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Hearts: ‘Nightmare for Gary Locke in his dream job’
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Help us film Scotland’s longest day
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Bill Jamieson: Micro-managing the UK’s recovery
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Tory leader refused alcohol at Springsteen concert
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Rodent’s cell tissue could be cancer breakthrough
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Dundee makes City of Culture 2017 shortlist
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Wimbledon: Andy Murray needs luck, says Pat Cash
News
RBS: Osborne signals ‘good bank, bad bank’ split
GEORGE Osborne has signalled that he is prepared to break up the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in a bid to recoup the £45 billion of taxpayers’ money used to bail the once all-conquering Scottish institution out in 2008.
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Sopranos actor James Gandolfini dies in Italy
JAMES Gandolfini, the actor famous for his lead role in mob drama The Sopranos, has died in Italy, according to his managers.
Independent Scotland will flourish, says economist
A FORMER economic adviser to Alex Salmond has argued that Scotland would thrive after independence, with Edinburgh acting as its “dominant” economic centre.
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Scottish independence ‘baffles’ foreign nations
FOREIGN Secretary William Hague will claim today that foreign nations are “baffled” over why Scotland would want to leave the Union, as he uses a speech in Scotland to back the case for the UK.
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Probe after Aberdeen psychiatric hospital deaths
AN INVESTIGATION has been launched by a Scottish health board after two patients from an understaffed psychiatric hospital in Aberdeen died.
Kirk gay clergy: Stornoway High Church breaks away
ONE OF the Church of Scotland largest congregations is breaking away from the Kirk over the gay clergy row.
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Sport
Hearts administration: ‘Job losses inevitable’
THE Foundation of Hearts chairman Ian Murray last night welcomed the appointment of BDO as the administrators at Tynecastle, insisting the legal move brought some much-needed clarity to the situation.
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Rumour Mill: Virgil van Dijk | Wanyama | Brittain
CELTIC could confirm their new Dutch signing later today, reaction as Hearts’ time in administration begins, and the latest twist in the Richard Brittain saga, plus news from Rangers and Inverness in Wednesday’s Rumour Mill.
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Lions: Sean Maitland only Scot in first test squad
SEAN Maitland is the lone Scottish representative in the 23-man squad for the British and Irish Lions’ first test against Australia in Brisbane.
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Wimbledon: Upset over Rafa Nadal’s ‘joke’ seeding
Wimbledon’s clinical procedure for determining its men’s seeds was called into question yesterday as Rafael Nadal was afforded scant grace for his stunning career record on grass or his world-leading seven titles this year.
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Hearts: ‘Nightmare for Gary Locke in his dream job’
DAVID WEIR shared what he still regards as one of his happiest days in football with Gary Locke, looking on in delight at Celtic Park 15 years ago when his injured colleague stepped forward to lift the Scottish Cup.
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Celtic’s Gaelic guru to impart winning mentality
WHEN Dermot Desmond turned Neil Lennon’s gaze in the direction of Jim McGuinness last year, it was not something he would have done for just any old Gaelic football manager.
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Business
PRA tells lenders to plug £27bn capital shortfall
Five of Britain’s biggest lenders must plug a combined £27.1 billion hole in their finances, with Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland accounting for more than 90 per cent of the shortfall, the City regulator said today.
£1bn Chinese luxury yacht swoop nets Souter £100m
BUS tycoon Sir Brian Souter has pocketed more than £100 million in profits on investments in recent months after the latest deal saw his stake in yacht maker Sunseeker International sold to a Chinese billionaire.
Six MPC members entrenched against further QE
Incoming Bank of England governor Mark Carney will probably have to keep policy on hold at his first meeting after predecessor Sir Mervyn King’s call for stimulus was again defeated by six votes to three.
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Watchdog to examine SME banking
REGULATORS followed-up the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standard’s final report by yesterday launching a probe into lending to small businesses.
BT rocked Ian as Livingston is called to office
Telecoms giant BT unveiled a change at the top yesterday as chief executive Ian Livingston revealed he is to become a government minister.
ITV takes majority stake in US studio
ITV continued its acquisition spree by snapping up US production company Thinkfactory Media, the maker of “reality” television series and dramas including the Emmy award-winning Hatfields & McCoys starring Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton pictured.
Lifestyle
Winning waves: Jolomo art prize winner Dawnne McGeachy
As the daughter of a fisherman, Dawnne McGeachy appreciated from an early age the beauty – and perils – of the sea. Now her dramatic paintings of breaking waves have won the former Glasgow School of Art student Scotland’s top art prize.
Help us film Scotland’s longest day
TO mark the Summer Solstice we will be putting together a montage of video clips which give a taste of life in Scotland on the longest day of the year.
Edinburgh Film Festival: The story of ‘Dummy Jim’
In 1951 a deaf factory worker from Aberdeenshire embarked on a solo cycling trip from his home to the Arctic Circle – 3000 miles away. Now the story of his remarkable journey has been made into a film set for its UK premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival tomorrow.
Scottish fact of the week: Tarlair swimming pool
Despite its A-listed status and Art Deco design, Tarlair swimming pool has lain in a state of slow decay.
Fiona McCade: Driven to distraction by cars for laydees
When I first saw one of the “new” Volkswagen Beetles, back in 1997, the first thing I noticed was the cutesy little flower vase on the dashboard. And I thought: “Who is this car for? Barbara Cartland?”
Gig review: Bruce Springsteen, Glasgow
Thanks to Glasgow’s summer weather for playing a part, because a three-hour epic of a stadium set from Bruce Springsteen wouldn’t be complete without a glowing orange sunset bleeding into dusk in the background.
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Edinburgh Evening News
Help us film Scotland’s longest day
TO mark the Summer Solstice we will be putting together a montage of video clips which give a taste of life in Scotland on the longest day of the year.
BDO take charge as Hearts enter administration
BDO have been appointed as the administrators of Hearts, as the club formally entered administration this afternoon.
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Crimewatch to show Corstorphine Hill murder appeal
THE Corstorphine Hill murder is to feature on the BBC’s Crimewatch Roadshow programme tomorrow.
Virgin Active fined after Omni toxic gas leak
A LEADING UK fitness firm has been fined £20,000 after toxic chemicals were accidentally fed into a swimming pool.
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Edinburgh film festival kicks off with Breathe In
HIS only previous visit here was to shoot a mobile phone advert. Now one of America’s leading young film-makers has found himself in the glare of the spotlight at Scotland’s flagship film festival - along with one of Britain’s rising screen stars.
Convicted rapist John Cronin back living in Tranent
POLICE are monitoring sexual predator and conman John Cronin after he was set free and bailed to live with his parents in their East Lothian home.
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