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Hibs cup final parade planned for Monday 27th May
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Gerry Hassan: Worlds apart on question of union
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Alf Young: Treasury will be trouble for the SNP
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Elise Christie: Scottish Winter Olympics medal hope
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The ‘lesbian’ teacher scandal that shook society
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Great Scots’ Italian burial site ‘falling to ruin’
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Fans remember F1 legend Jim Clark at Duns
News
Salmond hit by Nigel Farage freedom of speech row
ALEX Salmond was at the centre of a row over freedom of speech last night, after he failed to condemn pro-independence protesters for preventing Ukip leader Nigel Farage putting his party’s case in Scotland.
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Government urged to change hospital single-room plan
Campaigners are calling on the Scottish Government to change its policy of having only single rooms in new hospitals following concerns about the negative effects on patients.
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Giving wine to kids ‘could make them alcoholics’
ALLOWING teenagers going through puberty even a little alcohol could increase their chances of becoming heavy drinkers in later life, according to a new report.
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Gallows double as climbing frame at Jupiter Artland
A MASSIVE sculpture inspired by America’s history of capital punishment is to become the latest feature at Scotland’s multi-million-pound sculpture park.
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Gay marriage row ‘will strengthen Kirk’
THE debate over gay ministers will strengthen the Church of Scotland a leading advocate of the move has insisted, following criticism from the Free Kirk.
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Landowner’s Penicuik wind farm is blown off course
It has been a turbulent feud over wind turbines, which has set the scion of one of Scotland’s most distinguished landowning families against the owner of a neighbouring country estate, the Edinburgh financier Peter de Vink.
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Sport
John Brown: ‘Romanov is Hearts’ Craig Whyte’
DUNDEE boss John Brown has hit out at Hearts chief shareholder Vladimir Romanov, describing him as the Tynecastle version of disgraced former Rangers chairman Craig Whyte.
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Hibernian 1 - 0 Dundee: Hibs clinch seventh place
A BULLET header from substitute David Wotherspoon gave Pat Fenlon’s Hibs the perfect send-off for next weekend’s Scottish Cup final against Celtic, earning the Easter Road outfit a third win in six days to clinch seventh place in the SPL table.
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Kilmarnock 1 - 3 St Mirren: Buddies bag away win
LATE goals from Paul McGowan and Conor Newton secured St Mirren just their third away win of the season as they rounded off their Clydesdale Bank Premier League campaign with three points at Rugby Park.
Aberdeen 1 - 1 Hearts: Hearts’ point at Pittodrie
DESPITE the uncertainty over their future, Hearts produced a gutsy and defiant display to take a point against Aberdeen in their final SPL match of the season.
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Hearts poised to learn SPL status at Monday meeting
Hearts could learn on Monday morning if their Scottish Premier League status has been retained, immediately prior to the club’s expected participation in an SPL vote to push through league reconstruction plans.
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Rumour Mill: ‘Romanov the new Craig Whyte’ | Leigh Griffiths
JOHN Brown has some harsh words for Hearts’ major shareholder, a former teammate of Leigh Griffiths stands up for the striker, and Dundee United are in trouble with Hampden. All that and more in Saturday’s Rumour Mill.
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Business
Gilbert tipped to leave FirstGroup
Martin Gilbert is expected to announce his retirement as chairman of transport operator FirstGroup this week when the company may also unveil plans to raise up to £600 million and a sharp cut in its dividend.
Waitrose lawyers to examine Ocado-Morrisons deal
WAITROSE has demanded to see the detail of Ocado’s £200 million-plus tie-up with Morrisons which has fast-tracked its rival’s entry into the online shopping sector.
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£1m to expand Ocean Terminal catering outlets
THE owner of Ocean Terminal in Leith, Resolution Property, is investing £1 million to increase the space dedicated to catering outlets while retail is in the doldrums.
Comment: Taxing questions for complicit governments
IS YOUR business guilty of “false delocalisation”? That’s the fancy EU jargon for the creative tax avoidance schemes engineered by multinational companies such as Google and Amazon.
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SSE to invest £200m in Dunmaglass wind farm project
Energy group SSE has agreed to buy a controversial Highlands wind farm project, in which it will invest about £200 million.
Menzies director Paul Dollman bows out
JOHN Menzies group finance director Paul Dollman said “it has been a great ride” as he attended his last annual general meeting for the distribution and aviation firm after ten years leading the two divisions.
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Lifestyle
Texas’ Sharleen Spiteri on the band’s comeback
PART tomboy, part rock chick, part soul siren and complete Glasgow girl, Sharleen Spiteri and texas are back. And after 25 years in the business, she’s still got plenty to talk about.
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World Whisky Day: Scotland’s global export
The ‘water of life’, especially in single-malt form, is one of Scotland’s most enduring exports. But should it really be mixed with condensed milk? Fiona MacGregor reports
William McIlvanney: The father of tartan noir
As Canongate set about reprinting his classics, William McIlvanney tells Susan Mansfield that we may not have heard the last of DI Laidlaw
Book review: Between Friends by Amos Oz
In 1954, aged 14, Amos Klausner changed his name to Amos Oz, leaving behind him his home and father, exchanging city life for the relative privations of the desert, cutting his teeth (and his new identity) on life in an Israeli kibbutz.
Book review: The Lion Rampant by Robert Low
With The Lion Rampant and its vivid, imaginative and blood-curdling account of Bannockburn, Robert Low, one assumes, has concluded in splendid bravura style, his sequence of novels on the Wars of Independence.
Chevy’s making Trax
THE Chevrolet Trax is a compact SUV in the Nissan Juke/Skoda Yeti mould. As well as chunky looks and a tempting price tag, the lil’ Chevy also has heritage on its side – its maker claims to have got the sport-utility vehicle ball rolling in the 1930s, with the Carryall Suburban, an eight-seater car the size of a bread van and built for the North American market in the days before anyone thought of calling SUVs “SUVs”.
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Edinburgh Evening News
Ukip candidate to stand in Liberton by-election
NIGEL Farage’s UK Independence Party has entered the contest for a city council seat just a day after the controversial leader was locked in a Capital pub for his own safety as protesters demonstrated outside.
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Staff crisis at St John’s A&E forces cuts
CRISIS-HIT Lothian accident and emergency departments are set to be radically overhauled, with scaled back services expected to lead to an increase in pressure on the already over-stretched Royal Infirmary.
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Haddington court closure ‘could cost public £500k’
CLOSING Haddington Sheriff Court and switching its work to Edinburgh will cost the public more than £500,000, campaigners claimed today.
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Hibs cup final parade planned for Monday 27th May
PLANS for the first Hibs Scottish Cup victory parade since 1902 have been finalised – all the Easter Road side have to do now is win.
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Royal Mile pharmacy siege: Owner speaks of trauma
THE owner of the Royal Mile Pharmacy has said the emotion of seeing his staff in distress kept him focused during a three-hour armed siege.
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Cardinal Keith O’Brien’s house hit by vandals
A MANSE lined up as a retirement home for disgraced cardinal Keith O’Brien has been attacked by vandals – on the same day the Pope ordered him to quit Scotland.
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