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Had this been an accident, a police officer would have instructed Aberdeen supporters to “move along now; nothing to see here”. Two goals down and reduced to 10 men before the interval, it meant Derek McInnes’ pre-match rallying call to their fans

MOTHERWELL fans aren’t the only ones who have been watching replays of their glory runs to Hampden from a couple of years back, with the Fir Park players also getting to enjoy the footage as they gear up for another tilt at reaching the national stadium

SCOTLAND’S cricketers will be left out of pocket after plans for a European T20 competition fell through just two weeks before the start date. Organisers of the Euro T20 Slam have called off the first edition of the six-team tournament that would

SCOTLAND launched their marathon bid to qualify for the 2023 World Cup with a disheartening defeat to Oman at Mannofield, Aberdeen, yesterday. Defending a meagre tally of 168 in the first of their 36 World Cup League 2 fixtures to be played over

PLAID Cymru Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts has welcomed Jeremy Corbyn's call to work together in a time-limited caretaker government, but said Labour has to "let go" and back a second referendum. Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme

REPORTS that population increase has stalled in Scotland might be of interest to readers (New population figures underline need for Scots migration boost, August 15), but more significant is that we have known for a longer time that the life expectancy

IT’S amazing how, without the full information, people jump to defend the SNP at the expense of all others. I am also an SNP supporter and want so badly an independent Scotland, but you need to visit the Wings over Scotland website and read the whole

BORIS Johnson’s No-Deal Brexit plans must not be allowed to jeopardise Shetland’s fishing trade with Europe, SNP candidate Tom Wills has said. Speaking in Scalloway alongside SNP MEP Alyn Smith, Wills branded the Tory government’s advice for exporting

LABOUR grandee Lord Roy Hattersley has said he believes the party has got rid of the "ghastly" problem of anti-Semitism. The former MP and deputy leader of the party said the issue within its ranks "came as a shock, a surprise and a horror to me

DRUG-RELATED deaths in England and Wales have risen to their highest level since records began. Figures released yesterday revealed that 4359 people died from drug poisoning last year, 16% up on the 3756 deaths in 2017. That equates to roughly

RECORDS are being reviewed of patients across Scotland who received treatment from a fake psychiatrist who practised for 22 years without a qualification. Zholia Alemi was jailed for fraud in October last year after she changed an elderly patient

MORE than a quarter of pub owners in Scotland believe Brexit is having a negative impact on their trade, according to a new study. The survey of 500 licensed premises across the country, including large chains as well as independent operators,

FEARS have been raised that the UK and countries around the world could be heading for a recession. An inverted yield curve – where short term Government bonds become less attractive than long term ones – in the UK and US has particularly spooked

JEREMY Corbyn’s plan to prevent a No-Deal Brexit by being installed as a caretaker prime minister has been rejected by some of the key MPs needed for its success. The SNP and Plaid Cymru signalled they could support the Labour leader’s proposal

A SPANISH aid boat with 147 rescued migrants aboard is anchored near a tiny southern Italian island while Italy’s interior and defence ministers row over their fate. The ship entered Italian territorial waters after a court overruled a ban by right-wing

THE launch of Huawei’s delayed foldable smartphone, the Mate X, looks set to be pushed back further. According to TechRadar, the Chinese firm will miss its slated September release and it is unlikely to arrive before November. Huawei had initially

SCOTTISH Labour have been left "isolated and irrelevant" over opposing indtref2, according to the SNP. Last week shadow Chancellor John McDonnell made clear the UK party would not oppose a second independence vote if the Scottish Government asked

CELTIC could avoid suffering further costly failures to qualify for the Champions League group stages in future by appointing a director of football to oversee the long-term strategy of the club, it was last night claimed. The Parkhead outfit crashed

ORGANISERS of a new festival hope their three-day event will become “a key date in Scotland’s annual festival diary”. The Doonhame Festival will take place in the grounds of the Crichton in Dumfries. Curated by a local team of music and festival

Here are the picks of tonight's TV... Fugitives (BBC1, 8pm) IN the last days of 2014, a young woman was found dead in a hotel in Cardiff. Nadine Aburas had been in a stormy, long-distance relationship with New Yorker Sammy Almahri for almost

THAT the United Kingdom is unravelling is so obvious. But as my granny would have said, there are none so blind as those that will not see. So what is it with the opposition Unionist parties, their leaders and spokespersons here in Scotland? The

Platform Seven Louise Doughty Faber & Faber, £14.99 Review by Rosemary Goring Peterborough train station is, for travellers, a sort of limbo through which they must pass to reach London, East Anglia, the Midlands or the north. If you’ve ever

IT IS not always obvious what to write about each week and this week I was struggling – and then whilst at work three customers in a row asked me about heathers. So, by popular demand, heathers it is. Heathers are beautiful in any garden anywhere

These buns go quickly in the Hussain household. For when you've got a little more time on your hands, Nadiya Hussain's bao buns with spicy tuna are a fun project to make as a family - and they'll be demolished pretty quickly. "These buns are

THE SNP has urged Boris Johnson to rule out a No-Deal Brexit to protect the Scottish farming industry as new research reveals more than half of UK farms could go out of business after the UK leaves the EU. The report, written by former chief economist

NICOLA Sturgeon has not ruled out helping Jeremy Corbyn become prime minister to stop a No-Deal Brexit. Questioned by the BBC if she would support the Labour leader to help install him as a temporary prime minister following a successful vote of

LIBERAL Democrat leader Jo Swinson has suggested Ken Clarke or Harriet Harman be installed as the prime minister of an “emergency government” to resolve the Brexit crisis. Swinson dismissed Jeremy Corbyn’s challenge to opposition parties to install

JUST a simple thought on the closure or perhaps not of the Ferguson shipyard in Port Glasgow. Over the years the public have been told by the Scottish Government that an independent Scotland would be more equal, however the mechanisms for such a laudable

AN unsigned “hobby band” have sold out three consecutive gigs follow-ing the release of their debut album in June. Now Edinburgh’s Wrest are releasing Coward Of Us All on vinyl after sustained demand from fans of the band’s soaring indie-folk epics

"OH Andra, Andra. Whit have they done to you?” Thir were the wirds o ma great-granny at Glasgow Central Station, as ma granda, her son, arrived hame fae lang years as a Japanese prisoner o war. Mibbie he wisnae sae easy tae recognise. As he himsel

Jeremy Corbyn has said it is not up to the UK Parliament to block a second Scottish independence referendum. However, the Labour leader said he does not think a second poll is a good idea, and that he would advise against it. SNP leader Nicola

THE Greens have fired back at claims they have contributed “nothing of note” to Holyrood. In his National column, Kevin McKenna criticised the party over their opposition to plans from Wings Over Scotland author Stuart Campbell to stand pro-independence

LOUIE Steven Witt was “the umbrella man”. In the aftermath of John F Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas on November 22, 1963, Witt was identified in real-time footage as the incongruous figure on the sidewalk brandishing an umbrella on the warm, sunny

THE All Under One Banner (AUOB) march and rally for independence scheduled for Saturday in Aberdeen can go ahead as planned after councillors approved the event yesterday. A spokesman for AUOB said: “There is no variation on the route that we agreed

SAFETY or interest? Most lives are a blend of the two. Political life is no different. So, Wings Over Scotland is perfectly entitled to ask if the balance within the independence movement is wrong and electoral safety has become the overriding priority

SCOTTISH Trade Minister Ivan McKee has visited Diageo’s Leven packaging plant in Fife to present the company’s top global manufacturing award to the team there. McKee and local MSP Jenny Gilruth toured the plant and handed over two trophies to

LABOUR productivity in Scotland increased by 1.1% between January and March compared to the same period last year. According to analysis published by Scotland’s chief statistician Roger Halliday, growth in output per hour worked also grew by 0.4%

NICOLA Sturgeon has hailed the SNP candidate for the upcoming Shetland by-election. On her second visit ahead of the August 29 vote, the First Minister praised the “passion, grit and determination” of Tom Wills. The by-election was called after

ANYBODY who’s ever been to a supermarket and can’t find a copy of their National knows how far Unionists will go to try to sabotage us – but yesterday they took it to the next level. We’ve obtained a secret leaked video created by “Scots in the

PHILIP Hammond has said he is “very confident” MPs will come up with a way to stop Boris Johnson taking the UK out of the EU without a deal in October. In his first major intervention since stepping down as Chancellor three weeks ago, he warned

SCOTLAND’S need for migrants to come and live and work here was amply demonstrated yesterday when the latest statistics showed that migration is the main driver of Scotland’s population growth. A record 5.44 million people now live in Scotland,

A FORMER Scottish Office chief statistician has accused an influential Westminster committee of perpetuating “dangerous myths” about Scotland’s finances. Westminster’s cross-party Public Accounts Committee (PAC) released the findings of its inquiry

"I KNOW you from another time, your face is different but not your eyes,” sings Elisabeth Elektra on Hieroglyphic, one of the many corkers from her debut album. The record should send the Glasgow-based artist-musician into the pop stratosphere.

FORMER SNP MP Natalie McGarry, who was jailed for embezzling more than £25,000, has been granted leave to appeal against her conviction, despite pleading guilty. McGarry was sentenced to 18 months behind bars in June after admitting two charges

Jim Cuthbert is an economist and former Scottish Office chief statistician KIRSTEEN Paterson’s National article of July 26 covered the Westminster Public Accounts Committee’s recent report on the funding of the devolved administrations. The

FIREFIGHTERS in Greece, backed by water-dropping planes and helicopters, were yesterday battling a wildfire burning through a protected nature reserve on the island of Evia. The six planes and five helicopters are concentrating on areas where access

MANY young people believe the speed of technological advances means they will one day have a job that does not yet exist, according to new research. A survey of young people found that almost half (47%) of 16 to 24-year-olds believe they will work

A SCOTTISH company has launched a new programme to bring its staff closer to its disabled customers who buy and use the vehicles they manufacture. Allied Vehicles Group, which is based in Glasgow, said its assemblers would come face-to-face with

NANCY Pelosi has warned Boris Johnson there is “no chance” of a US-UK trade deal passing through Congress if Brexit puts Northern Ireland’s Good Friday Agreement at risk. Pelosi, the Speaker of the United States’ House of Representatives, made

PUPILS have hit out at Edinburgh City Council proposals to limit climate change protests to just one day a year. Thousands of children descended on the Scottish Parliament building in March and May as part of a wider movement across the UK.

STUNNING pictures show a stained glass window that has finally been installed in a Scottish abbey – more than a century after it was commissioned by Scots steel magnate and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Dunfermline-born Carnegie commissioned

THE art world was agog with excitement three years ago when a painting in a Scots stately home was identified as possible masterpiece by the Italian Renaissance genius Raphael. Dr Bendor Grosvenor, presenter of the BBC’s Britain’s Lost Masterpieces

SCIENTISTS have found that a new method of colouring concrete using waste printer toner is waterproof and resistant to ultraviolet light – which means it can keep its hue over a longer period. A team from the University of Dundee, along with Moock