One ticket holder scooped more than £4.9 million in the Lotto rollover jackpot, Camelot said. The winning numbers were 40, 27, 9, 2, 29, 33 and the bonus number was 46. Set of balls one and draw machine Merlin were used. One ticket holder
It is often said that nowadays, talented young footballers have never had it so good. At most top clubs, young recruits don’t even need to clean the boots of the senior pros anymore. But for new Partick Thistle signing Mustapha Dumbuya, his road
DEDRYCK BOYATA has credited his move to Celtic with resurrecting his international career with Belgium.The Hoops defender won a shock recall to Marc Wilmots' No.2 ranked team in the world this week after joining Celtic in the summer.He hadn't been involved
Mark Warburton has heaped praise on his three-prong attack of Barrie McKay, Kenny Miller and Martyn Waghorn. The revitalised Gers have hit 14 goals in just 4 league games in this season’s Championship so far, thanks in no small part to the havoc
Alloa manager Danny Lennon says that Rangers loan-star Robbie Crawford has come to the perfect place to help him develop into a fixture in the Ibrox first-team. The versatile 22-year-old, who has been at Rangers since he was eight, made his first-team
FOOTBALL being football Stephen McManus can’t say for sure that history won’t repeat itself when Scotland return to the Boris Paichadze Stadium in Tbilisi tomorrow for the first time since the 2-0 defeat in October 2007 which proved so wounding to our
CHARLIE Mulgrew was offloaded by Gordon Strachan during his troubled first spell as a player at Celtic – but he has no concerns about being deemed surplus to requirements by him with Scotland now he has recovered from his injury problems.Mulgrew is hoping
RICHIE Gray is one of Scotland’s most decorated and recognisable rugby players but even the 6ft 10in lock forward with the peroxide blonde mane breathed a massive sigh of relief when he made the cut for Vern Cotter’s 31-man World Cup squad. The 26-year-old
RUSSELL Martin last night predicted Steven Naismith will once again be a key player for Scotland in their Euro 2016 qualifier against Georgia - despite a prospective £8 million move from Everton to Norwich City falling through on deadline day. Martin,
SCOTLAND’S players and supporters have badly missed being involved in the finals of a major tournament during the 17 long years which have elapsed since France ’98.Russell Martin, a player who has been instrumental in the resurgence of the national team
KRIS BOYD has called upon the Scottish Football Association to make immediate moves to secure the national coach, Gordon Strachan, on a new long-term contract no matter how the qualification campaign for Euro 2016 develops.Boyd knows Strachan's methods
Invited recently to review a book that has been published ahead of the forthcoming World Cup it has been hard when reading it to escape the view that it is the story of one that got away from Scottish rugby.Background suggests otherwise, admittedly, since
RICHIE Vernon loves it when a plan comes together. A few eyebrows were raised heavenward 18 months or so back when the 6ft 5in Dundonian decided in conjunction with a few well-placed individuals within the SRU hierarchy that his chances of further
JOACHIM LOEW is fairly certain of the challenge that awaits his team at Hampden on Monday.It will be the exactly the same test Germany will be confronted with at home to Poland three days earlier.Loew firmly believes both of his Group D rivals will attempt
A performance of All My Sons had to be suspended after Bill star Trudie Goodwin collapsed on stage. The Bill actress was taken ill and collapsed shortly before 10pm. Audience members at the Theatre Royal were told the Arthur Miller classic
ALEX Salmond has accused David Cameron of 'shaming humanity' after the Prime Minister insisted the European migration crisis will not be solved simply by Britain taking in more refugees. The Prime Minister claimed the government was taking action
Sportscotland chair Louise Martin has pulled off a surprise victory in the race to become the first female president of the Commonwealth Games Federation after a vote of its 71-strong membership in Auckland, writes Mark Woods.The former swimmer, who had
David Cameron must allow more refugees into the country or Britain risks becoming a pariah state that will be ashamed of its inaction in Europe's migration crisis, his opponents have said. Their comments came as shocking photographs of a dead Syrian
JIM Hamilton has announced his retirement from international rugby with immediate effect, ending any possibility of a call-up as an injury replacement in the Rugby World Cup. The 32-year-old lock, who will go on playing club rugby for Saracens, was capped
THE task for Glasgow Warriors’ young squad in the opening weeks of the season is clear: to make sure that the PRO12 champions are not the victims of their own success. Gregor Townsend has lost 16 players to the Scotland squad for the Rugby World Cup,
Take That, The Chemical Brothers and The Weeknd are to join the line-up for the Apple Music Festival. James Bay and soul singer Leon Bridges are also on the bill for the 10-day event of live shows, which kicks off at Camden's Roundhouse in north
Andy Murray admits Nick Kyrgios may have to tone down his flamboyant style to realise his full potential but believes the Australian will only get better with experience. Murray took the sting out of Kyrgios' youthful exuberance on Tuesday night
Andy Robertson senses the whole Scotland squad is united in their quiet determination to end their long absence from a major finals. The Hull left-back, at the age of 21, is too young to remember Scotland's last appearance on the big stage, the
Patients will be able to use their smartphones to safely access their GP records within the next 12 months, it has been announced. Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt has said that his ambition was to get 15% of NHS patients routinely reading
David Cameron has sought to head off a damaging backbench revolt over Europe as the Government tabled changes to the rules on the promised referendum on Britain's EU membership. Ministers said amendments to the EU Referendum Bill would restore
The Great British Bake Off's Ugne Bubnaityte has confessed she was so devastated to be booted off the show, she could not bake for a week. The Lithuanian body builder tonight became the fifth contestant to be frozen out of the BBC show, after her
Joshua Kane tells us about inspirations and styles that should be brought back... Tell us about your brand Joshua Kane is an independent luxury label specialising in modern British made men’s tailoring and uni-sex accessories. Originally
It’s hard to remember a defending champion being talked about less than Marin Cilic but that’s how the Croat likes it.Seeded ninth this year, 12 months on from the scene of his greatest triumph, Cilic cruised into the third round with a second consecutive
Rebekah Brooks is returning as chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper empire - a year after she was cleared of all charges in the phone-hacking trial. She has been appointed chief executive of News UK, publisher of The Sun, The Times
A 12-YEAR-OLD girl has not been seen since Tuesday and police are "very concerned" for her safety.Demi Lee Hardy was last seen in the Castlemilk area but did not attend John Paul Academy in Summerston on Tuesday.Police said she is known to frequent
Britain has stepped up pressure on Turkey over the arrest of two British journalists on terror charges, reminding the authorities in Ankara of their duty to uphold human rights law. The Foreign Office said it was "concerned" at the detention of
This week's Herald Checklist books include the long-awaited follow-up to Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, The Girl In The Spider's Web, penned by David Lagercrantz; compelling debut My Everything by Katie Marsh; The Blue Guitar by Booker Prize winner
It has often been said that if tennis had an indoor grand slam event, then Andy Murray would have won a few more titles.But as the cavernous Arthur Ashe Stadium Court morphs into a more intimate arena thanks to the roof that will be completed next year
The cost of basic food and non-alcoholic drink in supermarkets may be rising a lot faster than previously thought. A cross-section of everyday items, including tea bags, bananas, potatoes and milk, went up in price by an average of 8% over the
Sony has unveiled three new Xperia smartphones - including a larger version designed to take on the iPhone 6 Plus. The technology giant used its press conference at IFA in Berlin to confirm the new Xperia Z5, as well as Compact version - something
THE contest to become the new leader of Glasgow City Council has become a two horse race. When nominations closed, only Frank McAveety and Malcolm Cunning were in the running for the top job. Newlands/Auldburn councillor Stephen Curran and
Migrants desperately trying to reach Britain have started targeting Eurostar trains because of increased security measures at the Channel Tunnel, operator Eurotunnel has said. Passengers stranded in northern France overnight described being "surrounded
TRIBUTES have been paid to the woman who founded the Scottish Poetry Library after her death from cancer at the age of 77. Tessa Ransford was a poet, editor, translator and activist who set up the poetry library in 1984. She was born in India but her
Nurses are seeking debt advice and increasingly turning to food banks and payday lenders, a union has warned. Figures from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) showed nurses were asking for help with debts, bankruptcy and homelessness. Between
Pensioners spend almost a fifth of their income on indirect taxes, research has found. This works out at around £4,100 for every retired household, or a combined total of £29 billion a year. That is according to MetLife analysis of Office for
Senior SNP MSPs have accused the UK Government of trying to govern Scotland by diktat, acting as judge and jury over devolution and warning Holyrood "it's our way or the highway" on austerity. Deputy First Minister John Swinney joined SNP MSPs
A new gin is being brought to the market after three friends became the first to start distilling in Aberdeen city centre for 100 years. Porter's Gin founders Ben Iravani, Josh Rennie and bartender Alex Lawrence have spent the past few years fine-tuning
The Scottish Government has made a "complete and utter mess" of GP care, Labour claimed as it launched its own consultation on service. Labour is to contact family doctors across the country and ask them for their opinion on ideas such as training
Global markets have steadied after a volatile start to the week as latest developments in China calmed investors.The FTSE 100 Index rose 24.8 points to 6083.3 having fallen by nearly 200 points, or three per cent, in the previous session.Germany's Dax
UP to 80 airline staff in Aberdeen face being axed following a merger of bmi regional and Loganair. It comes after the low-cost airlines combined in August to form a new regional airline group, Airline Investments Ltd (AIL). AIL is owned by entrepreneurs
THEY are the unsung heroes of both world wars. But on Thursday the men and women of the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleet will be celebrated across Scotland during Merchant Navy Day. And dozens of cadets from City of Glasgow College will be marking
Former prime minister Tony Blair has admitted his government made a "mistake" by failing to do enough to ensure that devolution of powers to Scotland and Wales did not undermine the United Kingdom's national identity. Mr Blair insisted that he
THE Scottish capital has called time on a cafe culture test and is to reopen one of its busiest thoroughfares to traffic.George Street in the New Town will return to its former layout this weekend with the addition of a new cycle lane following a year-long
THE former wife of a renowned Scots memory doctor has described how she feared for her life felt after he stamped twice on her head during an argument at their home. Dr Fraser Inglis, 50, founder of the Glasgow Memory Clinic, is alleged to have
An increase in house building helped UK construction activity to a modest rise last month, although growth in the sector remains below last year's robust levels, according to industry data.The latest Markit/CIPS Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) survey
ENTRIES are flooding in for the annual Herald Society Awards with an expert panel of judges preparing to choose the most outstanding and innovative achievers in the public and voluntary sector.A consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist who led a service
The RNLI has already stationed a new lifeboat two miles away from a closure-threatened base at the centre of a community campaign.George Rawlinson, Royal National Lifeboat Institution operations director, praised the work of the St Abbs crew after more
New designs for a hotel on Calton Hill in the Scottish capital have been unveiled. Hoskins Architects also revealed that Rosewood Hotels which runs The Carlyle in New York and Castiglion del Bosco in Tuscany will operate the planned hotel after
THE lawyer representing the family of Sheku Bayoh, who died in police custody, have said that the force's watchdog has "failed" to use its powers to hold the organisation to account. Mr Bayoh's relatives will meet the Police Investigations and
Eighteen years ago residents bought their Inner Hebridean island for £1.5 million and set up a community-based business.At the time, Eigg's islanders did not really know what a social enterprise was.But the lack of knowledge has proved no bar to setting
A GAMEKEEPER has been fined £2,000 after being found guilty of killing a bird of prey. William Dick, a gamekeeper from the Newlands Estate in Dumfriesshire, was earlier convicted of the killing and possession of a buzzard in April 2014. Two walkers gave
AN internet troll who pushed a schoolboy to the brink of suicide after threatening to publish explicit pictures of him on Facebook is facing jail. Dylan Farnan, 19, forced his young victim to send intimate photos after saying he would upload more
St Mirren have signed former Hamilton Academical striker Jaison McGrath on a deal until the end of the season. A one-time youth player with Celtic, McGrath signed with Sunderland in 2012 before returning north to sign with Hamilton a year later.The 19
Israel is considering giving its security forces a freer hand to shoot at young Palestinian stone-throwers, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office has said.Under standing orders, Israeli soldiers facing violent Palestinian protests can open fire with
Verdict: four stars Tucked away in the glamorous confines of the Glasgow Hilton Hotel lies the Morblas Seafood and Grill – a trendy eating spot which celebrates Scotland's national larder with local, seasonal produce and traditional dishes with
A film adaptation of Sunset Song, starring Peter Mullan and model-turned-actress Agyness Deyn, will be released in UK cinemas on December 4.The much-anticipated screen version of the Lewis Grassic Gibbon novel will receive its world premiere at the Toronto
A MAJORITY of Scots would vote for independence if a second referendum were held tomorrow, according to a new poll. The Ipsos Mori survey for STV News found 53 per cent of Scots would vote Yes and 44 per cent No, with just three per cent undecided
A JOURNALIST has had his Twitter account suspended twice in two days after linking to stories about the SNP. Tom Gordon, Scottish Political Editor of the Sunday Herald, was locked out of his own account after first posting a link to a story about
RORY McILROY has been granted special approval to remain in golf’s Race to Dubai rankings and also take part in the final event of the year there due to the “exceptional circumstances” he has endured this summer.The Northern Irishman was forced to withdraw
Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda has pleaded not guilty on to crimes including the rape of child soldiers in a campaign of pillage and murder in north-east Congo's Ituri province in the early 2000s.Rwandan-born Mr Ntaganda is accused by prosecutors at
A former Rangers administrator is the latest to be arrested in an ongoing probe into an alleged fraudulent takeover of the club. Paul Clark has been arrested and is due to appear in court tomorrow. Police today confirmed the arrest of a 51-
A scheme to help people buy a brand new home will benefit about 6,500 households over the next three years, according to the Scottish Government. Social Justice Secretary Alex Neil said the £195 million extension to the Help To Buy scheme announced
Thousands of migrants remain stranded at Budapest's main international railway station as authorities stick to EU rules and prevent them from leaving for Germany and other countries west of Hungary.Around 3,000 migrants are at Keleti station in the Hungarian
Labour leadership candidate Andy Burnham has said he would resign from the shadow cabinet if he was asked to oppose the renewal of the Trident nuclear deterrent. His comment sets the scene for a potential early split in the party if the race to
Thai police investigating the Bangkok bombing said the fingerprints of a foreign man arrested at the border with Cambodia match those found on a bottle of bomb-making material.Police also said they are seeking to arrest a Turkish man linked to the blast
North Korea has insisted its expression of "regret" over a mine explosion that maimed two South Korean soldiers was not an apology, as Seoul claims it was.The statement by Pyongyang's powerful national defence commission is the first explicit
Masked men in military uniforms have kidnapped 18 Turkish employees of an Ankara-based construction company in Baghdad, bundling them into several SUVs and speeding away.They said the 18 are employed by Nurol Insaat, a Turkish construction company contracted
JAMIE INSALL says he is determined to seize his opportunity after the promising striker agreed a three-year deal with Hibernian. The 22-year-old moves to Easter Road following a prolific spell in English non-league football where he scored 42 goals last
A HOSPITAL worker who stole £1.3 million of vital medical equipment then sold it for just £70,000 has been jailed for four years. Daniel Dreghorn swiped the haul over two years from his job at the decontamination unit at Ayrshire Central Hospital
SCOT Andrew Fenn has been named in Team Sky’s six-man line-up for the forthcoming Aviva Tour of Britain that starts in north Wales on Sunday. Fenn, who competed for Scotland at the 2010 Commonwealth Games thanks to his Scottish mother, joined Sky at the
A gamekeeper has been fined £2,000 after he was found guilty of killing a bird of prey. William Dick, of the Newlands estate in Dumfries and Galloway, was handed the penalty at Dumfries Sheriff Court after being convicted of killing and possessing
A man who stole five blocks of cheese from a Clydebank shop has been jailed. The Clydebank Post reports William Lindores previously pleaded guilty to pinching £19.49 worth of the food from the Iceland store in Sylvania Way on March 19 this year
Aggreko has snapped up a Canadian temperature control and heating supplier in a deal worth £18 million.The company said it was buying ICS Group to establish itself in the heating market in North America as well as move into key cities such as Calgary
Online retailer ASOS has confirmed its chief executive Nick Robertson will step down with immediate effect from the company he founded 15 years ago.Mr Robertson will become a non-executive director at the firm that targets fashionable 20-somethings and
Rainy weather and heavy discounting have dampened demand for bicycles at retailer Halfords as the group revealed slumping bike sales over the past two months.The chain said cycling sales dropped 11 per cent on a like-for-like basis over the eight weeks
Bournemouth Air Festival Hawker Hunter pilot Jonathon Whaley has called for an end to 'inappropriate speculation' about the cause of the Shoreham air show tragedy. The former RAF man, a highly experienced Hunter pilot, said his "heart goes out"
The Scottish Government could block plans to hand more powers to Holyrood if a "fair deal" over funding cannot be agreed with Westminster, Nicola Sturgeon has warned. The Scottish First Minister said it was "a statement of the obvious" that she
It will be a family Christmas for the Time Lord when he is reunited with his wife Professor River Song for the Doctor Who festive special. Alex Kingston will reprise her role as the time-travelling archaeologist in BBC1's sci-fi series, in which
Skeletons discovered in a mass grave in Durham are the remains of Scottish prisoners of war which laid untouched for almost 400 years, experts have found. Researchers from Durham University identified the bones as coming from soldiers captured
Contactless payment technology has been applied to fashion to create the "world's first" contactless jacket. Barclaycard and its contactless bPay technology has partnered with fashion brand Lyle & Scott to create a jacket that can be used to
BBC Breakfast presenter Bill Turnbull is leaving the show after 15 years - to spend more time with his bees. Turnbull confirmed the news on Twitter after a story appeared in the Daily Mirror, saying: "He's right, you know." BBC Breakfast posted
A 61-year-old woman has been assaulted by a man in the back garden of her home. The woman was pushed against a wall by one of four men who entered her garden in Grangemouth, Falkirk, on Monday. The incident happened at around 9.30am in Strowan
JIM HAMILTON has revealed that playing for Scotland has made him “a better man” as he announced his retirement from international rugby. The 32 year-old lock has decided to call a day after being omitted from Vern Cotter’s squad for the forthcoming World
Great British Bake Off co-host Sue Perkins has thanked fans for their support after revealing she has a brain tumour that means she cannot have children. The presenter was diagnosed with prolactinoma, a non-cancerous tumour, eight years ago during
Scot Louise Martin has been named the Commonwealth Games Federation's new president but there was disappoinment for Michael Cavanagh who failed to secure enough votes to become vice-president. The news came as it was confirmed would host the Games
ANDY MURRAY admits he could not help but laugh at Nick Kyrgios' outrageous on-court antics as the British number one sealed a comfortable four-set victory in the US Open first round.Kyrgios produced a typically explosive display under the lights of Arthur
HOSPITALS in Scotland are struggling to fill a soaring number of vacancies for consultants, sparking grave warnings about the pressure on services and staff. The number of consultant posts that are unfilled has more than trebled in the last four
Joy Beverley. Singer and one of the Beverley SistersBorn: May 5, 1924;Died: August 30, 2015Joy Beverley, who has died aged 91, was a singer and one of the Beverley Sisters, a trio that became one of the biggest groups of the 1950s. Their hits included
Footballer, coach and broadcasterBorn: June 20, 1934;Died: August 29, 2015FOOTBALLER Graham Leggat, who has died aged 81, was one of Scotland's finest post-war wingers. He was spotted as a ten-year-old at Woodside Primary in Aberdeen and his subsequent
A police veteran was fined by armed officers for "parking" in a bus stop for less than a minute.Retired superintendent Jim Kirkwood received the £30 fixed penalty after pulling up next to a marked patrol car to ask his former colleagues for
FIRST Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s announcement of her first Programme for Government was another landmark for our Parliament, and in both content and tone it suggested that she expects to be around in office long beyond next May’s Holyrood election.Her
Former Rangers owner Craig Whyte and ex-chief executive Charles Green have been charged with serious organised crime offences in relation to the acquisition of the club in 2012. Motherwell-born Mr Whyte, 44, has been charged under Section 28 of
Scotland should take around 1,000 migrants fleeing Africa & the Middle East, shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has suggested. The Labour leadership contender called for 10,000 places to be offered across the UK. The extra beds would help ease the worst
United Auctions sold 7367 store lambs and feeding ewes at Stirling on Monday. Top prices and averages for selected breeds of store lambs: Suffolks to £67.50 and averaged £56.02 (-80p on the week); Texels £61 and £52.12 (-37p); Scotch Mules £55 and £48.33
By Marc CrothallIf I asked you to invest £150,000 in a project and guaranteed that you would receive somewhere in the region of £15 million back for your support, what would you do? If I guaranteed you that you would receive another £15m-plus the next
IN the unlikely event that the Ministry of Defence estimates for new build (£30bn) and future annual costs (£3bn) are accurate (that would be a first), the main argument against replacing the Trident nuclear submarines is not the annual or total cost,
FAROE Petroleum has shown UK North Sea assets are still demand in spite of the crude price plunge by agreeing to buy stakes in two fields for up to $20m (£13m) from Roc Oil.The deal will result in Faroe increasing its exposure to the Blane and Enoch fields
ONE of my biggest regrets is giving up sport in my early teens, or rather tweens. I was 12 when I stopped doing gymnastics. I had already grown 10 centimetres (four inches) in a handful of months. The onset of puberty – and high school – was the final
Farmers are warning of a looming harvest catastrophe as wet weather threatens to wipe out crops, bringing concern over the future cost of some groceries. The National Farmers' Union Scotland said harvest in many areas is already running two weeks
Clearly, that Jeremy Corbyn will stop at nothing. This time he's picking on the dear old Queen. Just as the nation prepares to celebrate the monarch's record-breaking reigning, Labour's Robespierre-in-waiting rolls out the tumbrel. Well, up to
NO record was made of a meeting where top NHS executives discussed changing the name of Scotland's largest hospital, it has emerged. Health board NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde says minutes were not taken when proposals about rebranding the then
THE Citizen Building in Glasgow city centre has been handed a new lease of life after a hospitality company unveiled plans to open a restaurant in the historic building. Up to 70 staff will be employed at 7,500 square foot The Trading House on
Oil & Gas UK’s co-chairman is to head up an efficiency taskforce for the UK Continental Shelf.John Pearson, who is also a senior executive at AMEC Foster Wheeler, wants to find ways to drive improvements and make the sector more competitive.He said: “
FIFE-based Scott Group has acquired HLC (Wood Products) in a multi-million deal, paving the way for the Scottish firm to expand further into England.Family-owned Scott Group said the acquisition would strengthen its pallets division’s position in the
THE news that elder sister Joy from the singing trio The Beverley Sisters has died reminds us of the unlikely fact that the winsome girls had not one, but two, records banned by the BBC. The first was their version of the old folk song Greensleeves. Some
Havelock Europa has announced plans to cut around 10 per cent of its workforce as it warned annual profit and revenue will be “materially lower” than current market expectations.The announcement saw shares in the AIM-listed company tumble by almost 28
By the time you read this, I’m hoping Andy Murray will have safely seen off Nick Kyrgios in the first round of the US Open. And, following the latter’s recent sledging incident, I’m sure plenty of tennis fans around the world were also willing Muzza to
IF in doubt, ask a policeman. That is a maxim with which many of us were raised. These days, perhaps one should consider whether certain qualifications should apply. What if a) one is driving a vehicle; b) one halts said vehicle in the environs of an
A NEW scheme to support sheep producers in Scotland’s hills and uplands opened for applications yesterday (Sept 1) – but farmers are still in the dark over exactly how to access the funds.An estimated 3500 to 4000 hill farmers and crofters, keeping breeding
It was set up more than 100 years ago when King Edward VII was only three years into his reign and has survived two world wars. H Morris & Company has been making furniture in Glasgow since 1904, but is to stop production in the face of competition
BREWDOG has changed tack on its fund-raising course by offering a high-interest paying bond to investors.The craft brewer is offering investors a return of 6.5 per cent per year on the BrewDog Bond, available from today, on investments starting at £500
Rose Consort of Viols/Clare WilkinsonMynstrelles with Straunge Sounds(Delphian)John Bryan, Alison Crum, Andrew Kerr, and Roy Marks play a set of instruments made by Roger Rose and students at West Dean College which are based on the depiction of musicians
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night SweatsNathaniel Rateliff & the Night SweatsStax/Caroline InternationalThere is a proud tradition on fine singer-songwriters embracing the sonic aesthetic of Memphis soul to the entire benefit of their own music: think Elvis
The semi-finalists of the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician 2016 Award have been announced. The twelve musicians, from all over Scotland, will perform in concert at Coulter Hall in South Lanarkshire on Saturday, October 3 as part of a residential
FoalsWhat Went Down(Warner) Antidotes, the 2008 debut from Foals, was all about rhythm and incantation. Follow-up Total Life Forever promised something else, something bigger and more euphoric, particularly on breakthrough track Spanish Sahara. By 2013
Yo La TengoStuff Like That There(Matador) It’s a brave band who try to replicate the heartbreak incarnate of Hank Williams’s I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry, and come away with a gold medal. Then again, Yo La Tengo have a better track record than most in
What does music mean when you can't hear it? That was one of the questions composer and sound designer Danny Krass asked before making Kind of Silence, his new piece of theatre for the Solar Bear theatre company, which opens in Glasgow this week. Loosely
When Maximo Park were freshly formed, their singer Paul Smith had a habit of singing while looking intently at a book, as if confirming that they were an artier bunch than their contemporaries. The reason, however, was more banal. “I used to
I WAS intrigued, and somewhat surprised, by the assertion in the obituary to Elizabeth Burns (The Herald, August 29) that Elizabeth Burns was a”‘direct descendant of our national Bard, Robert Burns”. As a genealogist this sort of contention is of particular
ENQUEST has raised £45 million to cut debt by selling its new North Sea headquarters in Aberdeen office in a sale and lease back deal. The company has sold the building to Rockspring Hanover (Aberdeen) Property Unit Trust, which has granted it a 20 year
GORDON Brown ("Brown warns of Union break-up”, The Herald, August 31) has a cheek to blame the Tories for the slow break-up of the Union through their English votes for English laws scheme (Evel). The Union’s decline began in earnest when Labour
I NOTE with interest Moira Cherrie's letter (August 29) regarding Berwick-upon-Tweed.Berwick is an anomaly. The River Tweed is a wholly Scottish river and Berwick stands on the northerly (Scottish) side. The County of Berwickshire in Scotland is the only
TESTS, used by a teacher to assess how well an individual child or class has learnt a recent piece of work, form an important part of the education process. In this situation, the negatives are as valuable as the positives, for they highlight areas that
METER specialist Energy Assets has said it is on track to achieve another year of solid growth after making a good start to the current year. Chairman Chris Masters told the Livingston-based company’s general meeting:“The financial year to 31 March 2015
THE idea that no-one can ever be open to criticism when they are a victim of violence or rape is not plausible. “It is clear where blame lies in each and every case of rape”, The Herald, September 1.) Here is an example from my own life to demonstrate
These are difficult times to be a journalist. Home and away the industry reels from the perfect storm of a structural change brought about by the impact of the internet, massive under resourcing and in many instances a total disregard or downright antipathy
A NEAT little comment on the turning of the seasons. The robin does announce its presence again at this time of year with its bold song. The creator of this cameo was Richard Watson Dixon (1833-1900). It is included in a charmingly illustrated new anthology
FIRST Minister Nicola Sturgeon met the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch on her official visit to New York in June, it has emerged. The meeting was not publicised by the Scottish Government and was not included in a published diary detailing the SNP
Islam Feruz has promised not to "let down" Alan Stubbs after joining Hibernian on a season-long loan from Chelsea.The former Celtic youth, who will turn 20 later this month, was once regarded as the nation's hottest young prospect but has been
