Russell Leadbetter
Herald Scotland
United Kingdom
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From Clydebank all the way to California, the majestic Queen Mary
ANGUS Shaw, a distinguished Scottish journalist, always had rueful memories of his experience as a young reporter of the Cunard White Star liner,… → Read More
When good vibrations turn positively bad: Rock's greatest feuds
STUDY the covers of the early Beach Boys albums and the word that comes to mind is ‘wholesome’. The band members (above) look so upbeat and… → Read More
Can you remember Christmases of Stanley Baxter and the Two Ronnies?
EVERY Christmas yields its fair share of useless little gifts – cheery novelty items that raise a polite smile before quietly but ruthlessly being… → Read More
Half a century (nearly) of the Herald Diary keeping us all entertained
IT’S hard to believe, but The Herald Diary is within sight of its 50th birthday. → Read More
Remembering the Queen and her many visits to Scotland
THE flags and the bunting had been put up several days beforehand but had grown soggy with rain under heavy skies. But then, almost as if by royal… → Read More
Festival drama: When the celebrated, the cultured, and the vain descended on Edinburgh
INTO Edinburgh’s Italian Renaissance-style McEwan Hall that autumn afternoon filed a large queue of people – in the words of the Glasgow… → Read More
From Billy Graham to U2 via Mike Tyson, the showpiece events that redefined Hampden
IT was a Saturday night at the end of April, 1955. Around the great open-air arena of Hampden Park sat a huge audience of around 100,000, all of… → Read More
Blue Nile legend is back with a new album
LOOKING back at The Blue Nile’s recorded career – 33 songs on four exquisite albums, released between 1983 and 2004 – it’s notable that… → Read More
Herald Decades: Trouble and strife Scotland during one month of Callaghan’s Winter of Discontent of 1978-79
CERTAIN memories seem set in stone when you look back at that turbulent year of 1979, the year in which Margaret Thatcher came to power, ending five… → Read More
‘Guid oan ye, missus’ How Scotland celebrated that long ago sunny silver jubilee of 1977
NICHOLAS Fairbairn read over Sir John Betjeman’s Jubilee Hymn, which had been written to mark the 25th anniversary of the Queen’s reign, and… → Read More
The canoe versus the submarine...the first US vessels arrive at Holy Loch 61 years ago
ARE you really gonna put these leaflets on shipboard tomorrow, boy?”, an amused American newsman asked the CND demonstrator in the bright yellow… → Read More
John Cobb: Mystery death on Loch Ness of the world's fastest man
HE may have been, as one US newspaper described him, a taciturn 200-pound London fur broker, but John Cobb knew all there was to know about breaking… → Read More
Farewell, M&S. Sauchiehall Street won't be the same without you
INTERVIEWED in November 2010, on the 75th anniversary of the Marks & Spencer store in Glasgow’s Sauchiehall Street, its then manager said:… → Read More
Van Gogh Alive, Edinburgh. Review
Van Gogh Alive, Festival Square, Edinburgh, until July 17. → Read More
Remember When: 1973 - Paul McCartney is fined for cultivating cannabis plants in Campbeltown
PAUL McCartney and his wife, Linda, emerge from Campbeltown Sheriff Court in March 1973, after a £100 fine had been imposed on him. He had pleaded… → Read More
Top Glasgow chef awaits potentially life-changing evening
A POTENTIALLY life-changing moment awaits one of Scotland’s leading chefs tomorrow night. → Read More
Obituary: Jamie Shuttleworth, confident and witty expert in journalism's digital world
Jamie Shuttleworth Born: April 18, 1992; Died: May 24, 2021. → Read More
Obituary: John McAleer, ‘face of Falkirk M&S’ whose early death prompted public sorrow
Died: April 14, 2021. NOT too many people, perhaps, knew of John McAleer outwith the Stirlingshire town of Falkirk, where he lived and worked. But within Falkirk – that was a different story entirely. John was a well-known figure in the Marks & Spencer Foodhall in the retail park. Before that, he had worked in the food department of the big M&S store, up in the High Street. And long… → Read More
Remember When ... New terminal opens at Turnhouse Airport, 1956
TURNHOUSE Airport’s elegant, new, £84,000 terminal was opened in April 1956 by Harold Watkinson, Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation. → Read More
1963: Ten-pin bowling arrives in Glasgow
A NEW form of entertainment – and, in the view of our sister paper, the Evening Times, “practically a new way of life for many Glasgow people”… → Read More