South Africa's Branden Grace was left to rue a couple of costly mistakes after setting the clubhouse target in the weather-affected US PGA Championship.Grace carded four birdies in the first 13 holes of Sunday's final round at Baltusrol to move
World titles and Olympic medals may have come Max Whitlock's way but the history-making Team GB gymnast realised he had truly arrived in the big time when he discovered Japanese superstar Kohei Uchimura was tuning into his training sessions.Whitlock
NORTHERN Ireland assistant coach Austin MacPhee reckons Paddy McNair would be a huge asset to the Celtic team and has labelled him “a brilliant box to box midfielder”.Brendan Rodgers is understood to be keen to sign McNair from Manchester United on loan
St Mirren 3, Edinburgh City 0JOHN FLEMING, the Scottish FA’s Referee Development Officer, can expect a package from St Mirren this week containing video evidence of what they perceive to be inept officiating.All and sundry in black and white believe Steven
Ray McKinnon, the Dundee United manager, hailed his side in reaching the last 16 of the League Cup, before declaring their readiness to push for a return to the top tier of Scottish Football.McKinnon's men secured the last available place in the next
NORTHERN Ireland's Kris Meeke has become the first Briton to win the Neste Rally Finland. The 37-year-old held a 41-second advantage going into yesterday's final four stages, and comfortably maintained his lead to win in the end by just under
A three-strong International Olympic Committee panel will have the final say on Russian competitors' eligibility for this summer's Rio Games.The IOC's executive board met this weekend to assess final preparations in the host city and also
MAJOR sponsor Boyd Tunnock CBE took a fitting Class 5 win on the first day of the Points Series at this year’s West Highland Yachting Week (WHYW). His Moody 38 Lemerac revelled in the good 15 knot breeze to win by just five seconds from closest rival
JOEL Fearon recorded the fastest 100-metre time of 2016 so far by a British sprinter at the weekend - but his next chance of appearing at the Olympics will be at the Winter Olympics in two years' time rather than Rio this month.The 27-year-old bobsledder
Two-weight world champion Carl Frampton has vowed not to abandon Belfast for the United States after registering a victory that could help him become "the greatest Irish fighter there's ever been".The former super-bantamweight champion claimed
HOPES of British success in the men's doubles in Rio have been given a significant boost by the withdrawal from the Games of tennis's dominant partnership, the Bryan brothers. The American twins, who won the Olympic title in London four years
IT took Danny Devine a matter of seconds to discern that Richie Foran was the real gaffer of the Inverness Caledonian Thistle dressing room. Now the central defender, who moved south from the Highlands to Partick Thistle this summer, is determined to
BRITISH judoka Ashley McKenzie can see an Olympic medal every time he visits his fiancee's house – now he and wants a top-three finish in Rio to ensure he begins married life with one of his own.The 27-year-old is engaged to France's Automne Pavia
It was Catriona Matthew’s first significant opportunity to ensure that she has a dual role at next year’s Solheim Cup and seizing it as she did offered some consolation for her failure to capitalise on a strong position at the RICOH Women’s British Open.A
Twenty years after the most successful golfer of the age turned professional Tiger Woods’ motherland was finally able to make an unequivocal claim on having produced a ‘major’ champion of its own when Ariya Jutanugarn capped her extraordinary summer by
MARCUS RASHFORD expects to learn a lot from new team-mate Zlatan Ibrahimovic at Manchester United this season – even if the Swede's arrival might limit his first-team opportunities.Rashford burst onto the scene last season, with the 18-year-old emerging
Detectives are running parallel investigations in to the murder of Emma Caldwell and the initial police probe which failed to find her killer or killers.The 27-year-old was found in woods in rural Lanarkshire weeks after she was reporting missing from
A Scottish allegation of child sex abuse against the late Labour politician Greville Janner has been dropped, according to the peer's son.Lord Janner - a former prominent backbench MP - died late last year before a court could test multiple accusations
YEREVAN: Clashes between riot police and supporters of gunmen from an opposition group barricaded inside a police station in Armenia's capital left 75 people injured and more than 20 in custody on charges related to the unrest, officials said.The
TUNIS: Tunisia's parliament has effectively disbanded the government of US-trained agricultural economist Habib Essid after passing a vote of no confidence in the prime minister.The no-confidence motion was passed by 118 votes, easily crossing the
Former US president Bill Clinton and Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine have attacked Donald Trump for criticising the bereaved mother of a Muslim army captain - a comment that sparked outrage across the political spectrum. Mr Kaine
A top-level government investigation has begun after at least 16 people on board a hot air balloon were believed to have been killed when it caught fire and crashed in Texas.Authorities would not confirm the exact number of deaths, but Lynn Lunsford of
CALIFORNIA: A 42-year-old skydiver with more than 18,000 jumps has made history by becoming the first person to leap without a parachute and land in a net instead.After a two-minute freefall, Luke Aikins landed dead centre in the 100 x100ft net at the
POPE Francis has encouraged hundreds of thousands of young people gathered in southern Poland to "believe in a new humanity" which is stronger than evil and refuses to use borders as barriers.His appeal came at the end of World Youth Day, a
A NEW presidential decree has introduced sweeping reforms to Turkey's military after the failed coup.The decree gives the president and prime minister the authority to issue direct orders to the commanders of the army, air force and navy.It also shuts
ONE woman is dead and three others have been taken to hospital after in a shooting in the centre of Austin, Texas, and police are hunting for a suspect.Austin Police chief of staff Brian Manley said officers received reports of gunshots in the crowded
MUSLIMS have attended Catholic Masses in churches and cathedrals across France in a gesture of solidarity after the brutal killing of an 85-year-old French priest in Normandy.Reporters said between 100 and 200 Muslims gathered at the towering Gothic cathedral
MusicImelda MayPerth Concert HallGraeme Thomsonfour starsIN MANY ways Imelda May is the perfect headliner for Southern Fried, Perth’s annual, admirable celebration of American roots music. The Dubliner draws on rockabilly, blues, country and jazz with
Police are investigating a fatal fire at a caravan used by migrant fruit pickers in Tayside.Officers said their probe was at an early stage and that they were working with firefighters to discover the cause of the blaze, which was discovered early on
AROUND 3,000 racist incidents have been reported in schools since 2011, according to new figures compiled by the Scottish Liberal Democrats. Freedom of information requests by the party uncovered almost 2,000 racist incidents in primary schools
MINISTERS are seeking views on plans to give young carers extra financial support when new welfare powers are devolved to Holyrood. The Scottish Government has launched a consultation on the introduction of a Young Carer's Allowance. Individual
STATE-BACKED Royal Bank of Scotland and Next will be the latest companies to update the City on how Britain's decision to quit the European Union is affecting their businesses this week. Royal Bank of Scotland posts its half-year results on Friday
By Richard Smith A year after the Herald first reported on a billion-dollar fraud in Moldova, in which some 30 anonymous Scottish Limited Partnerships (SLPs) played key roles, the rate of incorporation of SLPs has risen from 300 per month to 500
LAURA MUIR is standing on the back of a moving utility truck that has just driven through a fireball and on to the running track at the Olympic Stadium in London. Behind her in another truck is Usain Bolt, the fastest man in the world. In the vehicle
THE Scottish Government has begun talks with public bodies and charities as it seeks to amend legislation surrounding its controversial named person scheme. Ministers are pressing ahead with the policy designed to act as a safety net for families
The Fall Oran Mor, Glasgow Four stars MARK E Smith remains irrelevant in 2016 and it is not racket science. Those few perplexed who turned up expecting the euphoric chart-happy elecro-dance of club night at Oran Mor to hear Mark E Smith
CAN they win it? Yes. Will they win it? Maybe. It took four years to complete "The Journey" and for Rangers to take that final step back into the Premiership. Now a stride forward is required if they are to become the best team in Scotland once
AS the Team GB gymnastics squad settle into their Olympic digs in Rio this week, Daniel Purvis will be almost 6000 miles away in the UK as he reflects on what might have been. The 25-year-old Scot has been a mainstay of the Great Britain team in
CHARLIE Hebdo, the French satirical magazine targeted by Islamist terrorists for publishing cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, is to publish a special report on Scotland this week. Charlie Hebdo made global headlines in January 2015 when
HIGH-PROFILE Scots Muslims have spoken of the racist abuse they and their friends and families have suffered in the wake of the terror attacks across Europe this summer. Many have had to endure everything from verbal abuse to physical attacks -
PAUL Hutcheon’s report (Owen Smith: No to Barnett Formula, Labour Leadership Special, July 24) does nothing to clarify the operation of the Barnett formula, although Mr Smith’s quoted comments are partly responsible. His comments relate to the Welsh situation
The evangelical Christian charity which led the legal action against the Scottish government on the controversial Named Person legislation is to be investigated over whether it misused funds in pursuing the case. The Christian Institute, a creationist
SCOTTISH Labour has ruled out becoming an independent party after a consultation with its members found little support for the option. Leader Kezia Dugdale will instead get greater autonomy for the party north of the border inside UK Labour.
A CANDIDATE in the SNP depute leadership contest believes his party should consider including European Union membership in any referendum question on independence. Alyn Smith, a Nationalist MEP, said “all options” on the wording of any future ballot
POLICE Scotland hired a high-profile QC who worked for the police on the Hillsborough and Birmingham pub bombing legal cases to represent the single force in the illegal spying scandal. Jeremy Johnson was instructed to represent the cash-strapped
A leading doctor who chaired an NHS body that drew up clinical guidelines for heart conditions has financial links to companies which market drugs for coronary problems. Professor David Newby withdrew from some of the discussions at the high-powered
The Jewish community in Scotland boosted security after four Jewish men were murdered at a kosher supermarket in Paris and a fifth man was shot dead outside a Copenhagen synagogue last year. The more recent spate of terror attacks on the continent
LEGISLATION requiring lobbyists to register their meetings with MSPs may take another year to come into force because the technology is not ready, the Sunday Herald can reveal. The new law faces a lengthy bedding-in process as Holyrood needs to
Adler & Gibb, the play by English experimental theatre master Tim Crouch, is a proverbial riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. The piece, which premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London two years ago, is ostensibly about two conceptual
PAUL Hutcheon’s piece on transparency in the pharmaceutical industry How Scots doctors pocketed millions from Big Pharma in just one year, News, July 24) begs the question…why are fees/overseas events etc not under the control of the Scottish government
I WAS a badminton player for more than 20 years, but I have no doubt as to what the best fortnight of those two decades was.Four years ago, almost to the day, I was part of Team GB at the London Olympics and even now, with the next Olympic Games opening
On Friday, Manchester City reportedly made a “final offer” for Everton defender John Stones of about £40 million. If the noises coming from Goodison are more than a bluff, Pep Guardiola’s club will either have to swallow their pride and come back with
YOU are going to read a lot in the next few months about the problems created by the funding gap between the Guinness PRO12 teams and their rivals in the English and French leagues, but according to one of Glasgow Warriors’ newest and best-travelled recruits
LIKE a Cold War arms race, Celtic have responded to the heightened threat to their domestic security by bolstering their own artillery, too. If Ronny Deila was deemed good enough to lead them to the last two titles – if not the Champions League – then
Starting a new life in an unfamiliar country having left everything behind is always going to be difficult. The Syrian refugees who are being resettled in the UK have also been through the unimaginable horrors and trauma of war. It is of little surprise
THE one positive for Rangers on an otherwise largely disappointing day is that they won’t face too many sides of the calibre of Burnley or strikers as potent as Andre Gray in the season ahead. In their final warm-up game before they open their SPFL Premiership
FRUSTATION and disappointment barely describes the atmosphere in Paisley last night as St Mirren missed out on qualification to the last 16 by a solitary goal.Leading by three at half-time, it seemed certain they would score just as many in the second
A defiant Lewis Hamilton has promised to bounce back from his qualifying mistake by winning today's German Grand Prix to remain in charge of the Formula One World Championship.Hamilton has won five of the last six grands prix to overturn a 43-point
WHEN Celtic appointed a big name as manager at the end of May the hope among many supporters was that big-name players would soon follow him to Parkhead. Brendan Rodgers certainly had, having managed both Swansea City and Liverpool in the Barclays Premier
SCOTLAND’S health secretary has called on the UK Government to stop “dragging its heels” over bureaucratic delays preventing increased financial help being given to victims of the NHS infected blood scandal north of the border.Shona Robison said despite
THOUSANDS of Yes supporters marched through the streets of Glasgow yesterday in what was the biggest pro-independence demonstration in Scotland since the 2014 referendum.Colourful Yes Scotland banners, Saltire flags and campaign placards were held aloft
IT was the most sleazy, dodgy, dangerous and dirty theatre in the British Isles, infamous for its bawdy vaudeville on stage, and sex in the stalls between prostitutes and spectators.And now it's back. But don't be too scared ... it's only
By the time I reached the gate, where the cops formed a line three deep, I had been called a coward, a sell-out and a “f**ing fascist”. Apparently it was hard to see my press tags through the steel cage. The Bernie Sanders supporters outside the Democratic
JOHN Kennedy does not need to cast his mind too far back to know a 1-1 away draw in the first leg of a European tie is a positive start but far from a guarantee of progress. Two years ago the former defender was part of a fledgling Celtic management team
AFTER an hour of wandering around Glasgow city centre, footsore and tired of apologising to people for bumping into them, there was only solution: delete the Pokémon Go app from the phone.Some people, it seems, just aren't cut out to chase virtual
I don't travel well. Actually, I don’t fly well. Trains and boats are a doddle. I'm a good swimmer, so am reassured by the fact that I would have a fighting chance of swimming to the nearest rescue boat or treasure island. When it comes to flying
THE waiting game is over for wheelchair racer Samantha Kinghorn as her place in the Paralympics GB team for Rio 2016 was confirmed last week.Although the tenterhooks lasted a tad longer than the 20-year-old Scot – one of the Sunday Herald's Six to
THE trapdoor has creaked open and a new club has crept up the ladder and into the Scottish senior set-up via the play-offs for the first time. How Edinburgh City perform in their maiden League 2 season will serve as a handy barometer for measuring the
ANY notion that the SPFL Championship might receive less of the spotlight in the year ahead after Rangers managed to escape from the division at the second attempt was obliterated by two things that took place in recent months. The first was the relegation
HERE in Scotland we have learned the hard way that referendums tend to bring out the worst in people. So Alan Cumming’s views should not perhaps have come as too much of a surprise (Alan Cumming: 'Who's to blame for Brexit? Stupid. English. People
NEW York is so good they named it twice but as far as Niko Kranjcar is concerned Glasgow is miles better. The Croatian playmaker joined Rangers after a spell in the North American Soccer League with New York Cosmos but it is his time in Scotland which
Last week’s revelations in the Sunday Herald about Big Pharma payments to health professionals were a wake-up call for the NHS.Our analysis showed that doctors, nurses, pharmacists and health organisations benefited from around £4.5m in fees and benefits
Demonstrators turned out in cities across Australia yesterday to protest against the abuse of indigenous boys in juvenile detention in the Northern Territory. Video film and images similar to that of prisoners in Abu Ghraib showed children being stripped
Demonstrators turned out in cities across Australia yesterday to protest against the alleged abuse of Aboriginal boys in juvenile detention in the Northern Territory. Video film and images similar to that of prisoners in Abu Ghraib showed children being
French politicians now simply refer to it as “la guerre” - the war. Right now that war against the shadowy terrorist foe that is the Islamic State (IS) group has taken on a new urgency, as France like its European neighbours Belgium and Germany, reels
I never wanted to be a journalist. When I was 17, people told me I should be, but I was horrified at the thought of being involved in an industry with a reputation for its cut-throat competitiveness.I resisted it for years, not because I hated the media
THE horrific, shocking and saddening events that occurred in Munich are, on first inspection, unbelievable and beyond comprehension (Obsessed by mass shootings… teen carried out Munich massacre five years to the day after Brevik atrocity). How could Ali
The Jason Bourne movies once dramatically raised the bar for spy thrillers. With action sequences of raw, almost documentary immediacy, topical plotlines and a no-nonsense central performance by Matt Damon, the Bournes, particularly the two directed by
ThursdayThe 80s With Dominic Sandbrook9pm, BBC TwoIt pays to be a little cautious with your viewing this week. If you’re not careful, you could wind up suffering a kind of temporal whiplash from trying to keep track of what decade it’s supposed to be.
WorldUsain Bolt, 29, JamaicaAthletics, from Saturday 13Bolt's hamstring injury at the start of July will only add to theanticipation over the defence of his 100m and 200m titles in Rio. His rivalrywith controversial American Justin Gatlin will once
Tommy Wieringa’s dense, allegorical, genre-juggling last novel,These Are the Names (2015), charted both the plight of a group of migrants trekking across the eastern steppe and the soul-searching struggles of a police commissioner adrift in a desolate
SWPL football returns after a five-week summer break this afternoon, with Celtic’s home game against Hibernian in the top division ensuring the second half of the season will hit the ground running.Was the break too long? There are arguments to be made
ANDREW Considine is the last man standing, a throw-back to almost a decade ago when Aberdeen last reached the group stage of what was then called the Uefa Cup.Jimmy Calderwood had led them to atmospheric and lucrative Granite City nights under the Pittodrie
SCOTS may have criticisms of the BBC's coverage of the country but despite this are far more likely than their English or Welsh counterparts to pay their licence fee. The number of people prosecuted for failure to pay their TV licence in Scotland
KATHERINE Grainger admits this has been the toughest year of her career. It’s quite a statement from someone who has been at the top end of world rowing for almost two decades, but the fact the 40-year-old will be in Rio says much for her determination.Grainger
CHRIS Erskine channelled the frustrations of the previous 12 months as Partick Thistle continued their productive start to the new season. Victory in this Glasgow derby against League One Queen's Park sees the Maryhill side qualify as seeds for the
Stranraer 0 Motherwell 3MOTHERWELL’S League Cup record in all its formats over recent and not so recent years has been little short of appalling.When a final appearance back in 2005, a 5-1 defeat by Rangers which nobody at the club talks about, is your
ANTI-terror police have revealed that Scotland is the safest part of the UK amid an increase in Isis-inspired attacks across Europe. Assistant Chief Constable Steve Johnson, Scotland's top anti-terror officer, insisted there is “no known threats”
The Australian family facing deportation have said they are “not giving up” despite time running out with their permission to remain in the UK due to expire tomorrow.Kathryn and Gregg Brain moved to Scotland from Australia in June 2011 with their son
EMPLOYERS found guilty of abusing and exploiting their staff could be jailed under Labour plans aimed at protecting workers like those affected by the collapse of BHS.Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell told the Sunday Herald that “firm new laws are now
IT'S called 'retro-reality' and it is all very Year 2000. On one TV show, a group cut off from the modern world have to build society from scratch in a remote location in Scotland, surviving for a year by growing their own vegetables and killing
PATRICK Roberts spent his formative years being booted up and down by an elder brother who didn’t quite appreciate the quick feet of a younger sibling, a grounding that prepared him for the often bruising nature of his current position.The 19-year-old
In 2014 Scotland voted to stay part of the UK. Whether you were a Yes or a No voter, that was the deal. The process we went through to get to that outcome was both invigorating - in the way it brought politics back to life in Scotland - but also a matter
Bashar shows a photograph of a beautiful white domed mansion-like building, with a large pool - once it was his home and the site of his clothes manufacturing factory. Like many properties in Damascus the capital of war-torn Syria, the property no longer
FANCY making your starter home in a public toilet for a cool £200,000? Well if you do you better get your skates on, as there are just ten days left until the closing date on the great Edinburgh public toilet sale - a mass public facility sell-off that
Help, we are living in troubled times. Unless there is a massive change of heart on the other side of the Atlantic it looks increasingly likely that Donald Trump could be the next US president and leader of the free world (as the post was also known during
IF regret and disappointment still linger after Alloa Athletic and Livingston’s relegation from the Championship last season then it has not been reflected in their summer business. It serves as a signal of intent from both that they intend their stay
We made our fond farewells to Greenock-based British Polythene Industries on Wednesday morning after its shareholders nodded their final approval to takeover terms from the much larger RPC Group.The share quote is not due to disappear from the official
Could banks really charge you for depositing your cash? The answer is yes they could, but no they probably won’t. But with the Bank of England likely this week to cut the base rate to 0.25per cent, within a whisker of zero, the spectre of negative interest
Fifty Scottish competitors will be part of Team GB in Rio - the highest ever contingent for an away Games. Athletics provides the biggest contingent, including medal hopes such as Eilidh Doyle, Laura Muir and Lynsey Sharp, while swimming and rowing also
A QUICK question. When you look around, on the global stage, what do you see that characterises an increasing number of the heroes of our time? I would suggest it is that a great many of them are women. We haven't, till now, heard a great deal of
Louise Bourgeois built spiders. The other day in London, they opened a new wing at the Tate Modern, and there’s a special room for her. She died six years ago, aged 98, as strange and bold an imagination as any artist of her century. Surreal limbs, mirror-installations
A is for … AmazonThe Amazon Basin and its rainforest cover around 40% of South America and a sizeable chunk of it is in Brazil. The river itself has its mouth at the city of Belem, in northern Brazil. Accordingly, Brazil and the Amazon go hand in hand
THIS is what makes it all worthwhile. The days when Duncan Scott’s alarm went off at half five in the morning, when it was still pitch black outside, and raining, and the desire to hit the snooze button and go back to sleep, to forget the whole thing,
Isle of Arran DistilleryLochranzaArranHistory: Not all Scottish distilleries have to have 100s of years of history making great single malt to build upon. Opened in 1995 by Harold Currie, former director of Chivas blended Scotch, Arran Distillery has
Crabbit but kind and very tasty … George Munro was an ex-Spitfire pilot and immensely proud of it. He suffered no nonsense and seemed somewhat stern in his approach to most things in life. We encountered him for the first time in the restaurant. Demanding
“I ALWAYS turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.” The Olympic movement already has its own motto – Faster, Higher, Stronger – but it would do well to also keep in mind
Seafood is amongst the easiest foods to match to wine. Pick a crisp, dry white either still or sparkling, and you’re more or less there. Choose a Muscadet from the Loire, a Chablis from Burgundy, a Picpoul from the South of France or a Blanc de Blancs
It is very difficult to defend the way beavers are being killed on Tayside. With no legal protection and no strict rules, we reveal today that farmers and gamekeepers now seem to be shooting them at will. However frustrated they may get at the damage
When I was a boy growing up in Glasgow, we lived for football. We’d arrive at my primary school in Battlefield at least an hour before the bell, gutties on and ready tae kick a tanner ba’ around that weirdly shaped football pitch, hoping to score an Archie
August 3As at the London Games in 210, football gets the stage to itself for the first two days with hosts Brazil v China the highlight of the women's group games on day one.August 4Brazil's men take on South Africa in Group A, while defending
IT is a deplorable state of affairs if 30,000 jobs engaged in the production of Trident submarines are the only ones in Britain's once extensive manufacturing economy that MPs are prepared to defend, especially as the defence industry is arguably
As you read this, the likelihood is that thousands of people in the north-eastern Brazilian city of Maceió are taking advantage of the summer heat to flock to the local beaches – and there enjoying the kind of food that Marcello Tully has never quite
To me, a long-distance overnight train journey should be something vaguely glamorous and exciting.Ideally, some sort of hybrid between Murder on the Orient Express (without the murder) and that Sex and the City episode where Carrie and Samantha catch
It’s a good week for ... smelly hillwalkersEighty-five years is a long time to go without a hot shower, but the power of hydro electricity has finally reached Loch Ossian Youth Hostel.For the first time since starting up in 1931, the accommodation in
I EXPECT much better of Iain Macwhirter (Why Labour control-freaks fear Corbynites, Comment, July 24). By describing Owen Smith as "...unmemorable. He even looks like a local government official", is Mr Macwhirter taking an undignified swipe
