The Herald - 2014-08-18

• Battle for votes intensifie­s as Yes camp gains ground
• Family tells of agony after teenager’s death
• £108m bill for botched maternity care over the last decade
• Itch official: Record midges
• Fifteen missing in boat drama
• FESTIVAL FAVOURITE
• FROM ACTOR TO AUTHOR
• Stores win Games gold for customers
• Rise in cancer survival rates
• Russian Higher to be axed
• Warning on life sciences:
• The gap closes:
• Cancelled Israeli play ‘has not damaged Festival reputation’
• Parkinson attacks BBC‘error of judgment’ over Sir Cliff probe
• Murdered Moira’s trust organises charity run in park where she died
• £100,000 overnight jewellery shop raid
• Number of women in low-paid jobs rises by nearly one million
• Rescued immigrants being supported
• Cameron in vow to put family at centre of policy
• Confidence hits a new high with more money in pocket
• Historian and author Sir Tom Devine backs independen­ce
• The big question: Oil
• Cameron will stay away on polling day
• Questions framed over future of tax rules for art gallery deals
• Hopes for tourism boost from Connolly movie
• Care choice plan ‘could fail’ as councils stick to EU rules
• Legal threat over arms exports to Israelis
• University degrees ‘offer poor return for taxpayers’
• Capital facing £1.3m bill for project delays
• More than one million over-65s are working
• Pupils progress after mentoring during holidays
• Cameron: Islamic State advance a clear threat to safety in UK
• UK authority poses question mark over claims of falling crime figures
• Executive pay 140 times that of workers
• World Pipe Band championsh­ips end on high note
• Connolly thought about giving up stand-up
• RBS goes back to its Scottish roots in £1bn plan
• Paisley to be base for rocket men, women and children
• On the draw in committee for attention to the plight of homeless
• Arguments about cultural confidence work both ways
• The place to be for husband hunters
• THE DIARY
• The English are not as engaged in our debate as they should be
• Are we too distracted to be happy?
• A vital month for political debate
• Botched maternity care hurts budgets and lives
• Do not go to vote as if you are asking your bank about your balance
• Early learning is so important
• As a disabled person, Yes offers hope but a No vote more suffering
• @HERALDSCOT­LAND.COM
• My experience shows A9 average speed cameras are a waste of public money
• ON THIS DAY
• Curfew fails to halt violence in Ferguson
• Kurds train Yazidis to fight
• Ukrainian fighter plane is shot down
• Pope extends a conciliato­ry hand during his visit to Seoul
• Relaxed retrospect­ive by a delightful double act
• Symphony’s well-known moments heard afresh
• Howls of despair in a voyage into the darkness of the soul
• Poignant tale of a soldier’s Great War torment
• A potent portrayal of cruelty
• A mother’s poignant journey
• Dr Mary Elizabeth Catto
• Henry Stone
• Charles Keating
• How a ‘crazy idea’ helped save Borders textiles jobs
• Seafood firms seek to hook Japanese market at trade fair
• Quangos deny excluding SMEs from public sector opportunit­ies
• How do EU rules governing equity fund managers affect Scotland?
• Part-time posts a full-time job for recruiter Flexiworkf­orce
• Reintroduc­tion of wolves to Scotland would be a threat to livelihood­s
• Firms benefit from property market rise
• Scientists toast Spar energy drink contract
• Aberdeen and Glasgow lead rise in employment
• Funding package boosts JG Distillers

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