Laser pen incident at Inverness airport prompts police warning
Northern Constabulary have issued an urgent warning about the reckless use of laser pens, following an incident involving a flight into Inverness airport.A laser pen was shone into the cockpit of a...
View ArticleIn pictures: Halloween treats for safari park animals
Animals at Blair Drummond Safari park have been getting into the spirit of Halloween with pumpkins stuffed with their favourite foods.The carved puumpkins were filled with the animals’ favourite foods,...
View ArticleLeader: ‘MacAskill may be able to convince MSPs’
Today’s story that Edinburgh City Council is continuing to push ahead on several fronts to build a new high school for Portobello should be welcomed by all of those who want the best for our...
View ArticleAberdeen bypass scheme forges ahead
Transport Scotland has taken the first steps towards the start of construction of the long-awaited Aberdeen bypass.• The agency has published a Prior Information Notice today, indicating the start of...
View ArticleSusan Morrison: I’ve come clean – I’m no fan of big Highland soap operas
DEAR city. I will never leave you again. I return from the vastness of the islands, glens and mountains and do solemnly swear I shall never again stray beyond mobile phone signal reach. There are...
View ArticleBrian Monteith: More hilarious than historic
It is being called the Edinburgh Agreement – but it could be called the Edinburgh Capitulation or the Edinburgh Climbdown. I write of course about the historic signing of papers that ensure that...
View ArticleBank’s boost for talented St Crispin’s
A special school in the Capital is celebrating after winning thousands of pounds to transform and upgrade their art department.St Crispin’s School on Watertoun Road beat off stiff competition from...
View ArticleFamily of missing Bathgate woman appeal for information
THE family of the missing Bathgate pensioner Irene McCawley today appealed for information that can help trace the 77-year-old. In a statement released on behalf of her family, her son James McCawley...
View ArticleSNP conference: Scotland’s recession ‘made in London’ claims John Swinney
INDEPENDENCE will end the “economic mismanagement” of successive Westminster Governments which has plunged Scotland into recession, finance Secretary John Swinney told the SNP conference today.• John...
View ArticleGlasgow airport incident: Passengers describe panic during plane emergency
FIVE people were taken to hospital and a further 15 were treated at the scene after an emergency situation on board a Jet2 plane led to the evacuation of all 189 passengers at Glasgow Airport.• 189...
View ArticleBank of Scotland fined £4.2m over inaccurate customer mortgage records
BANK of Scotland was fined £4.2 million by the City regulator today for holding inaccurate mortgage records for 250,000 of its customers.• Bank relied on incorrect records for ‘considerable periods of...
View ArticleSNP conference: How the party’s stance on Nato has turned
AT THEIR party conference today, members of the Scottish National Party will be asked to support a U-turn on Nato membership in an independent Scotland.The party has opposed the alliance for over 30...
View ArticleGirls Aloud announce ten-year-anniversary comeback plans
Cheryl Cole, Kimberley Walsh, Nicola Roberts, Nadine Coyle and Sarah Harding gave a press conference today to announce their reunion plans for Girls Aloud’s 10th anniversary.The girlband will release a...
View ArticleCameron hits back at critics accusing the UK of lack of EU involvement
Prime Minister David Cameron today denied that Britain was failing to “pull its weight” in Europe, amid claims that the UK was marginalised by its refusal to get involved in reforms to shore up the...
View ArticleIs Google share slump a sign of wider malaise in the tech world?
THE premature release of third-quarter earnings wiped as much as $22billion off Google’s share price before trading was halted yesterday, bringing the search-engine giant’s market capitalisation below...
View ArticleSNP conference: Latest updates as party prepares to vote on Nato
DELEGATES at the Scottish National Party’s conference in Perth are set to vote on whether to overturn the Nationalist’s opposition to Nato.• Defence: SNP delegates to vote on whether party should...
View ArticleEdinburgh Online Fashion Week on Scotsman.com from Monday 22 October
Edinburgh Online Fashion Week will be broadcasting pre-filmed runway shows three times a day over five days, from Monday 22 October to Friday 26 October, and you can watch them all here on...
View ArticleGig review: Mary Chapin Carpenter & Shawn Colvin, Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Billed as ‘An Acoustic Evening With...’, this shared-stage double bill is the fruit of some 30 years’ friendship and frequent past collaborations between two US singer-songwriters – now with eight...
View ArticleGig review: Tim Burgess, Oran Mor, Glasgow
BEST recognised as frontman of Mancunian baggy-era originals The Charlatans, Tim Burgess is a bit of an indie Peter Pan figure. Well, at least his hair never seems to age. At this show, in support of...
View ArticleGig review: Bat For Lashes, HMV Picturehouse, Edinburgh
Although the emergence of her debut album came in 2006, three years before that of Florence + the Machine, the latter’s Florence Welch has since outstripped Bat For Lashes.London-raised...
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