An off-shoot of the 215-year-old Glasgow-based Herald, now owned by the Scottish Media Group, the new five-section broadsheet aims to kick the London-based media into touch, and poach some readers from Edinburgh rival Scotland on Sunday along the way.
"You could tell who the normal chasers were, " said David Mabe, a 31-year-old freelance photographer, who drove 20 hours from North Carolina to shoot the Kansas storms.