- SSE squeezed by rising energy costs
- Crews tackle recycling plant fire
- Job interviewees may get texted
- Owners of empty homes 'need advice'
- Classroom technology use analysed
- Seafood firm plans £80m investment
- Boyle's 'autistic' comment attacked
- 'Fewer cases of norovirus recorded'
- Gas leak on platform 'has stopped'
- Scottish jobless total falls again
- MSPs to agree library legislation
News
Body recovered from quarry in missing boy search
POLICE divers searching for a missing boy in a North Lanarkshire Quarry have recovered a body.
Serb leader Ratko Mladic on trial in Hague for genocide Picture gallery
FORMER Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic has gone on trial at a UN tribunal on charges of genocide.
Unemployment in Scotland falls for second quarter in a row
UNEMPLOYMENT in Scotland has fallen for the second time in a row, new figures published this morning have revealed.
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Robber is thwarted by stool battering video
A PLUCKY shopkeeper thwarted a knife- wielding robber by fighting him off with a fold-up stool.
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Police launch blitz on dealers with city-wide series of raids
POLICE today staged a string of raids against heroin and cocaine dealers in the west of Edinburgh.
Sport
Scotland rugby squad: Tim Visser among new additions for summer tour
HOLLAND-born Edinburgh wing Tim Visser is one of five uncapped players included in Scotland’s summer tour squad.
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Steven Shingler ruled ineligible for Scotland
SCOTLAND will not be able to call upon Steven Shingler to play Test rugby after the International Rugby Board’s council ruled that he was ineligible.
Scotland in race for Euro 2020 but viability of bid is a ‘concern’
SCOTLAND have formally joined forces with Wales and Republic of Ireland to declare an interest in co-hosting the 2020 European Championship finals.
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Mrowiec wants to give Hearts fans Cup as parting gift
HEARTS midfielder Adrian Mrowiec today admitted he wants to say goodbye and thank you to the Tynecastle support by giving them the Scottish Cup after the biggest ever Edinburgh derby.
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The Rumour Mill: Wednesday’s football news and gossip
In today’s Rumour Mill: Neil Lennon targets £5m-rated Leicester defender; Graeme Souness distances himself from Charles Green’s Rangers consortium; Craig Beattie confident of starting for Hearts; plus the rest of the day’s football news and gossip.
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Business
Boots profits lifted by beauty ranges
FEWER coughs and colds over the mild winter and pressure on income from prescriptions failed to prevent Alliance Boots from today posting higher profits at its UK health and beauty operations.
1 commentSSE buys Irish energy firm from Guy Hands as profits edge higher
SSE, the Perth-based utilities giant, today bought an Irish gas supplier from Guy Hands’ Terra Firma private equity firm for £19.1 million.
1 commentTennent’s owner toasts rising profits
IRISH drinks group C&C today posted a rise in profits after improving efficiency at its Tennent’s brewery in Glasgow.
1 commentGreggs’ new move on ‘pasty tax’
The boss of bakery chain Greggs has stepped up his fight against the “completely confusing” pasty tax on the eve of a showdown with the Treasury.
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Scottish Business Briefing - Wednesday 16 May, 2012
WELCOME to scotsman.com’s Scottish Business Briefing. Every morning we bring you a comprehensive round-up of all news affecting business in Scotland today.
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What might an album by Shirley Manson and Paul Buchanan have sounded like?
THE new albums by Garbage and Paul Buchanan seem like musical polar opposites - one is sleek, hard-edged guitar pop that seems tailor-designed for daytime radio. The other, as you’d expect from the former frontman of the Blue Nile, is music for listening to late at night - slow, sparse, full of quiet ache and longing.
Photographer creates fresh slant on familiar sights of Capital
WITH her towering church spires that pierce the grey sky, the ancient blackened rock which hoists probably the most famous castle in the world into prime position guarding the city below and the prim New Town facades, Edinburgh, for most of us, presents a very familiar face.
Cannes Film Festival 2012: The wrath of Cannes
AS the world’s coolest film festival gets underway today, Stephen Applebaum finds that behind all the glitz and the glamour there lies an institution not to be messed with
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What The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp reveals about Michael Powell
In November last year, Martin Scorsese regaled an audience at the British Film Institute in London with tales of Robert De Niro’s method madness.
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Paul eager for wedding after overcoming Afghan trauma
LIKE most blokes, Paul Lambert is looking forward to getting his hands on his latest hi-tech gadget.
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Weather for Edinburgh
Wednesday 16 May 2012
Today
Sunny spells
Temperature: 3 C to 12 C
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