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I can never forget what I saw at the Manchester bombing Four years on from the terrible attack, 15-year-old survivor Grace Trippitt has shared her experiences and how it has affected her 06:00, 22 MAY 2021 Grace, then 11, and her mum Amy the morning after the terrorist attack at the Manchester Arena (Image: Julian Hamilton/Daily Mirror) On May 22 2017, 23 people died - including the perpetrator - and hundreds were wounded in a terrorist attack at an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena. Su...

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Royal Navy Warships Are Practicing Getting Attacked at 16 Times the Speed of Sound The Formidable Shield naval exercises are staged every two years and are intended to assure allies, deter adversaries, and demonstrate the commitment of NATO to collective defense. Last weekend, three Royal Navy warships joined their NATO allies and began the world’s largest test of naval air and missile defenses. In total fifteen ships, more than ten aircraft, and approximately 3,300 personnel will participate...

How to get around in Scotland Lonely Planet Editors These are the transportation options for getting around in Scotland © elxeneize / Shutterstock Transportation in Scotland can be expensive compared to the rest of Europe. Through a combination of public transportation, it is possible to travel around Scotland without a car. However, a car will offer you the greatest flexibility on your journey, allowing you to visit more remote regions at your own pace. There is an extensive rail networ...

Monday 17 May 2021 A few years ago, as I sat overlooking the harbour in Sydney – I was living there and working at Time Out – an Italian chef, upon clocking my Glaswegian accent, looked at me and said, ‘Scotland? Great produce! But you don’t know what to do with it.’ This, I realised, feeling suddenly pale in the Australian sun, is the global reputation of Scottish cooking. Sure, our produce is world-renowned – salmon, shellfish, whisky – but there is little faith that we, as Scot...

Western Isles Council has written to the First Minister over the ferry “chaos” on the west coast, warning the disruption was tipping some businesses into closure. The council said past decades have “provided ample evidence that the decisions around ferry services cannot be competently made from Edinburgh, Glasgow or Inverclyde” and that new ways need to be found to listen to islanders. The letter follows a series of breakdowns to the CalMac fleet – the latest being the MV Isle o...

Exercise Formidable Shield involves 15 ships, more than ten aircraft and in excess of 3,000 personnel.

WELL done the residents of Kenmure Street, Pollokshields, for coming out in numbers to resist the UK Border Force raid on two asylum seekers on, of all days, Eid al-Fitr, the day of celebration to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan ("Police release detained men after hundreds block immigration van", The Herald, May 14). Well done, too, to Police Scotland for having the decency and common sense to defuse the situation by releasing the men. The raid, and in particular its timing, shows...

Harris Tweed weaver Donald John Mackay sits behind his Hattersely single-width loom in his shed in the village of Luskentyre IT is the globally recognised brand and believed to be the only cloth on Earth to be both defined and protected by an Act of Parliament. Now Harris Tweed has been held up to a global conference on rural development and well-being as a case study in how manufacturing can be retained in rural areas based on “artisanal skills". And the audience at the event aimed at ...

© PRESS AND JOURNAL Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Poland could be the answer to the west of Scotland’s ferry woes, a politician has suggested. Western Isles MP Angus MacNeil was speaking as CalMac announced the latest delays in the repair of the Loch Seaforth vessel. The ferry which runs between Stornoway and Ullapool suffered a major breakdown last month. Initially it was hoped the vessel may be ba...