Lori Anderson: Beauty? That’s flawsome
How do you sell beauty products, asks Lori Anderson. A quiet revolution is currently under way in the magazine industryJohn Keats may have said: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”, but then again the...
View ArticleLocal council polls ‘were well run’
The council elections in May were well run, according to a report by an independent watchdog.The report, published by the Electoral Commission, revealed that 89 per cent of voters were confident that...
View ArticleFrom the archive: Rosyth’s loss cost taxpayers £300 million, 11 September, 2001
IT WAS a decision which led to the loss of thousands of jobs at the Rosyth naval base in Fife and, a decade on, the full cost to the taxpayer has been revealed as a staggering £300 million.Ten years...
View ArticleResearch reveals diabetes threat
Half of all British people of south Asian, African and African Caribbean descent will develop type 2 diabetes by the age of 80, research suggests.They are twice as likely to develop the condition as...
View ArticleVow to slash health and safety rules is applauded
HEALTH and safety rules affecting thousands of businesses are to be swept away as part of a UK government drive to slash red tape and boost growth.From next April premises seen as low risk, such as...
View ArticleEducation delays motherhood
WOMEN are having children later in life because they are spending longer in education, new research claims.Academics from the University of Southampton looked at women in Britain and France and found...
View ArticleComment: Cutting the tangle of red tape is a good start
CRITICS of the government who claim that its struggling economic and business policy is responding to events rather than shaping them have obviously hit home. It is perhaps no coincidence that in...
View ArticleDavid Maddox: Leadership reshuffle may be on the agenda in conference season
THIS is the final week before the party conference season, a fortnight-long jamboree largely arranged to convince voters that MPs are not slacking off.But, as the gatherings approach, there is now much...
View ArticleBusiness news in brief: Melrose | Macdonald | Eastern Airways
MELROSE RESOURCES, the Edinburgh-based oil driller being taken over by Petroceltic, yesterday sold a 30 per cent stake in one of its Romanian exploration blocks to Australia-based Beach Energy.Beach,...
View ArticleLeaders: Young Scots need a lift on to housing ladder
ONCE upon a time, in the 1960s, Scotland was notorious because more of its people lived in public rented accommodation than anywhere in Europe outside the Iron Curtain. But when Margaret Thatcher...
View ArticleGlencore sweetens revised offer for Xstrata with role for Davis
COMMODITIES trader Glencore has insisted that it will not improve the terms of its $36 billion (£22.5bn) all-share approach for Xstrata, but has proposed that the mining giant’s chief executive, Mick...
View ArticleEwan Crawford: An argument more Fantasy Island than Dallas
Discounting voting patterns in favour of the results from opinion polls is suspending belief just too far, writes Ewan CrawfordFor many Scots of my generation (the one familiar with the nation’s...
View ArticleTories’ ‘big beasts’ pressure David Cameron
Two Tory “big beasts” are launching a group campaigning for “radical” policies, amid pressure on David Cameron’s leadership.Former frontbenchers David Davis and Liam Fox will unveil Conservative Voice,...
View ArticleUniversal Credit goes ahead, vows Iain Duncan Smith
The government will press ahead with plans to scrap the benefits system and replace it with a single, monthly payment, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said yesterday.He said the Universal...
View ArticleUK colleges soar high in world’s top ten
FOUR of the top six universities in the world are in the UK, according to a new league table.But Cambridge University has ended its two-year run as the best institution worldwide, slipping down to...
View ArticleHugh Reilly: Just say ‘non’ to forced teaching of languages
FOR some unknown reason there were no desks or chairs in my primary school’s “television room” hence we were compelled to sit cross-legged on a bum-numbing cold linoleum floor. The black and white TV...
View ArticleOne less bidder in the running for struggling JJB
ONE of the favourites to buy JJB Sports has dropped out of the running for the ailing retailer, although advisers handling the sale have received strong interest from a range of potential...
View ArticlePetrol prices ‘have drivers over barrel’
The price of petrol at the pumps has returned to near-record levels, the AA said yesterday.The increase comes as European refinery profits have risen to a five-year high, the AA added. Petrol at UK...
View ArticleImages of Scotland: Puffins at Sumburgh Head, Shetland
Tor Sodergren got up close and personal with the puffins – or Tammie Norie as they are known in Shetland – during a recent trip to Sumburgh Head{http://www.facebook.com/#!/scotsmanonline|View more...
View ArticleGraham Leicester: Humanity is best medicine for professions
FOR the benefit of staff and society, all sectors need to cultivate moral and emotional understanding writes Graham LeicesterIt has been quite a summer for two of my favourite things: hope and...
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