- Stabbed man is fighting for life
- Roof section installed at new venue
- Heavy mud could block leaking well
- Gangland shooting accused goes free
- Tourist survives attack by cheetahs
- Trump opponent retains council seat
- Leishman becomes Labour councillor
- Labour takes control of Edinburgh
- Labour wins biggest Scots council
- Clegg under fire after heavy losses
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Leaders: No party left unscathed by a disenchanted electorate
THE voters have had their say: what lessons should the politicians learn? For David Cameron and the Conservatives, their poor showing in Thursday’s local elections hardly comes as a surprise.
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Leaders: Tagging sex offenders cannot be enough
THE monitoring of sex offenders when they have been released from prison is both highly complex and highly emotive.
Leaders: A hidden truth behind death of Gareth Williams
How did Gareth Williams, an MI6 officer, die exactly? Why did he die? Was another person, or persons, involved? And why were his employers – given that they are the Secret Intelligence Service and can be reasonably expected to be alert to such things – so lax in letting seven days elapse before initiating inquiries on his disappearance?
Leaders: Local issues should reign supreme in local elections
LOCAL government is one of the many areas of the public sector in Scotland which has been left largely untouched since the creation of the Scottish Parliament in 1999.
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Leaders: David Cameron’s defence of Jeremy Hunt stretches credulity
DAVID Cameron was not in the best of humours yesterday after he was forced by the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, to come before MPs to account for the actions of his Secretary of State for Culture, Jeremy Hunt, in his handling of the proposed takeover of BSKyB by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation.
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Leaders: David Cameron in a high stakes game over BSkyB talks
FOR the lay public, fresh revelations in the deepening imbroglio over “who said what to whom” in the government’s handling of News Corporation’s take-over bid for BSkyB may now be causing confusion rather than clarity.
Leaders: Unhappy shareholders cannot be ignored
ENCAMPMENT protests against extravagant levels of bankers’ pay may have been removed from St Paul’s Cathedral in London and St Andrews Square in Edinburgh, but now they have reappeared in a new guise. And this time they are serious, and hitting home where it hurts.
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Leaders: Rich, powerful pals leave Salmond open to attack
FIRST Minister’s Questions at Holyrood yesterday was dominated by three opposition parties making allegations of impropriety over Alex Salmond’s relations with two rich and powerful men: Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump.
9 commentsLeaders: Haste to publish can mean firms slow to invest
For some years the Scottish Government’s economics unit has come under criticism for publishing its numbers on quarterly Gross Domestic Product performance considerably later than the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS).
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Leaders: Holyrood has no need for personality politics
THE Holyrood political village is expected to be turned into Trump-town today as the flamboyant American tycoon comes before the economy, energy and tourism committee to put his case against the offshore wind farm due to be built within sight of the golf course he constructed in the north-east of Scotland.
6 commentsLeaders: Devolution must set agenda for reform of the Lords
THE House of Lords is a travesty of democracy. That the United Kingdom legislature still has a second chamber made up of those who inherited titles, were appointed by the Prime Minister or who are Church of England bishops, is frankly absurd, a fact which has been recognised by parliamentary reformers for more than a century.
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Leaders: More than money needed to lift curse of youth unemployment
OF THE many depressing features arising from the recession and its aftermath, the breathtaking rise in the level of youth unemployment is the most glaring and problematic.
Leaders: Coalition government are tripping up on a range of issues
LAST September Theresa May got the heel of one her many pairs of elegant shoes stuck in a crack in the pavement outside Downing Street.
1 commentLeaders: Doosan saga a lesson in giving false impressions
THE revelation that Korean firm Doosan Power Systems told the Scottish Government in December that it was going to pull out of a £170 million offshore research project – and yet the Nationalist administration continued to laud the company’s role in the “renewables revolution” north of the Border – leaves Alex Salmond with some questions to answer.
10 commentsLeaders: Recovery will be long – but at least it’s there
AMID continuing concerns about economic growth worldwide, Scotland has turned in a set of figures as good as could be expected and no worse than feared.
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Leaders: Cornton Vale demolition job was long overdue
IT was repeated so often that it became a cliché, but the idea that politicians should be “tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime”, coined by New Labour, contained an essential truth. For without looking at the root causes of criminal behaviour, society cannot hope to reduce criminality which plagues modern society.
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Leaders: SFA must think again on best venue for capital cup final
THE prospect of the first all- Edinburgh Scottish Cup final since 1896 is a mouth-watering one, not just for the fans of the capital’s two football clubs, but also for the city itself, which makes the decision by the Scottish Football Association to play the game next month in Glasgow all the more disappointing.
Leaders: SNP may struggle for credibility with change of stance on Nato
COULD the leadership of the SNP be preparing to drop the party’s opposition to membership of Nato? The party has been opposed to membership of the military alliance for more than 30 years.
9 commentsLeaders: GTCS learns a tough lesson in court – and the case is not over
THE General Teaching Council of Scotland learned an unpleasant lesson yesterday: you tangle with a highly trained mathematical brain at your peril, regardless of her possible failings as a teacher.
Leaders: Policeman’s lot not happy one, but don’t forget the others
THE justice secretary, Kenny MacAskill, has called his proposal for restitution orders, where money from criminals will go to police officers who have been assaulted, a “win-win situation”.
1 commentLeaders: Greek tragedy may fan the political flames across Europe
AFTER a renewed outbreak of financial turbulence across the eurozone, news of a snap election in Greece carries a worrying implication that such turbulence is unlikely to end soon, and indeed may well intensify in the weeks ahead.
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Leaders: Case for relaxing restrictions on court broadcasts
INCH by inch, Scottish courts are moving towards the 21st century. The decision that cameras will be allowed to film High Court judge Lord Bracadale when he sentences David Gilroy for the murder of Suzanne Pilley is welcome.
Leaders: Business must broaden horizons in search of growth
GROWING Scotland’s economy to create jobs and prosperity has never been harder than it is now.
3 commentsLeaders: Plain case to answer on maritime safety and succour
MUCH of Britain’s history has been written in the sea, the command of which enabled the Empire to be constructed, various foreign threats to be seen off, and manufacturers to sell their goods around the world.
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Leaders: Building repairs scandal asks questions of tendering process
SCOTLAND’S local authorities are by far the biggest public-sector spenders in terms of procuring goods and services from the private sector.
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Leaders: Amazon’s corporation tax avoidance must be curtailed
FOR many years, Alex Salmond has offered an enticing vision as to how, with control of the full panoply of economic powers, Scotland’s economy and people might be powered into a new era of prosperity.
8 comments- Election 2012: Labour emerge as biggest party in Edinburgh Council
- Tom English: Badly beaten, cruelly goaded Ibrox men endure longest day
- Tram project in worse state than ever, claim engineers
- Top law firm Ross Harper shut down after client cash probe
- Teenager identifies herself as mother of baby found dead at recycling plant
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