Virgin targets East Coast rail franchise
SIR Richard Branson has revealed that Virgin Trains is planning a bid for the East Coast main line franchise when it comes up for tender next year.Earlier this month, the group secured a short-term...
View ArticleNews Corporation goes fishing for publisher Penguin
News Corporation, owner of HarperCollins, is eyeing a substantial offer for Penguin in an attempt to scupper plans for a new book publishing giant.The media group, whose chairman and chief executive is...
View ArticleInnovations signal big change at Bmi Regional
SCOTTISH airline Bmi Regional, which changed hands in an £8 million deal earlier this year, will today start operating two new services after ditching its old flight codes.The carrier has replaced the...
View ArticleLeaders: SNP must now find realistic alternative for nuclear jobs | Capital...
AFTER last week’s verbal contortions over “27 missing words” comes a far greater challenge for the SNP administration in persuading Scots to vote for the SNP’s nuclear- free-but-still-in-Nato vision of...
View ArticleJohn Sturrock: What price a pound of flesh when the final bill comes in?
A recent story about a divorcing couple who have consumed nearly all of their multimillion-pound fortune in a bitter five-year court battle attracted special attention in the media because they were...
View ArticleAlbum review: Oui, Oui, Si, Si, Ja, Ja, Da, Da by Madness
WITH the undented appeal of their curated festivals Madstock and the forthcoming House of Fun Weekender and a jukebox musical, Our House, to their name, Madness could just sit back and cash in.There...
View ArticleAlbum reviews: Taylor Swift | Huey and the New Yorkers | Bobo Stenson Trio
OUR music critics review the rest of this week’s albumsPOPTaylor Swift: RedMercury, £12.99* *WHEN she’s not busy selling cartloads of albums and winning every award going, Taylor Swift endures her fair...
View ArticleLight at end of tunnel despite drop in corporate lending to six-year low
LENDING to businesses is expected to fall to its lowest level for six years despite a raft of measures aimed at freeing up the flow of credit, a new report warns today.However, the Ernst & Young...
View ArticleDVD reviews: Brake | A Royal Affair
Our film critic reviews the week’s home movie releasesBrake High Fliers, £15.99THE confined space thriller is nothing new, but since the breakout critical and commercial success of Buried, it was...
View ArticlePeople: Vermont Hard Cider Co. | Oliver Vellacott | Rox
The old tongue twister goes: “How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?”According to the directors of drinks firm C&C, it was worth chucking quite a lot when it bought...
View ArticleFrom the archives: Chambers dictionary heads south of the border
The Scotsman - 29 October, 2009PART of Scotland’s publishing history will vanish for good at the end of this year, it was announced yesterday. Dictionary publishers Chambers Harrap said it will close...
View ArticleDr Steve Boorman: A healthy staff helps to ensure a healthy profit
A RECENT report by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development reveals that worries over job security are fuelling “presenteeism” as the number of employees going to work while ill has risen....
View ArticleMixed fortunes in prospect for banks
The banking sector will be in the spotlight this week as the third-quarter reporting season kicks off with figures from Barclays, Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland.Barclays gets the ball rolling on...
View ArticleWorkplace injury claims soar in Scotland
COMPENSATION claims for personal injuries in the workplace in Scotland have risen by 25 per cent – six times the increase of similar claims in England, according to new figures. Claims in Scotland...
View Article‘Job optimism is a mini–miracle’ - CBI
The UK government has been urged to renew efforts to help young people find work after a new study showed that recruitment in private firms will remain “cautious”.The CBI said it was a “mini-miracle”...
View ArticleEdinburgh man badly injured after hit–and–run
POLICE in Edinburgh are appealing for information after a man was seriously injured in a hit-and-run.The 21-year-old is being treated in the capital’s Western General Hospital following the incident in...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy: Mass exodus begins as ‘Frankenstorm’ looms
HUNDREDS of thousands of people have been told to evacuate New York City as the United States braces itself for a devastating super-storm that is expected to lash large parts of the country from...
View ArticleCanon Kenyon Wright will back independence unless pro-Union parties give more...
ONE OF the leading architects of Scottish devolution has revealed he would back independence – if there are no clear promises from pro-Union parties on more powers for Holyrood.Canon Kenyon Wright, who...
View ArticleCivil servants ‘should have stopped Salmond from wasting £12,000 on EU advice...
CIVIL service chiefs have come under fire for allowing the SNP government to “waste” thousands of pounds in taxpayers’ cash fighting a court battle during the row over an independent Scotland’s place...
View ArticleFuel duty rise could cost 35,000 jobs, says group
A 3P-A-LITRE rise in fuel duty planned for January could lead to 35,000 job losses, according to campaigners.The rise could also see a 0.1 per cent cut in economic growth, the report prepared for the...
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