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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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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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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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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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