I read with interest Kevin McKenna’s interview with Professor Leonie Herx (“Health expert issues warning over assisted dying” The Herald, February 4) and her concerns about how the “programme” in Canada has developed.
She was a professional ballet dancer and trained at the Royal Academy in Stockholm. And despite dancing from the age of three she decided it was no longer for her and decided to pursue a career in fashion. After graduating with a degree in
A LOAN made by Nicola Sturgeon’s husband to the SNP to help bail out its finances broke reporting rules on three separate occasions, it has emerged. Files released to the Herald by the Electoral Commission show the £107,620 loaned by Peter Murrell
THE Scottish hospitality industry is not being given the “respect it is due”, a veteran Glasgow publican has declared. Billy Gold, owner of the long-established Hielan Jessie on the Gallowgate, spoke out as the pub trade comes under fierce pressure
A prominent Scottish businessman has vowed to return Charles Kennedy’s long-held Highland constituency seat to the Liberal Democrats. Angus MacDonald, a Highland councillor, has been selected to contest Ross, Skye and Lochaber in next year’s expected
Business leaders have called for greater support for Scotland’s stricken high streets as a famous clothing retail brand trading for 189 years is to close. Brexit, Covid, and high street malaise have been cited as factors faced by M&Co, founded
SHARES in IOG, the gas explorer backed by US investment guru Warren Buffett, plunged yesterday after the company ran into further problems in its efforts to bring a key North Sea field into production. IOG reported efforts to enhance gas rates
The final design for the redevelopment of Troon Station has been revealed to the local community at an event in the South Ayrshire town, 19 months after a devastating fire reduced the previous building to ashes. The blaze, in July of 2021, had
By Scott Wright A NEW invoice finance provider aimed at firms turning over up to £10 million has been launched in Scotland amid the continuing cost-of-doing-business crisis. Business veteran Andy Tait, who launched the Scottish arm of Bibby
INTERNATIONAL hospitality sector veteran Andrew Cook has been appointed general manager of the five-star Fonab Castle hotel and spa at Pitlochry in Highland Perthshire. Mr Cook has recently worked at Chewton Glen Hotel & Spa in Hampshire, where
Controversial retail billionaire Mike Ashley has reportedly got Dundee’s Overgate Centre on his shopping list as merchants try to find their way in a sector that is arguably facing the greatest upheaval since markets first developed in ancient Greece
Wordle has taken the world by storm, and if you’ve not given in to playing the daily game, we can guarantee you’ve seen the elusive squares all over social media. The aim of the game is to find a 5-letter word in only six attempts. The game
