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Two Doctors (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's satisfying, commissioning opinion polls, especially on topics where the other side is rich and powerful but hasn't published any poll results. That always makes me suspect our position is popular as well as right. The one we released today (thanks to Friends of the Earth Scotland and the ForthRight Alliance for co-commissioning it) covered Ministers' plans for a new Forth Road Bridge. We found...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
France, which is pressing for concrete measures to stop bankers' excessive bonuses at the ongoing G-20 finance ministers' meeting in Scotland, has issued a decree of regulation on the eve of the meeting, expecting other participants to follow suit. The regulation issued Thursday by the French finance ministry summed up the professional rules published by the French Banking Federation (FBF) two days...
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Andrew Reeves' running blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
That perhaps wasn't the title you expected to see on my little blog, well, it is something I am concerned about and for those that doubt it ask my colleagues in the office, who once they had got over the initial laughter and shock, well sort of just accept it now. Honeybees are continually under threat of being wiped out from a range of diseases, which strange as this may seem they have no natural...
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niminy fingers (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
A few images from our trip to Scotland last week - words to follow ..... sometime soon!
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Rising Hegemon (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Off to the boiler: The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country. Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and until 2004 the UK's ambassador to Uzbekistan, said the CIA not only...
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Andrew Reeves' running blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The Scottish Liberal Democrats candidate for the Glasgow North East by-election candidate, Eileen Baxendale has had a busy week with visits in Glasgow North East with Leader Tavish Scott, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland Alistair Carmichael and yesterday former UK Leader, Charles Kennedy MP. Eileen Baxendale hasn't taken a day off since she was selected to fight the seat made vacant over 120...
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Dunedin Napier News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
By Leroy Carter Edinburgh’s top chefs may be salivating over the return of oysters to the Firth of Forth, but local people hope there are bigger fish to fry. Local historian, George Hackland, says the real benefit will be in the re-generation of his town and the return of prosperity to Newhaven. Newhaven used to be Scotland’s oyster [...]
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The number of corporate and personal insolvencies in Scotland fell in the third quarter of this year, latest figures reveal.
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qwstnevrythg.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Daniel Tencer | Rawstory The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country. Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and until 2004 [...]
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
How much have the insolvency figures gone up by? The full data The recession is hitting home, according to the latest figures from the Insolvency Service : The number of people in England and Wales becoming insolvent rose to a record 35,242 in the third quarter of this year, figures from the Insolvency Service showed today, and experts warned it could reach 130,000 by the end of the year. The figure,...
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Humint Events Online (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive , says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country. Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and until 2004 the UK's ambassador to Uzbekistan, said the CIA not only relied on confessions...
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Andrew Reeves' running blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
53 Threshers shops out of the 219 across Scotland are now to close down. There will be 373 closures across the UK out of a total of 1,300 shops which will affect all of First Quench's brands including Threshers, Wine Rack, Haddows, Bottoms Up and Victoria Wine. As most people know the parent company, First Quench went into administration just last month and have appointed KPMG as their administrator,...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
An "extinct" animal has been found alive and well in the Firth of Forth in Scotland. Oysters were thought to have died out in the area decades ago but specimens were found at a secret location.
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
GREGOR Townsend believes two heads are better than one as far as the Scotland captaincy is concerned. The attack coach is fully behind Andy Robinson’s decision for Mike Blair
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
• World No4 wants best possible preparation for Australian Open • ATP monitors spread of swine flu as leading player falls ill Andy Murray has revealed that he is so determined to get everything right in an effort to do well at the Australian Open in January that he is to forego his traditional Christmas at home in favour of staying at his training base in Miami. For the past two years,...
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