DISPUTES over attempts to probe Tehran’s alleged work on nuclear weapons unexpectedly persisted at Iran nuclear talks, diplomats said, threatening plans to wrap up a deal by the latest in a series of deadlines for the negotiations.

Diplomats said at least two other issues still needed final agreement – Iran’s demand for a lifting of a UN arms embargo and its insistence that any UN Security Council resolution approving the deal be written in a way that stops describing Iran’s nuclear activities as illegal.

With a temporary deal set to expire at midnight last night, diplomats said they hoped to complete and announce a final agreement before day’s end at the talks in Vienna. But they warned there was no guarantee, and some said the talks could stretch into today despite there being little appetite for what would be a fourth extension of the interim agreement since the current round began on 27 June.

Foreign ministers from the countries negotiating with Iran declined to answer questions about another possible extension as they gathered for a group meeting at the 19th Century palace that has been hosting the talks.

“Definitely I believe there should not be an extension in the talks. But we can work to reach a result as far as it is necessary,” Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said.

One of the diplomats said the delay posed by the disputes was unexpected, with negotiators expecting that they would be resolved by late Sunday.

Beyond placing long-term limits on Iran’s present nuclear programme, the US wants to ensure that the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has wide-ranging authority to investigate the nuclear arms allegations after nearly a decade of being essentially stalemated.

IAEA chief Yukiya Amano came back from Tehran and talks with Iranian leaders early this month saying that a new plan had been drawn up. Diplomats had earlier said that there was also progress within the Vienna negotiations. But the debate about how much access his experts should be given has publicly continued, with top Iranian officials saying military sites and Iranian nuclear scientists would be off-limits to IAEA experts.

Iran insists it never worked on such weapons and may also be resisting any mention of concessions on the probe in any public documents describing the deal.

Iran’s deputy foreign minister, Abbas Aragchi, told reporters in Vienna that the talks are at their “final breathtaking moments [but] certain issues still remain.” He said he could not guarantee an agreement would be reached either yesterday or today.

In Brussels, French President Francois Hollande said the sides are near agreement but “a gap” remains.

The foreign ministers of Russia and China, who had left the talks last week, both returned to the Austrian capital late on Sunday, and most other foreign ministers of the seven nations at the table also were in Vienna by yesterday, in place for any announcement. “The foreign ministers are gathered to bring negotiations to a conclusion,” said Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi.

“We believe there could not be further delay.”

After more than two weeks of see-saw developments, including threats from both the United States and Iran to walk away, senior officials at the talks had begun to express optimism on Sunday that a deal was within reach.

AFTER almost slipping off the radar, Celtic studies is now a key subject and has come full circles, writes Thomas Owen Clancy

The renaissance of Celtic and Gaelic in the University of Glasgow was a close-run thing. Twenty years ago, all three of the department’s members of staff were about to retire at once. In those straitened times, the university could easily have chosen to close it down, but instead the decision was made to invest in a new team to take the department into the future.

Twenty years later that investment, and many others since, mean that instead of three, there are now eight members of teaching staff, plus a host of researchers working on externally-funded projects – on topics as diverse as Scottish place-names, saints’ cults, adult learners of Scottish Gaelic, and digital resources which will provide the basis for a historical dictionary of Scottish Gaelic available to all.

There is a focus, too, on training up the next generation: Glasgow’s one solitary Celtic post-graduate student of two decades ago would be stunned to see that this year there were no less than 20 doctoral students working in Celtic and Gaelic. Together they constitute a research team which was evaluated the top independently submitted Celtic studies unit in the five-yearly, UK-wide research assessment exercise and in the top ranks of all modern language units.

To crown it all, the department is playing host to the largest academic meeting in its field, the 15th International Congress of Celtic Studies which is in Glasgow from 13-17 July. This broad, interdisciplinary conference, the “Olympics” of Celtic Studies, happens only once every four years, and this is the first time it has been held in Glasgow. Nearly 500 scholars from 130 institutions in 25 countries including Russia, Australia, USA and Brazil will gather in Glasgow to debate topics ranging from the sociolinguistics of the modern Celtic languages to medieval Irish poetry, and from contemporary Welsh fiction to the archaeology of the ancient Celtic regions of Europe.

This international interest in Celtic and in Gaelic will be highlighted as the university confers honorary degrees on four scholars who have made invaluable contributions to the recording and preservation of disappearing dialects of Gaelic in the second half of the 20th century. These individuals – from the USA, Germany, and Ireland – sought out and recorded the last speakers of Gaelic dialects in Sutherland, Ross-shire, Perthshire, and Nova Scotia, preserving their unique varieties of the language for future speakers and researchers of Gaelic and for linguistics scholars around the world.

In recognising these academics, the university is honouring the language which has been their life’s work. Other recent initiatives demonstrate the depth of the university’s commitment to Gaelic. In 2010 it created Europe’s first established Chair of Gaelic. Its holder – Professor Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh – is now vice-principal and head of the College of Arts. In 2009, Fiona Dunn was appointed the first ever university-wide Gaelic development officer. Her award-winning work on promoting the visibility and audibility of Gaelic in the university has led to a series of new initiatives, including an innovative Gaelic-language student residence scheme. The university has also funded a ground-breaking research project uncovering the hidden Gaelic history of Glasgow University. The fruits of this project are now available on-line in both English and Gaelic

When the University of Glasgow was founded in 1451, half the population of Scotland spoke Gaelic, including the inhabitants of districts as close to Glasgow as Stirlingshire and Dumbartonshire. The low status of the language, however, meant that ability to speak Gaelic was rarely noted in the records and it has taken painstaking research by Aonghas Mac Coinnich to reveal the full extent to which Gaelic-speakers were active at the heart of the university as both as staff and students. It was a surprise, for instance, to discover that at least three principals of the University were Gaelic speakers.

Delates arriving for the Congress will find a city and a university in which the Gaelic language is once again being spoken by the young. The success of Glasgow’s Gaelic School – the first in Scotland – has been so great that a new one is currently under construction to cope with the ever-expanding number of pupils. There are still many challenges but today there is renewed energy and optimism and many hopeful signs. There is no better time for the whole extended community of Celtic and Gaelic – teaching staff, researchers, students, project workers and administrators – to pull together to welcome the world of Celtic Studies to Glasgow’s doors. How glad we all are of that fateful decision 20 years ago.

• Thomas Owen Clancy is the Professor of Celtic at the University of Glasgow and is joint president of the 15th International Congress of Celtic Studies. www.gla.ac.uk

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MEDIA group Johnston Press has seen encouraging signs from digital revenues with double-digit growth in traffic to its websites.

In a trading update, the firm, whose newspaper titles include The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday and Yorkshire Post, described the overall trading environment as “challenging” during the first half of the year.

It pointed to solid trading in the first quarter, though the second quarter was impacted by a slowdown in general trading as well as specific weakness in the run up to the general election.

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Digital revenues are expected to have jumped by around 17 per cent in the group’s first half, while readers visiting its sites are up by more than a fifth. The firm also said there were signs of a pick-up in trading so far in July.

But it cautioned that despite better trading since the election and aims to cut costs to fund revenue growth plans, full-year profits were still likely to be below expectations, pushing its shares lower in early trading.

Ashley Highfield, chief executive of the Edinburgh-based group, told investors; “Trading conditions in the first half of 2015 have undoubtedly been challenging, especially in the period around the general election – a time when there was also a high degree of uncertainty in the wider market.

“Whilst we expect this will have an impact on profit both at the half year and the full year, there are positive indicators coming through with digital growth and continued strong cash flow.”

Johnston Press owns some 250 newspapers and about 200 websites.

FirstGroup, the Aberdeen-based transport heavyweight, is ramping up an efficiency drive in its UK bus business as it hopes the division will shore up overall earnings after losing a raft of rail contracts.

The firm told investors that it was “advancing cost efficiency plans” for the bus operation including “a number of changes to our depot portfolio” as it targets higher profit margins.

It has recently announced plans to shut depots in Bracknell and Hereford, merge depots in the Potteries and is looking to sell one in south Devon.

The firm said in a trading update for its first quarter that like-for-like bus takings had grown by 1.4 per cent.

Commercial passenger revenue continued to grow by more than 2 per cent, but this had been offset by a fall in turnover related to passengers entitled to reduced fares.

The group is paid by local authorities – under pressure from squeezed government funding – to subsidise these reductions.

First said its UK rail division had delivered like-for-like passenger revenue growth of 6.3 per cent on a “robust” uptick in passenger numbers.

But it reiterated a warning that earnings from this division would be “substantially lower in the first half and for the current year”.

It has been dealt a blow after failing to win new contracts to keep running services on First ScotRail and First Capital Connect, while also missing out on bids for several new deals.

The group is hoping that earnings from its UK and US bus businesses – the latter including Greyhould and First Student – will help make up for the shortfall.

Chief executive Tim O’Toole said: “We anticipate strong progress for the current year in our non-rail businesses, mainly from the First Student and UK Bus turnarounds, to largely offset the reduced size of our UK Rail franchise portfolio compared with the prior year.”

Analysts at Shore Capital, which has a “buy” rating on the stock, noted: “While there is little by the way of comment on specific numbers, FirstGroup’s Q1 trading statement is in line with our and we believe market forecasts and we expect no change to our group forecasts for the year ahead.

“It is in our opinion only a matter of time before the market turns its attention to the repayment of debt and potential transformational impact this could have on cashflow.”

Consumer inflation inched back to zero last month amid a round of womenswear summer sales and as a run of falling food prices reached its longest stretch for 15 years, official figures have revealed.

The consumer price index (CPI) measure of inflation slipped back from 0.1 per cent in May, in line with City expectations, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). It has been hovering around zero since February, providing an extra boost to households as wage increases accelerate.

The Bank of England expects CPI – which crept below zero in April for the first time in more than 50 years – to turn higher later this year as the effect of falling oil and food prices fades.

Philip Gooding, from the ONS, said: “Inflation has continued its pattern of recent months, when prices have been very little changed on the previous year.

“The headline rate for June has dropped very slightly on May, back to zero, thanks to small downwards effects from movements in clothing and food prices and air fares.”

Howard Archer, chief UK and European economist at forecasting consultancy IHS Global Insight, said: “We believe it is most likely that consumer price inflation will hover around zero through the summer and then start heading gradually but decisively up from September.
“There is obviously the risk that there could be another very brief dip into deflation if oil prices extend their current softening.”

SCOTLAND’S “increasing profile” is not just a political one, according to Nicola Sturgeon, who described the country as “the real northern powerhouse”.

The First Minister set out how she wanted Scotland to be the best part of the United Kingdom to do business in and said having a strong and growing economy outside London and the south east “helps to rebalance the UK”.

Writing in The Times, she also said the country’s international profile “has never been greater” as she pointed to large sporting events held in Scotland in the last year, including the Commonwealth Games, golf’s Ryder Cup at Gleneagles and this week’s Open at St Andrews.

She said: “London can’t help but have noticed the arrival of a significant Scottish presence in the last few months. The 56 SNP MPs and the importance of Scotland to the political discussion at Westminster has once again put the focus on events north of the border.

“But Scotland’s increasing profile is not just a political one.

“Our economic standing is making an increasing impression. In truth - as I will tell audiences in the City and at The Times CEO conference today - Scotland is the real northern powerhouse.”

She added: “Anyone in business looking for a location that is genuinely focused on productivity, with a government that supports new infrastructure and is focused on innovation and internationalisation, that is pro-European and open to opportunities from new economies, in a country that has a highly educated population and proximity to a globally important city need look no further than Scotland.”

Ms Sturgeon talked about the country’s increase in international exports and highlighted recent figures showing almost 10,000 jobs in Scotland were created or supported by foreign investment last year.

“We want to build on that success and use the advantages we have, such as our proximity to London, to make the real northern powerhouse even stronger. We want Scotland to be - and to be seen to be - the best part of the UK to do business in,” she said.

“In that ambition, we see the proximity of London as an opportunity, London is a great world city and a global business hub; that’s a selling point for Scotland. I want to work with companies who have big operations in London to explore how offices in Scotland - with our lower cost base - can complement their London bases, and find out what we can do to make Scotland an even more attractive location.

“We can be partners in growing our respective economies - not competitors.”

She added: “After all, the stronger all of our economies become - London, the north of England and Scotland - the better for all of us.”

FORCING large firms to reveal the difference between the average earnings of male and female staff will “pressure” them to improve women’s wages, David Cameron said.

A consultation on the measure is being launched as the Government announces that a target of getting women into at least a quarter of boardroom seats at the UK’s biggest firms has been met.

More than 10 million workers across the country will be covered by the new rules affecting outfits with more than 250 employees, which were a concession to the Liberal Democrats by the Conservatives in the final month of the coalition government.

Confirming that the new Tory administration would press ahead with the measure, Mr Cameron will say it will “cast sunlight on the discrepancies and create the pressure we need for change, driving women’s wages up”.

At present the gender pay gap stands at 19.1% - meaning a woman, on average, earns around 80p for every £1 earned by a man.

Writing in the Times ahead of a speech to business leaders, Mr Cameron said he aimed to close the gap within a generation and said the compulsory National Living Wage for over 25s unveiled in last week’s Budget would play an important part.

“This goes back to what we announced at the Budget last week. Our aim is to fundamentally rebalance our economy - to transform Britain from a high-welfare, high-tax, low-pay economy into a lower-welfare, lower-tax, higher-pay society.

“Higher pay is something we want for everyone. That is why the Chancellor announced the National Living Wage, which starts next April at £7.20 and will reach over £9 by 2020. This will primarily help women, who tend to be in lower paid jobs. It will help close the gender pay gap.

“But we need to go further, and that’s why introducing gender pay audits is so important.”

The consultation will examine exactly what, where and when firms will have to publish and when the disclosure rules - due to be on the statute book within 12 months - will come into force.

Minister for Women and Equalities Nicky Morgan said she was “delighted” that the 25% target for female board membership - set in 2011 - had been met.

“But while I am proud of the progress made, there can be no room for complacency when it comes to securing equality for women.

“That is why today, we are committing to eliminating the gender pay gap in a generation. This is not just the right thing to do, it makes good business sense: supporting women to fulfil their potential could increase the size of our economy by 35%.

“To achieve gender equality we need to continue to inspire young women and girls so that they can compete with the best in the world for the top jobs - and see that their hard work will pay off.”

Lingerie tycoon Michelle Mone, the founder of the Ultimo underwear company, said the pay disclosure requirement was “absolutely fantastic.

“Women should rightly have the same expectation of good pay and progression as men, wherever they choose to work,” she said.

“Today’s announcement will highlight those companies where the pay gap is persisting. I hope this will empower women to challenge this state of affairs and ask why.

“It is great progress that a quarter of people on FTSE 100 boards are women, and that’s without legislation or quotas. I hope that many other talented women will follow in their footsteps.”

John Allan, national chairman for the Federation of Small Businesses, said: “Our research shows growing numbers of women are choosing to start-up in business, and there are more women directors than ever before.

“To help support this trend we need to keep up the momentum and break down the remaining barriers that prevent women progressing in the workplace and the boardroom, and so we welcome, and look forward to taking part in, the Government’s gender pay gap consultation.

“In the past, low wages have been one such barrier, discouraging many women from applying for roles.”

Lloyds Banking Group chief executive Antonio Horta Osorio said it looked forward to making sure “the views of British business are taken into consideration when implementing this policy”.

A VOTE to relax the fox-hunting ban in England and Wales has been postponed after the Scottish National Party’s decision to take part in the division made defeat almost certain.

The controversial vote, scheduled for Wednesday, would have brought the law south of the border in line with that in Scotland, where an unlimited number of dogs can be used to “flush out” a fox to be shot, compared to just two in England and Wales.

The SNP’s 56 MPs agreed on Monday to break with their normal practice of not voting on England-only matters and join Labour in opposing the proposal. Together with a number of anti-hunting Conservative MPs, who have been granted a free vote on the issue, this was expected to be enough to block the change.

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon directly linked the move to the Government’s plans for “English votes for English laws” (EVEL). And she warned that her party would be prepared to vote on other issues where Scotland is not directly affected in the months ahead.

Downing Street left no doubt that it was the SNP decision which prompted the delay in the hunting vote.

A source said: “This happened because Nicola Sturgeon has done a 180-degree u-turn. Her actions speak for themselves. That’s why we are in the position we are in.”

Number 10 had previously indicated that Prime Minister David Cameron intended to vote in favour of the reform.

The postponement of the vote was announced as animal welfare activists prepared to stage a rally outside Parliament against any amendment of the Hunting Act, which outlawed the hunting of wild mammals with dogs in England and Wales in 2004, two years after similar legislation in Scotland.

High-profile animal welfare activists including Queen guitarist Brian May were joining the “Team Fox” coalition of animal welfare groups, including Animal Defenders International, to urge MPs to keep the ban intact.

Celebrities including Ricky Gervais, Morrissey, Sadie Frost and Stella McCartney have joined the campaign against the proposed change, which has prompted accusations that the Government is trying to sneak fox-hunting in through the back door, knowing it would not win a free vote to repeal the Hunting Act in Parliament.

A ComRes poll for BBC2’s Victoria Derbyshire programme found that 74% of voters were opposed to legalising fox-hunting, against 20% who supported it.

Speaking before the vote was postponed, Ms Sturgeon said the SNP’s decision was a reminder to Mr Cameron just how slender his Commons majority was.

“Since the election David Cameron’s Government has shown very little respect to the mandate Scottish MPs have. On the Scotland Bill reasonable amendments backed by the overwhelming majority of Scottish MPs have been voted down,” she told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.

“The English votes for English laws proposals brought forward go beyond any reasonable proposition and look to make Scottish MPs effectively second-class citizens in the House of Commons.

“So if there is an opportunity, as there appears to be here, and on an issue where David Cameron appears to be out of touch with majority English opinion as well, to actually remind the Government of how slender their majority is, that is an opportunity we will take.”

The SNP decision drew an angry response from Conservative MPs and is likely to lead to demands for ministers to press on with EVEL, as more power was devolved to the Scottish Parliament in the wake of last year’s referendum vote.

Senior Tory backbencher Sir Peter Bottomley said: “The Scottish National Party risk making themselves look foolish, unprincipled and unwise by voting against making English law similar to Scottish law.

“This action is naive - it makes them look silly and is perhaps the first major mis-step by Nicola Sturgeon.”

A Conservative source said: “Hunting is a devolved issue. The SNP’s decision to vote on a draft law that does not affect Scotland at all shows exactly why Conservatives committed in our manifesto to ensure laws that only affect England can only be passed with the consent of English MPs.”

Green Party MEP Keith Taylor said: “The Tory Government’s postponement of this vote is a cynical manipulation of our democracy, when they are simply scared of losing the vote.

“I am strongly opposed to hunting and this amendment would be a disaster for our beautiful foxes, stags and hares. The Hunting Act should be strengthened, not weakened.”

SUPPORT for the SNP has increased again since the party’s landslide general election victory in Scotland but backing for independence remains in the minority, according to a new poll.

The party is on course to win 56 per cent of constituency votes in next year’s Scottish Parliament election, up from the 45 per cent it won in the last Holyrood vote in 2011, it found.

The SNP won 50 per cent of Scottish votes in the general election earlier this year to secure an unprecedented 56 of Scotland’s 59 Westminster seats, but the Survation poll for the Scottish Daily Mail found support for Scottish independence is at 43 per cent, with 47 per cent opposed and 10 per cent undecided.

The poll of more than 1,000 people also showed constituency support has increased for the Scottish Conservatives to 14 per cent and Lib Dems to 7 per cent but has fallen for Labour to 20 per cent and could lead to the loss of all its constituency seats.

The SNP would win 71 Holyrood seats if the poll is replicated across the country next year, while the proportional representation system would see Labour hold on to 24 of its current 37 seats while the Scottish Greens would have 12 seats from its 11 per cent regional vote and Ukip would win Scottish representation with 5 per cent of the regional share.

The SNP welcomed the poll and said support for independence has grown when undecided voters are removed.

The party’s business convener Derek Mackay said: “This is an encouraging poll, highlighting the SNP’s extraordinary positive ratings after eight years in government - and it is also a vote of confidence in the strong start that the new team of SNP MPs has made in standing up for Scotland’s interests at Westminster.

“But we take absolutely nothing for granted, and will work hard every day between now and next year’s Holyrood election to retain the trust of people right across Scotland.

“Since coming to office in 2007, we have frozen council tax, protected free higher education, scrapped introduced prescription charges, protected free personal care, maintained the concessionary travel scheme, increased Scotland’s health budget to record levels, and protected those hardest hit by unfair Tory welfare cuts. All this has been in the face of massive Westminster cuts to our budget.

“The SNP also introduced the living wage - which at £7.85 per hour is higher than the con-trick national living wage proposed by George Osborne - for public sector workers covered by Scottish Government pay policy.

“There is still more to do and if re-elected in 2016, the SNP will build on our strong record and deliver further improvements.

“As First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already outlined, by 2020 we will deliver 30 hours of free childcare - almost doubling the current provision of 16 hours - and continue to protect our NHS. We will also continue to use the powers we have to strengthen and grow the Scottish economy - and push the case at Westminster for the powers we need to make more progress.”

NEW Horizons, the fastest spacecraft ever flown, made history yesterday as it shot past Pluto at more than 30,000mph taking pictures and collecting scientific data.

During the fly-by, the first close encounter with Pluto ever achieved, the American probe passed within 7,767 miles of the mysterious world.

At the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, mission control staff and visitors clapped, cheered and waved American flags, chanting “USA, USA” in an outpouring of patriotic emotion.

The moment of closest approach for the New Horizons spacecraft came at 12.49pm BST, following a nine-and-a-half-year, three-billion-mile journey.

The American space agency Nasa posted a stunning new image of Pluto on Instagram, taken by New Horizons from a distance of 476,000 miles.

It clearly shows the dwarf planet’s surprising Mars-like reddish hue, and the enigmatic heart-shaped feature on its surface that has already become Pluto’s calling card on the internet.

Other photographs taken from a million miles away revealed evidence of cliffs, craters and chasms larger than the Earth’s Grand Canyon.

Speaking at APL, former astronaut John Grunsfeld, associate administrator of Nasa’s Science Mission Directorate, said: “It’s just amazing. This is truly a landmark in human history.

“People often think the success of missions like this is about engineers, the hardware, but the real key is team work, and that’s what Nasa excels at.”

New Horizons has taken more than nine years to reach Pluto, carrying with it the ashes of the astronomer who discovered the remote icy object in 1930.

When the mission was launched in January 2006, the aim was to reach the outermost of the Sun’s family of nine planets. Seven months into the probe’s epic journey, international astronomers downgraded Pluto’s status to “dwarf planet”.

But despite its small size – just over two-thirds the diameter of the Earth’s moon – Pluto looks and behaves like a fully fledged planet, having an atmosphere and no less than five moons of its own.

Pluto is just under three billion miles from Earth, one of a number of distant “worldlets” in a region known as the Kuiper Belt.

It is so far away that its light takes more than four hours to reach the Earth.

Individual police officers must not be “scapegoated” by an inquiry into the fatal tragedy which saw two Scots left in their crashed car for days after the accident was reported.

Labour and the Liberal Democrats have raised fears after Justice Secretary Michael Matheson ruled out a “systemic” problem with police call handling - before an inquiry into the tragedy has reported.

John Yuill and Lamara Bell were found inside the crashed car last Wednesday by the side of the M9 motorway near Stirling, three days after it had been reported. Ms Bell was still alive but died after three days in hospital. Mr Yuill was dead when the couple were found.

Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie today said rank and file police officers must be able to ”participate fully” in the HMICS review of police call handling without fear of repercussions.

Mr Rennie said: “The fact that the HMICS review has been ordered by the Justice Secretary is welcome but by appearing to rule out systemic problems, Michael Matheson seems to have pre-judged the outcome. I am alarmed that the Justice Secretary and Chief Constable are already claiming it was an individual’s fault and that the wider system was blameless.

“There should be no scapegoating of any officer so we need the inquiry to be free to come to its own conclusions without any undue pressure from the government or Police Scotland bosses.”

He added: “The Justice Secretary needs to ensure that HMICS review can proceed at a pace and, crucially, that serving officers and civilian staff can play a full role and have their say without fears of adverse consequences for their careers.”

The Justice Secretary last night appeared to reject “systemic failures” in the call handling process. The tragedy has already been put down to human error after it was revealed that a senior officer had taken down the details of the accident, but it the details were not then fed into the system.

But Scottish Police Federation Chair Calum Steel criticised the Justice Secretary saying it was “remarkably dangerous” to pre-judge the outcome of an inquiry before it has taken place.

Mr Rennie, who has been contacted by serving officers and civilian staff regarding difficulties in Police control rooms, warned the Justice Secretary that officers must have confidence that they can speak freely without fear of adverse consequences.

Labour’s acting leader Iain Gray has written to the First Minister and said the tragedy was the latest in a “long line of failings” on the part of Police Scotland after rows over stop and search and armed policing.

Mr Gray welcomed the inquiry by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, but also raised concerns that the Justice Secretary appeared to give the call handling process “a clean bill of health , before the inquiry has reported.”

“Can you publish any assessment produced by the Scottish Government or Police Scotland which allowed Michael Matheson to reach such a conclusion?” his letter to Ms Sturgeon states.

“We may never know whether or not Lamara Bell or John Yuill would have survived if they had received attention from the police within minutes, or even hours, of the initial call being made. But we do know that both deserved better.

“Two people in Scotland have died after they were let down by Police Scotland. Who is going to take responsibility for these failures?”

A SHAMED doctor who was jailed after he was caught paying for the sexual services of children online has been struck off the medical register.

Kieran Titheridge collected vile photographs and videos of children while working as a trainee hospital doctor at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

And the 34-year-old also used his PayPal account to send a foreign woman cash to show him children being abused on the internet.

Titheridge was jailed for three years and four months at the High Court in Edinburgh in February after admitting the offences.

A panel of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service has now struck off Titheridge from the professional medical register.

MPTS panel chair Dr Wendy Kuriyan (CORR) said the doctor’s behaviour was a “serious breach” of the profession and morally unacceptable.

She said: “The panel has decided that the gravity of the offences for which he was convicted and received a custodial sentence could seriously damage the reputation of, and public confidence in, the medical profession.

“It considers that a finding of impairment is necessary for the protection of patients and the wider public interest, in particular the maintenance of public confidence in the profession and the upholding of proper standards of conduct and behaviour.

“The panel is satisfied that Dr Titheridge’s conduct, which occurred over a lengthy period of time, was serious, involving young and, hence, particularly vulnerable children. Doctors occupy a position of trust in society and are expected to act with integrity and not to exploit or be a participant in the exploitation of vulnerable people.

“The panel considers that Dr Titheridge has displayed a reckless disregard for the principles set out in Good Medical Practice and his criminal behaviour constitutes a serious breach of fundamental tenets of the profession.

“It is of the view that a well-informed member of the public would be appalled if a finding of impairment were not made in this case.

“In all the circumstances, the panel has determined that Dr Titheridge’s fitness to practise is impaired by reason of his convictions.”

The MPTS ruling noted that the doctor, who is currently serving a jail sentence at HMP Grampian, did not respond to a letter advising him of the hearing sent to the prison last month.

The doctor gained his professional medical qualification in 2011 and began his training in the geriatrics department at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

Between June 2008 and November 2013, Dr Titheridge obtained a number of indecent photographs and videos of children.

When police raided his home, they seized his laptop computer, mobile phone and Kindle. Computer equipment was also taken from his parents’ home address in Arbroath.

Two indecent videos were recovered along with 366 photographs on various files. Skype chat messages also proved that he had paid for the live streaming of the sexual abuse of children.

Titheridge contacted the General Medical Council in November 2013 and informed staff that he had been charged by police with two offences. He left his job at the hospital the same year.

The panel ruled that Dr Titheridge’s fitness to practice was impaired by his convictions and the sexual exploitation of children.

The ruling said that no practical or workable conditions could be formulated to address such serious misbehaviour or to satisfy the public interest and maintain confidence in the medical profession.

THE BBC has been urged to carry out a review of how it covers “controversial political issues” affecting Scotland and ensure BBC Scotland receives “greater authority and resources” from London in order to create more news and drama.

In a wide-ranging review of how the BBC is meeting audience demands in Scotland, an advisory board to the BBC Trust warned of concerns among the public over the impartiality and analysis underpinning the corporation’s coverage of Scottish life.

Bill Matthews, Scotland’s representative on the trust, said the BBC must “consider carefully” ongoing political coverage and “reassess its offering” in light of the general election and last year’s referendum on Scottish independence.

Mr Matthews, chair of the Audience Council Scotland, the body which advises the trust, said that while the corporation continues to produce “high-quality independent journalism” from Scotland, its network coverage was “inadequate” and seen to adopt an “Anglified’ perspective” when reporting on the referendum to the rest of the UK.

The BBC said last night it stood by its referendum coverage, describing it as “fair and impartial”.

But culture secretary Fiona Hyslop accused the UK Government and the BBC of “continuing to sell Scotland short on broadcasting”, adding that the lack of Scottish input on its charter renewal demonstrated a “clear breach” of the Smith Commission agreement on the BBC, which detailed a “formal consultative role” for the Scottish Government and the Scottish Parliament.

In the council’s annual review, published yesterday, Mr Matthews said there were “differing audience views on the overall quality” of its referendum coverage, with some licence fee payers of the view that the BBC was “unfavourable to the Yes campaign” and “part of a wider media establishment whose perspectives reflected those of the status quo”.

In his foreword to the report, Mr Matthews said of the BBC’s audience: “Some felt an appetite for analysis was not fully met and some that network coverage came too late.

“Others voiced concerns about BBC impartiality.” He added: “The BBC rightly chose not to intervene in the debate although its own future was one of the topics under discussion. However, the council believes it is very important that the BBC now consider carefully all the issues that have been raised.

“The election result in May poses new challenges for BBC network news to properly explain the differing policy landscape across the nations of the UK. And in the wake of the referendum, it is important that the BBC reassess its offering for audiences in Scotland and the way in which it is accountable to licence payers here.”

The BBC’s annual report also highlighted areas of concern when it comes to representing a Scottish audience. Whereas 61 per cent of people in England and Northern Ireland and 55 per cent of those in Wales believe the BBC is good at representing their life in news and current affairs content, the figure falls to 48 per cent in Scotland.

The council praised a series of BBC Scotland documentaries on the referendum and the online resources available, but added: “Members questioned whether, overall, the coverage had captured the popular nature of the campaign and the increased role of social media.”

The report added: “The council also felt that BBC network programmes, overall, did not engage with the issues until too late a stage, and that some had been less well informed, and that this diluted the value of the coverage at both Scottish and UK levels.

“There was some audience perception that network correspondents were increasingly used in place of BBC Scotland correspondents in the final weeks of the campaign.”

Ms Hyslop said: “Today’s annual report from the BBC shows not only that Scotland is again the only part of the UK where more than half of the people do not believe the BBC is properly reflecting life in their nation, but that Scotland’s share of network production has also fallen.

“It’s therefore extremely disappointing that the UK Government has failed to seek the Scottish Government’s view on either the licence fee settlement or the recent appointments to the advisory panel on charter renewal.

“As a result, Scotland’s views appear to be, at best, under-represented on the panel advising on BBC charter renewal and funding.

“The UK Government’s actions demonstrate that Scotland is not yet being fully consulted on matters relating to charter renewal, and represent a clear breach of the Smith Commission agreement on the BBC.”

However, Liz Smith, culture spokeswoman for the Scottish Conservatives, said: “The paranoia among nationalist supporters about media bias was ludicrous in the extreme. Like other media outlets, the BBC did a fair and fantastic job in covering the referendum.

“Every political cause would like more favourable coverage, so the fact everyone thinks this about the BBC probably indicates it did a good job.”

With BBC Scotland braced for further cuts as part of a £50m network-wide savings drive announced earlier this month, the Trust’s review, produced with input from Audience Council Scotland, looks set to prompt much discussion at its Pacific Quay HQ.

A spokeswoman for the BBC said: “We stand by our coverage of the referendum which was fair and impartial. No complaints about impartiality were upheld by the BBC Trust.”

The troubled Queen Elizabeth University hospital in Glasgow has seen a dramatic improvement in its emergency waiting time performance, official figures today show.

The amount of patients forced to wait beyond the national four hour target has almost halved at the new £842 million hospital.

It comes after a team of Scottish Government troubleshooters were sent into to deal with lengthy emergency waits at the flagship hospital which quickly became the longest in Scotland after opening in April.

But in the past week 94% of patients within 4 hours, just falling short of a national target of 95% - and up from 88.6%.

It means that fewer than 100 patients waited longer than four hours - down from 178 the previous week.

Robert Calderwood, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Chief Executive, said: “This positive improvement in unscheduled care performance at the new Queen Elizabeth University Hospital represents a significant step forward.

“My thanks go to the staff for their enormous efforts in responding to the challenges that bedding-in after such an enormous period of change has brought.”

Public Health Minister Maureen Watt said the figures are “very encouraging and testament to the hardworking staff at the new hospital.”

Performance dipped slightly in Scotland to 94.6% of patients being seen in 4 hours against a national target of 95%. This is despite it being the middle of summer when pressure on the NHS is at its least.

Liberal Democrat health spokesman Jim Hume said: “Week after week we see doctors and nurses doing their utmost to ensure patients get the care they need. But the hard fact is that the four hour standard has been missed again.

“Those health boards where this crucial target has been missed deserve better from SNP Ministers. They have had eight years to give hospitals the support they need but took their eye off the ball during the referendum. It is time that they delivered.”

A MAN who was part of a gang who gunned down a drug rival in a shoot-out in a leafy Edinburgh suburb has been convicted of murder.

At the High Court in Glasgow 29-year-old Mohammed Ahmed, who is also known as Jamal Saeed, was found guilty of killing Mohamed Abdi, 25, at Duddingston Road West, Edinburgh, on May 26, 2013, while acting with others.

Three other men Mohamud Mohamud, 30, Cadil Huseen, 23, and Hussein Ali, 26, are already serving life sentences for the murder and will spend at least 25 years each behind bars before being eligible for parole.

Ahmed fled the scene and flew to Somalia, where he was born, just days after the street shooting.

But, unknown to him he left his wallet behind at the murder scene. A bank card belonging to him was also found in the roof lining of the Volkwagen Sharan driven by the killers.

The court heard that the killers and the victim were drug rivals and had a falling out.

Iain McSporran, prosecuting, said: “The Crown’s position is that there appears to have been an organised crime group consisting largely of Somalian males with London connections, operating in Glasgow and Edinburgh. “

They split into two rival factions shortly before the murder. Two days before the fatal shooting a message was sent saying: “The guns are coming out.”

On May 26, 2013 the Sharan with the killers on board chased the Ford Focus containing Mr Abdi and his associates through the streets of Edinburgh.

It ended with the Sharan crashed into fencing beside a tennis court. After Mr Abdi got out the Focus and was striking the rear of the Sharan with a baseball bat, he was shot with a sub-machine pistol from within the car.

The court heard that five shots were discharged from the machine gun before it jammed. Three of them hit Abdi – the fatal shot was through the chest.

The Crown’s position is that it is not possible to say who fired the fatal shot.

Ahmed was convicted of murder on an art and part basis.

Mr Abdi and his companions were armed only with baseball bats.

In evidence Ahmed denied fleeing to Somalia days after the murder.

He said his flight via Dubai was booked weeks before to give him a break from his girlfriend whom he believed was cheating on him.

His wallet containing bank cards, both parts of his driving licence, a health card and a card for Gala casinos was found close to the scene where Mr Abdi was machine gunned to death.

Another bank card was found in the roof lining of the VW Sharan used by the killers.

But Ahmed denied being in Duddingston, Edinburgh, on May 26, 2013. When asked where he was he said: “I would be home in London sleeping or watching TV. I was at home with my family.”

Asked if he was involved in the murder of Mr Abdi he replied: “No. I’ve never been involved in criminal activities.”

The court heard that Ahmed lived in London Road, Glasgow, with his girlfriend and their daughter, but had fallen out with her because he suspected her of cheating on him.

But, despite this he claimed he had given his wallet to his friend Ahmed Ahmed on May 23, 2013 to take back to his flat in Glasgow. He said: “I like all my things to be neat. The Glasgow address was my correspondence address.”

Iain McSporran said: “It’s a lie from start to finish,”.and Ahmed replied: “I deny that 100 per cent.”

Ahmed who worked in a hotel in Mogadishu for 16 months said that he had decided to return to the UK to clear his name.

When asked why he had not left his wallet at his family home in London Ahmed claimed it was because his girlfriend did all his correspondence and banking.

Mr McSporran said: “The reason your wallet was there at the scene of a murder is because you dropped it. You were party to a murder and fled the scene and you are now concocting a preposterous lie,” and Ahmed replied: “No, sir. I’m an innocent guy.”

Ahmed showed no emotion as the jury announced their verdict.

Judge John Morris QC deferred sentence on Ahmed, a first offender, until next month for background reports.

FORMER Labour cabinet minister Jack Straw has strongly criticised a letter sent out to two million Scottish households during the referendum campaign.

Giving evidence to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, the former Home and Foreign Secretary said: “That letter without any question breached purdah rules and it probably breached normal rules of public spending as well.

“It was a party political flier sent to two million households and it was wrong for the government to do it.”

He also implied criticism of the Treasury’s chief mandarin Sir Nicholas Macpherson.

This followed Welsh Labour MP Paul Flynn complaining that senior civil servants had “sprayed his opinions around” during the referendum in reference to Sir Nicholas’ intervention saying that the rest of the UK could not share the pound with an independent Scotland.

Mr Straw said: “The civil service machine is there to serve the public as well as the government of the day and has to abide by very clear principles of balance and impartiality. And that is the difficulty is the machine is committed to take part in referendum campaigns.”

The evidence came as the committee was considering the government’s plans to not have a normal purdah period for the European Union in/ out referendum.

The SNP said that Mr Straw had confirmed their view on the mishandling of the referendum by the UK Government.

Tommy Sheppard, SNP Westminster spokesman on the Cabinet Office, said: “The UK Government was clearly in breach of the purdah rules, and the Treasury under Sir Nicholas Macpherson went rogue and became wholly politicised - his role has already been severely criticised in a Public Administration Select Committee report in March. In this activity, as well as other matters such as the secret polling, taxpayers funded the No campaign.”

He added: “The purdah rules are there for a reason, yet the Tories have already ripped them up for the upcoming referendum on EU membership.”

The UK Government denied breaching purdah during the independence referendum and pointed out that the mail drop was before the purdah period going out on 23 June ahead of the vote on 18 September.

A Scotland Office spokesman said: “It was a very important decision and people needed to properly informed about what was at stake and the issues behind them.

“It was also a clear government policy to keep Scotland in the UK and we had a duty to clearly explain that to people in Scotland.”

REDUCING inequality in Scottish education has moved up the political agenda recently – as evidence of failures to provide for youngsters with additional support needs (ASN) continues to grow.

Last week, Glasgow’s Govan Law Centre released figures showing that, of 12,533 looked-after children, only 6,374 had been assessed for a co-ordinated support plan (CSP).

Under 2004 legislation, there is a presumption that Scottish children in care may have additional needs and that those who do should receive a CSP assessment.

Exam performance highlights the consequences of failure to carry out this duty. Only 12 per cent of vulnerable school-leavers secured one or more Highers at the end of 2013-14, compared with 59 per cent in the pupil population as a whole.

“Most children’s needs are well identified and met, but there are some children for whom we can do better and Govan Law Centre’s figures reflect this,” minister for learning Alasdair Allan said, adding that teachers and other council staff would shortly be invited to an “event” at which they would be able to share best practice.

Yet pressures on the ground cast doubt on whether good intentions will have any chance of making a difference.

As council budgets become more strained, permanent and supply teacher numbers are under increasing pressure.

Indeed, signs have emerged that, even if a CSP assessment is carried out, there is no guarantee of ASN support being delivered.

One Edinburgh supply teacher with nearly 20 years’ experience told me gaps in class cover had become extremely serious, with ASN teachers frequently re-assigned to fill in elsewhere.

“Parents often have to really fight for provision,” the teacher said. “It is these students who are both especially deserving and vulnerable.

“To take away the support for learning teacher is a real blow. The expertise of that teacher, in learning support and the strategies they will know, are lost, as they are often used for either general cover or in a subject other than their own. It is not unusual for a floundering student who relies on in-class support to become quickly off-task, disaffected and disruptive.”

Sharing of theoretical best practice on CSPs is all well and good but will mean nothing if shrinking staff numbers make it more difficult to ensure support plans are actually implemented.

Disturbingly, with pupil-teacher ratios rising in areas such as Edinburgh and East Lothian, and further austerity cuts on the way, there is no prospect of any let-up in the pressures undermining assistance for Scotland’s most vulnerable youngsters.

FirstGroup, the Aberdeen-based transport operator, is stepping up cost-cutting efforts in its UK bus business in a bid to offset the impact of losing a raft of rail contracts.

In a trading update the firm said it was “advancing cost efficiency plans” for the bus operation including “a number of changes to our depot portfolio” as it targets higher profit margins.

It has recently announced plans to close depots in Bracknell and Hereford, merge depots in the Potteries and to sell one in south Devon.

The firm said in the update for its first quarter that like-for-like bus takings had grown by 1.4 per cent. Commercial passenger revenue continued to grow by more than 2 per cent, but this had been offset by a fall in turnover related to passengers entitled to reduced fares.

The group is paid by local authorities – under pressure from squeezed government funding – to subsidise these reductions.

First said its UK rail division had delivered like-for-like passenger revenue growth of 6.3 per cent on a “robust” uptick in passenger numbers.

But it reiterated a warning that earnings from this division would be “substantially lower in the first half and for the current year”.

It has been dealt a blow after failing to win new contracts to keep running services on First ScotRail and First Capital Connect, while also missing out on bids for several new deals.

The group is hoping that earnings from its UK and US bus businesses – the latter including Greyhound and First Student – will help make up for the shortfall.

Passenger numbers on Greyhound services have continued to be affected by lower fuel prices which have seen some customers switch to using cars. Like-for-like revenue decreased by 5.7 per cent in the first quarter and year-on-year growth is expected to remain challenging throughout the first half of the current year.

Chief executive Tim O’Toole said: “We anticipate strong progress for the current year in our non-rail businesses, mainly from the First Student and UK Bus turnarounds, to largely offset the reduced size of our UK Rail franchise portfolio compared with the prior year.”

Analysts at Shore Capital said the statement was in line with their own forecasts.

The broker currently has a “buy” rating on the shares citing factors such as progress on repaying debt.

“With S&P recently upgrading its credit rating outlook and the business on track to achieve its targets, it is in our opinion only a matter of time before the market turns its attention to the repayment of debt and potential transformational impact this could have on cashflow,” said the research note.

GEORGE Osborne warned the eurozone yesterday that UK cash must not be used to prop up the Greek bailout when he arrived for a meeting in Brussels with European Union counterparts.

The Chancellor said the idea that British taxpayers are going to be on the line for the deal is a “complete non-starter” and told the single currency union it must “foot its own bill”.

Mr Osborne held a series of telephone conversations with other finance ministers ahead of yesterday’s meeting in an attempt to fend off any move by the EU to use hundreds of millions of pounds in the latest effort to rescue the Greek economy from collapse.

The Chancellor said: “It’s in the interests of economic stability across Europe that this Greek deal is now signed and sealed.

“But let me be very clear. Britain is not in the euro, so the idea that British taxpayers are going to be on the line for this Greek deal is a complete non-starter. The eurozone needs to foot its own bill.” Prime Minister David Cameron declared in 2010 that he had won a “clear and unanimous agreement” that an EU-wide emergency fund would no longer be used to underwrite bailouts of struggling eurozone countries.

Instead, responsibility was supposed to fall only on member states using the single currency under a new permanent mechanism specifically set up to deal with crises like that in Greece.

But the deal was not legally binding and European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker is reported to be seeking to turn back to the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism (EFSM) to help provide Athens with desperately needed cash while a new bailout is agreed.

Using the EU budget - of which the UK pays around 14% - to secure 8.6 billion euros (£6.1 billion) in loans to Athens could expose the Treasury to £850 million of liabilities in the event of a default, according to a report in a newspaper.

Mr Osborne would not be able to unilaterally veto such a move and must rely on the support of sufficient other member states to block it under a system of voting weighted according to relative size.

Treaties allow money to be raised to help an EU member state “seriously threatened with difficulties caused by natural disasters or exceptional occurrences beyond its control”.

It was never envisaged for economic crises needing bailouts but was invoked to cope with the Greek and Irish economic collapses, with the UK in the role of guarantor of the loans to the tune of billions of pounds.

In December 2010, Mr Cameron, with the support of France, Germany, Portugal, Spain and Sweden, secured a declaration that the mechanism “need not and should not be used for financial bailouts”.

Downing Street accepted at the time that it was not legally binding, but the PM told the Commons it was stated “in black and white the clear and unanimous agreement that from 2013 Britain will not be dragged into bailing out the eurozone”.

Meanwhile Alex Salmond, the SNP’s foreign affairs spokesman, said the Government should have shown more “solidarity” with Greece and not discouraged holidaymakers from travelling to the stricken country.

He said that this had undermined the thriving holiday trade between Britain and Greece, warning the UK would “reap a bitter harvest” from its failure to support the country.

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POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA EMPLOYMENT LAW AND PRACTICE - Elin Kristina Willemse

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT - Jennifer May Allen; Leanne Barrack; Lucy Margaret Begley; Christopher Richard Binnie; Jade Anita Blackburn; Amy Ann Brown; Cheryl Caie; Sarah Louise Campbell; Stephanie Pamela Dempsey; Sarah-Jane Falconer; Joyce Mennie Forbes; Scott Keith Gardner; Laura Claire Gibb; Alison Jane Graham; Sarah Louise Hamilton; Sheena Houston; Kirsty Louise Howell; Ashleigh Lynn Imlach; Laura Irvine; Sophie Lianne Johannesen; Sarah Marie Jones; Matthew Hindle Jowett; Nicola Leslie; Anna Danuta Liszka; Breda Loftus; Tessa Main; Janine McCarthy; Karen McKechnie; Stephanie Meaden; Fiona Mearns; Claire Milne; Natalie Jane Moore; Lena Morrison; Claire Mulloy; Anna O’Donoghue; Jagoda Piatkowska; Michelle Ross; Caroline Scroggs; Garry Senff; Veronika Shcherbakova; Ashley Anne Simpson; Beckie Sinclair; Hannah Louise Strachan; Jennifer Thain; Fay Helen Tough; Amy Louise Walker; Jane Louise Walls

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA INFORMATION AND LIBRARY STUDIES - Christopher William Bertenshaw; Claire Elizabeth Bradley; Clare Casey; Jérémie Fernandes; Rachel Gledhill; Adriana Gutierrez Yunda; Tara Hepburn; Venetia Kontou; Andrey Lazarev; Tom Lennox; Dawn Louise Pike; Thomas Arthur Seccombe; Eke Smit

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA INFORMATION MANAGEMENT - Denise Chapman; Daphne Michailidou

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA INTERNATIONAL MARKETING MANAGEMENT - Ashok Madhu Reddy; Wei Wu

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA MANAGEMENT - Shu Ding

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA OIL AND GAS ACCOUNTING - Nasiru Kaoje Abdulsalam

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA OIL AND GAS LAW - Leonardus Hermanus Van Dijk

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA PROFESSIONAL LEGAL PRACTICE - Zoë Adam; Heather Michelle Bricknell; Stephanie Dick; Stephen Dickson; Corrie Howarth; Katie Louise Hutchinson; Kristina Kelly; Christopher George MacFarlane; Kirsty Mary MacKay; Jazmin Hazel MacPherson; Natalie Lauren McEvoy; Sophie Mihalic; Barry James Moir; Laura Susan Rae; Sana Sarwar; Gillian Catherine Anne Sawkins; Erin Shand; Lewis Shand; Victoria Marion Shaw; Kerry Simpson; Nicola Stewart; Christopher Murray Strachan; Lynne Ann Taplin; Asta Terminskaite; Paul Thomson; Tessa Vincent; Victoria Anne Wallace; Louise Doris Wyness

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA PROJECT MANAGEMENT - Rotimi Omotayo Adedayo; Jan Margaret Duncan; Denis Joseph Spillane; Michael Kieran Spillane; James Michael Stilwell

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA PURCHASING AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT - Bala Krishna Chinniah; Robert D Stanton

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA QUALITY MANAGEMENT - Kerry Joan Smith

POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE DIGITAL CURATION - Andrew David Pullen

POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE EMPLOYMENT LAW AND PRACTICE - Ibimina Bara Allwell-Brown

POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT - Moyosore Abiola Ajao; Martin Arthur Clelland; Mojisola Olamide Idris; Bin Li; Olukemi Olayiwola; Laura Fern Weaver

POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE INFORMATION AND LIBRARY STUDIES - Shea Kristen Allen; Anna Clare Mullarky; Tanya Odie; Stefanie Huei-Ling Seah

POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE INTERNATIONAL TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT - Zujun Alice Romeijn

POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE MANAGEMENT - Elisabeth Rose

POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE MANAGEMENT STUDIES - Boma Olohije Harrison; Abena Nkansa Koampah; Siju Kuppadakath Nambiar; Hui Zeng

POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE MEDIATION - Gail Hogg; Kim Elizabeth Walker

POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE PROJECT MANAGEMENT - George Yaw Acquah; Murat Islam; Robert Idemudia Ogbewi

POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE RESEARCH METHODS - Carol Ann Air; Maisa Al Mardini; Amanze Rajesh Ejiogu; Linda Rochelle Grieve; Elizabeth Lawson; Justina Setkute; Maha Aziz Shedid

BACHELOR OF ARTS COMMUNICATION WITH PUBLIC RELATIONS - HONOURS - Jessica Cram-Rossiter; Hannah Cruickshank; Lauren Catherine Cursiter; Stephanie Fulton; Katherine Irvine; Amy Louise Jamieson; Modesta Jonauskyte; Laura Junor; Greg John Lawson; Jodie MacDonald; Claire Louise McDonald; Hannah McIntosh; Carly McIntyre; Bryan Patrick Sean McShane; Rachel Alice Midgley; Hayley Milne; Katie Morledge; Josie Morrison; Grant Alistair Reid; Grant Duncan Reid; Kirsty Westland

BACHELOR OF ARTS EVENTS MANAGEMENT - HONOURS - Morven Coire Anderson; Sarah Anderson; Michelle Bleasdale; Ana-Maria Bogdan; Shaeleigh Bowers; Kirsty Frances Brown; Jennifer Chandler; Jasmin Daniel; Megan Louise Davies; Rachel Louise Dickie; Lauren Edwards; Isla Susie Elliott; Kirsten Eve Forsyth; Rachel Forsyth; Catriona Sian Fox; Emma Louise Grant; Jamie Grant; Sarah Green; Alyson Hooper; Jade Daphne Hough; Shannon Dayle Hunter; Rudi Johnstone; Louise Jordan; Joanne Lamb; Iona Harriet MacGowan; Beth Ann MacIndoe; Louise Kathryn McEwan; Kerry Milne; Aithne Melissa Monaghan; Cara Annabel Motion; Julia Anne Nicol; Robyn Pender; Amy Piggot; Chloe Jess Ramage; Amy George Hope Smallwood; Rowan Elizabeth Stewart; Cameron Tait; William Wilkie

BACHELOR OF ARTS FASHION MANAGEMENT - HONOURS - Fiona Margaret Adams; Jessica Alexander; Heather Bavidge; Lauren Rose Bell; Susan Janet Briggs; Kerry Buchan; Rachel Helen Buntin; Erica Louise Burnett; Megan Jade Camlin; Suzanne Camlin; Rebecca Campbell; Emily Kirstie Czerek; Madeleine St Clair Darby; Emma Alice Henderson; Elayna Hirst; Kirsty Huband; Anna Helen Hutchison; Sophie Louise Kelman; Briony Kennedy; Regan Forbes Kyle; Monica Leung; Jennifer Livingstone; Ellen Bridget MacGregor; Ciara MacKenzie; Morven MacSween; Lucia Salera Marinello; Martin Ross Masson; Olivia McDonald; Kelly McEwan; Laura Moir; Sophie Murray; Katie O’Shea; Chloe Jade Robertson; Michelle Robertson; Katherine Jane Scrimgeour; Grace Flora Sinclair; Ailish Isabella Smith; Klaudia Dorota Szygenda; Sarah Dominique Traurig; Grace Melissa Upton; Reti Vainokivi; Lynsey Stewart Vaughan; Kirsty Georgina Whyte

BACHELOR OF ARTS INTERNATIONAL HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT - HONOURS - Filip Bieniecki; Flora Bruce; Jessica Felix; Cheryl Hogg; Calum Andrew Johnstone; Monika Jozonyte; Jana Kalendová; Colleen MacRae; Luke McRobbie; Undram Munkhbat; Craig Smith; Martijn Ter Beek

BACHELOR OF ARTS INTERNATIONAL TOURISM MANAGEMENT - HONOURS - Michele Louise Alexander; Claudine Davidson; Katerina Drabkova; Fiona Annabelle Margaret Ferrier; Adriana Hegyiova; Gemma Henderson; Charlotte Emma Jackson; Katherine Louise James; Zofia Jeffreys; Katie Rhiannan Marie McFarlane; Corrina Leigh Naismith; Vivien Penzes; Dominic Berry Pitts; Stephanie Fiona Plumb; Balazs Pongracz; Alexander Evgeniev Rusinov; Chimene Samson; Kirsty Jane Shand; Jennifer Louise Taylor; Martin Widerlechner; Daniel James Wills

BACHELOR OF ARTS JOURNALISM - HONOURS - Calum David Farquhar; Kieran Ferguson; Jennifer Catherine MacLeod Fraser; Philippa Gerrard; Jordan Alexander Higgins; Thomas James Irvine; Lauren Ashleigh Kane; Kirstie Marshall; Christopher Paul Martin; Kyle Martin; Daniel McKay; Jack Peter Jack Milner; Ben Alexander Philip; Mark Alexander Ranken; Emily Susan Clayton Smith; Niall James Glashan Smith; Joseph Rowland Barnett Sutherland; Amy Victoria Tait; Yvonne Rose Taylor; Rachel Treasurer; Yasmin Louise Worrall

BACHELOR OF ARTS LAW AND MANAGEMENT - HONOURS - Elsa Bisset; Chloe Cornthwaite; Andrew Cross; Rachel Digney; Natalie Donald; Claire Jane Drysdale; Holly Durno; Kimberly Ewen; Katrina Gibbon; Anna Grab; Michael Hay; Rebecca Jayne Inglis; Kelsay Ingram; Daniel William Ironside; David Jamieson; Rachel Kerr; Ruth MacKay; Sarah McNeil; Angela Katherine McTavish; Steven Mills; Hilary Mitchell; Kieren Sean Murphy; Lauren Smith; Lisa Smith; Callum Troup

BACHELOR OF ARTS MANAGEMENT WITH MARKETING - HONOURS - Christopher Ian Carling

BACHELOR OF ARTS MEDIA - HONOURS - Simon Angus Bell; Scott Brown; Andrew Murray Carle; Rebecca Katie Davies; Lucy Jane Derry; Andrew Curtis Greens; Madeleine Dalma Holmes; Neil Victor Johnston; Katie Keilloh; Daniel Lewis Koss; Michelle Lawrie; Bryony Breanna Magubane; Brian Antoni Maitland; Georgina Ellen McGurk; Charlotte Jean McPhee; Katie Alice Milne; Lauren Elizabeth Mitchell; Jamie Robertson; Darryl Smith; Gemma Katie Stewart; Efia Olufumike Sulter; Rebecca Alice Yeoman

BACHELOR OF LAWS - HONOURS - Gillian Emma Allan; Danny Sean Anderson; Demi Louise Beattie; Lindsay Marie Black; Rachel Amy Brown; Sarah Brown; Sarah Elizabeth Callaghan; Claire Louise Campbell; Arfah Javed Chaudry; Niels Davidson; Robert David Edgar; Amy Catherine Gordon; Sarah Jade Gorski; Joseph Gray; Paige Phemi Grossi; James Alexander Guyan; Rachel Christina Hannah; Katie Hobkirk; Yasmine Homayoun-Valiani; Farrah Iyyaz; Jade Louise Gail Jones; Rhian Elin Jones; Jade Kennedy; Aisling Knapton; Konrad Lichodziejewski; Craig James Low; Rory MacLure; Hollie McDicken; Daniel McFarlane; Kirstie McKerron; Duncan Alexander Stuart Milne; Uchenna Lynda Nwankwo; Brittany Louise Robson; Dominika Aleksandra Rogolska; Brogan Lindsay Shirreffs; Victoria Reeves Tomlinson; Regan Elizabeth Turner; Cory Ilona Vornanen; Neal Wallace; Jennifer Elizabeth Watt; Erin Welsh

BACHELOR OF ARTS EVENTS MANAGEMENT - Sarah Louise Grant; Andrea McPhee; Aiste Miliauskaite; Vladimir Pavel; Megan Sarah Wisely; Holly Jane Worthington

BACHELOR OF ARTS FASHION MANAGEMENT - Chloe Bowman; Jacqueline Sarah Foley; Ashleigh Kim Gray; Jennifer Alison Innes; Stephanie McCartney; Katharine Ann McKean; Elaine Margaret Porter; Metta Ramsay; Alexis Wallace Saunders; Kirsty Helen Stewart

BACHELOR OF ARTS GLOBAL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT - Dunja Imran Alsous; Hoi Lam Chan; Kit Ling Cheung; Wing Ki Chu; Xueyun Feng; Victoria Thi Thu Huong Nguyen; Xiao Min Siau; In-Hyup Song; Chivin Var; Yingying Zhang; Yue Zhang

BACHELOR OF ARTS HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT - Debashis Biswas

BACHELOR OF ARTS HOTEL AND HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT - Warren Allan Aurokium; Maryna Brodava; Hao Han Chen; Zhi Xiang Chiew; Vui Jung Chong; Ting Ting Chung; Artur Grigoryev; Nicolle Heinimann; Ngai Hei Hui; Jiah Jeon; Priyamvad Kelkar; Adisorn Khanijou; Eidelweiss Kintanie; Mary Kobler; Yiu Sum Kwok; Kai Lo Lai; Paola Vettorazzi Lantzendörffer; Yik Lam Issac Lau; Kyeong Min Lee; Chio Man Leong; Pinnie Jee Ting Liew; Ka Ho Lo; Sushma Pandey; Jongyun Park; Kontorn Prayote; Yuval Riegler; Anna Samoylenko; Tanik Supavakin; Li Min Tai; Napaporn Thoma; Michael Lab-Kin Tsang; Ming Yan Tsang; Pik Ying Wan; Hei Tung Wong; Hiu Yan Wong; Suki Wong; Tsz Ho Jun Wong; Wailam Wong; Luying Xie; Yan Yan Yip; Ka Hei Yiu; Taco Yuhong Zhou

BACHELOR OF ARTS INTERNATIONAL HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT - Man Yuen Cheng; Emily Evans; Pia Marianne Jalonen; Shannan Spickler

BACHELOR OF ARTS INTERNATIONAL TOURISM MANAGEMENT - Ewan Bain; Anikó Balogh; Sophie Beckley; Natalie Bradford

BACHELOR OF ARTS JOURNALISM - Ferne Pirie

BACHELOR OF ARTS LAW AND MANAGEMENT - Rosa Maria Becci; Ashleigh Connon; Rosie Jessica Gray; Jade Ritchie; Gillen Simpson; Joanne Wallace; Vanessa Stephen Watt

BACHELOR OF ARTS MEDIA - Peter Nicol Arthur Mitchell Reid; Ellie Louise Sinclair

BACHELOR OF ARTS PUBLIC RELATIONS - Katrina Lydia Murray

BACHELOR OF LAWS - Gavin Gerard Burton; Rhea Frame; Gemma Jane Girling; Debbie Henderson; Kay Jenks; Inglis Edward Lyon; Jonathan Grant MacIver; Louise Ferguson Meighan; Donald Angus Morrison; Karen Margaret Poke; Adam Paul Scragg; Claire Sigsworth; Brian Alexander Young

DIPLOMA OF HIGHER EDUCATION EVENTS MANAGEMENT - Rebecca Watson