kimberly Marsh, a consultant healthcare scientist at Public Health Scotland (PHS), said Covid-19
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More than 160 jobs lost as Glasgow firm goes bust
A Glasgow-based animation and visual effects company, which produced content for Disney and Netflix, has fallen into administration, leading to virtually all staff being made redundant. Some 162 people have lost their jobs after production on all
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Why Manchester United want to keep 'very important' Scott McTominay
Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag has reiterated his commitment to keeping Scott McTominay at the club, dismissing recent transfer rumours surrounding the Scotland international. The 27-year-old midfielder has recently been linked with an
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Exhibition tells the story of one of Scotland's greatest athletes
Legacy of an Olympic Legend 27 July-12 September. Entry free. Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, EH99 1SP Nicknamed ‘the Flying Scotsman’, Eric Liddell’s remarkable story reached global audiences through the 1981 Oscar-winning film ‘Chariots of
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Reeves says government will cut poverty - but won't lift two child benefit cap yet
Rachel Reeves has said that Labour will "absolutely" lift children out of poverty but refused to scrap the two-child benefit cap until public finances are stronger. The Chancellor told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg Show on Sunday morning that lifting
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Donald Trump returns to stage one week after assassination attempt
A week after an assassination attempt left him with an injured ear, Donald Trump seemed to have fully regained his stride during a speech alongside his new running mate JD Vance. With a skin-coloured plaster over the top of his right ear, Mr Trump
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The Open as it happened: A round-up from the final round at Royal Troon
8:00pm Signing off Folks, it's been a blast to bring you live coverage of The 152nd Open over the past four days.
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Former Chancellor Jeremy Hunt apologies for UK Covid pandemic failures
Jeremy Hunt has apologised for failures in the UK's pandemic preparations highlighted by the Covid Inquiry. Asked by the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg whether he would like to apologise for what went wrong, the former health secretary said: "Absolutely
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Motherwell's Filip Stuparevic earns praise after netting first goal for the club
Stuart Kettlewell was pleased with Filip Stuparevic's performance after the Serbian forward netted his first Motherwell goal in a 3-1 victory over Clyde on Saturday. Coming off the bench, Stuparevic, who arrived on a two-year deal from Domzale
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Hibernian's Premier Sports Cup hopes diminish after 'sloppy' defeat to Kelty Hearts
Dylan Levitt has acknowledged Hibernian's lacklustre performance in their Premier Sports Cup clash against Kelty Hearts, which ended with a disappointing 1-0 defeat. The loss has seen Hibs' chances of qualification slip from their grasp as they
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Woman, 72, dies in three-vehicle crash near golf club
Police are appealing for information following a fatal crash on the A71 at Galston, Ayrshire, near the Loudoun Golf Club. The incident happened around 5.25pm on Saturday and involved a white Vauxhall Corsa, a blue Volkswagon Golf convertible and
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Susan Swarbrick: My teenage self would cringe with embarrassment at middle-aged me
The other day I was meandering around the supermarket when I witnessed a heated standoff unfolding between a mother and her teenage daughter beside a shelf of condiments. After inadvertently earwigging as I reached for a bottle of balsamic vinegar
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A warm and generous Scottish love story
The Days of our Birth Charlie Laidlaw (Rampart, £18) Next-door neighbours born on the same day, Peter and Sarah share a lifelong bond, and the sixth novel from Paisley-born Charlie Laidlaw charts the development of their relationship across
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Rab McNeil: No wonder the whole Scottish nation loves Nicola (no, not that one)
Here's another classical music personage for youse. Nicola Benedetti was what they call precocious. By the age of four, she could play the violin. Even today, I’m sure that if you presented her with a kazoo she could master it after only a few hours
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Derry: the historic city that refuses to be defined by its troubled past
These days, if you hear the word ‘Derry’, there’s a good chance the next thing in your head will be ‘Girls’. There’s a good reason for that. Lisa McGee’s hilarious show about Erin, Clare, Orla, Michelle and the wee English fella has been a massive
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Manchester United are still ‘long way away’ from winning major silverware
Erik ten Hag has insisted Manchester United are a “long way away” from being ready to win the Premier League and claimed Ralf Rangnick’s assessment that the club need open-heart surgery was correct. Rangnick was scathing about United towards the
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Campaigners complain over ministers’ handling of plans for new gas power plant
Climate campaigners have complained about Scottish ministers’ handling of plans for a new gas-fuelled power station in Peterhead. Friends of the Earth Scotland say John Swinney and other ministers have treated the plans from SSE and Norwegian oil
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SNP calls for suspension of Israel arms sales in letter to Foreign Secretary
The SNP has reiterated its call for an immediate suspension of arms sales to Israel in a letter to Foreign Secretary David Lammy. The party also said the Government should take action now rather than wait for further reviews. Mr Lammy has said
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Dead trees, Scottish Forestry in court. What's going wrong with Scotland's forests?
In February of this year Scottish Forestry awarded a grant of over £2 million to the Guernsey-based Forestry Carbon Sequestration Fund, managed by the investment company True North, to plant 700 hectares of mostly Sitka spruce on a stretch of the John
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Game on - Fife street food firm on why local produce makes for better burgers
Eight years since launching the very first of his street food van fleet, Screaming Peacock founder Guy Wade is still likely to be asked the same question while on the job: ‘Do you sell any ‘normal’ burgers?’ The short answer to this is no
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‘Seeing the stranded whales - it was hard to comprehend the scale of it’
On the morning of Thursday 11 July, Alan Harcus was out walking with his family, round the coast of Sanday on one of Orkney’s northern islands, when he noticed unusual shapes in the sand ahead. “We assumed they were seals at first”, he told the
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Susan Egelstaff: Will Paris 2024 be clean? I hate to say it, but probably not
Maybe it’s that I’m getting cynical in my old age. I probably am. But for all the magic of the Olympics Games, I’m unable to think about Paris 2024 without also pondering the overshadowing cloud. That cloud is the doping cloud, and it’s
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How Glasgow wrestler's childhood dream is helping kids overcome anxiety and bullying
David McCallum was just six-years-old when he lost his mum to suicide. As he struggled to cope with the loss through his childhood, an fighting spirit grew within him and a sense that 'the world was against him'. ‘Woe is me’ is how he described
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'I thought I'd lost my mind': Why long Covid changed this GP's outlook on medicine
Carolyn Forsyth thought she was going mad. It was late 2021 and the GP from Inverness was bamboozled by a range of increasingly "bizarre" cognitive symptoms which had taken hold after a relatively mild bout of Covid in October 2021. Despite
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Letters: No matter what they say, there can be nothing civic about nationalism
IN his interview with Neil Mackay (The Big Read, July 14), Chris Brookmyre expressed his disapproval of religious sectarianism, quite rightly, but seemed to be in favour of the greatest form of sectarianism, ie nationalism - the cause of death and
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Why do some countries have lots of social housing and others very little?
They call it the Big Snake, Il Serpentone. One of Europe’s biggest residential structures lies, like a skyscraper that has toppled on its side, on the outskirts of Rome. This nine-storey building is nearly a kilometre long and was put up in
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No evidence behind 'assurance' that budget cuts won't harm school mentoring scheme
Almost exactly a month ago, SNP and Green councillors in Glasgow voted to cut funding for MCR Pathways, a mentoring programme for vulnerable teenagers that has been described as transformational, pioneering and life-changing. The decision to do
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Time stands still at Scot watchmaker with five-year waiting list for its timepieces
In a cluster of small workshops dotted around Glasgow’s city centre, the hands of time move very slowly. Outside, the fast-paced modern world may well be running at a rapid rate of knots. But at the city’s high-end watchmaker anOrdain, the
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Charlie Aldridge: I never expected to be at Paris but I'll be gunning for the podium
Last summer, a place in GB’s team for the Paris Olympics seemed such a remote possibility for Charlie Aldridge that he hadn’t even considered it. But a year on, the 23-year-old mountain biker from Perth is on the verge of making his Olympic debut
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US Democrats face Hunger Games-type battle to choose new leader
In a week of contrasting presidential campaigns, Joe Biden faces standing down and the Democratic Party is having to examine itself in the mirror like never before, writes Foreign Editor David Pratt By the time this article goes to press, US President
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Dani Garavelli: Another child dies in our criminal justice system. That shames us all
Nowhere is the chasm between the Scottish Government’s espoused ambition and its on-the-ground delivery greater than in the way young people are treated within the criminal justice system. Last week, this chasm was demonstrated in the bleakest possible
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Kevin McKenna: English newspaper was wrong to describe SNP MPs as the 'Filth’
Like many other decent-minded Scots I was appalled when one of our esteemed national newspaper titles chose to deploy the language of the gutter in describing those SNP politicians who lost their Westminster seats. The Times reported that these
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Alison McConnell: Scotland in high spirits ahead of battle to exorcise old demons
If Firhill was in celebratory mood on Tuesday evening as Scotland topped their European Championships group, the real party is yet to come. Pedro Martinez Losa donned a Saltire as he congratulated his players and Erin Cuthbert appeared at the post-match
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Sara Pequeño: Elon Musk is all-in on Trump - and he is donating money to prove it
The world’s richest man has been busy this week. On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk would be donating $45 million a month – $180 million from July through October – to America PAC, a political action committee