TALES of birth, death, song and sickness have been shortlisted for this year's Saltire Literary Awards. Works by makar Jackie Kay, forensic specialist Professor Sue Black and director Mark Cousins are amongst those shortlisted for the annual writing
SCOTLAND has a particular debt to Joachim Ronneberg, who died today. He was the last of the Heroes of Telemark and the leader of the brave band of Norwegian men who blew up the Nazis’ heavy water plant in Norway in 1943, thus preventing them from developing
HAS Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp hit on our way out of the Union? He says any borders and restriction between Northern Ireland and other parts of the UK would void the Treaty of Union (This is why Westminster’s choice is between Brexit and the Union, October
THE Cure are coming to Glasgow next August for their first Scottish gig in 27 years. Melancholic superstar Robert Smith and his goth rock legends will play the city’s Bellahouston Park as part of DF Concert's Summer Sessions festival. Tickets
THE number of smaller firms going into liquidation has increased by almost a third so far in 2018. Figures for the first nine months of the year showed a 32% rise, with 679 companies affected, compared to 513 in the same period of 2017. Blair
A BOUTIQUE in Scotland’s capital has won a national best customer experience award. Rachel Scott Couture of Edinburgh achieved 100% in the mystery shopper results at the Drapers Independents Awards, which celebrate the UK’s most influential and
THE latest YouGov poll has just been published and it doesn't make good reading Theresa May, far less the leader of the opposition. Those surveyed were asked the question "Which of the following do you think would make the best Prime Minister
ITV’s flagship breakfast news show broke strict broadcasting rules on accuracy and impartiality during an interview with Nicola Sturgeon, according to regulator Ofcom. During an interview with the First Minister on Good Morning Britain in June
THE Scottish Professional Football League has announced that they have agreed a one-year extension to the title sponsorship of the League Cup with bookmakers Betfred. It means that the betting firm, who began sponsoring the tournament in 2016, will
SECOND World War saboteur Joachim Ronneberg, who headed a team which blew up a heavy water plant which Nazi Germany could have used to produce nuclear weapons, has died at the age of 99, Norway’s prime minister said. Ronneberg was tapped by the
TAIWAN’s president has pressed for a quick, transparent probe into the cause of the island’s worst train crash in nearly three decades. Crash investigators are examining the wreckage after the eight-car Puyuma Express ran off the tracks in Yilan
VERONICA Forrest-Thomson (1947-75) grew up in Glasgow, before going on to university in Liverpool then Cambridge, where she was intensely engaged by the poetry of Jeremy Prynne. She published her poems with small presses in the 1960s and 1970s,
I THINK Peter Piper in his website comments “Many new members of the SNP are disillusioned” (Letters, October 18) is being a bit hard on the party. When I joined the SNP, usually the only activity happened when there was a by-election; there was
Food Unwrapped, Channel 4, 8.30pm MATT Tebbutt investigates concerns about levels of naturally occurring arsenic in baby rice products, Jimmy Doherty examines Marks & Spencer’s claim that it can trace all its beefburgers back to the cow, and
BP has been granted approval to develop the Alligin field in the North Sea, targeting 20 million barrels of oil equivalent. The field, which lies 87 miles (140km) west of Shetland, is expected to produce 12,000 barrels gross of oil equivalent a
US NATIONAL security adviser John Bolton faces high-tension talks in Moscow after President Donald Trump announced his intention to withdraw from a landmark nuclear weapons treaty. Trump’s announcement that the United States would leave the Intermediate-Range
A MAN appearing to wear Jamal Khashoggi’s clothes can be seen on surveillance video leaving the Saudi consulate in Istanbul after the journalist was killed there, according to reports. CNN aired footage of a man in Khashoggi’s shirt, suit jacket
PLASTIC snakes, Judas signs and mock whacking day events. For some a step too far, for many others just another quirk of the pantomime that is Scottish football. What can’t be denied is that the events leading up to Ray McKinnon’s return to Cappielow
HUNDREDS of students have taken part in a mass foam fight as part of a centuries-old ritual. The messy display took place on Raisin Monday, the culmination of a weekend of festivities when University of St Andrews first years say thank-you to their
SHE is known around the world for defying the Taliban and fighting for female education. Now Malala Yousafzai, the world's youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is to join the drive to eradicate homelessness in Scotland. The Pakistani activist
SCOTTISH Government civil servants have compiled at least 13 secret briefings about a second referendum on independence since 2016. The Scottish Tories happened across the briefings through a freedom of information (FoI) request, and have demanded
I WRITE in response to Stephen Paton’s piece on Friday (Gender Recognition Act is being used to roll back trans rights, October 19). Stephen makes a number of claims in this fundamentally dishonest piece that wilfully misrepresent the position
ASK Scottish scream queen Shian Denovan about the scariest part of acting in horror films and she’ll tell you it’s when she’s asked to wear contact lenses. “I just can’t bring myself to put them in so it takes three people –one to pin me down,
IT should come as no surprise to readers that I read a lot of news. There are days when I dive in first thing and lose a whole day to backstroking through it until it’s time for bed. This, I can assure you, is not good for your mental health. Given
SCOTTISH Green activists who use “transphobic and trans-exclusionary” language could be kicked out of the party after members overwhelmingly backed a change to the rules that will mean anyone not respecting “all genders and their selfdetermination”
A MAJORITY of companies in Scotland believe climate change poses a risk to their business, a new poll suggests. The study, commissioned by WWF Scotland, found nine in 10 large companies are concerned by the issue. The poll indicates 85% of
By MATTHEW LINDSAY CELTIC’S meetings with Hibernian made for compelling viewing last season and Saturday’s encounter at Parkhead was no different. Brendan Rodgers’s team ran out deserved winners over Neil Lennon’s side in what was one of the
TO be fair I haven’t heard much about the Youth Olympics in Argentina. I know that Scottish Women in Sport (SW/S) trustee and sports journalist Alison Walker, was out covering golf there and that George Adderley, one of our top youth squash players
ASK most people if the name Brian Wilson means anything to them, and they’ll probably mention The Beach Boys. Those of us who have been involved in Scottish politics for any length of time, however, might come up with the image of a bespectacled former
FIVE of Scotland’s most accomplished musical acts are gearing up for a fundraising concert for a charity which gives bicycles to refugees. The inaugural Big Tune Up Benefit Concert will be held at the Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh on November 2 to
DONALD Trump has threatened to tear up the United States’s 1987 nuclear weapons treaty with Russia, an agreement that bans intermediate-range nuclear systems. Put simply, these are first-strike weapons designed to knock out the other side’s command
ORGANISERS of an Edinburgh event featuring controversial political strategist Steve Bannon have insisted that it will go ahead, despite plans for a large-scale protest. The former adviser to Donald Trump is due to be interviewed at the BBC-hosted
RARE James Bond posters are expected to sell for up to £28,000 as hundreds of sought-after film prints go up for sale at auction. Film and TV memorabilia company Prop Store will sell more than 400 original posters, worth in excess of £250,000
ARTWORKS worth almost £2 million are to go under the hammer at a major auction house next month. Pieces by some of the country’s most celebrated painters are to be offered for sale at the Sotheby’s Scottish Art sale in London next month. But
TORY party infighting desce-nded to a new toxic low yesterday, with one backbench MP saying the moment was coming when Theresa May would soon have a knife “stuck in her front and twisted”. Other politicians talked of May being in a “killing field
FOODSTORY was set up by Sandy McKinnon and Laura Bishop in 2013 via a kickstarter campaign. To celebrate its fifth anniversary next month, they have set up a second site, Foodstory 2, which is a zero-waste cafe and shop. It has zero packaging and food
ROYAL Bank of Scotland is expected to post higher profits this week amid a drop in litigation and conduct charges. RBS releases results alongside competitors Barclays and Lloyds. A consensus of City analysts is forecasting a rise in attributable
BANK of England governor Mark Carney and two of his US advisers have racked up more than £100,000 on travel costs and taxis in just three months, figures have revealed. The statistics come just four months after the Bank was slammed by MPs over
Today, we’re going to look at Mourvedre, a grape known as ‘the dog strangler’ in the south of France due to its strength of flavour and concentration of acidity and tannin. This is a big, punchy wine with a ton of character. In France, you’ll find
THE Kremlin has blasted Donald Trump’s plan for the US to exit a 30-year-old nuclear weapons treaty. Sergei Ryabkov, Russia’s deputy foreign minister, warned ending the 1987 deal, which was agreed between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev would
JOB cuts will be enforced unless a Brexit deal is made before Christmas, business leaders say. In a survey of its members, industry body CBI found that four in five companies had investment plans disrupted by Brexit. And most said they will reduce
SCOTTISH Tory MPs have said they’d rather back a hard Brexit than remain bound by EU rules for just three months longer. Yesterday, the UK Government’s Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab confirmed that the Prime Minister was considering extending the
A THRILLING second-half display by Scotland saw them come from behind to beat Ireland 14-12 in Saturday’s shinty/hurling international at Inverness’s Bught Park. This result makes it five home wins in a row for Garry Reid’s side and with Scotland Ladies
A UNIQUE guitar signed by 31 Scottish celebrities is set to raise over £20,000 for charity. Hollywood’s Ewan McGregor and James McEvoy, Andy Murray, Chris Hoy, Billy Connolly, Emeli Sandé and David Tennant are among the stars to have signed the
PLANS for a Holyrood energy expert to boost exports to Saudi Arabia have been dropped over the Jamal Khashoggi case. The Scottish Government it will no longer seek to appoint a trade specialist in light of the disappearance and reported death under
A LEADING charity is calling on the Scottish Government to speed up moves on a seven-day time limit on the use of unsuitable temporary homelessness accommodation such as B&Bs. The call from Crisis comes as research exposes the suffering caused
