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Tesco and first offer cheap mortgages

Tesco Bank and First Direct led the way yesterday as homeowners were boosted by a flurry of mortgage rate cuts – although the cheap deals are on offer only to those with large deposits.The supermarket...

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Cash Clinic: People can still reject pensions auto-enrolment

Q I don’t currently use the pension scheme offered by the company I work for. But I’ve seen coverage lately of a new company pension plan where employees will be automatically signed up. I think it...

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Smart Money: Making a switch to low-risk assets may have its own particular...

Investors approaching retirement could be unwittingly putting their savings at risk even as they switch into low-risk assets, ­experts have warned. Fears are growing over the prospect of a bubble in...

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Consumer Watch: Crystal balls are gone, it’s science that predicts the future...

HE HAS a short attention span, an optimistic outlook and a tendency to absorb information from everyone he comes into contact with.William Higham, has always been “a great believer in people” and is,...

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Where there’s a will, there’s a way to control decisions

THE DANGERS of not writing a will are to be highlighted after new research reveals 40 per cent of Scots have not made any provision for what happens after they die. More than 28 million people in the...

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Man charged over murder of pensioner

A 21-year-old man has been charged in connection with the alleged murder of Robert (Ronnie) Simpson.Mr Simpson was found dead at his address in Mayfield Drive, Armadale on Saturday 6th October.The...

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Scotland on Sunday campaign: Evelyn Glennie ‘wouldn’t get music lessons today’

WORLD-renowned percussionist Evelyn Glennie would have missed out on the chance to learn an instrument at school under current education criteria, a new report claims.A study conducted by the...

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Games: XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Due to their format, turn-based tactical titles are usually a slow-paced plod to victory rather than a high octane shoot ’em up. XCOM: Enemy Unknown2K Games, PC/PS3/Xbox 360, £29.99-£37.99 (depending...

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Borders chic long in vogue with Chanel

IT was the deal that brought an extra touch of Parisian glamour to a Scottish Borders mill town.Chanel, one of the world’s biggest luxury brands, swooped last week to acquire the troubled Barrie...

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Debenhams poised to make life fabulous for investors

INVESTORS are in line for a double dose of good news from the fashion sector this week with solid full-year ­numbers expected from high street stalwart Debenhams and online darling Asos.Debenhams is...

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Fans of Robert Louis Stevenson urged to celebrate author’s life and work

IT WILL be Scotland’s answer to Bloomsday, the date in June when Dubliners take to the streets to commemorate James Joyce’s most famous novel ­Ulysses.Now fans of Robert Louis Stevenson are being...

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TV Review: Downton Abbey | Made in Chelsea | The Great British Bake-Off

SUNDAY evenings are about bouillon spoons and dinner jackets, clock winding and curdled hollandaise. They are Downton ­Abbey and the warm, fluffy cushion of a fairly silly period drama, a final sip of...

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Euan McColm: Attacking Britishness will only damage Nationalist cause

MORE than a decade ago, something occurred to the brightest young things in the SNP: the success of the party, and the broader independence movement, was completely dependent on their ability to...

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Landowner offers locals up to half of £12m profit share for permission to...

A LAIRD has offered to share up to half of a possible £12 million profit if residents allow a hydro-electric scheme to be built at a famous Scottish beauty spot. Donald Ogilvy Watson is ­offering the...

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Stuart Kelly: “The Booker admits the existence of nettles but prefers dahlias”

HILARY Mantel has won the Booker Prize for the second time, laying to rest the myth that it is only men from the Antipodes (JM Coetzee and Peter Carey) that can accomplish such a feat.Bring Up The...

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Panorama to revisit the Savile scandal

THE BBC is to broadcast a Panorama special examining Newsnight’s decision to drop a probe into Sir Jimmy Savile’s sexual abuse of children.The special programme is expected to be aired tomorrow but was...

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We owe it to ourselves to think through our arguments on independence

A NUMBER of years ago at an SNP branch meeting, the late and much missed Dr Allan Macartney suggested that it could be illuminating to get members at all levels to describe how they came to support the...

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Leaders: SNP’s ticking timebombs

THE Scottish National Party will celebrate its 80th anniversary in April 2014, the year in which it will finally fulfil its ambition to deliver a binding ­referendum on independence to the Scottish...

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Interview: Sparks gear up for return to Edinburgh with picturehouse gig

The Mael brothers tell Aidan Smith how the spirit of Bergman has helped them strip the gloss off their glam classicsIN RE-RUNNING Top Of The Pops edition by edition, the BBC is probably feeling quite...

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Former RBS director faces lawsuit threat

FORMER Royal Bank of ­Scotland finance director Guy Whittaker is to be ensnared in a multi-billion pound lawsuit lodged by a shareholder action group against the bank and other former board members.The...

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