Images of Scotland: Jura, Inner Hebrides
Cloud caps the hills of Jura, in the Inner Hebrides, in this photograph of the CalMac ferry heading for Kennacraig in the Sound of Jurataken by Galashiels-based reader Walter...
View ArticleScottish independence: Alistair Darling hails ‘true facts’ think tank launch
FORMER chancellor Alistair Darling has helped to launch a new think tank dedicated to providing Scots with the “true facts” about the nation’s future in the run-up to the 2014 independence...
View Article49th Legionnaires’ victim confirmed
ANOTHER person has contracted Legionnaires’ disease following the outbreak in Edinburgh. It brings the total number of confirmed cases to 49, while the number of suspected cases is 47, the Scottish...
View Article164,000 join fight to block extradition
More than 160,000 people have signed a petition launched by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to block the extradition of a British student to the United States on copyright charges.Richard O’Dwyer, 24,...
View ArticleCall for Barclays directors to pay back bonuses awarded to them since 2005
BONUSES paid to Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond and other top directors since 2005 should be clawed back, a major shareholder group said yesterday.The Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF),...
View ArticleBanks urged to use their billions to boost lending
PLANS to free up billions of pounds held by banks have been announced, to help kick-start lending in the latest attempt to ward off a tightening credit squeeze.The Bank of England said City regulators...
View Articlegame fair called off
ORGANISERS of the Scottish Game Fair, sponsored by The Scotsman, have been forced to cancel the weekend event due to heavy rain.The fair, at Scone Palace in Perthshire, was expected to attract up to...
View ArticlePartner of Chris Huhne in privacy case appeal bid
MP CHRIS Huhne’s partner, Carina Trimingham, has launched a bid to appeal against a High Court judge’s rejection of her privacy and harassment claim against Associated Newspapers.Her lawyer, Charlotte...
View ArticleAssange shuns surrender call and stays put in embassy
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange has refused to comply with a police request to surrender himself to officers, saying he will remain inside the Embassy of Ecuador while his application for political...
View ArticleNobel winner voted to chancellorship
A NOBEL peace prize winner and anti-poverty campaigner has been named chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University.Professor Muhammad Yunus succeeds Lord Macdonald of Tradeston, the journalist,...
View ArticleNational role for former council chief
THE former leader of North Ayrshire Council has been elected as president of the body representing local authorities.David O’Neill was appointed at a meeting of Cosla in Edinburgh, replacing Pat...
View ArticleDiamond’s crew in memorial salute
Sailors on board one of the Royal Navy’s newest warships have made a sea pilgrimage to the spot where a namesake ship sank during the Second World War.The Type 45 destroyer HMS Diamond visited the...
View ArticlePeer calls for ban on smoking in cars
Motorists should be banned from smoking in cars when children are present, a surgeon and Tory peer has said.Lord Ribeiro, a former president of the Royal College of Surgeons, said his attempt to change...
View ArticleFury after Wiseman slashes milk price
Rumours of Robert Wiseman Dairies dropping the price it paid for milk as from the beginning of August were confirmed yesterday, with the 1.7p per litre (ppl) reduction being blamed on the reduced cash...
View ArticleHarvest hopes damped down
Even although harvest is still well on the far horizon, crop experts are sure that this year will not be a vintage one as far as yields are concerned. Speaking prior to a series of cereals open days,...
View ArticleCall for pilot schemes to help city’s poorest
THE city council should look at special pilot schemes to help the Capital’s poorest citizens, former Lord Provost Eric Milligan has told fellow councillors.His call came after John Mulvey, once the...
View ArticleJohn Swinney: Build better bank system
The revelation that Barclays had, for several years, been rigging the rate at which it borrowed money and misleading the regulators about what it was doing is a financial scandal as large as those...
View ArticleArmed Forces Day
TODAY is the nation’s fourth Armed Forces Day – an annual opportunity to show support for the men and women who make up the armed forces community – serving troops, their families, veterans and...
View ArticleLatest case of legionnaires’ confirmed
ONE more case of legionnaires’ disease has been confirmed in the Capital as the toll of the deadly outbreak continues to rise.It brings the total of confirmed cases to 49, while the number of suspected...
View ArticlePrinces St cycle lane slammed as a ‘crazy death trap’
CYCLISTS today blasted post-tram Princes Street as a “death trap” which stunt cyclist Danny MacAskill would struggle to navigate.The street, which reopened to bus traffic at 5am this morning, has...
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