Farming: Call for £5m scheme to protect plants
The UK government is being urged to support a proposal for the EU to create an annual £5 million budget for specialist plant protection products.Pesticide manufacturers are deterred from developing new...
View ArticleFarming: Supermarkets ‘are ignoring Scottish lamb’
Asda and Tesco have come under fire from Scottish sheep farmers for failing to give their full support to Scotch lamb at the peak of the marketing season.An impromptu survey by NFU Scotland has found a...
View ArticleFarming: MEPs reject eight-hour journey limit
The European Parliament’s agricultural committee has rejected calls for an eight-hour journey time limit for animals destined for slaughter.In confused voting on a non-legislative report on animal...
View ArticleDrink driver who caused fatal fireball crash has ban lifted two years early
A drink-driver who caused a motorway fireball crash in which a couple died has been allowed back behind the wheel two years ahead of schedule so he can get a job.• Man was already serving driving ban...
View ArticleScottish independence: Salmond accused of tossing aside 26,000 views on...
ALEX Salmond is under fresh pressure to publish the results of the referendum consultation just days before he is expected to agree a deal with David Cameron on how the independence vote will be...
View ArticleThe Scotsman cartoon 12/10/12
The independence referendum consultation features in today’s cartoon.Illustration Iain Green
View ArticleRangers analysis: Financiers will take a lot of convincing
CHARLES Green, chief executive of The Rangers Football Club, talks a good game. He will need to if he is to get institutional investors and fans on board for what looks to be a high-wire new Stock...
View ArticleScottish Business Briefing - Friday 12 October, 2012
WELCOME to scotsman.com’s Scottish Business Briefing. Every morning we bring you a comprehensive round-up of all news affecting business in Scotland today. BANKINGSmall investors hold key share as...
View ArticleScotland’s weather: east of Scotland badly hit by flooding
SCOTLAND has been hit with 24 hours of torrential rain with the east of the country particularly affected. • East of Scotland worst affected by poor weather with numerous incidents reported• Amber...
View ArticlePassengers evacuated from plane at Glasgow Airport
Around 60 passengers had to leave a plane by emergency chutes after the cabin began to fill with smoke.• The plane had landed as normal and passengers were disembarking when smoke began to fill the...
View ArticleEnergy Assets reveals £13.5 million deal with Russian energy giant
Gas metering firm Energy Assets has struck a “transformational” £13.5 million deal to buy part of Russian energy giant Gazprom.
View ArticleHunt for sex attacker who assaulted two women on Princes Street
Police are hunting a man who indecently assaulted two women in the city centre last night.A 20-year-old woman was waiting at the bus stop at the Mound on Princes Street about 8.15pm when a man...
View ArticleFirefighters called out almost once a week to rescue overweight Scots
FIREFIGHTERS are called out almost once a week to rescue obese Scots who are too overweight to move themselves.Figures released under Freedom of Information show there have been at least 224...
View ArticleCreation of ‘super college’ to break mergers budget
THE creation of Edinburgh’s new “super college” is set to cost more than £17 million, breaking the total budget given by the Scottish Government for college mergers across Scotland. Edinburgh College –...
View ArticleBrian Monteith: Without boom, Cameron’s bust
It was the Prime Minister’s birthday on Tuesday and Boris Johnson was at hand to give him his dumps. It could have been carnage but Boris, being a scholar of the classics, knows that he who wields the...
View ArticleLecturers set to vote for strike action
LECTURERS across Edinburgh and the Lothians are set to take strike action following a dispute over their pay. The country’s largest union for teachers and lecturers – the Educational Institute of...
View ArticleSusan Morrison: Nessie lets the side down on Highlands tourist trail
Just north of Oban I realised I was sceneried out. There are just so many hills, glens and lochs a girl can take before scenery fatigue kicks in. No wonder we get tourists, though. For a small country...
View ArticleEdinburgh-born M&S lingerie designer Libby Allan is big in the world of smalls
IF there is one woman in Edinburgh who never discovers upon the opening of her underwear drawer that it’s stuffed with greying pants and bras so mangled that bits of wire poke through the material,...
View Article‘No restrictions would hit the city’s coffers’
SO the cash-strapped city council had 50,000 reasons to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee weekend.As thousands of city residents enjoyed street parties, or simply took advantage of an extended...
View Article‘Work-to-rule’ bin men blamed for waste crisis
DISGRUNTLED bin men have been blamed for adding to the on-going rubbish collection chaos by staging an unofficial “work-to-rule” protest.A “small group” of workers has been accused of refusing to lift...
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