The Herald - 2021-04-16

• Sturgeon pledges stability with freeze on income tax
• DETOXING THE SNP?
• Pubs have lost £841m in beer sales during the pandemic
• Prince Philip Brothers to walk apart at funeral
• Covid cases Under-45s virus admissions rise
• Lobbygate and the stench of sleazy money
• Voters will back Labour again, it just needs time
• Johnson’s BSL snub a sign of Tory failures
• Calmac’s largest ferry is out of service until end of the month
• Court date set for billionair­e’s bid to overturn Sutherland spaceport plans
• Healing power of a ‘good blether’
• Craftswoma­n hitting all the right notes as hobbyists turn to music
• Suez and virus spark garden gnomes crisis
• The Shining axe sale set to make a killing with price tag of £45,000
• Ross ‘playing games’ with Union supporters over tactical voting
• Sir Keir backs Sarwar’s strategy to create 170,000 jobs to kickstart recovery
• Liberal Democrats pledge to offer new bursaries for student paramedics
• FM denies exploiting children’s rights Bill
• SNP’S £6bn spending plans ‘will require tricky trade-offs’, say IFS
• Promise to give schools more powers on decision-making to close attainment gap
• Three-quarters of care home relatives ‘left distressed’ by visiting restrictio­ns
• Warning to walkers as rules are eased
• TV coverage for Duke’s send-off scaled back after record number of complaints
• Time travel: Old photos of one man’s life on streets of Glasgow in the 1970s
• Public owed ‘frank explanatio­n’ over lobbying by private sector
• Doctor tells terror attack probe of ‘unpreceden­ted’ move into danger zone
• Scientists spark ethics fears after planting human cells in monkey embryos
• Police make arrests as tributes are paid to biker stabbed to death in ‘fracas’
• Airbnb blocks 80,000 bookings in the UK
• School terms reform ‘will boost learning after Covid’
• Youngest son of Fred and Rose West ‘died from overdose of painkiller­s’
• We can’t afford to waste teaching time in virus recovery battle
• National Trust celebrates 125 years since first buy
• Europe’s death toll passes one million but infections ‘slowing’
• Australia joins US in Afghan troops pullout
• US expels Russian diplomats and imposes new round of sanctions over hacking
• Ex-police officer set for court over fatal shooting of black man in Minnesota
• Blocking middle seats on planes reduces virus risk by half, US study suggests
• Learn to take pupils’ progress personally
• ‘Academic results are important, but not the whole story’
• Bullied but defiant: a Scots heroine who planted the seeds of freedom
• THE DIARY
• Pandemic life and personal grooming
• Freedom at long last? Don’t speak too soon
• Delicate compromise over funeral dress code
• How Call My Agent! saved this latest lockdown
• If we are such a basket case, why do they want to keep us?
• Fans of Slik, forever and ever ...
• Economics of the playground
• An anthem for the oppressed children who are engaged in dessert warfare
• Preparing for culture shock of returning to work
• On this day
• CLASSIC CROSSWORD
• Adrian has a new ‘Line of Duty’
• FOUR OF THE BEST
• Prominent legal figure who helped to modernise Scottish courts
• FTSE 100 stops shy of highest close for 14 months
• National conversati­on needed on how we work in the future
• Skills must top agenda as economy reopens
• Boost for Glasgow fit-out firm following £6m project wins
• Perthshire watch firm joins crypto revolution
• Medical tech firm raises £2.25m to help patients breathe easier
• £14 million redevelopm­ent of former Rolls-royce Hillington site under way
• The Herald crosswords
• Royal Bank owner Natwest offloads investment banking division for £54m
• North Sea oil and gas firm is keen to expand
• Local shoppers boost Scotmid but business must be flexible

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