Fed chairman: We must stabilise banking

12:15am Wednesday 14th January 2009

Stabilising and strengthening the banking system is essential to a lasting global recovery, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, insisted yesterday, as UK ministers prepared to announce a multibillion-pound aid package today to get banks lending again.

World's academics decend on city for Robert Burns event

3:44pm Wednesday 14th January 2009

Academics from around the globe began arriving today ahead of the world's biggest conference on the life and works of Robert Burns.

Woman seized and robbed of money in Glasgow after concert

3:41pm Wednesday 14th January 2009

A young woman was abducted and robbed in a two-hour ordeal after she left a concert, police said today.

Rugby player John Beattie highlights class divide in sport

3:52pm Wednesday 14th January 2009

A former Scotland rugby player today said the civil service "needs a boot" to help overturn "an unambitious approach" to getting children from poor backgrounds more active.

Scottish manufactured exports fall in line with global slowdown

11:01am Wednesday 14th January 2009

Scotland's manufactured exports have fallen in line with the global slowdown, it was revealed today.

Music and games chain Zavvi to close another 18 UK stores

9:56am Wednesday 14th January 2009

Administrators for music, DVD and games retailer Zavvi said today they were closing another 18 UK stores with the loss of 353 jobs.

Waitrose news offers boost … but no sign yet of Selfridges

12:40am Wednesday 14th January 2009

Upmarket supermarket chain Waitrose offered a much-needed boost to Glasgow's economy yesterday, giving the strongest indication yet that its plans to expand in Scotland remained very much on track despite the downturn.

First Scotrail contract extension defended

3:53pm Wednesday 14th January 2009

Transport chiefs today hit back at criticism over the handling of the extension of First ScotRail's contract to run trains.

Pumps firm set to stay put at historic base

12:16am Wednesday 14th January 2009

The historic Weir Pumps manufacturing plant looks destined to stay at its Victorian home of Cathcart on the south side of Glasgow, after the collapse of housebuilder Cala's proposed multimillion-pound purchase of this site, The Herald has learned.

Funding review of universities under attack

12:37am Wednesday 14th January 2009

Opposition politicians yesterday attacked Scottish Government proposals to align university provision more closely to the needs of the economy.

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