Jenifer Johnston

IT’S spring 2017 and like every parent who has ever decided to do a last-minute jaunt with a toddler and baby, we have regrets. At eye-watering cost we have the last room at the MacDonald Aviemore Resort – my husband is in the room eating a cheese sandwich in silence in the pitch black with the two-year-old who will not sleep and I’m going into the bar with a pram, a changing bag, and the hope of someone heating up some formula milk to exactly the right temperature in a wine cooler filled with boiling water.

In this regular Sunday feature, we ask Scots about 10 things that changed their life. This week, award-winning Scottish film composer Patrick Doyle.

In this regular Sunday feature, we ask Scots about 10 things that changed their life.

MY great-uncle Robert is 93. He arrives three times a week at my parents’ house for coffee and a chat. He always brings something: a relentless supply of fresh rolls, a book from a charity shop, tinkerings he’s crafted in his workshop like beautiful brass clocks in the shape of the wheel of a ship.

A NEW survey has found that for the first time more than half of Scots employees are working flexibly. Figures released exclusively to the Sunday National reveal more than half – 55% – of Scottish workers now work flexibly, up from 46% recorded by the charity Family Friendly Working Scotland in 2017.

LOCAL authorities across the country are moving to help families who struggle with costs and stress when their children begin primary one.

A TEACHER and student who survived a mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, in which 17 people died, are to collect an award for their journalistic work in the wake of the tragedy at a controversial media conference in Edinburgh this month.

THE SNP have again called for the UK Government to act on fuel prices at the pump as drivers continue to pay over the odds to fill up at forecourts.

FINANCIAL services in Scotland are in danger because of the possibility of a no-deal Brexit and uncertainty about what the sector will look like after the UK leaves the EU next year.