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• Arrest after man found injured in Ayrshire village dies in hospital

  23-08-2026 21:13 via heraldscotland.com
  
  A man in his 50s has died in hospital after being found injured in an Ayrshire village.
  
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• Strathclyde business school chief to lead Scotland’s national skills body

  23-08-2026 20:30 via heraldscotland.com
  
  Strathclyde Business School chief David Hillier has been appointed interim chair of Skills Development Scotland for a one-year term.
  
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• Officer killed in wrong-way A66 crash was ‘our hero’, family says

  23-08-2026 19:57 via heraldscotland.com
  
  Five males aged between 17 and 23 years were also killed when their Volkswagen Passat hit the marked armed response vehicle in Teesside.
  
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• Glasgow and Edinburgh CrossCountry trains to return after major power cut disruption

  23-08-2026 19:02 via heraldscotland.com
  
  CrossCountry plans a full service on Monday after a control centre power cut caused widespread cancellations affecting Glasgow and Edinburgh trains.
  
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• Law firm administration: ‘Our immediate priority is to secure all client files’

  23-08-2026 19:00 via heraldscotland.com
  
  A Scottish legal firm has been placed into administration.
  
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• Glasgow road closures announced as Sir Chris Hoy's Tour de 4 charity event returns

  23-08-2026 18:22 via heraldscotland.com
  
  Road closures and parking restrictions will be in place in Glasgow for Sir Chris Hoy's Tour de 4 charity cycling event on September 6.
  
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• Climber Laura completes 'full house' of 1,072 peaks around UK

  23-08-2026 18:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The 38-year-old becomes one of just over 100 people who have stood on all 1,072 summits.
  
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• Glasgow scientists join urgent Ebola vaccine research as outbreak intensifies

  23-08-2026 17:36 via heraldscotland.com
  
  Glasgow researchers will test whether an existing Ebola vaccine could offer protection against Bundibugyo amid the escalating DRC outbreak.
  
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• Diners have just days to use loyalty points at restaurant chain shutting 195 sites

  23-08-2026 17:17 via heraldscotland.com
  
  Beefeater and Brewers Fayre customers have been urged to use their loyalty points before the restaurants close in September
  
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• Virtual robot 'co-pilots' could help distracted drivers spot danger, study finds

  23-08-2026 17:13 via heraldscotland.com
  
  Glasgow researchers found virtual robot warnings helped distracted drivers identify road hazards as accurately as those watching the road.
  
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• Time Team's Sir Tony Robinson reveals Stonehenge hope for mystery Orkney feature

  23-08-2026 16:29 via heraldscotland.com
  
  Sir Tony Robinson hoped a mystery Ness of Brodgar feature could be a stone circle before archaeologists uncovered a Neolithic building.
  
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• BBC Scotland commissions documentary about failed Glasgow Airport terror attack

  23-08-2026 16:26 via heraldscotland.com
  
  BBC Scotland has commissioned new two-part documentary, Terror at the Terminal, offering a "definitive account" of the 2007 Glasgow Airport attack.
  
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• Scottish Government lawyers acting as 'praetorian guard' for FM, says watchdog

  23-08-2026 16:23 via heraldscotland.com
  
  David Hamilton, Scotland's information commissioner, has accused the Scottish Government's legal directorate of shielding the First Minister from scrutiny.
  
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• Legendary Scottish nightclub to close after 37 years

  23-08-2026 16:04 via heraldscotland.com
  
  A legendary Scottish nightclub is to close its doors after 37 years. Club 69 in Paisley announced that it will bring the shutters down in a post shared on social media earlier this week.
  
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• Edinburgh Fringe final week arrivals include Brian Bilston and experimental circus

  23-08-2026 16:00 via heraldscotland.com
  
  Brian Bilston, experimental circus Yes Person and Hot Dub Time Machine are among the Assembly Festival shows arriving for the Fringe's final week.
  
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• The 10 best places to see Highland cows in Scotland

  23-08-2026 15:59 via heraldscotland.com
  
  Want to meet Highland cows? Contrary to their name, they can be found in fields, parks, hillsides and moorland right across Scotland. Here, we list some of the best spots to see them.
  
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• Five males killed alongside police officers in wrong-way A66 crash named

  23-08-2026 15:55 via heraldscotland.com
  
  Michael Robert Cahill, 23, Theo Rae, 17, Cole Robert Worthy, 16, Jacob Matusiak, 23, and Makai Saddington, 18 all died.
  
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• Scots face nine-month wait for ombudsman complaints as demand more than doubles

  23-08-2026 15:17 via heraldscotland.com
  
  Some complaints to Scotland's ombudsman face waits of up to nine months as cases rise 31 per cent and demand more than doubles since 2019-20.
  
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• Ombudsman highlights second Edinburgh housing case amid rising damp complaints

  23-08-2026 14:55 via heraldscotland.com
  
  Scotland’s ombudsman has highlighted a second Edinburgh housing case as complaints involving damp and mould continue to rise.
  
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• Appeal for information following 'wilful' fires in Bellshill

  23-08-2026 14:48 via heraldscotland.com
  
  Police are appealing for information following 'wilful' fires in the Milnwood area of Bellshill.
  
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• SNP reinstates North Lanarkshire group leader after probe clears her over Linden

  23-08-2026 14:18 via heraldscotland.com
  
  Tracy Carragher has been reinstated as SNP group leader on North Lanarkshire Council after an independent barrister found she did not cover up complaints against convicted sex offender Jordan Linden.
  
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• Scottish golf groundcare supplier expands west after £1.8m banking deal

  23-08-2026 14:00 via heraldscotland.com
  
  The move comes as machinery and technology grow increasingly important in golf course management
  
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• Planning bid ahead of imminent closure of RBS branch in Motherwell

  23-08-2026 13:46 via heraldscotland.com
  
  North Lanarkshire Council has received a planning application related to the imminent closure of a bank in Motherwell.
  
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• 'Night buses and turn-up-and-go services, Gotham's got better buses than Glasgow'

  23-08-2026 13:18 via heraldscotland.com
  
  A Batman prop spotted during filming in Glasgow has prompted a tongue-in-cheek comparison between the city’s bus services and those of fictional Gotham
  
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• Seven budget-friendly places to eat in Edinburgh before the Fringe ends

  23-08-2026 13:00 via heraldscotland.com
  
  Here are seven places offering budget-friendly food in Edinburgh during the final week of the Fringe.
  
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• Royals attend church service near Balmoral estate

  23-08-2026 12:54 via heraldscotland.com
  
  The King and Queen, along with the Prince and Princess of Wales and their children, have attended a Sunday service at a church near the Balmoral estate.
  
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• 'Hypocrisy': UK Government slammed by industry over billion-pound LNG import proposal

  23-08-2026 12:40 via heraldscotland.com
  
  Aberdeen's chamber of commerce chief warns that government plans to spend billions importing liquefied natural gas expose the hypocrisy of blocking domestic North Sea fields at Rosebank and Jackdaw.
  
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• Scottish Government denies Deputy First Minister bullying claims

  23-08-2026 11:55 via heraldscotland.com
  
  Deputy First Minister Jenny Gilruth faces bullying allegations after a critical email naming individual civil servants was accidentally sent to her entire department.
  
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• Dial-a-drug gang member caught after filming himself hiding dirty cash in shisha bar

  23-08-2026 11:53 via heraldscotland.com
  
  A crucial member of a major dial-a-drug gang helped get himself caught after a video of him hiding a large haul of dirty money was found by police.
  
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• MSP demands legal aid review as island charities face ruin in café dog ban case

  23-08-2026 11:22 via heraldscotland.com
  
  Labour's Donald MacKinnon has called for an urgent review of a decision to grant legal aid to a woman suing a Hebridean community association after she was barred from taking her dog into a café.
  
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• Appeal following fatal crash on the Isle of Lewis

  23-08-2026 11:22 via heraldscotland.com
  
  Police are appealing for information following a fatal crash on the Isle of Lewis.
  
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• Lifeboat crew responds to multiple flare incidents in Firth of Clyde

  23-08-2026 11:09 via heraldscotland.com
  
  The volunteers at Largs RNLI were tasked to reports of a red distress flare during the early hours of Wednesday, August 19, and were again diverted to a report of an orange flare during their regular training session that evening.
  
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• Could you live like a monk? Scots abbey invites men to try monastic life

  23-08-2026 11:02 via heraldscotland.com
  
  For those in search of a quiet weekend away from the rat race, a beautiful corner of Scottish northeast countryside sounds the ideal spot to recharge and relax.
  
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• Scottish rail users warned of major disruption across CrossCountry network

  23-08-2026 10:42 via heraldscotland.com
  
  Passengers travelling on CrossCountry services in Scotland have been warned of 'major disruption' across the network.
  
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• Police appeal after missile thrown at player during Dundee United v Dundee game

  23-08-2026 10:29 via heraldscotland.com
  
  Police are appealing for information after a missile was thrown at a player during the game between Dundee and Dundee United at Tannadice on Saturday, August 22.
  
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• Rise in confirmed bluetongue cases in Scotland as control zone introduced

  23-08-2026 09:57 via heraldscotland.com
  
  The number of bluetongue virus cases confirmed in Scotland has risen as a temporary control zone has been put in place in south-west Scotland.
  
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• What happened to the £14.2m ministers pledged to Ferguson Marine?

  23-08-2026 07:30 via heraldscotland.com
  
  Concerns over the future of Scotland’s state-owned shipyard have deepened after it emerged that just 4% of a promised two year £14.2m modernisation and rescue package has been delivered.
  
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• Scottish conductor’s pacifist views saw him banned by BBC

  23-08-2026 07:15 via heraldscotland.com
  
  THIS week’s Icon was named for a mythical Thracian bard who was a dab hand with a lute.
  
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• ‘More drilling won’t lower our bills’: Scotland’s top energy expert on the North Sea

  23-08-2026 07:15 via heraldscotland.com
  
  As Andy Burnham prepares to rule on whether to open more oilfields, our Writer at Large speaks to Dr Ewan Gibbs, Glasgow University’s authority on oil and gas
  
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• 'A war of national liberation': Is Israel goading Palestinians into a third intifada?

  23-08-2026 07:15 via heraldscotland.com
  
  As West Bank settler violence escalates, many fear Palestinians are being pushed to breaking point. Foreign Editor David Pratt who covered two previous intifadas examines the likelihood of another
  
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• The UK government lost 2,400 devices last year and the MoD lost the most

  23-08-2026 06:00 via heraldscotland.com
  
  Freedom of information figures obtained by the SNP reveal more than 2,400 phones and laptops were lost or stolen across Whitehall in 2025.
  
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• Sarwar's shadow: the near impossible task facing Scottish Labour's next leader

  23-08-2026 06:00 via heraldscotland.com
  
  Marra and Fagan both publicly praise Anas Sarwar while desperate to avoid his label yet experts warn Labour's structural issues maybe what ultimately decides Labour's fate.
  
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• Billions at risk: financier's damning verdict on Scotland's public sector governance

  23-08-2026 06:00 via heraldscotland.com
  
  Sir Ewan Brown argues that weak boards, blurred accountability and political timidity have left Scotland's £20 billion NHS without proper scrutiny and warns the consequences fall hardest on patients and taxpayers.
  
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