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‘Iconic voice’ hailed as Gladiators referee John Anderson dies aged 92
Gladiators referee John Anderson has died aged 92, the TV show said. The Scottish sports coach was best known for his role as the umpire in the original ITV show, between 1992 and 2000, and the revamped short-lived Sky series. He also trained
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Dark day in history of Olympics as convicted child rapist Van de Velde competes
Second chances are all around here at the Olympics in a city getting its third opportunity to welcome the world. Sha'Carri Richardson is being guided by Dennis Mitchell, who served a two-year doping ban as an athlete and then was recorded offering
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Relaxed Bellshill badminton star Kirsty Gilmour aiming high in Paris Olympics
A relaxed Kirsty Gilmour begins her third Olympic campaign on Monday morning as she looks to progress beyond the group stage for the first time. The Bellshill badminton star faces Azerbaijan’s Keisha Fatimah Az Zahra at 7.30am (BST) as she bids
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Premier Sports Cup last 16 draw in full
The draw for the last 16 of the Premier Sports Cup has been confirmed. Celtic will host Hibernian in the first tie out of the hat while holders Rangers will play St Johnstone at Hampden. Dundee United take on St Mirren at Tannadice with Aberdeen
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The best family-friendly shows to see at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe
There are hundreds of shows taking place throughout Edinburgh for the 2024 Festival Fringe. However, finding one suitable for all the family can be challenging with many of these not being appropriate for children. If you're looking for a child-friendly
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Jailing more protesters isn’t just questionable – it's absolute madness
CAN five years imprisonment for peaceful protests ever be proportionate? Convicted of a conspiracy to cause public nuisance under section 78 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, five Just Stop Oil protesters received sentences of between
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Man in critical condition after late-night assault on Lanark bus route
A man is in a critical condition after a late night assault on a bus in Lanark. At around 11.10pm on Friday, 26 July, in the Thornton Road area the man, 35, and a 15-year-old boy boarded a bus and were seriously assaulted. The latter was released
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SNP MSP calls for party probe into equalities officer jailed for sexual assault
Former Cabinet Secretary Fergus Ewing has called for an internal probe into a former SNP equalities officer who sexually assaulted six young adults. He told the Sunday Mail that the Cameron Downing scandal “must not be swept under the carpet”.
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Hot-headed sociopathic killer Groundskeeper Willie is a cartoon of a Scotsman
RED hair? Check. Irascible? Check. Propensity to sort things out with a punch to the heid? Check. Could this week’s Icon possibly be Scottish? Well, featuring in The Simpsons cartoon series, he’s said to be the person most Americans associate with
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Olympics was a sinister humiliation of Christians who hold The Last Supper sacred
It’s wise, I think, for those who profess belief in religious faith to be cautious about expressing outrage whenever they feel that this is being mocked. In Scotland, there is enough evidence of real hostility to traditional Christian values in
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Scottish coastal golf club for sale at nearly £1m
A golf club in Moray with clubhouse and planning consent for a holiday park has been put up for sale with a price tag of nearly £1 million. Kinloss Golf Club, which lies in a rural location to the north-west of Forres, has been brought to market
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Crowd boos convicted child rapist Steven van de Velde at beach volleyball
Dutch beach volleyball player Steven van de Velde, a convicted child rapist, was greeted by some boos on his Olympic debut in Paris. Van de Velde, 29, was sentenced to four years in prison in 2016 after admitting three counts of rape against a
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'Zeal for artistic endeavour': Glasgow Barons Early Music Festival review
While many eyes were on the Seine and the opening of the Paris Olympics, on the banks of the Clyde a weekend of music not only spanned the centuries but recalled Glasgow’s more recent heyday as a destination for the best the world has to offer.
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Susan Swarbrick: The five best gifts you can get a middle-aged person
As I get older, something that I increasingly struggle with is what to buy friends and family as gifts. Many of my nearest and dearest are, like me, at the midlife stage where we’re actively trying to declutter our homes and lives. Not quite “Swedish
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These are five of the most-talked about stand up shows at the Fringe
ANNA AKANA Suicide, stalkers, fathers abandoning their families and heading off into the war in Ukraine. Despite the heavy subject matter, Fringe first-timer Anna Akana's show It Gets Darker manages to leave audiences feeling energized and hopeful
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Labour accuse Tories of 'covering up' state of public finances as Reeves eyes up cuts
The last UK Government "deliberately covered up" the dire state of the public finances, a Labour minister has claimed. According to reports, Rachel Reeves will share details of a £20 billion black hole with MPs tomorrow. She will also move
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Duhan van der Merwe praised after becoming Scotland’s record try scorer
Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend was delighted to see Duhan van der Merwe become the country’s record try scorer in their win over Uruguay. The 29-year-old winger marked his 41st Scotland appearance with his 28th international try to overtake
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My show picks up after my last comedy special about my cancelled wedding
So, Natasha Pearl Hansen, tell us about your Fringe show: My show is called “The Right Amount of Wrong,” and it basically picks up on my life from where my last comedy special was shot on my cancelled wedding, and covers the aftermath of everything
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Artist to explore structure of universe in 'captivating' art show on Cumbrae
Emerging Scottish artist Gregor Harvie has devoted the past year to pondering some of the universe's most profound questions: What is the universe made of? Where did it come from? How does it work? What is our place within it? This quest, which
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The revellers keeping the Celtic spirit of fun alive at entrancing Scots festival
Rebecca Hay Tub thumping music and swirling kilts drenched in a backdrop of beauty makes for an entrancing Celtic festival. With a huge dollop of friendly happy smiles and everyone’s a winner at four-day Knockengorroch – Scotland’s first greenfield
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Man, 37, killed in Land Rover crash as Girvan road closed for close to 12 hours
A 37-year-old man has died following a crash in Girvan, South Ayrshire. Police were called to the scene of a crash involving a green Land Rover Defender on the B7035, Girvan to Dailly Road, around 7.30pm on Saturday, 27 July. A 37-year-old
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Priti Patel enters Tory leadership contest, Kemi Badenoch expected to follow
Dame Priti Patel has become the fifth Tory MP to enter the contest to replace Rishi Sunak as party leader. Taking to X, the former home secretary wrote: “I am standing to be the new Leader of the Conservative Party. We must unite to win! “I
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ScottishPower boss hopes to double UK energy investment by 2030
ScottishPower’s boss has said he hopes to double the firm’s investments in UK energy projects to as much as £24 billion if Labour’s policy changes pay off. Chief executive Keith Anderson said ScottishPower has a spending programme of £12 billion
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'Explosions are not an issue' Scotland's safer mega-battery production is key to grid
This was a chemistry demonstration that did not go bang and pop. In a factory in Bathgate, two test-tubes of vanadium electrolytes were mixed, one purple and the other orange, and all that happened was the thermometer reading rose to 33C. But
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Going for 55? Targeting 119, 120 and 121? Seismic season ahead for Celtic and Rangers
THERE will be no bold proclamations about how Celtic are “Going for 55” in the 2024/25 season when they launch their Scottish title defence against Kilmarnock at Parkhead a week today. Nor will there be any boasts about how the Glasgow giants are
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How one brutal Scottish slave trader punished members of a revolt
By Kate Phillips After much clamour from the anti-slavery lobby, much of it from Scotland, in 1823 the British government passed legislation to give enslaved people new rights. The Jamaican Assembly refused to implement these rights and Scottish
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Descendant of Scottish slave trader to make public apology for hangings
A descendant of a Scottish plantation owner who hanged 11 slaves after they staged a revolt against his ownership of them will this week make a public apology for his actions at a ceremony in Jamaica. Kate Thomas, whose ancestor was the slave trader
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Susan Egelstaff: The BBC's reduced Olympic coverage is a huge blow to sports fans
I still vividly remember my first taste of the Olympic Games. It was 1992, I was nine years old, and what started out as a curiosity about the Barcelona Olympics turned into an obsession. I can still, 32 years later, remember the BBC’s opening
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John Curtice: Scottish Tories may need to rethink UK party ties
Professor Sir John Curtice has suggested that the Scottish Conservatives may need to reconsider their relationship with colleagues in Westminster if they aspire to be more than an "also-ran" in Holyrood. Speaking to The Herald on Sunday, the polling
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The rebel community councils taking control of the 'windfall' of wind farm funds
When Stephen McCarron, chair of the Auchinleck community council, brought together nine community councils to discuss a plan to take control of local wind farm money, it was like, he recalled, dealing with “nine kittens in a sack”. Five years later
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Why Scotland's school IT problems deserve more attention
A few weeks ago, I received an email from a whistleblower. In it, the author warned that teachers and pupils across Scotland were about to find that they could no longer download and install Microsoft Office software such as Word, PowerPoint and
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'Every sound is a good sound': the beatbox world champions ready to wow the Fringe
It's often referred to as "the fifth element of hip-hop", turns up in jazz and featured in Hollywood mega-hits like Pitch Perfect. Beatboxing is also, it turns out, something anyone can do according to a quartet who have taught over a million people
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Questions surround £2m crowdfunding drive for world's first community distillery
The founder of Scotland's first community distillery has warned potential investors over sinking money into the project due to concerns over its management. John McKenzie founded GlenWyvis on land on his farm in 2016, with the distillery beginning
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Running a hospice 'changes the way you think about life': CEO retires after 18 years
"It does change the way you think about life," says Irene McKie. The 66-year-old is reflecting on 18 years as chief executive of Scotland's largest independent hospice, Strathcarron, as she prepares to retire on July 31. Spending your working
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Letters: What is he waiting for? Swinney must step in and stop bin strikes
IT would seem that we are no further forward and that a strike looms involving local authority workers who are members of the GMB, Unison and Unite unions. The GMB stated that it had submitted its pay claim in January and that Cosla waited until May
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Starmer has completely blown his chance to show change is possible within the union
“Country first, party second” was a campaign soundbite that was supposed to herald a new style of government in which Labour put itself in the service of the people. Yet the first time a handful of backbenchers tested this – the first time they
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Has Kamala Harris got what it takes to defeat Trump and win the US presidency?
Republicans have dismissed her rise as nothing more than the “Harris Honeymoon” that will soon pass, but as Foreign Editor David Pratt reports, there are sign of nervousness in the Trump ranks It’s already an election that has captured the imagination
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FM warned not to drop Holyrood conversion practices ban for 'weaker' UK law
John Swinney is coming under pressure not to shelve Holyrood legislation to ban conversion practices in favour of rubber stamping a Labour version of the policy which could give victims fewer protections. The demand is being made by the Scottish