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Take a look because it could be the last time you see them. Schools. Police stations. Cinemas. Tenements. Buildings that tell the story of Glasgow…

THE late Queen, throughout much of her reign, had the support of her husband, her four children, her mother and sister, and her Kent and Gloucester…

THE American novelist William Faulkner stated that “There is a strange irony which lurks in events.” Six months after the outbreak of the war in…

CAN it only be nine months since the fall of Kabul to the Taliban after 20 years of illegal invasion by NATO forces led by the USA – an invasion…

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Aberdonian Alexander Kellas: The greatest Himalayan mountaineer of his day By Ian R Mitchell © Shutterstock / Vixit Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A century ago (June 5 1921), a man died on a bleak Tibetan plateau. He was on the First, 1921, Expedition aiming to conquer Mount Everest; indeed he was the very fir...

THE answers to Mark Smiths question ("So what is going on in the secretive world of Scotland’s Don’t Know Ten Percenters?", The Herald, February 15) are clear. First, there is no overwhelming appetite for Scottish independence, and never has been. In the last Holyrood election in 2016, out of around 4.3 million registered voters only just over one million bothered to go to the polls and tick the box for the party that claimed there is overwhelming desire for separation. The reason the S...

THE RICH PAY MORE TAX, WE ALL BENEFIT JUST how long are we going to accept increased poverty (including in-work poverty), foodbanks, homelessness, zero working hours, poor health, anti-trade union laws, nuclear weapons, reactionary economic and social policies, the lowest benefit support in Western Europe, and all the horrendous ways that inequality impact negatively on our people? How long are people going to continue to blame those groups of people who they deem to be less worthy than t...