Human trafficking rise leads to calls for tougher laws
TOUGHER laws punishing human traffickers with longer sentences are being planned by the Scottish Government.Justice secretary Kenny MacAskill said he wants to send out the message that “Scotland is...
View ArticleGraham O’Neill: Scotland needs to take responsibility for human trafficking
Professor Tom Devine was right to describe the Edinburgh Agreement between the Scottish and UK Governments, which paves the way for a referendum on independence, as the most important political date...
View ArticleJudge to probe wider use of filming in Scottish courts
A NEW review which could lead to cameras being more widely used in court has been launched by Scotland’s most senior judge.Lord Gill, Lord President of Scotland’s judiciary, has announced the...
View ArticleDavid Cameron risks Tory rage over EU bank call
PRIME Minister David Cameron risked infuriating his own party last night as he called on European leaders to take swift action towards creating banking union in the eurozone.The comments made at a...
View ArticleSavile victim calls for dead star to be stripped of title
Yet another alleged victim of Jimmy Savile has come forward – and has demanded that he loses his knighthood.The woman claims to have met the BBC DJ at a Manchester disco in 1966 when she was just 15...
View ArticleNasa’s Mars chief hails Glenelg celebration
THE director of Nasa’s Mars exploration programme said it “really warmed his heart” to know residents of a small Highland village will be celebrating the Curiosity Rover reaching its namesake...
View ArticleMinister warns of terror strikes when UK is ‘not on the ball’
Terrorists who want to harm the UK are “waiting for the moment when we take our eye off the ball”, the security minister has said.The emergency services need to be better prepared to tackle a lone...
View ArticlePolice strike ballot ‘signals a loss of trust’
The former head of the Metropolitan Police has called for action to tackle a breakdown in trust between officers and the Government.Lord Blair of Broughton said the Police Federation was intending to...
View ArticleGig review: The D.O.T, King Tut’s, Glasgow
SOUNDING like the kind of under-the-radar electronic bedroom project you might imagine first encountering late at night via a pirate radio station, The D.O.T. essentially takes Mike Skinner full-circle...
View ArticleGig review: Brodsky Quartet, Merchant House, Glasgow
IT WAS an ambitious and wide-ranging programme that the Brodsky Quartet players had chosen for their lunchtime concert, part of the enterprising fortnightly series in Glasgow’s Merchant’s Hall. And...
View ArticleGig review: Scissor Sisters, Glasgow Barrowland
NEW York’s favourite underground party band crossed over to the mainstream years ago but there is still a gleefully subversive streak to their schtick.It shows when they dress up in punky couture or...
View ArticleScottish Business Briefing – Friday 19 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.BANKINGFSA ‘failed in its duty to public’ over...
View ArticleExpenses row: 27 MPs let out London homes while claiming taxpayers’ money to...
MPs were embroiled in a new expenses row today after it emerged that 27 are letting out London homes at the same time as claiming public money to rent in the city.• 27 MPs let London property while...
View ArticleInterview: Benh Zeitlin, director of Beasts of the Southern Wild
“I DON’T want to make movies with the Hollywood system, I think it’s a tired way of making films,” asserted Benh Zeitlin, following the Cannes screening of Beasts of the Southern Wild. As the film is...
View ArticleExchange rates hurt Aggreko
Shares in temporary power provider Aggreko dived by more than 6 per cent in early trading after it warned that bad debt provision and adverse exchange rates would take the edge of its performance this...
View ArticleNorthern Isles ferry operator to axe 36 jobs
The new operator of the lifeline ferry service to the Northern Isles is planning to axe up to to 36 jobs.• Serco Northlink Ferries have announced they plan to cut up to 36 jobs• The company have also...
View ArticleJohn Gibson: Honey, I’ve shrunk the fish suppers
HOLY mackerel! The scales of injustice. Have you heard the mind-bending news? Fish will be quarter the size by 2050.Logically, a fish supper then will cost quarter of what it costs today. Aye, right...
View ArticleAnti-gay marriage campaign of ex-SNP chief branded ‘disgrace’
A FORMER SNP leader has been branded “disgraceful” after repeating claims that moves to legalise same-sex marriage put Scotland in danger of “lurching down the road towards fascism”.Ex-MP Gordon Wilson...
View ArticleHolyrood plan to change law over Portobello school
EDUCATION chiefs are to call for a change in the law to allow a long-awaited new high school to be built on Portobello Park.The city council has said its preferred option remains developing the new...
View ArticleMourners pay tribute to Jeni Ayris
An aviation worker killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan had a “heart big enough to bring everyone together”.Jeni Ayris, 47, was killed alongside 11 fellow aviation workers in September after a...
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