Grants top $10m as SE invests to promote job growth in Scotland
Some 1,100 jobs are expected to be created or safeguarded in the wake of more than £10 million of grant funding, it emerged yesterday.Scottish Enterprise said regional selective assistance (RSA) grants...
View ArticleCommission backs Tobin tax plan for Europe
THE European Commission has thrown its weight behind plans from ten countries to launch a financial transactions tax to help tackle the sovereign debt crisis.The nations, which include France, Germany,...
View ArticleInvestors demand heads after failed BAE merger
Defence giant BAE Systems faces a war on two fronts as shareholders large and small demand that heads roll following its failed attempt to merge with European peer EADS.A group of investors, including...
View ArticleComment: Hester will have to fight to hold on to Citizens
STEPHEN Hester has continually stated he doesn’t want to sell US business Citizens Financial Group, but the Royal Bank of Scotland boss must wonder if anyone is listening or whether he will have the...
View ArticleHacking claims rock Trinity
SHARES in newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror dropped 10 per cent yesterday after four celebrities filed legal claims accusing the group’s tabloid titles of phone hacking.The Daily Mirror owner fell...
View ArticleKing admits quantitative easing is needed but is hurting savers
BANK of England governor Sir Mervyn King last night raised the prospect of more money being pumped into the struggling British economy next month.However, King admitted that, while the £375 billion...
View ArticleUKFI adds to pressure on Royal Bank to sell US operation Citizens
ROYAL Bank of Scotland has come under further pressure to sell its Citizens division in the US and make more cuts to its investment banking business.The future of Citizens was re-ignited yesterday...
View ArticleAileen Campbell: Young people leaving care need every support
TODAY marks the start of National Care Leavers Week, the annual event raising awareness about the needs of youngsters preparing to leave the care system and live independently.As Scotland’s minister...
View ArticleObituary: Flt Lt William Walker; last surviving Spitfire pilot from the...
Born: 23 August, 1913, in London. Died: 21 October, 2010 in Staffordshire, aged 99.In August 1940 at the height of the Battle of Britain, Flight Lieutenant William Walker and his colleagues from No 616...
View ArticleNight vision: Scotland Tonight celebrates a year on air
SCOTLAND Tonight, STV’s nightly current affairs show, is one year old today. Alice Wyllie meets its two presenters and finds they have plenty to celebrate after being lauded by viewers and critics from...
View ArticlePeel Hotels hits ‘bottom of the cycle’
Peel Hotels, the Aim-quoted firm that owns properties including the King Malcolm Hotel in Dunfermline, believes it has hit the “bottom of the economic cycle” after profits rose by 10 per cent in the...
View ArticleIain Gray: Scotland’s best economic asset is under threat
BREAKING away from the UK would see us lose funding for sciences such as physics. Can the SNP bridge the gap?, asks Iain Gray.Drawing a contrast between myself and Alex Salmond, I once pointed out that...
View ArticleThe Scotsman cartoon 24/10/2012
A BAD day for Alex Salmond and the SNP is reflected in today’s cartoonIllustration by Iain Green
View ArticleMarkets: Footsie suffers on feelings of gloom
A BOUT of selling sparked by weak corporate updates and a downgrade to Spanish regional debt saw the Footsie give up its recent gains yesterday.The biggest fall in almost a month wiped 85 points off...
View ArticleGig review: Don McLean, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Don McLean’s shows last year were undermined by a saccharine duet with his daughter, windy exposition of the stories behind the songs and a perfunctory rendition of American Pie. Fortunately, there...
View ArticleRaid on illegal eggs stash led officers to accused Scot’s home
A RAID on a house in England which contained thousands of bird eggs led police to a box bearing the name and address of an Inverness man accused of illegally trading eggs, a court has heard.Wildlife...
View ArticleIllegal immigrant wins court backing
Home Secretary Theresa May has lost the latest round of a fight to deport an illegal immigrant, who was given permission to visit the UK for a month when he arrived more than 12 years ago.The Court of...
View ArticleHigh badger numbers force cull U-turn
THE UK government has been forced into a fresh U-turn after it had to abandon attempts to have a badger cull in England.Environment Secretary Owen Paterson had announced a badger cull earlier this...
View ArticleJustice at risk say rights group
HUMAN rights group Justice Scotland is the latest voice to speak out against the abolition of corroboration.It joined judges, lawyers and police in urging the Scottish Government to dismiss Lord...
View ArticleLabour attacks failure to meet emissions targets
Scotland has failed to meet its first legally binding climate change target.The first Scottish Greenhouse Gas Emissions Annual Target Report states that Scotland emitted 54.7 megatons of carbon...
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