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Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon with Susan Brimelow

Hygiene inspector shocked at dirty hospitals

Scotland’s first hospital inspector says she is disappointed by the poor standard of cleaning she has uncovered on NHS wards.

Family is left devastated after domestic row ends in tragedy

A mother of two was shot dead by her husband who then turned the gun on himself in a tragic domestic incident.

The New World tops Edinburgh Festival line-up

The story of one of Scotland’s biggest fiascos – the failure of the Darian scheme to found a Scottish colony in central America – is to take centre stage at this year’s Edinburgh Inter-national Festival.

Row as Brown quizzed over Purcell

The SNP yesterday dragged Gordon Brown into the controversy surrounding the departure of Steven Purcell from Glasgow City Council when the party’s Westminster leader, Angus Robertson, used Prime Minister’s Questions to link Downing Street to the fallen council leader.

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Sport

End-of-season benefit match for John Kennedy on agenda at SFA and Celtic

THE Scottish Football Association and Celtic are in talks to hold an end-of-season benefit match for John Kennedy.

Unless it’s Celtic, anyone facing Rangers in a League Cup final can feel handicapped

RANGERS have come as close as a club can get to turning a major piece of silverware into a beloved pet.

SFA chief executive leading fight against plan to dictate broadcasting of Scotland games on free-to-air channels

THE message is simple.

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Business

Quinn plans boardroom ‘MoT test’ to stop crises

Brian Quinn, the former Celtic chairman who used to be acting deputy governor of the Bank of England, is drawing up plans with a number of partners to launch a new company aimed at preventing further “malfunctioning” in the boardrooms of the country’s banking and financial sectors, The Herald can reveal.

Curly Wurly blamed for job losses at Cadbury

A £100m Curly Wurly maker took the blame as US food giant Kraft apologised for retracting its promise to keep a Cadbury facility open following its takeover of the British chocolate manufacturer.

Comment

The real bonus for workers is in being treated properly

Just when you thought “bonus” was a dirty word, along comes the John Lewis Partnership to remind us that it ain’t necessarily so.

Subway must attract new passengers

Perhaps it was an evil omen.

Arts & Entertainment

Shedding light on the dark

Rory Boyle’s new opera Kaspar Hauser – Child of Europe, which premieres at the RSAMD on Saturday, is based on one of the most provocative occurrences in 19th century cultural history.

Laughing in the face of death

Laughter is never very far from Jo Clifford’s lips these days.

A huge score to settle

Historically, the BBC SSO’s Hear and Now series is the most formidable, if not forbidding, strand in the SSO’s concert season.

Life & Style

A hospitable hospice

It might be the last place you would think of going for supper – but charity Marie Curie is encouraging people to visit its new Glasgow hospice for something to eat and a cup of tea.

Now, eat yourself slim

When Denise Trainer sat her family down to tell them that she wanted to undergo an operation to get a gastric band, she had reached her lowest ebb.

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