Jimmy Savile scandal spreads as 70s TV funnyman Freddie Starr arrested
COMEDIAN Freddie Starr was arrested last night as the fall-out from the sex-abuse scandal surrounding Jimmy Savile deepened.Metropolitan Police said they had arrested a Warwickshire man yesterday...
View ArticleUS elections: Triumph of the overkill in costliest campaign
THE 2012 presidential campaign is the most expensive US election in history, at an estimated cost of $2 billion (£1.24bn).In Colombus, Ohio, alone last night, 11 political adverts were aired on the...
View ArticleJuliet Dunlop: Charge of lightly clad brigade brings no victory for women
It’s not a phrase you hear every day but Cliff Richard is flying out of shops. And no, before you panic, an extended version of Mistletoe and Wine hasn’t been released. I’m talking about his official...
View ArticleTiso in the red as Blacks’ demise floods market
A MILD winter and an oversupply of outdoor goods flooding the market after the failure of rival Blacks Leisure last year have hit profits at retailer Tiso Group, the company said in its latest...
View ArticleRail alert issued to festive travellers
Travellers heading home this Christmas will have to contend with disrupted services on a key London to Scotland rail route on 23 and 24 December.In addition there will also be disruption to services on...
View ArticleScottish independence: Trident costs taxpayers in Scotland £½m a day, says...
Trident is costing Scottish taxpayers £163 million a year, Alex Salmond said yesterday, as he accused London of treating Scotland as a “nuclear dump”.The coalition government this week set out plans to...
View ArticleBrown reveals fears over coastguard cuts
CUTS to coastguard stations could put people’s lives at risk, transport minister Keith Brown has warned his UK counterpart.Mr Brown met with recently appointed UK transport minister Stephen Hammond in...
View ArticleMarkets: Results drive FTSE to strong bounce
London’s leading share index racked up its biggest single session gain in four weeks yesterday as a number of firms posted solid results and investors took on fresh bets at the start of a new month.The...
View ArticleLloyds is ‘on track’ for return to private ownership despite losses
LLOYDS yesterday shrugged off new losses, mis-selling charges and a tough economic backdrop to claim it remained on track to return to private ownership.Bad debts had been slashed by a third and...
View ArticleQuartermile seals £10m Hong Kong sales deal
Quartermile developer Gladedale Capital has sold £10 million worth of flats off-plan to Asian investors after attending two weekend-long exhibitions in Hong Kong and Singapore. The developer sold 34...
View ArticleWood plans growth in India
Energy services firm Wood Group today unveils plans to expand in India with the creation of up to 100 jobs.The opening of a £750,000 engineering hub, supported by Scottish Development International...
View ArticleBenefit bureaucrats Atos killed my father, says 13-year-old boy
THE agency that assesses the disabled and sick for government benefits has been accused by a 13-year-old boy of killing his handicapped father. Kieran McArdle has claimed that his father Brian...
View ArticleComment: PPI is fast becoming the No1 banking scandal
PAYMENT protection insurance is turning out to be one of the biggest among a whole series of financial mis-selling scandals and to make matters worse, the banks may be withholding the true scale of...
View ArticleChild’s baby teeth used to bank stem cells
A SCOTTISH schoolgirl has become the first child in Britain to bank her stem cells by removing some of her baby teeth.The process was kept in the family with her dentist father, Callum Graham, carrying...
View ArticleLloyds is ‘on track’ for return to private ownership despite losses
LLOYDS yesterday shrugged off new losses, mis-selling charges and a tough economic backdrop to claim it remained on track to return to private ownership.Bad debts had been slashed by a third and...
View ArticleManufacturing downturn puts quantitative easing on agenda
Worries about Britain’s fragile economic recovery were revived yesterday as the downturn in the manufacturing sector intensified, heaping pressure on the Bank of England to offer further stimulus.The...
View ArticlePA seals £30m Canadian deal
PA GROUP has sold its half share in the Canada Newswire press release distribution business to its joint venture partner UBM for £30.1 million, it was announced yesterday.The owner of the Press...
View ArticleDoubts still strong over expansion of forestry
Earlier this summer, the Woodland Expansion Advisory Group (WEAG) published its findings on how conflict between farming and forestry could best be avoided, a work hailed as a breakthrough and duly...
View ArticleTiffany Jenkins: Art must stay a no-brainer
WHY are we so ready to accept a contemporary scientific view that reduces great paintings to electrical impulses in the brain, asks Tiffany JenkinsIf we were to follow the latest intellectual fashion,...
View ArticleLeaders: Banks paying a high price to recover public’s trust
For Britain’s banks, the news just gets worse. After the financial crisis, the boardroom bonus scandals, tighter regulation and intense pressure to step up lending, comes the soaring bill for the...
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