Fuel bill for MSPs’ cars rises by £15,000
MORE than £115,000 was spent on fuel for Scottish Government ministers’ chauffeur-driven cars last year.Taxpayers were billed £115,751 for fuel costs for the SNP government’s car fleet in 2011-12 – an...
View ArticleOutcry at child labour behind surgical tools
CHILD labour is producing surgical equipment used by the NHS in Scotland despite pleas by doctors to ban the purchase of the goods.The British Medical Association (BMA) says that many of the factories...
View ArticleAndrew Eaton-Lewis: You want to talk about feminist role models? Look no...
MY DAUGHTER will be ten years old this week, and is growing up fast. She likes Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Florence + the Machine, so is probably the obvious target market for Viva Forever, the Spice...
View ArticleBook review: The Diary Of A Nose: A Year In The Life Of A Parfumeur,...
Penguin, 175pp, £14.99HIS artistic creations have earned comparisons to Mozart, but Jean-Claude Ellena’s latest book, The Diary Of A Nose, A Year In The Life Of A Parfumeur, sadly fails to achieve the...
View ArticleJeff Salway: Benefits cuts fail to tackle our real problems
SOMETIMES you need a helping hand when you’re starting out as an adult and trying to build a future for yourself. Whether you’re heading to university after this summer and asking your family for a few...
View ArticleFlood risk to millions in UK is growing
MILLIONS of property owners face an increased risk from flooding because of climate change and urban sprawl, experts have warned.New research shows up to two million people in the UK – including almost...
View ArticleScottish Lawyer hits out at ‘untrained’ jobs tribunal advisers
A SCOTTISH lawyer has launched a stinging attack on “untrained” and low-cost advisers operating in the consultancy industry.Dawn Robertson, of Edinburgh-based Murray Beith Murray, said these firms were...
View ArticleMarket watch: Persimmon poised to please investors with increased sales
SCOTLAND’S biggest housebuilder, Persimmon, will shine the spotlight on the current state of the UK housing market tomorrow.The firm, which has operations in Bathgate and Hamilton, claimed its...
View ArticleAlbum Reviews
A full round-up of the best of this week’s releasesPOPPaul HeatonPaul Heaton Presents... The 8thProper, £12.99 ***Based on the seven deadly sins, Paul Heaton’s musical proved a hit at last year’s...
View ArticleFilm Review: The Hunter (15)
Director: Daniel NettheimRunning time: 102 minutes****WHEN you need an actor to go in search of tiger blood, who do you send for? Surprisingly, not Charlie Sheen. Mind you, the Tasmanian tiger is not a...
View ArticleJim McColl denies delaying college
ONE of Scotland’s wealthiest businessmen has been accused of holding up his own ambitious plans for a new skills college for disaffected teenagers by failing to commit cash to the project.Jim McColl,...
View ArticleGoing Out
Visual artThe National Galleries of Scotland start their summer season this weekend with Expanding Horizons, an intriguing exhibition of landscapes by the Italian artist Giovanni Battista Lusieri, who...
View ArticleCall for criminal prosecutions when bankers break the law
FOUR out of five people want individuals to be prosecuted when banks break the law, according to a new survey.Research into attitudes towards the banking crisis also showed that two-thirds of people...
View ArticleAlbum review: Mary Chapin Carpenter. Ashes & Roses
Decca £12.99**Mary Chapin CarpenterAshes & RosesDecca £12.99HHHHHThis album is powerfully coloured by personal tragedy: a serious illness, a divorce and the aftershock of the death of Carpenter’s...
View ArticleBarclays’ market rigging saga is the tip of the iceberg
IT WAS just a chummy email between colleagues. “Dude, I owe you big time! Come over one day after work and I’m opening a bottle of Bollinger.” Out of context, it was no big deal. Just friendly banter...
View ArticleEdinburgh-based Codbod taps £700m green data market
A PAIR of entrepreneurs will this month push the button on a “cloud” computing-based venture that aims to help smaller companies improve their green credentials and cut costs.Codbod – the brainchild of...
View ArticleBank of England poised for another £50bn QE injection as economy stalls
BANK of England governor Sir Mervyn King and his fellow Monetary Policy Committee members are this week expected to pump a further £50 billion into the ailing British economy in another attempt to...
View ArticleArt: Female framework
IT’S the summer holidays and Glasgow School of Art is deserted when I meet the curator Sarah Lowndes. The degree shows have come down, the students are long gone.But this atmosphere of quiet repose is...
View ArticleScotland on Sunday cartoon 01/07/12
For this week’s effort our cartoonist looks at the banking scandalIllustration by Brian Adcock
View ArticleLingerie arm lifts profits for N Brown
CATALOGUE and online shopping firm N Brown is tipped to unveil some attractive figures this week as it benefits from its increasingly diverse portfolio.News of solid progress at the group, which owns...
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