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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
It looks strangely like a welcome. Arms raised; one pair of hands extended as if in applause; and the one concession to colour, under the hodden skies pressing down on Scotland's Gare Loch, splashes from the rainbow flag being waved in the bottom left. It is, however, a Greenpeace protest against the arrival at Faslane of the biggest hunter-killer ever commissioned, HMS Astute (S119). We remembered...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Memories of the times I spent at my grandparents’ house in Aberdeen are remarkably strong and wonderfully vivid. I was mesmerised by my grandparents — I idolised them. I lived in Aberdeen for three months as a baby, before my parents moved to Southampton, where my father worked as a shipbuilder. Yet it seemed that I spent a quarter of my childhood on the motorway driving to Scotland.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Cloak and dagger stuff in the East Midlands, where Harlequins waited until mid-morning before they named their side for the only Premiership fixture of the day. For this was the match that saw the return after his four-month suspension of the wing Tom Williams. Those TV shots of Williams trotting off the field in a Heineken Cup quarter-final against Leinster last March with fake blood pouring from...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The average price of a house in Scotland rose slightly in the last quarter, a new report suggests.
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Christian quoter (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
THe Annual Consultative Assembly and AGM of the CPA took place in Ealing yesterday and I was able to attend in the morning. Numbers were disappointing. Not quite the old story of having the party conference in a phone box though. 'In June, a quarter of a million people in Britain voted for a Christian vision of Europe by backing candidates from the Christian Peoples Alliance and our colleagues in...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Scotland 23-10 Fiji As second comings go, it went relatively smoothly. Five years and a day after Andy Robinson opened his England account with a 70-0 drubbing of Canada at Twickenham, his new team scored an efficient, no-frills win over the team who started the day one place above them in the world rankings. It was a shame fewer than 29,000 turned out for the start of the new era, but things will...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
A quarter of a million children in England aged 11 to 17 face a higher risk of developing malignant skin cancer by using tanning beds, researchers said Friday. Writing in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the researchers called for urgent legislation to stop sunbed use by minors in England, as is already the case for Scotland and Wales. The risk of melanoma -- the most lethal form of skin cancer...
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underdogs bite upwards (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Remember when Question Time became the Nick Griffin Show? A few people noticed some of the other people present. One of them was our own Strawman Jack who dodged questions on immigration by effectively pointing at Nick the Griff and saying 'Well, his policies are worse'. One of the Strawman's arguments was along the lines of 'the rate of immigration is slowing'. At first glance, that sounds good but...
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Blether with Brian (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The dole queue has lengthened perceptibly once more. Unemployment across Scotland rose by 67,000 in the last quarter, compared with the previous year . And here's the thing. The Glasgow North East constituency area retains its unwanted distinction of having the highest unemployment percentage in Scotland. There's more. Glasgow NE has the second highest rate of incapacity benefit claims in the UK....
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
MORE than a quarter of a million households in Scotland are missing out on energy savings by failing to take up grants to insulate their homes.
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
SCOTLAND'S top young sides are just two games away from a place in the National Youth Cup final at Murrayfield next February, with the quarter-finals due to take place lat
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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
MORE than a quarter of a million households in Scotland are missing out on energy savings by failing to take up grants to insulate their homes.
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