A daily newspaper serving the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Stories cover current events, business, politics, entertainment, and sports at the local level, with select stories of national and international significance included as well. Sports stories report heavily on Celtic and Ranger football clubs.
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BOOK chain Borders are holding emergency talks to secure their future. Store bosses are concerned the firm do not have enough cash to make it through the key Christmas trading season. They are suffering because of rising competition from supermarkets...
Byline: Magnus Gardham BUSINESS leaders yesterday piled more pressure on John Swinney to spare the Glasgow airport rail link from the axe. In an unprecedented move, Scotland's six main business organisations joined forces to send a letter of...
Byline: Magnus Gardham BUSINESS leaders yesterday piled more pressure on John Swinney to spare the Glasgow airport rail link from the axe. In an unprecedented move, Scotland's six main business organisations joined forces to send a letter of...
Byline: Magnus Gardham BUSINESS leaders yesterday piled more pressure on John Swinney to spare the Glasgow Airport Rail Link from the axe. In an unprecedented move, Scotland's six main business organisations joined forces to send a letter of...
Byline: David McCarthy; Keith Jackson WALTER SMITH last night made up his mind to axe Madjid Bougherra after the AWOL Algerian's own team-mates turned on him. The Rangers boss met with Bougherra for showdown talks at Murray Park yesterday following...
Byline: Kevin Schofield GORDON Brown accused Tory leader David Cameron of using "soundbites without substance" yesterday as they clashed over how to pull Britain out of recession. The Prime Minister said Conservative plans to slash public spending...
Byline: COLIN DUNCAN ANDY MURRAY admits he will never serve like Andy Roddick, have the power of Rafael Nadal or match the record-breaking achievements of Roger Federer. But as he gears up for tonight's ATP World Tour Finals showdown with the...
Byline: Craig Swan ALEXSANDR HLEB reckons Thierry Henry has had a raw deal over the Hand of Gaul. And the former Arsenal ace wouldn't be bothered if a similar incident handed Stuttgart victory tonight and ended Rangers'ChampionsLeaguedreams....
CHILDLINE counsellors come from many walks of life. And now and again, a former child caller comes forward. Here, we hear the story of one such caller, Scots volunteer Nikki, who is now in her early 20s. Her name has been changed to protect her identity...
Byline: Euan McArthur JON DALY insists scoring against Celtic was beyond his wildest dreams - because he didn't expect to play at all this season. The Dundee United striker cancelled out Barry Robson's penalty before Darren Dods struck to hand...
Byline: Craig Swan STUTTGART boss Markus Babbel last night told Rangers fans that starlet Danny Wilson will be their stand-out stand-in. The 17-year-old will be thrown into the Group G showdown with raging manager Walter Smith refusing to start...
Byline: Craig Swan STUTTGART boss Markus Babbel last night told Walter Smith that starlet Danny Wilson can be Rangers' stand-out stand-in. The 17-year-old is on alert for a place in the Group G showdown, with manager Smith weighing up whether...
Byline: Mark McGivern A DOCTOR forced a holiday flight to make an emergency stop to save a little girl's life. The medic warned seriously ill Vegas MacBeth, four, might not make it home to Scotland. So the Thomson Holidays Boeing 757 was diverted...
DAVID DRYSDALE is on a mission to lift the Tartan Army's gloom by steering Scotland to golf World Cup glory. He teams up with Alastair Forsyth in China this week as they bid to pip a star-studded field for the top prize of more than pounds 1million....
PROUD dad Peter Andre is a wholehearted supporter of both the NSPCC and Childline. The singer says any father or mother would be horrified at the thought of anything happening to their children. And he believes we must strive to tackle abuse...
Byline: Craig Swan UNIREA v SEVILLA Tonight, 7.45, Sky Sports Xtra BRAZILIAN striker Luis Fabiano believes Sevilla have the quality to go all the way in the Champions League. The Spanish side won the UEFA Cup in 2006 and 2007 and Fabiano...
SILVERSTONE chief Richard Phillips last night claimed he is on the brink of striking a deal that will keep the British Grand Prix at the famous circuit. F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone was driving a hard bargain with the track and had even lined up...
Byline: Greig Thomas FIFA supremo Sepp Blatter has called a crisis meeting of football chiefs with Republic of Ireland's controversial World Cup play-off defeat by France last week high on the agenda. But the governing body last night insisted...
Byline: Graham Keal GROWING up in Glasgow's Gorbals in the 1950s and 1960s, life was sometimes dangerous but seldom dull for author Colin MacFarlane. Whether he was catching rats on a "Gorbals safari" or witnessing a bloody murder, there was...
Byline: Mark McGivern REFUGEES from devastating floods are moving back into their homes. Around 900 home and shop owners in Cockermouth, Cumbria, have been given the all-clear to start a clean-up. But residents could be hampered by more flooding...
Byline: ALISON KERR EVER thought your sagging skin could do with some scaffolding? Well, that's exactly the sort of thinking that led to the latest range of anti-ageing creams from the beauty boffins at Chanel. Ultra Correction Lift is the name...
CHILDLINE are now reaching out to more youngsters than at any time in their 22-year history. They've introduced a new online service www.childline.org.uk so children can get help through a computer as well as a phone. Elaine Chalmers, head of...
Byline: Esther Rantzen AS A trained ChildLine counsellor, I regularly hear the voices of frightened, confused children who are being abused and don't know who else to turn to. And every time I join other volunteers answering the phones, I leave...
Byline: Paul Thornton THE jury in a murder trial were spared horrific pictures of a teenage girl after she had been doused in petrol and set on fire. Jurors were shown some images of Jessica McCagh but others were so gruesome that prosecutors...
Byline: joan burnie Q I AM 28 and live with my partner and our one-year-old daughter. I I also have a stepdaughter of 13. I'm really happy with my life but since I was13 I have been self harming. I have tried to stop but I can't. I was raped...
Byline: DAVID McCARTHY MADJID BOUGHERRA may not be Kenny Miller's best pal at the moment but Kris Boyd is. So much so that the one Rangers striker certain to play against Stuttgart tonight playfully took a rise out of the one who revealed in...
Byline: HUGH KEEVINS THE date is ingrained on Terry McDermott's mind. February 8, 2000 - the night Celtic were dumped out of the Scottish Cup. Their evening ended in embarrassing and humiliating fashion at the hands of Inverness Caley Thistle...
Byline: Rick Fulton JUNGLE quitter Jordan last night dumped her cage fighter boyfriend Alex Reid on live TV. During an interview with I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! hosts Ant and Dec she said: "I'm not with him now." And she insisted...
Byline: Rick Fulton JUNGLE quitter Jordan last night dumped her cage fighter boyfriend Alex Reid on live TV. During an interview with I'mA Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! hosts Ant and Dec she said: "I'mnot with him now." And she insisted...
Byline: LINDSAY CLYDESDALE FUNNY woman Kathy Lette has a huge following for her chick-lit tales. But her own life is full of wilder nights, more high jinks and plot twists than any of her best-selling novels. Aussie Kathy was born and raised...
Byline: Alex Dowdalls A THUG who danced around a man he had just stabbed was jailed for three years yesterday. Michael Smith punctured Graham Bennett's lung when he knifed him in the back in an unprovoked attack. As Graham lay bleeding, Smith,...
Byline: John Mckie SO John and Edward got sent home.Again. They had already returned to Ireland for Saturday's show. The X Factor producers subsequently got a postcard from Dublin: "Next time, please send Thierry Henry instead.We'd prefer him."...
Byline: Rick Fulton JORDAN yesterday cried as she apologised for quitting the jungle - and said she didn't care whether she got her pounds 350,000 ITV pay cheque. The glamour girl walked out of I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! after viewers...
WEIR v CACAU WITH Madjid Bougherra axed after his latest vanishing act Walter Smith will again rely on veteran warhorse David Weir to marshal his defence. But the Rangers boss will have had no qualms about throwing youngster Danny Wilson into the...
WEIR v CACAU WITH Madjid Bougherra's place in doubt after his latest vanishing act Walter Smith will again rely on veteran warhorse David Weir to marshal his defence. If Bougherra isn't handed a start the Rangers boss will have no qualms about handing...
Byline: Julian Taylor STUTTGART hold no fears for Kyle Lafferty - not now he has gone toe-to-toe with Manchester United's Serbian enforcer Nemanja Vidic. Rangers' Northern Ireland striker locked horns with the giant defender during a recent international...
Byline: Victoria Murphy A POLICE officer who tried to cover up his fiancee's murder in a fake car crash was jailed for life yesterday. Cheating PC Martin Forshaw battered fellow cop Claire Howarth to death with a lump hammer days before they...
Byline: Tim Bugler A TEENAGE thug who kicked a dad of two to death, using his head "like a football" and smashing his face to a pulp, was jailed for life yesterday. Thomas Main, 18, was told he must serve at least 13 years before he could apply...
Byline: Lynn Davidson LYING bigamist Alex Roy told two of the women he conned that he had cancer - to persuade them to have his babies. Business executive Roy, 40, got Debbie Watson, 30, and his colleague Marie Jackson, 22, pregnant while both...
FAD diets are useless. Why do I know this? Well, apparently a clever man in a white coat says so. Professor Chris Hawkey, president of the British Society of Gastroenterology no less, will tell a bunch of other scientists this week that extreme...
Byline: Alan Marshall HIBS boss John Hughes last night wrote off his side's chances of splitting the Old Firm - and claimed the big two are still miles ahead. Dundee United counterpart Craig Levein admitted his players were eyeing a title tilt...
Byline: Fixit; Paul Jain CERTAINLY can't blame too much sun - but I think I'm going mad. Having watched Rangers lose both home Champions League matches 4-1 the easy call would be to back a third defeat tonight. But I've gotta feelingWalter...
Byline: BEV LYONS SEXY singer Pixie Lott hopes she will never need to go on I'm A Celeb - because it would mean her career was in a slump. Pixie reckons reality telly shows such as the jungle romp are for celebs who can't find work - and hopes...
Byline: Frank Thorne A FARMER fought a life-and-death battle with a psycho boxing kangaroo as he tried to save his dog. ChrisRickardendedupin hospital gutted and bloodied after wading in to help his blue heeler cattle dog from the marauding Skippy....
Byline: Colin Duncan RAFAEL NADAL last night beat himself up for losing his cool as Robin Soderling took the Spaniard's scalp for the second time this year. The Swede repeated his stunning French Open effort with a straightsets win to cause the...
Byline: Colin Duncan RAFAEL NADAL last night beat himself up for losing his cool as Robin Soderling took the Spaniard's scalp for the second time this year. The Swede repeated his stunning French Open effort with a 6-4 6-4 win to cause the first...
Byline: Jane Simon; Brian McIver PAR ADOX BBC1/BBC1HD, 9pm FOR fans of FlashForward, here are some more dire warnings from the future. Lizzie Mickery's new five-part thriller should also appeal to anyone who thinks that what science fiction...
Byline: Ian Orr WILLIE MILLER yesterday gave a ref the thumbs-up for once when he insisted Steve Allan was right to send off Aberdeen's Gary McDonald at Motherwell. The Dons football director, who faces an SFA fine for slating officials, agreed...
Byline: Michael Baillie GUS MacPHERSON has challenged jinxed midfielder Steven Robb to show mental toughness and prove he's no St Mirren injury misfit. Robb is back in training after a hernia operation forced him on to the sidelines early last...
Byline: Ben Spencer FOOTBALLER Ross McCormack tried to dodge justice after a drink-drive crash - but was trapped by his number plate. A court heard yesterday the Scotland striker ploughed his Range Rover into a fence after a boozy night out....
FASHION magpies, avert your eyes or risk bankruptcy - this season the high street practically glimmers with high-shine sequins and bling embellishments. Sequins have always been a staple for the party season but this winter all that shimmers and...
Q My husband and I have been trying for a baby for ages. I'm 37 and we've been making love at every opportunity, doing all the right things the doctors said. But he told me he has not been enjoying sex and is starting to dread it. I am devastated...
Byline: David Wells Aries Mar 21-Apr 20 A DAY to transform yourself, Aries. There you go, no pressure - so what are you going to change? Remember transformation usually takes a lot longer than simple adjustments, where are you prepared to invest...
TONY MOWBRAY doesn't like stats unless it was the one about having 24 shots at goal during a scoreless draw with Motherwell in October. But the Hotline statisticians have come armed with folders full of them - including two wins in 10 games, worst...
Byline: Dan Sales A TOMATO that tastes as sweet as a peach hits the shelves today to encourage children to eat healthily. The Sugardrop is the sweetest tomato ever createdandtheresultoftwo yearsofresearchexclusively forTesco. They will sell...
Byline: Dan Sales A TOMATO that tastes as sweet as a peach hits the shelves today to encourage children to eat healthily. The Sugardrop is the sweetest tomato ever created and the result of two years of research exclusively for Tesco. They...
Byline: Roddy Duncan FORMER Scotland star turned TV pundit John Beattie last night thanked his son for helping take him off the box after 25 years of embarrassment. Young Johnnie Beattie played a major part in the historic Murrayfield triumph...
Byline: Kenny MacDonald JAMES GRADY has revealed he'll use the pain of two Scottish Cup Final defeats to inspire Morton against Dumbarton on Saturday. The Cappielow playerboss suffered Hampden heartache with Dundee United in 2005 then Gretna...
CHILDLINE volunteers work across the service's three Scottish centres answering calls around the clock from children across the UK. Last year, 27,000 youngsters spoke to a ChildLine counsellor in Scotland on a range of issues from physical and sexual...
Byline: Keith Jackson RANGERS v STUTTGART Tonight, Ibrox, 7,45, Sky Sports 3 WALTER SMITH watched a bunch of unheard of Romanians extracting the Unirea from his players on their own turf and knew his second stint at Rangers had reached a crossroads....
Byline: Garry Owen CHAMPION trainer Paul Nicholls admits mighty Denman faces a massive task in the Hennessy. The nine-year-old has been saddled with top weight of 11st 12lb for Saturday's historic chase at Newbury. Denman put up one of the...
Byline: Brian McIver THEY are the little pearls of wisdom that make us smile and laugh in the face of adversity - and these days they seem more important than ever. From Stephen Hawking's inspiring words to Lance Armstrong's uplifting mission...
IT'S the fourth day of our great toy giveaway with Hamley's, the world's most famous toy shop, and today there are another five amazing goody bags of toys up for grabs. There are now only two more sleeps until the official opening of Hamleys at...
IT'S the fourth day of our great toy giveaway with Hamley's, the world's most famous toy shop, and today there's another 5 amazing goody bags of toys up for grabs. There are now only 2 more sleeps until the official opening of Hamleys, at St Enoch...
Byline: GAYLE RITCHIE MOTHERS who juggle raising kids with the pressures of work and daily demands have a tough job on their hands. Many worry that they don't get to spend enough quality time with their children and are jacking in their jobs...
WE'VE teamed up with Britain's ice cream experts to offer you the chance to win a Wall's ice cream winter hamper from Spicers of Hythe. Tuck into festive goodies such as Christmas pudding, champagne and cranberry sauce. Wall's cream of Cornish...
Byline: JULIAN TAYLOR STUTTGART skipper Thomas Hitzlsperger insists dumping Barry Ferguson has made Rangers a far more balanced side than the one he faced in 2007. Hitzlsperger played against the Gers in the group stages of the Champions League...
Byline: David McCarthy; Keith Jackson KENNY MILLER last night accused Madjid Bougherra of showing his team-mates a lack of respect by failing to return on time from international duty for the third time this season. The Rangers striker pulled...
Byline: Siobhan Synnot HE set young hearts aflutter with his High School Musical performances - but has Zac Efron had enough of his wholesome image? The teen heart-throb is ready to be taken seriously as an actor with his new adult movie Me And...