Scottish Journals

28/09/2021

07/09/2021

Scots rise above Austria and Israel in World Cup qualifiers group

Scotland impressively revived their World Cup hopes with a momentous victory over Austria in Vienna tonight to climb into the Group F play-off spot.Lyndon D***s' penalty, awarded after a VAR check, gave Steve Clarke's men a lead they stubbornly hung on to in Vienna.Stephen O'Donnell, having survived...

22/08/2021

A pizzeria business part owned by former Rangers and Scotland star Steven Naismith has reportedly gone bust with thousands of pounds worth of debts.Firewood Restaurants, based in Stewarton in Ayrshire, where Naismith lives, was put into liquidation earlier this month.The company ran the popular Oven...

05/08/2021

Boris Johnson has been condemned after laughing about the closure of coal mines across the UK.The Tory Prime Minister said it was “thanks” to Margaret Thatcher the mines closed and chuckled as he said it.Ex Labour MSP Neil Findlay said: “Boris Johnson finding the plight of the industrial commu...

04/08/2021

Secrets from a lost ' Atlantis ' off the coast of Scotland have been pieced together by archaeologists after more than 200 objects were uncovered in the North SeaThe underwater world, named Doggerland, connected the UK and Europe and was believed to have home to tens of thousands of people before it...

01/08/2021

 The UK Government would not stand in the way of another vote on Scottish independence if it is the“settled will” of voters, Michael Gove has said.Westminster has repeatedly rejected requests from the Scottish Government for the necessary powers to hold another vote but the Cabinet Office minis...

31/07/2021

The British Home Office set up what is being reported as a fake website, targeting asylum seekers with “misleading” claims to deter them from journeying to the UK, it can be revealed.Sources working with No10 are believed to have created a fake organisation called On The Move, complete with a l...

31/07/2021

Disgraced former diplomat and blogger Craig Murray has said he will “go to jail with a clean conscience” ahead of his eight-month jail term for contempt of court.The former ambassador to Uzbekistan is due to start a prison sentence on Sunday after judges ruled that his blog coverage of former Fi...

30/07/2021

 Louisa Wilson, from Ayr, Scotland, has received her sixth birthday card from the Queen to celebrate turning 109, with the centenarian crediting her long life to a constant supply of Werther's Original sweets.Scotland's oldest woman has made it through two World Wars, the Spanish Flu and Covid to t...

29/07/2021

 The UK Government has been attacked for "short changing" Scotland in multi-billion pound plans aimed at improving infrastructure.Plans approved to build Scotland's first skyscraper in DundeeCity Region Deals see local councils working with Holyrood and Westminster to sign-off massive targeted inve...

29/07/2021

 Robert McCann, brother of notorious east end gangster James "Jasper" McCann has reportedly been put in "the Digger" (prison slang for solitary confinement) after being attacked with a blade three times in as many weeks.The 40-year-old gun shot survivor needed stitches to an ugly wound after being ...

29/07/2021

The 55-year-old was bristling after his side lost 2-1 in extra time last night in a crucial UEFA Champions League qualifier.Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou has hit out over a claim his side suffered a "catastrophe" in their Champions League exit to Midtjylland.The 55-year-old was bristling after his...

20/07/2021

Downing Street advisers privately conceded that Scotland could have a referendum on “anything it wants” without England’s permission, previously classified documents from Tony Blair’s premiership have disclosed.An email from Prime Minister’s key aide Pat McFadden ahead of releasing plans f...

14/07/2021

A man is in hospital after being brutally stabbed in a Glasgow park.Police raced to the city's Penilee Park last night after the vicious blade attack around 9pm last night.The 45-year-old was raced to the University Hospital where he is currently receiving treatment.His condition is described as sta...

12/07/2021

Willie Rennie resigns as leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats

Willie Rennie is to quit as leader of the Scottish Lib Dems after a decade at the helm.Mr Rennie has led the party through eleven election and referendum campaigns since 2011.However they have struggled badly over that period, garnering less and less votes as time progressed and were reduced to just...

04/07/2021

The latest firebomb attack targeted a convicted drug dealer who is allegedly caught up in a vicious gangster row.The firebomb target cannot be named or pictured for legal reasonsTwo vehicles linked to a wealthy 61-year-old crime boss were set alight during the attack in upmarket ­Jordanhill, Glasgo...

15/06/2021

Schickened!

Patrik Schick's double either side of half-time, including an astonishing second from the halfway line, spoiled Scotland's Euro 2020 Group D opener as the Czech Republic ran out 2-0 winners at Hampden Park.The Bayer Leverkusen striker's brilliant header put the visitors ahead three minutes before th...

13/06/2021

GB News sets lawyers on BBC, files complaint with Ofcom

GB News ramped up pressure on the BBC by sending a letter of complaint to ministers and regulators about alleged efforts to disrupt its launch as the right-wing leaning news network went live last night.Alastair Stewart, Andrew Neil, and Neil Oliver posing for a photo: GB News© Lawyers for the com...