- Firms urged to use Scottish produce
- Parliament to see plans for police
- Funding for social community group
- Stabbing prompts murder inquiry
- Top prosecutor meets Libyan PM
- Jewellery 'definitely in bathroom'
- 14-year-old charged after boy death
- Scotland backs minimum alcohol cost
- Murder inquiry after man found dead
- Yes-to-independence campaign begins
- Police car involved in road crash
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Comment: What is there to ‘like’ about Facebook flotation?
FEW flotations have captured the public’s imagination in quite the same way as Facebook’s first day of trading on Friday. As one observer stated, it was rare for such an event to take place in which everyone has a stake in the outcome.
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Comment: Pain in Spain a headache for everyone
TWO telephone calls out of the blue at the end of last week brought disturbing news. The first was from a well-connected source in Brussels; the second from a contact in Spain.
Comment: When a jog turns into a sprint, it’s time to worry
THIS weekend, the leaders of the G8 industrial nations are in conclave at Camp David, President Obama’s wooded retreat some 70 miles from Washington.
Comment: Fresh pleas to stop bashing Britain’s bankers
WESTMINSTER got a reality check from City heavyweights yesterday on the likely extended wait for taxpayers to get their money back from the state-sponsored bailouts of Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group.
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Bill Jamieson: Mixed messages cloud the picture
WE’RE reversing. We’re slumping. We’re growing. We’re slowing. It’s a Double Dip. No it’s not. Yes it is.
Pick your way through the maze of conflicting data in the past week and you could go down in a spin with Signpost Sickness.
Comment: City not carried away despite dividend largesse
THE City, somewhat unfairly, looked a gift horse in the mouth yesterday. BT, riding an earnings recovery from its profit‑warning days, had a troika of good news for its shareholders.
Comment: Shareholders flex muscles – and want action
THE board of Aviva must have thought that chief executive Andrew Moss had taken the sting out of a looming showdown with investors when he agreed to waive a near-5 per cent pay rise.
Bill Jamieson: Chill winds could wreck UK recovery
‘We are not just flying through one of the stormiest and most turbulent periods in modern history, but flying blind’
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- Today’s youth not fit to be employed, says car firm Arnold Clark
- Rangers takeover: Duff & Phelps threaten legal action against BBC
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