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Iconic Murrayfield goalposts to be removed
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First World War centenary plans announced by FM
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Scottish Cup classics: McNamara thwarts Hibernian
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Campbeltown cinema celebrates 100 years of films
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Ducklings saved minutes before being hit by train
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Holyrood EU flag flies with wrong number of stars
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US investor John Nelms reveals his Dundee vision
News
Woolwich soldier named as Drummer Lee Rigby video
A SOLDIER killed in a horrific attack on a London street has been named as Drummer Lee Rigby, a father who had served in Afghanistan.
Stephen House: Give seized crime money to police
SCOTLAND’S most senior policeman has urged the government to use funds seized from criminals to fight crime, saying it is “nuts” to refuse.
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Shetland economy tops £1bn for first time
THE total output of the Shetland economy has topped the £1 billion mark for the first time.
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Nissan: Micra steering wheel may come off
NISSAN is recalling of one of its most popular models over a fault that could result in the the steering wheel coming off in the driver’s hands.
Edinburgh trams ‘will run by end of the year’
PASSENGERS will be riding the trams in Edinburgh by the end of the year, a former consultant to the £776 million project has predicted.
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Scottish independence: Donations loophole fears
THE Yes and No independence referendum campaign groups could dodge strict spending limits with the creation of “dummy” bodies to spend surplus cash, it has emerged.
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Sport
SFL reject 42-club league reconstruction plans
SCOTTISH football has lurched closer to an acrimonious civil war after plans for a new unified 42-club league body were informally rejected by a majority of Second and Third Division chairmen at Hampden.
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Hearts to ask fans for help raising £2.5m
HEARTS face a funding gap of £2.5million for the year to June 2014 and could again ask the club’s supporters to dip into their own pockets to fill it.
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Neil Lennon ban will not affect Scottish Cup final
NEIL Lennon has expressed his delight at being able to lead
Celtic out in the William Hill Scottish Cup final after escaping an immediate touchline ban.
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SFL awards: Ally McCoist joy but Queens steal show
Rangers boss Ally McCoist won his first Manager of the Year Award last night, however it was Queen of the South that were the big winners at the Irn-Bru Phenomenal Scottish Football League End of Season Awards Dinner in Glasgow.
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Scottish Cup: Mikael Lustig revels in first final
SURPRISINGLY for a firmly established international footballer, Mikael Lustig will take part in the first cup final of his senior career this weekend.
Fedotovas unsure of UBIG implications for Hearts
HEARTS director Sergejus Fedotovas admits he is still unsure what the implications will be for the club should majority shareholder UBIG officially confirm its “indication” of insolvency.
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Business
Shares lose £40bn US money printing end threat
THE FTSE 100 saw more than £40 billion or 2.1 per cent wiped off its value today as fears that the US may ease back on money printing, along with weak Chinese data, were compounded by doubts over the UK’s recovery.
JP Morgan Chase receives £3m fine for poor records
BRITAIN’S new financial regulator has slapped a £3.08 million fine on a wealth management unit of American banking giant JP Morgan Chase for not having records to show it was giving clients good advice.
New bank Aldermore offers mortgages in Scotland
CHALLENGER bank Aldermore is to offer mortgages to Scottish customers next month as the housing market shows signs of “renewed confidence”.
Parkmead in £14.5 million swoop for rival
Parkmead chief executive Tom Cross hailed the firm’s most important deal to date today as he snapped up North Sea minnow Lochard Energy for less than its market value.
SSE’s Ian Marchant wants end to ‘interventionitis’
OUTGOING SSE chief executive Ian Marchant today launched a final broadside against the growing culture of “interventionitis” that is engulfing the UK’s energy sector.
4 commentsFlybe blames ‘penalistic’ charges as it sells Gatwick slots to EasyJet for £20m
Regional airline Flybe has unveiled plans to pull out of Gatwick airport by selling its 25 pairs of landing and departure slots to EasyJet for £20 million.
Lifestyle
How eating insects could solve world hunger
When the United Nations announced that we could all fight world hunger by eating more insects, most Scots probably turned green at the thought. But Fiona MacGregor is championing the cause after a visit to Cambodia
Scaling heights of Scottish mountaineering history
A remarkable collection of Scottish mountaineering memorabilia is housed in cardboard boxes in a barn near Fort William. Roger Cox meets the man who has put it all together and hears his dream of one day housing it in a purpose-built museum
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Film review: Something In The Air (15)
Inspired partly by his own youthful idealism, Oliver Assayas’s new film is a poignant meditation on protest and disillusion
Gig review: Van Morrison, Perth Concert Hall
On this experience the Van Morrison live show is akin to a religious experience – it’s lots of older people sitting in near silence having an occasionally transcendental experience.
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Film review: The Hangover III video
IN the circumstances, two stars might be considered a minor triumph. The patchy original, released in 2009, made so much money that sequels were inevitable; the real shocker was the $586m the Bangkok-set Part II took, despite being as quantifiably lousy as anything else released in 2011.
Voguing and house music’s politically radical past
House music and voguing are more politically radical than you might think. Kirstin Innes on a festival where clubbing rubs shoulders with transgender theory and the avant garde
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Edinburgh Evening News
Norwegian group in Kaunas for Hearts bid talks
A CONSORTIUM of Scandinavian businessmen vying to take control of Hearts have dispatched a legal team to Lithuania to thrash out a deal for the club.
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Hearts AGM rejects Roman Romanov as club director
FIVE years ago Roman Romanov chaired an annual general meeting of Hearts shareholders and treated his audience with a mixture of contempt and condescension.
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Man who sent girl Facebook sex messages avoids jail
A PERVERT who bombarded an autistic 13-year-old girl with sexually explicit Facebook messages has avoided jail in a move today branded as “a slap in the face for the victims and their family”.
Rox jewellery robbery: Dropped glove snared duo video
DETECTIVES today said that a glove left behind by an armed robber who targeted a George Street jewellers was a “crucial error” which led to his capture.
Football match halted as man dies of heart attack
A JUNIOR football match was abandoned after a committee member collapsed with a suspected heart attack as he put out the half-time teas for the players.
Calls for Eric Joyce MP to resign before election
FORMER Labour MP Dennis Canavan has said MP Eric Joyce should resign before the next general election after being arrested during a fracas at Edinburgh Airport.
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