33+ min ago   (1293+ words) The features are strong, hard and chiselled, the stance is powerful, defiant and borders on confrontational. The figure in one of Glasgow artist Peter Howson’s most revered artworks is unmistakably working class, with his jacket hanging loose, hands like shovels…...

4+ hour, 22+ min ago   (751+ words) Josh Kerr and Jakob Ingebrigtsen are both world-class runners. But what I like even more about the pair is their world-class pettiness. The two middle-distance runners have been engaged in a long-standing war of words. And it’s one of the…...

20+ hour, 36+ min ago   (410+ words) British eventer Tara Dixon has credited her Olympic medal winning mum as her rock in navigating a second Defender Burghley Horse Trials. The 23-year-old who lives in Newtownards, Northern Ireland, is the daughter of four-time Olympian and Seoul 1988 silver medallist…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (550+ words) A historic gold medal at the Commonwealth Games may only just have sunk in for Matt Bostock, but the Manx rider is now preparing to help the next generation of cyclists at the Lloyds Tour of Britain. The 29-year-old made…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1022+ words) John Swinney has intervened in the business rates row threatening Scotland’s hydro industry. The First Minister has asked public finance minister Hannah Mary Goodlad to consider whether the law can be changed amid warnings from the sector that the current…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (884+ words) 2026 has not panned out as Mark Stewart anticipated, but in the best possible way. After a hectic start to the season on the road Stewart was, in his own words, “cooked” by springtime. He then decided to put any ambitions…...

1+ week, 25+ min ago   (1730+ words) The job was one the young Fraser Hogg would tackle countless times as assistant pursuer on one of CalMac’s car ferries in the 1970s. As the ferry’s ramp was lowered, all he had to do was start the engine of the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (358+ words) Leeds and Rangers co-owner Jed York was sentenced to two days in jail and fined a total of £873 after being arrested for two criminal charges in Ohio on Sunday. York, also the owner of NFL franchise San Francisco 49ers, pleaded no…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (387+ words) Melrose has revealed plans to launch a compensation programme worth up to 100 million US dollars (£73.4 million) following a chemical incident at its GKN Aerospace site in California earlier this year. The FTSE 100 firm said the claims programme is expected to…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (145+ words) Rangers co-owner Jed York has pled no contest following his arrest in Ohio. The San Francisco 49ers owner was initially arrested over the past weekend on suspicion of engaging in prostitution. However that was amended to a charge of disorderly conduct....