Timber emerges as rural boom industry
Figures released yesterday confirmed the Scottish timber industry is enjoying a boom time, with harvesting at its highest recorded level yet.The most recent figures show seven-and-a-half million cubic...
View ArticleTFF body set up to review rent practices
THE Tenant Farming Forum (TFF), which comprises of representatives from all the major organisations involved in the tenanted sector of Scottish landholding, yesterday announced the establishment of an...
View ArticleMinisters to boycott Euro 2012 games
UK MINISTERS are boycotting the initial stages of the Euro 2012 football championship over concerns about human rights in Ukraine.The Foreign Office said the government “fully supported” the England...
View ArticleSNP set to scrap right to buy council homes in Scotland
The “right to buy” for tenants in council houses could be abolished in Scotland, under Scottish Government plans.Introduced as a flagship policy by the Thatcher government in the 1980s, it has seen...
View ArticlePM: Urgent action needed on eurozone but UK won’t underwrite debts
DAVID Cameron has warned that “urgent action is needed” over the eurozone crisis, after he held crunch talks yesterday in Berlin with German chancellor Angela Merkel.The Prime Minister claimed further...
View ArticleDalai Lama to see rare shots of his youth
RARE photographs of the Dalai Lama taken almost 50 years and later donated to a Scots university are to be presented to the spiritual leader of Tibet when he visits Scotland later this month.This...
View Article‘We’ll fight on’ vow Scottish women as breast implant inquiry rejected
WOMEN affected by faulty silicone breast implants have vowed to continue their fight for a public inquiry after their call was rejected by the Health Secretary.Campaigners hoped to convince the Health...
View ArticleBarley crops planted by Orkney’s Vikings ‘the healthiest in UK’
SCOTTISH researchers are embarking on a ground-breaking study to test the theory that ancient varieties of oats and barley, still being grown in the Northern Isles, have more nutritional value than...
View ArticleSurvey reveals nine in ten used cars sold privately are dodgy
USED-car buyers are being urged to check carefully before purchase after a recent investigation revealed nearly nine in ten vehicles examined had a shady past.Such “hidden histories” among models being...
View ArticleMinister was sinister and threatening, says teaching union chief
THE president of Scotland’s largest teaching union has launched a scathing attack on education secretary Michael Russell, accusing him of being “sinister” and “threatening”.• EIS president Alan Munro...
View ArticleThe Scotsman cartoon 08/06/2012
Our cartoonist depicts the latest in the independence debate for today’s effort.Illustration by Iain Green
View ArticleMarkets: FTSE up, but rates boost loses steam
TRADERS’ optimism following a surprise cut in Chinese interest rates ebbed away towards the end of yesterday’s session after US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke gave few hints on whether more...
View ArticleSantos report may benefit Scots farmers
Members of the European Parliament agriculture committee are continuing to express their unhappiness with the commissions’ proposals on reforming the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), writes Andrew...
View ArticleJohn Swinney scraps Stamp Duty in Scotland for ‘fairer tax’
STAMP Duty is to be scrapped in Scotland in the most radical overhaul of the taxation system since devolution, the Scottish Government has announced.Finance secretary John Swinney yesterday said the...
View ArticleLegionnaires’ outbreak: Two new suspects in search for source
TESTS are being conducted at two new industrial sites in Edinburgh as the search for the source of a fatal outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease continued. A dozen people remain critically ill in hospital...
View ArticleImage of Scotland: The remains of an old jetty on Mersehead Sands
Walter Baxter from Galashiels took this photograph of old wooden posts – the remains of an old jetty – on Mersehead Sands on the Solway Coast.{http://www.facebook.com/#!/scotsmanonline|View more images...
View ArticleLeader: The voice of doom has to find an alternative
THERE was a poignant political irony in the words chosen by George Osborne, in his Mansion House speech last night, to express where be believes we stand economically. Some 15 years after New Labour...
View ArticleJuliet Dunlop: There’s always a market for bad taste
‘It’s all in the best possible taste” was the catchphrase of the late Kenny Everett’s most popular character, Cupid Stunt. She was a flirtatious American chat show host with a past, who with just one...
View ArticleFarming: Seeking the invisible
With its ability to conceal symptoms for a number of years and for allowing the infected animals go into periods of remission, Johne’s disease has been called the “invisible” disease, despite a recent...
View ArticleFarming: Beefing up key sector is vital to the future
The importance of Scotland’s beef industry contributing as it does 25 per cent of total agricultural output in this country, was stressed at a sector meeting this week.On the table was a report...
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