Farming: Bank pledges its future to ‘positive’ Scottish farming
A COMMITMENT to continued financial support for farming was given yesterday by the Clydesdale Bank.Speaking at the Spectacular show and sale of beef cattle at Thainstone Centre, Inverurie, sponsored by...
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Diageo chief executive Paul Walsh saw his total pay package more than double to £11.2 million last year after an 88 per cent rise in the drinks giant’s shares over the last three years boosted his...
View ArticleCabinet reshuffle: You’re just not butch enough, Miliband is told by Cameron
PRIME Minister David Cameron yesterday finished his government reshuffle as he faced accusations that he was offering the country the “same old faces”.In the first Prime Minister’s Questions since the...
View ArticleApple e–mails hint at iPhone 5 launch
Technology giant Apple has fuelled rumours it will launch a new version of its best-selling iPhone on the day that two of its competitors are expected to unveil a new device.The secretive firm sent out...
View ArticleCable’s grandson takes welfare role
The nine-year-old grandson of Business Secretary Vince Cable is to front a campaign to improve the welfare of UK farm animals.Ayrton Cable was due to premiere his short film proposing a new law on food...
View ArticleParking charges add up to £8bn a year
Britons spend nearly £8 billion a year to park their cars. Parking prices rose 12.5 per cent last year, with high charges deterring shoppers from visiting town centres, according to a survey by car...
View ArticleTrain cleaners to stage walkout
Workers who clean trains on two of the country’s busiest rail routes are to stage a 24-hour strike over pay.Members of the Rail Maritime and Transport union employed by contractor ISS on East Coast and...
View ArticleMPs to hear Branson case for West Coast bid
Sir Richard Branson has been invited to put his case for retaining Virgin Trains’ West Coast main line franchise to MPs.At a hearing on Monday, the House of Commons transport committee will also take...
View ArticleEddie Barnes: Reshuffle readies big names for showtime
DAVID Cameron used his reshuffle to push to the right. Alex Salmond has used his to prepare for a fight. Last week, the First Minister’s key communications adviser Kevin Pringle left the Scottish...
View ArticleJim Sillars: Scots can call Blair to book
HOLYROOD could – and should – introduce retrospective legislation to indict the former prime minister on war crimes over Iraq invasion, argues Jim SillarsDesmond Tutu was right in naming Tony Blair a...
View ArticleScottish Government reshuffle: The new faces
The new Minister for External Affairs and International Development, Humza Yousaf, is widely viewed as one of the brightest of the SNP’s intake from the party’s 2011 landslide election victory.Mr...
View ArticleScottish independence: Uncertainty over vote ‘biggest bogeyman’ for business
ONE of the UK’s leading business figures will warn today that the independence debate has laid “a thick layer of uncertainty” over Scotland’s future, as he backs the case for the Union. CBI director...
View ArticleGripping viewing as IDS and Osborne insist on staying put
PRIME Minister’s Questions gave David Cameron the chance to wheel out his new top team for the first time to grin and bawl at the opposition benches.But as the newish Cabinet lined up on the front row...
View ArticleVeterans minister plans Afghan trip
Veterans minister Keith Brown yesterday said he intended to go to Afghanistan to see the conditions faced by Scottish soldiers there.Mr Brown, a former Royal Marine and Falklands War veteran, said: “If...
View ArticleGovernment shared equity scheme doubled to £20m
A SCOTTISH Government scheme which helps people on to the housing ladder is being opened to all first-time buyers after its funding was doubled.The budget for the open market shared equity scheme has...
View ArticleLeaders: SNP lays the ground for post-Salmond politics
BRITAIN is in double-dip recession and Scotland with it. Unfortunately, to the public eye, Cabinet reshuffles both north and south of the Border seem more to do with internal party politics than...
View ArticleFears over everyday chemicals
THE impact of “sex-change” chemicals could be as significant as climate change, scientists fear.Researchers in Aberdeen studied the effect of low-dose mixtures of man-made hormone-altering chemicals on...
View ArticleThere’s no junk DNA – it all has a purpose, say scientists
A MAJOR research project has effectively scrapped the concept of “junk” DNA and paved the way for a medical revolution. The findings, reported in some 30 research papers, show that about 80 per cent of...
View ArticleMeningitis: symptoms you may not know
SEVEN in ten parents wrongly think the current vaccines for meningitis protect their children from all forms of the disease, experts have warned. And just one in five parents is aware children under...
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