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I WAS stunned to read your article in which Humza Yousaf accused the UK Government of inflicting "significant damage" on rural Scotland .

James Douglas-Hamilton’s politeness has been well praised. He was much more than that.

NEIL Mackay’s column excoriating the avaricious, self-serving Tory Party ("Sinking Tories are pulling the country down with them", The…

I READ James McEnaney’s report of his recent interview with Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth ("It’s time to refocus how Scotland…

AT last evening’s Labour love-fest in Edinburgh ("Gordon Brown unveils his Alliance for Radical Democratic Change", heraldscotland, June…

YOUR report on the Dargavel Primary school scandal reports much on the consequences of a "blunder" but sadly no account of how the blunder…

WHILE the Great Highland Famine between 1846 and 1855 may not have received the same coverage as the Great Irish Famine of the same period, to…

I SPENT the main part of my career as an engineer and manager engaged in the planning and development of the nationalised electricity supply…

LEAVING aside the ethical and moral reasons for reducing the carbon footprint of Scotland, which your correspondent Bob Scott (Letters, February 15)…

WHEN Glasgow City Council published its traffic management proposals for Pollok Park, many welcomed them, albeit with reservations over some of the details (insufficient bike parking, poor road design at the new entrance, unnecessary pathway lighting, high levels of tree removal, the emphasis on tourists and workers rather than the thousands of Glasgow residents who pay for the park through their council tax, and the proposal to charge for parking, to name but a few). But – even if flawed �...