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Sat, 20 Aug 2022 06:01:00 +0100
Alison Rowat's TV review: Marriage; Long Lost Family: What Happened Next; Britain's Secret War Babies; Afghanistan: Getting Out
HOW are you? I feel I should ask having just watched Marriage (BBC1, Sunday-Monday), one of the most disturbing television experiences of the year (and I speak as someone who has sat through all the Tory leadership debates).

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 06:00:00 +0100
Teenager clones UK's largest transport firms - and it's all legal
A TEENAGER has registered scores of companies in the name of major Scottish and UK bus and rail brands, including operator Stagecoach and manufacturer Alexander Dennis, making him one of the UK’s largest transport moguls on paper.

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 05:30:00 +0100
Alison Rowat's TV preview: Fight at the Fort; The Pyrenees with Michael Portillo; This is MY House
FOOTBALL documentaries are having a moment. After the success of All or Nothing: Tottenham, Sunderland ‘Til I Die, and the like, filmmakers are alive to the fact that football clubs are home to some great stories. Whatever happens, there is a guara...

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 05:00:00 +0100
Scottish education: Do we need a three-day week for schools?
1974’s three-day week is now no more than a bad memory.

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 05:00:00 +0100
CalMac Ferries defends hiring English media firm
SCOTTISH ferry company CalMac has come under fire for awarding a media and advertising contract to an English business while the lifeline service continues to battle against what some might say are peculiarly Scottish headwinds.

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 05:00:00 +0100
Energy crisis: Scottish schools 'may have to switch to three-day week'
The Scottish school week may have to be cut from five days to three as rampant inflation, austerity and climate-related disruption combine to make existing arrangements unsustainable, a leading expert has warned.

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 05:00:00 +0100
Shares in upmarket retailer Joules collapse as heatwave hammers sales
By Scott Wright

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 06:27:00 +0100
Herald View: Johnson has lost interest and is taking the hard-pressed voters for granted
WE have, it seems, to be careful about using the expression “missing in action” when describing our increasingly demob-happy Prime Minister.

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 05:25:00 +0100
Glasgow's oldest pub celebrates milestone birthday
IT is located on one of the four original streets in Glasgow and welcomed its first customers in 1792.

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 05:00:00 +0100
As new booster rolled out - where next for Covid vaccines?
FROM Monday, health and social care workers in Scotland can begin booking appointments for their next round of Covid boosters and winter flu jags.

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 05:00:00 +0100
Backlogs need to be cleared - but this has potential to change the meaning of 'NHS' care
WORRIES over the cost of living may have replaced Covid as a daily preoccupation for most of us, but the NHS continues to face a crippling pandemic hangover.

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 05:00:00 +0100
Private firms invited to bid for £150 million NHS contract
PRIVATE firms are being invited to bid for a £150 million contract that includes providing staff to carry out operations in NHS hospitals at weekends over the next five years.

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 05:00:00 +0100
Lee Halpin: Regulator lays down foundations to grow trust in financial services
By Lee Halpin

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 05:00:00 +0100
Glasgow University's 'shameful' failings over women in senior roles
The leader of one of Scotland’s oldest universities has told an employment tribunal that it is “shameful” so few women are promoted to senior roles within the institution.

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 05:00:00 +0100
Glasgow West End housing plan for old school building
By Ian McConnell

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 05:00:00 +0100
Retail sales down sharply in latest three months
By Ian McConnell

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 05:00:00 +0100
Letters: Why can't the democratic rights of No voters be respected?
GR Weir (Letters, August 18) likens Liz Truss’s assertion that she “will never allow the Union to be split up” ("Union will ‘never ever’ end, says Liz Truss", The Herald, August 17) to Putin asserting Ukraine is part of Russia and Xi Jinpin...

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 05:00:00 +0100
Bearsden entrepreneur Kieran Cannon in bid to help struggling hairdressing industry
A former Dragons’ Den contestant believes his new Glasgow venture could help save more Scottish hairdressing salons from closing their doors.

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 10:00:00 +0100
Camley’s Cartoon: Food banks in crisis
Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on how the cost of living crisis is affecting food banks on Saturday, August 20, 2022. Framed prints of Steven Camley's cartoons are available by calling 0141 302 6210. Unframed cartoons can be purchased by visit...

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 05:00:00 +0100
Flights of fancy from the Herald Diary
IT’S often argued that flying is safer than any other form of travel. Which is true. Though only if you add the proviso that the pilots in charge of the plane must stay awake.

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 08:18:00 +0100
Jason Byrne on his heart scare and why the Scots love a moan like the Irish
COMEDIANS almost invariably call upon their own life experiences in order to work up the material for a show.

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 06:57:00 +0100
Pakistani Street Food, Victoria Road, Glasgow. Ron Mackenna's restaurant review
IT’S the last of the summer living then and tonight we’re on Victoria Road a-tingling with the energy of Glasgow’s most cosmopolitan and vibrant quarter. Right now , Eastern European folk music drifts down from a tenement window flung open like...

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 06:00:00 +0100
David Leask: How Kremlin spies were wrong on Scotland, and wrong on Ukraine
HIS job was to lure Scottish nationalists to Moscow. And he failed. It is fully seven years since Aleksandr Ionov tried to meddle in our politics.

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 06:00:00 +0100
Kevin McKenna: Why Scotland’s political elites exulted in the battle of Perth
THE great American journalist and author Robert Caro wrote perhaps the greatest modern treatise on the true source of political power and how it’s deployed. Every page of his Pultizer-winning biography of Robert Moses, the New York planner who, des...

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 05:30:00 +0100
Issue of the day: The rise of 'cash stuffing'
AMID the rise of a cashless society, it seemed we were leaving pounds and notes behind, but younger generations are now pushing back with the latest trend - cash stuffing. And experts believe it could have an upside for all as the cost-of-living cris...

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 05:30:00 +0100
Brian Taylor: OK, we get it – Tories back the Union. But what else are they offering?
THE single, biggest cheer at the Perth Tory hustings? That went to Liz Truss for emphatically declaring that “a woman is a woman”.

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 09:08:48 +0100
P&O: Ferry firm will not face criminal action over mass sackings
The company sparked public anger and was hauled in front of MPs to answer questions when it sacked hundreds of workers without notice in March

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 00:04:00 +0100
Framed answer August 20: Framed movies hints and today's answer
What is today's Framed? Some hints to help you guess the movie. Plus the answer for when you've given up!

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 00:01:00 +0100
Wordle today: Wordle 427 August 20 hints and today's answer
Hints and answer for today's Wordle.

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 00:01:00 +0100
Quordle answer August 20: Quordle word hints and today's answer
If you have tried and loved Wordle, Quordle should be your next go-to brain teaser.

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 00:23:26 +0100
Weaver clues: Hints and answers for August 20 word game
Weaver is the newest word game on the block - if you are struggling with today's brainteaser here are some hints to get you to the end. And the solution if you give up!

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 00:01:00 +0100
Heardle answer August 20: Spotify's Heardle song hints and today's answer
Move over Wordle, you can now shake things up with its music spin-off Heardle.

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 21:40:00 +0100
Michael Gove bows out of frontline politics and backs Rishi Sunak for PM
MICHAEL Gove has announced he is leaving frontline politics and endorsed Rishi Sunak for Prime Minister while accusing Liz Truss of taking “a holiday from reality”.

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 19:01:39 +0100
Cosla offers Scottish council workers improved five per cent pay increase
LOCAL government workers have been offered an improved pay offer amid council staff threatening strike action.

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 12:34:22 +0100
Nicola Sturgeon hits out after Tory peer suggests Scottish devolution can 'evolve back'
NICOLA Sturgeon has warned the “Tories are coming for devolution” after a senior Conservative peer suggested devolved powers could be returned to Westminster.

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 16:59:42 +0100
Ayrshire Gailes Hotel unveils new spa breaks
AN Ayrshire hotel has unveiled plans for new autumn spa breaks for men, women and couples.

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 12:05:00 +0100
Joules' shares plunge as retailer issues profit warning
SHARES in Joules Group plunged by more than one-third this morning as the troubled fashion retailer warned it expects to make a “significant loss” in the first half and a full-year loss before tax, “significantly below market expectations”.

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 11:03:44 +0100
Yorkshire CP Media wins CalMac contract
YORKSHIRE-based outdoor advertising business CP Media has been awarded the media contract for ferry service operator CalMac Ferries.

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 10:29:11 +0100
August Property Market Update 2022
House prices across the UK have seen the first decrease since June 2021, albeit by a marginal 0.1% in July, but Scotland’s housing market continues to record soaring property prices, with a 9.6% annual growth rate since the start of 2022.

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 05:00:00 +0100
Brexit: Ian McConnell: Liz Truss sabre-rattling at EU threatens crisis-hit UK economy
You might imagine this approach would in coming months become less effective, with many Brexit fans surely likely at long last to see through the populist distractions and showboating.

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 05:20:00 +0100
'Terrifying': Over one in three Scots households to be trapped in extreme fuel poverty by January
NEARLY 1m Scots households will be trapped in extreme fuel poverty by January, even with planned government support leaving even middle-income households struggling to pay their bills, according to new research.

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 05:00:00 +0100
Wealth manager swoops for Glasgow’s Campbell Thomson
By Scott Wright

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 05:00:00 +0100
Logan Energy, Locogen, Arbikie hydrogen distillery
SCOTTISH hydrogen experts Logan Energy and renewables specialists Locogen have been given the go-ahead for a ground-breaking £3 million green distillery project.

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 05:00:00 +0100
Men like Scotland's new period dignity officer need to move over
THERE will doubtless be a podcast made one day about the unexpected ubiquity of Jason Grant.

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 05:00:00 +0100
Scottish Greens call for energy companies to be nationalised and price cap reversed
THE JUNIOR partner in the Scottish Government has called for the biggest energy companies to be nationalised to cut soaring fuel bills.

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 05:00:00 +0100
Glasgow La Vita Italian chain to open new restaurant
A FAMILY-owned Italian restaurant chain has announced plans to open a new site which will have a “host of sustainable features”.

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 14:13:03 +0100
UK first as Glasgow museums sign repatriation agreement for Indian artefacts
IT led the way when it took a bold step to return a Lakota Sioux Ghost Dance shirt to its rightful home in the US almost 25 years ago. Now Glasgow has set a further example as it has signed an agreement which will see it become the first UK museums s...

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 12:38:56 +0100
Glasgow West End housing development plans submitted
By Ian McConnell

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 05:00:00 +0100
Family-owned WRC Recycling unveils major expansion to cut landfill waste
WRC Recycling is set for a huge boost in the amount of building debris it can handle in-house following today’s official opening of a £4 million construction and demolition (C&D) plant at its site in Inchinnan.

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 05:00:00 +0100
Scottish Enterprise reaps record returns on small firms
Economic development agency Scottish Enterprise generated a record amount of income from its investments in early-stage companies during the year to April, but the value and volume of new deals fell following the withdrawal of Covid support funding.



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