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Fri, 01 Jan 2021 21:00:00 +0000
Derek Pickup survived Heysel and Hillsborough and now remembers cousin Nigel on 50th anniversary of Ibrox Disaster
THE recollections of Ibrox, Heysel and Hillsborough are very different for Derek Pickup. He will never forget, though, as he prepares to remember once again.

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 05:00:00 +0000
Scots patients who may have contracted Covid in hospital data revealed
As many as 2,133 Scots may have contracted Covid-19 while in hospital over the course of the pandemic this year, figures show.

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 05:00:00 +0000
Coronavirus: 'Super Saturday', vaccines and mutant Covid strains
IT is now clear that UK’s the second wave of coronavirus began in July. Some experts have gone so far as to pin it to one particular day: ‘Super Saturday’.

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 05:00:00 +0000
Brian Donnelly: Don’t eat your cake just yet Prime Minister
AS the Bells chimed on the 31st, a Brexit trade deal that had barged its way through Westminster with some jingoistic bluster and very little else on Wednesday had already been formalised and the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Unio...

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 05:00:00 +0000
Kevin McKenna: It’s time for the care sector to be completely nationalised
OFTEN, it’s been the essential virtues of our shared humanity which have made this Covid year bearable. Occurring alongside the increasing infection and death tolls have been individual human stories conveying kindness, self-sacrifice and compas...

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 08:42:32 +0000
ScotRail: Delay Repay scheme shows more than £1m paid out
ScotRail paid out more than £1.1 million over a year, figures show.

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 05:03:00 +0000
Council tax timebomb in aftermath of coronavirus as Scotland's debt mountain doubles in five years
SCOTLAND'S council tax debt mountain has doubled in size in five years as fears grow that the coronavirus pandemic will make a credit crisis even worse.

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 05:03:00 +0000
Coronavirus vaccine roll-out impact might not be seen for months
THE impact of the Covid vaccination programme on case numbers may not be seen until March, a Scottish public health expert has said, warning that a new and more concerning strain of the virus had “not really taken hold” yet in Scotland.

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 05:00:00 +0000
Opinion: Fidelma Cook - I wish you the best for 2021. And never lose hope...we’re lost if we do
Every year at this time I predictably start with the same sentiments. I don’t make resolutions for I don’t believe in tempting fate but I’ve now found out the hard way that fate gets on with its own business regardless of looking it in the e...

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 05:00:00 +0000
SNP told to turn climate pledges into action amid carbon capture funding
THE SCOTTISH Government has been told to back up climate emergency pledges with action and funding – ahead of the global COP26 conference being held in Glasgow.

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 05:00:00 +0000
Gordon Smith: Old Firm will be momentous for Celtic and Rangers - but for very different reasons
TODAY's Old Firm game has massive repercussions for both teams and the outcome of this season. If Rangers win, you can’t really say that the league is over but to be realistic, the chances of Celtic retaining the title would be extremely limite...

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 05:06:00 +0000
From Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver to Nigella Lawson and Mary Berry: Who is the UK's most successful celebrity chef?
He is famous for the F word.

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 05:02:41 +0000
Ibrox Disaster 50 Years On: Stairway 13 may be gone but the memories remain
Football spectating in the 1960’s and 1970’s was a completely different scenario compared to the pampered luxuries of the modern day game. In January 1971, Ted Heath was some seven months into his Premiership. Decimalisation was imminent (Feb ...

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 08:55:05 +0000
EuroMillions: Lottery numbers revealed as winner scoops prize
A UK ticket-holder has started 2021 with a bang - and a £39 million EuroMillions jackpot.

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 05:00:00 +0000
Portfolio: Patlabor 2, 1993, Hiromasa Ogura
Since the release of Akira in 1988, the popular idea of anime in the western public imagination is one of shimmering future cities, all neon and tech, usually only a flicker away from an act of gratuitous destruction.

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 05:02:24 +0000
Reflections and New Year resolutions
REFLECTIONS on 2020 and the personalities of the year dominated the comment sections of the newspapers on the first day of the new year.

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 05:30:00 +0000
Coronavirus: This may not be 'the big' pandemic
STILL surging around the world, with a rising death toll, coronavirus has turned every facet of life as we know it on its head. But a new warning has been issued that this pandemic may not be "the big one”.

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 05:00:00 +0000
Herald Diary: A tale of heroic failures
WELL done everyone. Like those plucky soldier chappies in The Great Escape we managed to tunnel our way to the end of 2020. Now here we are on the other side of the wire, ready to make one final dash for freedom. (Fingers crossed about those vaccines...

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 18:28:42 +0000
Nicola Sturgeon: Scottish independence 'has never been about separatism'
NICOLA Sturgeon has insisted Scottish independence “has never been about separatism” as she forecast the country could rejoin the European Union family of nations "soon".

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 16:12:19 +0000
SNP told to spend £70m recycling fund to halt rising rat numbers
THE SNP has been told to spend an unused £70 million recycling fund to clean up Scotland’s streets and halt rising numbers of rats.

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 15:32:19 +0000
Former Argyll teacher Anne Paterson celebrated OBE with champagne toast
FORMER teacher Anne Paterson celebrated a Royal honour on the same day she retired after devoting 39 years to pupils in one Scottish rural area.

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 14:55:00 +0000
Nicola Sturgeon: 'Next few weeks could be the most dangerous'
NICOLA Sturgeon has issued a stark warning that “the next few weeks may be the most dangerous we’ve faced” since the start of the pandemic.

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 14:29:37 +0000
Ibrox Disaster 50th anniversary: Rangers postpone memorial service until 'families can gather'
Rangers bosses say they have taken the decision with "great sadness" and opted instead to wait until restrictions relax.

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 14:03:01 +0000
Coronavirus Scotland: Daily figures show rise in cases
More than 2500 people in Scotland have tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours.

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 12:13:29 +0000
Records: Nicola Sturgeon's top official Leslie Evans gave bizarre 'Wonderwall' presentation
NICOLA Sturgeon’s top official tried to explain her "visions" for local government to fellow mandarins by using the Oasis hit Wonderall, official files have revealed.

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 11:37:41 +0000
Records: Ministers in fear of Freedom of Information
SCOTTISH ministers were alarmed at the prospect of their public and private lives being exposed by the advent of Freedom of Information, official records reveal.

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 11:30:00 +0000
TV preview: Dancing On Thin Ice prepares to glide onto our screens on New Year's Day
"If somebody had said it five years ago, we wouldn't have done it, but it's the right timing - and it isn't always of your own making," remarks British ice-skating champion Christopher Dean of his latest sub-zero adventure.

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 11:41:02 +0000
Scotland's first New Year baby arrives at Lanarkshire maternity unit
A Lanarkshire maternity unit is though to have welcomed the first New Year baby of 2021.

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 11:08:17 +0000
Boris Johnson claims Brexit can end 'rancorous bickering about Europe'
BORIS Johnson has said Brexit offers a chance to “transform our country”, as a new era of trade between the UK and Europe gets underway today.



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