Jackie Kemp: Children are being exposed to porn, and no-one knows its...
I was saddened but not surprised by a Plymouth University survey published last week showing that it has become “common practice” for children to view pornography from age 11. The academics involved...
View ArticleApple axes former Dixons chief hired to shake up its stores
APPLE chief executive Tim Cook has parted company with two of his top executives following problems in new product development and the company’s stores.• Former Dixons Retail chief executive John...
View ArticleHow you’re more likely to binge drink if you don’t believe in God
ATHEISTS and agnostics in Scotland are the most likely to drink excessively, a survey has revealed.• {http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2012/10/8988|Read the Scottish Government’s full report...
View ArticleProcess to hasten death of terminally ill backed by GPs
Leading GPs have sprung to the defence of a controversial NHS process said to hasten the death of terminally ill patients.The Liverpool Care Pathway is a set of guidelines designed to ensure no...
View ArticleJimmy Savile’s Edinburgh niece reveals torment at discovering abuse case...
A NIECE of Jimmy Savile has spoken of how she cried for a week after hearing claims her uncle had abused hundreds of girls and young women.Pam Ward, from Edinburgh, said she had been left in turmoil...
View ArticleMargo MacDonald: There’s no point keeping Trident
The reason, or so we are to believe, for the SNP reneging on its long-time, respected stand against nuclear weapons is that voters, you and me, just don’t understand the complexity of getting shot of...
View ArticleIndependence views aired
Former Labour MSP John McAllion will argue the case for independence at a public meeting tonight.Mr McAllion, now in the Scottish Socialist Party, said: “The debate on Independence is now rightly...
View ArticleCancer victory for Lothians
CANCER death rates in the Lothians are among the lowest in Scotland, the latest figures have revealed.New government figures show that although the death rate rose by four per cent in 2011 compared...
View Article‘Criminals do not have it all their own way’
The arsenal of weapons seized by police fighting Edinburgh’s organised crime gangs makes for frightening reading.The haul from the last 12 months includes the sorts of weapons that you would expect to...
View ArticleJohn Gibson: Meeting up with Mike, it’s all Hart
Who sat down next to me on a 29 bus the other day? Go on, tell us, John. Michael Warner Hart. A seemingly indestructible board member of the Edinburgh International Jazz Festival, virtuoso banjo...
View ArticleRestalrig residents wake to aftermath as vandals trash cars
Residents of a quiet Capital neighbourhood have told of their shock after waking up to discover their cars had been smashed up in a “mindless rampage”.Locals in Restalrig Crescent and Findlay Avenue...
View ArticleCouncil wants you to clear snow from city streets
SNOW shovels are to be made available to residents in a bid to help them keep the streets of the city clear this winter.Launching their Be Prepared For Winter campaign, council bosses said that a...
View ArticleGareth Edwards: Donor law change is a matter of life and death
IT is the ultimate gift that can be delivered out of death – the chance that someone else might be able to live.For many people, signing up to the organ donors register is an act which they take...
View ArticleClub bouncer jailed after standing on teen’s neck in the street
A HEAD bouncer who stood on the neck of a teenager celebrating Christmas Day with his family during a brutal attack in the New Town has been jailed for 16 months.Allan MacDougall was locked up for a...
View ArticleTalk of the Town: Never too early to look out for trams
FEW people accuse those behind the tram project of doing things too quickly.But as this photographic evidence proves, contractors have jumped the gun ever so slightly at Edinburgh Park.While it’s...
View ArticleEdinburgh is the place to be for ghostly goings-on
MOODY architecture, a history of murder most foul and bodysnatching, twisting and turning closes and wynds, walled-up streets, underground tunnels and graveyards galore... is it any wonder that...
View ArticleFirst legionnaires’ and now I’ve got TB
A VICTIM of the Capital’s legionnaires’ disease crisis has said his life is still being “ruined” by the illness – months after the outbreak was declared over.Gordon Erasmuson has now been struck down...
View ArticleBlunder as travellers on flight from Poland skip passport check
AN INVESTIGATION has been launched after dozens of passengers on a flight from Poland were allowed to stroll through Edinburgh Airport without undergoing immigration checks.The passengers, who arrived...
View ArticleThird of ScotRail trains more than a minute late
ONE third of ScotRail trains arrive more than a minute later than advertised, according to the rail operator’s own figures.Rail travellers are often left frustrated by an apparent disparity between the...
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