Analysis: Danger signs we should all look out for
LEGIONELLA bacteria are water-loving bacteria that uncommonly cause infections in humans. Between 1995 and 2011, they were identified in between 15 and 44 Scottish cases each year. Around two-thirds of...
View ArticleAnalysis: ‘This is not an act of God, this is a failure of maintenance’
SCOTLAND’s leading bacteria expert has told how the outbreak should not have happened in a modern city like Edinburgh.Professor Hugh Pennington said the scale of the outbreak was “most unusual”.He...
View ArticleAnalysis: Fatalities grab headlines, but many cases unreported, say experts
THE actual number of cases of Legionnaires’ disease across the UK is likely to be higher than the total reported cases.This is because not everyone who has suffered from pneumonia will have been tested...
View ArticleLords inquiry into Warsi claims begins
The House of Lords’ Standards Commissioner launched a formal investigation into Cabinet minister Baroness Warsi’s expenses claims yesterday.Former police chief Paul Kernaghan decided to investigate...
View ArticleInterview: The View, Dundonian rock band
SO THE lead singer of The View is big into musicals and Abba. Really? Fiona Shepherd meets the Dundee band ahead of their appearance at this weekend’s RockNess Festival and finds there’s more to them...
View ArticleBusiness rate discount cut turns focus on Osborne
Chancellor George Osborne has come under pressure to ease the tax burden on owners of empty commercial properties in England after his party north of the Border criticised plans to cut the relief...
View ArticleCarole Ewart: Freedom of Information ‘reform’ is too limited
IT’S always worrying when government ministers boast how good they are at disclosing information that we are entitled to know. And when Brian Adam MSP, in announcing the Freedom of Information (FoI)...
View ArticleDavid McAllister: Scots and Lower Saxony can stride together
PARTNERSHIP between Germany and the UK is vital for the EU and at a devolved level could be fruitful for both nations, says David McAllisterGermany has been influenced by the United Kingdom more...
View ArticleCritics’ choice: The Tempest | Blank City | Red Chalk | Opera North | Amy...
THE Scotsman’s arts critics give us their pick of events over the next week.THEATRETHE TEMPESTDUNDEE REP, UNTIL 23 JUNETHE women of the Dundee Rep ensemble have always been a formidable group of...
View ArticleThe smArts: What’s going on with Creative Scotland?
ANYONE with an interest in Scotland’s arts scene will surely have noticed that Creative Scotland, the main source of funding for this country’s artists, has faced a bit of flak recently.“Mutton-headed...
View ArticleThe Arts Diary: Gavin Evans | Another Dean gallery | Appealing design
WANTED: about 100 naked people, in Marchmont, Edinburgh, on Wednesdays between 7pm and 10pm – though not all at once. The professional portrait photographer Gavin Evans’s (clothed) subjects in the past...
View ArticleMarkets: Scent of fresh money lifts sentiment
FTSE 100 CLOSE 5384.11 +123.92Bank shares surged on Wednesday amid a wider market rally as hopes of fresh money printing on both sides of the Atlantic stoked investor confidence.Britain’s benchmark...
View ArticleImages of Scotland: Galashiels, Borders
Reader Curtis Welsh from Melrose took this picture of a heavy horse dragging a log during the Borders Festival of the Horse at WooplawWoods in Galashiels at the end of last...
View ArticleThe Scotsman cartoon - 07/06/2012
Our cartoonist pokes fun at the bankers in today’s effort.Illustration by Iain Green
View ArticleDiageo spends £1bn on distilleries to grow emerging markets share
SCOTLAND’S largest whisky maker yesterday named three sites for two new distilleries as it unveiled a £1 billion investment to keep up with the thirst for Scotch in emerging markets.Diageo – owner of...
View ArticleScottish independence: England must have its say - Ed Miliband
THE future of the United Kingdom is “too important” to be debated only in Scotland, Ed Miliband will declare in a speech in London today, as he insists that people in England should have their say...
View ArticleTavish Scott: Geology rocks and we have some of the best
SCOTLAND is a wee country with the best rocks in the world. Surprisingly Scotsman readers may not appreciate this as it is the basis of Scotland’s Geodiversity Charter launched this week. Does what we...
View ArticleScottish Business Briefing - Thursday 7 June, 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. ENERGY & UTILITIESAggreko’s global reach...
View ArticleHow poetry helps Motor Neurone Disease sufferer vent frustration and raise funds
Frank Taylor wiggles the index finger of his left hand vigorously.It is the only one of his fingers he can still move.The rest have been stilled forever, paralysed by the fatal degenerative condition...
View ArticleTrap Oil raises £4.3m in share placing
Trap Oil, the Aim-quoted explorer that bought Banchory-based Reach Oil & Gas last year for £30 million, has raised £4.3m through a share placing.Cash raised through the placing will be used to fund...
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