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The Scotsman
13 Mar, 2018
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Toys R Us gift cards no longer being accepted in stores
Gift cards are no longer being accepted at Toys R Us stores after customers were told that they had until the last weekend to use gift cards at children’s superstore Toys R Us.
Latest News
Alex Salmond accused of being ‘Putin’s useful idiot’ amid calls to ban RT

Alex Salmond is facing growing pressure to abandon his programme for the state-funded broadcaster Russia Today (RT) amid calls for the channel to be banned in the UK.
Darren McGarvey: Sturgeon is wrong – Corbyn isn’t the new Nigel Farage

As news broke of an embarrassing misspelling of party founder Keir Hardie’s name at the opening of Labour’s conference in Dundee, leader Jeremy Corbyn swooped in to divert attention from the cock-up by creating one of his own.

Obituary: Ken Dodd, Comic genius and singer who filled London Palladium for 42 weeks

Sir Kenneth Arthur Dodd, OBE. Born: 8 November 1927, Liverpool. Died: 11 March 2018, Lancashire, aged 90
Bad bosses should be red carded by workers, report suggests

Workers should be allowed to give bad bosses a red card which would force Government to respond when workers feel a company is in danger, a new report has said.
Sport Update
Aberdeen’s season over if they don’t win says Steve Clarke

Kilmarnock manager Steve Clarke believes that Aberdeen will be under intense pressure when they visit Rugby Park for tonight’s Scottish Cup quarter-final replay, claiming the Dons’ season will effectively be over should they lose.
Video: Rangers defender Russell Martin victim of sectarian abuse

Rangers defender Russell Martin was the victim of sectarian abuse in the run up to Sunday’s Old Firm encounter.
Martin Dempster: Scottish Golf in mess and board must take share of blame

There have been some lows for Scottish golf – some highs, too, admittedly – in the time I’ve covered this great sport but never before I have I felt the game in this country has been in the complete and utter mess it currently finds itself.
And finally...
Theatre preview: behind the scenes on Lung Ha’s new production of The Three Sisters

At the Lyra Theatre in Craigmillar, a 20-strong company of actors are moving around in the open theatre space. They’re winding up after a successful day of rehearsals for their forthcoming production of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, and the atmosphere is one not only of satisfaction, but of relief, after one of the most eventful and traumatic periods in the remarkable history of Lung Ha, Scotland’s only professional theatre company working with adults with learning difficulties, and – after 33 years – one of Europe’s longest-established companies in this field.
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