LISTENING to the radio you would need to have been on your toes – or at least handy on the dial – to avoid sport this week. Wimbledon, cricket and the football dominated so much of the week’s broadcasting, constantly invading news broadcasts an...

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IT first opened its doors in 1898 by the Earl of Rosebery and was intended to provide a cultural centre for the people of Glasgow.

IT was once a world leader in the manufacture of linen and while the mills which employed thousands in their day are long gone, Dunfermline's heritage has inspired a designer launching her debut clothing range.

THERE are weeks where decades happen. That’s how it’s felt at times throughout the pandemic.

Hundreds of teacher vacancies have gone unfilled over the last three years, sparking fresh fears for recruitment into Scotland’s rural schools.

WE now have to admit, however grudgingly, that there’s a possibility of England winning the Euros.

AS CalMac’s ferry plans took another body blow this week with talks over the provision of the catamaran Pentalina closing fruitless, the consequences for some island businesses look serious.

AN elderly woman with dementia developed Sepsis after waiting 17 hours for an ambulance, despite living less than a mile from her nearest hospital.

NHS staff in Scotland who have borne the brunt of the pandemic are facing prescription charges and journeys to England for crisis mental health treatment.

Google has honoured Ludwig Guttmann in their latest Google Doodle.

An obstacle race which sees participants dunked into an ice bath and wade through a mile of mud has been called off less than a day before it was due to start.

KATHY Burke is not your average documentary maker. She does a lot of effing and jeffing on camera for a start. Then there are the endless demands for cups of tea from her interviewees (surely it is up to her to keep them sweet?) And did I mention she...

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Cabinet ministers have warned of a possible disruption to peace in a bid to push Brussels into concessions over the Northern Ireland Protocol.

THE Matt Hancock affair and misbehaving politicians continued to be debated by columnists in the newspapers - plus how Covid has hit older women in employment.

ALLAN Thompson (Letters, July 2) complains that the Scottish Government is fabricating grievances over the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, a treaty which the UK already signed up to in the 1990s. May I remind Mr Thompson that the Scottish b...

LAST time I wrote to you I said that we were optimists in my family. I told Mum that too, often, particularly when the going got tough. I was right though, wasn’t I? After all, how many times did she fall into despair over the last ten and half mon...

THE extreme actions of a British influencer who has undergone surgery to look Korean have turned the spotlight on transracialism.

To her most loyal readers, Fidelma Cook was more than a columnist. She did everything columnists do: she gave her opinions and commented on the news, but in talking about the biggest change in her life

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THE patina of gloom that’s lately settled upon the UK Labour movement lifted a little on Thursday and provided hope of something brighter. At last, an authentic working-class voice could be heard proclaiming authentic Labour values in the face of t...

HOW much hopeless food advice from old Etonians must we endure? Last year we had an earful of Boris Johnson preaching the UK Government’s bankrupt formula for combatting obesity.

IT was a telephone call I knew had to come but, still, it was a shock when Fidelma Cook's son Pierce rang last Saturday afternoon. His mother had admitted herself to hospital last Friday and she had, very peacefully, passed away on Saturday morning.

Endurance race enthusiasts have reacted with anger after the Scottish Tough Mudder race was cancelled with less than a day to go.

EVERY health board in Scotland will open walk-in vaccination centres from Monday amid concern the number of doses administered fell by almost 40% last month.

Senior Government minister Michael Gove and his journalist wife Sarah Vine are to split after almost twenty years of marriage, a joint spokesman for the couple said.

Latvian airline airBaltic has today launched flights between Edinburgh and Riga, Latvia.

NICOLA Sturgeon has insisted Scotland’s contact tracing system is “coping well” under severe pressure as case numbers rise – despite officials being forced to scale back some procedures.

SO, are we scared yet? As we watch a large swathe of Canada and the American north-west suffer an unprecedented heatwave, are we ready to admit that, yes, climate change is a problem and not just for the Third World?

SCOTLAND’S national clinical director has insisted the message could not have been stronger for football fans not to travel to London for Scotland’s game with England –despite almost 400 positive Covid cases who attended the Wembley fixture.

ALEX Salmond’s Alba Party has urged the grassroots Yes movement to unite and take to the streets to secure independence after the failure of the SNP to take the initiative.

A heartbroken bride has spoken about the moment that her future husband passed away at the altar minutes before they were about to get married.

NICOLA Sturgeon remains hopeful Scotland will move to Level 0 in just over two weeks’ time – despite a surge in confirmed positive cases of the virus.

Scotland’s forestry body has called for more support in tackling anti-social behaviour after staff were abused by aggressive campers who kicked ducks, axed trees and damaged the environment.

A rare piece of founding American history has sold for $4,420,000 (£3,210,000) after being discovered in the attic of a Scottish ancestral home by fine art auctioneers.

HOSPITALITY businesses are reportedly being forced to close due to delays in Scotland’s Test and Protect contact tracing system.

SCOTTISH waste plastic road company MacRebur has hailed being selected to present to some of the biggest names in motorsport including Goodyear, Hyundai and EnelX at the world’s first ETCR touring series for electric cars in Italy.

THEY'VE had five years to mull it over, was the essence of Boris Johnson's response to questioning by Ian Blackford MP in the House of Commons about those EU passport holders struggling to make the deadline to apply for settled status.

SCOTLAND’s travelling Tartan Army who ventured to London for the Euro 2020 match against England were “very clearly” acting as super-spreaders, a public health expert has warned.

NICOLA Sturgeon will today provide another coronavirus update for Scotland amid further record-breaking levels of daily cases.

MORE THAN £1.5bn will be invested to prepare Scotland for a clean electricity transformation – central to plans to support electric vehicles and a transition away from gas central heating.

Its behaviour has conjured up an image not only of ear-covering but also of someone singing loudly so what is being said cannot be heard.

A leading North Sea independent has said it is well placed to achieve significant growth after maintaining investment amid the slump triggered by the coronavirus crisis.

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