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Dame Ann: Nurse who made Stagecoach fortune Ann Gloag, a trained nurse, has previously told how she amassed her wealth by 'fighting for survival'. Before her business career, she worked as a unit sister in Bridge of Earn Hospital, Perthshire, where she met her future husband, Robin Gloag, while he was a patient. By the 1970s, the couple were running a small caravan sales business. But, after 20 years in nursing, Mrs Gloag branched out. Ann Gloag, a trained nurse, has previously told how she amassed her wealth by 'fighting for survival' The couple, along with Mrs Gloag's brother Brian Soutar, ...

A major PR agency is “looking to the future” after its founder quit in the wake of a “tone deaf” social media post which said the firm did not hire “blacks, gays or Catholics”.Gordon Beattie resigned

WHEN it comes to my Scottish identity, I’ve never been a romantic nationalist. I’ve never felt that sense of solidarity that comes with shared birthplace or ancestry alone. Rather, when I think of Scotland, I see a nation built on conflicting, clashing forces: a country founded on confrontation between rich and poor, landlords and tenants, reactionaries and rebels, trade unionists and Tories. The Radical Independence Campaign (RIC) was founded to tell this story about Scotland, and I am proud of my role in establishing it. But social movements evolve in particular historical circumsta...

IT is with despair that I look at what's going on in the SNP both over the weekend and today ("Allies outraged as Cherry sacked from SNP front bench position", The Herald, February 2). I ask myself: does the current leadership really want to win the May election and do they still want independence? Recent behaviour casts great doubt on either of these aims. I have to think that I appear to have wasted more than 40 years campaigning for independence when it reaches the current state of affairs. Boris Johnson and the rest of the unionist parties can rest easy as the SNP, as currently run,...

Megabus announce £1 trips to European cities