The Scotsman - 2022-08-20

• Last-ditch pay offer as strike threat spreads to school staff
• New trains a priority for green credential­s
• Host of stars feature in The Sandman surprise two-part bonus episode
• Sir Alex says he never saw Giggs lose his temper
• Ministers ditch £50k island move offer plan
• Can our high streets withstand the tightening grip of the cost-of-living?
• Energy bills in NHS Scotland are set to rocket by £70 million
• HOW WHISKY INVESTMENT PARTNERS ARE MODERNISIN­G CASK OWNERSHIP
• Cocker will play a cowboy in ‘quasiweste­rn’
• Author Mcgarvey credits JK Rowling for kick-starting his writing career
• Independen­t Scotland would have ‘head-start’ in developing foreign policy
• Local’s fears realised as derelict ‘fire hazard’ hotel is destroyed in third blaze
• Outrage as health board rejects automatic provision of buffer zones
• Sturgeon urged to tell Ferrier to tell quit as MP
• Slater agreed to meeting despite advice
• Excess coronaviru­s death figures to be examined over lockdown concerns
• Man who died trying to escape hotel fire had cuts and blood on hands
• Putin says inspectors can examine nuclear plant in Ukraine
• Stop playing games over strike action
• What’s wrong with politician­s dancing?
• A language’s Death diminishes us
• We need to change how we think about water
• Votes for Sunak can still make difference
• SNP needs to make up mind on Indy currency
• Integrity needed
• ON TWITTER
• Dark underbelly
• Flagpoles apart
• Staying put
• Bali bombmaker could be freed within weeks after new sentence cut
• East Lothian park protected in memory of popular cultural boss
• Wittering about the weather and sticky toffee pudding – is marriage like that?
• Shafts of sunlight from New World illuminate a grey day
• Cate takes us on a journey
• Anne Heche
• NOW & THEN
• Water bottle venture to outline expansion
• Building from scratch is never a walk in the park
• Falling Pound helps FTSE avoid global sell-off
• FACTFINDER’S CROSSWORD
• Earl Of Tyrone ready to strike it rich in Sky Bet Ebor at York
• RPS backs Easson but Scotland players unhappy with comment
• Johnson working hard to build Hibs’ resilience
• Hammell waits on Snodgrass transfer decision as he praises squad reaction
• Gogic delighted to secure Saints return
• Shankland set for Parkhead first with goals in his sights
• Morris ready to kick on with Dons after Brown endorsemen­t
• ‘Hard work will get us up and running’ says Mackay
• “Management is tough and cynical. Prison has helped me to deal with it”
• Howe dismisses talk of Newcastle fans’ favourite Guimaraes moving to Spain
• ‘It was an off-game, that’s all’ says Stokes
• Kinghorn-gray and Neill return with Heriot’s set to celebrate title success
• Majestic Muir digs deep to bring home European gold
• Wightman into final but ‘far from perfect’
• Mismatch between expectatio­ns and reality is more evident than ever before
• Q&A Andrew Maxwell
• Brian Ferguson’s diary
• Franzen at a crossroads of age-old questions
• ‘A life put out there to be shared’
• Rebirth gives dance of life its rhythm
• EIFF diary
• Pop memories, rock history and pleasingly puzzling novels
• Birds Of Passage In The Half Light
• THEATRE Still Floating
• Eli Matthewson: Daddy Short-legs
• Counter-culture and the passage of time
• A change of heart for dreaming diva Camille
• Bits ‘N’ Pieces
• Phil Wang: The Real Hero In All This
• Rees brings the mirth out of Merthyr Tydfil
• Alfonse mixes it up down on the farm
• How to find your voice if you’re losing it
• COMEDY Sarah Keyworth: Lost Boy
• Myra Dubois’ A Problem Shared
• DANCE, PHYSICAL THEATRE & CIRCUS
• Human fixer-upper learns the hard way
• CHILDREN’S SHOWS
• A lesson-free flight of fancy
• CHILDREN’S SHOWS
• Man with a bread-shaped cross to bear
• Taking an axe to heating bill anxiety
• German white wines for the crispest of quaffing
• ALSO SHOWING
• All the angles
• The Party House
• The community spirit of the Glasgow Bach Cantata Project
• Longing and loneliness in a home from home
• The cream Of Cornwall
• Grabbing the bull by the horns in Birmingham
• How gardeners can help wildlife through summer and beyond
• Counting your chickens and realising you may be addicted to hoards of hens
• Your life in the stars

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