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Scottish doctors close to carrying out UKs first face transplant
SCOTS surgeons are gearing up to perform the UK's first face transplant.Medics at Glasgow's Southern General want to start offering the op to disfigured patients.They are talking to bosses about the idea, which could make Scotland a world leader in transplanting faces from dead donors.Wounded soldiers could be among those to benefit.The world's first face transplant took place in ...
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In Pictures Scots put on their comfiest suits for Onesie Day
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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Independent Scotland open to Cyprus-style bank risks Britain
LONDON -- An independent Scotland would have a vastly oversized financial sector that would leave it vulnerable to a Cyprus-style banking crisis, Britain's finance ministry ...
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Thousands of mining jobs in Scotland in danger
Hundreds of open cast mineworkers were laid off and left with unpaid wages last month, following the collapse of Scottish Coal, the largest surviving mine operator in Scotland. Of the company's 758 workers, all but 142 have been made redundant. The company operates six open pit mines in East Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire and Fife. Scottish Coal was one of the private operators the emerged ...
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Scotland clash with Pakistan abandoned
Scotland's second One-Day International with Pakistan was abandoned without a ball being bowled on Sunday.Misbah Ul Haq's men were due to play the second of two warm-up games ahead of the ICC Champions Trophy, which starts on June 6, but the game was called off after heavy rain forced the umpires to rule that no play would take place.The match had been due to start at 10.45 (British ...
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Scottish bank customers warned over deposit protection scheme
A Treasury report has analysed the impact of Scottish independence on the deposit protection scheme that guarantees up to 85,000 to UK bank customers. Photograph Carl Court/AFP/Getty ...
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Independent Scotland might not be able to guarantee savers deposits
An independent Scotland might find itself unable to guarantee the deposits of savers in the event of another financial crisis, the Treasury warns ...
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Breakaway Scotland to face high saver protection costs-UK study
By William James LONDON | Sun May 19, 2013 7:01pm EDT LONDON May 20 (Reuters) - The cost of protecting Scottish savers would prove difficult to bear if the country broke away from the rest of the UK, a study by Britain's finance ministry said on Monday. The findings come in the latest paper from the British government on how independence would impact the country. On Sunday the ...
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Lees Of sheep and dreeps Waxing nostalgic for Scotland during a visit Down Under
Nick Lees, left, with cousin Donald Cameron, centre, and brother Jim Lees in Cape Leeuwin, where the Indian and Pacific Oceans meet off Western ...
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Scotlands tough call stay in the UK or stay in the EU | Angus Roxburgh
a referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union . That's because the next British general election could conceivably not merely give the Scots yet another government they didn't vote for, but bring on a referendum that could take Britain out of the EU - something that is opposed, by all accounts, by a majority of Scots.Having the wrong government imposed on you can at ...
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Home address of Ian Rankins famous fictional detective John Rebus revealed for the first time
IT'S the one mystery which has remained unsolved over 18 Rebus booksbut now author Ian Rankin has revealed the hard-drinking detective's home address for the first time.Rankin, 53, who is working on his 19th Rebus novel Saints of the Shadow Bible, had previously revealed his most famous character lived in Arden Street in Marchmont, Edinburgh.The location has been a source of ...
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Investigation launched after woman found dead in Edinburgh garden
Hearts and Hibs - under the umbrella of one Edinburgh club - would have the football and financial muscle to take on the Glasgow ...
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NGO Monitor Church of Scotland Fails to Correct a Terrible Wrong
PRESS RELEASE May 19, 2013 Contact: Lenny Ben-David NGO Monitor 054-216-8155 lenny.bendavid@ngo-monitor.org Church of Scotland's "revision" is no step forward Church should cut ties with religiously intolerant Sabeel organization Jerusalem - The Church of Scotland's "revision" of its April report "The Inheritance Of Abraham? A Report On The ...
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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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