Eric Pickles speech photo pokes fun at Osborne
ERIC Pickles has poked fun at George Osborne by tweeting a picture of himself working on a speech and eating a takeaway.The picture was redolent of one posted the night before the Chancellor delivered...
View ArticlePolice Scotland IT project cost could rise to £60m
THE cost of the police’s computer integration project could rise to a previously “unheralded” £60 million as it may see up to £6 million of staff redundancies.• The cost of Police Scotland IT...
View Article1 in 3 Scots graduates take retail or service jobs
NEARLY a third of graduates entering employment are finding work in non-professional jobs in the retail and service sectors, but earn more on average than their counterparts across the UK, according to...
View ArticleEIFF film review: For Those in Peril
YOU’D have to go back to Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher to find a Scottish debut displaying the kind of artistic conviction and promise that writer/director Paul Wright brings to bear on For Those in Peril....
View ArticleClassical review: The Hebrides Ensemble, Kirkwall
THE Hebrides Ensemble played two concerts on Wednesday, as part of this year’s St Magnus Festival. First, at lunchtime, came the annual Orkney composers’ course concert, one of the most satisfying...
View Article£6m in funds for hotel operator
Manorview Hotel & Leisure Group has bought the Busby Hotel in Clarkston and Greenock’s Redhurst Hotel after borrowing £6.25 million from Barclays through the Funding for Lending scheme run by the...
View ArticleScots firms get less than 1% of UK crowdfunding
SCOTTISH firms are missing out on millions of pounds of potential investment from “crowdfunding”, as a report shows that less than 1 per cent of money raised last year in the UK went to recipients...
View ArticleWind farm investor eyes £300m float to buy assets
RENEWABLES Infrastructure Group, an investment firm focusing on onshore wind and solar power assets, has unveiled plans to raise up to £300 million through a stock market flotation.The company said it...
View ArticlePinewood fears lack of space for Hollywood films
THE film studio used for up-coming Disney movie Maleficent has warned that rising demand for its facilities from Hollywood producers is leading to a capacity crunch.Pinewood Shepperton chief executive...
View ArticleChurch of England backing RBS branch bidder
A GROUP looking to snap up hundreds of Royal Bank of Scotland branches has been given a boost after the Church of England emerged yesterday as a financial backer.The Church’s Commissioners investment...
View ArticleOnline shopping rates to ‘plateau’ - report
INTERNET shopping is expected to plateau over the next few years, giving a much-needed reprieve for high streets, a new report has claimed.Colliers International’s 17th mid-summer retail report...
View ArticleShop failure won’t derail Hornby sales
Train sets and model maker Hornby has insisted that the failure of the ModelZone toy store chain will have a limited impact on its business.ModelZone, which has 47 stores across the UK, including three...
View ArticleBetfair put its money on simplified products
BETFAIR is attracting more gamblers to its website with simpler products, the online betting company said, defending its strategy after rejecting a £1 billion takeover bid.Chief executive Breon...
View ArticleDecisions going local
LAST night another two pieces in the CAP jigsaw were put in place and in both the final decision will rest with the Scottish Government. The first deals with the maximum amount of cash any farmer can...
View ArticleCAP reform – ‘now the hard work begins’
Any thoughts that decision-making on the new common agricultural policy (CAP) was all but done were dismissed yesterday by Jonny Hall, policy manager for NFU Scotland.“We are now at the end of the...
View ArticleOn this day: Mike Tyson bite | Wendy Alexander
EVENTS, anniversaries and birthdays for 28 June1461: Edward IV was crowned King of England.1682: Champagne was invented by Dom Perignon, a blind Benedictine cellarman at Hautvilliers Abbey, France,...
View ArticleFrom the archive: Self-Government
The Scotsman, 28 June 1948THE suggestion that Scottish Convention should sponsor the formation of an all-party committee charged with the task of inviting Sir John Boyd Orr to contest the anticipated...
View ArticleThe Scotsman cartoon - 28/06/13
George Osborne’s fracking plans feature in today’s cartoonIllustration by Iain Green
View ArticleLeaders: Shale gas | Free school fruit
TO Treasury minister Danny Alexander fell the ambiguous pleasure of announcing some of the biggest figures ever drawn up by a UK government for spending on infrastructure, transport projects and...
View ArticleMichael Fry: Lay out political future in words
THE era of the political journal seems to have ended, but there is still a need to encapsulate vision in a durable form, especially when it’s a good, nationalist, one, writes Michael FryThis week I...
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