Comment: Bankers seem finally to be getting the message
LLOYDS has just indicated it is following Barclays in pulling the plug on incentivising retail staff based on the volumes of products they sell covering everything from current accounts to Payment...
View ArticleHugh Reilly: Missing Halloween doesn’t frighten me
LAST WEEK, I had to use my de-icer for the first time this year – that I was using it on my bathroom mirror supports my pals’ view that I’m a frugal kinda guy. Despite reports to the contrary, I do...
View ArticleThe Scotsman Cartoon - 30/10/12
In today’s cartoon, even the politicians are feeling the force of Hurricane SandyIllustration by Iain Green
View ArticleLeaders: Plans for extreme weather not yet watertight | Jails must tighten...
AS HURRICANE Sandy bears down threateningly on the eastern seaboard of America, the best the citizens of that part of the world can hope for is that if this does indeed prove to be a...
View ArticleHi-fi manufacturer Linn promises research increase to target web content
LINN Products, the Scottish hi-fi manufacturer, will raise its investment in research and development this year as it adapts to a converging marketplace with more audio and visual content delivered via...
View ArticleFarming markets: 1,370 lambs sold in Dumfries
THE Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart sold 1,370 store lambs. Breeding sheep (210) sold to £142, feeding lambs (1,160) to £64.STIRLING – United Auctions had forward 83 rams, selling to £450....
View ArticleRoyal Mail invest £75 million in UK parcels business
ROYAL Mail has announced a £75 million investment programme for its UK express parcels business, creating 1,000 jobs.The expansion is part of the group’s strategy to grow its parcels businesses in the...
View ArticleMark Reynier to leave Bruichladdich distillery
MARK Reynier, the founder and former chief executive of the Bruichladdich Distillery company which was sold to Remy Cointreau in July for £58 million, has left the company.Reynier, who had led the...
View ArticleFrench put CAP centre of the agenda
French politicians who will play a key role in deciding the shape of the next Common Agricultural Policy have unveiled their thoughts on how their farmers should receive support.Speaking in Brussels,...
View ArticleImages of Scotland: General’s Tower near Lilliesleaf
Walter Baxter from Galashiels took this picture of the General’s Tower, built in 1885 for Major-General John Sprot on a medieval motte in mixed woodland near Lilliesleaf in the...
View ArticleMortgages show signs of growth
A SPIKE in mortgage approvals has provided tentative evidence that a multi-billion pound scheme designed to unclog the flow of credit to UK homebuyers is starting to have an impact.The £80 billion...
View ArticleScott Macnab: Scotland’s small size need not dictate its global stature
An independent Scotland might prove size is no inhibitor to wielding influence on the global stage, writes Scott MacnabWhat kind of role would an independent Scotland play on the world stage? Most...
View ArticleEwan Crawford: Self-empowerment is vital in uncertain times
THE SNP Government’s GUBU moment should not distract voters from the bigger, better picture that is now on offer, writes Ewan CrawfordBACK in the 1980s, politicians in Ireland feared one thing above...
View ArticleDr Phillips O’Brien: Ridding Scotland of nukes might take longer than expected
An INDEPENDENT Scotland would have no need for its own nuclear deterrent, though it might find it considerably more time-consuming than it expects to move the present nuclear weapons now in Scotland...
View ArticleScots capture the ‘birth’ of an iceberg
SCOTTISH scientists have analysed the “birth” of an iceberg for the first time, in a breakthrough that will be broadcast on television today. The team from St Andrews University completed the first...
View ArticlePenrose Inquiry into infected blood to ‘fall at final hurdle’
THE inquiry into how hundreds of people in Scotland were infected with hepatitis and HIV from NHS-supplied blood products will not establish how many victims there are, campaigners have warned.They say...
View ArticleBlair warns of EU collapse over crisis
TONY Blair has warned that the European Union will be heading for a break-up if it is unable to resolve the crisis over the eurozone.Speaking in Berlin yesterday, the former prime minister said that...
View ArticleTwo former lord advocates dropped from inquiry into Alex Salmond EU row
BOTH members of an independent panel set up by Alex Salmond to investigate complaints into the First Minister’s conduct have been ditched from a probe into the recent row over EU membership.It emerged...
View ArticleIreland won’t need second EU bailout
IRELAND will not need a second bailout, Germany’s finance minister Wolfgang Schauble has said.After meeting his Irish counterpart Michael Noonan and public spending minister Brendan Howlin, Mr Schauble...
View ArticleKate Adie urges veterans to claim for help
former chief BBC news correspondent Kate Adie is encouraging veterans with sight problems to tap into support they may not have known was available.FORMER chief BBC news correspondent Kate Adie is...
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