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Dons Well set to ascend
The 31-year-old is now preparing for a summer of waiting for the phone to ring but believes increasing interest in the Steelmen's better players will clear the way for the Dons, finally, to return to the upper reaches of the ...
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Celtic fans joy turns to despair as star Kris Commons shirt is stolen on way home from final SPL game of season
Football is full of surprises - as a Rangers fan I'd like to wish Celtic and Neil Lennon the best of luck this week for the Scottish Cup ...
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Bungling surgeon told me my back problems would improve when I started to shrink says one of his victims
MICHAEL Kayes paid under-fire surgeon Colin Mainds 10,000 to ease his back pain only for Mainds to tell him the pain would ease when he was over ...
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Jim Hensons son to speak at Guardian Edinburgh Television Festival
Brian Henson, director of The Muppet Christmas Carol, will speak at this year's Guardian International Television Festival. Photograph: Disney/Sportsphoto ...
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Church of Scotland approves compromise on gay clergy
The Church of Scotland's General Assembly Monday approved a compromise that allows congregations who want to have gay ministers to do so. The plan will not take effect until 2015, The Scotsman reported. The church, which has a Presbyterian form of government, will spend the next year developing the legal form for allowing gay clergy, followed by votes by the presbyteries and then by ...
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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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A fair dinkum Scots nobleman
When meeting the Earl of Dunmore for the first time, there is an expectation one will be greeted by a Scots peer with a thick Highland burr. Instead, an Aussie bloke called Malcolm Murray answers the door with a sturdy, but welcoming, "Gidday, mate". A moment of confusion reigns until he explains all the titled family is now extinct in Scotland and he is the next living heir. The 66-year-old ...
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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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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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