Crackdown on organised crime gangs sees weapons haul
SILENCED pistols, rifles and sub-machine gun rounds are among the firearms seized in the past year by the elite unit set up to take down organised crime in the Lothians.Officers from the Serious and...
View ArticleIndependent Scotland ‘could not be asked to leave EU’
AN INDEPENDENT Scotland could not be asked to leave the EU for “practical and political” reasons, a senior European Commission figure has said. • EC official says Scotland could not be asked to leave...
View ArticleScotland’s school pupils let down by lack of proper national eduation strategy
CHILDREN across Scotland are being let down by schools and local authorities which have failed to properly implement a national education strategy designed to help protect those at risk, according to...
View ArticleMike Russell under fire as cash fails to reach thousands of students
PRESSURE is growing on education secretary Mike Russell to explain why thousands of students have still not received payments to help with living expenses despite being half way through the university...
View ArticleShetland and Orkney ferry services could be hit by strike over festive season
FERRY passengers travelling to and from Orkney and Shetland over the festive season are threatened with disruption after the Rail Maritime and Transport union (RMT) announced a strike ballot over jobs...
View ArticleSuperstorm Sandy drowns, crushes and electrocutes helpless victims as death...
PLUNGED into darkness by nature’s wrath, more than eight million people across the eastern seaboard of the United States were facing a second night without power after superstorm Sandy claimed the...
View ArticleSuperstorm Sandy: Victims left broken but not beaten by storm devastation
NATIONAL Guard troops continued their daunting search and rescue efforts and firefighters faced down further blazes yesterday in some of the areas hit hardest by superstorm Sandy, which has so far...
View ArticleLuxury trains to run on re-opened Borders Railway
LUXURY trains are expected to run on the re-opened Borders Railway after transport minister Keith Brown said a previously-rejected platform lengthening proposal to accommodate them would be...
View ArticleWest Coast rail franchise: Transport Secretary apologises to taxpayers over...
MISTAKES over the West Coast rail franchise should not have been made and are very regrettable, Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin told MPs today.• Department for Transport cancelled deal with...
View ArticleNational Museum of Scotland unveils themed tours schedule for November
THE NATIONAL Museum of Scotland has unveiled a number of themed tours to be held throughout November.‘Supernatural Scotland’ is one such tour in which the magic and myths associated with artefacts at...
View ArticleCreative Scotland accused of treating artists ‘like benefit scroungers’ as...
SCOTLAND’S artists are made to feel like “benefit scroungers” by the Scottish Government’s arts quango, and have been battered by a “tsunami” of mistrust, anger, fear and hurt since it was set up, it...
View ArticleUK government suffers embarrassing Commons defeat as Tory rebels back cut to...
DAVID Cameron suffered a humiliating defeat in the House of Commons tonight, as Conservative MPs rebelled and backed a call for Britain’s contribution to the EU budget to be cut.• Motion led by Tory...
View ArticleDrinks supplier hits the acquisition trail
INVERARITY Morton, the drinks supplier created last year after William Morton took over Inverarity Vaults, hit the acquisition trail yesterday with the takeover of Glasgow-based rival LA Wholesale for...
View ArticleLord Heseltine declares war on recession and wins Scottish backing
Scottish business leaders have backed a report by Lord Heseltine demanding more is done to promote economic growth in a bid to help Britain overcome the financial crisis. The Conservative peer and...
View ArticleLeaders: Public deserves clarity, not this EU politicking
THE debate about an independent Scotland’s position in Europe is like a high-stakes poker game. One side offers a professor of constitutional law. The other side raises with a Spanish foreign minister....
View ArticleComment: Conundrum that strains best minds in the City
MANY have remarked recently on the conundrum of how UK employment has been rising in the teeth of a prolonged economic downturn. It has strained even the most counter-intuitive of City thinkers. And it...
View ArticleAnalysis: Sri Lanka’s regime will no longer be successful in hiding its war...
ONE of the worst atrocity crime stories of recent decades has barely registered in the world’s collective conscience. We remember and acknowledge the shame of Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur. We...
View ArticleFrom the archives: Better conditions for nurses, 1 November, 1938
Shorter hours, higher salaries, and universal pensions for Scottish nurses are amongst the outstanding recommendations contained in the report of the Scottish Departmental Committee on Nursing,...
View ArticleMarkets: BG shares slump on production cut
GAS producer BG Group sank to the foot of the Footsie yesterday after admitting output was unlikely to grow next year.Following the prolonged shutdown of the Elgin platform in the North Sea after a gas...
View Article‘Human mannequin’ defies crippling disease for career in fashion
A TEENAGER suffering from a rare genetic condition which has turned her into a “human mannequin” has refused to be beaten by her disease and is battling against the odds to pursue her dream career in...
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