STEVE Clarke has called for television bosses to agree a “decent” kick-off time to allow as many Kilmarnock supporters as possible to travel to Aberdeen for their Scottish Cup quarter-final encounter next month.Three of the four ties over the weekend
TALKING with my old chum HAL 9000 the other day, I was pleased when he took a break from planning the extermination of the human race to help me try and solve the most important question of these momentous days.No, not ‘is Donald Trump as off-piste as
DUTCH foreign minister, Halbe Zijlstra, has admitted publicly to lying about his attendance at a meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin.Zijlstra has issued a statement confirming the admission he made in an interview published in Dutch daily De
ISRAEL’S attorney general has asked police to delay issuing their recommendations into corruption allegations against prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Police were scheduled to present their long-awaited findings this week. However, officials said attorney
THE safety record of Russia’s regional jets is being scrutinised after 71 people were killed in a crash outside Moscow on Sunday. The An-148 twin-engine internal flight to Orsk went down shortly after leaving Moscow’s Domodedovo airport, killing
ONE person has died and 22 others were hurt after two passenger trains collided in central Austria.One train struck the side of the other near the station in Niklasdorf, a town 40 miles north of Graz, police spokesman Leo Josefus said.Photographs of the
INDIA has warned Pakistan for an alleged attack by Pakistan-based militant group, Jaish-e-Mohammed, on an army camp in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Nirmala Sitharaman, Indian defence minister, has claimed Jaish-e-Mohammed was behind the attack and
DONALD Trump has launched a “big week” for his long-awaited infrastructure plan, setting out $1.5 trillion (£1.08trn) of spending over the next decade. The plan would fulfil some of Trump’s campaign goals, but would rely heavily on state and local
HUW Jones admitted last week’s humiliation at the hands of Wales was a learning curve for the Scotland players before they turned in a gutsy performance to beat France.On the back of a 34-7 thrashing in Cardiff last week, the pressure was on Scotland
THE news of the abuse of vulnerable women and children by charity workers is deeply disturbing and shocking. However, if it wasn’t for the work done by the vast, vast majority of those employed these agencies, many people, especially children,
“PENCE urges international community to get tough on Kim Jong Un,” reported The National on Saturday. Why just North Korea? If North Korea’s nuclear programme has to be up for negotiation, then all nuclear programmes must be drawn into the process
AN international accounting firm has moved into new offices in Glasgow and hired a new manager for Scotland.Mazars will now work from offices at 100 Queen Street in the city with Laura Clarkson as the new office managing partner for Scotland, consisting
LOCAL charities and schools in the West of Scotland are set to receive a share of £15,000 thanks to a new bursary.The CALA Homes Community Bursary was launched yesterday and aims to provide support for a wide range of organisations and projects. In 2017
AN aerospace company and a planetarium in West Lothian are teaming up ahead of the creation of an aviation, astronomy, and space centre in Kinross.The partnership between Aero Space Scientific Educational Trust (ASSET) and Cosmos Planetarium will allow
THE brother of a Scot held in India without charge spoke of the family's sense of helplessness yesterday on the 100th day of his detention. Gurpreet Singh Johal told reporters in Glasgow: "We are not able to do anything, just sit here. "The
JAMES Thomson (1700-48) was one of the most influential Scottish poets ever, effectively inventing the genre of landscape poetry and invigorating that of landscape painting in his epic sequence The Seasons (1726-30, revised 1744). Born in Ednam, Roxburghshire
Who Wants to Be a Bitcoin Millionaire? – Panorama, BBC 1, 8.30pmIN some quarters, Bitcoin is being hailed as the future of money. Unlike “real” cash, it’s not backed by a government or properly regulated, but it is exchanged and held digitally by users
PETE Wishart MP says that we need a new vision (The National, February 9). No, what we need is a backbone to stand up to Westminster and Whitehall; we have the vision and the mandate already. I would urge both the SNP leadership and members, and the
I RECEIVED an interesting reply from Sainsbury’s when I complained about them branding Scottish produce with a Union flag. To summarise their reply: their market research showed that Scots customers prefer to see the Saltire on Scottish produce
Bryde Marshall and her fiance Nathanael Dixon opened Falkland Kitchen Farm at the foot of Fife’s rolling Lomond Hills in 2014. The five-acre farm quickly became popular in Fife with their produce farmed by hand and grown without pesticides and herbicides
PERIODS are something of a watershed moment in a girl’s life. Something many look forward to, while others dread. Whatever flavour the anticipation, it’s a definitive moment that marks the end of childhood, at least biologically, in a way that boys will
IT may be set in France in the 16th century but rising star of Scottish playwriting, Ellie Stewart, believes audiences will respond to her new work on its forthcoming national tour. “I’m excited about telling a European story at the moment in Scotland
SNP Westminster group leader Ian Blackford has ruled himself out of the depute leadership race. The MP for Ross, Skye and Lochaber had been considered the favourite to replace the position left vacant by Angus Robertson. Some SNP figures had even
A PRO-INDEPENDENCE campaign group is calling on activists to "populate" footpaths and bridges over the M8. The YesM8 group are encouraging indy supporters to wave flags and drop banners along the busy stretch of motorway with the intention of catching
EDINBURGH’S Corn Exchange yesterday saw a protest against dairy farming by campaigners who displayed banners outside the Cheesefest event in the venue on the west side of the Capital.Some 20 people displaying banners with anti-dairy slogans protested
A SCHEME that puts homeless people into permanent homes first without having to go through periods in temporary accommodation should be rolled out across Scotland, according to MSPs.Holyrood’s Local Government and Communities Committee says the Housing
DEPUTY leadership contests don’t generally set politics alight. If you asked most people in the street to name the current British Labour deputy leader, a few people might mistakenly suggest the name of John McDonnell – though I suspect most people
A HISTORIC combination of six Scottish universities has been selected for a £54 million programme to improve health through better use of data.The universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews, and Strathclyde have joined together
YOU wait for one film about Robert the Bruce, and then along come two at the same time. It was revealed at the weekend that the actor Angus Macfadyen, who played Bruce in Braveheart 23 years ago, is the driving force behind a new film called Robert
RICHARD Leonard and Jeremy Corbyn have been called on again to explain why they back leaving the single market, despite studies by both the UK and Scottish Government that the move will cause major economic damage. With the UK Labour leader to
THE UK Government Transport Committee is launching an inquiry into the InterCity East Coast rail franchise.The committee said there are “serious questions” to be asked, adding that they will look at the best way forward, and the wider implications for
SNP depute leadership candidate James Dornan has said Scotland could vote for independence next year as he pledged to get the party ready for it in his pitch for the job. Speaking to a Sunday newspaper the Glasgow Cathcart MSP said a Yes vote in
A FIRM of private detectives has been hired by the SNP to investigate a new complaint made against former childcare and early years minister, Mark McDonald. The MSP has not voted or spoken in the Scottish Parliament since resigning from his Cabinet
HUMZA Yousaf has accused Richard Leonard of a “weak” response to racial slurs by a Scottish Labour MP, which he said was a “slap in the face” for ethnic minorities. The SNP minister renewed a call for Hugh Gaffney to be suspended “at the very least
INNOVATION is at the forefront of a campaign being launched by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) this week under the slogan: “HIE time to innovate.” It will be launched on Friday to mark Innovation Day and follows news that HIE’s funding for
SCOTLAND’s environment body has warned that compliance with the law is non-negotiable. The blunt message came from Terry A’Hearn, chief executive of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa), and followed two prosecutions it led relating
LAST week three things happened that suggest the world – Scotland very much included – has entered a bumpy new economic phase. So fasten your seat belts. First up: that global drop in share prices. Now shares go up and down, as everyone knows.
A GLASGOW businessman is due to appear in court in Ireland this week after his bizarre attempt to escape from a court in Cork went wrong and he ran directly into Irish police officers. James McCarney, 40, from Balmore in Glasgow will make his fourth
CHEMMY Alcott, one of Britain’s greatest-ever skiers, has tipped two of Scotland’s finest to make a real mark at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.Alex Tilley from Aberdeenshire has recorded a number of impressive results on the World Cup circuit over the
THEIR fifth round Scottish Cup clash with Kilmarnock may have ended in defeat but Brora Rangers excited the competition with their heads held high. A 4-0 win for the Premiership team may sound decisive but it took a considerable time for them to stamp
