Full list of Pearson Teaching Awards 2012
Here is a list of the winners at the Pearson Teaching Awards 2012Award for Outstanding New Teacher of the Year - Dr Elizabeth Bailey, Clacton County High School, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.Dr Bailey began...
View ArticleThe Scotsman cartoon 22/10/12
The Scottish Government’s ongoing battle over trident and Nato gets the treatment in today’s cartoon.Illustration Iain Green
View ArticleChris Hoy: Britians most succesful Olympian on life after London 2012
SIR Chris Hoy has been using photographs taken on his smartphone as a sort of pocket scrapbook since the Olympics finished. His schedule over the past two months has been so packed, so hectic that...
View ArticleLeaders: A good conference but SNP still faces difficult decisions
IN KEY respects the SNP can be said to have had a good conference, deftly capitalising on the current confusion and disarray among the ranks of its opponents. First, it has voted to drop its...
View ArticleBrian Ferguson: Not so Brave missed chance for tourism
AS TENS of thousands of people working in the Scottish tourism industry can testify, this has been the year of Brave.The hoopla of hype surrounding Disney and Pixar’s fantasy adventure set in the...
View ArticleScottish independence: Row over SNP bid to ‘rig’ cash limits for referendum
THE SNP government is set to impose strict limits on spending during the independence referendum campaign, amid fears the Nationalists could be outspent by their pro-Union opponents.The move has...
View ArticleScottish independence: Trident could move to US or France, says Alex Salmond
ALEX Salmond has said Trident could be relocated to the US or France after independence, as he ruled out the prospect of a “Cyprus-style” leaseback scheme that would see the nuclear weapons system...
View ArticleAlbum review: 18 Months by Calvin Harris
What – apart from successful pop careers – do Rihanna, Florence Welch, Mary J Blige, Ellie Goulding, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Cheryl Cole, Kylie, Ke$ha and Kelis have in common? All have stepped into...
View ArticleScottish Business Briefing - Monday 22 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. ECONOMICSScottish firms hold better credit...
View ArticleRising costs dent Devro’s profit expectations
Shares in sausage skin-maker Devro fell this morning after it said rising raw material costs and adverse currency movements would eat into this years profits. The Moodiesburn-based firm said that...
View ArticleHooray for Holloway: Christina Hendricks
FORTY-EIGHT hours after all-round defeat, and still Christina Hendricks is smiling. “I thought it might go that way,” the woman best known as Mad Men’s Joan Holloway is saying. “Are you kidding me?”...
View ArticleBear Grylls to launch extreme survival academy in Sutherland
TV survival expert Bear Grylls is to launch his first survival academy in the Highlands next month.• Bear Grylls set to launch first survival academy in Sutherland• £3,000 course to take place in...
View ArticleJimmy Savile investigation: Newsnight editor ‘steps aside’ from role as BBC...
NEWSNIGHT editor Peter Rippon is “stepping aside with immediate effect” while the BBC reviews its response to the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal, the corporation said today.• Newsnight editor Peter...
View ArticleHelen Martin: Send the pesky bags packing
WITH a price tag of an extra £6.5 million – dear God, hasn’t the building cost enough already? – the new security extension on the Scottish Parliament which is already under construction seems to have...
View ArticleSchool catchments may be tweaked to encourage housing
School catchment areas in West Lothian are set to be re-drawn in a bid to move forward the development of much-needed housing. West Lothian Council has said the changes are needed to ensure development...
View ArticleManiac attacks war veteran in hospital bed assault
An investigation is under way after an 87-year-old war veteran was assaulted in hospital by a patient wielding a metal pole.Frail Philip Rutherford, 87, who suffered a broken hand in the attack, was...
View ArticleEdinburgh Sketcher: The Meadows
Sunday morning and an early walk across a misty, atmospheric and very beautiful Meadows Park.There’s an eery quietness to Edinburgh’s central park this morning, currently home to the dedicated joggers...
View ArticleEdinburgh Online Fashion Week: House of Fraser
Every day this week Scotsman.com will be streaming runway shows from Edinburgh Online Fashion Week, Scotland’s first exclusively digital fashion event. Covering high street to designer, boutique and...
View ArticleTalk of the Town: Giving ugly sisters a new Leith of life
EVER fancied treading the boards under stage lights? TOTT always hankered after an iconic leading role as Hamlet or MacBeth but were less enthused by an audition offer that dropped into the mailbox...
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