Gordon Ferrie News Today

AT the weekend it was encouraging to hear Ian Blackford speak about the need for party unity and the dangers of internal arguments being a turn-off…

EVERY Sunday at 11am, a group of locals head to Arno’s cafe for coffee and cake. They discuss their week, recent news, sport and then do the quiz…

THE letter from Owen Kelly on Saturday

A NEW local Yes group has formed to mobilise independence supporters in Carrick and the surrounding areas.

Letters Nicola Sturgeon faced a grilling from Andrew Marr about independence, with few questions about her party’s manifesto THANK you for the headline yesterday praising the First Minister’s interview with Andrew Marr (Sturgeon hammers home indy case in BBC grilling, April 26). It was a well-deserved accolade. Marr tried to attack with the traditional anti-independence, Unionist barbs about border controls, EU rules, the size of Scotland and the deficit, and almost entirely failed to q...

IN the blue corner we have Scotland requiring all inbound international passengers to quarantine at an airport hotel. In the red corner England, where only those arriving from the red list countries need do the same. At present both systems are flawed. What we need is to develop and agree a national policy. Instead we are swinging political punches in a blame game with no winners ("Sturgeon threatens to shut border over loophole row", The Herald, February 16). Air passenger numbers are low....