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EACH morning, a fresh mug of tea and a read through The National online introduces the day. In each edition there is invariably something in particular which opens the mind’s relief valve by setting thoughts in print. On Saturday morning, Kirsty Strickland revived the fury brought on this week by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s outburst against Unicef. On Friday, amid the media images which appeared when I was seeking a new tab, I caught the picture with headline “The Queen decorates outside Christ...

All-Ireland U20FC final: Culhane and Tierney combine as Tribesmen capture title December 19, 2020 Galway 1-11 Dublin 0-13 Galway captured the All-Ireland U20 football championship title, thanks to a narrow one-point victory over Dublin in an entertaining tussle at Croke Park this afternoon. Nine months after their Connacht SFC final success over Roscommon, attacking duo Tomo Culhane and Matthew Tierney once again led the way for the Tribesmen as Tom Grays side succumbed to a second All-Ireland ...

New £70 million energy plant to bring 230 jobs to Perthshire Binn Group’s plans for its eco-park near Glenfarg were unanimously approved by councillors Updated Plans for energy from waste plant approved Get the latest Falkirk news sent straight to your inbox with our newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for oth...

The Queens grandson and the former actress are living in an £11 mansion in California (Image: GETTY) Harry and Meghan will host a "Holiday Special" which is due to be released in the coming weeks. A trailer on Spotifys website opens with Harry saying: "Shall we start? Ladies first?" Meghan adds: "No, say it because I think it sounds really nice with your accent." She then explains: "One of the things my husband and I have always talked about is our passion for meeting people and hearing their ...

Music was one of the many areas of employment under serious scrutiny in 2020, with Spotify singled out for giving its suppliers – and I am talking musicians rather than record labels – an extremely rum deal. An unlikely champion of the artist arrived in Tom Gray, member of gravelly Britpop blues dudes Gomez, and his #BrokenRecord campaign, which looked to hold streaming’s unjust financial model to account. That the vast majority of artists make naff-all from online music has been an issue...

There is a public health crisis, an economic crisis and an environmental crisis going on. These three crises are merging with the Brexit catastrophe waiting to unfold. Self-proclaimed banker-friendly Boris Johnson promised a year ago that 2020 would be a year of “levelling up”. Like everything else that comes out of Johnson’s mouth it was rhetorical lie thought up by third-rate advertising men. These crises are all the inevitable outcome of four decades of gutting the living standar...

The Lounge Society by Piran Aston Well, that was a laugh wasn’t it? Officially The Worst Year Ever (at least we could drown our sorrows and sing aloud in 2016), 2020 has turned everyone’s lives upside down and still has the capacity to do so, but we know all this. It wasn’t just COVID-19 that caused such a year of great upheaval. In Sean Connery and Diego Maradona, the silver screen and the beautiful game lost legendary figures, so much so that we should perhaps start checking up on soon-...

Research shows most artists receive just £200 a year from services that stream their songs. But Professor Jonathan Shalit, chairman of talent agency InterTalent, has estimated the Sussexes’ deal with the digital music giant as being worth £18million over several years Eurovision winner Miss Shaw, 73, famed for singing barefoot, told the Daily Mail: ‘Lucky Meghan and Harry were able to negotiate a podcast deal for themselves with Spotify. As Spotify signed an £18million podcast deal with ...

(Special Note: There was a lot of discussion of this incident on Parker and La Paz County social media sites Thursday evening. This was the story that appeared in Friday’s

Two Lake Havasu City Police officers have been named after entering a burning building earlier this week to rescue an elderly occupant. The fire took place Monday afternoon on the 2000 block of Tradewind Drive. Police say the victim was trapped in his bed, and unable to leave on his own. A family member of the homeowner was monitoring the location remotely, police said, and contacted emergency dispatchers as soon as he saw the fire begin. When thick smoke began to rise from the residence, polic...