David Pratt: In the eye of the storm
As Cyclone Idai devastates parts of Africa, Foreign Editor David Pratt takes stock of its horrific impact and the pressing global questions it has raised about our response to such disasters.
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Cyclone Idai: Fears death toll could exceed 1000
The death toll following Cyclone Idai in Mozambique could exceed the 1,000 predicted by the country’s president earlier this week, officials said.
Why put litter in a plastic bag?
I WAS impressed at the photo of climbers picking up litter on the Munros ("Munro bagging takes on a new meaning", The Herald, March 18) until I saw that the garbage was contained in plastic bags. What is it going to take to stop humans using plastic…
Scotland's favourite 60 bands: 30-1
THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND
How Orkney reinvented the future with hydrogen
ORKNEY and Davos might not seem like names that go together, but at the World Economic Forum earlier this year, a video about a low-carbon project on the islands caused a buzz. Made by the European Marine Energy Centre, it showed the wind and…
Peter Noone on living the 1960s dream and touring with Herman Hermits
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Celebrating Hans Zimmer – the man who created the sound of cinema
HANS Zimmer’s music has shaped the cinematic experience of generations of film-goers for more than 30 years.
White's hazard was well known
IT is disappointing and puzzling to some of us who were involved in conveyancing 20 or more years ago that the seriousness of the White's chemical company trail of pollution is only now being recognised, and puzzling also that developers and planners…
Pete Irvine on the best of Scotland
ONE DAY back in 1992 Peter Irvine got in his open-topped Peugeot 308 in Edinburgh and set out to find Scotland. He travelled up to the Highlands and the Islands. He went down to the Borders. He visited all the cities. And on the way he called in on…
Stanley Donen, director of Singin’ In The Rain, dies aged 94
Donen, who often teamed with Gene Kelly but also worked with Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra and Fred Astaire, died on Thursday.
