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IT’S fitting that actor Robbie Coltrane will be remembered for his turn as Hagrid, the hirsute and hulking pal of Harry Potter, for he had a…

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. It is illegal to go on holiday. Anyone flying requires a negative test before travelling. Everyone ...

THE answers to Mark Smith's 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 SNP keeps winning elections is because the pro-UK opposition parties, individually and collectively,...