Gordon Brown

Club Scene: Carrick Academy
Tuesday 21 February 2012

These past few days, the teachers and pupils at Carrick Academy in Ayrshire have joined forces to prepare for their Under-18s' first appearance in a Scottish rugby final at Murrayfield tomorrow.

Carrick pupils pass their biggest test yet
Thursday 16 February 2012

Carrick Academy achieved a notable first last week when they booked a place in the final of the Brewin Dolphin Scottish Schools Under-18 Plate after defeating Linlithgow Academy last week.

Leishman is to stand for Labour
Tuesday 14 February 2012

FORMER Dunfermline football manager and player Jim Leishman is to stand as a Labour candidate in May's local council elections.

The Damnation of Fred Goodwin
Sunday 5 February 2012

ONE Saturday morning, shortly before Christmas 2007 and a few months after Northern Rock shares fell through the floor and its fearful customers queued overnight to withdraw their savings, Alistair Darling opened the front door at his home in Edinburgh to find Sir Fred Goodwin – as he was then – standing on the doorstep with a gift-wrapped panettone in his hands.

135 bakery jobs at risk as firm enters receivership
Saturday 28 January 2012

ONE of Scotland's largest independent bakers which supplies some of the country's best known supermarket chains has ceased trading, placing 135 jobs at risk.