Scouting ReportAnother exhibition of Celtic courage saw Ireland claim top spot in Pool D and avoid a quarter-final meeting with their coach’s native New Zealand.Given the nature of the performance their could have been no better setting for this rousing
GOOD DAYFor those who have shown the way to the emerging teams at this tournament by having previously forced their way into the big annual tournaments in either hemisphere.Pressure is growing for more opportunities to be granted to allow what are referred
A rebellious skirl of the bagpipes could be discerned within St James' Park on Saturday, in direct contravention of pre-tournament guidelines which prohibited their use within World Cup venues. But it really would be an act of revolt against the established
A combination of hideous weather conditions and resolute Scottish defending have combined to sabotage the most creative attacking side in world rugby in recent times but the temptation on Saturday was to suggest that roles may be set to be reversed.In
THE full-time whistle in the Estadio Algarve last night brought to an end another Scottish qualifying campaign which, after starting so positively, ended in another bitterly disappointing failure. Gordon Strachan – if, that is, he decides to stay on as
THE first Scotland under-21 match after the A team had failed to qualify for yet another tournament was always going to serve as a useful barometer to see whether the next generation might be the ones to finally break the cycle of failure. In that respect
PART of the goal for Fenway Sports Group when they chose to replace Brendan Rodgers was finding a manager who could galvanise, energise and excite.Jurgen Klopp? Check, check and check.You don’t get points for press conferences, but his first meeting with
No sooner than the final whistle had sounded at the Millennium Stadium than Twickenham rang to a now familiar refrain, the sound of the next opposition coach being praised by Michael Cheika. “What I know is that Vern Cotter is a very clever coach
GORDON Strachan hailed the meaningless 6-0 final day victory against Gibraltar as one of the most memorable nights of his career but again refused to confirm or deny whether it was also his last as Scotland manager. While there is still no hard and fast
WE will get to the mistakes in a minute. The first thing to be noted about Scotland’s remarkable 36-33 triumph over Samoa on Saturday is the sheer strength of character that saw the team through to victory.In World Cups past, in seasons past, and even
SCOTLAND prop WP Nel has insisted that his team can win the Rugby World Cup despite being rated as rank outsiders by the bookmakers. The Scots had to struggle all the way to see off Samoa at St James’ Park two days ago and set up a quarter-final against
CAREY Lander, singer and keyboardist with Glasgow indie pop band Camera Obscura has died after a battle with cancer. She was 33. Lander who joined the band in 2002, was diagnosed with osteosarcoma – a rare type of bone cancer – in 2011 and had
Allan McGregor. One of the easier clean sheets that the Hull City man will ever achieve. The Gibraltarians managed to score at Hampden but they didn't even manage to hit the target here. 6Alan Hutton. The Aston Villa man's kind of game, with little to
IF Gordon Strachan does stand down and hand the responsibility of steering Scotland to the World Cup in Russia in 2018 to another man, then he certainly bowed out on a positive note. Strachan’s stated objective of taking his country to the Euro 2016 finals
PRIVATE meetings are being held with the relatives of the victims of the Clutha helicopter disaster as investigators prepare to publish their final report in less than a fortnight. It is understood that there will be liaison briefings s to present
ENGLAND'S Matt Fitzpatrick admitted life could not get any better after claiming his first European Tour title with a wire-to-wire victory in the British Masters on Sunday, taking his season's earnings to more than £1m.Fitzpatrick carded a closing 68
NEARLY 2000 people packed the Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh in an anti-fracking protest. The demonstration came after the Scottish Government decision to extend its fracking moratorium to cover unconventional gas extraction which involves burning
A £3.5million Commonwealth Games legacy project is in difficulty after board members quit days before the launch date and questions were raised about the hiring of a Labour councillor. The running of the Dalmarnock Legacy Hub in Glasgow’s East
THE Electoral Commission is to examine claims that the SNP's chief executive broke spending rules in the run-up the referendum by helping to run a pro-independence campaign group which claims to be party-politically neutral.A complaint has been made to
SCOTLAND's biggest Gaelic cultural festival has been declared a 'tremendous' success on its return to Oban for the first time in six years.Thousands of competitors have converged from as far afield as Canada, the USA and Germany for the Royal National
Scotland centre Sean Lamont marked the 100th cap for his country by firing a warning to their World Cup rivals to underestimate them at their peril. Lamont reached his milestone as a second-half substitute in the kamikaze 36-33 win over Samoa at
LEWIS HAMILTON has one hand on the Formula One world championship after he won the Russian Grand Prix on Sunday.Hamilton's Mercedes team-mate, Nico Rosberg, was leading the race in Sochi but was forced to retire with a throttle issue on lap seven.Sebastian
ONE of Scotland’s most experienced project managers will next week start the key stage of his highest-profile and complex jobs to date, when preliminary site works start on the £48 million refurbishment of the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden.Andrew
Chemicals giant Ineos has bought 12 North Sea gas fields. Russian Oligarch Mikhail Fridman had initially bought the fields but was forced to sell them by the British Government when it ruled it was not in the UK's interests to have them at risk
Tenants are powerless over living conditions, rents and repairs in the face from a new breed of buy-to-let investors, according to a major new investigation into the booming industry.
Glasgow's notorious Red Road flats have been demolished in a controlled explosion However, the demolition of a group of high-rise flats did not entirely go to plan with two of the six blocks still partially upright and some residents unable to
Geraldine Winner, the widow of the late film director Michael Winner is in hospital after she was beaten with an iron bar during a raid at her home. A man and woman forced their way into her home in Knightsbridge, London, on Friday night. Police believe
The SNP has called on Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale to clarify her position on the renewal of Trident. Bill Kidd MSP has written to Ms Dugdale asking her for clarification following a week of "absolute chaos" for the Labour party on the
POLICE have launched a major investigation to catch a teenager who carried out a vicious attack on a 10-year-old girl in the street.The incident happened in the Kennedy Crescent area of Dunfermline on Saturday where a male, described as being 14 to 17
People approaching retirement and pensioners can boost their state pension income by up to £1,300 a year from today in the latest shake-up of the system. Pensioners and anyone reaching state pension age before April 6, 2016 will be able to top
Prime Minister Enda Kenny has said he does not intend to call a parliamentary election in Ireland before early next year, seeking to halt widespread speculation he would call a snap vote next month.Mr Kenny has until March to set a date, but with opinion
LINGERIE entrepreneur Lady Michelle Mone has launched a new defence of her business affairs and said she has "not done anything wrong" when it comes to allegations of tax avoidance. Lady Mone – who was made a Tory peer after being appointed start-up
Scuffles have broken out in the Turkish capital as police prevented pro-Kurdish politicians and other mourners from laying flowers at the site of two suspected suicide bombings that killed 95 people in the country's deadliest attack in years.Turkey declared
A new SNP MP has been criticised after she gave a job in her office to her boyfriend. Anne McLaughlin, who represents Glasgow North East, provided Graham Campbell with a post that involves liaising with local community groups. Following
Ministers are considering holding the crunch vote on renewing Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent before Christmas. The decision could be brought forward to highlight Labour divisions and prevent the issue dominating Scottish elections next May
SCOTLAND will end their Euro 2016 qualifying campaign with a meaningless fixture against Gibraltar in the Estadio Algarve this evening. The national team’s hopes of progressing to the European Championship finals in France next summer ended against Poland
Intense fighting between insurgents and Syrian troops has continued in the country's centre amid new territorial gains for the government backed by Russian airstrikes.The fighting was on multiple fronts in the northern part of the central province of
An Israeli airstrike has killed a pregnant Palestinian woman and her two-year-old daughter in Gaza.It came after a Palestinian woman detonated an explosive in her car at a checkpoint in the West Bank, injuring an Israeli soldier and herself.The attack
Afghanistan's president has appointed a team of investigators to look into the circumstances leading to the Taliban's brief capture of the northern city of Kunduz and US air strike that destroyed a hospital and killed at least 22 people.Meanwhile, the
SCO, City Hall, GlasgowMichael TumeltyFive StarsWELL, all good things come to an end; and the announcements late last week about Robin Ticciati’s conducting career frankly come as no surprise. His contract as principal conductor of the Scottish Chamber
A white Ohio police officer was justified in shooting dead a black 12-year-old boy holding a pellet gun moments after pulling up beside him, two independent reports have said.Both a retired FBI agent and a Denver prosecutor found the rookie Cleveland
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said that this week's party conference will be the "launch pad" for the SNP's Holyrood election campaign. She said that the party intends to win the election, to secure a "historic and unprecedented" third term
Conservative politicianBorn: December 20 1926;Died: October 9 2015Geoffrey Howe, who has died aged 88, was a capable and good-humoured Conservative politician who served reliably in a number of front-bench positions over 20 years. But he is most famous
Geoffrey Howe, the Tory minister whose devastating resignation speech effectively ended Margaret Thatcher's premiership, has died aged 88.Tributes have been paid to the former chancellor from across the political spectrum after he suffered a suspected
Graeme Obree, Karen Dunbar, Michelle Visage, Angela Crawley, the makers of Transexual Stories - all amazing winners at the very fabulous Icon awards, celebrating the LGBTi community, on Friday night. It was wonderful and hard really to believe that my
WE are, we might like to think, post-suffrage. The suffragette is a piece of history. Surely, when two female filmmakers are able to make a Hollywood movie documenting the story of these rights campaigners, we must be at that point? Can we not kick off
GREEN MSPs would not automatically vote for a second referendum in a hung parliament, despite the party advocating independence, it emerged yesterday.Instead, the public could be asked whether they wanted a referendum, rather than having one imposed on
SCOTLAND still have plenty to play for in the Algarve tonight. The major goal of qualification for Euro 2016 may have disappeared into the ether, but Gordon Strachan's squad have no shortage of reasons, individually and collectively, to give Gibraltar
Sicario (15) This brilliantly executed thriller posits a contemporary war on drugs that blurs the moral boundaries in a way that is thought-provoking and grimly disturbing. Emily Blunt is the idealistic FBI agent drafted into a "multi-agency"
In which Commonwealth country outside Scotland will you find the highest percentage of people with Scottish surnames? You might expect the answer to that question to be Canada or New Zealand, but the surprising answer is Jamaica. The frequency
On Tuesday last week Theresa May addressed the Tory Party Conference in Manchester, and made a bid for the right-wing vote in their forthcoming leadership election with a barbed speech on how Britain’s social fabric would be at risk if we let too many
As part of ‘Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees’ three committee members organised a solidarity mission to support refugees through raising money and campaigning. The delegation consisted of Margaret Woods, Pinar Aksu and Amal Azzudin. Over £6,000 has
GORDON Strachan is set to make a decision on his future as Scotland manager next week – but he has given the strongest indication to date that he will stay on and orchestrate the bid to reach the World Cup finals in Russia in 2018. Speaking from Faro
PATRICK Harvie yesterday accused the UK government of a “despicable lie” by blaming immigrants for strains on public services that were actually caused by Tory cuts. Opening the Scottish Greens’ biggest ever conference in Glasgow, the city MSP said the
THOSE grasping for any sign that Scottish international football is not destined to become stuck in a rut of relentless misery were denied an instant panacea for the pain at Pittodrie. Ricky Sbragia’s under-21 side put up a decent fight against their
TOMMY Sheridan is set to rebrand his political party Solidarity as 'Hope Over Fear' at the forthcoming Holyrood election as he attempts a political comeback. For months, the convicted perjurer has held rallies under the banner of Hope Over Fear
JIM Murphy is trying to build a new career as a consultant, the Sunday Herald can reveal.The former Scottish Labour leader, who managed six months in his last job, has set up a one-man company named after the area of Glasgow where he grew up.Arden Strategies
For decades they have dominated the Glasgow sky line. But today, the city’s iconic Red Road flats, which once housed more than 5,000 people, are set to be demolished, bringing their chequered history to a close. The six remaining blocks, owned by Glasgow
Ten people, including a number of children, have died in a fire at a travellers' site in the Republic of Ireland.A mother and father and a baby were among those who lost their lives after a blaze broke out at a halting site in Carrickmines in south Dublin
Actor Jim Carrey twice carried the coffin at his ex-girlfriend's funeral yesterday as she was taken to her final resting place beside her late father in Co Tipperary in Ireland.Cathriona White, remembered as a loving 'daddy's girl' who wanted the world
At least 86 people were killed when two suspected suicide bombers hit a rally of pro-Kurdish and leftist activists outside Ankara's main train station yesterday, weeks ahead of an election, in the deadliest attack of its kind on Turkish soil.Bodies covered
Lobbying was once described by Prime Minister David Cameron as “the next big scandal waiting to happen…an issue that exposes the far-too-cosy relationship between politics, government, business and money.”Now a new guide to the “influence industry” in
THE head of T in the Park has broken his silence over the row about £150,000 of Scottish Government funding for the iconic music festival. Speaking exclusively to the Sunday Herald, Geoff Ellis, chief executive of DF Concerts, dismissed the attacks
Scottish Singer-songwriter Jim Diamond has died at the age of 64.Diamond, whose hits included I Won't Let You Down, I Should Have Known Better and Hi Ho Silver passed away at his home in London.Born in Glasgow's East End, he was heavily influenced by
These are extremely difficult times for people across the UK. Austerity is biting – and set to get worse after this year’s Autumn Statement from the Chancellor. We have a Government in Westminster, elected by just 24% of the electorate, aiming to gut
Isolated North Korea marked the 70th anniversary of its ruling Workers' Party yesterday with a massive military parade overseen by leader Kim Jong Un, who said his country was ready to fight any war waged by the United States. Thousands of troops stood
IN an era of increasing austerity, humanitarian crisis and environmental degradation, the scale of change needed to deliver a better, fairer society may seem huge. And it is. But in Scotland, we are in a unique position. For while the 2014 referendum
What have the Eurovision star Conchita Wurst, the Scottish comedian Karen Dunbar, the world record-breaking cyclist Graeme 'The Flying Scotsman' Obree, and the Sunday Herald's own Vicky Allan all got in common? Well, they are all now officially recognised
"Corbyn can't even snub the Queen properly,” remarked one commentator last week as the embattled Labour leader side-stepped his bowing-and-scraping session with Her Majesty. Mr Corbyn had said he was unable to attend his first Privy Council meeting
SCOTLAND must pay its historic 'slave debt' to Jamaica by declaring the Caribbean island a priority for trade and development. That is the call made in a new petition to go before Holyrood this week as the campaign mounts for the UK to make amends
I HOPE Gordon Strachan stays on for the World Cup qualifying campaign but I’m not convinced that he will. The disappointment of Scotland not reaching the Euros will stay will him – and the rest of us – for a while yet. And I just wonder whether Gordon
NEXT month marks a fairly significant milestone for Scott Brown. For it was on November 12, 2005 that the then Hibernian midfielder made his Scotland debut, appearing as a substitute in a 1-1 friendly draw with the USA at Hampden. Brown actually thought
As a professional engineer with a long and continuous involvement with the research and development of radar components and systems for both civil and military applications, I find your news item mystifying (Livelihoods at risk as Westminster sues SNP
The thriving young entrepreneurial network We are the Future, led by the 21-year old “university drop-out” is in negotiations to expand operations to China, its founder Bruce Walker told the Sunday Herald. The not-for-profit enterprise, which Walker has
It's been a good week for … Blessed birthActor Brian Blessed has proved he rocks at life on countless occasions. Like when he sparred with the Dalai Lama in a boxing ring. Attempted to climb Mount Everest not once, but three times. And on an expedition
DAMON SANSUM has more stamps in his passport than Phileas Fogg. If there is a downside to being a full-time taekwondo athlete it is the amount of travel required to compete in the sport’s biggest events. So far this year the Scot, one of the Sunday Herald
The Spook School: Try To Be Hopeful (Fortuna POP!)I doubt if even one of the members of The Spook School was born when the C86 scene had its summer in the sun, but it's the lo-fi pop-punk attack of those NME-favoured bands - among them the Scots quartet
THERE is a quietly powerful significance about Suffragette. Not only is the film recreating one of the most important episodes in Britain’s history as a democracy – in a way that will be revelatory for many in the audience – but rarely has a film been
GEORGIA'S historic capital city Tbilisi is not only the impressive metropolis where Scotland's national football team suffered a recent, deeply damaging reverse, it is also home to the excellent Tbilisi International Festival of Theatre. I was pleased
OVER the years we have encountered many incarnations of Sanjeev Kohli. There is Navid, the corner shop owner and king of one-liners in Still Game. There is the Mercedes-owning, tasselled loafer-wearing Ramesh (another middle-aged shopkeeper) in radio
SIMON BAIN Only one in 20 bank customers has switched their account in the past two years, despite the lure of a new switching service guaranteeing a hassle-free seven-day transfer. Meanwhile the eight biggest banks last year made profits of
FOR the avoidance of doubt, let’s be clear: I don’t bake. I’m an expert onlooker. My unsought technical advice is, I think, second to none. I can pronounce the word “scone” as God intended. But I am to baking what Mary Berry is to bricklaying.
The Returned9pm, More4It’s a good week for the dead who won’t stay dead. Everywhere you look there is the stirring of shades, the rising of revenants, the comeback of creatures that should have stopped bothering us long ago, yet refuse to stay buried,
“ROCKVILLA?” says Auld Tommy, wiping an oily hand on his blue work-coat. “No, you don’t hear that name much these days.”You can take Tommy Finegan’s word for it. Now in his mid-70s, he’s had the garage in Possil Road, Glasgow, for about half his life
THE caravanning I knew while growing up involved crossing a campsite every time you needed the loo, a black and white TV running off the car battery and lighting by gas mantle.There were good bits: the dramatic sound of the rain drumming on the roof;
A GENERAL manager of a splendid five-star hotel where I once worked was disarmingly pragmatic about our job. Forget clichéd boasts of "unforgettable experiences" or "unrivalled luxury". The hotelier’s goal, simply, is to provide the
EVEN in this globally interconnected age, the discovery that there exists in Los Angeles “a large Swedish expat songwriting community” is a bit of an eyebrow-raiser. Bar the occasional British success story, isn’t American music famously insular? What
Beyond the First Draft: The Art of Fiction by John Casey (W.W. Norton, £10.99)Casey’s book isn’t just a guide for would-be writers; it’s also a joyous exploration of how great writers achieve the effects they do. This isn’t necessarily a peek behind
ANY discussion of the life of Henry Kissinger inevitably condemns the parties to indulge in a form of bingo.The card includes satire being dead the moment Kissinger won the Nobel Peace prize, power being the greatest aphrodisiac, the nerd as sexual swinger
BREAKING records has become something of an SNP trademark since the referendum.First there was the surge from 25,000 members to more than 100,000 in a few months.Then the biggest political gathering of modern times when Nicola Sturgeon marked her arrival
Anyone who thinks we have seen the worst of the refugee crisis should think again. This past week the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has confirmed that the numbers arriving on the Greek Islands near Turkey have surged from 4,500 last month
“Who are you and what are you doing here?” is not really how I’m used to being spoken to when on mission, but I wasn’t going to argue with four men each with a casually slung Kalashnikov to make up for, or perhaps bring on, the lack of manners.I was outside
A rally driver has died and another is in hospital following a crash on the Isle of Mull yesterday.Andy Mort, 47, was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. John MacCrone, 26, suffered serious injuries and was airlifted to the Queen Elizabeth University
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating after a suspected burglar, who was restrained by members of the public and then handcuffed by police, died on Friday. The man, who is in his 30s, is understood to have had a heart attack
NICOLA Sturgeon has urged SNP members to focus on winning an unprecedented hat-trick of Holyrood elections, as the party heads to its annual conference this week against an unexpectedly turbulent backdrop.Looking ahead to the biggest gathering in the
TONY Blair has become a hate figure for many in the Labour party, but the former Prime Minister is still box office when it comes to fundraising.Alan Massie, a North East based donor, stumped up £10,000 at a gala Scottish dinner last week for the pleasure
An increasing number of child abuse cases involving accusations of witchcraft and exorcism are being reported to police.In one incident, a boy of nine was called a "devil child" and thrown out of his home by his parents, detectives revealed.A
Police have said they are becoming increasingly concerned for a missing Englishwoman who is thought to be travelling in Scotland.Katie Grout, 23, from Berwick, was reported missing after leaving her home in the town at 7am on Thursday.She left home driving
Scrapping car parking charges at most Scottish hospitals has saved staff and patients more than £25 million. Health Secretary Shona Robison said the savings had been made since parking fees were axed at all but three hospitals at the end of 2008.She added
EXCLUSIVETom GordonScottish Political EditorA HIGH profile Nationalist candidate has suffered a blow to her Holyrood campaign after an entire SNP branch in her target seat was suspended for infighting and indiscipline.Jeanne Freeman, a founder of the
THE Scottish nurse who is in a "serious condition" with a late complication of the Ebola infection visited a school in East Kilbride the day before she was readmitted to hospital.Pauline Cafferkey was flown from Glasgow to an isolation unit
Israeli security forces shot dead two Palestinians in East Jerusalem yesterday one of whom had stabbed two Israelis, police said, in a further wave of violence that has raised concerns about a new Palestinian uprising.Police said two ultra-Orthodox Jewish
Russia said yesterday it wanted to see a bigger European monitoring mission in Ukraine to help oversee withdrawal of mortars, tanks and light artillery under recent agreements. Russia's backing for an expanded Organisation for Security and Cooperation
China has completed the construction of two lighthouses in the disputed South China Sea, the official Xinhua news agency reported, as tensions in the region mount over Beijing's maritime ambitions. A completion ceremony was held for the lighthouses on
New HIV infections in India could rise for the first time in more than a decade because states are mismanaging a prevention programme by delaying payments to health workers, J.V.R. Prasada Rao, the United Nations envoy for AIDS in Asia and the Pacific
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir formally reopened talks with rebel and opposition groups yesterday but only one significant opposition party showed up, and he urged them to halt a boycott on dialogue in return for a ceasefire. Bashir's government
The Pentagon has said it expected to hold new talks with Russia's military on pilot safety in Syria's war this weekend, as the former Cold War foes seek to avoid an accidental clash as they carry out rival bombing campaigns. Russia's entry into Syria's
Hundreds of protesters faced off with left-wing opponents yesterday in a standoff over plans to build a mosque in a rural Australian town, the latest anti-Islam protest since a Muslim teenager killed a police officer this month. Right-wing activists from
Spanish police have arrested 89 people accused of being part of a network which smuggled Chinese nationals into Britain, Ireland, Canada and the United States, the interior ministry said yesterday.The network, run by Chinese and Pakistani citizens, used
Our share tips made a solid start to the final quarter of 2015 with all four investment portfolios showing some improvement when we carried out our weekly review of progress on Wednesday morning.But the overall gain was less than 1 per cent and lagged
Colin Donald describes issues recurrent over many, many years – lack of housing land and quality affordable housing, and failures in the planning system (Taking a leaf from Germany's book, Business, October 4).Two elephants in the room need to be investigated
Iain Macwhirter’s premature obituary of the new Labour leader, while no doubt effective in reassuring the faithful, coincides with a more malign chorus, one which seeks to pour scorn on any attempt to stir up "divine discontent" from the left
I disagree with Randolph Murray (Confederation is the way forward for Scotland, Letters, October 4). The confederation of the British Isles he suggests requires a UK-wide referendum to ratify a highly unlikely reorganisation of the constitutional arrangements
It was of course a bitter blow when the High Court in the form of Lord Carloway and two other judges refused 24 UK Lockerbie relatives' application to the SCCRC to investigate the need for a further appeal against the Megrahi verdict ('Linking Megrahi
THE demise of the economic research body Fiscal Affairs Scotland, headed by former Auditor General Bob Black, along with John McLaren and Jo Armstrong, due to lack of financial support is a serious black mark against Scotland’s reputation for evidence-based
We Scots regard ourselves as a generous nation, but when it comes to paying reparations to Caribbean countries for our involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, we are less than eager. We have our own economic worries. The past is full of injustices
London-based drinks business Kolson has accused Glasgow-based Tennent Caledonian Breweries of damaging its business after a contract brewing deal between the two firms turned sour. C&C, though, counter claims that Kolson’s actions are simply
Investment in Scotland’s key energy-intensive industries could be slashed and jobs lost by a proposed tightening of Brussels’ flagship green legislation, companies, industry bodies and politicians have warned. Sectors expected to be hit by the
The Affair (15)British actors Ruth Wilson and Dominic West star in this steamy, 11-part psychological thriller which screened on Sky Atlantic in the UK. Set on Long Island, it turns on an affair between a married author and a local waitress only the story
A TASTY omelette should be served alongside a crisp, smooth white wine. I would go for a traditional Alsace Pinot Gris or a nice Chablis.The wines of Alsace are often left on the shelf due to our misconceptions of their beautiful tall, fluted bottles.
John Scofield, Past Present (Impulse!) For an album with such a sad backdrop, guitarist John Scofield’s debut for the mega-historical jazz label Impulse! is tremendously uplifting and optimistic. Scofield’s son, Evan, died from cancer in 2013 and three
Prokofiev Symphonies 4 & 5Bournemouth SO/KarabitsOnyx KIRILL Karabits’ Prokofiev Symphonies series with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra grows apace. We’ve already had the First, Second, Third and Seventh Symphonies, along with the Sinfonietta. Now
Old Pulteney Distillery Wick, Caithness History: Pulteney is one of the most northerly distilleries on mainland Scotland. Wick was once known as the herring capital of Europe and you can find the distillery hiding along Huddart Street right
John GrantGrey Tickles, Black PressureBella UnionJohn Grant's third solo album continues the drift into squelchy electronica that began with 2013's Pale Green Ghosts and further cements his reputation as the poet laureate of middle age. Although recorded
