The Flying Pigs: Walkthrough fountain outside Marischal College defence against global warming
Some don’t like it too hot.
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Richard Gordon: Dons in good shape to push Old Firm
The seventh season of the Premiership kicks-off today and Aberdeen look to be in good shape for another strong challenge – despite an early spate of injuries.
Amanda Bryan: Scotland’s forestry sector looks to the future
Despite the challenges of Brexit, Scotland’s economy continues to grow, advancing 0.3% in the final three months of 2018.
Richard Gordon: Dons lucky to have Derek as manager
Derek McInnes reached a notable milestone on Thursday night, celebrating his 300th game in charge of the Dons with victory in Lapland.
Andrew Martin: To-Tilly unique driving experience
Everyone who knows him knows Sandy Dalgarno is a bit of a joker.
Elaine Farquharson-Black: I know that the skills needed to succeed in sport are extremely valuable in business
Everything you need is already within you.
Martin Gilbert: Business and sport are natural bed-fellows, even complementary
I’ve often remarked on the close parallels between business and sport, two competitive fields of endeavour that severely test the character of participants but offer glittering prizes for success.
Stewart Nicol: Entrepreneur’s tale is impressive and inspiring
In the coming weeks, work will start on a multi-million-pound development for Inverness that will bring more than 100 new jobs to the city.
Duncan Sinclair: Innovate, change cultures and drive success with elite performance
No matter how good you get, you can always get better. That’s the exciting part.
Philip Rodney: F1 sets the bar in learning, teamwork, innovation and change
It’s 23 laps into the 2003 Austrian Grand Prix and Michael Schumacher is sitting in his Ferrari having pitted for refuelling.
The Flying Pigs: Thunderbolts and lightning, very, very frightening – and scientifically interesting
Professor Hector Schlenk, Senior Researcher at the Bogton Institute for Public Engagement with Science
Andrew Martin: The investment potential of ‘automative works of art’
I’m not qualified to give financial advice.
David Knight: Mobility is key to good health and beating stress… But escape rooms should help too
As I tried in vain for the umpteenth time at airport security to enter my digital boarding card from a mobile app, I could sense a growing exasperation among the crowd waiting in line behind.
OPINION: David Mundell on 20-years of devolution
Like all of us in the first intake of MSPs elected to the new Scottish Parliament in 1999, I was delighted and slightly daunted.
Danny Law: Andy Murray is back where he belongs
In January, a tearful Andy Murray admitted fearing he would never play competitive tennis again due to a long-term hip injury.
Lindsay Razaq: I can relate to elite athletes as I have run a mile, or rather nine months, in their shoes
Dad is crouching down about a metre from the television, his fists poised to punch the air.
Vicki Butler-Henderson: Why car shows are all about drive
Each summer I have a little list of things I’d love to do, and this year it’s to take the sleeper from England to Scotland, stay in a castle and visit a car show.
The Flying Pigs: ‘Parklets’ perfect places for peched-oot city centre shoppers to rest and recharge
Ron Cluny, Official Council Spokesman
The Flying Pigs: I’d pay good money tae see Sande trying tae perform Next Tae Me next tae Guitar Wifie
View From the Midden – rural affairs with Jock Alexander
The Flying Pigs: Is it OK to ‘Milkshake’ right wing types? The revolution will not be pasteurised!
J Fergus Lamont, arts critic and author of Highway To Helensburgh – On The Road With The Singing Kettle
Martin Gilbert: True entrepreneurs want to do more than simply create wealth
“World progress needs entrepreneurs,” said legendary investor Sir John Templeton, succinctly encapsulating the essence and purpose of capitalism.
Iain Maciver: Eurovision and grape expectations
Mrs X has always loved the Eurovision Song Contest, from the days when you could win by just having an easy-to-remember name like Lulu or Dana or Dana International.
Money men: What does it take to make the rich list?
Think of an entrepreneur and it is likely a squillionaire comes to mind.
Very Rev Susan Brown: Let’s keep being human to human beings
I am now a has-been. I have become an “ex”.
David Knight: Jeremy Kyle Show’s public humiliations a sad reflection of how we treat vulnerable
I only ever dipped into The Jeremy Kyle Show by accident, but I always felt a mixture of morbid fascination – as you do when passing a road crash – and an uneasy feeling about its mix of stage-managed misery and character assassination.
The Flying Pigs: Horror on streets of Aberdeen as sweaty cyclists clog up roads meant for my 4×4
Davinia Smythe-Barratt, ordinary mum
Catherine Deveney: I can’t agree Benjamin’s misogyny is a joke but the law in its current form certainly is
It is always so disconcerting to see a man get on in life when his shoe size is bigger than his IQ.
Ben Dolphin: Excuse me if I’m rambling – but I love it
I was at the Scottish Ramblers Gathering in Melrose last week which is an annual three-day celebration of social walking. That is, walking in a group.
Bishop Anne Dyer: A proper Scottish breakfast for every child
Last week some friends came north to Scotland for a break. They stayed in a bed and breakfast where the highlight for them was the “full Scottish breakfast”.
Alex Bell: We’ve lost the last of the great scholars at a time when flabby thinking is the norm
As the wedding party slipped into the second day, folk were losing their grip on sanity.Twenty-four hours of drinking and dancing and talk had left people’s minds at a midnight setting.
Tom Peterkin: Climate question a balancing act for SNP
When Nicola Sturgeon stood up at the SNP conference and declared a “climate emergency”, she was met with an enthusiastic response from her supporters.
Iain Maciver: Charging through life as we do, we need all the batteries we can get, it would seem
The other day I commanded Mrs X to make me one of my favourite meals – meatballs Italian-style.