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Indy Scotland 'would need to guarantee savings'

AN independent Scotland would need its own guarantee system to protect people's savings in the event of another...
Labour in bogus members probe

LABOUR are investigating claims new members were signed up in Falkirk by the party's biggest trades union affiliate...
Fresh dossier on George Sq fiasco

THE Glasgow City Council whistleblower who claims he was ordered to fix the outcome of the George Square redesign...

It's the economy, stupid ... but who is making the best case?

Jim and Margaret Cuthbert
Davidson's Devo Panel under fire

TORY leader Ruth Davidson has been accused of merely paying lip service to the promise of more powers for Holyrood,...
The victim

ARMY drummer Lee "Riggers" Rigby was born in Manchester and signed up to the forces in 2006 when aged 19, later to...
Why so few statues of great Scotswomen?

SCOTLAND'S towns and cities are littered with hundreds of statues commemorating military figures, philanthropists,...
The suspects

THE two suspects in the street slaying of soldier Lee Rigby are said to have become radicalised after joining the...

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Legacies outlast laments

PERFECT days in football, like the one Celtic enjoyed under the scorching sun at Hampden in May 2001, are few and far between.
Borussia Dortmund 1 Bayern Munich 2:Back in business

FUSSBALL, bloody hell.
A salve for years fo pain

FORTY-NINE minutes was the time showing on the big screens at Hampden when Kevin Thomson's father Alan gave his son a nudge and nodded towards the...
Blueprint for Hibs is black and white

HIBERNIAN can end their 111-year Scottish Cup hoodoo today by doing precisely what St Mirren did against Celtic in the Scottish Communities League...

Daly driven by McCoist's passion

Jon Daly has revealed Rangers manager Ally McCoist's passion sold him on a move to Ibrox.
Ex-Celtic star Cadete on the attack

CELTIC striking legend Jorge Cadete feels the club's current collection of attackers are failing to measure up to their Parkhead predecessors.
Lions need to find their roar

It is sometimes easy to suspect that it was the very act of ennoblement that knocked all sense out of Sir Clive Woodward.
Sergio's support network

A racism storm combined with threats of thunder storms followed by a deluge of big- name departures?

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Blueprint for Hibs is black and white

26 May 2013

HIBERNIAN can end their 111-year Scottish Cup hoodoo today by doing precisely what St Mirren did against Celtic in the Scottish Communities League Cup semi-final.
Gabriele Marcotti

From sinner to saint, the redemption of Robben is completed at Wembley

26 May 2013

SOME 20 minutes after the final whistle at last night's Champions League final, Arjen Robben stood alone on the barrier at the edge of the Bayern Munich end and led the crowd in celebration, as his team-mates looked on respectfully.
Spiers on Saturday

Spiers on Saturday: meeting Pat Stanton, the last of the romantics

25 May 2013

I have known older Hibernian fans to near weep at the mere mention of Pat Stanton.

James Morgan

The Tenner Bet

25 May 2013

During the 1980s and 90s, the Tenner Bet could name every single participant in an FA Cup final together with the result and even the goalscorers.

Hugh Macdonald

Pay-off . . . sorry, play-off . . . final is fitting climax in game where money is all

25 May 2013

D ON'T see much telly nowadays.
Susan Egelstaff

Scots will suffer if GB bodies are allowed to fly St George's Cross in everything but name

24 May 2013

Scotland and England have long been enemies on the sports field.
Kevin Ferrie

High risk and high expectation rewarded with high standards in Ireland

23 May 2013

When Ulster's top brass decided to sack the man who was in the process of taking them to the Heineken Cup final last season, it looked a ridiculously unnecessary gamble.

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In mosques around the country we will be praying for the victim, his family and for Woolwich

I join others in utterly condemning the attack – and offer my sincerest sympathies to the family and friends...
This horror had nothing to do with Islam ... but Islam can help end it

CONFRONTED with terrorism, politicians tend to react with the language of the psychiatrist.

Ian Bell
Where angels did not fear to tread

BRITAIN has a new hero: Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, the woman captured on camera talking it out with the still-bloodied,...

Vicky Allan

Lamont must take control

After Scottish Labour was trounced at the 2011 Holyrood election, a much-needed review of the party's operations and...

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It's been a good week for - body diversity

Susan Swarbrick
When Bozzie met Sammy, rise of the metrosexual male and the sad demise of the natterjack toad

I surely do not need to remind readers of this constantly throbbing organ that it is 250 years to the month that...

Alan Taylor
Voices of reason must speak out against hate

THERE has been much talk of heroism, as people searched for a hope in the grim aftermath of the Woolwich atrocity....

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Funding boost will let Silverbean shine

A GLASGOW catering company that provides pop-up coffee stations to offices has secured a six-figure funding package...
Scottish Cities Alliance hopes London showcase will drum up business

The Scottish Cities Alliance (SCA), a £7 million plan to leverage the strengths of Scotland's seven cities,...
TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS

The country may be strewn with concert halls and venues, but there are only a handful of record labels.

'Scottish SMEs are most supportive of independence'

A new poll is likely to show that owners of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are more supportive of self-...
John Phelps's portfolio

We managed to take a fairly relaxed view of Thursday's stock market sell-off, with three out of our four portfolios...
Radical idea to win votes Efficient model

Little noticed in the Scottish Government's booklet on the economic advantages of independence was a tantalising...
Track down a rising index fund

Are we in another stock market bubble?
Co-operative Bank ends new lending to business

CO-OPERATIVE Bank has pulled out of new lending to business, it has emerged, just weeks after its credit was...

Harris Tweed scoops two gongs at prestigious textile awards

Scottish textile designers Harris Tweed Herbrides have won two of the industry's most prestigious awards at a glamorous ceremony in London.
The Budget Blogger: be the belle of the grad ball

It’s the season of proms and graduation balls - a pricey time for the budget fashionista.
It's offal: Scottish designer creates whole-cow handbags

It is the ultimate in recycled handbags, using almost every part of a cow.

Top Scots chefs to create food lovers feast at Mhor festival

Food lovers will get the chance to enjoy a feast created by some of Scotland’s top chefs at the Mhor Festival this weekend.
DIY Cocktails: the fruity Pimm's

It’s a bank holiday weekend and there’s a hint of sunshine on the horizon, not enough to send the mercury rising but perhaps enough to enjoy the ultimate al fresco drink - Pimm’s.
Grow Your Own: a berry easy way to eat healthy

Superfoods are natural, unprocessed foods, low in calories and packed to the brim with anti-oxidants and masses of essential vitamins and minerals. They punch well above their weight when it comes to healthy eating.

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The Hangover Part III (15) - Sunday Herald view

Like the characters from The Hangover, I continually find myself attending fairly innocuous events – in my case, film screenings – then awaking to a reeling head and a poor conscience, brought to grief by people whom I ought to have abandoned a long time ago.
Conservatoire students brush up their Barker

Howard Barker is one of the most revered and, in his native England at least, most neglected of contemporary dramatists.
Calum's Road, Communicado/NTS touring - Sunday Herald view

The story of Calum MacLeod of Raasay – from "weak child" born in Glasgow and returned to his parents' home for the benefit of his health, to headstrong man fighting against the depopulation of the north of his island by building his own road – is one woven of the agonies and complexities of Scottish history.

John Goldie & The Acoustic Unit: Chocolate Maze (Watercolour)

John Goldie & The Acoustic Unit
Sparrow And The Workshop, Murderopolis (Song, By Toad)

Sparrow And The Workshop
Berlin Philharmonic/Rattle: Stravinsky - The Rite Of Spring (EMI)

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Rattle
John Tiffany on quitting Scotland and confounding the critics

And so we come to an ending.
Terry O'Neill: the sixties, Sinatra and the end of celebrity

In the end the question isn't whose picture has been taken by Terry O'Neill.

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