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11th January 2018    13th January 2018

  • Hacking plot to snoop on senate emails uncovered

    RUSSIAN government-aligned hackers who penetrated the Democratic Party in the US have spent the past few months laying the groundwork for an espionage campaign against the Senate, according to a cybersecurity investigation. The revelation suggests

  • Letters: There can be no such thing as a jobs-first Brexit

    THE European Union has recently issued “be prepared” warnings to all UK businesses as it contemplates a potential no-deal Brexit. This is the starkest warning yet about the devastating impact that a Conservative-led, Labour-approved “red, white and

  • Letters: Stop sneering at those of us who voted to leave the EU

    I AM getting a bit sick of people constantly having a go at Lovina Roe (Letters, January 9) for her views on the EU, many of which I and others share. She was quite right to assert that the EU would crush states which do not accept its political ideology

  • 20 new jobs for Inverness engineering firm Gael Force Group

    INVERNESS engineering firm Gael Force Group is to create 20 new jobs after being commissioned to build a feed barge for a fish farm.Delivery of the 14 metre feed barge is expected at the Portree site of the Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) later this year.The

  • Scottish butcher makes Burns Night haggis film

    A SCOTTISH haggis butcher has released a new film to coincide with Burns Night.Simon Howie’s film is a sequel from last year’s Burns video which sees the main character, the rather eccentric haggis hunter, divulge his love of hunting the mythical haggis.The

  • Firth of Forth wind farm could be sold

    HAVING previously said it was looking for a partner, green energy giant Mainstream yesterday suggested it could sell most or all of its controversial Neart na Gaoithe wind farm in the Firth of Forth.The Dublin-based company wants to go public by 2020

  • Letters: Why do we need three types of Scottish banknotes?

    I READ with interest the article by Andy Anderson (Letters, January 9) concerning the Scottish pound. That was very informative, and it also raises the question of why, in this day and age, we still have three different types of Scottish notes.

  • Tonight's TV: Room 101 and the Big Fat Quiz of Everything

    The Wine Show, Channel 5, 7pm NOT content with starring in dramas such as Rome and Downton Abbey, actors James Purefoy and Matthew Goode have landed another dream job as they become our guides in a new series of The Wine Show. They are travelling

  • Latest Churchill depiction a cut above the rest

    ★★★★☆ GARY Oldman leads the charge with an electrifying central performance as Prime Minister Winston Churchill in director Joe Wright’s compelling wartime chamber piece that would make for an effective opposite-side-of-the-same-coin companion

  • Stephane Brizé highlights female plight in A Woman's Life

    ★★★☆☆ THIS at once unflinching and sophisticated period piece from director Stéphane Brizé zeroes in on one woman living a perceivably privileged life in early 19th century Normandy and reveals that it may not be as rosy as it seems. Using

  • Scotland is left behind by New York’s climate action

    FRANK Sinatra told us that it’s the city that doesn’t sleep, and this week New York’s mayor Bill de Blasio proved that he’s not lying down on the job when it comes to the world’s greatest environmental challenge either. He’s willing to put the

  • Fury as gravestone of Greyfriars Bobby's master is toppled

    THERE is vandalism and there is vandalism, and then there is idiotic trashing of a piece of world-renowned Scottish history carried out by cretinous numbskull low-life morons who should hang their heads in shame at their crime.It is enough to make the

  • Closing tax loophole could raise extra £90m

    MINISTERS are considering freezing the threshold at which people start paying the higher rate of income tax in a bid to close a new loophole which would see some well-paid workers pay less tax next year. The move could generate an extra £90 million

  • Western Isles MP: ‘Take your money out of RBS’

    ROYAL Bank of Scotland should change its name and customers should quit the lender over its latest branch closure plan, an MP claims.Angus Brendan MacNeil hit out at the Edinburgh-based institution in an angry speech during a debate on banks in Westminster

  • Scotland's NHS 'coping admirably' despite flu outbreak

    THE number of Scots suffering from flu doubled last week, with the country in the grip of a “moderate” flu epidemic. Statistics released yesterday show that the number of cases has jumped from from 46 per 100,000 people in the last week of December to

  • Nigel Farage backs new Brexit vote and predicts increased majority

    NIGEL Farage has called for a second referendum on EU membership to “kill off the issue for a generation once and for all.”The former Ukip leader made the suggestion yesterday, saying he wanted to put an end to “whinging and whining” by opponents of Brexit.Appearing

  • 70 years of the British supermarket

    WHAT’S THE STORY? IT was 70 years ago today that what became recognised as the UK’s first supermarket opened in London near the site of what became the 2012 Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. A branch of the London Cooperative Society in Manor Park

  • Search is on for our product of the year in Scotch Brand Oscars

    PROOF that promoting and defending Scotland the Brand is gaining in importance has come with the news that the Scottish meat industry is to once again have its own Scotch Brand ‘Oscar’ for which entries are now being sought.The National recently highlighted

  • Call for universal basic income to fix ‘broken economy’

    THE link between work and financial security has “fundamentally broken” since the 2008 financial crash, it is claimed. A report published today by the RSA charity (the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) and

  • Sturgeon urges firms to focus on equality

    THE First Minister has called on firms to “inject new momentum” into improving gender equality on company boards and throughout the workplace. Nicola Sturgeon addressed business leaders at a Hampton-Alexander Review event, hosted by the Bank of

  • May vows to overturn Lords on tougher press freedom laws

    PRIME Minister Theresa May has said the Government will overturn House of Lords votes for tighter regulation of the media.Peers inflicted a double defeat on the Government’s Data Protection Bill on Wednesday, passing two amendments to tackle alleged media

  • Warning over a lack of cyber security skills

    A SHORTAGE of expertise in cyber security could affect government plans to protect the country’s critical national infrastructure (CNI), including energy, health emergency services and defence, according to one of the industry’s leading experts.In its

  • 'I dread the day I hang up my boots'

    "I just don’t want to finish.” There’s not many topics where you get Scott Brown reduced to a straight face. Scott Brown the captain, the banter merchant, the dressing-room joker. A leader among men who lives and breathes for the camaraderie and

  • Power of social media proof of how much good work being done

    IT was an interesting time for me opening up the laptop to see what exciting e-mails I had received over Christmas and New Year, and I wasn’t disappointed. I had received e-mails from US, Italy, Wales and England; the depth, breadth of the reach of social

  • ‘Black pudding saved me from certain freezer death’

    BLACK pudding from the Queen’s butcher in Ballater was used by a trapped pensioner to batter his way out of a walk-in-freezer. 70-year-old Devon butcher Chris McCabe saw his life flash before his eyes when the wind blew the door of his -20C meat

  • Entry call for ScotlandIS awards

    THE body that represents and supports Scotland’s digital business sector has called for companies that pioneer the most innovative and disruptive products in global technology to submit their entries for ScotlandIS Digital Technology Awards 2018.Now in

  • Kenny MacAskill says police chief Phil Gormley must go

    POLICE Scotland’s beleaguered Chief Constable must go, former justice secretary Kenny MacAskill has said. The former SNP minister said his successor Michael Matheson was right to have intervened in the Scottish Police Authority’s (SPA) decision

  • Scrutiny of the police is healthy... so let’s stay rowdy

    FOR kids growing up in Glasgow, the police motto – Semper Vigilo – probably feels like a banal fact of life. Day and daily, officers cross your path. CCTV cameras sprout from every lamppost. You don’t bat an eyelid at matchday battalions and hardly flinch

  • Fresh legal battles lie ahead as Spain challenges Puigdemont

    CATALIONIA and Spain are set for another legal confrontation with Madrid ready to challenge the inauguration of Carles Puigdemont as president – if he attempts it by video from his exile in Brussels or through a proxy MP.Enric Millo, a delegate for the

  • Black comedy lives up to hype

    ★★★★☆ A CAUSTIC vein of dark humour atop lashings of pent-up, anger-filled grief runs through this unmissable tragicomedy. Those familiar with British-Irish writer-director Martin McDonagh’s previous work, In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths, will

  • Scotland to lead UK with ban on plastic cotton buds

    SCOTLAND is set to be the first part of the UK to ban the sale and manufacture of plastic cotton buds as part of moves to tackle marine litter.Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham announced plans to bring in legislation to outlaw the items which

  • Kareena Cuthbert desperate for Commonwealth Games redemption

    THERE will, admits Kareena Cuthbert, be a somewhat strange atmosphere at the Scottish women’s hockey team’s training camp, which they leave for tomorrow. There is, after all, a considerable amount riding on this three-week training camp, with the squad