Analysis: What Silvio Berlusconi gets up to next could define Italy’s...
Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s three-time prime minister and dominant politician for two decades, has now been convicted and sentenced to four years in prison – since reduced to one year.But few people in...
View ArticleCity orders ‘Yes vote’ impact study
Scotland’s largest council is to examine the economic impact of a Yes vote in the independence referendum.Glasgow City Council has approved a Labour motion recognising that independence “could have a...
View Article‘We have abandoned primaries’
A FORMER headteacher has launched an attack on Scotland’s fledgling curriculum and the “dangerous” lack of testing in primary schools.Writing in The Scotsman today, Carole Ford, the retired headteacher...
View ArticleFive-year olds left to shoulder burden of poverty
CHILDREN who live in poverty in Scotland are twice as likely to start their school years with developmental difficulties as those from more affluent backgrounds, according to a new report.Charity Save...
View ArticleScientists can keep the cells frozen for decades
ONCE a dentist removes a child’s teeth, they store them in a vial of that person’s own blood to protect them while they are transported to a lab.Once in the lab, scientists collect the dental pulp from...
View ArticleSketch: Leaders head-to-head turns read-to-read
AT ONE stage yesterday it was almost as if First Minister’s Questions had turned into an American version of Radio 4’s What the Papers Say.First up was Labour’s Johann Lamont, who flicked through the...
View ArticlePPI case study: How reclaiming cash is simple and worth doing
HEARING the adverts on the radio and seeing the plethora of claims firms filling up day-time TV would make you think that reclaiming payment protection insurance is the most complicated thing on Earth...
View ArticleJeff Salway: Think you have a claim? Your easy guide to compensation
Millions have successfully claimed compensation after being mis-sold PPI – and the payouts show no sign of drying up.Massive mis-selling of the product – designed to cover loan or mortgage repayments...
View ArticleThe Scotsman cartoon - 02/11/2012
The PPI mis-selling scandal: a more familiar story than it may first appear...Illustration by Iain Green
View ArticleImages of Scotland: Red squirrel spotted in Melrose
Angela Hunter spotted this red squirrel while walking in Melrose, but when she started photographing him he took offence and threw some beech nuts at her{http://www.facebook.com/#!/scotsmanonline|View...
View ArticleScottish Business Briefing – Friday 2 November, 2012
WELCOME to scotsman.com’s Scottish Business Briefing. Every morning we bring you a comprehensive round-up of all news affecting business in Scotland today.FOOD, DRINK & AGRICULTUREArran and Skye...
View ArticleFaroe’s shares drop 10% after discoveries are abandoned
Shares in Faroe Petroleum dropped nearly 10 per cent in early trading today after the Aberdeen-based driller abandoned plans to develop its Freya and Fulla discoveries to the west of Shetland.Faroe,...
View ArticleSales slowdown: Growth rates take a dive at John Lewis
DEPARTMENT store chain John Lewis today posted a further slowdown in sales growth, despite strong demand for laptops running Microsoft’s newly-launched Windows 8 operating system.Sales in the week to...
View ArticleNick Clegg warns rebels they must ‘stop playground games’
Nick Clegg has stepped up his assault on David Cameron’s plan to reclaim powers from Brussels, branding it a “false promise wrapped in a Union Jack”.The Deputy Prime Minister said other EU states would...
View ArticleSt Andrews students celebrating Raisin Weekend save pensioner from drowning
University of St Andrews students, who were celebrating Raisin Weekend, have they saved an elderly woman from drowning in the North Sea. The group of seven from the Fife inistution had been celebrating...
View ArticleRacist dad avoids prison term after hurling abuse at Muslim travellers
A FATHER-OF-THREE working at the Torness nuclear plant sparked a security alert at Waverley Station by telling fellow travellers that two Muslim men were carrying a bomb.David Rothenburg claimed...
View ArticleScots denied cancer drug that prolonged man’s life and allowed him to marry
A LIFE-CHANGING cancer drug which meant a terminally-ill Edinburgh man was well enough to get married and raise thousands of pounds for charity was today approved for widespread use in England, but it...
View ArticleJohn Gibson: Shovel it all up, I’ll sit and watch
Do you dig it? We’re told (make that commanded) by the city council to clear the snow ourselves this winter, so they’re going to distribute shovels to residents.Now I call a spade a spade and there’s...
View ArticleEyes on the skies as fireworks go off across the Lothians
FIREWORK fans are set to be spoilt for choice with a blaze of brilliant events across the region.All eyes will be on the skies for the next few evenings as a Bonfire Night bonanza gets under way.Once...
View ArticleCity’s Yes campaigners launch bid for independence
INDEPENDENCE supporters have launched an Edinburgh Yes organisation to spearhead the campaign for a Yes vote in the 2014 referendum.The keynote speaker at the inaugural meeting at Drummond Community...
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