Diabetic donor injection is proper lifesaver
A PIONEERING Edinburgh-led transplant treatment for diabetics has been hailed as a success after it cured 12 people of a life-threatening complication in their condition.The innovative treatment sees...
View ArticleScottish Business Briefing - Tuesday 18 September 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 & UTILITIESConnection charges...
View ArticleBlacks owner plots further closures
JD Sports Fashion has warned it will shut more Blacks Leisure stores after the chain it rescued from administration contributed to a sharp fall in profits.The Bury-based group, which bought the...
View ArticleDebenhams quickens sales pace
Department store Debenhams put rival Next in the shade today by beating the City’s sales expectations in the face of Britain’s sporting summer.Online growth of 40 per cent and an improved share of the...
View ArticleFaroe enjoys production boost
Oil and gas firm Faroe Petroleum enjoyed a revenue boost in the first six months of the year as production from a series fields came on stream.The company, which focuses on the northern North Sea and...
View ArticleShould our private schools lose their charitable status?
ALL-INCLUSIVE establishments serving everyone or chancers exploiting a loophole? David Shaw and Jonathan Hewat tackle the education debateYESTheir supporters claim that private schools give far more to...
View ArticlePortobello High School ruling: Expert in land law switch bid
A FORMER lawyer has waded into the long-running dispute over the future Portobello High School by drafting a bill that would allow the council to build on common good land.Parents and pupils at the...
View ArticleNew collection rules in place to encourage more recycling
THE move from weekly to fortnightly collection of the green wheelie bins is part of a drive to encourage people to recycle more.The new system, which started last Monday, means all homes in the city...
View ArticleCouncil chiefs have their Twits about them
The city council is to take part in a national Twitter event that aims to increase awareness of local government business and services through social media.Twitter 24 is run by the National...
View ArticleBin men ordered not to take away extra rubbish under new fortnightly...
BIN men are under orders to enforce the council’s controversial new fortnightly collections – by putting rubbish back in bins instead of taking it away.It means householders who decide to leave extra...
View ArticleCity soldiers sent to Afghanistan in wake of attacks
A BATTALION of around 80 soldiers has been deployed to Afghanistan amid growing fears over troop security after a spate of attacks by members of the Afghan army on Nato forces.Infantry from The Royal...
View ArticleTheft of adoption data laptop ‘has a silver lining’
THE theft of a laptop containing sensitive information about children being fostered or adopted should lead to a tightening of security, a senior Edinburgh city councillor claimed today.The unencrypted...
View ArticleTalk of the town: It’s *something* to SHOUT about
SHE is a Twitter sensation and author behind the best-selling How To Be A Woman.But newspaper columnist Caitlin Moran issued a four-letter exclamation on the micro-blogging website when a picture...
View ArticleGraham Birse: It’s vital we offer support needed
IT is not unusual to see a surge of business start-ups in a post-recession period as individuals and companies are restructured and redundancies are high. People are inclined to bite the bullet and...
View ArticleEvening News Caption Competition 18/09/2012
What’s the point for Chris Moyles and friends? The caption of the week will receive a bottle of Whyte & Mackay, while the yearly winner will receive a 30-year-old bottle, but you must be aged 18...
View ArticleChildminder ‘reduced boy, 5, to tears by using him as punchbag’
A MUM only found out her five-year-old was allegedly being used as a “punchbag” by his childminder after the boy told his teacher, a court has heard.The 39-year-old said her young son claimed he had...
View ArticleSafety inquiry after OAP hit by bus at danger junction
A SAFETY investigation is to be launched after a pensioner suffered serious head injuries when he was hit by a bus.The man, said by police to be in his 70s, was hit by a number 33 Lothian Bus at the...
View ArticleDiabetes donor case study: ‘I now have control’
A MOTHER today told how her life had been transformed by the innovative transplant programme.Kimberley Hall, 31, couldn’t be left on her own over fears that she would suffer a hypoglycemic attack and...
View ArticleLeaders: ‘Government must help the entrepreneur’
YOU would need to be very brave – or very foolish – to bet your mortgage on Sir John Major’s prediction that the worst of the recession is over.Just like the weather, forecasting what the economy will...
View ArticleReal Lives: ‘Absolute gent’ Harry had the Tyne of his life
Henry Albert Fletcher, a former Midlothian councillor and one of the oldest men in Scotland, has died at the age of 105.Known as Harry, he was born in Jarrow, Tyne and Wear, in 1906. After leaving...
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