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Bradley Cooper takes cooking lessons from Ramsay
Hollywood actor Bradley Cooper is reportedly taking cooking lessons from well-known Scottish chef Gordon Ramsay to prepare for his role in director John Wells's "Chef". Cooper is playing a cook named Adam Jones, who destroys his career with drugs before getting clean and trying to open a restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars. Ramsay, who also hosts TV cookery shows, was the first ...
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Church of Scotland moves to gay clergy
Senior members of the Church of Scotland have voted to let some congregations choose ministers who are in same-sex relationships - an important compromise that must still pass further hurdles before it can become church law.The church's General Assembly on Monday backed a motion affirming a traditional conservative view on homosexuality, but permitted liberal congregations to ordain openly ...
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Church of Scotland votes to allow gay men and women to become ministers
The parents of a 17-year-old girl who was killed in a car crash that also left her best friend dead and three young men fighting for their lives have paid tribute to their "beautiful" ...
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Propaganda war who will win Scottish teenage hearts and minds
Scottish independence . For Euan the answer is a clear "yes" because he believes it will be his best guarantee of a free university education. Rosie is a "no". She says: "We should be arguing that what we think is better for the future of young people ...
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Royal Bank of Scotland leads the way as FTSE 100 hits highest level since September 2000
was the day's biggest riser.The bank ended 15.1p higher at 351.9p after analysts at Numis raised their recommendation from hold to buy and their target price from 308p to 410p. The broker said RBS's US business Citizens was undervalued while the profitability of its UK retail operations would be underpinned by its efficiency measures.Overall the FTSE ...
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Scottish independence could threaten thousands of banking jobs
Scottish independence would most seriously impact upon banks and insurers, warns Sajid Javid, left, with Michael Moore. Photographs: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty ...
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Firefighters tackle blaze at row of shops in Glasgow
AROUND 30 firefighters battled to bring a fire in a row of shops in the east end of Glasgow under control this morning. Crews were called to the row of six businesses at around 3.30am in Broomfield Road, Barmulloch. The "well developed" blaze started in a laundry and spread to a shop next door. No one was injured in the fire, a spokeswoman for the service said. Firefighters from ...
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Britons warned to expect hazardous weather with flash flooding and hail stones forecast for Scotland
The Met Office have released an amber weather warning across parts of south east Scotland and are asking residents in those areas to "be prepared" for severe ...
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Scottish nightclub investigated over alleged spy mirror in womens toilets
Allegations that a nightclub in Glasgow has secretly fitted a two-way mirror to allow male guests to spy on the women's toilets are being investigated by police and council licensing officers.Glasgow city council said it had received complaints that ...
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Sharkey murder trial Two earlier blazes in same area were deliberate fire chief tells jury
THE court heard that Scott Snowden, 37, and Robert Jennings, 50, were accused of starting the fires in addition to the blaze that killed three members of the same ...
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Parts of Scotland put on flood alert as Met Office issues warning for torrential rain and flash floods
GREEN was put on gardening leave after the meeting on April 13 in which he was grilled about his links with former chairman Craig ...
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Met confirms Scotland Yard to be sold
SCOTLAND Yard has confirmed the location for its new headquarters as the force prepares to sell off its current landmark site amid budget cuts. The Metropolitan Police has to save more than STG500 million ($A783.64 million) and cost-saving measures include moving out of New Scotland Yard on Victoria Street in Westminster, central London. Its new headquarters as of 2015 will be the Curtis Green ...
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Former Whitehall police station confirmed as new Scotland Yard HQ
Scotland Yard has confirmed the location for its new headquarters as the force prepares to sell off its current landmark site amid budget ...
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Afghan teenager out to make peace on streets of Scotland by bringing rival ethnic gangs together in new youth project
The process has been simplified, and forms are in any language needed. Funding will be revealed at the Young Ethnic Awards dinner in October.Apply ...
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Scotland Risks Cyprus-Style Bank Crisis UK Report
An independent Scotland is at risk of a Cyprus-style banking crisis, as its banking sector would be "exceptionally large" compared to the size of its economy, a U.K. government report has said. "An independent Scotland would have an exceptionally large banking sector compared to the size of its economy - with banking assets of more than 1250 percent of Scottish [gross domestic ...
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Highland Games chiefs give modern lighweight cabers the big heave-ho in crackdown on standards
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Furious victims of bungling surgeon hit out as his wife boasts of party plans after probe lets him keep job
PATIENTS left crippled by botched spinal ops enraged as couple's boozy celebrations are revealed in wake of decision not to strike surgeon ...
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Church of Scotland to discuss whether people in same-sex relationships can serve as ministers
THE governing body of the Church of Scotland is to debate the controversial subject of gay ministers today.The institution's General Assembly will consider whether to allow people in same-sex relationships to be ordained as ministers.A theological commission was appointed two years ago to produce a report on the issue for the Kirk's annual gathering in Edinburgh.A Kirk spokesman said: ...
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Distraught dad reveals his heartache after he runs over and kills his cyclist son in freak accident
GREEN was put on gardening leave after the meeting on April 13 in which he was grilled about his links with former chairman Craig Whyte. Dunfermline boss Jim Jefferies rages at SFL chief over 'senseless' points deduction which led to Pars' ...
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Croft horror artist who almost lost arm ‘lucky to be alive’
Artist Karen Bush was airlifted to hospital after emergency services worked for five hours to free her from a diesel generator at Tor Croft, Mulben, on April ...
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Youngsters steal show in promising finale
This was an entertaining finale, full of determination and persistence and highlighted by the performances of youngsters Nicky Low, Clark Robertson, Josh Magennis, Joe Shaughnessy and Cammy Smith, with cameos for Jamie Masson and Declan ...
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A devastating shot Hainault won’t forget
Canadian international defender Andre Hainault was the Ross County hero as he volleyed in a brilliant winner at Victoria Park yesterday to give the Staggies a first Highland derby win of the ...
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We are the champions Cove grab league crown
The Aberdeen side lifted a third Highland League, title in six years by defeating closest rivals Formartine United in the winner-takes-all decider at North Lodge Park on Saturday to deny the Pitmedden men their first ...
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Bedroom tax eviction nightmare as Scots Labour-run council threatens to boot struggling families out of their homes
COUNCIL bureaucrats have threatened to kick hard-up Scots out of their homes because they can't pay the Con-Dem bedroom tax.Officials at a Labour authority left families terrified by warning them they will be taken to court and evicted if they don't cough up.One mum of three was targeted over arrears of just 129.96 - less than a month after the hated tax came into force.Angela Buskie ...
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Model Caroline Igoe who killed boyfriend with his own gun is showered with gifts in jail by secret admirer
IGOE, caged for shooting her boyfriend in the head, is said to believe her admirer is a photographer who took snaps of her as she tried to make it as a glamour ...
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Edinburgh's tram of indefinite delays
The development of a new tram system for Edinburgh has not been without controversy. Since the project was first proposed as far back as 1999 it took until 2006 for work to actually begin. Since then, there has been one failing after another, with many Edinburgh residents now wondering whether the new tram system will ever see the light of day and, more to the point, whether it is in fact necessary.
Edinburgh had a tram system up until the 1950s and, like many developed cities, it did away with the network in favor of other forms of public transport, mainly buses. Increasingly heavy traffic jams in the capital, however, have prompted city leaders to reconsider and in 2006 two bills went through parliament and were approved. Read more
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