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Calls for text messages to remind accused to turn up at court
Text alerts could be used to remind accused people of court appearances in a bid to cut down the number of prisoners held...
Jogger detained for two weeks after accidental US border crossing
A 19-year-old woman who travelled from France to Canada to visit her mother in British Columbia says US officials detained her for two...
Iain Macwhirter: Don’t dignify Trump by violence – turn his Scottish visit into a carnival of contempt
According to Godwin’s Law, revealed online by the American lawyer and author Mike Godwin in 1990, the longer an internet discussion continues, the...
Angela Haggerty: Why women football pundits aren’t part of a feminazi conspiracy to lock men up in cages
FIRST of all, readers, I feel I should apologise. I’m going to talk about football and, as Simon Kelner, the head of a...
Potholes caused £70,000 of damage to emergency service vehicles
A written-off fire service van was among 171 emergency service vehicles damaged in pothole-related accidents since 2015, records show. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16310535.Potholes_caused___70_000_of_damage_to_emergency_service_vehicles/
Future shock: ‘Incorruptible’ corpses of saints are the McDonald’s hamburgers of religious delusion
A FRIEND recently confided that he’d discovered an uneaten McDonald’s meal of indeterminate age under the bed while decontaminating his disgusting hovel. This...
Mindfulness: the World Cup and the delusion of identity
So it’s World Cup time, and as you read those words you will have a reaction to that tournament which may vary from...
“Ordinary people doing extraordinary things”: Meet the secret life of the circus
YESTERDAY this was a patch of grass. Now, somehow, a big top has appeared. It sits proudly, scattered with red stars, guy ropes...
A mother’s plea: “Cystic Fibrosis is still a killer of young people. That’s why we need Orkambi.”
RUTH McEnaney hasn’t yet told her four-year-old son, Ciaran, all that much about the disease she takes her regular medicines for. “I say...
Profile: Principled to the last: John McCain, still speaking up for his beliefs
TO Donald Trump, it was not of the slightest importance that John McCain, when a US naval pilot, had been captured during the...
