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Djokovic guarded on showdown with Nadal
With the seven-time champion still working his way up the rankings after his long lay-off, the main talking point at yesterday's men's singles draw was which half Nadal would drop ...
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Glasgow aims to turn methane into electricity
GLASGOW, Ky. - A south-central Kentucky city is hoping to capture methane gas from a regional landfill and turn it into electricity.The Daily News (http://bit.ly/18oeey2) in Bowling Green reports officials in Glasgow have partnered with Farmers Rural Electric Cooperative in seeking a $1 million loan to help pay for the project.Farmers CEO Bill Prather says it could take up to 90 days to hear ...
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Nigel Farage bombed in Edinburgh – what does that really tell us about Scottish antipathy to the English | Ian Jack
struggling with his student opponents in an Edinburgh street recently. They see Farage as a racist who should go back to England. Farage sees them as fascists who represent the ugly side of Scottish nationalism. On the one hand, the students' antagonism towards Farage might be highly specific, and no more characteristic of a general tendency than the football chant "Bobby Moore, ...
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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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UPDATE 2-Seaweed forces EDF to halt Scottish nuclear reactors
Fri May 24, 2013 11:44am EDT By John McGarrity LONDON May 24 (Reuters) - EDF Energy said on Friday it had halted both reactors at its 1,280 megawatt (MW) Torness nuclear plant near Edinburgh after a rising tide of seaweed threatened to clog its cooling system. Britain currently has 9 reactors off line with a combined capacity of over 5,000 MW, or around half of the country's total nuclear ...
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Young farmers in Scotland have bright future
YOUNG farmers in Scotland will benefit from a share of a 10m funding pot announced by the Scottish Government. New chairman of the Scottish Association of Young Farmers Clubs (SAYFC), Katherine Marr, announced the group would benefit from the fund which is designed to strengthen the work of young people's organisations working across Scotland.This week Rural affairs secretary Richard ...
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Why we pedalled on the Scottish parliament
"Big Ride" on parliament just before the mayoral election . It seemed as if cycle campaigning was finally taking off south of the border and cyclists' voices were being heard, while here in Scotland the cycling and walking budget was actually declining despite the government's target of 10% of journeys being undertaken on a bike by 2020.So when David Brennan, a helmet-camera ...
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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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