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Dame Ann: Nurse who made Stagecoach fortune Ann Gloag, a trained nurse, has previously told how she amassed her wealth by fighting for survival. Before her business career, she worked as a unit sister in Bridge of Earn Hospital, Perthshire, where she met her future husband, Robin Gloag, while he was a patient. By the 1970s, the couple were running a small caravan sales business. But, after 20 years in nursing, Mrs Gloag branched out. Ann Gloag, a trained nurse, has previously told how she amass...

A major PR agency is “looking to the future” after its founder quit in the wake of a “tone deaf” social media post which said the firm did not hire “blacks, gays or Catholics”.Gordon Beattie resigned

WHEN it comes to my Scottish identity, I’ve never been a romantic nationalist. I’ve never felt that sense of solidarity that comes with shared birthplace or ancestry alone. Rather, when I think of Scotland, I see a nation built on conflicting, clashing forces: a country founded on confrontation between rich and poor, landlords and tenants, reactionaries and rebels, trade unionists and Tories. The Radical Independence Campaign (RIC) was founded to tell this story about Scotland, and I am...

IT is with despair that I look at whats going on in the SNP both over the weekend and today ("Allies outraged as Cherry sacked from SNP front bench position", The Herald, February 2). I ask myself: does the current leadership really want to win the May election and do they still want independence? Recent behaviour casts great doubt on either of these aims. I have to think that I appear to have wasted more than 40 years campaigning for independence when it reaches the current state of affair...

Megabus announce £1 trips to European cities

MANAGEMENT EVOLUTION AT SOUTER INVESTMENTS Tuesday, 12 January 2021 Souter Investments, the private equity focussed family investment office of Sir Brian Souter and the Souter family, has appointed John Berthinussen and Calum Cusiter as co-Managing Directors.  Having founded the family office with Sir Brian in 2006, and after 14 years as Managing Director, Andy Macfie is to become Chairman. Sir Brian Souter commented: “When Andy and I launched Souter Investments in 2006 our vision was to cre...

Souter Investments shuffles leadership team Co-managing directors appointed from within at Sir Brian Souters family office Updated Sign up to FREE email alerts from businessInsider - Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy Noticeexplains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time. Thank you...

SCOTLAND SUPPLEMENT III - Separatism, federalism, centralism Breaking apart existing states is not the road to socialism, but the road to defeat, writes Jack Conrad Those who rigidly adhere to a moralistic, third-worldist anti-imperialism cannot possibly bring themselves to countenance self-determination for ‘unworthy’ peoples - the most obvious example being Israeli Jews and the British-Irish in the six counties of Northern Ireland. 1 Given its junior role in building, administering and ma...

IT will not have escaped your notice that the Queensferry Crossing has been the subject of controversy once again. It was shut for four hours last Friday morning after patrol staff noticed ice falling from the cables, posing an obvious danger to traffic, and will be closed overnight on Saturday to test to test an emergency diversion – motorists will be diverted via the Kincardine Bridge until about 8am on Sunday. There is talk that the old Forth Road Bridge could yet be used as an alternati...