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‘Devastating impact’ as more

Scots going into care earlier
Elderly with dementia hit by a report, Covid-19: The Hidden
Impact, which found increased
frailty and a decline in mobility and
Sturgeon’s
breakdown in their support mental health issues such as anxiety
and depression, were the most
appearance
Exclusive
commonly reported symptoms.
Carers reported experiencing
significantly higher levels of stress as
at inquiry
By Caroline Wilson a direct result of trying to manage
the increased needs of those they delayed until
A BREAKDOWN in community
supports and pressure on carers
has led to more elderly Scots being
care without support and
“meaningful respite”.
One support worker said: “Pretty
next month
admitted to care homes and at much every single person I’ve
an earlier stage than expected, worked with throughout this entire By Alistair Grant
according to charities. city said 30 residents, who were lockdown period has mentioned the Political correspondent
Alzheimer Scotland said it was regular attenders, had been admitted deterioration in the person with
hearing daily of the “devastating” to care homes since the service was dementia they are caring for. NICOLA Sturgeon may have to
impact on the lives of those with forced to close. “I don’t think there’s one family wait until next month to give
dementia and their families because Lynsey Neilson, of Glasgow’s I could name that hasn’t brought evidence before the Holyrood
“everything they rely on has been Golden Generation, described this that up.” inquiry into the Alex Salmond
completely disrupted”. as a “huge increase”, compared to The pandemic has had an impact on dementia, with women worst affected Mr Pearson said: “Alzheimer affair.
The charity said many had previous years and said half of those Scotland has continued to support It comes after senior judge
experienced an acceleration in their had dementia. tens of thousands of people living Lady Dorrian agreed to vary
symptoms, both cognitively and One care worker said: “I have We thought that by August or deaths from dementia rose by a with dementia, their carers and a court order made during the
physically, while helpline staff noticed an increase in the number of September we would be able to get quarter (24.5 per cent) between April families throughout the pandemic. former first minister’s criminal
reported that many carers, who may people entering long-term care. her out and about and I would spend and June. “We hear daily of the devastating trial last year.
be elderly themselves, were at “In my opinion, many of these a couple of full days with her each Age Scotland called for an impact this has had on their lives; Mr Salmond’s team hope the
“breaking point”. admissions were premature and week but, sadly, that has never investigation into the causes to everything they rely on has been move will allow evidence he
Some carers reduced or cancelled could possibly have been avoided if happened.” identify whether the removal of completely disrupted. submitted to the inquiry to be
home support due to fear of the virus appropriate support was available In another family, a woman said social care packages or reduced “Many people with dementia have published, paving the way for his
or used savings to pay privately for and, therefore, enabling the person her grandmother had been access to medical care contributed to experienced an acceleration appearance in person.
support for the person living with to remain living in their own home transferred from hospital to a care this. in their symptoms, as well as a Ms Sturgeon was due to
dementia. for the foreseeable future.” home because the local authority The number of women dying with significant deterioration in their appear before the committee on
Jim Pearson, director of policy and The daughter of an elderly woman had refused to put services in place dementia at home rose by 75%, physical and mental wellbeing Tuesday, but this has now been
research for Alzheimer Scotland, who has dementia said her mother in her own home. according to figures that have been “Equally, carers are experiencing postponed.
said: “In the absence of alternatives, was admitted to a care home in May, There is growing evidence attributed to over-stretched health overwhelming stress and anxiety It is understood Mr Salmond
many people with dementia have originally for respite but, due to a that the pandemic has had a and social care services. – all because of the total breakdown plans to submit his evidence
moved to care homes sooner than lack of community support for her disproportionate impact on those From March 14 to September 11 in the day-to-day routines and to the committee again on
may have been necessary, which is progressing illness, the move became with the disease, in hospitals, care last year there were 3,116 deaths support that keep them well. Monday.
often an extremely difficult decision permanent. homes and in the community, with of women in the community “Our most recent report highlighted MSPs could then take a week
for them and their families.” She said: “We looked at 24-hour women worst affected. attributed to dementia compared the importance of re-establishing to further consider it, before the
A charity in Glasgow that runs private care but that was going to be Figures from National Records with a five-year average of 1,781. former first minister gives
a network for day centres across the as expensive as the care home fees. of Scotland show the number of Alzheimer Scotland produced Continued on Page 2 evidence in person around
February 23.
Ms Sturgeon could then give
Heseltine: If SNP lose a second Indyref they will begin push for a third vote evidence the following week,
potentially on March 2.
This plan would push the
Exclusive warned, arguing that if
the SNP lost a second
old peer said the Nationalists’
desire to leave the UK but join
showing a pro-Yes lead, he
was asked if the UK now
some considerable time. My
concern is the Union holds
what the polls are saying
and it increases my concern
timetable of the inquiry so far
back that it is not thought there
By Michael Settle independence referendum, the EU was “perverse” and if faced an existential threat. together. Just like Britain and argues for a very would be time to have
it would swiftly begin the they succeeded in breaking up “There must be – and I leaving the EU, Scotland determined argument the a debate on the committee’s
THE Union of the United push for a third one. Britain, it would be a “historic deeply regret that,” he said. leaving the UK would be an other way.” eventual report in Holyrood
Kingdom is now at “real In an exclusive interview tragedy” just like Brexit. “The argument [on the historic tragedy and I hope
risk,” Lord Heseltine has with The Herald, the 87-year- With 21 consecutive polls Union] has been raging for it doesn’t happen. I know Full story: Page 10 Continued on Page 6

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EUROMILLIONS
LAST night’s National
More Scots with dementia going into care earlier as vital support breaks down
Lottery EuroMillions Continued from Page 1 exacerbated by the current care would be likely to be impacted that leaves those in the last years Labour’s health and social care
winning numbers were: pandemic due to lack of practical by slower assessments, which could of their lives paying for nursing spokeswoman, said this was an
32, 07, 36, 30, 23. The some of the formal and informal and social support. delay the process. care that would be free if they had “unfair” penalty on individuals
Lucky Stars were: 12, 08. networks of support that people “Carers are physically doing more Alzheimer Scotland said the cancer. and their families.
Estimated jackpot was with dementia, their families and for the person they support in acceleration of the vaccination The MSP said Scottish Labour The Labour leadership hopeful
£143 million. carers rely on. regards to personal care support, rollout amongst the elderly had under her leadership would include has already backed Alzheimer
Millionaire Maker Carers also reported having to mainly due to reduction in family provided “optimism” for a full a policy commitment to review Scotland’s Fair Dementia Care
Selection - one UK delay operations because there was support and reduction in care re-opening of dedicated dementia existing social care policies to campaign as an MSP – which is
millionaire has been no one to look after a relative or packages”. support centres. ensure people with advanced endorsed by The Herald.
created: TXLG96943. spouse while they were recovering. Scottish Care, which represents Earlier this week Labour dementia in nursing homes have The charity said it was
National Lottery It also found: “Existing health independent social care providers, leadership candidate Monica Lennon parity of treatment. “delighted” by her latest show
Thunderball winning issues for carers are being said those who were considering vowed to end the “dementia tax” Ms Lennon, who is Scottish of support.
numbers were: 05, 14, 29,
32, 33.
The Thunderball was 08.
Around the UK
PLUS
Announcements
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Opinion
Pages 18, 19, 20 & 21
Letters
Pages 22 & 23
Personal Finance
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Puzzles
Pages 24 & 28

Clarifications
and corrections
IN a story headlined ‘Call
for judge outwith Scotland George Dean, a former bar manager and Finn Bruce, a video
to lead inquiry into director, with their Pub-on-Wheels in Clapham, south London.
malicious prosecutions’ The Duchess of Cambridge makes a video call on its fifth anniversary to Little Village, the London-based charity that George and Finn drive to people’s doorsteps to pour them pints
(February 11), we stated provides clothes, toys and equipment for babies and children up to the age of five Picture: Kensington Palace/PA and create more of a pub experience than cans in the living room
that David Whitehouse
and Paul Clark were
prosecuted by Police

Rescue deal for two BiFab yards

Scotland and the Crown
Office. Police Scotland
have asked us to point out
that they do not prosecute
people, that is the job of
the Crown Office.

Further, in a story
headlined ‘Cash-strapped
police force in move to
remote working’ (February
12) we stated that Police
Scotland were yet to reach
amid ‘mismanagement’ claims
their target of providing By David Bol The Scottish Government, which support BiFab’s workers and I yards, and indeed yards and ports is very welcome news and will come
100,000 officers with Political Correspondent became a minority shareholder in welcome the announcement that a all over Scotland, are uniquely as a relief to many workers who
mobile phones. We are BiFab, went on to invest £37 million buyer has been found. placed to capture the benefits of the have fought tirelessly alongside
happy to clarify that there TWO of the three troubled BiFab in it but ruled out intervening “The workforce has an important offshore wind sector. their unions to keep these jobs.
are only 17,234 officers at yards have been bought out of further, insisting no more public role to play in the future of “However, the story so far has “It is of the upmost importance
Police Scotland, 11,000 of administration – but politicians money could be injected. manufacturing in Scotland and I been one of government failure – that the new employers engage with
whom have been provided have been told to “step up and John Wood, chief executive of look forward to working with the thousands of jobs and billions of the trade unions and ensure that
with mobile phones. We support the new ownership” amid InfraStrata, said: “With this new owner as it forges a new future pounds have been outsourced Fair Work values underpin the
apologise for the typo and accusations of mismanagement. acquisition we now have a footprint for the company. This is welcome around the world when Scottish futures of the sites.
the error. Burntisland Fabrications (BiFab), in Scotland, which is the hotbed for news for the local communities in communities should have been “Scottish Labour also believe the
which has yards in Burntisland and major wind farm projects as well as Fife and the Western Isles. benefitting from these contracts. yard at Burntisland has a future and
Methil in Fife and one on the Isle of for shipbuilding programmes. “The Scottish Government will “Now the Scottish and UK will work to get that yard up and
Lewis, went into administration at “I wish to warmly welcome the also engage with Forth Ports, the governments have been given a running as well.”
the end of last year after Scottish personnel whom we have taken on owner of the Burntisland yard, to reprieve and they need to step up He added: “The SNP’s
Government ministers ruled out at Methil and Arnish and I am help secure the best possible and support the new ownership.” mismanagement of our
nationalising the company – confident we will turn these outcome for that yard.” STUC general secretary Roz manufacturing base cannot be
pointing to state aid rules. facilities into highly successful Trade unions welcomed the deal, Foyer said: “We will continue to overstated and the damage done to
Harland & Wolff (Methil) businesses that generate jobs and but called for more support for the press for a solution for the so many communities across
Limited, a subsidiary of InfraStrata investment into their local offshore wind sector – in which the Burntisland yard which is not Scotland is plain for all to see.
Plc, has now taken on the Methil economies in due course.” BiFab yards had previously been included in this deal. “Scottish Labour urges both the
and Lewis sites in an £850,000 deal. Scottish Economy Secretary involved. “This is just the start of our battle UK and Scottish governments to
BiFab entered administration in Fiona Hyslop said: “This is a Unite Scotland secretary Pat for a plan for jobs in manufacturing work together and support the
The recycled paper content December, two years after a deal in welcome development for the future Rafferty and GMB Scotland and renewables in Scotland.” sector to develop the jobs we need
of UK newspapers in 2019 which Canadian firm DF Barnes of the workforce. The Scottish secretary Gary Smith said: “We Scottish Labour economy to kickstart the economy and ensure
was 63.2%. acquired the business for just £4. Government’s priority has been to have always believed the BiFab spokesman Alex Rowley said: “This a fair transition to green energy.”

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eastern Atlantic. Snow will peter out overnight ease in the evening. Max temp 0-3C (32-37F). 0 HIGH
as the front weakens. Tonight, windy with a few flurries. Min temp
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with strong winds and spells of rain during the Caithness, Orkney and Shetland: Cold, LOW
afternoon, perhaps freezing rain at first, easing with strong and gusty winds but mostly dry 1 1016 102
to drizzle and mist overnight. Cloudy and through the day. It will be largely cloudy, 30 LOW 992
misty on Monday with patchy drizzle. though, with the chance of the odd flurry or 2 968
HIGH
sleet shower. Max temp 2-4C (36-39F). Tonight, 976
Glasgow area and southwest windy but mostly dry. Min temp 1-3C (34-37F).
Scotland: Windy and cold today. Cloud will 1 984 1040 1032
thicken to bring sleet and snow in the from -2
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much of it will be fairly light. Max temp -2 to 1000
1C (28 to 34F). Tonight, cloudy and windy. Today will be overcast and unsettled with
Min temp -4 to -1C (25 to 30F). thick cloud cover and heavy rain across Italy, 1 LOW 1024
1008
Corsica and Sardinia which will fall as snow -1
Edinburgh area and the Borders: Today
for some. This area of rain and snow will 0 1 LOW
will be windy and cold. Mostly dry with spells HIGH
track eastwards into the Balkans and Greece
of sunshine but cloud will increase from the 2 1016
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later. Max temp -2 to 1C (28 to 34F). Tonight, evening. Elsewhere will be mostly dry and
cloudy and windy. Min temp -4 to -1C (25 to bright with lots of sunshine but there will a 1024
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MODERATE pressure cold front
Fife and the Stirling, Perth and 0 1024
Dundee areas: Today will be cold and in millibars occluded front
windy. There will be sunny spells, but with Glasgow readings MOUNTAIN AREA FORECASTS:
a few snow showers in the east, dying out. 3-DAY OUTLOOK BRITAIN REST OF THE WORLD SUN, MOON & TIDES
The following readings were recorded at Glasgow Airport Aberdeen 1C 34F Cloudy Ajaccio 15C 59F Cloudy Faro 17C 63F Sunny Today http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/
Cloudier later with the chance of flurries . for the 24hrs ending 6pm yesterday. Today New Delhi 22C 72F Sunny
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Max temp -2 to 1C (28 to 34F). Tonight, patchy MOON: Rises 8.58am 7.15pm
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snow. Min temp -4 to -1C (25 to 30F). Birmingham 1C 34F Cloudy Atlanta 15C 59F Thunder Funchal 19C 66F Sunny Nice 11C 52F Cloudy LIGHTING UP: 5.17pm
Min temp: -4C (25F); Max: 4C (39F); Sun (hrs): 4.7; Barom Edinburgh 0C 32F Snow HIGH WATER TODAY: If you do not have access to the
Argyll, Lochaber and the Inner Eskdalemuir -1C 30F Cloudy Brighton 1C 34F Fair Auckland 21C 70F Fair Geneva -2C 28F Cloudy Oslo -4C 25F Fair
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Arbroath 3.14am 3.14pm for a forecast:
Aviemore -2C 28F Fair Glasgow 1.57am 2.07pm
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Carlisle 2C 36F Sunny Barcelona 14C 57F Fair Honolulu 26C 79F Fair Port Stanley 17C 63F Fair Tel: 0870 900 0100
Greenock 1.32am 1.41pm
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Beijing
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14C
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Prague -8C 18F Fair Leith 3.39am 3.48pm
in from the west. Max temp 0-3C (32-37F). Glasgow 3C 37F Cloudy Benidorm 22C 72F Fair Jerusalem 18C 64F Sunny
Reykjavik 3C 37F Cloudy Mallaig 7.03am 7.16pm RAINFALL STATISTICS
Tonight, cloudy and windy. Min temp -1 to 2C The following readings were recorded at Edinburgh Tomorrow Rhodes 18C 64F Showers Montrose 3.13am 3.13pm
Airport for the 24hrs ending 6pm yesterday. Inverness 2C 36F Sunny Berlin -4C 25F Sunny Kolkata 28C 82F Sunny Rio de Janeiro* 30C 86F Sunny Based on daily reports up to, and including
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Isle of Wight 2C 36F Fair Boston* -2C 28F Cloudy Kuwait City 24C 75F Sunny
Central Highlands: Cold and windy. Dry Edinburgh 6C 43F Rain Seoul 10C 50F Sunny Wick 12.19am 12.23pm
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for a while but there will be a lot of cloud, and Eskdalemuir 4C 39F Sleet Kinloss 2C 36F Sunny Brussels -4C 25F Sunny Las Palmas 21C 70F Fair Sicily 16C 61F Fair
Singapore 31C 88F Cloudy
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more likely during the afternoon, easing in Wick 6C 43F Rain Stockholm -5C 23F Cloudy Eskdalemuir
Leuchars 2C 36F Fair Buenos Aires* 25C 77F Cloudy Lisbon 16C 61F Sunny LIGHTING UP: 5.19pm
the evening. Max temp 1-4C (34-39F). Tonight, UK EXTREMES Shetland 5C 41F Rain Liverpool 3C 37F Fair Cagliari 14C 57F Fair Los Angeles* 16C 61F Fair Sydney 28C 82F Fair HIGH WATER TOMORROW:
Aberdeen
mainly dry but windy. Min temp 0-3C (32-37F). London 2C 36F Sunny Cairo 19C 66F Fair Luxembourg -5C 23F Sunny Tenerife 23C 73F Sunny Aberdeen 3.02am 3.01pm Perth
Extremes of temperature, rainfall and sunshine for 24 hours ending Monday Manchester 1C 34F Sunny Cape Town 24C 75F Drizzle Madrid 12C 54F Fair Tokyo 10C 50F Fair Arbroath 3.48am 3.47pm St Andrews
Aberdeen area and the Moray Firth: 7pm yesterday Newcastle 0C 32F Fair Casablanca 19C 66F Fair Mahon 15C 59F Cloudy Toronto* -5C 23F Fair Glasgow 2.34am 2.43pm Aviemore
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Highest day St. Mary’s 6C (43F) Greenock 2.08am 2.18pm Wick
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Saturday February 13, 2021 A SCOT T ISH PER SPEC T I VE News 3

Debut thriller author is aiming Star tells

of coping
with sex
to keep her readers in suspense scenes
LOVE Life star Peter
Vack has detailed how he
By Deborah Anderson approached the erotic
scenes in his new film.
SHE could have done what most people The actor, who recently
do and trawl their phone or social starred opposite Anna
media sites in their lunch hour – Kendrick in the hit US
however, Scotland’s latest crime fiction series, can next be seen in
author put her time to good use and drama PVT Chat, playing
managed to pen half her debut novel at a lonely internet gambler
her desk. who becomes fixated on a
Paula Johnston then sat down and cam girl (a woman who
finished the rest of it in lockdown and performs for money in
now finds herself climbing up the front of a webcam).
Amazon Top 100 list – she is currently Discussing how he
at number 63. approached some of the
The 30-year-old has always had a more explicit scenes in the
penchant for a good crime novel, movie, he said: “I don’t
however she always managed to work really feel so awkward
out the ending. around that stuff. It’s only
So she decided that would the awkward when I feel
number one priority with her novel – other people are awkward.
keep the reader guessing as to who “I’ve got pretty used to
did it. having no modesty, but if
And she says she would be surprised someone has modesty, it’s
if anyone picking up her debut novel, like Adam and Eve
The Lies She Told, guessed how it realising they’re naked.
ended. “It’s a very weird,
“It was one of those disappointing American thing to be so
things about a book,” said Ms Johnston. freaked out by nudity – I
“I would always get to a point where I don’t love it.
knew where it was going to lead or who “People are so worried
did it. I think that is one of the reasons about being gratuitous but
why I decided to write a book myself as life has moments of
I wanted the reader to be left in gratuitousness and it has
suspense to the end.” moments that are explicit
The psychological thriller is loosely and I find those interesting
based on real life experiences of the to watch, if the actors
online dating world, but Ms Johnston seem not modest, and
says she has elaborated somewhat for excited to do it, and the
the novel. filmmaking does too.
The plot centres around Karly “It’s never good when
Winters, who has as waited years to you feel like a movie is
find the man of her dreams, Jacob asking actors to do stuff
Cruthers. they’re not comfortable
However, from her Glasgow home with. You can always see
she pines for the Londoner who that.
casually keeps her dangling and never “When I have to do
with any intention of leaving his wife. something that is exposing
Karly decides to take matters into her myself, my philosophy is I
hands, but she ends up on a collision have to tap into ‘no
course she didn’t expect... modesty’ because my
“I had always wanted to write a book modesty will show up and
and had worked in a variety of jobs it will make this not
from retail to banking and admin and I appealing to watch.”
decided I was just going to do it,” she
added.
 
 
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an office and in my lunch hour I would Author Paula Johnston As for the future, Ms Johnston, who 



 


 


be typing away and bringing my wrote her debut novel likes to read books by author JP
characters to life. The Lies She Told. left: Delaney, who wrote The Girl Before –
“While the characters aren’t based on With her boyfriend It has been a Karen Slaughter’s Pretty Girls is also a
anyone specific, it is based on real life
experiences of the dating world, taken
Simon Keery
Main picture: Colin Mearns
little surreal. favourite of hers – has enjoyed working
with her characters and says there
to another level for the purposes of It almost could be a sequel in store.
fiction.
“I write from two females’ points of
“I really believed in the book and I
think I have done pretty well on my
Coyle as when I was little I would write
little stories for them.
feels like She added: “People keep asking
me will there be another book or a
view and it was great fun to develop own,” added Ms Johnston, who lives “Now I have written and published a someone series, so there could be a sequel in
    
else’s life
  
 
them both. It is interesting how the in happily East Kilbride, South book I wanted it to be dedicated to the offing.

   

      
    

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book shows two opinions of the same Lanarkshire, with her partner and their them.” “You just never know what will  „ 
 

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thing that is actually happening. One
thing I really wanted to do was keep the
reader guessing and I really believe
people will be kept in suspense until the
end.”
Ms Johnston not only wrote the book,
she designed the cover and marketed it
herself and without a large publishing
house behind her, she has managed to
break into Amazon’s Top 100 list and is
climbing a few places week in week out.
three cats.
“I worked pretty hard on pre-sale and
when it went into the Top 100 I couldn’t
believe it.
“It was amazing to see and I think it
has been a little surreal as well. It
almost feels like someone else’s life to
me.
“My family have been fully behind
me as well. I dedicated the book to my
grandparents Margaret and George
She happily steered clear of online to me happen next – but I wouldn’t mind if SPECIAL
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Second outbreak of bird flu is confirmed in Scotland

A SECOND outbreak
of bird flu has been
confirmed in Scotland.
The Scottish
Government said a flock
of kept birds at a
gamebirds rearing site in
Leven, Fife, has tested
positive for the H5N1
strain of avian influenza.
The birds on site will be
culled and temporary
control zones of 1.8 miles
(3km) and six miles
(10km) have been set up
to limit disease risk.
A range of controls are
in place in these zones,
including restrictions on
the movement of poultry,
carcasses, eggs, used
poultry litter and manure.
The latest outbreak
follows confirmation of
cases of the H5N8 strain
in a flock of free range
chickens on a poultry
farm in Sanday, Orkney,
in December.
Thirty-nine birds in that
flock died and the remaining
11 were put down.
Public health advice is
the risk to human health
from the virus is very low.
Scotland’s Chief
Veterinary Officer Sheila
Voas said: “We are
conducting further tests
to establish the
pathogenicity of avian
influenza H5N1 in a flock
of birds in Leven.
“We have already made
clear that all bird keepers
– whether major
businesses or small
keepers with just a few
birds – must ensure their
biosecurity is up to
scratch to protect their
birds from disease and
prevent any contact
between their birds and
wild birds.”

Foo Fighters back at Wallace and Gromit makers

top of album charts
FOO Fighters have
topped the UK album
chart for a fifth time with
Medicine At Midnight.
The album outsold the
rest of the top six albums
combined after finishing
the week with 42,500
chart sales.
A total of 74 per cent of
the sales were on CD or
vinyl.
The US rock band have
previously topped the
Official Charts Company
rankings with One By
One (2002), Echoes,
Silence, Patience & Grace
(2007), Wasting Light
(2011) and Concrete &
Gold (2017).
Frontman Dave Grohl
said: “I would like to
thank everyone for
honouring us with this
number one record.
“After 25 years of being
a band, it still kind of
blows our minds that this
could actually happen
and we’re very grateful
and very thankful.
“We can’t wait to get
back there to see you guys,
sooner than later, I hope!
“We’re ready – every day
we’re one step closer.”
Canadian singer The
Weeknd came second in
the chart with his greatest
hits album The Highlights
after performing during
half-time at the Super Bowl
on Sunday.
Last week’s chart topper
Celeste has dropped down
to third with Not Your
Muse, while experimental
rock group Black Country,
New Road’s debut album
For The First Time ranked
fourth.
Fleet Foxes came fifth
with Shore.
In the singles chart,
Olivia Rodrigo’s hit
Drivers Licence topped the
rankings for a fifth time.
She held off competition
from the sea shanty remix
Wellerman by Nathan
Evans featuring 220 Kid
and Billen Ted.
The Kid Laroi ranked
third with Without You,
Don’t Play by Anne-Marie,
KSI and Digital Farm was
fourth and Bringing It
Back by Digga D and AJ
Tracey debuted in fifth.
launch wellbeing campaign
THE makers of Wallace
And Gromit have joined
forces with a group of
academics to launch a new
mental wellbeing
campaign.
Award-winning
independent studio
Aardman Animations has
worked with a team of
academic researchers from
three different universities
to create the ‘What’s up
with everyone campaign’,
which features a series of
films that look at mental
health issues in young
people.
Five animated
characters deal with Wallace and Gromit’s creators launched the campaign
loneliness, perfectionism,
competitiveness, know that feeling’. been invaluable, enabling
independence, and social “We want people us to craft authentic and
media – five of the most watching them to see a little effective resources that can
common issues negatively of themselves in the make a positive impact.”
impacting young people, characters and their stories The partnership – which
according to the and that be the start of also involves the London
campaign’s research. thinking about how they School of Economics and
Daniel Binns, animation feel or cope. Political Science, charity
director at Aardman “What really sets this Happy Space, and young
Animations, said: “We project apart is that it’s people’s mental health
wanted to create content been co-created with young expert Dr Dominique
that could come up on people at every step. Thompson – comes amid
someone’s social media “Their input alongside an increased focus on
and elicit the response ‘I those of our experts has youth mental wellbeing.

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4 Coronavirus crisis
Military
medic on
vaccine
frontline
AN Army medic who
contracted coronavirus last
year is helping the
vaccination effort in
Scotland, after the illness
meant she could not be
deployed to Afghanistan
with her unit.
Major Sam Nicholls had
been due to go to Kabul
with 2 Scots, who she
described as being like her
“family”.
The virus led to a lengthy
recovery period, but she is
now one of several Army
medics helping NHS staff
with the vaccine rollout.
Yesterday, she was part
of the team at the Forth
Valley College vaccination
centre in Stirling, near
where she grew up.
She said: “I got Covid
right at the beginning of the
pandemic, in March last
year. It’s been a reasonably
long and slow process
trying to get back on my
feet after that.
“I was looking after my
wee boy through that.
“I was feeling incredibly
short of breath, tired –- a
cough like I’ve never
experienced before.”
The virus affected her
military career as she
struggled to keep up with
the physical demands.
Second Battalion, the
Royal Regiment of
Scotland, is currently in
Afghanistan as part of
Operation Toral, the UK’s
ongoing mission in the
country.
Maj Nicholls has been
part of the battalion for 18
months, but she was unable
to join them when they
deployed in October.
She said: “It’s really
difficult. They are my group
of people I look after, they
are like my family.
“I would love to be out
there with them.
“But it’s wonderful to be
here and to be able to be
engaged in something and
doing something to help.”
Maj Nicholls is part of
several vaccine “quick
reaction” forces in
Scotland, which can be
called on to help health
boards with the
programme.
She said the soldiers
taking part in the effort are
proud to be working
alongside the NHS, adding:
“I think everyone’s been
loving it, everyone’s been
enjoying the opportunity to
get involved in something
that feels really worthy.”
Sarwar
urges job
support for
women
UP to 225,000 women in
Scotland have been
furloughed or are claiming
out-of-work benefits,
analysis has revealed.
Speaking ahead of
today’s Scottish Labour
women’s hustings,
leadership candidate
Anas Sarwar said the
Covid recovery must
mean greater support for
women, who risk being
disproportionately
affected by the recession.
With female
representation higher in
at-risk sectors such as
retail and hospitality, and
with the furlough scheme
set to end in April, Mr
Sarwar said the Scottish
Government urgently
needs to develop a plan
for jobs.
The number of women
claiming out-of-work
benefits has nearly
doubled from 41,925 in
December 2019 to 79,015,
as of December 2020.
Additional data shows
there are 146,500 women
in Scotland on furlough.
Mr Sarwar said: “Women
are more likely to be
working in shut down
sectors such as hospitality
and retail, and our NHS
and care sector, and this is
especially the case for
BAME [black, Asian and
minority ethnic] women
and younger women.
“This past year has
shown more clearly than
ever that women’s jobs are
undervalued, underpaid
and under protected.
“We need to learn the
lessons of the 2008 crisis
where the long-term impact
was hardest on women.”
Health Secretary rejects claim officials ‘plotted how to spin’ care home report
By Alistair Grant
SCOTLAND’S Health Secretary
has rejected claims Government
officials spent days “plotting how to
spin” a report into hospital patients
being discharged to care homes.
Jeane Freeman said the comments
from the Scottish Conservatives
were “absolute nonsense”.
An investigation by Public Health
Scotland previously found dozens of
patients were moved to care homes
in the first few weeks of the
pandemic despite having tested
positive for coronavirus.
Care home deaths have been the
subject of intense scrutiny and
criticism.
‘Serious thought’ must be given to
borders loophole, says Freeman
By Alistair Grant
MEASURES to stop international
travellers entering Scotland after
landing elsewhere in the UK must
be given “serious thought”, the
Health Secretary has said.
Jeane Freeman said the Scottish
Government is “deeply
disappointed” that UK ministers
have so far indicated they will not
help Scotland enforce its tougher
rules.
From Monday, international
travellers arriving in Scotland from
any country will be forced to self-
isolate in a hotel for 10 days on
arrival.
In England, only those arriving
from so-called “red list” countries
will need to quarantine in hotels.
This raises the prospect of
travellers landing in England and
then crossing the border into
Scotland, potentially dodging the
£1,750 hotel quarantine fee.
Addressing the coronavirus
briefing on Friday, Ms Freeman
said: “We continue to discuss with
the UK Government, because we
think their approach, which
confines itself to the red zone areas,
is insufficient and we continue to
work with them to try and persuade
them that they should adopt the
tougher stance that we are
adopting.
“However while we do that, we do
have to give serious thought to the
options that may be available to us.
“Many will enter the UK via the
major airport hubs in London,
Manchester and elsewhere and will
then travel to Scotland.
“So we will need to work through
with the UK Government how that
will be managed, how we will know
that and if there is a need for other
measures at the border.
“Of course that is an operational
issue for our chief constable, he will
be giving that come consideration
but the decision around that should
remain with him.”
Elsewhere, Ms Freeman was
asked about the apparent
unwillingness of the UK
Government to help enforce
Scotland’s tougher rules.
She said: “It’s deeply
disappointing if, as part of a family
of equals, one partner isn’t prepared
to help the other partner enforce the
policy that they think is the right
policy for the people they represent.
“The discussions will continue,
because we are, as we have always
been, keen where we can to reach a
Mourners urged not to turn up to funerals that are already at Covid capacity
By Alistair Grant
MOURNERS have been urged not
to turn up to funerals that are
already at pandemic capacity.
Health Secretary Jeane Freeman
said a maximum of 20 people are
currently allowed to attend services.
But she said the Scottish
Government has received reports of
services where this limit has been
breached.
She pleaded with mourners not to
simply turn up as this places the
organisers in a “terrible position”
and risks spreading the virus.
Ms Freeman made the comments
during the Scottish Government’s
Warning after police find hundreds of people sledging and drinking in parks
POLICE have warned the public of
the Covid risks posed by large crowds
after hundreds of people gathered to
go sledging or drink in parks earlier
this week.
Cleveland Police said they received
reports of “hundreds” of people
visiting Flatts Lane Country Park in
Middlesbrough for sledging on
Wednesday, with large numbers of
parked cars causing an obstruction.
Police said they were told that
vehicles were being “abandoned
dangerously on a busy main road”,
which they warned could have caused
a collision. There was also a report of
a fight, with someone reportedly seen
with a knife.
ANALYSIS , I NSIGHT, OPI N ION
When the report was published in
October, First Minister Nicola
Sturgeon said it did not find
“statistical evidence” that hospital
discharges were associated with
care home outbreaks.
The Public Health Scotland
report was only made available to
journalists 15 minutes before the
start of a Scottish Government
coronavirus briefing on October 28.
But a Freedom of Information
request by the Tories shows
Government officials appeared to
have access to its findings days
earlier, on October 23.
Emails show that they later
discussed how to convert the
“not statistically significant”
A passenger arriving at Glasgow Airport. From Monday, international passengers arriving through Scotland’s airports must self-isolate
four-nation approach to deal with a
virus that doesn’t respect
boundaries and borders.
“But in the meantime, we will
work through what the options are
to mitigate where the UK
Government stance creates a
loophole in what the Scottish
Government believes is exactly the
right thing to do.
“The best solution is actually for
all four nations of the UK to agree
that the right way to do this, as
other countries have done, is to
make sure that all international
arrivals have to undertake managed
quarantine.”
With the regulations due to come
into effect on Monday, the broad
rules around who needs to
quarantine, how they can do so and
how much they will need to pay are
regular coronavirus update.
She said the funeral rules “are
among the most difficult that we’ve
had to put in place, and I know that
they cause distress to people who are
already grieving”.
She added: “But the restrictions
are vital, and any gathering creates a
risk that the virus will be
transmitted.
“And unfortunately, that risk is
even greater when it comes to
funerals, where inevitably and
understandably at such an emotional
event, people are likely to want to
hug and hold each other or simply to
be in close proximity to each other.
“We are currently receiving reports
In a Facebook post on Thursday,
Cleveland Police said they
sympathised with the public, but two
hours of police time was spent trying
to get people to move vehicles and
leave the area for their own safety.
The post added: “People are
allowed to exercise in the local area,
but we would ask that they have due
consideration when there are large
numbers of people in the same
location, and the risks this could pose.
“We have been in a worldwide
pandemic for almost a year now, and
we all know that we have a part to
play in keeping people safe and
stopping the spread of the virus.
“The sheer volume of people in the
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finding into “plain English”.
Scottish Conservative health
spokesman Donald Cameron said:
“SNP spin is contaminating Scottish
public life but even by their cynical
standards, this is shocking.
“Is there no subject too important
or sensitive that the SNP spin
machine is not willing to bend and
manipulate? It seems not from these
revelations.
“Grieving families who lost loved
ones in care homes were desperate
to see this report but it kept on being
delayed.
“Now we find out that the SNP
were hard at work spinning a
response to downplay the report’s
findings on transferring Covid-
DAILY UPDATE
327 DAYS OF
LOCKDOWN
SCOTLAND
Confirmed cases: 190,005
– up 830 on the day before
Deaths: 6,666 – up 67
UK
Confirmed cases: 4,013,799
– up 15,144
Deaths: 116,287 – up 758
WORLD
Confirmed cases: 103,708,036
Deaths: 2,377,223
about funeral services where more
than 20 people are in attendance.
“And so I want remind people that
that limit of 20 is still in place, and
that unfortunately it is there for a
really good reason.
“So please, if you are arranging a
funeral, think about the restrictions
when you are sending out invitations
and when you’re telling people about
the event on social media.
“If you would like to go to a funeral
service but cannot go because of the
20-person limit, then please respect
that fact.
“Maybe find out if it’s possible to
see the service by other means, such
as a live stream, and check with the
park yesterday could have put people
at risk.”
The force said officers had a largely
“positive” engagement with the public
and only one person was issued with
a fixed penalty notice for refusing to
leave the area after he became abusive
towards officers.
Under lockdown rules, people are
only allowed to leave home if they
have a “reasonable excuse” to do so,
such as shopping for essentials or
permitted childcare.
People should limit outdoor
exercise to once per day, which can be
taken alone, with their household, or
one person they do not live with.
Leaving home for recreational or
positive patients into care homes.
“That sums up the SNP’s attitude
towards the scandal in our care
homes. They’re putting spin before
honesty, transparency and common
decency.”
He added: “This was a time for
contrition and serious leadership
from the SNP.
“Instead of finding out what
really happened with an urgent
public inquiry, they worked-up a
detailed plan of how to spin the
story.
“That is a complete dereliction of
duty towards our most vulnerable.”
Ms Freeman was asked about the
Conservative claims during the
Scottish Government’s coronavirus
now known, but finer details still
remain unresolved.
Ms Freeman said the rules will be
“finalised in time”.
It came as Scotland saw another
day of record coronavirus
vaccinations.
However Ms Freeman said the
number of appointments will soon
have to be reduced due to a lack of
supplies and other factors.
Giving the latest figures yesterday,
she said 67 deaths of people with
Covid-19 and 830 positive tests were
recorded in the previous 24 hours.
This brings the death total under
the daily measure to 6,666.
Ms Freeman added that 1,113,628
people had received their first dose
of a coronavirus vaccine as of
yesterday morning.
This is 64,881 more than the
person organising it about the other
ways in which you can pay your
respects.
“And it also of course increases
the risk that the virus will spread as a
result of the event, and I know that
you don’t want that.”
Ms Freeman said more
information is available on the
Scottish Government’s website.
She later added: “We need to make
sure that everyone does everything
they can to comply, difficult though
it is.
Andrew Purves, of funeral
directors William Purves, said: “The
additional burden of policing
unexpected crowds threatens our
leisure purposes, such as for a picnic
or a social meeting, is not allowed.
Police can issue fines of up to
£10,000 for organised gatherings.
A spokeswoman for the National
Police Chiefs’ Council said it was up
to officers on the ground to make
assessments of situations
Cleveland Police’s Inspector Tony
Cross told the BBC the crowds at
Flatts Lane Country Park had taken
up “a lot of resources”, with officers
left “outnumbered”.
Northumbria Police said they
dispersed crowds of young adults
drinking and socialising at Town
Moor in Newcastle on Thursday.
A force spokesman said officers had
Saturday February 13, 2021
briefing yesterday.
She said they were “absolute
nonsense”, adding: “We did not
spend any time trying to spin
anything – remember this is an
independent report, independent of
Government and with academics
from both Glasgow and Edinburgh
universities.
“The report says what the report
says and we have been very clear in
our response to that report and very
clear in what we believe should be
done.
“If people want to make political
capital or attempt to make political
capital out of this then that is their
prerogative, but I think it is much
more serious than that.”
previous day’s figure –another new
daily record.
But she said the number of
vaccine appointments in Scotland
will need to be reduced in the next
few weeks.
“The uptake we have seen so far
has been both remarkable and very
welcome,” she said.
“A combination of circumstances
– remarkably high uptake, a
temporary reduction in supply from
Pfizer and the need to ensure people
can receive second doses on time –
means we need to reduce the
number of appointments we
schedule over the next few weeks.
“As soon as supply improves our
programme will scale up again.”
She said the vaccination
programme in Scotland remains on
course to hit its targets.
ability to serve communities when
they need us the most.
“When we attend a funeral, our
priority is the family we are caring
for including their deceased loved
one. A funeral team of three is no
match for a spontaneous crowd.
“From the outset of this pandemic,
we have responsibly guided families
through the fast-changing restrictions
that were imposed – often within
hours – to ensure they, and we, were
legally compliant.”
He added: “Funeral directors like
us are not the police.
“Bereaved families need our
compassion, dedication, integrity
and respect.”
attended the park throughout the day
after reports of “large crowds” .
ChronicleLive reported that
footage from Wednesday showed
revellers standing on the top of Cow
Hill drinking and playing music.
One witness told the website there
was “a good 300” people present and
“no social distancing”.
The Northumbria Police
spokesman said the majority of
people “were made up of young
families who behaved in a responsible
manner”. He added: “However, as we
moved into the evening we did
become aware of large crowds,
primarily consisting of young adults,
who were drinking and socialising.”
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Calls for private health staff to get
thank-you bonus along with NHS
Exclusive
By Hannah Rodger
AGENCY nurses should be entitled
to the £500 thank-you payment from
the Scottish Government that is being
paid to NHS staff, campaigners have
argued.
A petition, set up by managers at one
nursing agency, say their staff and all
other agency workers should be
receiving the extra cash too as they
have exposed themselves to the same
levels of risk, and have helped shore up
the NHS and social care sectors during
the crisis.
Nicola Sturgeon announced last year
she would be giving out the payments as
a thank-you to all NHS and social care
staff and as a sign of appreciation for the
work they have done during the pandemic.
However, as previously reported by
The Herald, some medics have argued
they do not need the extra money,
while others working on the front line
will not receive a penny as they are not
employed by the NHS.
Alan Mackenzie, chief finance officer,
and Sakib Rafiq, chief operating officer
at Glasgow agency H1 Healthcare, have
now appealed directly to the Scottish
Government to reconsider the scheme
to include agency nurses and students.
Mr Mackenzie told The Herald: “This
came about because Sakib and I were
discussing the inequity of the proposed
bonus and the way in which it will not
be distributed fairly and equally
through the Scottish nurse, carer and
support worker community.
“The First Minister said that ‘those
who have worked in our hospitals and
care homes, at the sharpest end of the
Covid trauma, deserve recognition
now.’
“What she did not say was the
payment would not extend to certain
groups of those workers such as agency
staff, for example.
“I think, at best, this was an oversight
or maybe ill conceived, to limit the cost
to the public purse.
“In any case, the decision appears to
be flawed and needs to be addressed by
the Scottish Government.”
Mr Rafiq said: “This is not about our
business, this is about fairness and
equity for all those selfless nurses,
carers and support workers, in many
cases working alongside colleagues
doing the same job and taking the
same risks.
“They work on the front line looking
after the frail, the elderly and those in
need but some will get the bonus and
some will not get it – that cannot be
fair.”
Dental students forced to repeat their final year studies will get bursary aid
DENTAL students forced to repeat
their final year will be given a
bursary by the Scottish Government.
Dental schools in Aberdeen,
Glasgow and Edinburgh have taken
the decision to defer graduation for
final year students, citing a lack of
practical clinical experience in
aerosol-generating procedures such
as drilling, due to the Covid-19
pandemic.
Graduation for students in
Aberdeen has been deferred to the
winter, while their counterparts in
Glasgow and Edinburgh will not
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Doddie
Weir’s
£300,000
donation
RUGBY legend Doddie
Weir’s charity has donated
a further £300,000 to help
people living with motor
neurone disease.
Doddie, who shared his
MND diagnosis in June
2017, pledged to help
others living with the
rapidly progressing
terminal illness, as well as
funding for research into
finding a cure.
MND Scotland will
receive £100,000 from the
My Name’ 5 Doddie
Foundation, and the
MND Association of
England, Wales and
Northern Ireland will
receive £200,000.
The funding will take
the charity’s total
contributions to MND
Scotland and the MND
Association to £380,000
and £670,000, respectively.
The cash will be used
by both charities to help
families across the UK
cover some of the financial
burden that comes with a
diagnosis of MND,
Jill Douglas, chief
executive officer of the
My Name’5 Doddie
Foundation, said: “We are
delighted to continue and
further strengthen our
relationships with MND
Scotland and MND
Association by working
with both these charities
to support people living
with motor neuron disease.
“We look forward to
sharing our plans for the
future in the coming
NHS staff are in line for a one-off thank-you payment for their work and sacrifice during the pandemic months.”
Since it launched on Tuesday, the
campaign’s petition has gathered more
to work there.”
Liberal Democrats health spokesman
many key workers in different sectors
across Scotland as they have risen to Rankin:
than 35,000 signatures from people
who agree that private health workers
Alex Cole-Hamilton said the Scottish
Government had made a “real mess” of This is about the challenge of responding to the
pandemic. I can’t kill
should be given the bonus as well public the bonuses. fairness and “This payment is not being extended
sector staff.
One signatory said they were
Mr Cole-Hamilton said: “The
£500 payment has turned into real equity for all to private agency staff in the NHS or
social care sector.
off Rebus
supporting the pledge because “care mess. those selfless “For people working for private AUTHOR Ian Rankin
workers have kept going through “The Scottish Government need to employers, it would be for their has said he won’t ever kill
incredibly difficult times,” adding: “They work with worker representatives nurses, carers employer to determine their off Rebus.
are very poorly paid and deserve this to sort this out and ensure that all staff and support remuneration and any additions to Rankin, 60, initially
bonus – the same as health care workers.” who helped us through this crisis are existing pay which may be appropriate killed off his main
Another said: “I am an agency nurse properly recognised and rewarded.” workers for these staff. character in his first novel
and have worked full-time in nursing A Scottish Government “This thank-you payment recognises but was told not to by an
homes and in Covid wards for the spokeswoman said that agency the particular debt we all owe to health editor.
NHS throughout the pandemic. staff will not be getting the thank-you and care staff, who have been – and Now he has said he
“I have covered shifts last minute and bonus. continue to be – on the very front line “could not imagine’
gone to nursing homes with Covid She said: “We are hugely grateful to of this crisis, helping to save lives and to getting rid of John Rebus.
patients when other staff have refused the efforts over recent months of the protect us all. Rankin said: “Rebus
was built for one book
only and he was killed
at the end of the first
draft of the first Rebus
book.
complete their studies until next why the Scottish Government is year’s bursary to the value of their medicine, nursing and midwifery, “I had no notion of
summer. doing all we can to support them and normal student loan of up to students on those courses will doing a series until my
Public Health Minister Mairi ensure they do not suffer £6,750.” not be required to repeat a year editor cajoled me into it
Gougeon has now said those affected financially. Despite the change to dental and any extensions to their by saying he liked the
will be eligible for a bursary that is “Due to the potential risk of courses, the minister is confident programmes will be covered by character.
equal to the level of their student spreading Covid from aerosol- students in other fields will not need other arrangements. “Now he is retired,
loans, totalling between £4,750 and generating procedures, dental to repeat a year. “The quality and calibre of dental he is old, he’s got health
£6,750, while also being able to apply training has had to be restricted and “Aerosol procedures are common treatment in Scotland is outstanding problems, he can’t climb
for other types of support. many students have not gained the in dentistry placements and unusual and it needs to be protected by stairs. He’s got inbuilt
She said: “This difficult but necessary clinical experience this in other student placements,” taking the appropriate measures in decrepitude. There is only
necessary decision by Scotland’s year, which has resulted in the she said. education, to ensure future dental so much I can do with
dental schools will be extremely difficult decision to defer graduation. “Therefore we are assured that professionals have reached the him now.”
disappointing news for dental “To ensure dental students who despite the wider impact on clinical General Dental Council’s standard Speaking to the Writing
students across the country. have to repeat a year are supported, placements for other controlled of clinical competence, and can enter Community Chat Show
“This is not their fault and that is we are giving each student an extra entry university subjects, such as the workforce with confidence.” podcast, he added: “I’m
not going to kill him, he’s
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Churches
in call on
new hate
Sunak faces
crime law
CHURCH leaders have
Budget woes
as pandemic
urged the Scottish
Government to drop part of
proposed new hate crime
laws surrounding criticism of
gender identity issues.

sees UK hit by
MSPs have given their
initial backing to the
legislation, saying it makes
laws “fit for purpose” in the
21st century, but Christian
leaders claim clauses

surrounding trans identity
will ban any criticism “for
fear of criminal sanctions”.
Leaders from the Catholic
and Evangelical church argue
the Bill would infringe on the
right to freedom of
expression.
Anthony Horan of the
Catholic Church, Stephen
Allison of the Free Church of
Scotland, and Fred
Drummond from the
Evangelical Alliance have
written to Justice Secretary
Humza Yousaf on the issue.
They wrote: “We believe
that people should be
completely free to disagree
with our faith in any way.
“We are convinced that
our faith is true and has a
sufficient evidential basis to
withstand any criticism, we
therefore welcome open
debate.”
The leaders argue the
church “cannot accept that
any position or opinion at
variance with the proposition
that sex (or gender) is fluid
and changeable should not be
heard”.
They conclude: “The
Parliament now has
approximately four weeks to
complete the passage of the
Bill. No workable solutions to
issues of freedom of
expression have so far been
suggested.
“If no such solutions can
be found, we hope the
Scottish Government will
now consider withdrawing
the stirring up hatred offences
in Part 2 of the Bill to allow
more detailed consideration.”
A Scottish Government
spokesman said: “The Bill
does not prevent people
expressing controversial,
challenging or offensive
views, nor does it seek to stifle
criticism or rigorous debate.
“Work continues to
develop a consensus amongst
those parties and
stakeholders who are seeking
to secure the right balance in
both protecting freedom of
expression and protecting
individuals and communities
targeted by hate crime.”
Minister’s
record slump
By Hannah Rodger
Westminster Correspondent
THE economy shrank by its fastest
rate in a century as thousands of
businesses have been forced to close
due to the pandemic.
The latest Office for National
Statistics figures show that GDP fell
by 9.9 per cent in the last quarter - the
largest fall since records began.
All key sectors – agriculture,
production, construction and the
services industry – have seen a drop in
output, with the construction sector
the worst hit.
It contracted by 12.5% between
October and December 2020.
The economy did register a 1.2%
growth in December, staving off the
threat of a double-dip recession.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the data
showed the scale of the shock the UK
had suffered as a result of the
coronavirus.
Experts have warned that he must
construct a clever and careful Budget
next month to lay a strong foundation
for economic recovery.
Jonathan Athow, ONS deputy
national statistician for economic
statistics, said: “Loosening of
restrictions in many parts of the UK
saw elements of the economy recover
some lost ground in December, with
hospitality, car sales and hairdressers
all seeing growth. An increase in
Covid-19 testing and tracing also
boosted output.
“The economy continued to grow
in the fourth quarter as a whole,
despite the additional restrictions
in November.”
The economy was helped in
December by an easing of lockdown
restrictions that had been in place in
parts of the country in November. It
was also aided by increased buying in
the run-up to Christmas, and
stockpiling ahead of the end of the
Brexit transition period
The health sector grew by 2.4%
after being involved with running
coronavirus testing and tracing
schemes across the UK.
Opposition politicians argue that
Mr Sunak must change some of the
current policies, such as the furlough
scheme, and provide greater support to
sectors which are worst hit by Covid.
The Chancellor said: “[The] figures
countries around the world. While
there are some positive signs of the
economy’s resilience over the
winter, we know that the current
lockdown continues to have a
significant impact on many people
and businesses.
“That’s why my focus remains fixed
on doing everything we can to protect
jobs, businesses and livelihoods.
“At the Budget I will set out the
next stage of our Plan for Jobs, and the
support we’ll provide through the next
phase of pandemic.”
SNP Treasury spokeswoman Alison
Thewliss said the UK Government
must not use the situation to cut off
“support or people’s jobs, incomes
and businesses at the time it is
needed most.”
She said: “Just when the UK
economy has suffered a record slump,
the Chancellor is threatening the
recovery with damaging Tory austerity
cuts that will hinder economic growth,
make millions of people poorer and
lead to rising unemployment.
“The UK is now among the worst
performing countries in the OECD
due to the decisions made by this Tory
government.
“Instead of imposing a public sector
pay freeze, cutting Universal Credit
and scrapping the furlough scheme
prematurely, the Tories must rule
out a return to austerity and commit
to a major fiscal stimulus of at least
£98 billion to revive the economy.”
James Smith, research director at
think-tank the Resolution Foundation,
said the strength of the UK’s economic
recovery would be “shaped by
decisions taken at the upcoming
Budget.”
He added: “That should include an
extension, and gradual phasing out,
of the furlough scheme, along with Chancellor Rishi Sunak said data showed scale of the shock UK had suffered as a result of the coronavirus
additional grants targeted at sectors
most affected by continuing
restrictions.” already encountered severe problems “The current drip-feed approach
Dr Liz Cameron, director of the with the new EU – UK trading to support measures means firms
Scottish Chambers of Commerce, arrangements, particularly in cannot plan for more than a few
said the “drip feeding” of support for our invaluable food and drink My focus weeks ahead and jobs in Scotland will
businesses was leaving them struggling sector.” remains fixed continue to be lost without
to plan more than a few weeks ahead She said the rollout of coronavirus intervention. We need businesses to
at a time. vaccines did offer some hope, but on doing survive if the economy is to eventually
She explained: “There is little to added: “The scarring caused by the everything to recover.
cheer in the said data. Despite avoiding pandemic is likely to crystallise as “ It is critical that the Government
a double-dip recession, output is still Government support winds down. protect jobs, swiftly implements a package of
well below pre-pandemic levels. What
these figures confirm is that 2020 was
This, as well as the prospect of
persistent post-Brexit disruption,
businesses
and livelihoods
measures that support businesses
and the economy for the whole of

praise for show the economy has experienced a

seafood
action
SCOTLAND Office minister
David Duguid has hailed the
“spirit of co-operation” on
show at the inaugural meeting
of a group set up to support
the seafood industry.
The Scottish Seafood
Exports Task Force was
announced earlier this week,
and its first meeting took
place on Friday.
Both Scottish Fisheries
Secretary Fergus Ewing and
his Westminster counterpart
George Eustice were in
attendance, along with
representatives from
throughout the industry.
Following the meeting, Mr
Duguid said: “The spirit of
co-operation between all
parties was good to see and
my officials will now drill
down to identify areas for
rapid action.
“The next taskforce
meeting is in a fortnight but
our engagement with industry
continues on a daily basis, as
does our work to speed world-
class Scottish seafood from
port to plate as smoothly as
possible.”
During the meeting, the
group discussed the
movement of mixed loads
post-Brexit, with
“constructive” talks held on
practical solutions to ease the
flow of goods across borders.
Ahead of the talks, Mr
Ewing said the UK
Government-led task force
must not just be a “talking
shop” and should provide
practical solutions and
support to the Scottish
seafood industry.
Mr Duguid added: “This
task force is about developing
solutions and delivering
action rapidly. We will
provide evidence of delivery.”
serious shock as a result of the
pandemic, which has been felt by
Salmond set to submit evidence to inquiry as Sturgeon appearance delayed
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before it breaks for May’s election.
Ms Sturgeon could then give
evidence the following week,
potentially on March 2.
This plan would push the
timetable of the inquiry so far back
that it is not thought there would be
time to have a debate on the
committee’s eventual report in the
Holyrood chamber before it breaks
for May’s election.
A Scottish Parliament
spokeswoman said: “At its meeting
today, the committee was united in
its desire to complete this inquiry in
an open and transparent way, and
to publish its report and
recommendations next month.
“Given the impact of the recent
court judgment is not yet known,
the committee has agreed it must
have the time to reflect on the
impact on its work once the full
written judgment is published early
next week.
“As a result, the committee has
agreed that the First Minster’s
evidence should be postponed until
the full impact of that judgment is
considered.
“It is important for the committee
to hear from Mr Salmond and the
committee has always been clear
that the First Minister should be the
last witness to appear before the
inquiry.”
MSPs on the Holyrood inquiry
are looking at how the Scottish
Government botched its probe into
sexual misconduct claims made
against the former first minister by
two civil servants in 2018.
Mr Salmond had the exercise
overturned in a judicial review after
the Scottish Government conceded
it had been “tainted by apparent
bias”, a flaw that left taxpayers with
a £512,000 bill for his costs.
a historically bleak year for the UK
economy.
“Many Scottish businesses have
Alex Salmond is set to give evidence to the inquiry next week
Mr Salmond was due to give
evidence earlier this week but a row
broke out after the inquiry narrowly
vetoed publishing a submission
by him.
The submission contains multiple
accusations against Ms Sturgeon,
including that she repeatedly misled
Parliament and so breached the
Scottish ministerial code – a
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means any recovery may be slower
than the Bank of England currently
predicts.
resignation offence which she
denies.
The decision appeared to rule
out Mr Salmond ever testifying in
person, as he had made publication
of the submission a precondition of
an appearance.
However Mr Salmond’s team
believe it could now be published
following court action taken by
2021, including removing the
cliff-edges for business rate reliefs,
VAT deferrals and furlough.”
The Spectator earlier this week.
The magazine challenged the
scope and terms of a court order
made during the former first
minister’s trial.
Ronald Clancy, QC, who was
representing the magazine in its
High Court application, said there
was a concern the Holyrood inquiry
was being “overcautious”.
He said there is a “perfectly
legitimate public interest” in
publishing evidence relating to
alleged breaches of the ministerial
code.
He said: “We have a positive
indication from the committee that
they are interested in clarification of
the scope of the order.”
Following a hearing, Lady
Dorrian agreed to vary the order
slightly.
Her written reasons for this will
be published at the start of next
week.
These could prove crucial in
influencing the Holyrood
committee’s decision.
Mr Salmond was cleared of
multiple counts of sexual assault
following a trial at the High Court in
Edinburgh last year.
Writing to the committee on
Thursday after the Spectator court
hearing, his lawyers said: “Our
client hopes that today’s decision
will enable publication of the
relevant evidence and thereafter an
early oral evidence session.
“Our client remains keen to
attend.”
Earlier this week, a spokesman for
the First Minister urged the
committee to use its powers to
compel Mr Salmond to appear,
while Ms Sturgeon told MSPs she is
looking forward to being able to
tackle “head on” accusations that
have been levelled at her.
Scottish Labour interim leader
Jackie Baillie, a member of the
Holyrood committee, said: “I am
very glad that the committee has
today re-affirmed its wish to speak
to Alex Salmond, and given his
stated intention to come before the
committee I look forward to the
date of his appearance.
“On Tuesday the committee will
meet to discuss Lady Dorrian’s
judgement due on Monday and
I hope we will then be in a position
to publish the evidence provided by
Mr Salmond.
“I also look forward to the First
Minister appearing before the
committee in due course, and I am
sure she will engage with the
committee in the spirit of
co-operation and transparency
that she has promised on repeated
occasions.”
Scottish Conservative MSP
Murdo Fraser, another committee
member, said: “From the outset, this
committee have been clear that we
could not do our job properly
without being able to question Alex
Salmond in person.
“I’m pleased members today have
agreed a decision that will hopefully
now allow that to happen.
“Once we have had time to digest
the full details of the revised court
order, the former First Minister
must now appear at the earliest
opportunity. His evidence is
absolutely vital to this inquiry.
“Nicola Sturgeon promised to be
fully co-operative with this inquiry
but the reality has been her
Government blocking us at every
turn.
“When she appears after her
predecessor, she must be fully open
and transparent.”
Andy Wightman MSP, another
member of the committee who sits
as an independent, said it had made
“welcome progress”.
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Emissions target beyond reach Man fell

without cutting back red meat
By David Bol
Political Correspondent
A LEADING climate scientist has
warned that Scots should be told “to
reduce our meat intake” or face hitting
a tipping point in the fight against the
climate emergency amid concerns the
SNP has left key behaviour changes out
of an ambitious blueprint to cut
emissions.
Agricultural pollution accounts for
around one quarter of Scotland’s total
emissions – with ministers aiming to
reduce the sector’s impact from
7MtCO2e in 2020 to 5.3MtCO2e by
2032.
The Scottish Government has
committed to cutting 1990 levels of
carbon emissions by 75 per cent, but
ministers have also pledged to double
food and drink exports during the same
period of time. Scotland’s Rural
Economy Secretary has insisted that
reducing the production of meat and
dairy is “not the way forward”.
Professor Pete Smith, from Aberdeen
University, has told MSPs investigating
the strategy that we “have a responsibility
... to reduce our meat intake”.
He added: “We must act – we cannot
defer action and say that Scotland is the
exception because we farm in a
relatively environmental way, in
comparison with other countries, and
so should get a get-out-of-jail free card.
“We could eat a considerably lower
level of animal-based products without
significantly affecting our diet. We
could certainly cut our diet in that
respect and contribute globally to
reducing emissions from food,
particularly in the livestock sector.”
Mr Smith added that “if we push for
healthier diets with less meat and dairy,
we could free up huge swathes of land”
– which could potentially be used to
restore peatlands or tree planting.
He also suggested any future carbon
taxes could make meat and dairy
products more expensive that “would
help to nudge people in the right direction”.
But Mr Smith warned “if we were to
raise any money from high-carbon food
taxes” the funding would need to be
used “to subside fruit and veg for
poorer sections of the community”.
The Committee on Climate Change
(CCC), an independent advisory body,
has recommended that carbon
intensive foods such as beef, lamb and
dairy should be reduced by at least 20%
per person – and potentially by as much
as 40%. Chief executive of the CCC,
Scots are urged to
cut back on meat
consumption to
avert a climate
emergency
Christ Stark, the Scottish Government’s
former director of energy and climate
change, stressed that no-one is
We could eat a “proposing we stop grazing livestock on
considerably Scottish farmland”, but warned “there
is an overall need to change the way in
lower level of which we use land”.
animal-based Mr Stark said “there is nothing about
diet change at all” in the SNP’s strategy,
products labelling the omission “a disappointment”.
without He added: “Every sector has to
contribute to the challenge of getting to
significantly net zero. The agriculture sector has not
affecting diet been contributing to that reduction in
emissions to date, but the plan commits
to reducing emissions from the sector
by a quarter over the next decade or so.
“The policies to deliver that will be
tough, and the Scottish ministers will
have to work hard to deliver the
outcome because, historically, that has
not been what has happened in the
sector. To imagine that it can happen
without considering the livestock
themselves and what we do about those
emissions is magical thinking.”
But Rural Economy and Tourism
Minister, Fergus Ewing, has indicated
he has no intention of reducing the
amount of meat produced and
consumed in Scotland, stressing “we
have to farm sustainably while
producing high-quality food”.
He added: “Some argue, and I think
really on the fringes, that the only way
to tackle climate change is to abandon
livestock production altogether – that is
not the way forward for Scotland.
“Let’s assume we did that. Would
people want to stop eating meat? No,
they wouldn’t – they would simply buy
meat imported from other countries.
“I do think that climate change and
high-quality food production go hand
in hand and, were we to imperil food
production to pursue climate change,
we wouldn’t achieve climate change –
all we would achieve is displacement
and possibly a higher overall carbon
footprint.”
Scottish Greens food and farming
spokesman Mark Ruskell said:
“Consumer trends are already shifting
towards eating less meat and dairy
which is a boost for the climate and
health.
“Instead of bucking that trend, the
Scottish Government should recognise
there are opportunities for farmers to
produce more of what we eat, especially
fruit and veg which is often imported.
Farmers need support to make soils and
land better stores of carbon, while
maintaining profitable food production.”
through
ice in dog
rescue bid
A MAN was airlifted to
hospital after falling
through ice while trying
to reach his dog.
It is understood the
man got into difficulty
after his dog had become
stuck in the water at
Kinneil House, Bo’ness.
The Scottish Fire and
Rescue Service was called
to the curling pond at
Kinneil House just after
12.30pm yesterday.
A spokeswoman said:
“We were alerted at
12.36pm on Friday
February 12 to reports of
a man and a dog in water
at the curling pond,
Kinneil House, Bo’ness.
“Operations control
mobilised two appliances
and specialist water
rescue resources to the
scene.
“Firefighters removed a
man from the water and
placed him in the care of
the Scottish Ambulance
Service.
“Crews remain in
attendance and are
awaiting Scottish SPCA
assistance to attend to the
dog.”
A spokesman for the
Scottish Ambulance
service said: “We received
a call at 12.42pm to attend
an incident in Bo’ness.
“We dispatched one
ambulance, our special
operations team and an
air ambulance to the
scene.

Convictions of
‘angel of death’
nurse appealed
THE murder convictions of a nurse
dubbed the “angel of death” have been
referred to the Court of Appeal.
Colin Norris, 44, was found guilty in
2008 by a majority of murdering four
women and attempting to murder another
by injecting them with insulin.
The four women who died – Ethel Hall,
Bridget Bourke, Doris Ludlam and Irene
Crookes – plus the fifth woman were all
elderly inpatients on orthopaedic wards in
Leeds where Norris worked as a nurse.
After reviewing the case, the Criminal
Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has
decided to refer all five convictions to the
Court of Appeal.
It said: “The CCRC considered new
expert evidence presented by Mr Norris’s
representatives.
“This new expert evidence explored
recent developments in a complex area
where scientific understanding is still
developing.
“As a result of the new expert evidence,
the CCRC has concluded that there is a real
possibility that the Court of Appeal will
decide that Mr Norris’s conviction for the
murder or attempted murder of one or
more of the four patients is unsafe.”
Norris – who was born in Glasgow – was
found guilty of four counts of murder and a
single count of attempted murder after a
five-month trial at Newcastle Crown Court.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment
with a minimum term of 30 years.
The case against him was wholly
circumstantial and heavily reliant on expert
opinion evidence.
Experts have now agreed that the
hypoglycaemia in four of the women may
be accounted for by natural causes.

Whisky exports
down by £1bn
EXPORTS of Scotch whisky fell by
more than £1.1 billion in 2020 to the
lowest level in a decade, according
to an industry body.
The Scotch Whisky Association
(SWA) blamed the twin impact of
coronavirus and the 25 per cent US
export tariff for the drop.
Exports dropped 23% by value to
£3.8 billion in 2020, the association
said, with the value and volume of
exports to most of the drink’s top 10
markets falling.
Hospitality closures and travel
restrictions affecting airport retail
led to export values falling in 70% of
the global markets for Scotland’s
national drink, compared to 2019.
Tariffs on the export of single malt
Scotch whisky to the US imposed in
a dispute over aircraft subsidies
caused the most significant losses –
accounting for around one third
worldwide – as exports fell by 32%
to £729 million in what is the
product’s most valuable market.
Exports to the EU, the industry’s
largest regional export market, fell
by 15%.
The SWA is calling on Chancellor
Rishi Sunak to cut spirits duty in the
upcoming UK Budget.
Chief executive Karen Betts said:
“These figures are a grim reminder
of the challenges faced by distillers.”

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Anger at
airport
plans amid
climate
promise
AVIATION bosses in the
Highlands have been
labelled “reckless” after
25-year plans for a
£55 million expansion at
Inverness Airport were
drawn up.
The Scottish Greens
have criticised the
proposals to consider
replacing the passenger
terminal at the airport
with a new building on a
different site.
The Press and Journal
reported that the £54.8m
plan could see the
terminal moved across
the runway in a bid to
place the facility within
walking distance of a
proposed railway station.
But the Greens have
warned investing to
double passenger numbers
does not fit with the
Scottish Government’s
commitment to cut 75 per
cent of 1990 levels of
carbon emissions by 2030
and become a net zero
carbon economy by 2045,
including aviation.
Scottish Greens lead
candidate for the
Highlands and Islands,
Ariane Burgess, said: “We
have only nine years left
before climate science
tells us global warming
becomes irreversible. To
produce a 25-year plan to
more than double air
travel through Inverness
is reckless.”
A draft master plan
estimates that passengers
could more than double
from the pre-pandemic
number of 947,000 by up
to 2.1 million by 2045.
Inverness Airport
general manager, Graeme
Bell, said: “We have
conducted a traffic
forecast exercise that
indicates the airport will
continue to thrive post-
Covid, predominantly
through further expansion
of the UK market and a
modest growth of
international passengers.”
Glastonbury
cheese
launched
THE farm home of the
Glastonbury Festival is
producing its first cheese.
Michael Eavis’ Worthy
Farm in Somerset has
launched Reserve
Cheddar cheese.
The cheese has been
created using milk from
the dairy herd that live at
the Glastonbury Festival
site all year round.
Neighbouring Wyke
Farms has joined forces
with Worthy, putting the
milk to good use.
Mr Eavis said: “Now,
after 50 years of our recent
festival history, our farm
milk is being made into
cheese once again.”
Capital tram line to be extended as transport blueprint unveiled by council
COUNCIL bosses in Edinburgh
hope to have completed a new
north-south tram line by 2030 and
could introduce road tolls as part of
a blueprint to overhaul the way
people move around the city.
Edinburgh City Council has drawn
up its final 10-year plan to better
connect the capital by delivering a
carbon net-zero transport system.
As part of the city mobility plan,
by 2030, a “mass transit network”
The white stuff
An abandoned Royal Navy Fairey Gannet XG882 aircraft near Perth has a ghostly look surrounded by snow as the cold snap continues
to grip much of the country
Bid for Galloway national park
is ‘redoubled’ amid frustration
By Alistair Grant
CAMPAIGNERS pushing for
Scotland’s third national park to be
created in Galloway have pledged to
redouble their efforts ahead of the
Holyrood election.
It came as they criticised the
“tired old” arguments used by SNP
ministers during a debate on the
issue in the Scottish Parliament.
Ben Macpherson, Scotland’s
rural affairs and natural
environment minister, raised “real
concerns” over the costs associated
with new national parks.
Addressing MSPs on Thursday,
he said: “Although we fully
understand the desire to maximise
the benefits of the area and the
enthusiasm for a new national park
designation, the Scottish Government’s
position remains unchanged at
present, with no plans to designate
new national parks in Scotland.”
Mr Macpherson said the two
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will have been “extended west and
beyond” and will have been
“developed to connect the
waterfront in the north to the Royal
Infirmary in the south and beyond”
– potentially setting up connections
with the wider Lothians and Fife.
The council is currently
constructing an extension to the
original tram line to Newhaven in
the north of the city in a £207
million project which is due to be
existing national parks – Loch
Lomond and the Trossachs, and the
Cairngorms – have combined
annual budgets of more than
£18 million in 2021/22.
But campaigners dismissed his
arguments. Rob Lucas, chair of
the Galloway National Park
Association, said it was a “missed
opportunity”.
He added: “However, our
campaign really begins now.
“We were hugely encouraged by
the strong support shown by MSPs
of all parties to create Scotland’s
third national park in Galloway.
“We would especially thank [SNP
MSP] Emma Harper for putting the
motion and [Tory MSP] Finlay
Carson and [Labour MSP] Colin
Smyth for the support they have
given to our campaign over the past
five years.
“In the run-up to the Scottish
Parliament elections, we will call on
all candidates for the local
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opened to passengers in 2023.
The Scottish Government has
included a mass transit system for
Edinburgh, as well as developing a
“Glasgow metro” on its transport
priority list for the next 20 years.
The council’s plans warns “we
cannot spend another 20 years
building a single tram line when we
need to develop a truly integrated
public transport network, including
additional tram lines, in the next 10
Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire
constituency and South Scotland
seats to commit their support to
creating a national park in
Galloway.
“We will also be pressing all
parties to have a commitment in
their manifesto to create more
national parks in Scotland and
Galloway in particular.”
The suggested boundary of a
Galloway National Park would
extend from Dumfries and
Galloway into South Ayrshire and
East Ayrshire, with all the local
councils expressing support.
John Thomson, chairman of the
Scottish Campaign for National
Parks, said: “The Government’s
intransigent stance means that
Scotland will carry on falling
behind other countries in the UK
and across the world.”
He added: “Creating new national
parks isn’t a diversion from the
problems [Mr Macpherson] rightly
identifies, it’s part of the solution.
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years”. It adds: “Increasing mass
rapid transit is critical if we are to
through economic disincentives” and
helps to encourage people to switch
meet the needs of our growing city
in a sustainable way.”
to public transport.
The council also hopes to
The authority will also explore
setting up a “pay as you drive
“develop proposals” to introduce
a workplace parking levy,
scheme” as a potential solution to
“support demand management” of
traffic “if necessary”.
following a consultation,
which, in order to encourage
more people to travel sustainably,
Officials say that a policy, such as would see employers charged
charging drivers to use certain roads for offering free parking to their
“reduces the number of cars in a city staff.
A chilly-looking Princes Street in Edinburgh as the
winter weather grips the capital Picture: Gordon Terris
Edinburgh University student Archie Holly canoes
down the slopes at Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh
“What’s more, the tired old visit – but only if the necessary
argument that more national parks
are unaffordable is just not tenable
measures are in place to welcome
visitors and manage their impacts.
when Scotland can expect its share
of the extra money allocated for
“I’m talking here about ranger
services, toilets, litter bins, car parks
nature protection in England, the
extra tax revenue that national
and paths, which national parks are
expert at providing – more national
parks could be expected to generate, parks would really help to support
and the savings to the health budget local communities in their efforts to
that would arise from increased avoid being overwhelmed.
outdoor recreation. “These issues will no doubt be at
“Why can’t the Government the forefront of rural voters’ minds
wake up and recognise the when the May election comes.”
opportunities national parks Speaking during the Holyrood
represent for a 21st century green debate, Mr Macpherson said the
recovery?” creation of a new national park
John Mayhew, director of the “requires considerable planning
Association for the Protection of and carries cost implications”.
Rural Scotland, said: “We are He said: “Given the
expecting another busy year in considerations I have outlined, we
Scotland’s countryside as Covid believe that, at present, it is essential
fears and continued restrictions to focus support on our two existing
boost the domestic holiday market. national parks to ensure that they
“This will benefit rural areas that continue their valuable contribution
raise their profile and present to tourism and sustainable rural
themselves as attractive places to economic development.”
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Johnson
invite on
Heathrow
dispute
THE Prime Minister is to
be asked to meet workers
at Heathrow Airport to
discuss a long-running
dispute over pay and
conditions as they prepare
to stage a fresh strike.
This sketch shows Skelmorlie in Ayrshire Glen Finella, near Strath Finella, in Aberdeenshire and boats enjoying the waters off Largs Members of Unite,
including firefighters,

Set to be a big draw: Rare album

engineers and security
staff, will walk out for 24
hours today, followed by
further strikes on February
16 and 18.
The union has accused

by Scott’s ‘artist’ is up for auction

By Deborah Anderson
THEY are images from the 18th and
19th centuries that provided the
inspiration for some of Sir Walter
Scott’s poetry and also the great writer’s
Waverley Novels.
And the sketches by Scott’s close
friend Sir James Skene of Rubislaw
were later used as sources by artists
for their own Waverley illustrations.
Forgotten for 200 years, the importance
of the album was uncovered during
lockdown by the great-great-great
grandson of renowned lighthouse
engineer, Robert Stevenson, grandfather
of celebrated author Robert Louis
Stevenson.
The rare album is to be sold online
this month by Edinburgh-headquartered
Lyon & Turnbull and is expected to
fetch between £10,000 and £12,000.
Described as a “significant artefact in
Scottish cultural history” by an expert
in Scott – and the relationship between
the two men – the drawings were done
between 1793 and 1834. One of them
features Scott’s final resting place,
Dryburgh Abbey in Roxburghshire.
Skene, a lawyer and talented amateur
artist, who came from a prominent
Aberdeen family, sketched scenes, not
only in Scotland, but around Europe, at
Scott’s request, in a role analogous to
that of a photographer.
The Waverley Novels author was
inspired by the images, sometimes
featuring places he had never visited.
Skene studied in Germany and
was admitted to the Scottish bar on
returning to Edinburgh in 1797. Much
of his life thereafter was spent in
Edinburgh, where he maintained a
close friendship with Scott.
His travels took him to Greece,
where he settled near Athens, between n misogyny by some over the
1838 to 1844. When he returned to
Britain, he settled near Oxford, where
he died in 1864.
James Will, a former lawyer, decided d
to use the time to find out more about
the book that had been lying among
family papers.
Mr Will said: “I suspect my
grandfather, Alan Stevenson, purchased d
the album at auction in the 1950s, given
his love of lighthouse illustrations.
However, I can only speculate as an
acquaintance has been documented
between Robert Stevenson and Sir
James Skene, suggesting a possible
earlier connection.
“I had always known of the album
but it wasn’t until we were all confined
to our homes that I did some detective
work. Helpfully, a great deal of the
sketches are dated so they can be
matched to events described in Skene’s
writings and Scott’s Journal.
“Many of the illustrations can be
traced to the friends’ excursions to
ruins, castles and other sites. It was
absolutely extraordinary to find a
collection like this whose existence was
completely unknown to academics.”
Professor Richard Hill, an Edinburgh
University graduate now working at
Chaminade University of Honolulu,
said Scott called Skene “his artist”
partly as a mark of deep respect and
friendship but also because of their
creative working relationship.
Above: The field of
battle, Largs
Left: Doune Castle,
Perthshire
Right: The images
provided the
inspiration for
some of settings
of Sir Walter
Scott’s poetry
Right: Benholm
castle in
Kincardshire
Left: Craigforth,
near Stirling, and
Blair Drummond
Mr Hill said: “This collection
represents an artistic collaboration
between one of world literature’s most
important authors, and his artist-friend
whose work inspired some of the most
famous scenes of Scottish literature.”
“James Skene is always referred to
parenthetically in Scott scholarship, but
I think he must take his rightful place
in the creation of a Scottish popular
identity: his work is in part responsible
for some of the most enduring imagery
associated with Scotland.”
Bidding for the album opens on
Wednesday, February 24.
Cathy Marsden, a Rare Books
It was specialist at Lyon & Turnbull, said:
extraordinary “I was so excited to see this album. It’s
a remarkable collection of illustrations
to find a that capture the sights and experiences
collection encountered by one of Scotland’s
greatest and most influential writers
like this and his close friend.
“It will be really interesting to see
how the bidding goes and be part of
finding the drawings a new home.”
the airport of a “fire and
re-hire” policy, which it
said will lead to pay cuts.
Labour leader Sir Keir
Starmer offered his
support to the workers
during a visit to Heathrow
on Thursday.
Unite officer Wayne
King said: “Keir Starmer’s
support for Unite’s
campaign against the
brutal fire and rehire policy
that Heathrow Airport Ltd
(HAL) has forced on its
loyal workforce is hugely
welcome.
“Having taken the time
to sit down with our
members, Keir was
genuinely shocked and
disturbed to learn how
HAL had treated them.
“Keir Starmer’s positive
support for our campaign
will act as a huge boost for
our members and spur
them on to redouble their
efforts to reverse HAL’s
brutal fire and rehire
policy.
“Our members will now
invite Boris Johnson to
meet with them, so he can
understand what fire and
re-hire means for workers
and commit to making this
despicable practice illegal.”
Singer’s
apologies
to his ex
JUSTIN Timberlake has
apologised to former
girlfriend Britney Spears
and singer Janet Jackson.
Timberlake has
previously been accused of
way he treated Spears
during their relationship
and a performance he did
with Jackson at the Super
Bowl in 2004.
He wrote on Instagram:
“I’ve seen the messages,
tags, comments, and
concerns and I want to
respond.
“I am deeply sorry for the
times in my life where my
actions contributed to the
problem.
“I understand that I fell
short in these moments and
in many others and
benefited from a system
that condones misogyny
and racism.
“I specifically want to
apologize to Britney Spears
and Janet Jackson .”

Africa hit by
epidemic 1,500
years ago
THE population of central Africa was
decimated by a deadly epidemic around
1,500 years ago, according to research.
Scientists say it may have been
triggered by the same bacteria that
caused the Justinian Plague that claimed
an estimated 100 million lives and led
to the downfall of the Roman Empire.
Bantu-speaking communities in the
Congo rainforest underwent a major
population crash in the period from
1,600 to 1,400 years ago, suggest the
findings of the new study published in
the journal Science Advances.
The discovery revises the population
history of seven African countries
today: Cameroon, Central African
Republic, Democratic Republic
of the Congo, Republic of the Congo,
Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and
Angola.
The new findings also challenge the
belief that the settlement of Central
Africa by Bantu-speaking people was a
continuous process from about 4,000
years ago until the start of the
transatlantic slave trade in the 16th
century.
Professor Koen Bostoen, of Ghent
University in Belgium, said: “Our
results show this initial wave
of Bantu-speaking early Iron Age
communities had largely vanished
from the Congo rainforest region by
600 CE.”

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Green tea
could be
key in bid
to battle
cancer
GREEN tea may hold the
key to beating cancer,
according to new research.
It switches on a gene
called p53, which blocks
the development of
tumours, scientists said.
The protein destroys
damaged cells or stops
them dividing as repairs are
carried out.
It is mutated or
inactivated in most forms of
the disease.
An antioxidant found in
the traditional Chinese
drink improves efficiency,
the study shows.
It offers hope of a drug
that mimics EGCG
(epigallocatechin gallate) –
the main active compound.
Corresponding author
Professor Chunyu Wang
said: “Both p53 and EGCG
molecules are extremely
interesting.
“Mutations in p53 are
found in over 50 per cent of
human cancer, while
EGCG is the major
antioxidant in green tea, a
popular beverage
worldwide.
“Now we find there is a
previously unknown, direct
interaction between the
two, which points to a new
path for developing anti-
cancer drugs.
“Our work helps to
explain how EGCG is able
to boost p53’s anti-cancer
activity, opening the door
to developing drugs with
EGCG-like compounds.”
The natural cancer-
fighting protein was hailed
as the “guardian of the
genome’” after its discovery
in 1979.
Prof Wang, of the
Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute in Troy, New York,
described p53 as “arguably
the most important protein
in human cancer.”
One end, known as the
N-terminal domain, has a
flexible shape – enabling it
to serve several functions.
A state of the art
scanning technique called
nuclear magnetic
resonance spectroscopy
showed EGCG protects it
from degradation.
The plant chemical,
found in abundance in
green tea, is also sold as a
herbal supplement.
It helps undo constant
harm caused by oxygen
metabolism.
Alzheimer
risk linked
to shortage
of sleep
GETTING less than five
hours’ sleep a night doubles
older people’s risk of
Alzheimer’s, according to
shock new research.
They are also twice as likely
to suffer a premature death
than those who manage the
recommended seven to eight,
during which time the body
heals and repairs damaged
tissue, including the heart and
blood vessels.
Lead author Dr Rebecca
Robbins said: “Our findings
illuminate a connection
between sleep deficiency and
risk of dementia.
“They confirm the
importance of efforts to help
older individuals obtain
sufficient sleep each night.”
The findings are based on
2,610 over-65s in the US who
answered sleep
questionnaires in 2013 and
2014.
Senior author Professor
Charles Czeisler said: “This
prospective study reveals sleep
deficiency at baseline, when
the average age of participants
was 76 years old, [and] was
associated with double the
risk of incident dementia and
all-cause mortality over the
next four to five years.
“These data add to the
evidence that sleep is
important for brain health
and highlight the need for
further research on the
efficacy of improving
sleep and treating sleep
disorders on the risk of
Alzheimer’s disease and
mortality.”
Former prime minster
Margaret Thatcher – said
to have slept for four
hours a night – died with
dementia in 2013 at the
age of 87.
Butcher who raped and murdered university student Libby is jailed for life
A 26-YEAR-OLD butcher who raped
and murdered university student Libby
Squire has been jailed for life with a
minimum term of 27 years.
Married father-of-two Pawel Relowicz
dumped Ms Squire’s body in the River
Hull after raping her on a playing field in
the early hours of February 1, 2019.
The predator, who admitted that he
had been out looking for “easy sex” that
night, was convicted by a jury at
Sheffield Crown Court on Thursday
Game on for movie
Extras pictured on West Regent Street in Glasgow, which is standing in for Russia, as filming continues on the movie version
of the story behind iconic video game Tetris
Heseltine warns Union ‘now at
real risk of referendum tragedy’
Exclusive
By Michael Settle
UK Political Editor
THE Union of the United Kingdom is
now at “real risk,” Lord Heseltine has
warned, arguing that if the SNP lost a
second independence referendum, it
would swiftly begin the push for a third
one.
The 87-year-old peer told The Herald
that the Nationalists’ desire to leave the
UK but join the EU was “perverse” and
if they ever succeeded in breaking up
Britain, it would be an “historic
tragedy” just like Brexit.
Lord Heseltine, who served as
Deputy Prime Minister in John Major’s
Government, famously clashed with
Margaret Thatcher; his standing against
her for the Conservative Party
leadership in 1990 helped to secure her
dramatic departure from Downing
Street.
With 21 consecutive polls showing a
pro-Yes lead, he was asked if the UK
now faced an existential threat. “There
must be and I deeply regret that.
“The argument[on the Union] has
been raging for some considerable time.
My concern is the Union holds together.
“Just like Britain leaving the EU,
Scotland leaving the UK would be an
historic tragedy and I hope it doesn’t
happen.
“ I know what the polls are saying and
it increases my concern and argues for a
very determined argument the other
way.”
The grandee insisted the Nationalist
drive for independence was not
unstoppable but, asked if the fate of the
Union could be sealed in the next
Concern for rough sleepers as temperatures plummet to dangerous lows
SHOWING rough sleepers a little
kindness this winter could be the
turning point to helping them off
the streets, the head of one of the
UK’s leading homelessness charities
has said.
Shocking images of people
queuing for food support during
some of the coldest weather seen in
Britain for a decade has prompted
many to ask charities on social
media what they can do to help.
Temperatures plunged to minus
23C (minus 9.4F) overnight into
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after 28 hours of deliberations.
Ms Squire’s parents, Lisa and Russ,
disappearance, despite pathologists
being unable to determine how she died
around, fell over in the snow, and
refused offers of help from passers-by,
barrister called “utterly disgusting”
sexual offences in the months before
attended court and, during the four-
week trial, heard how the bacon factory
worker from Poland picked up the
because her body had been in the water
for almost seven weeks before it was
was found in the Humber Estuary.
until she encountered Relowicz.
He was to tell police five versions of
what happened, and only admitted to
that night, committing acts of voyeurism
and stealing intimate items from
student homes as trophies.
21-year-old as she wandered around the
Beverley Road area of Hull in a
The court heard that Ms Squire had
been out with friends on the evening of
having consensual sex with Ms Squire
after his DNA was discovered in her
In a victim statement, Ms Squire’s
mother told the court: “There are no
confused, upset and drunken state on a
freezing night.
The jury heard a mass of
January 31, 2019, but was refused entry
to a club because she was drunk.
Her friends paid a taxi driver to take
body.
He told the jury he did not kill her and
said he had consensual sex with her in
adequate words that can explain the
torture of living without my Libby.
“Knowing I was not there when she
circumstantial evidence linking her home but, instead of going into her Oak Road. needed me will haunt me for the rest of
Relowicz to the philosophy student’s shared student house, she wandered He admitted a series of what his my life.”
Crew members setting up to film scenes for Tetris on
Pictures: Colin Mearns Bath Lane, behind West Regent Street
decade, admitted: “It’s a real risk.”
The prominent Remainer has, to put
to the break-up of the United Kingdom”
but suggested the drive towards Scottish
pro-Remain Liberal Democrats rather
than the Conservatives in that year’s
it mildly, had a rather uneasy
The cause of independence was “based much more European Parliament elections.
relationship with Boris Johnson.
In 2016, in the aftermath of the Brexit separatism is
on the consequences of the economic
collapse of 2008 and the frustrations to
He said he was “appalled” by Brexit
and the recent trading problems had
vote and following the arch-Brexiteer’s
dramatic withdrawal from the Tory
leadership race to succeed David
much older
than Boris
people’s living standards that have
taken place since then. That’s reflected
in Scotland but it’s also reflected in the
been “predicted”.
“The horticultural industry is in
trouble, our exports with the hauliers
Cameron, Lord Heseltine likened him
to “a general who marches his army to Johnson’s UK at large. People wanted change
because of their frustrations over living
are in trouble, Northern Ireland’s
border is in trouble, the City of London
the sound of the guns and, the moment
he sees the battleground, he abandons
appearance on
the scale
standards and so, whatever change
comes along, it’s so easy to turn into a
has got no equivalence agreement.
Amsterdam now becomes the principal
it”. false prospectus”. stock-trading[centre]. It goes on day by
Asked if he thought the PM was a When it was suggested Nicola day by day.
liability to the Unionist cause in Sturgeon had upped the stakes on “We’re going through a period of
Scotland, Lord Heseltine replied: “The Indyref2 and was pressing hard for adjustment but the new norm will not
cause of separatism is much older than another vote on Scotland’s future be as good as we enjoyed as members of
Boris Johnson’s appearance on the because she saw a window of political the EU and every day the evidence
scale and you’re not going to get me in a opportunity, Lord Heseltine noted: accumulates as one predicted it would.”
debate about the personalities. “Yes, she will and if she loses that, she Indeed, Lord Heseltine still keeps the
“The Scots Nats will use any device will go for another one after that. The flame alive for the UK one day
they can to further their cause; that’s Scots Nats will go and on.” becoming a member of the EU again
what politics is about.” The peer said he “hoped” the Union and that day might not be too far away.
Indeed, the former DPM’s view is that could be saved and it was now Dismissing any reversal of the 2016
the Nationalist position to want to be incumbent upon the Johnson vote through another referendum, he
out of the UK but in the EU is illogical. Government to present a strategy to argued the Tories or Labour could put
“It seems to me extraordinary the push back the Nationalist offensive and rejoining the bloc in a manifesto and
Scottish Nationalists, who want to argue the “self-evident” importance of win a general election.
break up the UK, want to remain within maintaining the alliance that is the But it was suggested neither of them
the EU; it’s completely inconsistent,” he United Kingdom. were going to do that any time soon.
declared, stressing: “Scotland will not “They must explain the nature of the “You’re talking about today. I’m talking
be better off outside the United shrinking world in which we live. The about tomorrow,” declared the former
Kingdom any more than Britain will be emergence of giant forces beyond the Cabinet minister.
better off outside the European Union.” control of the nation state. “Opinion would not need to change
When the issue of Indyref2 was “The inability of any smallish country that dramatically, would it? There was
raised, the peer jumped in to insist he to finance anything like the scale of the narrowest of majorities in the
was against all referenda. influence they can have together. referendum.” The UK result was 51.9%
“They are nasty affairs because they “This is the European argument as to Leave against 48.1% to Remain.
are deeply divisive. well as the Union argument,” insisted Asked if he was, therefore, relying on
“They divide families, they divide the peer. either of the main parties to change
communities. Lord Heseltine remains a tack, he replied: “I’m relying on public
“They rarely deal with the issues non-affiliated peer after the Tory whip opinion to change,” adding: “I believe
concerned.” was suspended in 2019 because he we will rejoin the EU and I will
He accepted Brexit was a “stimulus announced he would be voting for the continue to argue that we should.”
Thursday in Braemar, Aberdeenshire showed them some kindness was a and December – a 58% drop on the In a post on its Facebook page, it
– the coldest temperature recorded real turning point for them.” previous quarter, according to data said John Scott Wrench died on
in the UK since 1995. Mr Sparkes praised the from the Combined Homelessness February 1 while rough sleeping in
Jon Sparkes, chief executive of Government’s Everyone In scheme, and Information Network. Manchester. The post said: “Shocking
Crisis, said: “If people feel confident which was introduced in the first “The Government needs to be that a relatively fit young man who
enough to go up and try and talk to phase of lockdown to get people very, very clear we are still in a had been rough sleeping for a short
someone, my first piece of advice is into secure accommodation. public health emergency situation,” time could be found dead!”
ask them what they need. But he urged ministers to signal Mr Sparkes said. “When they use Images of people queueing in the
“If you do decide to give someone “loud and clear” to councils it is words like ‘everyone’, they need to snow for food parcels from charity
money, do it in good faith as one equally vital everyone is off the streets mean everyone.” Kindness Homeless Street Team
human being to another, and as a in the current wave of the pandemic. Manchester-based Mad Dogs Glasgow this week sparked an
matter of kindness.” In London, 535 people were Homeless Project said a 25-year-old outcry on social media. The charity
He added: “The people I talk to placed in Covid-19 emergency man had died last week after a “bitter, has asked anyone wishing to help to
often tell me that moment someone accommodation between October cold night out on the streets”. donate to its GoFundMe page.
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Saturday February 13, 2021
SCIENCE : TECHNOLOGY
Up-to-date geographical
information is allowing
global technology firm
CGI to promote new
walking and cycling
routes that encourage
‘active travel’, reveals
Nan Spowart
A
CTIVE travel is a
concept that has
become increasingly
important in recent
years and the pandemic
has made it even more relevant.
It is the name given to all
journeys that involve physical
movement such as walking and
cycling and is seen as a way of
promoting good physical and
mental health while also reducing
carbon levels as people walk or
cycle to work or school rather than
use motorised transport.
The onset of the pandemic has
highlighted the need for active
travel in order to slow down the
spread of the virus by preventing
buses and trains becoming
crowded but at the same time it has
revealed weaknesses in the existing
network as some paths are too
narrow for proper social distancing
and some have become muddy and
eroded through overuse.
It has quickly become clear that
new routes are required to ease
pressure on existing ones, along
with more up-to-date information
on their location and condition.
And now, geospatial data
gathering is being used to improve
information on active travel routes.
Pioneering its use is the Welsh
Government which has been
exploring its potential with global
technology firm CGI, with the
other UK nations closely watching
its development.
In Wales the project is a result of
an act passed in 2013 promoting
the use of active travel. Under the
act, local authorities and the Welsh
Government have a duty to
promote active travel journeys,
create new routes and improve
existing ones.
The Act also means they have to
improve route maps and integrate
existing and future paths with
transport policies.
In order to keep on top of where
the routes are, the
Government has
turned to
geospatial
ACTIVE
MEASURES: their own routes but makes sure
Pascal
Coulon
Director
Consulting approach , and there was no way to
Expert
at CGI
Staying active works with a ‘fake commute’
WELLBEING
FOCUS
P
ASCAL Coulon already
uses the concept of an
active travel route to
begin his working day –
even though he has not set
foot in the office for ten months.
When the first lockdown hit
back in March, he had to begin
working from home but rather
than go straight from his bedroom
to his laptop he decided he would
still commute, doing what he calls
a ‘#FakeCommute’.
Pre-pandemic, his working day
began with a half hour drive to the
office so Coulon decided to use
that time to walk to work.
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OPTIONS TO SUIT: Geospatial services are helping to popularise the concept of ‘active travel’ by identifying the best walking and cycling networks.
Data provides routes
to a healthier lifestyle
technology to create maps similar
to Google Maps but with more
detail about local areas.
The technology means that local
authorities can understand where
changes are required so they can
make improvements where
necessary, create new ones and give
the public digital access to a route
map which will give helpful details
on paths, cycleways and bridleways
in local areas – even showing which
are muddy and where public toilets
can be found. The advances of
technology mean it is now possible
to use location data to find out
where networks are shrinking, for
example, or where they are
growing.
CGI has now created a data
sharing platform called
DataMapWales which is used as a
one stop shop to manage active
travel routes. It allows the 22 local
authorities across Wales to manage
they still connect at a national level.
“Prior to this, the ageing previous
system had created a disjointed
know a footpath carried on from
one local authority area to a
Now every weekday morning he
sets off from his front door and
walks for half an hour using one of
the active travel routes in his area.
“Yes we are in lockdown but it
doesn’t mean I can’t do my
commute every morning and
thanks to the route network I can
do a fake commute,” he said.
“From my bedroom to my office
takes seconds but I make it last
half an hour because I use the
active travel network around my
estate following the footpaths.”
With gyms and swimming pools
closed, more people seem to be
cycling, running or going for walks
in order to get some exercise and
break up the monotony of
lockdown.
Coulon said central governments
could capitalise on this by
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neighbouring one so this helps to
create a more connected active
travel route across the country,”
said CGI Director Consulting
Expert Pascal Coulon.
Using the active travel data
portal, local authorities are able to
edit their networks with the aim of
eventually being able to present
them in an accessible way so people
can easily find out where their
nearest active travel routes are. It
will also allow the public to notify
authorities on the state of active
travel routes.
“It is a nice way to interact with
the public and means this valuable
source of data can evolve and be
more fit for purpose,” said Coulon.
For the platform to work well,
Open Architecture – a technology
infrastructure with specifications
“
that are public as opposed to
proprietary – is used so that data
can be shared and pumped into the
system from multiple locations and
sources, such as Sustrans, the
charity that manages cycle routes
across the UK. “In my view the way
to really promote and successfully
manage your data in a digital way is
by implementing Open
continuing to promote active
travel. Active travel is not an
ephemeral trend, it is there to stay
and it is backed-up by government
policies, he says. This domain is
SCOTTISH SCIENTIFIC
GAME-CHANGERS
Architecture: maximising the
sharing of data – this way you will
really favour data sharing and the
reuse of IT infrastructure,” said
Coulon. “Active travel is very much
an evolving sort of domain and
industry leaders like Sustrans and
Strava, the fitness app, have a huge
amount of data on where people
are walking, cycling and running
and where a given cycle path or
route is most used.
“You can see ones that are not
used and so you can look into it
and maybe find a fence has been
put there so it is not suitable for
cyclists. Or you might find one is
being used more than another
because it is better lit and so on.
“This is something that could be
used across the UK as it is a great
THIS HELPS TO CREATE
A MORE CONNECTED
ACTIVE TRAVEL ROUTE
ACROSS THE COUNTRY
THE RIGHT
PATH:
Accurate
geospatial
maps can
encourage
workers to
take walks
that will
replace
their daily
commute.
an example where the use of
geospatial technologies and data
are key to establish the link. In the
context of active travel, route
networks cannot be used in
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way to help local authorities
understand the impact the current
pandemic is having.”
He added: “However the key
message is that the management of
this type of data can only be
achieved if the concept of Open
Architecture is used along with
data federations – using data from
different sources without
duplicating the datasets. This needs
to be centrally managed but
managed by multiple stakeholders.
Open architecture means the data
can be kept up to date as people
have direct access to input
knowledge.”
CGI has already completed much
of the work and the next phase is to
enable the technology to allow
public consultation. “As part of the
2013 Act any active travel route
needs to be presented to the public
for consultations and the digital
platform means this can now be
done more effectively,” said Coulon.
For more information on CGI’s
geospatial services, go online at
www.cgi.com/uk/en-gb/
central-government/
environment-and-agriculture
isolation. While the route forms
the basis of the solution, it needs
to be developed in conjunction
with other factors (for example,
pollution, route condition and
public facilities).
As often in the world of public
transport and health policies, the
role of geospatial technologies is
pivotal in bringing different actors
and data together.
“Maps are often a chosen means
to display the result of a study as a
picture is worth a thousand
words,” Pascal says. “The
Department of Transport is
investing in mapping the cycle
route so there is a big move there
but disseminating the data is the
next challenge and that is where
geospatial technology can help.”
said Coulon.
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NEWS
SOLID BREAKTHROUGH
ENGINEERS at Glasgow University
have created a new form of
3D-printed material that they claim is
tougher and lighter than similar forms
of aluminium.
Made by combining commonly-
used plastics and carbon atoms, the
new material could lead to the
development of safer, lighter and
more durable structures for use in the
aerospace, automotive, renewables
and marine industries.
In a new paper published in the
journal Materials & Design, a team led
by University of Glasgow engineers
describe how they have developed a
new ‘plate-lattice cellular
metamaterial’ capable of impressive
resistance to impacts.
Metamaterials are artificially-
created – designed and engineered
to manifest properties which do not
occur in the natural world.
This form of metamaterials, known
as a plate-lattice, is a cubic structure
made from intersecting layers of
plates that exhibit unusually high
stiffness and strength, despite
featuring a significant amount of
space between the plates.
Those spaces, which engineers
call ‘porosity’, also makes plate-
lattices unusually lightweight.
The researchers say the new
composite they have developed
could lead to the creation of a
metamaterial with even more
advanced properties of stiffness,
strength and toughness.
MATERIAL WORLD: New ‘plate-lattice’
structures increase strength and durability.
SPECIAL DELIVERY
AERIAL drones could soon be
delivering blood, organs and
other medical supplies in Scotland
as part of a revolutionary UK-first
trial involving researchers at the
University of Strathclyde.
The CAELUS project will involve
live flight trials of drones in the
second half of 2021.
The 18-month long trial is being
led by a consortium of 14 academic
and industry partners headed by
AGS Airports, owners of Aberdeen,
Glasgow and Southampton airports
and could ‘revolutionise the way in
which healthcare services are
delivered’.
The project emerged from
research led by Strathclyde whose
researchers will create a digital
blueprint of the drone delivery
network with the potential to
connect hospitals, pathology labo-
ratories, distribution centres and
GP surgeries across Scotland.
In addition to developing the
ground infrastructure needed to
recharge the drones and the
systems to control them while
flying, a key aspect of the project
will be ensuring the drones can
safely share airspace with civil avia-
tion. Critical aspects such as public
safety, security and noise levels will
also be carefully considered.
The system would employ electri-
cal drones, which could be fully
autonomous with the capability to
take off and land like helicopters
but fly like fixed-wing aircraft.
LIFT OFF: The CAELUS project aims to
deliver medical supplies across Scotland.
12 Herald Space Series ANALYSIS , I NSIGHT, OPI N ION Saturday February 13, 2021

S
COTLAND is reaching for the communi-

Destination ...
stars in becoming a space cated.
nation. The sector is growing “More and
rapidly and could be worth as Today The Herald is more people
much as £4billion by 2030.
Soon, rockets carrying obser-
launching a monthly series are starting
to under-
vation satellites will launch from of articles focusing on stand it, but
Scotland, and The Herald is set to the general

give the industry some extra lift in
coming months through our new
partnership with AstroAgency,
global experts in strategic space
marketing.
We will use this collaboration to
spread awareness of Scotland’s grow-
ing prominence as a European space
nation and the benefits it will bring
across a range of areas including the
economy, environment, education
and the supply chain.
AstroAgency is playing a leading
role in the sector. It was founded in
Scotland and operates internation-
ally, blending marketing specialists
with space industry experts.
Daniel Smith, its Founder and
Creative Director, says: “We’re
passionate about ongoing space
sector developments in Scotland. It
was one of the main reasons we
chose to set up our headquarters
here, despite being globally focused.
“For us to partner with a leading
mainstream news organisation is a
real sign of the growing interest in
space from the wider business
community and the general public.”
He continues: “Space might seem
more abstract than ever for some, but
the truth is that it’s never been so
close. This brings a range of opportu-
nities and we’ll be sharing many of
these in this series”.
There are now well over 130 space
organisations based north of the
border. Glasgow, thanks to the
success of companies such as Clyde
Space and Spire, is emerging as a
major European centre for building
small satellites for use in applications
such as environmental monitoring,
while across the M8 Edinburgh is
now an established hub for down-
loading and analysing data from
space.
Scotland’s Trade Minister, Ivan
McKee, is an evangelist for the
Space Nation
“We have the right skills here,
particularly in the universities, and
that pipeline is hugely important to
these businesses. We are also the
right size and we are connected
– we can get the right people
round the table fairly quickly.
“That means we have been
able to proactively join
everything up. Scottish Devel-
opment International wants
believes, offer some of the most excit-
ing prospects for the industry in Scot-
land. Five locations are developing
launch plans across the country at
Prestwick Airport, Shetland,
Sutherland, North Uist and
Machrihanish in Argyll.
It may be that not all come to
fruition, but Mr McKee is
enthusiastic about the possibili-
ties they offer.
Scotland's booming space
sector. In the first of these
Andrew Collier hears
from AstroAgency's Daniel
Smith and Trade Minister
Ivan McKee about how
the nation is well set to
become a major contender
in the new space race
private sector and Lockheed and is needed on an ongoing basis to meet
coming along very well. Prestwick is the demands of space businesses.
looking at horizontal launches and is “I think we are in a good place to
associated with the local aerospace do that. We are getting the message
cluster.” out there that Scotland is well placed
Many of the satellites will be used to take advantage of this.”
for monitoring climate change, iden- He concedes that, as a relatively
tifying illegal mining and fishing, as new industry, the broader Scottish
well as promoting sustainable farm- public may not yet be fully aware of
ing and food chain supply. its importance or potential and that
“They will help us to understand this message needs to be fully
population
probably
don’t know
very much
about it. „ Daniel Smith,
“We are in founder of
a bit of a AstroAgency
space race
with other countries in terms of who
launches first.”
The minister agrees that if Scot-
land can maintain and consolidate
its current position in the sector, the
positive consequences could be
profound. There is, for example, no
reason why the country cannot
become a centre of space excellence,
as it has in oil and gas.
It will also offer young people the
prospect of exciting careers and
hopefully persuade them into STEM
„ A Spire satellite pictured in orbit
subjects more generally. “It’s proba-
bly going to encourage them to study
things like engineering, physics,
maths and science, and that has to be
a good thing.”
Stephen McTaggart, Business
Team Manager of The Herald, says
he is delighted to be launching the
monthly focus.
“Two years ago, we launched our
quarterly business magazine, Busi-

“
sector, helping to bring it together to attract businesses “They are all trying to everything from ice floes to forestry. ness HQ, into space to promote our
and co-ordinating government here and we also do slightly different In environmental terms, there is coverage of the space industry and
support. He points out it has several have the Scottish things – it’s a big some tremendous stuff going on with have since been keeping up with the
different facets. Space Leadership market with a lot of the launch vehicles – the fuel can be huge opportunity it offers to
“There’s the manufacturing of the Council plus an opportunity. environmentally friendly, as can the Scotland.
satellites, launching the rockets and
management of the downstream
alliance to pull all
the spaceports
“The Sutherland
site was recently
rocket construction materials.”
Mr McKee believes that there are
You are talking “Our aim is to provide regular
updates on the high-tech, high skill
data, which is probably the biggest
area and has evolved on the back of
together.
“It means
granted planning
permission, while
rich opportunities for the sector in
Scotland. “You are talking about a
about a huge global and research and development
aspects of a sector which currently
our data analytics capability.”
Scotland’s success, he says, is
everything is joined
up and everyone
Shetland involves the huge global industry here. Without a
doubt, we could do well.”
industry here. has a turnover of around £245
million.
partly down to our geographical posi-
tion, which provides advantages with
knows where we are
trying to go and
„ Space minister
Ivan McKee says
If there are medium term chal-
lenges to be met in developing the
Without a doubt, “That equates to 14% of the UK’s
total space industry income, so
launches. Our engineering legacy is supports each other.” Scotland's skills base sector, they include ensuring that we could do well we punch well above our weight
also important. The spaceports, he gives it an advantage Scotland is nurturing the talent in this sector.”

Reach for the stars

with The Herald
You might not know this, but Scotland is well on the
way to becoming one of the world’s most dynamic,
innovative and successful space nations.
Its burgeoning space sector numbers more than
130 organisations and our home city of Glasgow
is emerging as a major world centre for building
satellites for use in data gathering for environmental
research as well as communications.
There is also the tantalising prospect that soon we
will be able to launch our own satellites into space
from five spaceports dotted around the country.
Indeed, it’s estimated that at the current rate of
growth, Scotland’s space sector could be worth as
much as £4billion to the economy by the end of the
decade – potentially creating thousands of jobs and
inspiring young people to study STEM subjects.
And so it’s with this prospect in mind that the Herald
has partnered with global strategic space marketing
experts, AstroAgency, to publish a series of monthly
insights into the workings of the Scottish space sector.
Each month we will focus on the organisations and
individuals who are at the leading edge of latest
developments in the Scottish space sector – the
pioneers of a new, opportunity-rich global industry.

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Saturday February 13, 2021
AI technology helps island heart
patients avoid long trips to hospital
By Mike Merritt
A HEALTH board has become the
first in Scotland to use world-leading
technology to fight heart disease.
NHS Western Isles says it is
“transforming” patient care.
AI-powered diagnostic technology
improves cardiac care and helps
patients to avoid unnecessary and risky
invasive procedures
HeartFlow, Inc and NHS Western
Isles are working together to help
clinicians diagnose one of Scotland’s
biggest killers, coronary heart disease
(CHD).
Marking National Heart Month amid
the Covid-19 pandemic, Western Isles
Hospital in Stornoway says its use of
the pioneering technology has helped
its island population avoid unnecessary
invasive procedures and reduce the
need for lengthy travel to the mainland.
The pioneering NHS board has
adopted a CT-first approach with the
HeartFlow Analysis, which means
many patients who may have CHD can
be diagnosed within a matter of days
and in one hospital visit.
This reduces the requirement for
patients to visit the mainland for
onward investigation. It also limits the
time patients must spend in healthcare
settings, a critical advantage during the
coronavirus pandemic.
The HeartFlow Analysis takes data
from a coronary CT scan and leverages
deep learning – a form of AI – and
highly trained analysts to create a
personalised, digital 3D model of
the patient’s coronary arteries. Its
algorithms solve millions of equations
to simulate blood flow in a patient’s
arteries to help clinicians assess the
impact of any blockages.
This unique technology helps
clinicians quickly diagnose CHD
and decide the appropriate treatment
for patients. In many cases, the
information provided by the
HeartFlow Analysis enables physicians
to avoid recommending invasive
diagnostic procedures, which can carry
their own risks of complications.
Debra Vickers, NHS Western Isles
Nurse Consultant for Cardiology, said:
Debra Vickers, NHS Western Isles Nurse Consultant for Cardiology, left, Dr David Rigby, Realistic Medicine & Therapeutics Clinical Lead, and Jane
MacDonald, the board’s Radiology Manager, are leading the way in the use of the new technology
“The HeartFlow Analysis has helped
us to transform patient care across our
chain of islands.
“The detailed insights we are able to
get from using it in conjunction with
CT scanning means we can confidently
identify those who can be treated with
medication alone.
“This makes a huge difference to our
patients who could otherwise face
a three-day journey to Glasgow for
further investigations. Not only is this
a lot to ask of our older patients, but it
is also costly for the board. We’re a
small team at NHS Western Isles, but
we’re proud to be the first in Scotland
to offer this service to patients.”
Jane MacDonald, radiology manager
for NHS Western Isles, said: “The
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cardiac CT scan with the HeartFlow
Analysis has become the most
specialised examination we perform.
“We work with some fantastic
doctors on the mainland, but we don’t
have a cardiology consultant or
permanent radiologist on the island.
So, the HeartFlow Analysis has been a
great tool in helping us assess patients
and get a diagnosis for them quickly.
“In the midst of the pandemic, it has
helped reduce the number of times
people have to come to the hospital
and prioritise further investigations or
interventions for those who need it
most.”
Lance Scott, chief commercial officer
at HeartFlow said: “The global pandemic
has certainly increased appetite for
digital technologies that are able to
assist medical professionals with
efficiencies and the diagnosis of disease.
Patients can And in an island setting such as the
receive a Western Isles, it can be an invaluable
tool for teams who are unable to
diagnosis and perform invasive investigations on site.
treatment “The CT-HeartFlow pathway has
meant patients spend less time in
plan after just hospitals. The NHS continues to lead
one trip to the world with its approach to CHD
diagnosis. We’re pleased to be working
the hospital to help streamline the patient diagnostic
experience and reduce unnecessary
procedures. Patients can receive a
diagnosis and treatment plan after just
one trip to the hospital and many can
go home reassured they only need to
be treated with medication.”
News 13
Ancient
figurine
of Cupid
found
A FIGURINE of Cupid,
the ancient Roman god of
love, dating back almost
2,000 years has been
discovered along with
a bow-shaped brooch and
a skeleton.
The Cupid is a rare find,
with fewer than 50 known
in the UK, and is one of
only three that have been
found as part of an
archaeological dig rather
than by metal detectorists.
It was discovered in
a deposit of charcoal,
suggesting it could be an
offering to the gods. It is
made from solid bronze
and features wings and
a flaming torch.
The item, along with
the brooch and skeleton,
was discovered as part of
early survey works on
the £435 million A417
missing link route in
Gloucestershire.
Michael Goddard,
senior project manager
for the A417 at Highways
England, said: “The
archaeology works we are
undertaking along the
A417 give us a significant
insight into life on the site
thousands of years ago.
“It’s fascinating to see
that Romans would have
lived in the area in a
similar way to how we do
today – drawn to the
area’s stunning beauty,
something we are aiming
to maintain with this
landscape-led scheme.
“It’s also fascinating to
see that the Romans also
left offerings to the God of
love to keep them happy
and help shape their own
lives – with Cupid now a
staple of Valentine’s Day
celebrations all over the
world.
“These finds help us
understand the
relationship between the
improvement scheme and
the surrounding historic
environment.”
14 Obituaries ANALYSIS , I NSIGHT, OPI N ION Saturday February 13, 2021

Bank manager POEM OF

THE DAY

who introduced
WITH LESLEY DUNCAN

THREE little musings

to complete the St
Valentine sequence.

first credit card

(And, in case
you had forgotten,
tomorrow is the
big day.)

in Glasgow and
THIS IS AS FAR AS
I’M PREPARED TO GO
Do I love you?
I’d rather not say,
At least today.

lived to 105
John Haswell Young
Born: September 23, 1915;
Died: January 1, 2021.
JOHN Haswell Young – Hasie to his
friends and family – passed away
peacefully in the early hours of New
Year’s Day at Erskine Care Home
in Bishopton. He was 105 and
understood to be the second oldest
man in Scotland.
In a full and active life he worked
in banking and graduated in 1946
with a law degree from Glasgow
University, having undertaken the
course at the recommendation of his
branch manager at some point in the
previous decade.
In 1956 he became the manager of
the British Linen Bank’s branch in
Buchanan Street and was responsible
for the introduction and marketing
of the first credit card – Barclaycard
– in the Glasgow area.
During this time the British Linen
Bank was taken over by the Bank of
Scotland and, subsequently, Hasie
became the manager at its newly built
flagship branch at No. 110 Queen
Street, Glasgow. On retirement from
the Bank of Scotland he became a
director of the British Linen
Merchant Bank.
The combination of a law degree
and the appropriate banking
qualifications was almost unique
and undoubtedly had a bearing on
his promotion during his career.
Hasie was born in Beith, Ayrshire,
on September 23, 1915. The family
roots were in farming but his father,
who served in the Royal Flying
Corps in the First World War, was a
teacher and latterly ran a furniture
manufacturing business.
Hasie went to school initially in
Beith, then Glasgow Academy,
where he played for both the rugby
first XV and the cricket first XI,
subsequently playing both rugby and
first XI cricket for the Academical
Club.
In 1934, he joined the British
Linen Bank, working initially in the
principal office in Queen Street. The
following year he was moved to the
Partick branch, and it was there the
manager suggested he study for a law
degree. This was done before and
after working hours, and was finally
completed after the war.
With the outbreak of war he quickly
joined up with the RAF, initially
being posted to Cornwall and later
spending three years in Bombay. His
hearing prevented him from flying
and by his own admission he saw
little action as an Equipment Officer.
By the time he was demobbed he had
achieved the rank of Flight Lieutenant.
In 1947, Hasie married Doris, whom
he had met during the war while
on leave. They were a wonderful
partnership, Doris always being a
placid person and complementing
her husband’s more extrovert
character. They had two daughters,
Alison and Fiona.
After the war he rejoined British
Linen Bank in its head office in
Edinburgh, working in the Law and
Executor Trustee Department. This
was followed by a move back to
Glasgow as assistant manager in the
West George Street branch and in
1956 he took over the running of the
Buchanan Street branch.
Outside of his profession Hasie
had many interests. During his time
in Edinburgh he was a director of
the Edinburgh Junior Chamber of
Commerce.
He started an Edinburgh branch
of the Glasgow Academical Club and
played cricket for the Grange Club.
Later, he took up golf with a passion
and was a member of Glasgow Golf
Club, Buchanan Golf Club and the
Golf House Club, Elie.
A keen sportsman, he curled with
An optimist, he announced one day that he had
just signed up for an extra five years on his
Madeira timeshare – he was then 96
John Haswell Young was a hugely popular figure at Erskine Picture: Jamie Williamson
both Partick and the Twenty Curling
Clubs. He had an enormous interest
and was very knowledgeable about
sport in general, keeping up to date
by avidly reading the sports pages.
He was active in the administration
of the Academical Club, as
vice president and governor of the
committee raising funds to build the
current Anniesland stand and, for
10 years, convener of the team that
started the bar.
He was the first treasurer of
Abbeyfield Glasgow and subsequently
chairman of its five residential care
homes; he also served as treasurer of
the Forces Help and Lord Robert’s
Workshop; and was finance
convener of the British Red Cross
and a director of Haven Products Ltd,
which dealt with funding
arrangements for the disabled.
A major passion of Hasie’s was the
sun. For years he, Doris and the two
girls would get into the family car
and head, sometimes with a tent, for
such far-flung places as Yugoslavia.
This was no mean feat in the days of
the Morris 1000.
The family had by some time
holidayed in just about all of the
European sunny countries but his
favourites were Madeira and
Mallorca. He was very much an
optimist: one day, over lunch in
Madeira, he announced that he had
just signed up for an extra five years
on his timeshare. He was then 96.
Doris pre-deceased Hasie in 2008
at the age of 90, after 61 years
Perhaps when several decades have
gone by
You could try
Me with the question again.
Till then
I’ll merely mention
That you’re my missing dimension,
My sun that sears with heat and light
My revelation in the night.
Oh, yes, and I’m rather fond of you,
too.
THE KISS I
You of all people
Chose to play the pesky prince
And woke me back to feeling
With a kiss.
In this you were amiss,
Encroaching on the no-go
Areas of my heart
In which you have no part
Or stake, save to impale
This poor female.
Oh leave the living dead alone
Unless you would atone
For this impertinence
And purge contempt
By offering again
That sweet-lipped sacrament.
THE KISS II
Must this
Wanton
of marriage. Want on
Despite extreme deafness and the For what
onset of macular degeneration, his She did
zest for life did not diminish. With Not know
his daughters he hosted three parties She missed
for his 100th birthday. His last Until you
foreign holiday was at the age of 101 Kissed?
in Majorca with his daughters and
their husbands.
In 2017, shortly before his 102nd
birthday, he decided, without any
family prompting, he should go into Contact
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Saturday February 13, 2021 A SCOT T ISH PER SPEC T I VE 15
We are determined 2021 will be a year of
positivity and hope in celebrating hostelling

Association tackles
pandemic’s
impact with free
membership for
all Britons, writes
Sandra Dick

THERE were freezing cold showers, hard

bunk beds, shiny lino, a DIY dinner and a
very strategically placed gap between the
men’s dormitories and the women’s rooms.
In return for the mere sum of around
a shilling a night, the youth of 1930s
Scotland had the nation’s countryside
at their fingertips or, perhaps more
appropriately, right under the soles of
their hiking boots.
In an age of innocence between world
wars, when the motor car was not yet king
and foreign holidays still un-thought of, the
simple pleasure of exploring Scotland’s
hills, glens and countryside was about to
become accessible and, more to the point,
affordable for every young Scot.
With rucksacks, rosy cheeks and no
need for too many home comforts, the first
hardy hostellers set about exploring the
four corners of Scotland.
This weekend marks 90 years since the
Scottish Youth Hostelling Association
was born in an Edinburgh committee
room – the rather stuffy origins for an
organisation that would go on to help lay
down precious memories of the great
outdoors for generations of Scots to come.
To mark nine decades of bunking down
in timber huts, Victorian manor houses
and even castles with dormitories,
communal kitchens and freezing showers
– quite unlike the association’s modern
boutique hotel-style hostels – the
association has revealed plans to give every
baby born in the UK this month a free
lifetime membership.
The attempt to reach a new generation of
hostellers – perhaps a little “softer” than
their great great grandparents, who had
never heard of the continental breakfast Rowardennan Lodge on the eastern bank of Loch Lomond has always been popular because it offers access to its waters and also the nearby mountains and West Highland Way
now served in hostels – comes as the
organisation reels from a pandemic that

Ruddy cheeks, rucksacks

has left normally bustling hostels closed
and visitor numbers in freefall.
It is the worst crisis in 90 years of history
– which, of course, spans the Second
World War – and it has caused an 89 per
cent slump in annual operational income,
and a massive swing from a £1.4 million

and castle dorms: Youth

operational surplus in 2019 to a £2m
operational loss in 2020.
“As we reflect on our most challenging
year since 1931 and celebrate being
90 years young, we are determined 2021
will be a year of positivity and hope,

hostel group reaches 90

celebrating our hostelling family’s past,
present and future,” says Margo Paterson,
chief executive of Hostelling Scotland, the
modern name for the original organisation.
“2020 has been the most challenging
year in the organisation’s history but we
feel confident there is light at the end
of the tunnel.”
When that comes, those who pack their
rucksacks for a post-lockdown hostel stay
will follow in the footsteps of countless
hikers and cyclists of the past, who set out
to explore beauty spots undeterred by the
prospect of bedding down in some very
cheap and cheerful accommodation.
Launched in February 1931, the Scottish
Youth Hostelling Association was inspired
by a growing network of hostels on the
Continent and, in particular, Germany.
There, concerns at the start of the 20th
century about strict family life and a near
tyrannical education system had sparked
youth protests and the Wandervogel youth
movement: jolly groups of German
youngsters hiking into the countryside,
singing folk songs and bedding down in
simple huts, away from the restraints of
school and home.
When a German teacher decided to
open his school to the Wandervogel
movement during summer holidays, the
idea of hostels took shape.
Here, the Glasgow Rucksack Club
embraced the vision and set about securing
a couple of huts while, in Edinburgh, Lord
Salveson, a well-travelled lawyer whose
father had founded the Christian Salvesen
shipping line, argued for a Scotland-wide
hostel association.
By April 1931, the SYHA’s first hostel
– a cosy row of whitewashed cottages near
Selkirk that had been converted to contain
20 beds – was open.
Eager hostellers soon rushed to take out
memberships and within the first five
years around 50 hostels had opened,
ranging from basic Norwegian-style timber
huts to former manor houses, Victorian
shooting lodges, simple crofts, farmhouses,
townhouses and old schools.
Most offered a night’s accommodation
for little more than a shilling and, in
return, hostellers had the thrill of bagging
a “bed night” stamp on their SYHA
membership card to record their travels.
Some hostels were considerably more
basic and remote than others. The hostel
at Loch Ossian, on the northern edge of
Rannoch Moor, emerged from a former
Corrour Station House sits at the rail The gothic mansion, Garth Youth Hostel,
stop made famous by Trainspotting became a youth hostel
waiting room for the steam yacht that once Others, such as Carbisdale Castle Hostel
crossed the loch. Its hardy guests faced near Invershin, defied the popular image
a 20-minute hike from Courour Station – of hostel life. Built in the early 20th
later famous for its role in Trainspotting century by the Duchess of Sutherland and
– and an 85-year wait before they could given to the SYHA in 1945, hostellers were
enjoy a warm shower. treated to a hall of marble statues and
Refurbished as an “eco hostel” in 2016, dozens of 19th-century paintings. The cost
it now has locally sourced hydro and solar of maintaining it, however, was too much
power, composting toilets and even comes and the castle was sold in 2016.
with bed linen. Some hostels were prized for their
Last year was the most challenging
in our history but we feel confident
there is light at the end of the tunnel
Carbisdale Castle, near Bonar Bridge in
Sutherland, was formerly a youth hostel
stunning locations, others were drenched
in history. Ferniehirst Castle was built on
the road to Otterburn and Newcastle to
help secure the gateway to Scotland,
serving as a base for military raids and
seized by 16th-century English forces.
Leased to the SYHA by the 11th Marquis
of Lothian in 1935, it served as one of the
movement’s most popular youth hostels for
half a century. It, too, was sold.
For some well-off families, supporting
the Association was one way to offload
financially draining castles and manors,
which would otherwise have stood almost
empty.
For example, Garth Youth Hostel in
the magnificent setting of Glen Lyon,
Scotland’s longest glen, was donated by
the mother of Lieutenant Ian Mackenzie-
Anderson, who died when HM submarine
Odin was sunk by enemy action in 1940.
A hostel for more than 40 years, like
others in the association’s portfolio, it
required investment just as demands
from hostel visitors began to soar.
Much-loved properties were disposed of
at a staggering rate, as the association
reinvented itself from an image of happy
hikers content with the basics to one
catering for a more sophisticated – yes,
some may suggest softer – modern traveller.
A sign of how far the movement shifted
from those basic roots was the £10m
splashed out in 2011 on a 296-bed
five-storey retreat on the corner of
Annandale Street and Leith Walk,
Edinburgh. It boasted leather sofas, big
screen televisions, lattes and a la carte
menus.
In the past five years, £7.2m has been
spent on upgrading hostels.
From 99 hostels and up to one million
visitors each year, there are now 33 SYHA
hostels and 27 affiliates – including at
popular spots such as the NC500 route and
the Isle of Skye. Hostels now attract about
380,000 visitors per year, usually spending
around £20 a night for their stay, while the
association is said to provide an estimated
annual contribution to the Scottish visitor
economy of £25m.
There are now youth engagement
programmes, respite services, holidays
for low-income families and “woof”
hostels for visitors with pets.
However, the pandemic has struck at the
very heart of an association built on shared
spaces and coming together. The hope is
that a new tourism landscape of increased
staycations and a revived appreciation for
the Scottish countryside among Scots may
help claw back some of what has been lost.
“Hostelling has been massively
affected,” adds Margo. “The very essence
of hostelling is shared space and
friendship, and we have had to change
everything about our operation.
“We are looking at everything and
considering all the options. We need
guidance.”

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UN body
in call for 11
urgent 20
action
over coup
New York
THE UN’s top human
rights body has opened an
urgent session to discuss
the military coup in
Myanmar, with calls for
the release of people
“arbitrarily detained” –
including civilian
government leader Aung
San Suu Kyi – and more
action by United Nations
officials to increase
scrutiny of the country.
The Human Rights
Council has no power to
impose sanctions but can
train a potent political
spotlight on rights abuses.
Yesterday’s session
comes shortly after the
Biden administration,
which has already
imposed sanctions on
coup leaders, revived US
participation at the
47-member Geneva body.
“The seizure of power
by the Myanmar military A taste of freedom: The scene in Tahrir Square in Cairo, on February 11, 2011, when the Arab Spring took hold in Egypt
earlier this month Children fly kites at a garbage dump in Dhaka, Bangladesh
constitutes a profound
setback for the country
after a decade of hard-
won gains in its
democratic transition,”
said the deputy high
commissioner for human
rights Nada al-Nashif.
A draft resolution,
presented by the UK and
the EU, calls for the
“immediate and
unconditional release” of
Ms Suu Kyi and other
senior officials in her
government, a lifting of
restrictions on the
internet and unimpeded
humanitarian access.
The resolution also
calls on UN secretary-
general Antonio Guterres
to give the independent
UN special rapporteur on
Myanmar, Tom Andrews,
“increased assistance,
resources and expertise”. Steam rises from a coal-fired power near Bergheim, Germany Divers perform an underwater lion dance at KLCC Aquaria during Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Russia ‘ready to cut ties’ if

EU imposes new sanctions
over treatment of Navalny
Moscow
RUSSIA is prepared for a split
with the European Union if the
bloc imposes crippling new
sanctions amid a dispute over
the treatment of opposition
leader Alexei Navalny, the
nation’s top diplomat has
warned.
In response to a question
about Moscow’s willingness to
break links with the EU, foreign
minister Sergey Lavrov said in
televised remarks that Russia
does not want to be isolated but
must increase its self-sufficiency
to face potential EU sanctions.
“We don’t want to be isolated
from international life, but we
must be ready for that,” he said.
“If you want peace, you must
prepare for war.”
Asked if Russia is heading
towards a split with the
European Union, he replied:
“We proceed from the Opposition leader Alexei Navalny appears at Moscow City Court
assumption that we are ready
for that.”
He emphasised the everything we could be deprived January 17 on his return from
importance of economic ties of with national infrastructure Germany, where he spent five
with the 27 EU nations, adding in case madness prevails and months recuperating from the
that Moscow would continue such unfriendly actions take nerve agent poisoning he
engaging in mutually beneficial place.” blamed on the Kremlin.
co-operation, but must prepare European Commission Russian authorities have
for the worst and increasingly spokesman Peter Stano said the denied the allegations.
rely on its own resources. EU welcomes “mutually Last week, a court in Moscow
“We must achieve that in the beneficial co-operation sent him to prison for two years
economic sphere, if we see whenever the other side is ready and eight months for violating
again, as we have felt more than for such a co-operation and for terms of his probation while
once, that sanctions imposed in such a dialogue,” adding that recuperating in Germany.
some areas create risks to our Moscow has “indicated that The probation stemmed from
economy, including in the most they are not really willing to go a 2014 embezzlement
sensitive spheres, such as in this direction”. conviction that Mr Navalny has
supplies of parts and German Foreign Ministry rejected as fabricated and the
components,” he added. spokeswoman Andrea Sasse European Court of Human
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry described Mr Lavrov’s comments Rights has ruled to be unlawful.
Peskov emphasised that Russia as “really disconcerting and He was back in court yesterday
wants to maintain normal ties completely incomprehensible to on a charge of defaming a
with the EU but needs to us”. Second World War veteran who
prepare for the worst if the bloc She told reporters in Berlin was featured in a video last year
takes hostile actions. that foreign minister Heiko advertising constitutional
“If we face a destructive Maas had made Germany’s amendments that allowed an
course that will hurt our grievances with Russia clear but extension of Mr Putin’s rule.
infrastructure, our interests, also emphasised that “we are Mr Navalny called the people
Russia must be ready in interested in co-operation with in the video “corrupt stooges”,
advance for such unfriendly Russia”. “people without conscience”
steps,” Mr Peskov said during a Russia-EU relations have sunk and “traitors”.
call with reporters. to new lows over Mr Navalny’s He rejected the libel charges
“We must be self-reliant. We arrest and imprisonment. as part of Kremlin efforts to
must ensure our security in the The most prominent political discredit him and could face a
most sensitive strategic areas foe of Russian President fine or community service if
and be prepared to replace Vladimir Putin was arrested on convicted.

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... And this was the celebration yesterday near Tahrir Square as joyful people took to the streets to mark the 10 years when 18 days of protests toppled then-president Hosni Mubarak
Buddhist monks in Mandalay with posters of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s deposed elected leader
Washington
DEMOCRATS prosecuting Donald
Trump’s impeachment said the Capitol
invaders believed they were are acting
on “the president’s orders” to storm the
building and stop the joint session of
Congress that was certifying Joe Biden’s
election.
The prosecutors were wrapping up
their opening presentation, describing
in stark, personal terms what they faced
that day and drilling down on the
public and explicit instructions that Mr
Trump gave his supporters – both in the
weeks before the January 6 attack and
at his midday rally that unleashed the
mob on the Capitol.
They presented videos of rioters
– some posted to social medial by the
rioters themselves – talking about how
they were doing it all for Mr Trump.
“They truly believed that the whole
intrusion was at the president’s orders,”
said Diana DeGette of Colorado. “The
president told them to be there.”
Mr Trump’s lawyers launched their
defence yesterday.
At the White House, President Biden
said he believed “some minds may be
changed” after Senators saw chilling
security video on Wednesday of the
deadly insurrection at the Capitol,
including of rioters searching
menacingly for House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence.
President Biden said he did not watch
any of the previous day’s proceedings
live but later saw news coverage.
The never-before-seen audio and
video released on Wednesday is
now a key exhibit in Mr Trump’s
impeachment trial as lawmakers
prosecuting the case argue he should be
convicted of inciting the siege.
Democrats are using their remaining
hours of argument to lay out the
physical and mental harm caused by
the attack, discuss Mr Trump’s lack of
action as it unfolded and do a final
presentation on the legal issues
involved.
Videos of the siege have been
circulating since the day of the riot, but
the graphic compilation shown to
senators on Wednesday amounted to a
more complete narrative, a moment-by-
moment retelling of one of the nation’s
most alarming days.
It offered fresh details into the
attackers, scenes of police heroism and
staff whispers of despair. And it showed
how close the country came to chaos
over the certification of Mr Trump’s
defeat to President Biden.
The footage showed the mob
smashing into the building, rioters
engaging in hand-to-hand combat with
police and audio of Capitol police
officers pleading for back-up.
The images underscored how
dangerously close the rioters came to
the country’s leaders, shifting the focus
of the trial from an academic debate
about the constitution to a raw retelling
of the assault.
Capitol rioters acted on
Trump’s orders, Senate
told at impeachment trial
This video billboard in the US Capitol is calling for the conviction of former President Donald Trump
Rioters were seen roaming the halls
chanting “Hang Mike Pence”, some
equipped with combat gear. Outside,
the mob had set up a makeshift gallows.
And in one wrenching moment, police
were shown shooting and killing a San
Diego woman, Ashli Babbitt, as the
mob tried to break through doors near
the House Chamber.
Mr Pence, who had been presiding
over a session to certify President
Biden’s election victory over Mr Trump
– thus earning Mr Trump’s censure –
was shown being rushed to safety,
where he sheltered in an office with his
family just 100 feet from the rioters.
Ms Pelosi was seen being evacuated
from the complex as her staff hid
behind doors in her suite of offices.
Although most of the Senate jurors
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Farmers enact a mock funeral near New Delhi, India, in protest against agriculture laws
appear to have already made up their
minds, making the former president’s
acquittal likely, they sat riveted as the
They truly jarring video was played in the chamber.
believed that Earlier in the day, prosecutors laid
out their case by methodically linking
the whole Mr Trump’s verbal attacks on the
intrusion was election to the violence that resulted.
Mr Trump did nothing to stem the
on the violence and watched with “glee”, the
president’s Democrats said, as the mob ransacked
the building. Five people died.
orders The goal of the presentation was to
cast Mr Trump not as an innocent
bystander but rather as the “inciter in
chief” who spent months spreading
falsehoods about the election.
Using evocative language meant to
match the horror of the day, prosecutors
compared Mr Trump to a fire chief who
International 17
In Brief
UN warns
over 2m
children
are facing
starvation
Yemen: More than two
million children under
the age of five are
expected to endure acute
malnutrition this year,
four United Nations
agencies have said.
They have called for an
end to the years-long
conflict that has brought
the Arab world’s poorest
country to the brink of
famine.
The UN report warned
that nearly one in six of
those children – 400,000
of the 2.3m – are at risk of
death due to severe acute
malnutrition this year, a
significant increase from
last year’s estimates.
The report also said a
lack of funds was
hampering humanitarian
programmes in Yemen, as
donor nations have failed
to make good on their
commitments.
Compounding the
crisis, around 1.2m
pregnant or breastfeeding
women in Yemen are also
projected to be acutely
malnourished this year.
“These numbers are yet
another cry for help from
Yemen, where each
malnourished child also
means a family struggling
to survive,” said David
Beasley, executive
director of the World
Food Programme, which
jointly issued the report
with the Food and
Agriculture Organisation,
Unicef and the World
Health Organisation.
Yemenis have suffered
six years of bloodshed
and humanitarian
catastrophe.
In 2014, Iran-allied
Houthi rebels seized the
capital and much of the
country’s north. A Saudi-
led coalition launched a
sweeping military
intervention months later
to restore the UN-backed
government. Despite
relentless Saudi air strikes
and a blockade of Yemen,
the war has ground to a
stalemate.
Denmark: Fourteen
people have been arrested
in Denmark and Germany
on suspicion of preparing
one or several attacks in
the two countries, Danish
police said.
Officers added the
discovery of a so-called
Islamic State group flag
delights in seeing fires spread, not could indicate the suspects
extinguished, and they compared his “have a connection or
supporters to a cavalry in war. sympathy with the terror
Meanwhile, President Joe Biden organisation”.
has officially ended the “national Flemming Drejer,
emergency” that Donald Trump operative head of
declared in order to take money from Denmark’s Security and
the Pentagon to build a wall along the Intelligence Service, said
US-Mexico border. the findings were
The White House released a letter “worrying” but “it is our
on Thursday from Mr Biden to House assessment that there was
Speaker Nancy Pelosi notifying Congress no imminent danger”.
that he had rescinded his predecessor’s He said the first seven
February 2019 proclamation. people arrested in
The move was a formality since Mr Denmark had acquired
Biden had ordered a halt to the weapons and “we found
construction of the border wall shortly things that can be used to
after he took office. make a bomb”. He added
In his letter, the President said Mr that police found
Trump’s declaration of a national shotguns and a rifle with
emergency had been “unwarranted” a scope, as well as the flag,
and that he had directed that “no more but he could not give
American taxpayer dollars be diverted further details about the
to construct a border wall”. Denmark case or its links
He also ordered a review of all money to Germany.
spent on the project so far. All but one of the 14
The US has been building border arrests were in Denmark.
walls for decades under both Democratic
and Republican administrations. Germany: A court has
Mr Trump made the effort a found a folk singer guilty
centrepiece of his first presidential of violating the country’s
campaign, vowing to build a wall across strict child labour laws for
the entire border and have Mexico pay having his four-year-old
for it. He took roughly $6 billion from son perform on stage with
military funds under the national him during an evening
emergency he declared after Congress concert.
refused his demands for wall funding, Angelo Kelly, 39, was
leading to the longest government fined €3,000 (£2,600) by
shutdown in history. Hassfurt administrative
The Supreme Court upheld a legal court in Bavaria for the
challenge to Mr Trump’s action in a 5-4 2019 appearance at an
vote in July 2019. open air summer concert
By the end of his administration, the with his son William, who
US had completed more than 450 miles sang What A Wonderful
of new wall construction along the World.
2,000-mile border. Much of the The boy is the youngest
construction was in areas where there of Kelly’s five children.
had already been some form of barrier. “During this
Trump administration officials said performance, the child
the border wall slowed down smugglers William stood for at least
and people crossing the border illegally so 30 minutes on the stage
they could be more easily apprehended. where he played along,
Critics said there were more effective sang along and interpreted
tools for enforcement and parts of the his own song,” the court
new construction damaged said. “This is is considered
environmentally sensitive areas or were work by the Youth Labour
in places where a wall was not needed. Protection Act.”
Kelly, who is popular in
Germany, is to appeal the
verdict.
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OPINION
Night the Red Army Choir
HUGH MACDONALD
shared a stage with Andy
T
HE tramp around my exercise yard in
the time of Covid has been
accompanied by the understandable
nagging from ageing limbs but also the
more incomprehensible summons to times
Stewart and Rikki Fulton
past. A regular companion has been Cillian
Murphy. Or, at least, his voice. The actor has
a show on Radio 6 that is broad in its scope
and regularly powerful in its ability to spark
memory. So it was, with snow suitably
drifting up the slope from Maryhill, that I
met again with the members of the Red Army
Choir.
It was not the surprise of hearing the Song
of the Volga Men on an otherwise
contemporary song list that caused me to
pause. It was not my aching calves (and who
brings small cows on a walk in a suburban
park?) It was, rather, that I had been
transported back to childhood and the
dimmest of memories.
Continuing the walk, my brain insistently
protested that I had not only seen the Red
Army Choir but in concert with Andy
Stewart. This led me to believe that a period
of ingesting dodgy substances in student flats
off Byres Road in the 1970s had finally
caught up with me. Either that or I had
cooked the wrong mushrooms for my
afternoon risotto.
Sanity was reclaimed on the internet. And
who could ever have imagined writing that
sentence. A quick search revealed that the
Red Army Choir appeared with Oor Andy,
Duncan Macrae and Rikki Fulton in the
Empire Theatre on March 31, 1963.
I would have been eight years old. It was,
almost certainly, my first concert, if one
dismisses the regular performances in the
front room of a Friday night when the
eclectic sets could include granny singing
Rose Marie and faither chanting
Killiecrankie. But if the memories are vague,
the hopping, jumping and general roaring of
the choir did set me off on a march that has
continued until the Covid siege.
I love a gig. Within a decade of the
skirmish with the Red Army, I had become a
veteran of the Glesca concert. I had learned
to be careful around bouncers whose
relentless aggression in another life had Clockwise from main: Concerts by Andy Stewart, back row, third from left, David Bowie and Led Zep all sparked memories for Hugh
surely tipped the balance at Stalingrad. I had
mastered the art of walking on carpets so
sticky that one suspected that diving boots justifiable sense of grievance at what life had It was this: I miss gigs so bad that I miss the going to weaken. I survived. But when I
had been supplied at the entrance. I had bequeathed them. We walked home, of bad gigs. emerged on to Buchanan Street I was
accepted, too, that concert smoke not only course, Until we ran home, of course. The These bad gigs have to meet certain engulfed by a group of mates who were so
gets in your eyes but could do strange things decision to stay was followed by the criteria. First, one must look forward to I miss gigs so energised by what they had seen and heard
to your perception. inevitable chase up towards Victoria Road them, thus ensuring the disappointment that I genuinely wondered if they had been
There are musical memories that survive that petered out in the manner of US sheriffs carries an ache. Second, the artist has to have bad that I miss watching a Beatles reunion with an encore
all of this, of course. An early example is the deciding not to cross county lines. an undeniable pedigree of work. Third, the the bad gigs by Elvis and the TCB band.
Led Zeppelin concert (internet shows it was The retreat from a David Bowie (or more bad gig must also prove to be a good gig for I did not make any protestations. It would
Sunday, December 3, 1972) when my brother accurately Ziggy Stardust) concert of May 18, others. have been petty. They had won the lottery on
and I faced a dilemma, a sort of Glasgow 1973, was more decorous. Google has Jeff Tweedy in the Glasgow Concert Hall a roll-over week. My winning ticket had been
version of Sophie’s Choice. Senga’s Choice, supplied the date but somewhere in this auld ticked all these boxes. January 29, 2015, if eaten by the dog. It was not the first time this
perhaps? napper is the solid remembrance of you must know. I could build a tower worthy has happened in my life. I was at ease with all
We could wait for the end of the concert, something shimmering, sensational and of downtown Dubai of my Tweedy CD of this.
thus missing the last bus to Busby. Or we wondrously affecting. collection: Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, his work Covid and concerts teach us that there may
could leave while Jimmy Page was bringing The intervening decades have added to with the magnificent Mavis Staples. But his be a general communal experience but there
down bits of plaster with another solo that that roll call of great concerts with Randy set that night left me as cold as the Red Army is always the individual reaction. That almost
was causing gulls to tremble. In Skye. Newman, Bob Dylan, the Sensational Alex outside Kursk. So anticipation had been instinctive reflex can be felt when listening to
The decision over whether to walk the Harvey Band, Gillian Welch, the Drive-By mocked. Tweedy’s greatness had not been the radio in a Bearsden park or standing in
seven miles home was given an added spice Truckers and many others finding a niche in passed on to this listener on this night. It the shadow of Donald Dewar’s statue and
by the realisation that we would almost this dilapidated dome. happens. hearing the excited babble of the enthused.
certainly be confronted by some mischievous But there was a further realisation that But the third condition was also realised. I Both remind me of what has been lost but
ragamuffins at Gorbals Cross, armed with drifted into consciousness as the snow fell stayed to the end. Retreat was not an option. may yet be recovered. I miss good gigs. I miss
various illegal, sharp implements and a like the contents of a rock band’s rider bowl. This may be bad, I reflected, but I am not bad gigs.

I’m at that dangerous age where I don’t

care what folk think about what I wear
about ties – it’s about cultural identity,
OPINION mate.
Cue lots of nervous tie loosening in the
heat of Auckland’s late summer by the
other members.
Waititi’s words resonated. Who decides
what ‘business attire’ is and why do we
have such a monocultural outlook on
these matters?
I’m probably the wrong person to have
a view on this. I’m a safe dresser. Nothing
UZMA MIR too out-there, and when I was younger
NEVER anything that even remotely
pointed to my heritage or cultural roots.
way to get ahead in his job in British India
where ties were de rigeur, and so my dad
had done the same.
Initially, when he’d come here as an
executive trainee for a company the suit
seemed to fit the bill, but as he found he
wasn’t progressing in the company, he
started his own less executive business.
The suit stayed though.
But with it, many – not all – of his
connections with his cultural and
religious roots were cut.
For me though, now that I’m at that
very dangerous age where I don’t care
But is it about conformity or something
deeper? After Rawiri Waititi was thrown
out of the New Zealand parliament he
told reporters, referring to his hei-tiki.
“This is a tie to my people, this is a tie to
the plight, this is a tie to the very reasons I
stand in this place to fight for our rights.”
He went on to say: “Ties are not part of
my culture and it’s forcing the indigenous
peoples into wearing what I describe as a
‘colonial noose’.”
The language may seem overly emotive
but he has an emotional fight on his
hands: although they make up 15% of the
recent million dollar government attempts
to compensate the tribes for the loss of
their ancestral lands.
Maori continue to experience
disproportionate rates of poverty,
incarceration and health inequalities.
Waititi was right to say the tie debacle was
proof that old tensions still remain in
New Zealand despite many changes
brought about by Jacinda Ardern’s
government to improve diversity and
community relations, and the more
reconciliatory approach taken to the
country’s colonial past and the injustices

T
HERE was something momentarily
comedic about proceedings in the
New Zealand parliament this
week. The Speaker wearing a big
green tie told a dapperly dressed Maori
member wearing a hie-tiki – a traditional
Maori pendant – instead of a tie, that he
couldn’t ask a question and then removed
him from the parliament, because he
wasn’t wearing business attire.
“I do not recognise the member,” he
thundered. Then, a Maori woman
wearing a tie, criticised the man in the big
green tie for “denying Maori culture their
attire.”
As Maori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi
left the chamber he shouted: “It’s not
Rawiri would be terribly disappointed.
The few times I did, in the 1980s, I drew
a lot of sideways glances and once I was
chased through a housing estate by a
group of youths yelling the P word.
So clothes that conformed were
definitely the way to go.
I probably learnt this from my dad, who
in his 60 years living in Scotland, has
never worn traditional Pakistani clothes,
instead opting for a tailor made suit, crisp
shirt, cuff links and flamboyantly printed
tie, complete with leather shoes – perfect
really for his work at a tyre fitting garage
in the East End of Glasgow.
I recently asked him why, and he told
me that his father had worn a full three-
piece suit because he knew it would be a
what people think I’ve rediscovered my population, the Maori language, the therein.
heritage and am happy to don a luminous predominant language of New Zealand at Thankfully, by the next day the Speaker
pink and turquoise shalwar kameez and the beginning of the 19th century, was – who apparently is not a big tie fan
trudge though the February snow for a suppressed as more and more English- anyway – had had a word with a
good old-fashioned check-in with the speaking migrants arrived. It is now only sub-committee and it was decided that a
ancestors. spoken by 3.7% of New Zealanders and is tie would no longer be a pre-requisite for
My kilt-wearing pals do it all the time. I classed as vulnerable by UNESCO. ‘being recognised’ in parliament.
haven’t been chased recently, but I do The unemployment rate for Maori is For Waititi, it was a huge win. He said
know women who’ve been abused simply double the national rate and they earn that Maori people could feel comfortable
for wearing a hijab, so clearly clothes that about 21% less. Most of his people have about “who they are and (be able to)
don’t conform still stir up hate in a way been historically impacted by the British express their cultural identity without
that is quite irrational. land grabs of the 19th century despite discrimination and without prejudice.”
As I sit here, I wonder what my dad’s
dad in British India would have thought
When I was younger I never wore anything that even of Waititi’s achievement, and his
remotely pointed to my heritage or cultural roots granddaughter’s sweatshirt, leggings and
baffies attire for my third Zoom business
meeting of the day.

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A Scottish perspective 6 pages of Opinion, Insight, Analysis and Debate
If the SNP loses its heart and
soul what else can it offer?
OPINION
KEVIN McKENNA
A
S they sought to convince us that
all would be well in an
independent Scotland, the SNP’s
big heart did a lot of the heavy
lifting. This party seemed to have
discovered the Golden Mean of political
engagement: they had a way of appealing
over the heads of the political classes to
convey a sense of kindness and
compassion. In the age of empathy and
inspirational messages on social media
the nationalists communed with the spirit
of the age.
It might not quite have been pictures of
the sun bursting through clouds with
messages like “let your heart turn the
world’s mince into a nice lamb casserole”
that startle you on Facebook from time to
time. But this party, you know: they mean
so well and they look as though they
actually care about stuff.
When bumps and wrinkles appeared in
the journey, like the annual GERS figures
carrying with them the spectre of a fiscal
black hole, the SNP was able to empathise
the sting from them.
This may seem a shallow approximation
of the party’s approach on these occasions
but it’s really not.
Since the dawn of democratic, civic
engagement political parties have
searched in vain for this elixir. You can
have all the numbers in the world
Issue of the day 2021’s virtual Valentine’s Day
I
T seems love is not lost in lockdown.
Despite 2021’s February 14 being like
no other in living memory, romantics
are splashing out millions of pounds on
what for many will be a “virtual
Valentine’s Day”.
Splashing out how much?
Although it would seem Valentine’s Day
in the midst of the pandemic leaves little
to do socially, with a candlelit meal out
impossible due to lockdown, Britons are
still set to spend £787 million in an effort
to keep romance alive.
Spending it on what?
Everything from flowers to takeaways or
supermarket meals, dressing up for
virtual dates and gifts for loved ones.
Barclaycard research has found that it is
men who are the biggest spenders this
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marching in time to your message but in
this millennial Age of Aquarius if you
don’t have human, sensory appeal then
you’re up the junction without an incense
stick.
It helped, of course, that a family of
sociopaths had moved in next door at
Westminster. There you are inviting the
neighbourhood children in to see the new
Labrador puppies while the family next
door are training their mutt for midnight
dog-fighting contests in derelict railway
sidings.
Even the Tories’ own leaders expressed
alarm at all the ASBOs they were
collecting. “You know what some people
call us: the Nasty Party,” said Theresa
May once.
But, as Sir Keir Starmer is currently
demonstrating, if you can’t beat them,
join them and within a few years Mrs
May was ushering in the hostile
environment that led to the Windrush
scandal.
As the Tories were being hollowed out
by their scarecrows and knuckle-draggers,
the SNP merely had to look kind and
compassionate.
Thus the politics of the baby-box
emerged, carrying with it all the
accoutrements of a tender, rainbow state
with its heart in the right place.
Smacking was banned and a scheme
was hatched to provide every child with a
state guardian just in case the parents,
you know … fell down on the job.
In Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland had its
own empathy queen who, on gaining the
leadership of the country, embarked on a
two-year, selfie tour of Scotland like a
latter-day Eva Peron.
This woman, it seemed, could no wrong
as she exuded kindness, warmth and an
uncanny sense of kinship with women –
especially women - across all generations.
And then you recall the words of the
Tin Woodman in L Frank Baum’s The
Wonderful Wizard of Oz which seem
year, with those celebrating spending 57%
more than women on average (£44 vs
£28). Romantics are planning to spend an
average of £36 each.
It’s a ‘Hallmark holiday!’
Many may agree, but researchers still
found that 70% of couples living together,
and even 62% of couples not living
together, plan on marking the occasion
with their other half.
Virtually?
The most popular plan for couples living
together this year include an ‘at home’
date night (26%), followed by ordering a
takeaway (17%), dining in with a
supermarket meal (8%), and a romantic
walk (8%). ‘Virtual’ dates are on the cards
for 10% of couples not living together. In
fact, 13% say they’ll be making more of an
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subversively to both reinforce and
convict.
“You people with hearts, have
something to guide you, and need never
do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I
must be very careful.”
Those of us who dwell inside Scotland’s
political crucible delude ourselves into
believing that the world we inhabit
matters beyond social media. That
somehow, the multitudes menaced by
unemployment and health inequality are
transfixed by the casual eviscerations
politicians and journalists inflict on one
another.
The SNP’s committed party loyalists
have taken refuge in this as the Alex
Salmond inquiry has unfolded and while
It still points to majority Yes
support once undecideds are
stripped out but it’s worth
considering if there’s been a
shift in the wind direction
the gender debate rages among activists.
“Ordinary people don’t care about which
politician said what to whom and where,”
they say, “they all think Nicola is doing a
great job during the pandemic.”
Until a week or so ago they’d have been
correct. But you sense in recent days,
something – almost imperceptible – has
begun to twitch. Research by Savanta
Comres for The Scotsman has indicated a
fall in support for Scottish independence
for the first time in three months.
Certainly, it still points to majority Yes
support once undecideds are stripped out
but it’s worth considering if there’s been
a shift in the wind direction, a hint of
something more seriously climactic
effort than ever this Valentine’s Day.
Popular presents?
In a sign of the times, the most popular
purchase this Valentine’s Day is food for a
special dinner at home (61% of survey
respondents were opting for this), followed
by more traditional gifts of chocolates
(38%) and alcohol, such as champagne
(37%). Over half of those questioned
(51%) said they would be purchasing a
card, at the very least, to mark the day.
Comfy and casual is 2021 theme?
Global research on customer shopping
trends and habits — conducted by
Emarsys —found that for UK shoppers,
this year’s Valentine’s Day is all about
being comfy and casual, with loungewear
nearly as popular as underwear as a gift,
at 7% and 8% respectively.
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beyond the horizon.
A suite of stories have gathered around
these numbers, such as Jim Sillars
conveying disgust at Humza Yousaf’s
Hate Crime Bill to the point where he can
no longer support the party.
Meanwhile, so incompetent and
obfuscating, at best, has the Scottish
Government and civil service been at the
Salmond inquiry that you sense the public
is now actually stopping to have a look.
An overall impression is being conveyed
here of an organisation that wants you to
believe it feels your pain has now actually
begun to inflict it.
Nowhere has this been more apparent
than the campaign of misogynistic abuse
directed towards Joanna Cherry which
has driven her, in her own words, to
consider quitting politics entirely (at least
the Tories were only nasty to people
outside the party).
This culminated in an alleged threat of
rape by a man after Nicola Sturgeon
effectively set the hounds loose with a
remarkably ill-judged statement about
transphobia in the SNP.
Worse, some female members say the
SNP is no longer a place where many
women feel safe. Even more remarkably,
Mr Yousaf’s proposed hate legislation
risks criminalising women in Scotland for
stating that while gender may be fluid, sex
is binary.
Of all the stories indicating that this
sewer running underneath the SNP has
now broken the surface there is one
sadder than all the rest.
It’s the revelation that, more than a
week after Ms Cherry revealed the latest
abuse she has suffered, her leader and
fellow feminist Nicola Sturgeon can’t
bring herself to offer her support.
This party has lost its heart and without
this it has little else to offer.
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Retailers will feel the love too?
Two fifths (41%) of retailers, so badly hit
by the pandemic, are hopeful of an uplift
in sales. Kirsty Morris, Managing
Director at Barclaycard Payments, said:
“Hopefully, this hotly anticipated annual
event will provide a much-needed boost to
both consumers’ moods and retailers’
bottom lines.”
It’s a historic day?
It is thought to have originated from a
Roman festival, Lupercalia, which was
their official start of springtime. As part of
the celebrations, boys drew names of a girl
from a jar and they were boyfriend and
girlfriend for the duration of the festival,
sometimes going on to marry.
MAUREEN SUGDEN
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LORNE JACKSON
On the road
JUST when you thought children
weren’t traumatised enough by
Zoom lessons and being trapped
indoors with their parents, we
hear that an updated version of
The Wizard of Oz is planned.
The original movie was devised
as a fairy tale, of course. Though
it ended up as a psychedelic
horror flick with flying monkeys,
a talking scarecrow and a
seriously uncomfortable pair of
shoes for Dorothy to squeeze into
while hobbling down a road
where you can’t even thumb a lift
from a passing First Bus.
No wonder the little lass was
desperate to go home.
Though home has its horrors
too, especially if home happens
to be Scotland, where uncanny
and inexplicable events
constantly take place, as the
following tales from our archives
make clear…
Soldiering on
A LANARKSHIRE reader’s
teenage son announced he was
contemplating joining the army
when he left school. While his
two older brothers ripped into
him about how useless he would
be, either with a rifle or in close
combat, the most devastating
riposte came from his mother,
who asked: “Do you really plan
to make your own bed every
morning?”
Paper view
A READER once overheard a
tired shopper near the Donald
Dewar statue in Glasgow’s
Buchanan Street arrange with
his wife for them to go their
separate ways and link up later.
His parting shot to his good lady
was: “I’ll meet you outside Pappy
Are Us in half an hour.”
We guess he was dogging
school the day his history class
was discussing the ancient
Egyptian art of paper-making.
Tobaccoless tourist
A STUDENT who had just
moved into halls of residence in
Glasgow was walking along
Maryhill Road when a rough-
looking chap asked him if he
could spare a fag.
“I don’t smoke,” replied the
student.
“So you’re no fae Maryhill
then?” the chap opined.
On the fiddle
SCOTS violinist Nicola Benedetti
once told us about performing at
a Classic FM concert in
Manchester. When she collected
her thoughts before a slow,
considered piece, the audience
went quiet, waiting politely for
her to start playing.
Except for one eager
Glaswegian who, breaking the
silence, screamed out: “Come on,
Nikki, show us what you can do.”
Food for thought
ONE of our correspondents who
enjoys fine dining was once in a
small Gallowgate takeaway shop
when an expansive chap came in
and cheerily asked the young
woman serving: “What’s good for
eating the day?”
“McDonald’s,” the bored
teenager replied.
“Aye, ah’ll dae that then,” the
chap replied, and walked out.
Pregnant pause
ONE of our car-less
correspondents was once
standing at a bus stop in Glasgow
waiting beside an obviously
pregnant woman when a chap
came up and asked: “Here, hen,
when’s it due?”
When she proudly replied: “Four
months,” it was obviously the
moment the chap was waiting for
as he replied: “Aw stuff it, ah’ll
walk instead,” and strolled on by.
Surname fame
A READER in Ottawa, Canada,
once told us: “I’m being sent to
see a lung specialist named Dr
Kronick. She added: “I was really
hoping to see his colleague, Dr
Itllpassinafewdays.”
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Minister’s
holiday
side-step
reply is a
disgrace
BUSINESS WEEK
BRIAN DONNELLY
A SURGE of businesses are
expected to finally go bust this year
as support peters out.
In our special series this week,
the threat to the future of our town
and city centres is laid bare, but
some direction is also given on how
investment could help the country
through the double weight of the
pandemic and Brexit.
Deputy Business Editor Scott
Wright highlights a potential route
on day one as non-essential retail
outlets, pubs, restaurants, cafes
and cinemas remain closed in an
effort to stem the virus.
Business leaders argue that new
Scottish National Investment Bank
“should fund projects that would
make new uses for long-term
vacant buildings in towns and city
centres”.
In day two of the series, it is
revealed calls are mounting for
radical reform of Scotland’s
business rates system to help ignite
the high street recovery, “as fears
grow that outlets currently closed
because of coronavirus will not be
able to afford bills when relief ends
in the coming months”.
The Scottish Hospitality Group,
covering 6,000 workers, has done
its own reckoning and claims
positive cases make up less than
one per cent of that number.
This indicative research is not
surprising given the level of hygiene
standard restaurants were always
used to delivering.
An argument has been made that
the hospitality sector, which has
been disproportionately affected
by the pandemic, may not have
needed to have been closed down
to the level it is.
In his Called to Account column
this week, Business Editor Ian
McConnell writes: “The Scottish
seafood industry’s exporting to the
EU has meanwhile been
hammered by Brexit.
“The Johnson Government has
had to launch a £23 million scheme
to compensate businesses
exporting fish and shellfish for
Brexit-related losses. Inadequacies
in the operation of this scheme
have already been highlighted by
Donna Fordyce, chief executive of
industry body Seafood Scotland,
and these must be addressed.”
Business Correspondent Mark
Williamson examines the decision
by regulator Ofgem to raise the cap
on prices payable for electricity
and gas in his energy column,
saying the decision amid
coronavirus “beggars belief,” and
also writing it is “a baffling move
that raised fresh questions about
the effectiveness of the regime it
supervises”.
In her employment column this
week, Business Correspondent
Kristy Dorsey looks at essential
feedback from failed job attempts,
pointing to research that indicates
“that the swelling number of
applicants triggered by the Covid
pandemic is leaving the vast
majority of unsuccessful job
seekers in the dark as to why they
fail to secure employment”.
Elsewhere, some solid advice on
tourism would help. Matt
Hancock, Health Secretary, shifts
uncomfortably as he admits to
previously booking a Cornwall
getaway to the BBC, hours after
Grant Shapps, Transport Secretary,
advised against staycations.
“Someone is listening to you, and
they are going to say ‘well I listened
to the Health Secretary and he said
go ahead and book’, or they are
going to say ‘I listened to the
Health Secretary and he said don’t
book your holiday’.
“Which of those two is it?” he is
asked.
Mr Hancock’s disgraceful reply
is like a dark Bushism. “It is
neither. People understand that. It
may be more difficult for headline
writers, but the people are smarter
than all that.”
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„ MONDAY: Just as Scotland left England reeling on the rugby pitch,
so Sturgeon leaves Johnson behind, only to face an angry Salmond
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pandemic leaves some families asking tough questions
Why quarantine has to outlast
lockdown - and be clear-cut
I
T has taken more than a year for the
UK to introduce hotel quarantine for
international arrivals, but only a few
weeks for the plan to descend into what
can be politely described as a guddle.
Despite the creditable efforts of the
Scottish Government to follow the science
(albeit belatedly) on quarantine, when it
comes to border controls, we are fighting
the pandemic with one arm tied behind
our back.
From Monday, all international arrivals
into Scotland will be required to isolate for
10 days under supervision in Government-
appointed hotels, but as The Herald
reported only eight per cent (19 out of 247)
of the passenger flights landing at Glasgow,
Edinburgh, and Aberdeen Airports next
week actually are international.
The vast majority are flights coming from
elsewhere in the UK or the Common Travel
Area (CTA) of Ireland, Isle of Man, and the
Channel Islands.
As things stand there would be nothing
to prevent someone flying into London
Heathrow from the US (currently reporting
349 cases a day for every million people,
compared to around 160 per million in
Scotland), hopping straight on a
connection to Edinburgh, walking straight
out of the terminal and catching a bus into
Scotland’s capital.
That is not to say there are no checks:
arrivals must provide evidence of a negative
Covid test and home quarantine will still be
required for anyone flying from non-red list
countries.
The problem is, people can be incubating
the virus and test negative, and compliance
with voluntary quarantine has been poorly
policed, with fewer than one in four people
ever telephoned by contact tracers to
remind them to stay at home.
The Scottish Government wants the UK
Government to adopt its blanket approach
to hotel quarantine for all international
arrivals, in line with templates which have
OPINION MATRIX
Cult of Cuomo and on the frontline in A&E
T
HE cult of Cuomo, self-pitying KPMG
staff and life on the frontline in A&E
were the issues raised by columnists and
contributors in the newspapers.
The Daily Mail
Piers Morgan said he had initially praised New
York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo and his
lengthy daily pressers during the first wave of
the pandemic,
But, he said, no one was more pleased with
his performance than the Governor himself
who brought a book out entitled American
Crisis: leadership lessons from the Covid-19
Pandemic.
“In an interview with New York magazine
to promote the book, he even described his
own briefings as ‘incredible’”, he said. “Cuomo
was even awarded an international Emmy
award in late November, ‘in recognition of his
leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic and
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ANALYSIS
Hotel quarantine will fail unless the approach
is clear, UK-wide, and most importantly,
remains in place once Covid cases drop to
their lowest levels, writes Helen McArdle
been successfully set in New Zealand and
Australia.
Failing this, it asks the UK Government
to quarantine all international arrivals in
England before they travel on to Scotland.
But no agreement has been reached –
and cooperation appears unlikely.
The UK Government is currently
limiting hotel quarantine to 33 “red list”
countries – mainly covering South America
and parts of southern Africa – which are
considered high risk for importing the
Brazilian and South African variants of the
coronavirus.
With the exceptions of Portugal, Dubai,
and Cape Verde, they are mostly unlikely to
be popular destinations for the average
British holidaymaker (Eswatini, Burundi,
Ecuador?).
Anyone arriving into Britain from any of
these countries would be quarantined in a
hotel prior to onward travel to Scotland,
but these are small numbers: there were
just 130 travellers matching that criteria
last week and it will dip as the £1,750 hotel
quarantine bill bites.
Meanwhile, however, some 35 other
countries where the highly-infectious
South African and Brazilian variants have
also been detected are missing from the
list: Austria, Denmark, France, Greece,
Japan, Kenya, Norway, Sweden,
Switzerland, Belgium, Canada and the
United States.
Scientists have branded the discrepancy
his masterful use of television to inform and
calm people around the world.’”
Now, he said, it turns out Cuomo hid the
shocking truth about New York State’s
nursing-home death toll to protect his ‘self-
acclaimed hero halo.’
“It’s time to stop giving Governor Cuomo
awards and start holding him to proper
account for the needless deaths of thousands
of people.”
The Daily Express
Ross Clark said KPMG consultants are feeling
a little hard done by after having their pay cut
from an average of £640,000 to £572,000 and
their boss, Bill Michael, telling them to stop
complaining about the harsh economic reality
of the pandemic.
“What he failed to appreciate, needless to
say, is that we are all ‘victims’ nowadays,” he
said. “After a recording of the meeting went
“not good enough”, adding that the virus
“spreads like wildfire”.
There is also the problem that most
countries have nothing like the UK’s
world-leading genomic sequencing
capacity, therefore mutant strains are likely
to be evolving and spreading in their
populations long before any threat is
discovered.
Even in the UK, the highly transmissible
Kent variant – now responsible for three
quarters of cases in Scotland – is believed
to have first evolved in a patient in
September, but was only identified as a
danger in December when public health
officials noticed a puzzling explosion in
cases in South-East England despite
lockdown restrictions.
The UK Government’s approach is a
compromise which pleases no one –
certainly not public health scientists and
epidemiologists, but not even the travel
industry – and is ultimately likely to do
more harm than good (as the second wave
demonstrates) by somehow trying to
balance overseas travel with managing a
highly contagious viral epidemic.
The caveat is that, right now,
international travel is not our biggest
hazard.
But it will be, if we are not careful.
Many of the international arrivals flying
direct into Scotland next week are coming
from countries (Norway, Finland, Turkey
and Poland) where prevalence is already
viral, Mr Michael was suspended as he was
accused of bullying and damaging employees’
mental health. “There is no excuse for
workplace bullying or discrimination. But I
don’t blame Bill Michael speaking to his
whingeing, highly paid staff in the way he did –
and I suspect a great number of people who
have worked through the Covid crisis, or have
been left jobless as a result of it, will agree.”
The Guardian
An anonymous junior doctor in A&E in a
London hospital said a red phone rings to alert
staff when a very sick patient is coming in. In
the past six weeks, it has been ringing a lot.
“Outside, four or five ambulances wait with
patients needing litres of oxygen a minute,”
they said. “As there is no space in the hospital,
beds fill up in A&E, so we go out into the car
park to assess patients isolating in the back of
ambulances.”
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lower than it is in Scotland, and in any
case, non-essential travel is banned and
people remain much more at risk of
catching the virus from infected people
within their own community.
Scotland is currently averaging 870
new positive virus cases a day – 6,090 per
week.
In comparison, in the week ending
February 7, a total of 4,625 people arrived
in Scotland from outside the UK (both
directly or via ports in England and Wales
first): some of them may be incubating the
virus, but the vast majority will not be.
The real problem with quarantine
loopholes will come in the months ahead
when Scotland – hopefully – returns to
the low levels of around eight cases per day
that we were recording in early July last
year.
Based on the first wave, we would be
unlikely to reach that point until April, but
that – more than any other time – is when
the UK Government should follow
Scotland’s lead and ensure that imported
cases are kept to an absolute minimum.
There is a false perception that
quarantine is a measure, like other
lockdown restrictions, to be eased when
prevalence falls.
It is the opposite: when virus rates are at
their lowest, strict quarantine is at its most
effective.
The same is true for other travel curbs,
such as movement between England and
Scotland.
Genomic research shows that 40 % of
the new strains imported into Scotland last
summer came from abroad, the rest from
elsewhere in the UK.
By delaying foreign holidays at least until
summer, if not later, the payback is a
vaccination programme completed without
being derailed by imported variants, and a
domestic economy of schools and
hospitality able to achieve something much
closer to normality.
They said a decrease in Covid in the second
half of January had eased the pressure on the
hospital but the wait to be seen can still be at
least four hours long.
“The problem now isn’t just the chronic
underfunding of emergency services,” they
said. “The fact is, some hospitals don’t have
space to cope with more Covid-19 patients.”
They remember waiting for a patient to
arrive after hearing the red phone ring, they
said.“He’d come into the hospital three days
before with a mild cough, short of breath. His
oxygen was low, but not low enough. Now he
was back.”
They remember making internal phone calls
last year to alert relatives in other wards about
a loved one’s death in A&E.
“Now I feel a selfish relief that it won’t be
me. Another doctor will have to have that
conversation; the red phone is already ringing
again.”
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OPINION
STRUAN STEVENSON
F
ORTY-TWO years ago, on February
11, 1979, the pro-Shah forces in
Iran finally collapsed after months
of revolutionary fervour. The
hurried departure of Shah Mohammad
Reza Pahlavi and his government, opened
the door to an Islamic republic under
Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a
leader of one of the factions in the revolt.
Khomeini quickly seized full control.
Overnight he gave birth to Islamic
fundamentalism. Infuriated by opposition
to his tyranny by another key faction in
the revolution, the People’s Mojahedin of
Iran (PMOI/MEK), he ordered a brutal
and bloody crackdown.
Since then, the PMOI/MEK have been
the principal victims of human rights
violations and systematic annihilation in
Iran and they are a key target for
demonisation and assassination abroad.
Over the past four decades, it has been
estimated that more than 100,000
opponents of the regime have been
executed. Dozens more have been
assassinated outside of Iran. This
systematic persecution of the opposition
culminated in the massacre of 30,000
political prisoners in prisons all across
Iran in 1988.
The executions were so frequent and
the savagery with which they were carried
out so barbaric that the regime’s Supreme
Leader in-waiting at the time, the late
Ayatollah Montazeri, described it as the
worst crime in the history of the Islamic
Republic. He was quickly dismissed and
spent the rest of his days under house
arrest.
Now a group of seven UN special
human rights rapporteurs have warned in
a joint letter to the Iranian regime that
they will call for an international
investigation into the 1988 massacre if
authorities do not prosecute those
responsible, something that the regime
will never do, as the current minister of
justice, Alireza Avaie, was one of the
main executioners in 1988.
However, following a tip-off, the police
in Sweden have arrested Hamid Noury,
another of the 1988 torturers and
executioners, on charges of murder and
crimes against humanity. Many former
political prisoners and families of the
victims have given testimony to the
Swedish court.
Meanwhile, last week an Antwerp
court delivered a spectacular verdict in
the case of Assadollah Assadi, an Iranian
diplomat from their embassy in Vienna
who, together with three Iranian
co-conspirators, was arrested on terrorist
charges after being caught in 2018,
handing over a 550gm bomb and ordering
his co-conspirators to detonate it at a huge
opposition rally in Paris.
Assadi was given the maximum
sentence of 20 years, while his three
co-conspirators will serve a combined
total of 50 years.
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Four decades of
tyranny and terror
in Iran and abroad
faces a bloody end
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There can be no doubt Assadi’s
terrorist plot was ordered from the
highest echelons of the regime, including
the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, the president Hassan
Rouhani, the foreign Minister Javad Zarif
and the Minister of Intelligence
Mahmoud Alavi. They must now be held
to account, while the West should
withdraw all of its ambassadors from
Tehran in protest.
Assadi also faces further terrorist
charges in Germany. When he was
arrested in Bavaria by German police,
they found a notebook in his car which
contained details of the bomb plot and
the money paid to his co-conspirators.
It also contained information about
289 visits Assadi had made to eleven
different countries, 144 of which were to
meetings in Germany, indicating that
The Assadi trial in Belgium and the arrest of Afrasiabi
in America have been a wake-up call for the West
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Assadi was supervising terrorist activities
across the EU and Germany was clearly
the epicentre of his spy network.
The woes of the theocratic regime have
continued to multiply. At the end of
January, the FBI arrested an Iranian
called Kaveh Lotfolah Afrasiabi in
Massachusetts. He is a prominent
political scientist and self-styled expert on
Iran. Afrasiabi had spent the past 13
years embedded in the heart of America’s
democratic institutions, proclaiming the
virtues of the Islamic Republic to US
law-makers in Congress and to media
outlets.
He was a skilled and trusted lobbyist, at
least until the FBI uncovered the fact that
he had been paid upwards of $265,000
through Iran’s Permanent Mission to the
UN in New York, in flagrant breach of the
Foreign Agents Registration Act. A press
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release from the US Justice Department
set out the charges faced by Afrasiabi, for
“conspiring to act as an unregistered
agent of the Government of the Islamic
Republic of Iran.”
The mullahs’ twin-track approach of
silencing opponents at home and abroad
by threats and murder, while projecting
an image of a “moderate” and peace-
loving regime, became seriously unstuck
in late 2017 when there was a nationwide
uprising against the theocratic
dictatorship.
In their usual brutal fashion, the
mullahs ordered a vicious crackdown,
shooting dead over 1500 unarmed
protesters, wounding hundreds more and
imprisoning over 12000, many of whom
have since been tortured and executed.
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the
protests have continued. Resistance units
are springing up all across Iran and the
people have lost their fear. There is a smell
of revolution in the air.
So, the day of reckoning is fast
approaching for the regime. The Assadi
trial in Belgium and the arrest of
Afrasiabi in America have been a wake up
call for the West.
The mullahs thought that after four
years of Donald Trump and his maximum
pressure campaign of sanctions against
their regime, they could now appeal to
President Joe Biden to lift sanctions and
re-join the deeply flawed nuclear deal that
Trump had withdrawn America from
unilaterally. But the Biden administration
is not about to rush into any hasty
decisions.
The new US Secretary of State Tony
Blinken has said that first Iran must
return to the original construct of the
so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of
Action (JCPOA), which it has repeatedly
boasted of breaching. The JCPOA
required uranium enrichment to be
limited to 3.7% purity. The mullahs
recently claimed they had achieved 20%
purity, well on the way to producing
weapons-grade uranium.
Blinken also wants to see an end to the
regime’s proxy wars in Syria, Yemen, Iraq
and Lebanon and a guarantee that they
will end their reign of oppression and
human rights abuse inside Iran and end
their terrorist activities abroad. It looks
like four decades of tyranny and
terrorism under the mullahs may at last
be coming to an end.
‘It’s like
Putin’s
Russia.
I know,
as I work
for RT’
MY WEEK
ALEX SALMOND
As imagined by Brian Beacom
W
HAT a hokey-cokey of a
week it’s been. First,
I’m pencilled in to
appear at the inquiry
looking into the Scottish
Government’s bungled probe into
the sexual misconduct complaints
against me – and I will remind you
I was acquitted of all charges –
then next thing I’m out.
For those who are unclear of
what’s actually going on, well,
simply put, as senior SNP figures
have said, it’s the biggest stitch up
since the Great British Sewing
Bee’s national quilt-making
competition.
The First Minister, who once
said I was the ‘most significant
person in her life’, said she forgot
about a Holyrood meeting to
discuss my predicament.
Then we had a meeting at her
home where she says she first
learned of the complaints against
me. What else were we going to
talk about – “Have you been
watching Schitt’s Creek on Netflix,
Alex?”
Meantime, this week, Peter
Murrell, Nicola’s husband, has
also been dancing the hokey cokey.
He was in, he was out, that night
at their home. It was government
business, it was party business.
He said he had “speculated.”
Now, you may argue that an
amnesia cloud could have settled
I’ll tell you this: we
weren’t talking about
watching Schitt’s
Creek on Netflix
over the home of the Sturgeons.
And, yes, politicians can suffer
from memory loss.
In 2012, you may remember I
forgot I hadn’t actually sought the
advice of law officers on whether
an independent Scotland would be
part of the European Union, and
had to recant a little.
But back to Mr Murrell for a
moment.
“Don’t ask me, ask the Boss,” he
kept bleating.
And when grilled he said he was
he was looking at magpies.
Well, I tell you what I’m looking
at – a couple of carcass-chasing
ravens.
I launched both their careers
and the minute I hit a spot of
bother – over which, I’m sure I
mentioned, I was completely
exonerated, I’m dead to them.
This all suggests a threat to
democracy the like of which we’d
expect to see in Putin’s Russia.
And I should know. I work for
Russia Today.
It’s an investigation into the
SNP by the SNP and chaired by
the SNP. I know what I’m talking
about: I am the SNP.
Then Ms Judas has the temerity
to say to me: “Come and have a go
if you think you’re hard enough, ya
big feartie.”
But that’s from the other side of
the road, when she thought I
couldn’t cross it because I
wouldn’t be able to go in there and
give it accusatory laldy.
Well, just wait, Nicola.
Five years ago I said the SNP
were going to be impossible to
ignore.
And didn’t I get it right?
Thanks to this new state of
internecine warfare I’ve played
such a big part in, my prediction
that we’ll hog the headlines is
proving to be correct.
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Indecision and
appeasement
behind the
schools closure
LETTERS
AS an experienced GP and
Forensic Physician I am truly
horrified with what I am
witnessing in terms of the
government response to the Covid-
19 Pandemic both north and south
of the border.
In particular, I have a problem
with schools being closed,
especially primary schools.
Nicola Sturgeon’s essentially
unopposed SNP government say
that they recognise the damage
this is doing and so are starting
back P1’s to P3’s on February 22.
But what about the remaining
primary school children, and those
families, like mine, who have two
or three children at different stages
of primary school?
How are parents supposed to
home-school some of their kids
whilst ferrying the others back and
Bitter personal
revenge
SANDY Brindley of Rape Crisis
Scotland says Scottish
Parliamentary committee
members investigating how their
government dealt with allegations
against Alex Salmond should
“take a long hard look at
themselves” if political point-
scoring has been behind their
conduct.
It always has been. At a time
when Lady Dorrian’s legal
decision on February 11 has
opened the door to the women
making allegations against Mr
Salmond – of which he was
cleared – becoming identifiable (a
momentous decision for them and
future women), I for one am
disgusted with the positions taken
already meets the costs of their
remuneration and, at its most
RUSSELL LEADBETTER
Selections from
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THE heavy fall of snow in recent
days brings to mind this evocative
passage from Len Deighton’s 1966
spy thriller, Billion Dollar Brain,
about a February snowfall.
“At first it was the sort of snow
that a sharp P.R. man would make
available to journalists. It sparkled
and floated. It was soft yet crisp,
like some new, sugar-coated
breakfast cereal. Girls wore it in
their hair and the Telegraph ran a
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picture of a statue wearing some.
It was hard to reconcile this
benign snow with the stuff that
caused paranoia amongst
British Railways officials”.
Snow and intense cold caused
considerable disruption across
Scotland in early January, 1970.
The main headlines in this
newspaper over three successive
days read: ‘Threat of traffic
chaos on icy roads’; ‘Drivers face
ice danger and more snowfalls’
and ‘Transport crippled as big
freeze continues’. ‘Snow alert in
Central Scotland’, ran the
headline on the fourth day.
Cars and buses were stranded,
and roads were blocked. Lorries
jack-knifed. Schools, colleges
and factories were shut because
heating systems broke down or
because it was just too cold to
work. Thirteen inches of snow
were dumped on Shetland in the
space of 12 hours. Flights were
disrupted or diverted.
The A.A. expressed concern
about the speed with which
roads were being cleared in
some areas. The association said
that a breakdown was being
reported to it in Glasgow every
90 seconds.
Labour MP Tam Dalyell was
on an 11.20pm train from
Edinburgh to London. It was
delayed for four hours and train
staff gave passengers free tea,
coffee and sandwiches. When it
finally arrived at King’s Cross he
wired to Waverley to thank the
staff for their “valiant efforts”.
Two passengers fainted in the
overcrowded guard’s van of a
train between Cumbernauld
and Springburn; so many people
had missed their normal trains
that even the guard’s van was
packed tight. Meanwhile, boys
were photographed in a
snowball fight in Glasgow’s
Buchanan Street, and sledging
(above) in Cumbernauld Village.

Shambles like Salmond inquiry

forward to actual school, often
simultaneously trying to work
from home?
Leaving aside the inconvenience
for working parents, the more
by Tory, Labour and Liberal
Democrat MSPs, on the
committee and beyond it.
Many people will share my
dismay that key issues – about
basic, they are doing precisely
what we employ them to do; that
is, to convene and participate in
meetings.
No significant additional cost is

important reasons why the
government have got this wrong
and need to show courage and
leadership include the ever-
increasing body of evidence from
countries like Scotland and
Norway, that transmission
between primary -aged children
(or from child to teacher) simply
does not occur.
The evidence also shows that
children are at exceedingly low
risk of harm from Covid (they are
statistically more likely to choke to
death on their food for example),
and that teachers are
demonstrably not at increased risk
of Covid-19 infection,
hospitalisation or death, whatever
the teachers’ unions may say.
More importantly still, we
know the harms associated with
children missing out on their
face-to-face teaching, education
and social interaction, as well
as the safety net that a school
provides for vulnerable
children.
A large part of my job involves
child protection and I feel
extremely passionately that in this
debate you are either on the side of
children or you aren’t.
There is also the very real risk
that the attainment gap will be
widened by the status quo and that
many children may never catch up
with their peers or even their own
pre-Covid trajectory in terms of
educational and social
development.
This half-hearted, ‘halfway
house’ decision by the
Scottish Government smacks of
indecision and appeasement and I
urge them to expedite the return of
all primary school pupils
immediately lest they find
themselves on the wrong side of
history.
Dr K Lynch GP,
Stirling.
harassment, safety, power and
protection at work – raised
as a result of the original case have
increasingly disappeared.
How often does this seem to
happen? And how often do we
find that hey presto! It’s women
who are on trial now.
Nothing reveals more clearly
that opposition parties simply
want to bring Sturgeon down than
the fact that any argument, line or
evidence will apparently do.
To those members of the
committee: Please do what Sandy
says, take a hard look at your
ethics.
You cannot say the right words
against sexual violence, abuse or
harassment on other occasions –
some of you have even done
excellent work against abuse – yet
be shamelessly opportunistic on
this one.
Tory, Labour and Liberal
Democrat members must know
this whole drawn-out committee
drama is primarily about bitter
personal revenge, and that you are
colluding with the relentless
pursuit of revenge for your own
party purposes.
Sarah Nelson,
Newport on Tay.
Is inquiry best use
of MSPs’ time?
YOUR correspondent H .
Buchanan (“Can we now move on
from Salmond?”, February 10)
states that the general public are
concerned at the amount of
taxpayers’ money being spent on
the Holyrood inquiry into matters
pertaining to the former First
Minister, and suggests that this
money could be spent on needier
causes.
The vast majority of those
involved in this inquiry are MSPs
and civil servants. The taxpayer
incurred through their
involvement in these specific
meetings.
Perhaps the more important
consideration is if this is the best
use of their time or if they should
they be giving greater priority to
other meetings about different
things.
It seems to me that there can be
little more important than to
address the matter of integrity at
the heart of government and to
assess the character of those who
are appointed as national leaders.
Based on the work of the
committee to date, there is no clear
outcome on either of these issues.
George Rennie, Inverness.
Four-day week
and care homes
PERHAPS Catriona Clark (letters,
February 10) has never worked in
a care home, judging by her
opinion that the five-day working
week should be cut to four days.
I have previously worked in a
care home, and I am close to
someone who still works in one
and has accumulated nine years’
service.
Already care homes have
problems recruiting good full-time
staff, and Ms Clark’s idea, which
would effectively result in an
instant cut of 20 per cent in staff
numbers, could be catastrophic.
Geoff Moore, Alness.
Inkwells and
milk-bottle tops
THE words accompanying the
photograph of young Glasgow
pupils sitting in classroom at
school suggested that it might
recall for “the older readers” their
time at primary school (‘Class of
‘49’, January 11). Well, it certainly
S
INCE Watergate, the grand-daddy of all there have been constant failures to clarify the most
political scandals, it has been commonplace basic points of fact.
to observe that the serious damage is often There has been testimony that many people –
caused, not by the initial offence or row, but whatever the truth of the matter – have found it
by subsequent attempts to minimise the damage. difficult to view as anything other than evasive,
To say that the scandal that attends the Salmond inadequate or hard to credit. If there are sound
Inquiry is, in terms of its potential political fallout, reasons for any of this, we’re unable to assess their
just such an example is not to dismiss the importance validity, since the details have not been forthcoming.
of the original charges, but to point out that, after Mr It is disingenuous to maintain that so much material
Salmond’s victory over the Scottish Government in must be redacted to maintain the anonymity of
2018, and almost a year after the courts then complainants, as Lady Dorrian’s ruling concedes.
acquitted him in a criminal trial, the public has still Quite aside from the rights and wrongs of crucial
to obtain answers to serious questions about the questions about the Scottish Government’s handling
government’s handling of the matter. of the complaints against Mr Salmond, and whether
The most recent ruling, by Lady Dorrian, may lead Nicola Sturgeon has breached the ministerial code,
to the resubmission of Mr Salmond’s evidence to the this whole saga has exposed problems that appear to
committee next week, and increase the chances of be structural.
the former first minister appearing before it, though Though they may be most damaging to the SNP,
we await the full details of the judgment. and seized upon by the political opponents, the most
But despite the protestations of both parties that important are not to do with internal party power
there would be full co-operation in bringing forward struggles between allies of the current and former
the details of how the initial investigation unfolded, First Ministers.
did for me. Rs; , which led up to the sitting of Ian W Thomson, Lenzie.
I remembered my first day at the eleven plus exam.
school. It was momentous because For children being educated in
I was being left on my own with a the public sector, ‘pass’ meant Take a cue from
group of strangers for the first going on to a senior secondary, Rabbie Burns
time. and ‘fail’ meant attendance at a
The desks had inkwells, which junior secondary. The results of THE Black Lives Matter
often became a bit messy when such tests determined in many movement is important and must
used with basic pens. Every respects, somewhat arbitrarily, the continue by ‘taking the knee’ or by
morning we received a small bottle nature of the life’s journey ahead any other form of recognition that
of milk (a third of a pint). The milk- for the children. supports the value of all lives
bottle tops were often kept and Then the time came for you to regardless of ethnicity.
used to play with. There was the move on and become one of the I was in Uganda in 1994 just at
long walk from school, from time new kids on the block at secondary the start of what was to be the
to time, to the local swimming school to face fresh challenges. Rwandan calamity, for want of a
baths for lessons and the much- At this time of pandemic and better word.
looked-forward to stop on the way lockdown, and the uncertainty Did the Hutu people think that
back at a local bakery to buy buns. thrown over the operation of our Tutsi lives mattered back then,
One of the main roles of your schools, we would do well to keep when hundreds of thousands were
teacher was to make her (the ladies in mind the words of Diogenes – massacred? And this barbarity still
taught most classes) children as “The foundation of every state is goes on today in many nations.
proficient as possible in ‘the three the education of its youth”. When will the mantra ‘All Lives
Matter’ become the norm with
everyone taking the knee for that
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Perhaps Robert Burns’s

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5 years ago
A bullish David Cameron has
signalled he is increasingly
confident of achieving a historic
deal to reform Britain’s
membership of the EU as he made
clear that the changes he is
seeking will not stop there. The
Prime Minister said his proposals
on welfare curbs, trade and
sovereignty would “help deliver
the more competitive, outward-
looking, dynamic Europe that
Britain and Germany both want
to see”.
10 years ago
Schoolchildren were delayed for
almost 10 hours after the plane
scheduled to fly them to a ski trip
in Grenoble, France, was
reportedly too big to land at a
Scottish airport. More than 200
pupils from Inverness were left
temporarily stranded after the
aircraft due to take them to
Grenoble was found to be too big
for Inverness Airport’s runway.
The youngsters ended up having
to travel to Aberdeen Airport for a
flight nine hours later.
25 years ago
War-time treasure that lay buried
for 50 years went on show thanks
to a delicate, yellowing makeshift
map that was a German count’s
most valued possession. The map
was carried for all that time by
Count Alexander zu Lynar-Redern
after he fled the advancing
Russian army in 1945. It showed
where hundreds of items of
delicate Meissen china and silver
plate were buried six feet beneath
a forest floor near the castle of
Gorlsdorf, west of the River Oder.
DAWTIE
WE Scots are not a very romantic
lot, but we do have some words of
tenderness. Dawtie, although
appropriate to Valentine’s Day,
seems to have fallen out of
fashion, which is a shame. It has
this meaning in the Dictionaries
of the Scots Language: “A pet,
darling, special favourite”. The
poet Allan Ramsay writes,
whimsically, in his Tea Table
Miscellany of 1724-27: “When e’er
I kiss and court my dawtie, . . . My
flighteren heart gangs
pittie-pattie”.
In Tayside Songs of 1895,
Robert Ford displays a more
pragmatic side to Scottish
courtship: “He hirsell’d [to slide
over, slither] closely to my side,
Says, ‘Dautie, can ye wash an’
shew?’”. The term could also be
addressed to children: “Granny
would add, ‘wir dawtie peerie oy
[our dearest little grandchild]”.
(Old Lore Miscellany of Orkney,
Shetland 1907-20.)
‘Dawtier’ does survive in an old
ballad, the Beggar’s Dawtie, which
tells the tale of a young woman
who elopes with a beggar only to
discover that he is a rich man in
disguise. The date of this verse is
unknown. A 20th century
example comes from Lewis
Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song
(1932), which describes a written
dedication in a Bible: “And these
had been all her books that
weren’t lesson-books, they were all
the books in Cairndhu but for the
Bibles grandmother had left to
them, one to Chris and one to
Will, and in Chris’s one were set
the words ‘To my dawtie Chris:
Trust in God and do the right’.”
PAULINE CAIRNS SPEITEL

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With hindsight, it seems, at the very least, unwise by all accounts, was known to be hopeless. Mackenna, Brian Beacom, Helen
of Ms Sturgeon’s husband, Peter Murrell, to have
continued as the party’s chief executive while she
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the legal advice that led to £500,000 of taxpayers’ A shambles like this should never be permitted whirlwind which endlessly loops
money being wasted on the judicial review case that, again. back the same opinions to the same
people, there is a lack of wider
understanding, of common
ground. We can see where this
observation that ‘We are all Jock 1795-1881). (‘Fire destroys city venue’, The closed loop took the US. It made it
Tamson’s bairns’ should be given R Russell Smith, Largs. Herald, February 10) shows the Ron McKay Rosemary Goring David Pratt a country where one half didn’t
as a starting point. disastrous fire at the much-loved St understand the other half.
Ian Gray, Croftamie. Andrew’s Halls, in October 1962. Now, we don’t imagine that The
Heralding a Within around six months, the Herald can turn that round on its
Songs in the key brand new day city would lose yet another much- own, but we can certainly try. To
loved venue: the final curtain fell that end, from the middle of the
of boredom UP at 7 am for my wee coffee buzz, at the old Empire Theatre, March month we will be welcoming even
then the front door – and there, as 31, 1963. more voices in the shape of Lesley
I SALUTE Thelma Edwards and always, it’s on the mat. Back to my To lose two major palaces of Riddoch, and BBC Scotland’s
her many cures for boredom cosy little bed for a good read. entertainment in so short a period former political editor Brian
(letters, February 10) and likewise Can I give a great big thanks to was terrible. Neil Mackay Ally McLaws Dr David Vost Taylor, broadcaster Janice Forsyth,
share similar pleasures, which in the publishing workers and staff, The 1960s were not kind to the and professor Linda Bauld.
addition include my trusty the distribution workers, my wee city. This comes on top of last
keyboard with its many rhythms; corner shop, and the indefatigable The old Metropole had already The Herald is uniquely placed politics to social and cultural month’s additions: foreign editor
and, aware of George Bernard delivery girls and boys who in all succumbed to fire in 1961 as Scotland’s only quality changes, we aim to reflect the
broadsheet to be a trusted full diversity of opinion and
David Pratt, concert promoter
Shaw’s stricture that “Hell is full of weathers still manage to deliver (strangely enough, also in forum for national debate. stimulate discussion. The Donald MacLeod, former Labour
amateur musicians”, its the Glasgow Herald to their October); and the show-piece We are committed to positions expressed by the MP Brian Wilson, Scottish
headphones, necessary for readers early in the morning? Alhambra would host its final providing fair and impartial columnists and contributors do Farmer’s political editor Claire
domestic bliss. Well done! performance, in 1969. coverage on our news pages of not necessarily represent the Taylor and an extra column from
At the risk of being seen as a Alan Stephen, A sobering decade for the Scotland’s affairs and we do views of The Herald. Kevin Mackenna.
philistine, which I guess is not far Glasgow. city, indeed; and all sad not endorse any political party. We hope you find them
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“I’ve got a great ambition to die Glasgow venues President, constitution to the economy, G32 8FG. the debate on our letters pages or
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boredom”, Thomas Carlyle, YOUR “Remember when” feature Glasgow. home of honest debate.

On this day
1542: “I die a Queen but I
would rather have died the
wife of Culpepper,” – said to
be the last words of Catherine
Howard, fifth wife of Henry
VIII, before she was beheaded
on Tower Green.
1692: The Glencoe massacre
took place in the Scottish
Highlands, when the
MacDonalds were murdered
by their traditional enemies,
the Campbells.
1867: Johann Strauss’s waltz
The Blue Danube was first
performed at a ball in Vienna.
1945: Hundreds of allied
planes bombed Dresden,
devastating one of the world’s
most beautiful cities.
1958: Dame Christabel
Pankhurst, British suffragette
and daughter of Emmeline,
died.
1974: Russian writer
Alexander Solzhenitsyn was
expelled from the Soviet
Union.
1987: London’s property
boom resulted in a 5ft 6in x
11ft broom cupboard opposite
Harrods being offered for sale
at £36,500 - more than £600
per square foot.
Birthdays
Kim Novak (left), actress, 88;
George Segal, actor, 87;
Stockard Channing, actress,
77; Jerry Springer, talk show
host, 77; Peter Gabriel, singer,
71; Liam Brady, former
footballer, 65; Peter Hook,
musician, 65; Henry Rollins,
actor and rock singer, 60;
Jesse Birdsall, actor, 58;
Robbie Williams, (right) pop
singer, 47.
Quotes of the day
“Fascinating to see Twitter
change its mind about
@missgemcollins during Life
Stories – from cruel mindless
abuse to grudging admiration
and then a lot of praise for her
honesty and candour” - TV
presenter Piers Morgan
reflects on his interview with
the media personality Gemma
Collins on his series, Life
Stories.

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24 Puzzles ANALYSIS , I NSIGHT, OPI N ION Saturday February 13, 2021

BRIDGE CHESS KAKURO 9-ER SUDOKU

GENUINE HARD LUCK
A genuine hard-luck story comes from Sweden, where this
deal originated. It seems that neither team could obtain a
plus score when they held these delicious-looking North-
1 White to play and win. Fill in the white squares with the numbers
1 to 9. Each horizontal block of squares must
Each number from 1 to 9 represents a different letter.
Solve the clues and insert the letters in the appropriate
To solve these puzzles, each 3 x 3 box, each row
and each column must contain all the numbers
South cards at match play. 8 add up to the number in the shaded square to squares to discover a word which uses all nine letters. 1 to 9.
its left, and each vertical block must add up to
1 RATING: easy
7 the number in the shaded square above it. No
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
k 10 8 2 6 number may be used more than once in any
jK one block.
iAK9762 5
h 10 8 7
k 97543 k- 4 8 28 4 14 3
THE CLUES
j 84 j7653 9 11 137159 gives a home for animals;
i 5 i Q J 10 3 3
h AK642 hQJ953 14 689 gives a home for animals;
2 11 19 2549 gives a home for animals.
kAKQJ6 14 19 7
j A Q J 10 9 2 1 10 17
i84 9 15
h- a b c d e f g h YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: UNMATCHED
26 9
South West North East 19 6
2j
3k
No
No
3i
4k
No
No
2 White to play and win.
5

29
8
10
10
7

SPLIT DECISION
5h No 5i No
7k No No No 8 19 19 13
13 6 9 Cross out one of the two letters in each divided square to
7 14 10 reveal a completed crossword grid.
11 12
6 11
In the first room, South was the declarer in seven spades. S F S S K B E L L E
He ruffed the opening club lead and cashed the ace of 22 12
spades, discovering that West now had more trumps than
5 4 13 5 6
K I O H S S A R H S 2 RATING: hard

the declarer. South tried playing out the hearts, with the 4 18 8 H U I T O X
idea of forcing West to ruff; after over-ruffing in dummy, N K A F E H
declarer would be able to draw trumps and make the rest. 3 8 10
West followed to two hearts, but he then discarded his A W T N Y A A A N E
singleton diamond. The slam was now dead, for sooner or 2 O P I L G D W U R T
later South has to play a diamond, which was ruffed. The
winning line is to cash just one diamond before rattling off 1 Yesterday’s C N H J T Q
the hearts. If West declines to ruff now, declarer discards 1 4 6 7 3 solution R D A L R D
all of dummy’s remaining diamonds and eventually ruffs a a b c d e f g h 7 2 6 9 8 5 4 3
diamond on the table. 9 5 9 4 2 7 T U O B K B A S G S
OTHER ROOM 4 2 2 6 6 9 K N S C T L U N B D
In the other room, North-South were desperately unlucky. 7. Rf3+ and wins. 2 6 1 5 3 9 1
After a similar start to the bidding, North made the 4. Rcc3 Rxe4 5. Rxf8+ Kxf8 6. Qd8+ Re8 5 8 6 7 3 1 2 S O U T H C A T C H Last Saturday’s
intelligent bid of four hearts instead of four spades and the 2 1. Ra3 f3 2. Qxg5 fxg2 3. Rf3 fxg2 6 1 3 8 A N I U E A solutions
pair eventually reached seven hearts. East made a lead- 4. Qxg8 Qxc3 5. Kb1 dxe3 6. e6 and wins. 1 4 9 7 8 4 9
directing double, and an opening spade lead defeated the 7 8 9 9 3 1 5 F A T A L B O N D S
1 1. dxe5 d4 2. h6 Rg8 3. Qc4 Qb4
contract at the first trick. 1 2 5 3 5 9 2 E I L E S T
TODAY’S SOLUTIONS:
4 3 1 7 3 R E E D S S C E N E

DOUBLE CROSSWORD CRYPTIC CLUES:

Across
7. Member of a rising
movement (5)
8. Draw a picture of the
harbour light (7)
9. Well known for being
unskilled! (7)
10. Type that will go in the
ring (5)
12. What is performed at
the School Concert? It’s
easy! (6,4)
15. Dull - be in need of different
result (10)
18. Do some climbing, as bees
do (5)
19. Take back what was said
YESTERDAY’S CRYPTIC SOLUTION:
about the pamphlet (7)
Across: 1 Of matches; 8 Box; 9 Drawing near; 11 Compere;
12 Cache; 13 Rounds; 15 Gladys; 17 Treat; 18 Omnibus; 21. Noose? (7)
20 Counterpart; 22 Lea; 23 Statesmen. Down: 2 Far; 3 Trite; 22. First to get the gun
CODEBREAKER Yesterday’s solutions
Codebreaker is a crossword with no clues. The number on each square corresponds
Down to a letter. Fill in all the instances of the two given letters, and then use your skill Easy Hard
1. Guidelines for heads, we to crack the code and work out the rest. Cross each letter of the alphabet off as
hear (10) you go.
2. Helps to change a wild
beast (5)
3. Convivial meeting-place
used when driving (4)
4. Court plea to evoke
sympathy (6)
5. He makes a suggestion
Today’s solutions will be published in
in favour of prose
translation (8) The Herald on Monday.
6. It only works when trodden
underfoot (7)
11. An instruction to the
monastic to gamble? (3,7)
WORD WHEEL
Give yourself ten minutes to find as many words as
13. Wife to lend a hand with a possible using the letters in the wheel. Each word
friend (8) must use the hub letter and at least three others,
14. An abrasion is no and letters may be used only once. You cannot
handicap (7) use plurals, foreign words or proper nouns. There
16. Attempts to play an ace (6) is at least one nine-letter word to be found.
17. Vestment that takes some
getting out of! (5)

I O
4 Higher; 5 Stencil; 6 Abracadabra; 7 Expresses; 10 Armoured 20. Kind of measure used in
car; 11 Card-table; 14 Detours; 16 Portia; 19 Nurse; 21 Rye. ready (5) recording (4)

N G L
QUICK CLUES:
Across Down
7. Memento (5) 1. Transmits (10)
2. Quick (5)

M T
8. Deviate (7)
3. Blemish (4)
9. Contrary (7)
4. Arrival (6)

HO
10. Deserves (5) 5. Misdemeanours (8)
12. Defence (10) 6. Region (7)
15. Singer (10) 11. Father Christmas (5,5)
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUV WXYZ
18. Healthy (5) 13. Remaining (8)
14. Examination (7) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
19. Local (7) How you rate:
16. Go back (6) 8, average; 12, good;
21. Pirate (7) 17. Pungent (5) 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 16, very good; 20 or more, excellent.
22. Goodbye (5) 20. Summit (4) F A
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION:
YESTERDAY’S QUICK SOLUTION: PROMINENT import, inept, mope, nope, open,
Across: 1 Appraisal; 8 Oar; 9 Prohibition; 11 Entreat; 12 Unite; YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: opine, pent, perm, permit, pert, pier, pine, pint,
13 Intact; 15 Resent; 17 Mince; 18 Company; 20 Impropriety; pinto, pion, poem, poet, point, pointer, pont, pore,
22 Inn; 23 Resilient. Down: 2 Par; 3 Arise; 4 Shifty; 5 Leisure; 1=M, 2=H, 3=V, 4=W, 5=D, 6=C, 7=Z, 8=X, 9=L, 10=O, 11=Y, 12=G,
port, prim, prime, print, prom, prominent, prone,
6 Considerate; 7 Presently; 10 Outstanding; 11 Enigmatic; 13=B, 14=Q, 15=P, 16=S, 17=K, 18=F, 19=E, 20=U, 21=R, 22=I, 23=T, protein, ripe, ripen, romp, rope, tempo, tope,
14 Cheaper; 16 Across; 19 Moral; 21 Tun. 24=J, 25=N, 26=A toper, trip, tripe, trompe, trope.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE by Kyle

THE WEE STINKER
JYVZZ^VYKUV ACROSS
1 Ravenous or
ACROSS DOWN vulturish (9)
1 Truthfulness or conformity to 1 Meeting of church members to 8 Tif? Jest in
facts (8) discuss parish business (6) text? (5)
5 -HTPS`VMSHUN\HNLZVM(ZPHHUK:, 2 Further contest after a tie or 9 Glutton or Roman
,\YVWLUV^KPZJYLKP[LK inconclusive result (3-3) drunk in court (9)
9 Plant of the genus Arenaria having 3 Reprehensible person lacking in 10 Free use of ladder (3)
ZTHSSWPURVY^OP[LMSV^LYZ courage (6) 11 Scream (4)
10 <U[PK`JHYLSLZZ^YP[PUNVM[LU 4 Supporters of Scotland’s national 12 Cheat French and
illegible (6) football team (6,4) neck (6)
11 The act of sending to someone 6 5HYYV^KLLWPUSL[VM[OL*S`KL^P[O 14 Acmes (6)
else for treatment, consideration a naval base at Coulport (4,4) 15 Dye Charlie cut out (6)
etc. (8) 7 <ZLVMH^VYKZ\JOHZP[VYKV[V 18 Water jump (6)
12 Something tediously familiar or H]VPKYLWLH[PUNHWYL]PV\Z^VYK 19 Arm 51 Megs (4)
outdated (3,3) 8 :(TLYPJHUWSHU[^P[OKLJVYH[P]L 21 Hot/cold (3)
14 Seafood soup, mainly crab, eaten SLH]LZVM[LUNYV^UHZOV\ZLWSHU[ 23 Dipnoi (9)
TVZ[S`PU5,:JV[SHUK 13 >OLYLPU:JV[SHUKYL]LYZPUNIHYYV^Z 24 Universal girl
18 0KLHSTPKKSL^H`IL[^LLU[^V at hospital leads to dismissal (10) disease (5)
extremes (6,4) 15 Alternative name for the 25 Arm signals (9)
22 Glib talk or chatter as used by a aubergine (8)
salesman, for instance (6) 16 7YLJPV\ZZPS]LY`^OP[LTL[HSZ`TIVS
23 Thick, hard shell of a tortoise or Pt (8) DOWN
crustacean (8) 17 Half-year course or term in a school 1 Steadfast or shaky (5)
24 Person related through a male or university (8) 2 Puzzle for each - so
ancestor (6) 19 (SJV]L^P[OHKLZRPUHSPIYHY`MVY many times (7)
25 Accommodation provided at a private reading (6) 3 Diver’s ankle (4)
dock for loading or unloading 20 0THNPUHY`^VUKLYM\SWSHJL :VS\[PVU[V.LULYHS2UV^SLKNL 13 Firstly (8) 18 Moderate reserve (5)
*YVZZ^VYK5V 4 5V[JSLHY
goods (8) 21 -VYTVMY\NI`WSH`LK^P[OHIV\[OHSM 5 They pay colonists (8) 14 Badger set (7) 20 Drizzle tack (5)
26 Quality of a musical sound as the usual number of players (6) ACROSS: 7PWP[/PNOQPURZ ,ZWLYHU[V
/VY\Z:[LYL(SSHIYL]L9PWVZ[L 6 Parry’s fourth (5) 16 @PWWLL 22 3LM[ ^LHR
opposed to its pitch and 9OVTI\Z1\[SHUK ;VULYV^*HZ[LSSHU 7 King Charles? (7) 17 Mae & chaplet (6)
loudness (6) *SHUN5N\UP4HYJVWVSV/VS`NYHPS
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Growth Inc 8.85 +0.06 0.78 With Profit Ser. 4 557.40 586.70 01296 393100
Emerging Mkts Acc A 1013.77 0.20 Japan Inc 59.45 2.21 Drummond Hse, PO Box 1727, 1 Redheugths Ave Far East 619.40 652.10 +0.70
Scottish Widows Inv Prtnrship Inv Fds ICVC Formerly CGU Life
Franklin Templeton Fds (OEIC) Beta Shares Japan A Acc 71.83 1.03 European 958.80 958.80 +0.10 Edinburgh EH12 9JN
Eth Wld Acc A 326.12 - (0800) F Fixed Interest 1282.20 1349.70 +0.60
(£250) Formerly Norwich Union Life & Pensions Ltd 0131 5236555
Eth Wld Inc A 242.72 - Japan Smaller Cos 595.87 1.71 Fund of Inv Tsts 2788.00 2788.00 -4.10
Unit Trusts Index Linked 884.00 930.60 +0.30
See AEGON Fund Management listings For all other Aviva Funds,
Multi-Asset Acc I 355.78 1.10 Japan Smaller Cos Acc 683.86 0.68 Gilt & Fixed Int 707.40 707.40 +0.30 American 1478.30 1556.00
THREADNEEDLE NAVIGATOR FUNDS please call free on 0800 557740 International 2668.90 2809.40 +0.10
HENDERSON GLOBAL INVESTORS Recovery 115.00 1.38 North American 1780.10 1780.10 +0.10
World Eqty Acc A 316.46 - Signal Point, Station Rd, Swindon Cash 199.40 209.90
201 Bishopsgate, London, EC2M 3AE Formerly NU CGU Life Japanese 193.80 204.00 +0.20
World Eqty Inc A 268.53 - Recovery Acc 289.32 0.22 01793 363888 For General Accident see Aviva Life & Pens Defensive Managed 474.80 499.80
Enquiries: 0800 832832 Dealer: 0845 6088703 Life Funds Managed 3017.40 3176.30 +0.70
UK Growth 3139.16 2.18 UK Ltd for prices
AEGON FUND MANAGEMENT UK LTD Managed 707.30 European 814.20 857.00
UK & Europe Funds TURCAN CONNELL SOLICITORS & ASSET North American 957.30 1007.70 -1.40
For Merrill Lynch see BlackRock For all other General Accident Funds,
Ingrave Road, BRENTWOOD, CM15 8TG MNGRS Far East 811.40 854.00
European Smaller Cos A 3341.00 - Managed 2 746.40 785.60 please call free on 0800 557743 Property 836.00 880.00 +0.10
For Mellon Fund Managers Ltd see BNY 1 Earl Grey Street, Edinburgh
Class A (Retail) With Profit 244.50 Fixed Interest 449.00 472.60
Henderson Pref & Bond A 55.45 3.90 Mellon Fund Managers Ltd For all other Provident Mutual Funds, Cautious Managed 332.00 349.50 -0.10
0131 228 8111
Ethical Equity Acc 217.77 +0.97 0.66 please call free on 0800 557745 Growth Managed 564.90 594.60
Henderson Strat Bond A 133.10 3.10 For MLC Trust Mgmt Ltd and National With Profit Ser. 2 330.20 347.60 Distribution 90.40 95.20 -0.10
Sterling Corp Bond Inc 34.89 -0.01 2.01 TC Income Portfolio 113.52 +0.04 2.60 For Norwich Union Life & Pens Ltd see Aviva Japanese 215.40 226.70
UK Equity Income A 477.60 2.90 Australia Trust Mgmt Ltd see Architas Multi- With Profit Loyalty 370.00 Pacific Basin 407.60 429.10 +0.50
Sterling Corp Bond Acc 88.57 -0.02 2.01 Manager Ltd WDB ASSET MANAGEMENT LTD Life & Pens UK Ltd Opportunity Managed 552.80 581.80
Global Funds Pension Funds Pension Cash 133.30
UK Equity A Acc 283.67 +0.17 1.25 Johnstone Ltd is now part of Aberdeen Unit 100 Wood Street, London, EC2V 7AN PEARL
Japan Capital Gwth A 465.50 0.20 Mngd 2935.00 3089.40 UK Equity 519.70 547.00
Trust Mgrs Ltd Tel: (0870) 606 6400 Pension Ethical 362.20 +0.90
ALLIANZ DRESDNER FUNDS LTD Lynch Wood, Peterborough PE2 6FY Pens American 2245.90 2364.00
Pacific Capital Gwth A 1578.00 - Mngd Your Pension 3351.20
155 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 3AD PRUDENTIAL UNIT TRUSTS LTD 01733 470470 Pension European 270.30 +0.60
0800 073 2001
For Henderson New Star see Henderson
Global Investors
PO Box 9022, Chelmsford, CM99 2WA INSURANCE With Prof 556.00 585.20
Equity Acc 5044.60 5310.20 +0.40
Pens Cash 233.30 245.50
Pension Far East 333.60 +0.30
With Prof Your Pension 556.00 Pens Defensive Mngd 597.50 628.90
UK Growth A 6435.66 1.05 For Hill Samuel Unit Tst Mgrs see SWIP Fund Formerly Scottish Amicable Funds Sell Buy +/- Managed Acc 3794.80 3994.60 +9.90 Pension Fixed Int 279.40 +0.20
For all other CGU Funds, Pens European 967.80 1018.70
Cont Euro 1882.76 0.12 Management ABBEY LIFE ASSURANCE CO LTD Property Acc 853.40 898.40 Pension FTSE Tracker 215.00 +1.20
RBS COLLECTIVE INVESTMENT FUNDS LTD please call free on 0800 557742 Pens Far East 1181.80 1244.00
Sterling Total Rtn 209.44 0.84 HSBC INVESTMENT FUNDS LTD PO Box 9908, Chelmsford, CM99 2AF 100 Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth BH8 8AL Pension Index Linked 351.40 +0.30
Formerly General Accident Property Dist 270.10 284.40
0845 9600 900 Pens Fixed Interest 582.30 613.00
Total Asia Rtn 1618.04 0.53 City Plaza 2 Pinfold Street Sheffield S1 2QZ 0845 300 2585 Pension International 325.90 -1.10
Life Funds Investment Fund Net
Advisers: 0800 181 890 Pens Growth Mngd 759.80 799.70
UK Mid Cap A 5642.55 0.12 For Resolution Asset Management see Ignis Custodian Ser. 4 577.50 607.90 Pension Japanese 132.70 +0.10
Managed 707.30 744.40 Adventurous Man 550.30 579.30 +1.50
(Mon-Fri 8am-6pm) Enquiry: 0845 7456123 Asset Management Pens Japanese 246.70 259.70
ARCHITAS MULTI-MANAGER LTD Ethical Ser. 4 391.10 411.70 Pension Managed 275.30 -0.40
Dealer: 0845 7456126 With Profit Ser. 1 386.30 406.60 Cautious Man 444.70 468.20 +0.30
5 Old Broad Street, London, EC2N 1AD Pens Opp Managed 721.80 759.70
SANTANDER UNIT TRUST MANAGERS International Ser. 4 736.70 775.40 Pension North American 352.30 -0.40
With Profit Ser. 2 248.10 261.20 Equity 1000.10 1052.80 Pens UK Equity 653.40 687.80
Balanced Inc 152.00 d 1.43 287 St Vincent Street, Glasgow G2 5NB
Authorised Inv Funds Managed Ser. 4 2237.40 2355.20 Pension Pacific Basin 559.80 +0.80
Balanced Acc 231.70 d+0.60 1.43 08457 413002 With Profit Loyalty 375.40 395.20 Gilt & Fixed Int 528.00 555.80 +0.50 Stkhld Deposit 2 Pens 146.10
Balanced Pfolio Acc 208.24 0.47 Property Ser. 4 991.30 1043.50 Pension Protection 268.00 -0.02
FTSE 100 Index Inc 106.40 +0.30 2.90 Enquiries: 08457 413002 Pension Funds International 1069.50 1125.80 +4.00 Stkhld Ret Prot 2 Pens 158.30
Cautious Balanced Acc 238.72 0.43 Selective Acc. Ser. 2 1800.00 1894.70
Gilt & Fxd Interest Inc 76.10 d-0.04 1.10 Managed Ser. 1 1111.90 1170.30 Managed 998.30 1050.90 +2.60 Pension Property 245.50
Bal Pfolio Gwth Ret 230.80 - Stkhld Bal Mngd 2 Pens 134.00
Conservative Pfolio Acc 239.37 1.33
Gilt & Fxd Interest Acc 509.20 d-0.20 1.10 Eqty Income Inc Ret 211.50 +0.30 - AEGON SCOTTISH EQUITABLE Managed Ser. 2 2697.80 2839.70 Mixed Cap 251.70 265.00 +0.70 Pension Sterling 138.50
Conservative Pfolio Inc 142.48 1.34 Stkhld UK Idx Trk 2 Pens 92.90
Monthly Income Inc 126.50 d 3.05 Edinburgh Park, Edinburgh EH12 9SE Pension Stock Exchange 334.00 -0.70
Stkmkt 100 Tkr 230.80 - With Profit Ser. 1 702.90 739.90 Mixed Fund Acc 617.40 649.90 +1.60 For Scottish Amicable Funds see Prudential
Diversified Bond Acc 169.79 2.31 0131 339 9191
Income Inc 257.40 d-0.40 3.14 UK Growth Inc Ret 255.50 +0.30 - With Profit Ser. 2 568.20 598.20 Money Fund 252.90 266.30 Life & Pension Funds Pension Cautious Managed 260.80 -0.20
Diversified Share Acc 278.00 0.32
American 2041.36 2148.80
IGNIS ASSET MANAGEMENT UK Growth Acc Ret 448.60 +0.50 - For all other General Accident Funds, Property 389.10 409.60 For Scottish Equitable plc see AEGON Pension UK Equity 212.10 -0.10
Growth Pfolio Acc 272.25 0.37
50 Bothwell Street, Glasgow G2 6HR For Scottish Equitable Fund managers Ltd Cash 279.15 293.85 please call free on 0800 557743 Scottish Equitable
High Income Acc 183.10 3.50 Pearl Assurance (Unit Linked Pensions) Ltd Baillie Gifford Mngd Pens 528.90
0141 222 8282 see AEGON Fund Management UK Ltd European 1194.02 1256.86 Formerly Provident Mutual SCOTTISH LEGAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY
High Income Inc 76.26 3.57 Cash 461.60 485.90 Deutsche Balanced Pens 302.90
Enquiries: 0845 605 0555 Dealer: 0141 222 8282 SCOTTISH FRIENDLY ASSET MANAGERS LTD Fixed Interest 596.82 628.23 Life Funds LTD
UK Equity Acc 313.78 1.75 Managed Ser. 1 4518.40 4756.30 +14.20 Deutsche Managed Pens 280.60
Scottish Friendly Hse, 16 Blythswood Sq, Glasgow Foreign Bond/Curr 478.79 503.99 Managed Ord 1662.90 1750.40 95 Bothwell St, Glasgow G2 7HY
INVESCO FUND MANAGERS LTD Managed Ser. 2 1532.30 1613.00 +4.80 Fidelity Special Sits Pens 412.80
ARTEMIS FUND MANAGERS LTD G2 4HJ 0141 222 5000
30 Finsbury Square, London,EC2A 1AG Index-Linked 669.47 704.71 Managed Init 477.70 502.80
57 St. James’s Street, London SW1A 1LD 0141 275 5000 Pens Mixed Cap 350.00 368.50 +1.10 Fidelity SE Asia Pens 907.70
Deposit 148.40 156.20
0800 092 2051 Emerging Countries Inc 452.28 +0.54 0.27 International 1111.38 1169.88 Pension Funds
Managed Growth NAV 327.10 d+1.50 - Pens Mixed Acc 858.20 903.40 +2.70 Global Selector Pens 280.20
Index Tracker 330.20 347.60 -0.50
UK Special Situations 640.34 d-0.24 0.91 Emerging Countries Acc 515.61 +0.62 0.27 Japan 491.94 517.83 Managed Ord 2782.50 2928.90
UK Growth NAV 400.30 d+1.80 - Pens Sterl Fund Cap 108.40 114.20 JPMF Life Gbl Eqty Pens 411.70
Managed 415.40 437.30 -0.10
For Artemis Unit Trusts see Artemis Fund European Smlr Cos Acc 306.38 +2.48 - Mixed 974.78 1026.08 Managed Init 850.30 895.10
SCOTTISH MUTUAL INV MANAGERS LTD Pens Sterl Fund Acc 237.70 250.30 JPMF Life Moderate Pens 347.50
Managers High Income Inc 296.75 +0.74 3.34 For all other Provident Mutual Funds, Tax Ex Index Tracker 248.20 261.30
Pacific 1843.09 1940.09
50 Bothwell Street, Glasgow G2 6HR Newton Ex Gbl Bal Pens 397.10
Hong Kong & China Acc 1180.24 +11.32 - please call free on 0800 557745 PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE CO Tax Ex Managed 455.90 479.90 -0.10
BLACKROCK 0141 222 8020 Technology 4691.97 4938.92
Formerly Commercial Union PO Box 14962, Craigforth, Stirling, FK9 4ZD Newton Managed Pens 359.60
33 King William St, EC4R 9AS Japanese Smlr Cos Acc 149.75 +0.07 - Tax Ex Untsd with Prof 203.50 214.20
European Acc 2491.38 2626.40+11.00 1.05 UK Equity 895.79 942.94 01786 448844
0800 445522 Life Funds Unitised with Profits 176.70 186.00 Thrdndle Am Sel Gwth Pens 423.60
Formerly INVESCO GT Funds
UK Equity Acc 1179.93 1245.31+0.71 3.15 Distribution 101.77 107.13
European Equity Acc 1143.51 -0.70 0.92 Managed 1399.40 1473.10 Managed 1529.40 1593.20 SCOTTISH WIDOWS INVESTMENT SOLUTIONS
Balanced Pfolio 185.70 195.80d+0.60 2.04 SCOTTISH LIFE INVESTMENTS
Ethical 703.76 740.81
Balanced Pfolio Acc 418.40 441.10 d+1.40 1.95 European Equity Inc 874.88 -0.53 0.93 SCOTTISH WIDOWS Venture Managed 686.70 722.90 Scottish Amicable Non Series A 19 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh EH2 IYE Adventurous Mngd 728.20 766.50
PO Box 28015 Dalkeith Road Edinburgh EH16 Global 366.80 386.11
Cash Trust 100.67 100.67 - Reserve Managed 522.30 549.80 Cash Acc 599.90 631.50 0131 456 7236 Balanced Managed 1115.80 1174.50
JPMORGAN ASSET MGMT 5WL With Profits 151.86 159.85
Cash Trust Acc 238.65 238.65 - Finsbury Dials, 20 Finsbury Street, London With Profit 315.10 331.70 Equity Acc 2583.60 2719.60 American 1541.30 1622.50 +4.20 Cash 294.90 310.40
0845 300 2244
For Allied Dunbar Funds see Zurich
Contl Europ Acc 3672.00 3864.00d+55.00 - EC2Y 9AQ Pension Funds Fixed Interest Acc 1950.60 2053.30 Deposit 313.50 330.10
OEIC A Class Assurance Ltd European 2005.50 2111.00
Emerg Markets Acc 775.20 816.80d+8.40 0.49 Brokerline: 0800 727 770 Clients: 0800 20 40 20 International Acc 2476.90 2607.30
American Growth Acc 2155.00 +7.00 0.40 Managed 2619.70 2757.60 European 2514.20 2646.60 +9.80 Evergreen 479.50 504.70
AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT
Gold & General Acc 1276.00 1348.00d-22.00 - OEIC European Growth Acc 696.50 +5.20 0.80 Venture Managed 832.80 876.70 Managed Acc 2665.50 2805.80 Fixed Interest 833.60 877.50 -0.20
Pearl Assurance Plc, Peterborough Business Park, Gilt & Fixed Interest 598.60 630.10
UK Fund Inc 468.70 494.70d+2.40 0.30 Asia Acc 360.90 +1.50 - Lynch Wood, Peterbourgh Reserve Managed 814.10 857.00 Index Linked 876.70 922.90 -0.50
Pacific Growth Acc 1697.00 +3.00 1.20 PRUDENTIAL INDIVIDUAL LIFE FUNDS With Profits Reg 384.80 405.10
UK Fund Acc 677.60 715.10d+3.30 0.30 Emerging Markets Acc 372.30 +0.70 - 01733 470470 55 King’s Road, Reading, RG1 3AH
UK Growth Acc 2 173.70 +0.40 3.30 With Profit 588.30 619.30 Global Managed 1300.50 1369.00 +3.50 With Profits Spec 384.80 405.10
UK Income 393.30 415.00d+1.80 4.28 Euro Acc 1643.00 d+7.00 1.76 Gold Acc 964.70 1015.50 +2.60 0345 601601
For Scottish Amicable Unit Trusts see For all other Commercial Union Funds, Managed 1250.50 1316.40 +1.40 International 1215.30 1279.20
UK Smaller Cos Acc 1247.00 1323.00d-2.00 0.16 Euro Dynamic (ex-UK) Acc 252.00 d+0.80 0.61 Prudential Unit Trusts please call free on 0800 557744 Cash 536.30 564.50
Gold Capital 357.00 375.80 +0.90 Pacific 1180.30 1242.50 +4.40 Indexed Linked 667.70 702.70
UK Special Sits Inc 2666.00 2823.00d+6.000.39 Euro Smaller Cos Acc 990.30 d+4.90 - For Singer & Friedlander Investment Funds Norwich Union prior to 2.10.2000
Gold Investment 1030.70 1085.00 +2.80 Equity 5886.40 6196.20 Property 907.00 954.80 +0.10
Global Acc 2236.00 d+29.00 - see WDB Asset Management Ltd Japan Fund 377.40 397.20
UK Special Sits Acc 4824.00 5109.00d+11.000.39 Life Funds European 1464.70 1541.80
Ultima Acc 509.20 536.00 +1.40 UK Equity 1575.30 1658.30 -1.10
Global Bond (ex-UK) Inc 223.80 d - North American 2486.30 2617.10
US Dynamic Acc 1880.00 1976.00d+13.00 STANDARD LIFE INVESTMENTS (0730)F Cautious Managed 422.51 444.75
Ultima Capital 214.40 225.70 +0.50 Fixed Interest 1885.90 1985.10 Worldwide 397.70 418.70 +1.20
Global High Yield Bond Acc 126.10 d 4.75 1 George Street,Edinburgh EH2 2LL Pacific 1943.60 2045.80
0.06 Defensive Managed 367.22 386.55
Pensions Gtd Acc 535.00 563.20 International 2561.40 2696.20 Pens American 1976.70 2080.80 +6.20
Global High Yield Bond Inc 35.68 d+0.01 4.80 0800 333353 Property 665.50 700.50
US Opps Acc 1253.00 1318.00d+7.00 0.53 Unitsd Bal Managed 556.15 585.42
Pensions Gtd Capital 264.20 278.20 Managed 3244.60 3415.30 Pens Deposit 457.00 481.10
Japan Acc 695.00 d+6.30 - Investment Funds (OEIC) - Retail Shares UK Equity 1164.20 1225.50
BNY MELLON FUND MANAGERS LTD Unitsd With Profits 317.20 333.90 North American 1714.00 1804.20
Multi-Manager Growth Inc 1275.00 d-1.00 0.74 Pensions Mngd Acc 1630.70 1716.60 +5.20 Pens European 3629.20 3820.30 +16.80
BNY Mellon House, Ingrave Road, Brentwood, AAA Income Acc 101.30 0.77 ZURICH ASSURANCE LTD
Pension Funds
Natural Resources Acc 650.10 d-4.50 2.05 Pensions Mngd Cap 533.60 561.70 +1.60 Property 1165.90 1227.30 Pens Fixed Interest 1238.00 1303.20 -0.50
Essex, CM15 8TG AAA Income CAT Acc 102.30 0.80 UK Life Centre, Swindon, SN1 1EL
Defensive Managed 452.87 476.70
Dealer 0500 440000 New Europe Acc 225.00 d-1.50 1.86 AAA Income CAT Inc 58.83 0.80 AVIVA LIFE & PENSIONS UK LTD PRUDENTIAL LIFE FUNDS Pens Index Linked 1130.20 1189.70 -0.90 0845 300 2332
Balanced Managed 1155.33 1216.13
Newton Balanced 228.00 +0.97 1.58 Portfolio Acc 309.70 +0.50 1.38 Am Eqty Unconstr Acc 190.90 - 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Po Box 14962, Craigforth, Stirling, FK9 4ZD Pens Global Managed 1445.40 1521.50 +1.70 Amer Equity Acc 8908.20 9377.00
UK Dynamic Acc 182.40 d-0.20 1.31 01904 628982 Unitsd With Profits 516.85 544.05 01786 448844
Newton Corporate Bond 101.88 d+0.02 1.24 Corporate Bond Acc 174.70 2.00 Pens Managed 1539.90 1621.00 +1.30 Amer Managed Acc 3728.50 3924.80
UK Dynamic Inc 134.50 d-0.10 1.25 For all other Norwich Union Funds, Scottish Amicable Life Funds (First Series)
Newton Higher Income 59.88 d+0.14 3.89 Corporate Bond Inc 0.67 - Life Funds Pens Pacific 1335.70 1406.10 +6.00
please call free on 0800 557741 Amer Property Acc 747.70 787.00
Newton Income 814.58 d+3.50 2.63 UK Smaller Cos Acc 634.60 d-2.50 - European Eqty Growth Acc 243.80 0.96 Balanced Mngd Ser. 1 528.49 556.30 Cash 371.40 390.90 Pens Property 1105.60 1163.80 +0.10 Equity Acc 9735.90 10248.30
UK Strat Equity Incm A Inc 91.06 d-0.18 1.87 AXA SUN LIFE
Newton Managed 1067.82 +5.50 0.11 Global Advantage Acc 205.60 0.76 Balanced Mngd Ser. 2 556.15 585.42 Equity 2282.60 2402.80 Pens UK Equity 1932.60 2034.40 -6.00
PO Box 1810 Bristol BS99 5SN European Acc 317.00 333.70
For Chase Fleming Asset Management see UK Strat Equity Incm A Acc 171.50 d-0.40 1.90 Global Advantage CAT Acc 155.60 0.78 Fixed Interest 1148.60 1209.00
Cautious Mngd Ser. 1 401.59 422.73 Pens Worldwide 454.70 478.70 +1.40
US Smaller Cos Acc 1279.00 d+7.00 - Balanced Ser. 6 2544.50 2678.40 +5.50 Far East 1185.70 1248.10
JPMorgan Asset Management Global Equity Unconst Acc 191.50 0.59 Index-Linked Gilt 786.80 828.20
Cautious Mngd Ser. 2 422.51 444.75
Distribution Ser. 6 104.20 109.70 +0.10 SCOTTISH MUTUAL ASSURANCE PLC Fixed Interest Deposit 616.10 648.50
CLERICAL MEDICAL INV FD MGRS LTD M & G SECURITIES Global Equity Uncon Acc 166.90 0.18 International 1821.00 1916.80
Defensive Mngd Ser. 1 351.41 369.91 301 St Vincent St, Glasgow G2 5HN
Trinity Road,Halifax HX1 2RG PO Box 6108, Basildon, SS15 5NA UK Eqty High Alpha Ret Acc 205.70 2.22 Europe Ser. 6 1857.40 1955.20 +5.70 Gilt Edged 1545.40 1626.70
With Profit Ser. 1 244.60 Managed 1976.00 2080.00 0141 248 6321
Dealer: 0870 6066422 Enquiries: 0870 6066472 00 44 20 7621 8913 Higher Income Acc 150.20 4.00 Higher Income Ser. 6 4459.20 4693.90 +8.70 Managed 5332.20 5612.80
With Profit Ser. 2 330.30 347.70 Property 1149.20 1209.60 Growth 871.50 917.40 +2.10
Enquiries: 0800 390390 UT Deal: 0800 3283196 Higher Income Inc 50.86 4.00 Managed Capital 1299.60 1368.00
For Dresdner RCM UK Funds see Allianz Property Ser. 6 1607.90 1692.50 -0.10
With Profit Ser. 3 244.60 Scottish Amicable Life Funds (Second Series) Opportunity 835.80 879.70 +2.50
Dresdner Funds Ltd American Sterling A Inc 2480.46 1.65 Japanese Eqty Growth Acc 130.30 0.17 UK Equities Ser. 6 3488.90 3672.50 +8.60 Overseas Earnings 5007.60 5271.20
Pension funds Cash 204.70 215.50 Safety 683.30 719.20 +1.00
For Eagle Star Unit Managers see American Sterling A Acc 3562.03 0.61 Managed Acc 320.80 1.34 For other funds phone: 02476 235400 Property 1975.80 2079.80
Threadneedle Navigator Funds Asia 1586.71 2.26 Select Income Acc 96.82 1.76 Balanced Mngd Ser. 1 1155.33 1216.13 Equity 563.80 593.50 Pens Growth 1070.10 1126.40 +3.00 A copy of the most recent annual or half-yearly report and
For CGU see Aviva Life & Pens UK Ltd prospectus for each of the above funds is available free of
For Edinburgh Unit Tst Mgrs Ltd see New Asia Acc 2780.61 1.10 Select Income Inc 56.32 1.75 Balanced Mngd Ser. 2 1318.09 Fixed Interest 496.10 522.20 Pens Halifax 738.50 777.40 +0.10
For all other CGU Funds, charge from the company that manages it.
Star Dividend Inc 50.75 4.61 Balanced Mngd Ser. 3 1077.03 please call free on 0800 557742 Index-Linked Gilt 577.90 608.30 Pens Opportunity 1068.90 1125.20 +3.50 d = ex-dividend † = previous day’s price
UK Equity Growth Acc 330.30 2.84
Source: PA Media
Dividend Acc 658.04 3.29 UK Equity High Inc Acc 222.90 3.98 Balanced Mngd Ser. 4 1098.04 1155.83 International 646.50 680.50 Pens Safety 1076.20 1132.80 +1.90

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26 Business ANALYSIS , I NSIGHT, OPI N ION Saturday February 13, 2021

FTSE lifted as double-dip recession is avoided

Price Change
London Friday. Connor Campbell, Vivo Energy 8234 +412 +5.75
with the Dax crawling back into lower after the care home
financial analyst at Spreadex, Liontrust 1270 +50 +4.10 the green after spending most of investment firm launched a £50m
THE decrease in the UK’s R rate, said: “With the UK’s R value St James Place 1225 +46 +3.90 the day at a loss. equity raise to fund expansion
Government confirmation of dropping below one for the first Trainline 47414 +1638 +3.58 The German Dax was 0.02% plans. It moved 3.6p lower at
Hiscox 98134 +3258 +3.43
when it will unveil the roadmap time since last July, and the Diploma 2534 +80 +3.26
higher and the French Cac moved 113p.
out of current lockdown Government confirming they will Investec 20958 +638 +3.15 0.6% higher. The price of oil moved up for
measures and better-than- issue their roadmap out of AstraZeneca 7471 +225 +3.11 In the US, the Dow Jones the day after energy markets
expected economic figures for the lockdown on February 22, the DCC 5882 +174 +3.05 dipped on a conservative session shook off early bearish sentiment
past quarter all pushed the FTSE FTSE and pound swung positive Wizz Air Holdings 4818 +138 +2.95 as a lack of immediate progress on follow OPEC cautions that
higher. on Friday afternoon. Joe Biden’s stimulus plan kept demand will be impacted by the
Sterling also made gains as “After spending most of Carnival 1263 -3712 -2.88 traders quiet. restrictions connected to the
ITV 10914 -314 -2.84 coronavirus. The price of Brent
traders were positive about the February ranging between 6,500 Rank Gp 123 -358 -2.84
In the UK, housebuilders
rate of the UK’s economic and 6,550, the FTSE found itself Spirent Comms 25312 -7 -2.69 including Bellway, Taylor crude oil increased by 2.11% to
recovery. slipping below the bottom end of Babcock Intl Grp 23858 -638 -2.61 Wimpey and Berkeley made $62.43 per barrel.
Earlier on Friday, the Office for that bracket earlier in the session, Mitchells & Butlers 32812 -712 -2.23 modest gains after the The biggest risers on the FTSE
National Statistics (ONS) only for a reversal of fortunes to Kingfisher 27078 -618 -2.20 Government extended the The FTSE 100 closed 61.07 points higher at 6,589.79 100 were St James’s Place, up 46p
Watches of Switz 626 -14 -2.19
confirmed the UK economy push it beyond 6,570.” Aggreko 850 -19 -2.19
deadline for the Help to Buy at 1,225p, AstraZeneca, up 225p
dodged a double-dip recession The pound also edged higher Polypipe Group 558 -12 -2.11 scheme until the end of May. at 7,471p, DCC, up 174p at 5,882p,
amid 1% growth in the final later in the day’s session, with In company news, airliner Jet2 and 593,561 subscription shares Carnival slumped in value after it and Prudential, up 38p at 1,328p.
quarter of 2020, ahead of a 0.5% sterling just a fraction off tumbled after it moved to raise at 1,180 pence per share as flights was hit by a downgrade from The biggest fallers on the FTSE
forecast. Wednesday’s 33-month peak was up 0.34% against the euro at £422 million to bolster its remain cancelled until April. brokers at Berenberg. 100 were Kingfisher, down 6.1p at
The FTSE 100 closed 61.07 against the dollar. 1.143. finances. It finished the day 94p lower at It was 37.5p lower at 1,263p at 270.9p, SSE, down 27p at 1,422p,
points, or 0.94%, higher at The pound increased by 0.31% Elsewhere in Europe, equity The Leeds-based company 1,204p. the close of play on Friday. Tesco, down 3.9p at 240.6p, and
6,589.79 at the close of play on versus the US dollar to 1.386 and markets were far more mixed issued 35.8 million placing shares Elsewhere, cruise operator Target Healthcare also nudged Whitbread, down 38p at 3,207p.

UK SHARE AND BOND PRICES

52 week Closing Closing Closing Closing Closing Closing Closing
High Low Price +/- p/e Yld Div Paid Dates Price +/- p/e Yld Div Paid Dates Price +/- p/e Yld Div Paid Dates Price +/- p/e Yld Div Paid Dates Price +/- p/e Yld Div Paid Dates Price +/- p/e Yld Div Paid Dates Price +/- p/e Yld
85412 51912 Marshalls 658 +512 22.4 - 755 422 JPM Russian 648* +4 19.1 5.4 100178 672 Glanbia 871 +1012 0.2 2.7 34738 19114 Rotork 34414 -314 31.9 1.8
GOVERNMENT BONDS OIL EQUIPMENT & SERVICES TECH HARDWARE & EQPT
Short ELECTRICITY 371 127 JPM Smaller Cos 362 95.3 1.5 1098958 809312 Kerry Group A 951078 +6114 0.4 0.7 11915 7710 Spirax-Sarco 11765 +215 52.0 0.9
331 122 Hunting 22314 +614 12.9 1.8 304 15158 Spirent Comms 25312 -7 27.4 1.7
£99.76 £99.76 Treas 4 3/4% 10 £99.76 0.00 434 202 JPM US Sml Co 434 +2 - 0.6 11034 1812 Premier Foods 9014 -114 16.4 - 1020 524 Vitec Group 996 -9 22.2 -
402 12638 Drax Gp 39334 -814 - 4.3
17 17 Vislink 17 15.4 -
Medium 37114 103 Petrofac 12212 +212 7.8 -
602 279 JPM Japan Small 554* +10 - 3.7 796 530 1
4 Tate & Lyle 726 5
8 +1 3
4 13.8 4.1 2107 66614 Weir Group 1993 -10 - -
168612 107212 SSE 1422* -27 - 5.7
£100.00 £100.00 Treas 5% 14 £100.00 0.00
42134 13512 Wood Gp(J) 29938 +238 38.7 - TOBACCO
£100.14 £100.14 Treas 4 3/4% 15 £100.14 0.45
ELECTRONIC & ELECTRICAL EQPT
706 374 Law Debenture 702 +14 22.9 3.7 4892 3726 Unilever 3961 +58 21.3 3.7
INDUSTRIAL TRANSPORTATION
£101.69 £101.69 Treas 8 3/4% 17 £101.69 0.06
141212 758 Lowland Inv 1170 +10 34.6 5.1
FORESTRY & PAPER PERSONAL GOODS 335212 2382 Brit Amer Tob 271412 +21 10.9 7.8
92 1734 Esken 3434 -114 - -
£101.75 £101.75 Exch 12% 13/17 £101.75 0.58 2612 1667 Halma 2559 +36 52.6 0.7
1844 1219 Imperial Brands 149312 +4 9.4 9.2
236 13812 Majedie Inv 236 +7 25.9 4.8 2013 1085 Burberry Gp 1788 +1512 60.0 -
£109.80 £102.48 Treas 8% 21 £102.48 -0.08 0.00 188612 1183 Mondi 1840 +251212.5 2.4
320 17834 Morgan Advanced 314 +2 12.2 0.6 1974 737 Fisher (James) 1116 15.3 0.7
Long 397 236 MC Glbl Pfolio Tst 397 +5 6.6 1.1 TRAVEL & LEISURE
£124.53 £120.02 Treas 5% 25 £120.02 -0.14 0.06 6330 2276 Renishaw 6215 +10 - 0.2 GAS, WATER & MULTIUTILITIES 995 620 Ocean Wilson 825 8.6 6.6
268 161 PZ Cussons 26612* +112 57.8 2.2

543 30212 Merchants Trust 449* +412 15.1 6.1 316 7034 888 Holdings 31112 -1 38.2 2.3
£132.15 £126.93 Treas 4 1/4% 27 £126.93 -0.26 0.25
3156 2132 Spectris 3156 +17 15.6 2.1 7938 3014 Centrica 5314 + - - 45638 12414 Royal Mail 45638 +558 28.3 - PHARMACEUTICALS & BIOTECH
£151.33 £143.33 Treas 6% 28 £143.33 -0.37 0.37 746 462 Mid Wynd Intl 744 +8 - 0.8 3116 605 Carnival 1263 -3712 4.0 -
269 143 TT Electronics 212 20.0 - 106738 79934 National Grid 85638 +258 23.3 5.7 43512 142 Signature Avi 40558 -238 8.6 - 9320 6221 AstraZeneca 7471 +22542.4 2.8
£148.13 £138.19 Treas 4 1/4% 32 £139.55 -0.69 0.63
1705 689 MntnaroEurSmlCo 1685 -10 - 0.5 1953 1002 Compass 140912 +612 - -
£160.44 £145.90 Treas 4 1/4% 36 £148.29 -0.92 0.84 120212 91514 Pennon Group 932* +1058 19.5 4.0 315 155 Wincanton 309 +3 9.9 0.9
354 80 Volex 347 +5 48.5 0.9 174214 125514 GlaxoSmithKline 1278 +223411.1 6.3
£178.35 £159.73 Treas 4 3/4% 38 £163.16 -1.19 0.91 1462 647 Monks Inv 1462 +4 - 0.2 1517 470 3
4 easyJet 765 3
8 +2 3
4 - -

£193.14 £165.56 Treas 4 1/4% 46 £171.27 -1.66 1.08 EQUITY INV INSTRUMENTS 2696 2034 Severn Trent 2348 +48 35.2 4.3 LEISURE GOODS 2695 170112 Hikma Pharma 2360 +65 16.3 1.4
133 3
28 1
FirstGroup 78 + 1
- -
938 598 Murray Income 836 +2 27.4 4.1 4 4 8

£225.14 £189.09 Treas 4 1/4% 55 £192.48 -2.43 1.07 1061 76358 United Utilities 944 +14 60.1 4.5
Undated
11112 69 Abdn DivInc&Gwth 9734 -58 17.5 5.6
1222 774 Murray Intl 1108* -6 20.5 4.8
8838 3514 Photo-Me Intl 47 +12 - -
PROPERTY 2214 47358 Go-Ahead Gp 1076 +36 - -

£100.00 £100.00 Conv 3 1/2% £100.00 0.66 19812 19812 Abdn Smllr Co Inc 19812 19.9 2.7 GENERAL FINANCIAL LIFE INSURANCE 5121 238512 InterContl Htls 4895 -30 32.2 -
54 48 MvnInc&GthVCT3 52 91.2 5.8 58058 31334 British Land 460* -134 - 1.8
£100.07 £100.07 War 3 1/2% £100.07 0.00
1260 722 Abdn Std Asia 1260 +5 58.7 1.5 1202 59734 3i Group 1147 +112 51.9 3.1
5934 27 New City High Yld 5134* -18 11.3 8.6 41234 211 Aviva 34858 -112 5.5 6.0 642 91 Intl Cons Airl 14912 +12 3.0 6.9
Index-Linked 20712 35 Capital & Regional 57 -1 - -

400 202 Aber Stan Eqty 322 +212 20.6 6.4 36434 13838 Brewin Dolphin 29512 +212 18.1 4.8
£306.39 £306.39 Treas 2 1/2% 11 £306.39 0.00 373 373 New India Inv Tst 373 - 0.2 33812 215 Chesnara 275 +112 5.2 7.8 9980 5505 Just Eat 7930 +194 - -
4282 2360 Derwent London 3130 -26 12.3 2.3
£100.04 £100.04 Treas 1 1/4% 17 £100.04 1.25 5112 5112 Aberdn Inc & Gwth 5112 103.07.3 1555 926 1
2 Close Brothers 1555 +10 21.4 2.6
6112 4712 Northern 2 VCT 5812 - 6.0 31814 13858 Legal & General 25978 +14 8.4 6.8 10712 2214 Marston’s 8712 +34 - -
£364.48 £352.95 Treas 2 1/2% 24 £355.96 +0.15 0.00 1460 15 Hammerson 2114 -12 - 0.9
363 185 Aberdn New Dawn 363 +5 1
2 78.7 1.2 7312 3612 Coats Group 6378 -38 13.3 - 41912 10034 Mitchells & Butlers 32812 -712 - -
£393.71 £360.80 Treas 4 1/8% 30 £373.86 -0.83 0.00 90 6812 Northern 3 VCT 8612 - 4.6 1500 71034 Prudential 1328 +38 60.7 0.9
982 489 Land Securities 607 -358 - 3.0
£310.34 £269.87 Treas 2% 35 £293.82 -0.88 0.00 510 325 Aberdn New Thai 462 -2 23.4 4.1 9324 5806 London Stk Exch 8620 72.1 0.7 44238 9038 National Express 286 +634 10.4 -
6712 51 Northern Venture 64 - 6.2 1225 660 St James Place 1225 +46 44.4 1.6
£187.06 £167.10 Treas 1 1/8% 37 £174.88 -0.61 0.00 867 50112 Safestore Hldgs 77512 -1012 9.2 2.4
1438 614 Aberforth Sml Co 1226* -6 92.3 2.7 16238 9612 Man Group 15034 -18 11.0 5.2 326 85 Rank Group 123 -358 49.2 -
£296.84 £216.29 Treas 1 1/4% 55 £262.57 -1.84 0.00 309 195 Nth American Inc 235* -312 20.6 4.2 33014 174 Std Life Aberdeen 31934 +258 28.6 6.8
1247 651 Savills 1159 -24 19.1 -
52 week Closing 925 544 Alliance Trust 920 64.3 1.6 535 23858 Paragon 44214* -638 12.3 3.3 13314 23 Restaurant Group 8714 -34 - -
High Low Price +/- p/e Yld
4020 2220 NthAtlanticSmllrCo 3950 +20 95.8 0.8
MEDIA 98814 65938 SEGRO 968 +6 12.2 2.2
592 311 Asia Dragon 592 +10 - 0.8 471 14414 Provident Financial 26258 -458 7.9 - 149214 71178 Ryanair Hldgs 133778 +28380.3 -
351 204 Pacific Assets 349 +112 - 0.9
AEROSPACE & DEFENCE 1996 1230 Rathbone Brothers 1584 +16 31.5 4.4
3420 1320 4imprint 2495 +55 22.7 - 12412 10812 Smart (J) 12212 14.7 2.6
916 49712 AVI Global Trust 916 97.9 1.8 3134 11 Sportech 3138 +18 - -
880 235 Pacific Horizon 880 +8 - -
4625 2050 Avon Rubber 3120* -60 7.0 0.9 830 557 Daily Mail & GenTst 780 -6 9.4 3.1
3561 2098 Schroders 3529 +2 19.7 3.2 232 8112 Town Centre 119 - 4.2
1116 532 Baillie Giff Japan 1112 +2 - 0.4 14112 3578 Stagecoach 7912 -12 11.9 -
46500 38700 Personal Assets 45350 -100 75.2 1.2
669 397 BAE Systems 480 +34 10.3 4.8 1198 697 Euromoney Inst Inv 979* -4 34.0 1.2
2605 1478 Schroders N/V 2335 +5 13.1 4.9 49712 21712 TR Property Inv 387 -1 26.5 3.6
640 266 B Gifford China 634 -6 88.7 1.1 4786 2049 Whitbread 3207 -38 19.3 -
2415 1232 Polar Cap Tech 2410 +5 - -
310 16714 Chemring 29112 +212 23.7 1.3 13558 5438 ITV 10914 -314 9.3 -
GENERAL INDUSTRIALS 186 51 U And I Group 82 -3 - -
5
1136 695 Bankers Inv Trust 1128* +12 52.2 1.9 8
31214 3634 William Hill 27014 +14 - -
2180 1346 RIT Capital Ptnrs 2155 - 1.6
63714 217 Meggitt 40714 -312 14.1 - 86734 42312 Pearson 76338 +1434 22.5 2.6
146 5
8 62 BG Euro Gr Tr 146 -
5
8 - 0.2
195 195 Schrdr UK Growth 195 52.0 1.3 40914 25234 Smith (DS) 39238 +1012 10.2 1.0 SOFTWARE & COMPUTER SERVS AIM
683 6912 Rolls-Royce 9278 +14 - - 235 5114 Reach 23112 -312 - -
591 219 BlckRck Wld Mng 571 -4 25.4 3.9 1760 81458 Smiths Gp 1497 +31 22.4 2.3
662 288 Schrdr UK MidCap 616* +2 69.1 2.2 2538 935 Computacenter 2258 -42 25.0 0.5 1418 714 600 Group 918 - -
16114 4278 Senior 9838 -18 14.0 - 2099 148212 RELX 186612 +4112 29.4 2.5

GENERAL RETAILERS
14938 7834 BMO Global Smlr 14914 -14 86.2 1.1
474 272 Scottish American 470 -3 41.2 2.6 79458 53434 Sage Group 59014* +14 20.8 2.9 4212 1912 Airea 30 7.6 -
2490 1515 Ultra Electronic 1915 +8 18.2 2.9 69138 40018 Rightmove 622 +1014 31.7 0.5
412 22612 BMO Private Equity 314 +3 91.0 5.0
800 557 Scottish Inv 695* -5 32.0 3.3 640 399 Andrews Sykes 600 +32 16.8 3.7
1
2
7978 10 Brown (N) 6914 +938 7.3 - 126 24 Triad 7212 -212 - -
BANKS 920 576 Brunner Inv 880 +4 40.6 2.3
447 210 STV Group 330 -8 7.9 -
81
17
Bowleven 7 1
+ 3
- -
SUPPORT SERVICES
1396 46838 Scottish Mortgage 1393 -3 - 0.2 13838 60 Dixons Carphone 10814 -12 - -
4 8 2 8

98414 48334 WPP 82514 +34 16.5 1.2

33258 13878 Banco Santander 246 +1 - 0.8 3140 1932 Caledonia 2805 +50 44.5 2.2 66 7 Braveheart Inv Gp 46 +6 - -
1025 622 Scottish Orntl Sml 1020 -5 - 1.1 503 18258 Frasers Group 44834 -514 24.3 -

18138 8014 Barclays 14578 - 10.2 - 43512 279 City Of London 35712* +212 22.7 5.3 MINING 869 31414 Aggreko 850 -19 16.7 0.6
185 110 Caledonian Trust 130 - -
216 142 Secs Tst Scotland 193 1
2 -3 1
2 30.0 2.8 73714 400 Howden Joinery 71938 +334 20.6 -
3934 1300 Ashtead Gp 3918 +15 24.2 1.0
59034 28338 HSBC Hldgs 40134 +412 18.5 - 13934 5012 CQS Nat Res 139* -34 41.5 4.0 2823 109134 Anglo American 2663 -12 13.1 2.2
28712 163 Shires Income 24312 +212 18.8 5.4 14712 90 Celtic 97 - -
699 420 Inchcape 68912 +1 8.7 -
16414 99 Anglo Pacific 13238* -158 8.2 6.8 49758 199 Babcock Intl Grp 23858 -638 6.2 -
5678 24 Lloyds Banking Gp 3718 + 10.6 - 3278 29 Crown Place VCT 29 - 6.3 138 5
8 CloudCoCo 118 - -
640 314 Stand LifeUKSmCo 606 +6 89.9 1.3 32138 124 Kingfisher 27078 -618 - -
365 209 Dunedin Enterprise 333 +6 73.7 1.5 158812 612 Antofagasta 1533 -7 41.7 0.6 2603 1277 Bunzl 2343 +27 22.4 2.2
209 9338 NatWest Group 17138 -78 6.6 - 2934 2934 Coretx Holdings 2934 - -
298 298 StndLifeEurPvEq 298 - 3.3 18614 85 Marks & Spencer 13038 +78 - -

63514 33634 Stand Chartered 46278 +238 11.2 - 303 188 Dunedin Inc Gth 291* -12 24.1 4.4 222112 93934 BHP Group 211712 +12 18.6 4.3 15112 2334 Capita Group 3978 +58 - - 2400 1300 Craneware 2240 49.4 1.2
1378 570 Temple Bar Inv 970 +6 18.3 4.0 1478 378 Mothercare 1178 +38 2.9 -

18438 5414 Virgin Money UK 16012 -158 - - 606 347 Edin Inv Trust 551* +5 19.8 4.4 1357 5271
2 Fresnillo 1020 1
2 -10 51.0 1.1 18034 4034 De La Rue 16214 -34 5.4 - 103 1
2 46 1
2 Eleco 101 1
2 +1 1
2 30.8 -
1058 578 Templtn Emer Mkt 1050 -4 43.0 1.8 8158 3390 Next 7678 +44 16.3 -

BEVERAGES 417 132 Edin Worldwide 417 +2 - -

800 335 Throgmorton 798 -2 - 1.3 672 12012 Saga 26614 +1 - -
285 11212 Glencore 26834 -34 - - 2534 1296 Diploma 2534 +80 58.3 1.2 1158 538 Filtronic 812 +12 - -

379 125 Electra Private Eq 314 +6 - 9.9 811 26918 Kaz Minerals 80438 -258 9.2 1.1 995 1
2 449 5
8 Electrocomponent 993 1
2 -2 28.6 1.6 55 2812 IDOX 55 +1 - 0.5
604 37212 Barr (AG) 491 -212 18.5 0.8 1350 550 TR European Gwth 1335 +5 - 1.6 2416 70012 Smith WH 1548 -27 - -

814 478 F&C Inv Trust 797 +1 61.0 1.5 6310 2968 Rio Tinto 5934 +22 16.7 5.0 3171 1882 Experian 2638 +58 48.8 1.4 396 229 Iomart 32012 -112 25.6 2.0
931 601 Britvic 80612 -712 22.7 2.7 8638 6038 Troy Inc & Gth 7138 +34 33.8 2.7 233 233 Studio Retail 233 23.0 -

3141 2200 Diageo 3009 -18 50.1 2.3

1116 49712 Henderson Smaller 1084* -14 64.8 2.2
28012 148 Value & Income 221 21.6 5.3
HEALTH CARE EQUIP & SERVS MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS 267 6978 G4S 267 +214 - -
223 80 Johnson Service 143 +3 17.0 -

1005 460 ICG Enterprise Tst 1005* +7 8.6 2.3 960 517 Latham (James) 915 +10 14.5 1.7
CHEMICALS
236 136 Witan 234 + 1
2 38.9 2.4 155 3
4 98 Vodafone 133 7
8 +3
8 - 6.0 165 5
8 92 Hays 155 -58 49.4 -
1979 115212 Smith & Nephew 157212 +12 31.7 1.9
542 272 JPM Asia 542* - 3.0 178 3
4 Minoan Gp 1 - -

23 334 Carclo 2114 +14 - -

3945 2210 Wwide Healthcare 3920 -10 - 0.6
HOUSEHOLD GOODS NONLIFE INSURANCE 6440 4164 Intertek Group 5838 +44 30.0 1.8

35512 35512 JPM Chinese 35512* - 2.7 42 1934 Parkmead Group 37 - -

6660 4070 Croda 6600 +110 38.2 1.4

FIXED LINE TELECOMMS 3029 1887 Admiral Grp 2997 +15 20.2 4.9
166 48 Kin and Carta 15312 +312 - -
87838 36434 Barratt Devel 680 +34 17.3 1.1 26 1
81
Plexus Hldgs 17 1
- -
774 45912 JPM Claverhouse 650* +10 20.9 4.5 2 2 2

15614 9778 BT Group 124 +114 7.1 - 11212 6312 Macfarlane Group 8934 +234 14.6 0.8
12678 1814 Elementis 12514 +2 21.7 - 34678 22714 Direct Line Ins 30614 +58 10.4 2.4
4310 1879 Bellway 2936 +24 18.7 1.7 1314 458 Quiz 10 + - -
10212 10112 JPM ElectMngdCsh 10212* - 0.4
11858 6912 Talktalk Telecom 9658 7.2 2.6 680 32678 RSA Ins Gp 677 +58 20.8 1.2 41012 74 Menzies (John) 212 -112 16.6 -
3010 168312 Johnson Matthey 3003 +44 22.7 1.7 5474 3131 Berkeley Gp Hldgs 4303 +67 13.2 4.8
96712 57712 JPM ElectMngdGth 945* +212 60.8 1.7 12612 5712 Rua Life Sciences 12612 - -

46738 193 Synthomer 46738 +338 21.7 0.6

11012 6612 JPM ElectMngdInc 89* -2 16.3 5.3
FOOD & DRUG RETAILERS 549 237 Headlam Group 394 -3 11.6 - OIL & GAS PRODUCERS 144 1
8 27 1
4 MITIE 543
4 +1
8 4.3 -
22812 8314 Scapa 221 -2 - -

CONSTRUCTION & MATERIALS 14914 7334 JPM Emrg Mkts 14914 -18 - 1.0
2442 1119 Greggs 2092 +48 24.3 - 3298 153412 Persimmon 2722 -8 10.2 4.0 46614 19312 BP 26134 +4 18.3 5.8
48134 27934 Pagegroup 48134 +134 15.0 -
15712 67 Sigma Capital 15612 -1 41.4 1.7

19914 16134 Morrison (WM) 171 - 11.7 4.0 7960 5150 Reckitt Benckiser 6306 +92 - 2.8 287 1
2 250 Redde Northgate 250 50.0 3.7
29258 18958 Balfour Beatty 27014 -34 14.2 0.8 326 183 JPM Euro IT Gth 319 -4 36.4 1.4 171 135 BP 8% Pf 16612 - 4.8 748 451 Smart Met Sys 708 -12 - 3.5

25278 175 Sainsbury (J) 22918 -114 39.5 4.6 23614 9918 Taylor Wimpey 16118 +138 7.8 - 571 34018 Rentokil Initial 52514 +1258 34.3 0.3 13 418 SpaceandPeople 1012 +14 26.2 -
235 235 Boot (Henry) 235 8.3 1.4 16312 8214 JPM Euro IT Inc 138 +3 22.1 4.9 213 6034 Cairn Energy 18214 +58 13.3 -

257 3
8 203 Tesco 240 5
8 -3 7
8 24.1 4.0 1478 510 Vistry Group 868 -7 8.6 - 169 3
8 102 1
2 Serco Group 119 -1 1
4 27.6 - 160 65 Springfield Prop 136 -612 17.2 1.5
20712 3258 Costain 5678 -78 4.5 - 490 222 JPM Eurp Sm 481 70.4 1.4 10734 1114 Premier Oil 2012 -18 1.4 -

3504 1574 CRH 3232 +27 15.3 2.2 220 220 JPM Glbl Gth 220 - 3.3 FOOD PRODUCERS INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING 193338 900 Ryl Dutch Shell A 135814 +2614- 3.7 893
4 171
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208.0 111.0 AMP 132.0 -5.0 45.3 -
178 70 Galliford Try 12918 +214 0.4 - 758 405 JPM Indian IT 749 +2 - - 2673 160712 Assoc Brit Foods 2227 -3 38.7 - 897 433 Bodycote 72612* 14.7 2.7 193758 86638 Ryl Dutch Shell B 130058 +22 - 3.9 3218 1112 Smiths News 2918 -14 - - 9026.05426.0Cmnwlth Bnk Aus 8687.0 -18.0 37.7 0.0
2741.0 1388.0 Nat Australia Bank 2493.0 -12.0 54.3 0.0
984 518 Gleeson MJ 790 +10 97.2 1.9 739 340 JPM Japan 715 +1 - 0.7 157 88 Carrs Group 132 -6 12.8 3.6 1325 67434 IMI 1295 +9 22.5 2.6 371
8 103
8 Soco International 20 +1
2 - - 88 39 1
4 Speedy Hire 653
8 +1 3
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990 371 Grafton Group Uts 974* +2112 19.4 2.0 1425 608 JPM Mid Cap 1135 +1212 57.6 2.6 18514 12614 Devro 177 +1 - 5.1 1434 412 Renold 1458 9.8 - 44 712 Tullow Oil 31 +12 - - 1720 650 Travis Perkins 144012 -212 29.5 - Source: PA Media

EUROPEAN SHARE PRICES NEW YORK SHARE PRICES US share prices in late trading (13:30 EDT)

52 week Closing % 52 week Closing % 52 week Closing % 52 week Early % 52 week Early % 52 week Early %
High Low Price +/- +/- Yld High Low Price +/- +/- Yld High Low Price +/- +/- Yld High Low Price +/- +/- Yld High Low Price +/- +/- Yld High Low Price +/- +/- Yld
32.00 11.45 ACS Activadades 25.60 +0.02 +0.08 - 11.46 8.05 E.ON 8.75 +0.02 +0.28 5.26 0.15 0.06 Pharol 0.12 - -2.25 - 186.65 117.87 3M 178.05 +0.84 +0.47 3.32 61.04 22.00 Dow Inc 57.83 +0.16 +0.28 - 119.71 72.92 Medtronic Inc 119.08 +0.36 +0.31 -
298.80 166.00 Adidas 291.60 -0.40 -0.14 - 13.55 6.40 EDF 10.62 -0.04 -0.33 - 4.87 3.06 Pirelli 4.68 +0.01 +0.13 1.71 126.84 62.82 Abbott Labs 127.97 +1.13 +0.89 1.02 86.36 28.46 Du Pont 71.44 +0.48 +0.68 2.13 86.93 66.40 Merck & Co 74.71 -0.03 -0.04 3.48
3.86 1.67 AEGON 3.74 -0.01 -0.32 2.68 26.12 15.50 Endesa 21.93 +0.47 +2.19 5.45 56.22 28.58 Randstad 54.08 -0.30 -0.55 3.00 266.25 143.69 Accenture 255.58 -3.39 -1.31 - 63.84 26.34 eBay 62.74 +0.43 +0.69 1.15 55.31 23.53 MetLife 55.44 +0.13 +0.24 3.32
53.00 25.30 Ageas 45.43 -0.26 -0.57 - 8.95 5.23 ENEL 8.47 +0.01 +0.07 5.20 40.44 14.55 Renault 39.34 -0.05 -0.13 - 125.57 73.23 Allstate 104.07 -0.41 -0.39 2.08 86.52 38.08 Emerson Electric 84.81 -0.35 -0.41 2.38 244.49 135.42 Microsoft 243.99 -0.50 -0.20 0.92
4.52 2.99 Agfa Gevaert 3.81 -0.01 -0.13 - 16.64 8.70 Engie 13.05 -0.05 -0.38 - 12.53 5.23 Repsol-YPF 8.87 +0.10 +1.09 7.12 2.09k 1.05k Alphabet A 2.09k -1.33 -0.06 - 48.80 29.98 Exelon Corp 42.27 -0.47 -1.10 3.62 59.68 41.93 Mondelez Intl 55.17 -0.51 -0.92 -
142.75 99.22 Air Liquide 134.90 -0.05 -0.04 - 13.03 5.88 ENI 8.88 +0.10 +1.16 14.64 354.05 274.45 Roche Hold Gs 313.20 +0.55 +0.18 2.36 2.10k 1.06k Alphabet C 2.10k +1.12 +0.05 - 60.65 31.45 Exxon Mobil 50.31 +0.47 +0.95 4.97 76.47 27.81 Morgan Stanley 74.56 +0.84 +1.14 1.88
91.68 48.50 AkzoNobel 85.22 +0.22 +0.26 - 14.88 5.81 Fiat Chrysler Auto 12.57 - - - 38.52 21.40 RWE 34.03 -0.06 -0.18 2.50 45.89 31.38 Altria 43.32 +0.01 +0.02 5.77 303.91 146.01 Facebook 269.84 -0.55 -0.20 - 38.17 11.78 NCR Corp 34.73 +0.01 +0.03 -
232.20 118.88 Allianz 195.48 -0.84 -0.43 4.30 26.00 16.58 Gazprom (US$) 23.40 - - - 17.00 8.25 Ryanair Hldgs 15.32 +0.30 +2.00 - 3.53k 1.68k Amazon.com 3.25k -10.85 -0.33 - 2.94 1.37 Fannie Mae 1.79 - - 11.20 586.34 298.84 Netflix 555.43 -2.16 -0.39 -
68.20 30.97 Anhsr Busch InBev 52.60 - - 5.06 104.95 70.78 Heineken NV 86.04 -0.40 -0.46 0.81 145.95 53.14 Safran 108.90 -0.55 -0.50 - 136.93 68.96 Amer Express 130.28 +1.97 +1.54 0.92 301.45 90.49 FedEx Hdg Corp 262.29 +7.93 +3.12 0.99 147.05 62.80 Nike 141.72 -1.82 -1.27 0.78
20.79 6.46 Arcelor Mittal 18.69 -0.10 -0.54 - 12.51 8.15 Iberdrola 10.80 +0.03 +0.28 - 43.52 17.94 Saint Gobain 42.19 -0.20 -0.47 - 49.80 18.78 Amer Intl 41.45 -0.14 -0.35 2.17 11.93 4.01 Ford Motor 11.45 - +0.02 - 42.97 8.88 Occidental Petrlm 25.37 +0.39 +1.56 -
18.88 10.38 Assic Generali 15.66 -0.04 -0.22 - 32.08 20.17 INDITEX 25.71 +0.12 +0.47 - 94.29 72.05 Sanofi-Aventis 78.16 +0.35 +0.45 4.03 260.95 182.24 Amgen 235.84 +0.80 +0.34 2.99 38.03 20.20 Fox Corp A 32.59 +0.59 +1.86 - 65.30 39.80 Oracle 62.48 -0.22 -0.35 1.54
25.50 12.49 AXA 19.12 -0.16 -0.81 3.82 10.73 4.30 ING 8.35 +0.53 +6.71 5.99 142.28 87.40 SAP 108.48 -0.36 -0.33 1.46 338.77 174.68 Anthem 289.02 -3.81 -1.30 - 27.73 15.30 Franklin Res 27.55 +0.33 +1.19 2.90 285.03 85.26 PayPal Holdings 296.13 +11.10 +3.89 -
68.60 38.50 BASF 66.89 +0.03 +0.04 4.34 2.60 1.32 Intesa Sanpaolo 2.10 +0.01 +0.46 - 127.85 67.28 Schneider Electric 129.00 +4.00 +3.20 2.02 506.09 106.84 Apple 134.17 -0.96 -0.71 0.61 2.87 1.28 Freddie Mac 1.74 - - 57.47 148.30 103.93 Pepsico Inc 133.96 -1.01 -0.75 3.05
76.66 40.51 Bayer 54.07 +0.09 +0.17 4.62 73.32 37.99 KBC 59.22 +0.26 +0.44 0.52 135.34 60.10 Siemens 133.30 +1.14 +0.86 2.33 38.61 26.50 AT&T 28.67 -0.02 -0.07 5.23 6.45 0.64 Gannett 5.14 -0.07 -1.44 15.55 42.56 28.49 Pfizer Inc 34.77 +0.34 +1.00 3.16
5.23 2.16 Bco Bilbao Viz Argn 4.40 +0.02 +0.41 - 623.50 357.60 Kering 547.90 - - 1.28 31.93 10.90 Societe General 17.77 -0.18 -1.02 3.09 34.85 18.08 Bank America 33.30 +0.41 +1.26 1.50 12.83 5.49 General Electric 11.66 +0.20 +1.75 0.34 144.49 97.70 Procter & Gamble 127.01 -1.32 -1.03 2.49
3.95 1.54 Bco Santander CH 2.79 - -0.05 0.80 47.30 29.56 Koninklijke Philips 47.96 +0.76 +1.61 - 34.85 13.95 Stmicroelectronics 35.30 +0.45 +1.29 0.48 46.56 27.49 Bank New York 41.92 -0.21 -0.50 - 56.88 16.80 General Motors 53.70 +0.20 +0.37 - 94.48 39.22 Prudential Financial 80.66 -0.67 -0.82 5.70
76.57 38.25 BMW 70.06 -0.31 -0.44 3.57 2.81 1.77 KPN 2.93 +0.12 +4.20 4.30 5.89 3.30 Surgutneftegz(US$) 4.87 - - - 94.14 71.57 Baxter Intl 78.59 +0.73 +0.94 1.25 307.87 134.97 Goldman Sachs 304.25 +1.93 +0.64 1.64 164.78 60.91 Qualcomm 147.35 +1.79 +1.23 1.76
54.18 24.67 BNP Paribas 46.48 +0.79 +1.72 - 319.00 207.60 L’Oreal 318.30 +9.30 +3.01 1.21 521.40 261.00 Swiss Life 436.30 +1.00 +0.23 3.44 362.20k 240.00k Berkshire Hathaway 362.85k +1.20k +0.33 - 22.28 4.61 Halliburton 20.12 +0.69 +3.58 0.89 96.58 47.17 Raytheon Tech 72.31 -0.02 -0.03 4.07
41.20 23.16 Bouygues 33.55 +0.14 +0.42 5.07 52.76 29.01 LafargeHolcim 49.95 -0.05 -0.10 4.00 116.80 54.70 Swiss Re R 83.90 - - - 779.75 327.42 BlackRock Inc 719.86 -1.57 -0.22 2.29 291.93 152.15 Home Depot 277.48 +0.42 +0.15 2.16 34.42 12.05 Schlumberger 26.61 +0.23 +0.89 1.50
17.54 12.32 Carrefour 14.45 -0.04 -0.31 1.59 89.47 46.74 Lukoil Hldgs (US$) 79.92 - - - 575.80 462.90 Swisscom 464.80 -0.70 -0.15 4.73 340.49 95.01 Boeing 210.80 +0.14 +0.07 - 214.63 103.86 Honeywell Intl 202.38 +0.20 +0.10 1.33 106.98 56.33 Starbucks 104.88 -0.98 -0.93 1.72
465.20 253.20 Christian Dior 454.40 +1.20 +0.26 - 537.00 287.95 LVMH 529.30 -2.20 -0.41 1.13 0.53 0.29 Telecom Italia 0.38 - +0.0513.15 66.74 46.40 Bristol-Myers Sq 59.87 -0.12 -0.20 3.27 27.38 13.11 HP Inc 27.36 -0.03 -0.09 2.19 135.06 74.32 T-Mobile USA 123.01 -1.39 -1.12 -
5.79 2.91 Commerzbank 5.79 - - - 52.50 36.10 MAN 44.35 - - 5.19 6.54 2.79 Telefonica 3.76 +0.02 +0.48 7.97 117.62 42.27 Capital One 117.64 +0.48 +0.41 1.36 151.22 94.77 IBM 120.36 -0.55 -0.45 3.90 199.10 91.04 Target Corp 190.52 +0.11 +0.06 1.43
124.60 54.99 Continental AG 123.00 -0.30 -0.24 2.44 9.75 4.17 Mediobanca 8.89 -0.04 -0.40 7.31 9.81 3.83 Tenaris 7.11 +0.07 +0.99 6.05 43.34 7.97 Carnival Cp 20.52 -0.20 -0.94 6.82 67.27 44.11 Intel 61.57 +0.91 +1.50 2.26 179.22 93.50 Texas Instruments 178.48 -0.74 -0.41 2.29
13.63 6.02 Credit Agricole 10.88 +0.15 +1.40 7.36 12.27 6.20 Metro AG 10.19 - - - 10.85 3.60 Thyssen Krupp 9.70 - - - 198.35 91.85 Caterpillar 197.22 -1.12 -0.57 2.09 170.48 111.14 Johnson & Johnson 166.23 +0.17 +0.10 2.43 148.72 81.69 Travelers Co 145.34 -1.00 -0.68 1.72
13.56 6.59 Credit Suisse Group 12.32 +0.03 +0.24 2.25 118.00 70.98 Michelin 116.70 -0.55 -0.47 1.71 45.20 21.80 Total 34.98 +0.34 +0.97 6.58 110.74 54.22 Chevron 91.94 -0.07 -0.08 4.02 141.17 79.03 JP Morgan Chs 140.98 +1.71 +1.23 1.84 365.03 194.86 UnitedHealth Gp 329.32 -3.75 -1.12 1.52
38.74 17.60 CRH 36.78 +0.33 +0.91 2.22 282.50 144.75 Muench Rueck R 233.60 +1.20 +0.52 4.20 13.74 7.52 UBS 13.70 +0.08 +0.59 - 48.94 33.20 Cisco Systems 47.02 -0.56 -1.19 3.15 158.84 112.34 Kimberly-Clark 131.59 -0.50 -0.38 3.47 55.11 28.93 US Bancorp 47.54 +0.29 +0.61 3.53
66.61 21.81 Daimler 64.61 -0.31 -0.48 1.39 111.28 89.17 Nestle R 100.72 +0.02 +0.02 2.18 14.15 6.21 Unicredit 8.40 -0.04 -0.44 - 78.79 35.39 Citigroup 63.51 +0.30 +0.48 2.36 35.93 20.77 Kraft Heinz 35.52 -0.02 -0.06 - 176.54 86.17 Utd Parcel Serv 163.17 +0.80 +0.49 2.50
72.26 46.83 Danone 53.92 -0.62 -1.14 3.34 4.33 2.20 Nokia 3.30 - - - 55.05 40.29 Unilever NV 45.24 +0.75 +1.69 - 60.13 37.56 Coca Cola 50.53 +0.23 +0.47 3.25 212.72 119.05 Lilly(Eli) & Co 205.74 +3.16 +1.56 1.22 84.17 32.62 Valero Energy 64.46 -0.09 -0.14 6.08
10.16 4.94 Deutsche Bank 8.96 +0.18 +2.06 - 95.82 69.96 Novartis 82.00 +0.24 +0.29 2.93 28.90 15.85 Veolia Environneme 22.49 -0.11 -0.49 2.22 86.26 59.89 Colgate-Palmolive 78.02 -0.40 -0.50 2.26 437.85 276.80 Lockheed Martin Co 337.35 -1.79 -0.53 3.08 61.74 49.94 Verizon Comms 54.27 -0.33 -0.60 3.32
169.00 99.16 Deutsche Boerse 136.75 +1.85 +1.37 2.19 13.46 8.68 Orange 9.75 +0.03 +0.27 6.16 106.75 57.00 Vinci 85.66 -1.00 -1.15 - 53.23 32.42 Comcast Cl A Sp 53.08 -0.15 -0.28 1.88 179.17 65.02 Lowe’s Co Inc 176.38 +0.65 +0.37 0.96 218.73 135.74 Visa 209.93 -0.73 -0.35 -
15.44 7.08 Deutsche Lufthansa 10.61 -0.10 -0.89 - 176.95 55.88 Paddy Power Betfair 160.20 +0.50 +0.31 - 26.61 17.57 Vivendi 26.10 +0.15 +0.58 2.30 59.26 22.67 ConocoPhillips 46.74 +0.30 +0.65 3.68 119.45 76.69 Marsh & McLennan 111.94 -0.86 -0.77 1.16 52.85 33.52 Walgreens Boots 50.36 +0.24 +0.48 -
43.61 19.40 Deutsche Post 42.99 +0.61 +1.44 2.33 169.05 120.75 Pernod Ricard 159.30 -0.10 -0.06 1.44 172.56 86.20 Volkswagen 161.56 -2.26 -1.38 3.01 38.53 17.75 Corning Inc 36.61 -0.15 -0.41 2.62 366.12 203.30 Mastercard 340.24 -2.63 -0.77 - 152.79 104.05 Walmart 144.20 +0.18 +0.12 1.50
16.61 10.72 Deutsche Telekom 14.85 +0.04 +0.24 3.37 22.81 9.56 Peugeot 21.85 - - - 439.90 266.90 Zurich Insurance Gp 372.70 -2.60 -0.69 4.35 190.91 85.76 Disney (Walt) 188.23 -2.68 -1.40 - 229.64 137.10 McDonald’s 213.15 -1.12 -0.52 2.42 48.22 21.14 Wells Fargo & Co 33.47 +0.74 +2.28 0.90
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Saturday February 13, 2021 ANALYSIS , I NSIGHT, OPI N ION Business

Business Editor:
Ian McConnell

Deputy Business Editor:

Scott Wright

CityBriefing
‘Enormous advantage’ in
Office market set to Chivas
chief is
upbeat on
not being limited to UK
THE managers of the
£812 million Scottish
split on quality lines pandemic has been
particularly brutal in the UK
chance of
US deal
American Investment and Western Europe – but
Company (Saints) have many of our businesses in Asia In the final day of
highlighted the “enormous are back on their feet and By Scott Wright
advantage” of “not being trading more strongly than our series, Kristy
restricted to the narrower
opportunity set” of the UK
before the pandemic.
“Indeed, TSMC has just
Dorsey looks THE chief executive of
Chivas Brothers has
stock market, writes Ian announced a 50 [per cent to] at the future declared he is confident of a
McConnell. 60% increase in investment, for city centre breakthrough between the
The comments from James because it sees such strong US and UK to end the
Dow and Toby Ross of demand for its next generation offices tariffs which have cost the
Edinburgh investment house of semiconductors. Not being Scotch whisky industry
Baillie Gifford came as Saints restricted to the narrower more than £500 million in
unveiled results showing its opportunity set of the UK WITH the availability of lost exports, despite
total return had exceeded that market has therefore been an vacant office space across Washington deciding to
from global equities in 2020. enormous advantage – and we Scotland rising at the strongest retain the import tax for the
Saints highlighted the strong think it will continue to be one rate recorded since the global next six months.
performance of portfolio for the coming years.” financial crisis, significant Jean-Christophe
holdings including TSMC Saints made a total return questions remain about the Coutures insisted the
(Taiwan Semiconductor on net asset value of 14.5% in future of the workplace and the decision by the US to not
Manufacturing Company). 2020. It noted this was ahead knock-on effects for town and “escalate” the 25 per cent
Mr Dow and Mr Ross said: of a 13% total return from city centres. import tariff this week was
“As we noted earlier, the global equities. Surveys have consistently a “positive” sign that the
shown a strong appetite among Biden administration was
employees for hybrid keen to strike a deal.
Jet2 adds flights to Greece arrangements where they
spend part of their time at
The tariffs were imposed
on single malt and other
home and part of it in a Scottish products in
JET2 has added flights and for the first time. Additional traditional workplace. This October 2019 by former US
holidays to Greek destinations flights to Rhodes and Crete appears to put paid to the President Donald Trump as
from Glasgow and Edinburgh from Glasgow and Edinburgh notion that the office is dead, part of a long-running trade
airports in October and mean that Jet2’s “summer but experts agree there will be a dispute between America
November, declaring it is season” for these Greek islands significant impact on the types and the European Union
“extending the summer 2021 from these two Scottish airports of facilities required, and how over aircraft subsidies.
season” in response to customer is extended until mid-November. and when these are used. The effects were laid bare
demand. Jet2 added that extra flights Stewart Taylor, a senior in new figures released by
It said extra flying from from Glasgow to Kefalonia director with CBRE in the Scotch Whisky
Glasgow would see it extend the would see the season for this Edinburgh, said the amount of Association yesterday,
season for Zante to late October island run until mid-October. office worker footfall through which showed exports to
cities and townsns will the US fell from more than
“undoubtedly vary” £1 billion in 2019 to £729m
STOCK EXCHANGE INDICES US indices prices in late trading (14:30 EDT) daily from last year.
Close Change %Change
Mondays to Despite hopes that
FTSE 100 6589.79 +61.07 +0.94 Fridays. When President Biden will be
FTSE 250 21037.47 +19.62 +0.09 lockdown more open to resolving the
FTSE All-Share 3755.00 +28.54 +0.77 restrictions Experts predict premium space will remain in demand Picture: Getty Images
Ex dispute than Trump, the US
FTSE techMARK All-Share 4145.20 +24.51 +0.59 are lifted, he Trade Representative said
DJ Industrials 31377.00 -53.70 -0.17 believes it on Thursday that “it is
NASDAQ Composite 14027.48 +1.71 +0.01 will likely im
important part has been a swing back in the a real split between higher unnecessary at this time” to
S&P 500 3916.29 -0.09 -0.01 take another w
of working life.” other direction. People don’t quality space and that of a revise the tariffs.
FTSEurofirst 300 1594.33 +10.71 +0.68 year before firm m Pri to the
Prior generally want to be working at lower grade.” Mr Coutures told The
XETRA Dax 14049.89 +8.98 +0.06 patterns are pandem full-time
pandemic, home by themselves for five This could exacerbate what Herald: “There has been no
CAC 40 5703.67 +33.85 +0.60 established as emplo
UK employees worked days a week.” Mr Cobban said was already escalation, and it seems to
FTSE Italia All-Share 25531.62 +105.91 +0.42 eriment
employers experiment fou days at the
an average of four David Cobban, head of an over-supply of lower-grade me when I read the press
Nikkei 225 29520.07 -42.86 -0.14 with what works best for their office. Mr Taylor said CBRE Savills in Glasgow, said premises in Glasgow prior to there is an appetite for all
Hang Seng 30173.57 u/c Closed
businesses and staff. expects that number will move regional variations will also the pandemic. Along with the stakeholders, including the
“It’s difficult to say, but my “quickly” to three with the play their part. He believes many empty shops left behind UK Government, to find a
gut feeling is that on a Friday, widespread establishment of there will be more of a push by retailers that have gone bust solution, a global solution.”
BANK DEALING RATES OIL & GAS for example, you might see 60 hybrid working. from staff to get back into the during the past year, these Mr Coutures said the
Close Change Close Change per cent of the number of This will undoubtedly lead office in cities with a younger buildings will need to be tariffs, combined with the
Pound/Dollar 1.3855 +0.0037 Brent Crude 61.14 -0.33 workers passing through to some businesses downsizing demographic, such as Glasgow. overhauled for a new and pandemic, have “absolutely
Euro/Pound 0.8754 -0.0022 Natural Gas (p) 44.43 -3.48 compared to before the as leases lapse or come up for “Whereas in London, if you different purpose in life. hammered” the industry.
pandemic, rising to maybe renewal, but in Scotland Mr look at the demographics there “It is a lot of re-purposing, Noting that the tariffs
METAL PRICES 75% or 80% on a Tuesday or Taylor expects that to be and the longer commute times, but I find this quite an exciting have hit smaller distillers
Wednesday,” he said. tempered by the fact that many it could be a different catalyst because it will speed particularly hard, he called
Close Change Close Change organisations had already situation,” he said. up a process that was already on the UK Government to
The knock-on implications of
Gold ($/oz) 1815.39 -27.36 Aluminium ($/tn) 1985.50 +1.50
this for shops, restaurants and pared back on floorspace in There is currently 1.42 needing to happen,” he said. cut excise duty on whisky
Silver (p/oz) 1962.00 -6.00 Copper ($/tn) 8292.00 +12.50
other city centre firms that rely the years after the financial million square feet of office With no indication yet as to at next month’s Budget.
on passing trade are obvious. crisis. And though 92% of space under construction in when lockdown restrictions Chivas reported total
TOURIST EXCHANGE RATES Tracy Black, director of CBI businesses across all sectors Glasgow, but 80% of that has might ease, thus allowing staff Scotch sales were down 10
(£) Buy Sell (£) Buy Sell Scotland, said there is “no questioned by CBRE in its been pre-let or pre-sold. As a to return to the workplace, it per cent in the six months
United States 1.3134 1.3899 India 88.72 110.40 doubt” the pandemic will have occupier survey at the end of result, rent levels for prime remains difficult to predict the to December 31, improving
Eurozone 1.0810 1.1470 Japan 138.02 148.44 a lasting effect on how people last summer said they expect to office space are said to be extent of excess capacity. A from a 27% fall in the
Australia 1.6838 1.8129 New Zealand 1.7954 1.9800 live, work and consume. adopt some form of home holding up reasonably well. further unknown is how much previous half-year, with
Canada 1.6547 1.7688 Norway 11.18 11.90 “Increased flexible working working when lockdown ends, The problems will arise tenant-controlled space – also strong sales in key markets
Croatia 7.7857 8.7847 Poland 4.5319 5.2804 and working from home is the appetite for communal around those buildings that are known as grey space – might be such as China and Taiwan.
Czech Rep 26.59 30.14 Singapore 1.7101 1.8864 clearly here to stay,” she said. working remains. no longer relevant to the returned to the market by Sales were up 18% in China
Denmark 8.0622 8.6124 South Africa 18.86 21.54 “Both deliver huge benefits in “In a nutshell what we have market. Mr Cobban said this businesses looking to and 13% in Taiwan,
Hong Kong 10.15 10.83 Sweden 10.97 11.66 “flight to quality” means that rationalise their property
terms of reducing time lost to seen from a high level during reflecting progress in
Iceland 157.28 - Switzerland 1.1681 1.2430
travel, promoting work-life the last 12 months was that in although firms may downsize footprint. controlling the pandemic,
Israel 4.0505 4.6150 Turkey 9.1599 10.03
Source: Travelex (for indicative purpose only) balance and lowering stress, the beginning, a lot of people their city centre presence, they “We are actually dealing but plunged by 18% in
without harming overall were saying that working from want the space that they do with some grey space now,” Mr Japan due to lockdown
TAILPIECE productivity. home works well, the have to be of top condition. Cobban said, “but we have not conditions.
“But that doesn’t mean that employees really like it, and so “It is not about creating seen a lot overtly coming US sales rose 2% amid
CPI Inflation (Dec) +0.8% Base Rate (Feb) 0.1%
the era of the office is over. forth,” Mr Taylor said. office space that people need, it through as yet because some the continuing success of
RPI Inflation (Dec) +1.2% Fin House Rate (Feb) 1.00%
From training to collaboration, “But what we have seen is about creating space that occupiers are nervous because The Glenlivet as an entry-
Retail Price Index (Dec) 295.4 Source: PA Media
having a physical space to bring more lately, particularly people want,” he explained. they fear it could generate bad level single malt, despite the
workers together remains an through the winter, is that there “So I think you are going to see publicity.” import tariff.

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