Scottish Independence: Inquiry into row over Alex Salmond’s EU ‘legal advice’...
An independent inquiry will be held into the row surrounding Alex Salmond over legal advice on EU membership, the First Minister today confirmed.• Probe over ministerial code after Salmond branded...
View ArticleInterview: Alice Cooper on his upcoming Edinburgh gig
WhO better than Alice Cooper to put on a gig to celebrate Hallowe’en? After all, the original shock rocker has been provoking people for more than 40 years with his outrageous make-up and gory set...
View ArticleWoman dies after Restalrig flat fire
A WOMAN in her 30s has died after a fire in a high-rise flat in the Capital. Firefighters were called to Nisbet Court in Restalrig at around 10.40am to a report of a fire in a flat on the 14th floor of...
View ArticleKaren Koren: Is Capital New Year party set to fade?
THE clocks will be going back this weekend . . . winter begins! I’m dreading it. We have been told that it will be like the year before last, lots of snow and a white Christmas.My grandkids cheered...
View ArticlePolice launch criminal probe after men treated for cyanide poisoning
Police are carrying out a criminal investigation after two men on a private estate in the Western Isles were treated for suspected cyanide poisoning.• Poison though to have been stored for pest control...
View ArticleEdinburgh Online Fashion Week: Nicci N
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 ArticleIsland Of The Week: Scalpay, Outer Hebrides
This week we take a look at Scalpay.Location: Outer HebridesPopulation: 320Gaelic name: Sgalpaigh na HearadhHistory: The Island is known to have been visited by Bonnie Prince Charlie.In 1997, the ferry...
View ArticleTom Peterkin: The First Minister has made his position absolutely clear, so...
THERE is a super new game being played by some of the more juvenile inhabitants in the corridors of Holyrood. The rules of this verbal parlour game, which might liven up a third-rate Christmas Day, are...
View ArticleGeorge Kerevan: Don’t count economic chickens too soon, David
IF Cameron thinks Britain has turned a corner, he should think again. The truth is, the UK economy has flatlined, writes George KerevanDAVID Cameron must be thinking there is a God after all. Last week...
View ArticleHeather Gray: Helping young entrepreneurs is good way to create jobs
John Swinney’s announcement of a new £1 million Dragons’ Den-style fund for entrepreneurs is another sign that the Scottish Government, along with the private sector, recognises the need to support...
View ArticleRecession ends – but that’s no help for 1,400 Ford workers
THE decision by Ford to end 101 years of vehicle assembly in the UK yesterday highlighted serious doubts over the strength of the economy – despite gross domestic product figures showing that the...
View ArticleAnalysis: Goodbye to the double-dip, but future prospects are not looking at...
We ARE no longer in a double-dip recession. The quarter-on-quarter growth rate was 1 per cent, the fastest rate of growth since 2007. This news is consistent with the jobs market data which show...
View ArticleBreast screening ‘damages women’s lives’
The UK breast screening programme may be damaging more women’s lives than it saves and should be scrapped, according to a professor.A BBC Radio Scotland investigation heard from health professionals...
View ArticleFarming: Championship time for Scottish ploughing
This coming weekend the focus of competitive ploughing in Scotland will turn to the Scottish Ploughing Championships to be held at Coldstream Mains and Lennel Estate, Coldstream.World conventional...
View ArticleFarming: Scotland rising to a meaty challenge
After four days of meeting their customers at the SIAL food fair in Paris, Scottish meat exporters yesterday used one word to describe the current market in Europe – “challenging”.Laurent Vernet, the...
View ArticleAnalysis: Ukraine is a lapsed democracy we must bring back to the fold
UKRAINE’S parliamentary elections on Sunday will be neither free nor fair. Eight unproductive years after the 2004 Orange Revolution, its democratic opposition is demoralised. Yet the elections may...
View ArticleImages of Scotland: Dining companions in Peebles
A robin and a mouse were dining companions in Ian Campbell’s back garden in Peebles – they even seemed to play hide and seek in the hedge on the same day{http://www.facebook.com/#!/scotsmanonline|View...
View ArticleThe Scotsman cartoon 26/10/12
The Olympic dream is slipping away from the ConservativesIllustration Iain Green
View ArticleScottish Business Briefing - Friday 26 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. ECONOMICSRecession ends – but that’s no help...
View ArticleBond helicopters resume some Super Puma flights following Monday’s ditching
BOND Helicopters has become the first of the North Sea’s three major helicopter companies to partially resume Super Puma crew change flights following Monday’s ditching of a CHC-operated aircraft.•...
View Article