My Nairn (Free subscription) | yesterday
A heads up of potential major traffic disruption to the Kessock and Cromaty bridges early next year: Bridge repairs ‘will not clash’ Repairs to two major road bridges in the Highlands will not happen at the same time, Transport Scotland has said. Preparatory work ahead of full-scale refurbishment could be carried out on the Cromarty Bridge next [...]
Martha & Bailey's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Martha here to tell you the rain in Scotland is torrential! Bailey submerged yesterday whilst out for her walk! Not to worry we fished her out and dried her off - she is sleeping after her ordeal! Ammy where were you with the weather warning - especially for short legged dogs? This is me with no paws! What do you think of that Khyra - tidy? Here are some random fun things instead of bassets! We saw...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
THE number of vacant properties in Scotland has soared to a four-year high. More than 103,000 homes are lying empty – 4.2 per cent of the country's total.
DARnet (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Forth Road Bridge Scotland Originally uploaded by AndyRob I don’t have anything in particular I wanted to say about the Forth Road Bridge really, just to post this photograph I took from a vantage point on the south bank of the Forth, just outside the town of Queensferry. Anything you wanted to know about the Forth Road Bridge [...] Thanks for subscribing to Andy Roberts blog The Forth Road Bridge...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The New Zealand boss is the only top 10 coach to have led his team in the 2007 World Cup. Is rugby changing for the worse? When Graham Henry sits down with Martin Johnson after tomorrow's international between England and New Zealand at Twickenham to enjoy a beer or glass of red wine, one topic of conversation between the pair will be the way rugby has become like football with coaches taking part...
It's Me. (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Maybe I'm not the best film director in the land but I have a lot of fun with, http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/PhotoStory/default.mspx You can even add sound, so, sound on. Bothwell Castle is Scotland's finest 13th-century castle to be found at Uddingston. Craignethan dates back to 1530, 5 miles from Lanark. New Lanark, Scotland. A World Heritage site. The cotton mill owners...
Blether with Brian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Perhaps it was the presence of Willie Bain, smiling wanly in the public gallery, but today's Labour/SNP exchanges at first minister's questions seemed notably antagonistic. Mr Bain, of course, is a living, grinning reminder that Labour thumped the SNP in the Glasgow North East by-election . Today, like an invited Banquo, he hovered over the pre-lunch feast of oratory that is the weekly question session....
Boomkat: Just arrived (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
LINKWOOD System (3LP Edition) PRIME NUMBERS TECHNO / HOUSE 3LP *DELUXE TRIPLE VINYL EDITION FINALLY IN STOCK* Yet another product of Scotland's incredibly fertile dance music scene, Linkwood and the Firecracker crew have been causing international waves of appreciation for their skewed view of real authentic house and deep disco. Everyone from Echospace's Steve Hitchell to Derrick May, Carl Craig and...
The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Jimmy Calderwood is a 7-1 shot with the bookies to become the new Scotland manager.
Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
“Gordon Brown is wrong to push ahead with this expensive programme,” said Alistair Carmichael, theLiberal Democrat Shadow Scotland Secretary. Commenting on the SNP’s response to the ‘Scotland Without Nuclear Weapons’ Report, Alistair Carmichael said: “Liberal Democrats oppose the like-for-like replacement of Trident for all of the UK. It is an outdated, Cold War...
SUBROSA (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
According to Strathclyde University's Fraser of Allander Institute, Scotland's recovery from the recession will be much slower than the rest of the UK, as the economy is hit by particularly hard by serious cuts to public spending. The think tanks blames the deeper recession in Scotland mainly on a bigger drop in the output of its financial sector. It is also though that the Scottish economy may confound...
Action 4 Equality Scotland (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The next hearing day for the ongoing South Lanarkshire Council cases has already been advertised - but here's timely reminder. Date - Monday 30 November 2009 Time - 10 am Venue - Employment Tribunal Offices, 215 Bothwell Street, Glasgow, G2 7TS The hearing is in public - so anyone can go along to listen in and see what's happening first hand. If you do attend as one of the South Lanarkshire claimants,...
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
CRAIG Burley has told Scotland's " thick or arrogant players " they should hang their heads in shame following the sacking of his uncle George from the international job.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
A typical hospital ward is ill-equipped to recognise and meet the daily needs of a dementia sufferer Four years ago I found that I had become a dementia carer, when my my mother-in-law Nancy, who has Alzheimer's, moved in. She's in care now, in a good dementia unit, but during the years she was with us, the illness transformed an articulate friendly person and attentive granny into a paranoid, hostile,...
The Bruce Web (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
There is a lot of discussion in the blogosphere around this NYT article and the response to it from the right: Hunger in U.S. at a 14-Year High which includes this response from Robert Rectum, er Rector at Heritage “Very few of these people are hungry,” said Robert Rector, an analyst at the conservative Heritage Foundation. “When they lose jobs, they constrain the kind of food they...
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