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31st July 2015    2nd August 2015

  • Inverness CT 0 Motherwell 1: New boy Wes Fletcher sinks hosts

    KENNY Cameron, the Inverness Caledonian Thistle chairman, spent much of Thursday in Sheriff Court manoeuvrings to remove a group of travelling folk occupying the club car park. It is the impermanence and migratory tendencies of the Inverness first team

  • Jamie MacDonald determined to repay Kilmarnock's faith in him

    JAMIE MacDONALD aims to repay Gary Locke for his faith by helping the Kilmarnock manager succeed with the first team he has been able to mould himself.Locke took over at Hearts after the winter transfer window ended in 2013 and was soon restricted by

  • Cracking victory takes Warren into matchplay semis

    TWO visits to the opening hole at Murcar without either player putting on its green perfectly book-ended a match that Marc Warren considered the most bizarre of his career but which, in more senses than one, provided him with a cracking experience.The

  • Archbishop Desmond Tutu in hospital after infection

    Retired archbishop Desmond Tutu has undergone a "small investigative procedure" in hospital to assess an infection he has had for several weeks, according to a South African foundation said. The foundation, which is named after Tutu and his wife

  • Man seriously injured after town centre attack in Dumfries

    A man has been seriously injured after a disturbance in a town centre street. Police were called to a report of a man having been assaulted following an incident in Queensberry Street, Dumfries, at around 1.15am today. The 44-year-old was taken

  • Body of man, 28, found at North Ayrshire Harbour

    The body of a 28-year-old man has been found at Ardrossan, North Ayrshire. The Ayrshire division of Police Scotland released a statement saying the man was found at 4am this morning at Ardrossan Harbour. The confirmed that there appeared to

  • Warren and Ramsay keep Saltire flying at matchplay

    Marc Warren’s fine form at the Saltire Energy Paul Lawrie Matchplay continued into the third round as he saw off Belgium’s Nicolas Colsaerts, the former Ryder Cup golfer who has a fine track record in this format, on Murcar’s 17th green.There was a more

  • Hundreds join Scottish independence march in Glasgow

    Hundreds of people have marched across Glasgow in a call for Scottish independence "as soon as possible". The march left Kelvingrove Park in the city's west end at around 11.30am and headed through the centre to Glasgow Green. Drummers, pipers

  • Motorist dies after lamp post crash

    A motorist has died after his car hit a lamp post. The 69-year-old man was discovered by a passing driver on the B1348 between Prestonpans and Musselburgh in East Lothian. His red Ford Galaxy was spotted on the eastbound verge at around 2.25am

  • Police issue fresh appeal over sexual assault

    Police investigating a sex attack have issued a fresh appeal for information. A 27-year-old woman was assaulted in Dalkeith, Midlothian, as she made her way home from a night out on Sunday June 28. Detectives say they are following a number

  • Olivia Contini

    Matriarch of Valvona and CrollaBorn: March 30, 1924;Died July 8, 2015Olivia Contini, who has died aged 91, was the daughter of an Italian mountain shepherd whose epic journey on foot to Scotland led to the establishment of the country's oldest delicatessen

  • Clive Rice

    CricketerBorn: July 23, 1949;Died: July 28, 2015Clive Rice, who has died of a brain tumour aged 66, was a respected cricketer who captained Nottinghamshire and Transvaal, although his full international ambitions were thwarted for 20 years by South Africa's

  • Where there's a will there's more than one way to interpret it

    MONEY might make the world go round but it’s a private topic people are uncomfortable to publicly discuss.Unless there’s a will involved. Mention inheritance and all bets of discretion are off. Heather Ilott, of Hertfordshire, was infuriated to discover

  • TV soap will feature pub helicopter crash

    ONE of Britain's longest-running soap operas has courted controversy by announcing it will feature a storyline where a helicopter crashes into a pub.In scenes reminiscent of the Clutha tragedy which will provoke painful memories for many Glaswegians,

  • Abdul Osman believes Partick Thistle can kick on into top six

    NEW Partick Thistle captain Abdul Osman believes the Firhill men should be targeting the top six rather than simply retaining their Premiership status as they open up their campaign at Hamilton.It is 25 seasons since the Maryhill side finished sixth in

  • Hamilton's Michael McGovern sets sights on Euro 2016 slot

    MICHAEL McGOVERN is hoping that another great season with Hamilton can propel him all the way to France next summer as part of Northern Ireland’s squad for Euro 2016.The reliable shot-stopper, who kept a clean sheet as he earned his fourth cap in the

  • Crown Office faces further criticism over bin lorry crash

    THE Crown Office is facing further criticism over its decision not to prosecute the driver in the George Square bin lorry crash.Lawyers claim prosecutors could have pursued a charge of culpable and reckless conduct instead of causing death by dangerous

  • Mone 'to become Tory peer'

    LINGERIE entrepreneur Michelle Mone is to become a Tory peer, according to reports last night. Sources who made the claim in a newspaper said the prominent Glasgow businesswoman was “delighted and thrilled” to be joining the House of Lords.

  • Health chiefs forced to re-think recruitment campaign for GPs

    A SCENIC area of the north-west Highlands has become the latest rural community to fail to attract interest in potential local GPs. Durness in Sutherland has a beach which is rated one of the best in Scotland, however the remote corner of Scotland

  • Aberdeen are the benchmark for us, says Chris Erskine

    CHRIS ERSKINE last night insisted Aberdeen remain the benchmark as Dundee United attempt to eclipse their New Firm rivals this season.United welcome Derek McInnes' men to Tannadice for tomorrow's televised Premiership opener after the Pittodrie side achieved

  • Derek McInnes out to make amends for Dundee United slip-up

    DEREK McINNES might find an opening game of the season against Dundee United following a near-7000 miles flight from Kazakhstan challenging, but the Aberdeen manager must consider, too, that his opponents may complain of the handicap of losing their three

  • Hunting 'elitism' in Scotland challenged after Cecil killing

    IT was a killing that caused a global outcry and led to calls for the extradition of an American man accused of illegally "poaching" a lion on an organised trip in Zimbabwe. The death of Cecil has also put the issue of hunting under the spotlight

  • Bid to protect well known cheese

    The Scottish Government has thrown its weight behind a bid to protect a popular cheese brand.Food Secretary Richard Lochhead hopes Cambus O’May cheese will be granted Protected Food Name (PFN) status, joining other Scottish products including Scotch Beef

  • Maurice Smith: Gender pay gap that must not be tolerated

    Equal pay remains an issue in modern Scotland, mystifying economists and commentators alike. It is hard to believe, after a generation of social change, that many thousands of women are still fighting to be paid the same as men.The issue seems to apply

  • New search next week in search for missing Moira Anderson

    A FRESH search is to get under way next week for the body of an 11-year-old girl who went missing from a Scots town almost 60 years ago.The case of Moira Anderson, who was last seen in 1957 in Coatbridge, is to be the centre of a renewed search of an

  • In praise of festivals that honour words, language and writing

    In this age of digital data overkill, with information instantaneously transmitted by emails, texts, social media, Emojis and 24-hour television, it is perhaps the moment to praise those events that slow down the pace of conversation and cherish the traditional

  • Ministers "got sums wrong" on new university payments

    SCOTTISH ministers have been accused of getting their sums wrong over plans to pay key university officials. Under proposed new legislation the chairs of universities' powerful ruling Courts are to be remunerated for the first time. The Higher

  • Masters of the mic are a dying breed

    Theirs are among the adult voices that delineate the paths marked “truth” and “trust” during one’s formative years, being up there with those of parents, teachers and the lady at the tuck shop: I’m talking, of course, about sports commentators in general

  • Moredun to lead vaccine work

    The EU's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme have awarded a grant of just under €9 million to work on the development of vaccines to help control parasitic diseases of food animals.The PARAGONE project (vaccines for animal parasites) is being

  • Tom Cross closes in on North Sea acquisitions

    TOM Cross has said the Parkmead Group he runs is braced for the oil price to stay low but can still make plenty of money from North Sea acquisitions.The oil and gas entrepreneur said Aberdeen-based Parkmead is eyeing 10 deals which could involve it shelling

  • Bees left 'starved' by wet weather

    BEES are on the verge of starvation with some hives producing as little as a sixth of the usual amount of honey because of bad weather.Experts say low temperatures have resulted in the worst honey yield since 1985 with very little being produced.Some

  • Herald & Times Group digital head to speak at 360D

    THE recently appointed head of digital at Herald & Times Group is among the speakers at a major industry event taking place in Glasgow in early September.Gordon Stevenson joins representatives from companies including Buzzfeed, Channel4, IBM, Nickelodeon

  • Analyst wants Weir Group to stop making acquisitions

    Separately, Panmure Gordon has called on Weir Group to stop “wasting” money on acquisitions and focus on protecting shareholder value.In a note Sanjay Jha from the broker warned the engineering company’s minerals profits are likely to dip sharply in the

  • Burnham insists Trident will be renewed under his leadership

    BRITAIN will not abandon its nuclear deterrent and “take a step into the unknown” under Labour, Andy Burnham, the leadership candidate, has insisted, making clear that if he becomes the party’s leader next month, it would support the renewal of Trident.With

  • Nick Nairn launches the second Munro Challenge

    IT’S all planes, trains and automobiles in the world of Nick Nairn, with a bit of cooking thrown in for good measure. Trying to get him on his mobile is no easy job; ET had an easier time of it when he tried to phone home.At the umpteenth time of asking

  • Male Order: Versace branches out

    Big news, at least if you have £1 million to spare and you think Versailles would be OK if it had a little more gold trim: fashion brand Versace is about to start doing houses. Well, flats actually. Promising "the ultimate in branded living experiences

  • The Getaway: Taynuilt Hotel

    IT’S BEEN a while. As nippers my siblings and I would relish jaunts north to visit our cousins in Taynuilt, then a small village on the banks of Loch Etive. Jealous? Just a little. Clark and Graham grew up with both feet squarely in Highland life –

  • Toby Paterson adds art works to the Maggie's collection

    The first time artist Toby Paterson set foot in a Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre he says he experienced a split-second stab of anxiety. This ‘threshold’ moment stayed in his mind as he embarked on a wide-reaching project alongside curator, Judith Winter

  • Missing Hancock Fringe shows break radio silence

    MARK SMITH Look carefully at Kevin McNally’s face, look back at his life, listen to what he says and how he says it, and you’ll realise something a little strange: all the time, just beneath the surface, there is, and always has been, someone else

  • Boris Johnson's Shakespeare? All's well that pays well

    The life of the scholar is not enviable. He or she can spend years decades lost in the labyrinths of libraries or record offices, sifting gallons of information like a whale sooking water, for the microscopic plankton it contains. In some areas, such

  • Hands on ... Sony Bravia KDL-50W755C

    What is it?A feature-rich smart TV.How will it change my life?There’s a man who lives across the street whose telly is bigger than some cinema screens. When he’s watching the UEFA Champion’s League, the players appear almost life-size, as if he has Rooney

  • Cate Devine: Krug finds its equal in Andrew Fairlie

    THEY are the rarest of circumstances: a sunny day in July 2015. A small group of people are admiring the abundance of food growing in the Victorian walled garden in Perthshire run by Andrew Fairlie’s team of gardeners. In the glasshouse, a range of tiny

  • Mark Smith: Melancholia and the Multiverse

    This used to be a scar on the skin of the earth, but look at it now. I'm standing right at the top, looking from the north to the south, along the top of the grass, and through the stones and on to the hills and it's weird but what is that feeling? What

  • Gardening: Cutting down on waste

    It'll soon be time to cut back flowers, hedges and shrubs, and you may end up with a massive pile of rubbish. You can’t compost some of it; besides, you’d never cram it all into your compost bin. There isn’t enough room in the your green wheelie bin and

  • Fidelma Cook: A night on the tiles. Literally

    Where do I begin? The moment Cesar shied and jumped sideways catching me unawares, making me skid face down into the stones of my drive?The excruciating realisation that something was broken in my leg? Or that I couldn’t even crawl and had to try to shuffle

  • REVIEW: Hugh Thomas: World Without End (Penguin)

    The final book in Thomas’s trilogy about the Spanish Empire takes us up to the death of Philip II in 1598. This was the period in which Spain had completed its expansion and was concentrating on managing its vast tracts of conquered lands in the Americas

  • REVIEW: Ronald Fraser: Drought (Verso)

    Having come to Franco’s Spain in 1957 to recuperate from a breakdown, John Black sought seclusion to write, and to try to locate the flaw in his character that’s blighted his life. Instead, he met Bob, a former estate agent with plans of building a dam

  • Ron Mackenna: Islena, Glasgow

    IT just so happens that when I drop Joe near his flat and lift my laptop on to his seat, a pale yellow menu with pale blue script slides out from between its folded halves. Ah. That’s where I put it. Bloody menus. I’ve got a house full of them.

  • Martin Wishart: Squid with tomato and aubergine caviar

    This week's recipe features two elements that, for me, bring summer alive: squid and aubergine caviar. The former can be braised but in my opinion is always best cooked quickly in a very hot pan, the result being tender and sweet, while the caviar

  • No charges for Golliwog trio

    POLICE say that three teenagers who caused controversy after dressing up as golliwogs for a town’s gala will not face criminal charges. The three secondary pupils – two boys and a girl – spoke to police after a picture was circulated online of them 'blacked

  • Aubrey Morris

    Aubrey MorrisActor.Born: June 1, 1926,Died: July 15, 2015.Aubrey Morris, who has died aged 89, was a character actor who may never have been a star but nonetheless made his mark on British cinema with appearances in two of the most talked-about cult movies

  • Only fat cats can afford our wild salmon

    THE claim by salmon netsman George Pullar (“Coastal netting ban could take wild salmon off menu”, The Herald, July 30) that Scottish consumers will be denied the opportunity to buy wild salmon in future is poppycock. The truth is that for many years now

  • Thanks for wit and humour

    I AM sure there are many readers like me who rely on The Herald to help us struggle through these dreich summer days.Thankfully my day is often rescued and brightened by three much-anticipated quality areas of the paper – Steven Camley’s topical cartoon

  • Crown Office has compounded an already tragic situation

    IN February this year the Crown Office announced that there would be no criminal charges against the driver at the centre of the fatal bin lorry crash in Glasgow last December, or against Glasgow City Council. At the time I felt that that announcement

  • The shipbuilders of the 1960s had to toil under grim conditions

    THE recent coverage about reviving shipbuilding on the Clyde (“Billionaire planning major new shipyard on the Clyde”, The Herald, July 22, and Letters, July 27) has stirred a lot of memories. Although the employers’ perception may have been that wages

  • Childhood Among The Ferns

    COUNTRY children love to make “dens” - and the young Thomas Hardy was no exception. Here he recalls the delight of taking shelter in his private domain of ferns, rain notwithstanding.CHILDHOOD AMONG THE FERNSI sat one sprinkling day upon the lea,Where

  • Drink: The case for Portuguese wine

    In the mid-18th century two-thirds of all the wine shipped to Britain came from Portugal. It was part of an ancient trade of casks in return for cod and cloth that was boosted by a hefty tax break over French wines in the 1703 Methuen Treaty. Over time

  • REVIEW: Deborah Moggach: Something To Hide (Chatto & Windus)

    Deborah Moggach, a veteran plucker of heartstrings, knows how to reel in her readers. The rather bald title of this, her 18th novel, leaves nothing in doubt: all who perform within its pages have something hidden in their past, or their present, that

  • REVIEW: Joseph O'Connor: The Thrill Of It All (Vintage)

    In a version of the 1980s that never happened, The Ships were massive. From unpromising beginnings in Luton, they went on to have huge hits, meet all their heroes and leave an indelible mark on the decade. They comprised guitarist Robbie Goulding, whose

  • Understudy steps up as investors search for income

    By SIMON BAIN When star fund manager Neil Woodford jumped ship from Invesco Perpetual to set up his own fund last year, a wave of money followed him. So far it has not been disappointed, with the Woodford Equity Income new kid on the block returning

  • The dangerous message in the mess of arts funding

    A critic, to adapt Wilde, is someone who knows the price of nothing but the value of everything – although it has been difficult in recent days to be entirely high-minded about art and not acknowledge that money is essential to our cultural life.

  • The fictional lives of F Scott Fitzgerald

    The flood of novelists writing about F Scott Fitzgerald shows now signs of abating. Jackie McGlone speaks to the two most recent, Stewart O'Nan and Liza Klaussmann. So we read on, borne back ceaselessly into the past by novelists whose fascination

  • Treasures found in Shirley Jackson's bottom drawer

    Todd McEwen In a bottom drawer collection of Shirley Jackson's work, the author's voice is as alive as ever. Shirley Jackson is "perhaps best known" (an invidious phrase, to say the least) for her story The Lottery, in which a bunch of crusty

  • Don't take pride in musical prejudice

    Matters of taste, preference and prejudice loom large this week. “Oh no,” said a musician of my acquaintance. “Not another cycle of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas.” This was in response to the imminent launch of an Edinburgh International Festival series

  • Unfashionable St Johnstone happy to stay under the radar

    THE bar continues to rise year after year for St Johnstone. A new league campaign opens for them against Hearts at Tynecastle tomorrow and nobody will be taking them lightly. Their European campaigns have tended to be as brief as a Donald Trump course

  • Warburton wants to give Rangers fans something to sing about

    THE message is simple but effective and has already worked once to great effect for Mark Warburton. Rangers fans think he is magic, and Warburton is determined to give them more to sing about.The new Ibrox boss has become an instant hit with supporters