Recently added articles from Scotland on Sunday:
Hearts show new vigour to fight for win
Aug 24, 2008; Richard Bath ... Hearts 2 St Mirren 1 WHAT a difference a manager makes. After winning their openinggame against Motherwell and putting up a feisty display at Ibroxlast week, Hearts showed that they are a renewed force this seasonwith a display of guile, craft and, above all else, organisation ....
Shaun back from the dead
Aug 24, 2008; Andrew Smith ... Celtic 3 Falkirk 0 SHAUN Maloney spent the Friday lunchtime media conference to markthe beginning of his second spell at Celtic confessing to the gravemistake he had made in ever leaving. Around 26 hours later, he, andhis Parkhead employers, and their forgiving support, were left ...
Loovens ready to make giant leap in career as Celtic bid to make small steps in Champions League group stages
Aug 24, 2008; Andrew Smith ... WHEN HE plonks himself down in front of his television to watchthe Champions League group stage draw on Thursday afternoon, Dutchcentre-back Glenn Loovens will realise the scale of the footballoperation he joined following his GBP 2.5m move to Celtic fromCardiff City last week. At the ...
Beijing shown the best of British: football, X Factor and geriatric rock
Aug 24, 2008; Kate Foster ... AFTER 16 days of faster, higher, stronger, the Beijing spotlightwill today turn to louder, prouder and cooler as the Olympic batonis handed to London. The organisers of the 2012 Games will unveil their blueprint forthe "cool Olympics" with an eight-minute slot at the ...
Tartan army raps Brown's 2012 UK team plan
Aug 24, 2008; Kate Foster ... GORDON Brown yesterday provoked the wrath of Scotland's footballfans by calling for a British team to compete in the 2012 Olympics. Speaking from Beijing, the Prime Minister said he was"determined" the move would go ahead. Britain has not entered a football team in the ...
Queen pays tribute to GB triumph as boxer lands gold
Aug 24, 2008; Kate Foster ... THE Queen yesterday joined in the congratulations for Team GB forits Olympics success as Britain collected its 19th gold medal. As the Beijing Games drew to a close, the Queen said she hadfollowed this year's events with "great interest" and looked forwardto 2012. Team GB ...
Double whammy won't blow renewables off course
Aug 24, 2008; Rosemary Gallagher ... FOR Enterprise Minister Jim Mather and the Scottish Government,events of the past week have left a big hole in plans to turn thecountry into a global leader in the renewable energy industry. On Friday Mather flew to Kintyre hoping to rescue Scotland's onlywind tower factory near ...
Flag of convenience for the Dons
Aug 24, 2008; Tom English ... Aberdeen1 Rangers1 WE'RE used to thunderclap occasions when these two meet, gamesfull of bite and badness and rancour. For all but the last fewminutes it was different yesterday, so different that JimmyCalderwood said later there shouldn't have been a single booking allday ...
Lynn O'Rourke
Aug 24, 2008; Lynn ORourke ... To say any plans we had to spend a summer in our new garden havebeen a bit of a washout would simply be stating the obvious. A fewweeks back I rashly borrowed a garden chair from my parents,thinking I could lounge in the sun following a spot of lightgardening. How wrong could I be? The ...
Design solutions
Aug 24, 2008; Rebecca Govier ... THANKS to the warm moist conditions of recent weeks and lack ofdry gardening days, the amount of growth in gardens has beenphenomenal. Even the most passionate and energetic of gardeners aredaunted. Smarter gardening is not just about hard landscaping andacres of landscape fabric. It's ...
Celebrities in the frame to snap up Scottish art
Aug 24, 2008; Marc Horne ... A HOST of celebrities are set to go head to head to snap up someof Scotland's greatest modern art treasures. Sotheby's is hosting a high-profile auction of Scottish art -including paintings by Jack Vettriano and Peter Howson - which itpredicts will raise more than GBP 6m ....
Barfly
Aug 24, 2008 ... How sweet: young apprentices emulate Sugar MANY of its adult contestants are reduced to tears when they facethe venerable Sir Alan Sugar, in the boardroom, but that won't stopthe BBC from making a children's version of the popular TV show, TheApprentice. A crew working for the ...
Weight of trouble for 'Team GB'
Aug 24, 2008; Bill Jamieson ... THE best measure of the ordeal now in store for the Governmentcame in a brutal set of figures last week. Not the latest signs ofslowdown in the housing market, or the bleak Chambers of Commercesurvey warning of unemployment climbing to two million, or even thefigures showing economic ...
A DeGale force winner Londoner survives roughhouse tactics from Cuban to take middleweight gold for Britain
Aug 24, 2008; Martin Hannan ... WITH a performance that mixed courage with moments of undoubtedclass and equally undeniable crassness, James DeGale yesterday wonBritain's 19th and probably final gold medal of the 2008 OlympicGames. The 22-year-old from London became the first Briton to win goldin the ...
Briefs: Man Attcked
Aug 24, 2008 ... A 23-YEAR-old man was in a serious condition in hospital lastnight after he was attacked during a disturbance. The incident took place on Friday night in Greenock's GrieveRoad ....
Briefs: Crash Deaths
Aug 24, 2008 ... A MAN died and five people were injured in a crash in theHighlands yesterday. Northern Constabulary said the man died at the scene near Achmoreon the A890 Auchtertyre to Stromeferry road at 7.50am. Five occupants from the ...
Briefs: Goody Fears
Aug 24, 2008 ... REALITY TV star Jade Goody fears she may not live to see her sonsgrow up as she battles cancer, it was reported yesterday. The mother of two, right, was told she had cervical cancer whilein the Indian Big Brother house and immediately returned to the UKfor treatment and tests ....
Briefs: Pushing Charge
Aug 24, 2008 ... A MAN was charged yesterday after a woman was pushed onto arailway line, British Transport Police said. Lin Buchanan, 58, suffered a fractured wrist and bruising to herlegs at Farningham Road Station in Kent following an ...
Mansell wins GBP 5.5m deal to develop Broadwood
Aug 24, 2008; Rosemary Gallagher ... BROADWOOD Stadium in Cumbernauld, the home of Clyde FC, is beingdeveloped to include a leisure and sports facility for thecommunity, with work about to start on the project. Following a public tender, construction group Mansell has beenawarded the GBP 5.5m contract by North ...
Student cities offer strong returns for buy-to-letters
Aug 24, 2008; Teresa Hunter ... SCOTLAND'S buy-to-let property market is caught up in a "phoneywar" in which it is difficult to predict which way it will movenext, according to Brian Adair, chairman of the Association ofResidential Lettings Agents Scotland. He says: "We seem to be in the no man's land of a ...