Herald Voices: Matteo Manassero putting in the hard yards on road to recovery

Herald Voices

Matteo Manassero won the Challenge Tour event in Denmark on Sunday

Matteo Manassero putting in the hard yards on road to recovery - Nick Rodger

From reaching a career high of 25th, Manassero would descend into the kind of bleak depths usually reserved for the humpback angler fish.

Seismic changes could be coming to children's hearings

Catriona Stewart: Unanswered questions over reforms affecting thousands of families

AFTER 11 years as a children's panel member there are young people who stick in my mind more than others.

Scotland's Deposit Return Scheme is being forced to remove glass

Vicky Allan: Scotland or London? Deposit return is about who has power

I'm still backing a Scottish deposit return scheme. Not because I want Scotland to be ahead of England – but because I don’t want us to have to wait till 2025 before we see fewer plastic bottles on our beaches or smashed glass scattered in our parks.

Kristy Dorsey: Food price caps are gimmickry of the highest order

What a difference a year makes. Speaking in May 2022 at a conference in Vienna, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey hit back at critics who accused him of being asleep at the wheel as inflation was taking off. Noting that the nature of the shock of the Covid pandemic meant higher interest rates could damage the economy, he said elevated energy prices would depress consumer spending and allow the central bank to take a less aggressive approach to raising interest rates which at that time were pegged to a base rate of 1 per cent.

Allan Campbell taking John McGinn strides as Luton secure Premier League spot

“John is probably the example that I want to try and follow. He came down, imposed himself on this league and showed people what he could do. So I want to make a name for myself and make an impact at Luton. If I do as well as I can, hopefully I can follow John's footsteps and try to play in the Premier League. That's the pinnacle, it's the top league in the world.”