ScotRail to provide extra seats for Edinburgh festival-goers
RAIL operator ScotRail has agreed to provide thousands of extra seats on services to and from Edinburgh over the next two weekends following complaints of over-crowding from festival-goers.The company...
View ArticleMarkets: Commodity prices undermine FTSE
Big falls among the mining stocks offset positive news from Standard Chartered and insurer Resolution to leave the London market lower tonight.Will Hedden, sales trader at IG Index, said: “Despite the...
View Article35 years after his death Elvis Presley’s legacy is still felt around the world
On 16 August 1977, ‘The King Of Rock ‘n’ Roll’ Elvis Presley finally left the building. 35 years later people still flock to his home at Graceland.The annual Elvis week runs every year on the week of...
View ArticleIsland of the week: Rum
THE Isle of Rum is said to be the true jewel of the Scottish islands; diamond in shape and diamond by nature. It is the largest of the small isles within the Inner Hebrides and holds some of the most...
View ArticleWest Coast rail franchise: Sir Richard Branson condemns rail franchise...
PASSENGERS were yesterday promised a wealth of improvements on West Coast Main Line trains after ScotRail owner FirstGroup won control from Virgin, but critics feared its £5.5 billion bid could may be...
View ArticleUK employment: Unemployment figures fall, but number of workers forced to go...
RECORD numbers of workers are being forced to accept part-time jobs because they cannot find full-time ones, figures published yesterday show.The figures revealed a 7,000 rise in the number of Scots...
View ArticleCase study: ‘It was scary, I didn’t want anything to harm them’
THREE months after falling pregnant Vanessa Love found out she was expecting twins. Four days later she was diagnosed with leukaemia.Despite the risks to herself, she decided not to have chemotherapy...
View ArticleBill Jamieson: Slick sales tactics won’t work for Scottish independence debate
A swelling tide of difficult questions is rising behind the dam of silence surrounding the SNP’s game plan, writes Bill JamiesonWHAT is it Alex Salmond really wants? Independence, or devo-max? The...
View ArticleFiona McCade: Weight-lifting with a difference for 2014
For some of us, the London Olympics are already a vague memory. For many of us, incontrovertible proof that the Games happened is right in front of our eyes, 24/7, and will probably stay there for a...
View ArticleFrom the archives: Scottish Lourdes, 16 August, 1926
THE Roman Catholic community of Scotland held a demonstration at Carfin Grotto, Lanarkshire, yesterday, when about 30,000 people visited the shrine and took part in a fully ritualistic procession in...
View ArticleTavish Scott: Follow the lead of our fine Olympians
LONDON 2012 is over. At least for a couple of weeks. The Paralympics are now approaching and millions of tickets have already been sold. Channel 4 have the broadcasting rights. Clare Balding, who was...
View ArticleBeef industry still beset by in-fighting as merger stuck in talks
Although many outside the beef sector may have thought that the link between the Scottish Beef Cattle Association and the Scottish region of the National Beef Association had been made at the Highland...
View ArticleCall for end to EU’s negotiations with South American bloc
A SCOTTISH MEP yesterday called for trade talks between the EU and Mercosur to be suspended until the South American countries sorted out their internal problems.George Lyon made the call, which could...
View ArticleBank of England minutes reveal likely move to print more money
THE odds on the Bank of England launching a further round of money printing by the autumn shortened yesterday with news that policymakers are already mulling such a move.Minutes of August’s meeting of...
View ArticleBalfour profits rise despite drop in construction orders
BALFOUR Beatty continued to realign its business away from construction in the first half of the year as government cutbacks south of the Border squeezed the sector.The group’s chief executive for UK...
View ArticleRemploy make 11th hour plea
THE government is being urged to scrap plans to close factories employing disabled staff. Workers from Remploy factories will hand in to 10 Downing Street a book signed by more than 8,000 people who...
View ArticleTom Miers: Is the British economy actually improving?
THE latest job figures cast doubt on the accuracy of the official forecasts for UK growth, writes Tom MiersThe mystery deepens. Why is unemployment falling so dramatically when the economy is supposed...
View ArticleLeaders: Grim evidence from Syria must be a wake-up call
THE disturbing pictures we publish today showing the utter devastation wreaked by fighting in the Syrian city of Homs should be a wake-up call to the world. While much of the globe has been distracted...
View ArticleAll change at Resolution as it takes Friends Life sale off the agenda
RESOLUTION, the insurance buyout specialist founded by Clive Cowdery, has unveiled an overhaul of its complex board structure and scrapped plans to spin off its Friends Life pensions business through a...
View ArticleCaptain Robert Falcon Scott’s final expedition ship found after 69 years
ONE of maritime history’s most enduring mysteries has finally been solved with the discovery of the wreck of the legendary Dundee whaler, the SS Terra Nova.The ship, which carried Captain Robert Falcon...
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