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A WOMAN spontaneously quit her job and moved to Australia – but says it wasn’t an easy task to uproot her life. Catherine Acoull, a teacher from Scotland, has been busy sharing online how she pulled off her trip-of-a-lifetime. 6 TikToker Catherine Acoull left teaching behind to travel the world for a yearCredit: TikTok/catherineacoull 6 […]

Certainly, Pedro Martinez Losa was still irked after the game after he lost Caroline Weir after just 20 minutes, a move that he felt had been a deliberate ploy by the Belgium internationalist.  “First of all I am very angry,” said the impeccably polite Spanaird who was cautioned by the official. “We had an injury […]

For a couple of Scotland hookers, this World Cup has been a disaster, with both Dave Cherry and Stuart McInally having already been forced home through injury. Johnny Matthews, by contrast, is on track to round off the summer of his life by contributing to the cause in the final two pool games against Romania […]

Fergus Ewing, the Nationalist MSP who today faces a disciplinary hearing that may result in his suspension from the party, stands in a long and honourable line of great Scottish troublemakers. We need more of them. Small countries like Scotland – where everyone knows everyone else – are particularly prone towards cosiness and cronyism. They […]

If Friday’s word of the day was “disappointing”, then Tuesday’s was “relief”. Sophie Howard’s injury-time leveller secured Scotland’s first point of their maiden Women’s Nations League campaign in a draw with Belgium at Hampden. The defender might not have known too much about her goal, with her perfectly placed bun getting the final touch, but […]

At 6.40am on November 24, 1995, the gates of Barlinnie prison in Glasgow’s east end, slid open. Duncan Ferguson, the first professional footballer to go to jail for an offence committed on the field of play, was illuminated by the flash bulbs of cameras pressed against the windows of a Daimler. Edging past a small […]

One of the trains involved was the record-breaking, century-old Flying Scotsman, the first steam train to reach over 100 miles an hour OLI SCARFF Text size ADDS details, National Railway Museum reax Several people were injured after two trains, one of which was the storied Flying Scotsman, collided at Aviemore railway station in the Highlands […]

AFP | | Posted by Nisha Anand Several people were injured after two trains collided at Aviemore railway station in the Highlands of Scotland on Friday, police said. Several injured in Scotland rail collision: Police(www.railwaymuseum.org.uk/Representative image) British media reported that one of the trains involved was the record-breaking, century-old Flying Scotsman, the first steam train […]

Vote SNP and die three years early’ has, understandably, never been an election slogan deployed by Scotland’s ruling party. But it would have been brutally honest if it had. Over the past 16 years in which Scotland has been in the SNP’s tender care, Scottish life expectancy has not just remained the lowest in Britain […]