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Hundreds line the streets as HMS Edinburgh crew parade in the capital
THE 30-year-old ship is being decommisioned and the crew, previously granted the freedom of the city, today marched from Holyrood Palace to the City ...
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Sharkey murder trial Court hears of too much petrol warning over separate blaze in Helensburgh
FLORIST Jennifer Milne was giving evidence in the trial of Scott Snowden and Robert Jennings who are accused of the murder of three members of the Sharkey ...
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Man who neglected puppies and sold them on could have assets seized
A MAN jailed for mistreating puppies could have 12,000-worth of any future assets seized under proceeds of crime legislation. The confiscation order made against Charles Swan is the first to target a person convicted of animal cruelty in Scotland, prosecutors said. Swan admitted keeping puppies in squalid conditions, which he sold from a farm near Stirling. He is estimated to have made 12,340 ...
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Solicitor jailed for four years after being caught trying to smuggle drugs phones other items into prison
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Landlord of flat in which Scots jockey Jan Wilson died in blaze is jailed for violating fire safety regulations
ALAN Foster admitted four charges of breaching fire safety regulations two of which related to a property in which Jan Wilson, pictured, and fellow jockey Jamie Kyne died in ...
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Video Ukip leader Nigel Farage evacuated from Edinburgh pub
Nigel Farage says Ukip not 'just some little pressure group' and that Conservatives could topple David Cameron before 2015 ...
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Nigel Farages Scottish hounding was an antidote to fawning media treatment | Mike Small
Thursday's confrontation between Nigel Farage and Scottish protesters has led people to question just why Ukip is so unpopular in Scotland. However, it is the wrong question to ask. Instead we should be asking just what has happened to English culture that a party with a loathsome agenda of homophobia, barely masked racism and a litany of other far-right notions has made such headway in the ...
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Tributes paid to thoughtful and humorous soldier Robert Hetherington who was killed by bomb blast in Afghanistan
THE funeral of one of three soldiers recently killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan has taken place. Mourners paid their last respects to Private Robert Hetherington at a ceremony in Edinburgh. The 25-year-old died with Corporal William Savage and Fusilier Samuel Flint when their Mastiff armoured vehicle hit an improvised explosive device on a routine patrol in Helmand on April 30. Their ...
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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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