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Sun, 03 Jan 2021 06:00:00 +0000
Rosemary Goring's Country Life: It can be lethal but snow is vital to our northern make-up
“There will be snow, snow, snow,” warned the weather forecaster, but she made no mention of the Borders. The best we could expect, it seemed, was sleet. All the same, it came as no surprise when the first flakes began to fall during breakfast.

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 09:25:54 +0000
Jetski covid lockdown breaker Dale McLaughlin comes clean
A MAN who broke coronavirus lockdown rules by jet-skiing from Scotland to the Isle of Man has said he "did it for love".

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 08:00:00 +0000
Top lawyer calls for drug use to be decriminalised to solve deaths crisis
SCOTLAND’S lawyer of the year has called for drug use to be decriminalised as part of the solution to the country’s drug deaths crisis.

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 15:02:08 +0000
Loch Lomond: Locals battle to save Bonnie Banks from developments
A CURSORY glance at social media networking sites reveals the modern snake-oil of civic managerialism: leadership courses.

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 07:00:00 +0000
The war over scallops and the future of sustainable fishing in Scotland
They love scallops in Oban. “We can’t get enough of them to meet demand,” smiles Carol Watt, whose family firm has been selling fish in the Argyll port for more than a century.

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 05:30:00 +0000
Iain Macwhirter: Can Nicola Sturgeon finally deliver an independence referendum in 2021?
There is only one question that matters in Scottish politics in 2021: will there be a firm date for indyref2? And yes, I said something very similar last year, and indeed the year before that. The non-appearance of the independence referendum has ...

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 05:10:00 +0000
Ex-Ferguson Marine shipyard bosses damaging lost orders and "highly irregular" actions of Scots ministers
FORMER management of the shipyard at the centre of Scotland’s ferry-building fiasco have said ministers have lost millions of pounds of valuable orders – projects with “huge opportunities lost” – while condemning “highly irregular” a...

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 05:07:00 +0000
Scots couple who built their own 'dream home' from scratch on the perks and pitfalls of self-build schemes
By Caroline Wilson

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 05:00:00 +0000
Pardon bid fails for convicted Glasgow killer John McIntosh who went to his grave protesting innocence
THE family of a man who took his own life after serving nine years in jail for a murder another repeatedly boasted was responsible have told of their despair in failing to get the First Minister to intervene to posthumously clear his name.

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 05:00:00 +0000
Roslin Institute DNA study reveals how your partner's genes affect your own health and behaviour
THE DNA profile of your husband or wife is influencing everything from how often you eat beef or oily fish to how much time you spend watching television, according to a new study.

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 06:00:00 +0000
Ron McKay's Diary: Mawkish sentimentality of Harry and Meghan's spotify nonsense should carry a Public Health Warning
PUBLIC health warning! That mawkish sentimentality so beloved of US actors, directors and filmmakers – have you seen The Midnight Sky, starring and directed by George Clooney, so saccharine your eyes will rot? – has infected the Sussexes.

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 06:00:00 +0000
David Pratt on The World: A vaccine for the haves ... and another for the have-nots
Despite the rise in Covid-19 cases the roll out of a vaccine brings hopes for some of a better year ahead. But as Foreign Editor David Pratt reports there are others in parts of the world for whom it’s a very different story

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 06:00:00 +0000
Ally McLaws - living with cancer during a pandemic: Why we can all write our own obituaries
At this time of year most of us look back and think about the past.

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 06:00:00 +0000
Spotlight: Did Scottish thief help plan KGB mole’s miraculous jailbreak?
It should be called The Traitors’ Club. It opens in the cloisters of Cambridge University, moving to the bustling insides of spy central, Century House beside Waterloo station, and then to the elegant, cushioned, gentlemen’s clubs of Knightsbr...

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 05:55:00 +0000
Talking Rabbish: I was once very fit, vegetarian and teetotal - who the hell was that person?
ARE you fit? Or are you fit for nothing? I’m guessing that, at this time of year, some of you will be drawing up resolutions involving the dreaded words “exercise” and “more”, same as you did last year. And the year before that.

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 05:29:00 +0000
THE BIG READ: Hero or villain? The battle for the truth about Winston Churchill and Scotland
By Mark Smith and Alastair Stewart

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 04:32:00 +0000
Gene pull: How your partner's DNA affects your own health - even down to what you eat
By Helen McArdle

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 07:00:00 +0000
The war over scallops and the future of sustainable fishing in Scotland
THEY love scallops in Oban. “We can’t get enough of them to meet demand,” smiles Carol Watt, whose family firm has been selling fish in the Argyll port for more than a century.  As a queue of masked shoppers forms outside her little mustard...

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 15:00:00 +0000
Gardening with Dave Allan: Planting at the right time is key
Even though Hogmanay was cancelled, the New Year has dawned and with a sharper mind than usual I wonder what lies ahead in the garden.

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 15:00:00 +0000
Iain Masterton: Scottish paradores offer tax-efficient tourism boost
AS Scotland’s beleaguered tourism industry continues to weather the impact of Covid-19, could the prospect of converting some of our historic properties into high-end hotels benefit the sector and deliver a post-pandemic economic boost?

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 15:00:00 +0000
Pick of the week's TV films: Bill Murray, Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones
Saturday

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 14:03:03 +0000
Coronavirus Scotland: Daily figures show 2137 new cases
A total of 2137 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours.

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 11:30:00 +0000
Our Herald writers share their hopes for 2021
OUR HOPES FOR 2021

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 11:00:00 +0000
Herald View: Let us have a new start that prioritises recovery
THE old year now has passed away, as the hymn has it, and most of us will be glad to see the back of it. Seldom can danger and distress have seemed so near, but at least we enter 2021 with something – in the form of the vaccines – for which to be...

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 10:24:52 +0000
Coronavirus Scotland: Second dose of Pfizer vaccine delayed
People in Scotland who were due to receive their second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine from next week have been told their appointments will be pushed back by months.

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
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 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
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 11:30:00 +0000
Opinion: Robert McNeil - Let’s talk the walk and go forth into the mild woods
I MUST confess it’s been disturbing how Covid has led many folk to start living the way that I have for years: working from home; never talking to anyone for days on

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 11:25:36 +0000
Grangemouth: Alarm panic as residents told to stay indoors
Residents in a Scots town have been told there is no need to panic after an alarm from a petrochemical plant sounded late on Friday.

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 09:52:03 +0000
Covid-19: Loch Lomond lockdown party broken up by police
More than 30 Glaswegians breached coronavirus restrictions to travel to a holiday home in Loch Lomond.

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
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
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...



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