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Brendan Rodgers believes he needs four new players before the closure of the transfer window – with 21-year-old Manchester United defender Paddy McNair high on the wanted list of the Celtic manager. However, while Rodgers will look to bolster his squad

BEEN a busy week. In and out of meetings. You know how it is when you are trying to avoid a custodial sentence.Anyway, I have had little time to consider the nuances of the fitba world though it has been pointed out to me in song, video, opera, small-screen

CELTIC ....................1 (Griffiths 30)BARCELONA..........3 (Turan 11, Ambrose og 31, Munir 40)The sweeping stands of the impressive Aviva stadium justifiably cause a tremor of anxiety for any vertiginous punter. Celtic, though, can ill-afford to

It started out as if it might become a golfing battle for the ages and turned into a generation game with the vastly experienced Catriona Matthew having to accede to the youthful fearlessness of Ariya Jutanugarn on the third day of the RICOH Women’s British

Thousands of people flocked to Rouken Glen Park today to celebrate the completion of a four-year restoration project. The £3million project has seen the refurbishment and redevelopment of much loved features, the installation of new visitor interpretation

A hot air balloon carrying at least 16 people has caught fire and crashed in central Texas, officials said. It is unclear whether there are injuries or deaths. Read more: Scot may face death penalty over double killing in the US Lynn Lunsford

RANGERS rounded off their pre-season schedule on a low note at Ibrox as Burnley ran out comfortable 3-1 winners. Mark Warburton’s side took maximum points from their Betfred Cup fixtures as Motherwell, Annan, East Stirlingshire and Stranraer were

Harry Potter author JK Rowling said how happy she was that Harry Potter And The Cursed Child would premiere without any spoilers leaking. Arriving at the Palace Theatre in London’s West End for the opening gala, she said she was delighted fans

Police have recovered a quantity of drugs, with an estimated street value of two hundred and thirty five thousand pounds (£235,000) during an intelligence led operation in East Renfrewshire and East Ayrshire. Read more: Police appeal after woman

Police Scotland have released an image of a man they wish to speak to in relation to a serious assault that occurred in St Vincent Street on Valentines Day. Read more: More revelations on impact of cuts at Police Scotland The incident occurred

Thousands of supporters of Scottish independence have gathered in the centre of Glasgow following a march through the city. The march began in the west end and followed a route through Charing Cross and Sauchiehall Street towards George Square.

Labour leadership challenger Owen Smith has been called on to condemn any attempt to split the party if Jeremy Corbyn retains the top job. Shadow chancellor John McDonnell expressed concern at reports in the Daily Telegraph that some MPs opposed

Prime Minister Theresa May raised objections to the Hinkley Point nuclear power deal during the coalition government, Lib Dem ex-business secretary Sir Vince Cable has claimed. Sir Vince said the then home secretary was unhappy about the "gung-ho

ANGUS Deayton has long intrigued. He's a unique talent, one of the first to straddle the twin towers of television presentation and acting at the same time, with Have I Got News For You and One Foot In The Grave. Yet he has never been a typical presenter

Five comedians share their thoughts on race. Nazeem Hussain Patron of RISE: Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees, an Australian organisation run by refugees, this Muslim comedian of Sri Lankan descent will be covering Britain after Brexit in

Stress tests on major European banks reveal that RBS would be the third worst hit in a new economic crisis. RBS, which taxpayers own 73% of, fared comparatively poorly in a survey by the European Banking Authority which looked at how much capital

TRIALS of the controversial named person service should be immediately suspended after legislation the scheme is based on was found to be unlawful, campaigners have said. The No to Named Persons (NO2NP) group, which this week won a Supreme Court

HAILED as creating a "property-owning democracy", it was a cornerstone of Margaret Thatcher’s "social revolution", spurring half a million Scots families on to purchasing their cut-price council home. But after nearly four decades, Right to Buy

A Scottish firm is behind a string of websites offering to write anything from school essays to PhDs for students for cash. Clever Networks runs three so-called "essay mills" - a service condemned by Scottish universities as "acting immorally on

A SPECIAL Brexit committee featuring ministers from both the UK and Scottish Governments is to be created, under plans to help co-ordinate Theresa May’s promised “UK approach” to leaving the EU. The SNP believes the level of its involvement in

REVELLERS heading into Glasgow’s Merchant City to enjoy the delights of the annual festival will be able to enjoy some contemporary dance duets next weekend. Janis Claxton Dance is bringing 4 pop up performances to Merchant City Festival on Saturday

A SURGE in support for independence in the aftermath of the Brexit vote has reversed in the weeks following the UK's decision to quit the EU, a new opinion poll has suggested. The YouGov survey, carried out four weeks after Scotland was put on

SCOTLAND will secure a seat “at the top table” of the BBC following a radical boardroom overhaul, the broadcaster has insisted. A report on the review of the BBC Charter at Westminster will be published next week when concerns are expected to be

A 10k race where entrants are given wine at rest stops instead of water is to be held in Stirlingshire following opposition from health chiefs in Glasgow. Earlier this year the Evening Times revealed plans by a Manchester-based firm to host a Wineathlon

AFTER 11 Olympics during which I witnessed the dubious rise of Soviet Union and Russian sport, I have spent recent days appraising the commendable exclusion by the world athletics body of a raft of competitors from the Rio Olympics. Given state-sponsored

  A LINE UP of nearly 100 yachts is expected for the start of the 69th West Highland Yachting Week (WHYW) at Craobh Marina this Sunday (July 31). Unique in set up and running till August 5, the regatta is based round Craobh, Oban and Tobermory

Athletes are super-human. But, as Niall Elliott reminds me, they are entirely fallible too. They get sick. They feel fatigued. They flake out. The past four years, for most Olympians, has been spent converting their bodies and minds into shrines of

RANGERS new signing Jordan Rossiter last night revealed he owed his break in football to Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers. The midfielder, 19, came through the ranks at Liverpool when the Northern Irishman was in charge at Anfield and he found it

Right-to-buy has been one of the highest profile housing policies of the last four decades in Scotland. It has driven a transformation in our housing system and has directly led to a major rise in the number of homeowners in Scotland. Before right-to-buy

Our concern with the threat of Islamist-inspired terrorism has become all-pervasive. As events over the last few weeks have horrifically shown, what was once perceived to be a largely external threat is now one that often lurks in our midst. Terms like

It is difficult to see how Nicola Sturgeon and her SNP government can claim any kind of victory after one of its flagship policies, the Named Person scheme, was soundly trashed by five judges sitting on the Supreme Court. This though, is a party whose

Black Watch veteran and physicist Born: March 28, 1925; Died: June 27, 2016 TOM Renouf, who has died aged 91, sailed for France in the aftermath of D Day, bolstering spirits by playing the ship’s piano for most of the crossing. As the vessel

Actor and star of Babylon 5 Born: July 16, 1956; Died: July 27, 2016 JERRY Doyle, who has died aged 60, was an actor and talk show host who starred in the 90s science-fiction series Babylon 5. Set on a space station staffed by humans and

THE Scottish Government's Named Person scheme is broadly supported by children's charities, all the political parties in the Scottish Parliament, apart from the Conservative Party, and as your editorial makes clear, The Herald (“Lack of clarity sinks

PressureFab, the UK’s only offshore container manufacturer, has fallen victim to the oil and gas slump with the loss of 40 engineering jobs in Dundee. Administrators have been called in by its director German-born Hermann Twickler, who started

“WHEN I started at drama school there were nothing but working-class people. Peter O’Toole, Albert Finney. Tom Courtenay. There wasn’t a posh boy there.” Diana Rigg – Dame Diana Rigg if you want to stand on ceremony; she doesn’t insist on it –

It is a tragedy when birds that once soared plentifully in the skies over Scotland are threatened with serious decline. One such is the hen harrier. Often described as a national treasure, its persecution and that of other birds of prey has been, in the

MY days of wishing to be French ended abruptly when I came to Scotland aged 22. Glaswegians, then and probably now, had little time for pretentious, long-haired blondes, favouring black polo necks, trilbys, and a Burberry draped over shoulders.

North Berwick: Not Edinburgh, and all the better for it Phil Nichol I work a lot when I am in Edinburgh so when I have a day off I get the train from Waverley station to North Berwick. It’s the stop right at the end of the train line and

THE £473 million Scottish American Investment Company has reported an index-beating 14 per cent total return on net asset value for its first half, and declared its long-term outlook is robust regardless of the effects of Brexit.Scottish American Investment

WHETHER you prefer the term glass ceiling or the term sticky floor, the fact is women face obstacles to employment, pay and career advancement that men simply don’t and the greatest of these is the caring obligation – namely, motherhood. There

FOR Ryan Moore and Frankie Dettori, it will be business as usual.For them the Qatar Stewards’ Cup is one more glittering prize to go with all the others they have been chasing on the helter-skelter downlands of Goodwood this week. The same can be said

Barclays under its new chief executive Jess Staley has reported an improved business performance, helping drive the shares up more than five per cent.Reporting 24 hours after Lloyds signalled a drop in profits and fired the gun on 3000 job cuts and 200

I HAVE read many offerings about Brexit and a second independence referendum, and I am left wondering what the No voters feel has changed so much that they feel a second referendum would have such a different outcome?Last year’s General Election showed

I FULLY endorse Prime Minister Theresa May’s condemnation of the xenophobic criticism of Polish immigrants during her visit to Warsaw ("PM condemns ‘shameful and despicable’ attacks on Poles”, The Herald report, July 29). Why have so many British

I AGREE with Henry McLeish that we need a new radical constitution, if we are to maintain some form of union (“An Independent Labour Party could set a new political course”, Agenda, The Herald, July 28). However, a federal Britain would not work since

HEALTH chiefs have warned that plans to scrap a tax on air travel will increase the risk of skin cancer and the spread of infectious diseases such a SARS in Scotland.In its response to a Scottish Government consultation over replacing Air Passenger Duty

SERICA Energy has restarted production from the Erskine oil and gas field 160 miles east of Aberdeen following a pipeline blockage. Production was suspended in February after a cleaning device became stuck in the line. London-based Serica had hoped the

NORTH Sea focused Independent Oil & Gas has underlined its interest in acquisitions by appointing a prominent industry figure and a dealmaker to its board. David Peattie has become chairman of London-based Independent after a career which has included

AS the new season in the Scottish premiership approaches, Dundonian David Smith does not regard the prospect of regular soccer with quite the usual relish.A fan of Dundee United, Mr Smith grimaces at the thought that the Tannadice team will be in a lower

THIS little New England tableau allows Robert Frost to display his customary originality and unexpected twists of thought. (It also reminds me of the first time I travelled by train through the Pennsylvanian countryside and saw apple trees with their

JASON HOLLANDSWe publish today the latest instalment of our controversial twice-yearly Spot the Dog report, which for two decades has ‘named and shamed’ consistently poor performing investment funds.Each of the funds in the report met the strict criteria

WE mentioned the Glasgow Fair a couple of times, but we should not be so city-centric and should mention that the annual Paisley Fair holiday begins this weekend. This is a photograph marked on the back as "A 'Fair' send-off for the Paisley

THIS summer’s holidays were spent, well, mostly in the past. There was the theatre trip to see a revival of Martin McDonagh’s play The Lonesome West at the Tron in Glasgow. I caught a lot of movies including Star Trek Beyond, Ghostbusters and The Legend

Breach Olumide Popoola and Annie Holmes Peirene Press, £12Review by Malcolm Forbes TWO weeks into the EU referendum, surveys showed that immigration had leapfrogged the economy to become the main factor driving the leave vote. Sifting the grubby lies

The Soul of Scotland: Celebrating Scotland’s Spiritual RichnessHarry ReidSt Andrew Press £16.99 A Little History of ReligionRichard HollowayYale University Press £14.99Review by Hugh MacDonald THE world of Thomists and Taoists, agnostics and atheists,

Eleven Hours Pamela Erens Atlantic, £12.99Review by Lesley McDowellAMERICAN writer Pamela Erens’ third novel, about giving birth, is a hard-hitting riposte to the idea that war is the greatest of all themes. War pre-occupies the ‘greats’ from Homer to

Pelargoniums are among the most popular summer flowers, the leaves of the South African pink, red and white beauties bringing vivid colour and often wonderful scents to the garden. But pelargoniums can offer much more than that, as I discovered on a visit

Jess RobinsonI guess from an early age I did impersonations to make people laugh. When I was very young it was being precocious and cheeky to my mum, parroting her and her grandma. Being a little bastard. And then it was teachers at school. Not to their

WE asked (“The long and the short of it”, Inside Track, The Herald, July 29) whether it would be possible to receive letters shorter than a three-word offering we published earlier this month:NO.John Milligan,86 Irvine Road, Kilmarnock.MUCHOS gracias.R

THE conflict in the Middle East and Africa are 21st century colonial wars but the complication is globalisation and the ease of international travel. As long as the United States, the UK and other EU countries feel it legitimate to kill people in the

POLICE budget cuts have left officers struggling to attend crimes and led to victims being forced to make their own way to stations, according to body representing for force's rank and file.Reports to the Scottish Police Federation (SPF) suggest the

THE Greek National Anthem is traditionally played at the Olympic Games (Rio’s start on Friday) as recognition of Greece as the birthplace of the games. Rudyard Kipling’s 1918 paean to liberty is based on the Greek anthem, the original of which (written

BANKS could be preparing to cut their best interest rates and push up their fees, blaming fears about negative interest rates.Santander is reported to be reviewing the market-leading three per cent savings rate on its 123 current account, paid on £3,000

Over half of students stress about managing their cash, and barely a third have an organised budget. Students typically depend on loans for 80per cent of what comes in, while living costs – from rent to partying - vary widely between university towns

MORE or less immediately after I have finished writing these words and waved off the Saturday section you hold in your hand (or peruse online), I shall be journeying to Perth to assist with the launch of the weekend's Southern Fried Festival of American

THERE is no other botanic garden in the world, so the Inverleith House curator Paul Nesbitt tells me, with an award-winning contemporary art gallery tucked in amongst the rhododendrons. In this utterly unique combination, the capital has something which

Damian Ortega: States of TimeFruitmarket GalleryEdinburghuntil 23rd Octoberwww.fruitmarket.co.ukMEXICAN artist Damian Ortega is currently into clay. You can see it, fashioned, moulded, formed, pinched, in this idiosyncratic, labour-intensive show at the

172 at the CairdNethergate, Dundee (01382 657404)I'M near Dundee, and looking for lunch in Dundee, and remembering all those reader emails pointing out that not only is there life outside Glasgow, but it thrives. In Dundee. Yes, I’m looking at you

Henry the Young King, 1155-1183Matthew StricklandYale University Press, £30Review by Jonathan WrightIn June 1170 the English king Henry II arranged for the coronation of his eldest son, another Henry, at Westminster. Such acts of "anticipatory succession

PAPERBACK OF THE WEEK DON’T LET MY BABY DO RODEOBoris Fishman (One, £12.99)The immigrant experience has been one of the core themes of American fiction, although it’s probably never been handled quite like this before. Now in their early forties, Maya

What is it?A portable 360-degree camera that makes shooting typically complicated scenes relatively simple.Electronic imports are likely to get a bit more expensive in the near future if the predictions of economists prove correct. This will have a knock-on

IT WAS Friday June 24. "Black Friday." Many were still struggling to swallow the EU referendum news, and comedian Nish Kumar was playing a gig at London’s Comedy Store. More than a decade into his comedy career, it was the night he got his first

This week's dish is a simple summer soup which can be served hot or cold and takes no time at all to prepare. It will come as no surprise to French speakers that it's a silky smooth soup – veloute literally means velvety – which can also serve

WHILE standing on a steep bank of sand, I sensed a disturbance in the Force. It might have been some lingering tremors from the escape pod which crash landed here with C3PO and R2D2 in the first Star Wars film. Or it could be that I was nearing the spot

First Milk, the farmer-owned co-operative that is headquartered in Glasgow, has confirmed that it will increase its A prices by up to 1.25p per litre (ppl), as well as lifting its B price by 5ppl.At the start of each financial year, First Milk members

What a curious affair has been the Hinckley Point nuclear power project. Brought to a shuddering pause yesterday by the UK government, with no reason given and no apology made.The move was “bonkers” to the GMB trade union, whose calculation the project

There is a small Celtic country on the fringes of Europe which is very firmly part of the European Union. Opinion polls show it is, in fact, one of the most enthusiastic members, with only 14 per cent of the population having negative opinions about the

REDEEM, the Bathgate phone recycling company has revealed flat revenue of £80.2 million in the year ending March 31.With 69 per cent of those sales coming from outside the UK, the company said it was demonstrable of its global reach. Gross profit increased

GLASGOW’S Drygate Brewing Company has launched its first range in cans, as it looks to hit a target of brewing 10,000 hectolitres in 2016.Four beers previously bottled will be sold in cans across its studio range, which is comprised of Chimera India Pale