FRENCH feminists have denounced an open letter signed by film star Catherine Deneuve that said men are being unfairly targeted by sexual misconduct allegations and should be free to hit on women.In a text published on the Franceinfotv website on Wednesday
AN explosion has rocked a stricken oil tanker off the coast of Shanghai, forcing maritime authorities to suspend firefighting and rescue efforts with more than two dozen sailors still missing.China’s ministry of transport said rescue vessels withdrew
A mob angered by the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl attacked a police station and a nearby government building in eastern Punjab province, triggering clashes that left at least two people dead and several injured.The violence erupted in the
KIRSTY Hughes raises the dilemmas behind each format of Brexit along the spectrum from “worst to über-worst”, if you’ll pardon the last coinage (Why aren’t the SNP trying to stop Brexit?, The National, January 9)! In other words any form of “Brexit
THE increasing enthusiasm for indyref2 expressed in your columns as we enter a new year is as refreshing as it is welcome, while Thom Muir (Website Comments, The National, January 10) admirably expresses the acute dilemma that this challenge presents
MALAYSIA has said it will pay US company Ocean Infinity up to $70 million if it can find the wreckage or black boxes of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 within three months.Transport minister, Liow Tiong Lai, said there is an 85 per cent chance of finding
DONALD Trump’s personal lawyer has filed a defamation lawsuit against BuzzFeed for publishing an unverified dossier of allegations about the president’s White House campaign and Russia.The lawyer Michael Cohen, filed the lawsuit in New York state on Tuesday
WOMEN’S fast-fashion brand Quiz saw strong sales during the crucial festive trading period, booking a 32 per cent rise in revenues for the seven weeks to January 6.The AIM-listed firm, founded in Scotland, saw international sales lift 51 per cent compared
A LEADING software and IT services company which has an office in Glasgow and contracts with the Scottish Government has been sold to Japanese giant NEC Corporation.No jobs will be lost and the name of Northgate Public Services (NPS) will remain in the
A SCOTTISH golf course is to create 20 additional jobs with a new £5 million community facility.Work is now under way on the extension at Carnoustie Golf Links, with the introduction of a “world-class 100-cover bar and restaurant”, facilitated by support
A GLASGOW-based engineering firm has secured a £4 million investment to expand its operations in the UK and mainland Europe.Walker Precision Engineering manufactures and assembles complex parts for the aerospace, defence and industrial sectors.The family-owned
The Truth About Looking Good, BBC1, 8pm IF you’re planning to start the new year with a new beauty regime, you may want to watch this programme first, as Cherry Healey and a team of independent scientists conduct an experiment that puts everyday
I HAVE read about a person who agreed with most of the Yes arguments and messages during the 2014 independence referendum campaign but voted No because an independent Scotland would have meant retaining the monarchy. I have read about lifelong independence
THE analysis by Kirsty Hughes on the role of the SNP and Nicola Sturgeon on the future of Brexit was spot-on (Why aren’t the SNP trying to stop Brexit?, The National, January 9). A “soft Brexit” is still Brexit. It will still do huge damage to
ESTHER McVey's appointment as Work and Pensions Secretary is a "cause for alarm" for disabled people, Jeremy Corbyn believes, but the Labour leader condemned online abuse aimed at the new Tory Cabinet minister. McVey became an unpopular figure
THE death toll from mudslides that struck Southern California has climbed to 15 as rescue crews searched for people trapped, injured or dead in the onslaught that smashed homes and swept away cars. The torrential rainstorm that set off the disaster
THERE are many reasons why the history and characters of ancient Rome hold such sway in our imaginations. I’ve often wondered, for instance, if the Roman Emperor Caligula was indeed just a pure, mad bampot or a slightly unhinged visionary who was just
CELTIC Connections finally gets going next week – so here’s what to expect as the festival celebrates it 25th year as a highlight in Scotland’s musical calendar.The festival begins on Thursday with the traditional big opening concert at the Glasgow Royal
IT was 50 years ago today on January 10, 1968, that the Surveyor 7 spacecraft landed on the moon. Touchdown was on the outer rim of the crater Tycho, one of the most prominent features of the moon, with its distinctive “rays” shooting up to 1,000 miles
THEY are two of Scotland’s most prominent traditional musicians, they’ve been a couple for 18 years, they once played in a band together, and yet they had, up until recently, never recorded any music together as a duet. For Ross Martin (Daimh)
AFTER checking the date to make sure Lovina Roe’s letter (January 9) was not an April fool, I read it a number of times in incredulity. Is hers really the level of Brexiteers’ understanding of the purpose, achievements, aims and ambitions of the European
A NEW study will examine whether building more floating wind farms could boost the Scottish economy. The £50,000 project will look into scenarios modelling differing scales of development, the impact of government policy and the resulting levels
CARLES Puigdemont is set to be put forward as Catalan president after Catalonia’s main pro-independence parties reached agreement that he should be re-elected. Puigdemont, deposed by Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy in October, along with his
SCOTTISH Labour leader Richard Leonard yesterday predicted that the future of Brexit could be decided by another general election rather than a second referendum.Though he qualified his remarks by saying he was “almost certain” Brexit would happen, Leonard
A MAJORITY of voters believe Scotland would be better off or have the same level of prosperity if it becomes independent, according to new research published today. The report by John Curtice for the National Centre for Social Research shows that
JOANNA Lumley was named as the first solo female host of the Baftas for more than two decades, as the major nominees for next month’s awards were announced.The Absolutely Fabulous star brushed aside concerns that this could be a tricky edition to host
ORIOL Junqueras, the deposed Catalan vice-president, is to launch a bid to be transferred from Estremera prison in Madrid to an institution in Catalonia and for permission to attend next week’s presidential inauguration.His lawyer, Andreu Van den Eynde
REMARKABLE items that survived from two First World War shipwrecks will go on temporary display on Orkney next month. The exhibition will follow the official centenary commemoration this weekend of the wrecking of two destroyers, Clyde-built HMS
MOST people start a new year determined to turn over a new leaf, to make up for mistakes made in the past or previous promises broken. Out with the old and in with the new. Theresa May, on the other hand, has kicked off 2018 by presenting more
Life, they say, begins at 40. Others will say it actually begins at 50 or perhaps even 60? But let’s just say that it begins at 40 for the sake of this tangled introduction because Craig Lee is 40 and he is seeking a new beginning. The problem is, he’
IN all the fuss over Andy Murray’s dreadful injury news last week, one action by the greatest Scottish sportsman of all time really stood out. On his Instagram account he posted a picture of himself as a little boy at Dunblane Primary School and
SCOTLAND’S Brexit minister has said it is “unacceptable” that the UK Government does not plan to amend key Brexit legislation when it comes before parliament next week.The Scottish and Welsh governments called for changes to the European Union (Withdrawal
DAVID Davis complained that the EU is damaging British interests with its preparations for a “no deal” Brexit situation – despite Theresa May repeatedly saying it is an outcome which must be considered.In a letter to the Prime Minister, the Brexit Secretary
A MAN of Jewish descent has told an inquiry that nuns at a Scottish orphanage used anti-Semitic threats while beating him. The witness said he is still “haunted” by memories of the time he spent at Smyllum Park in Lanark during the 1940s and 1950s.He
THE Scottish Wildlife Trust is launching a new biodiversity scheme to protect precious areas of juniper woodland. Having received £36,604 from Viridor Credits Environmental Company through the Scottish Landfill Communities Fund, the trust is planning
SCOTLAND’S top police officer has raised concerns about “significant delays” in an investigation into his alleged misconduct. A lawyer representing Chief Constable Phil Gormley insisted the complaints against him were “vexatious” and “opportunistic
DEPOSED Catalan president Carles Puigdemont is to meet newly elected pro-independence MPs in Brussels on Friday – less than a week before the new parliament is due to reconvene.He called the meeting of Together for Catalonia (JxCat) – comprising his Catalan
THERESA May’s Cabinet reshuffle has left her with a higher proportion of Oxbridge and privately educated top ministers, an analysis shows.Despite suggestions that the Prime Minister might seek to boost the diversity of her top team to better reflect
A GLASGOW MP has called for clarity over the future of a £1 billion commitment to improve the city’s infrastructure, which was signed off in 2014 and includes the rail link between Glasgow Airport and the city centre.Labour’s Paul Sweeney was responding
A DOCTORS’ representative has blamed a severe flu outbreak – on top of normal winter pressures – for an increase in the number of A&E patients facing long waits in Scotland’s hospitalsFigures for the seven days ending December 31 show 78 per cent of patients
A COUPLE have launched a campaign to save their home from demolition by the brother-in-law landlord who has been ordered to make it “fit for human habitation”. Nick Charlton and Claire de Mortimer are urging the public to petition a Scottish council
LOVE them or loathe them, and it probably depends on your view of Scottish independence what you think of them, you just cannot ignore the distinctive front pages of The National. Now in a real first for the only daily newspaper in Scotland that
CHARITY Oxfam enjoyed a five-year high in Christmas-time sales at its Scottish shops. Customers raised almost £1.2 million during the eight-week Christmas period from 29 October 29 – enough to provide clean water for more than 16,000 people in an emergency
A COMMUNITY bid to buy the island of Ulva – which has population just six, including two children – has taken a major step forward with the results of a postal ballot. In a poll of people in the north-west of neighbouring Mull, almost 64 per cent
THIS is going to be the year that Scottish independence becomes a certainty. All the signs are already there. Almost half the population supports independence, a figure which has remained consistent despite a constant barrage of negativity from an
