- Housing budget set for 41% cut
- Award for Libyan conflict nurse
- Poorly pandas removed from view
- Holyrood recruits marathon hero
- Pressure grows over RBS chief bonus
- Pair hurt in paragliding accident
- Kingdom Bakers enters receivership
- SNP 'backtracked' on housing pledge
- Lawyer: Tommy Sheridan to be gagged
- Swinney: Economy 'running on empty'
- Teaching union selects new leader
- Firefighters tackle scrapyard blaze
- Buying homes 'cheaper than renting'
- Frew accused breaks down in dock
- Scots 'devo-max' option highlighted
- Judges bid to speed up hacking case
- £24,000 fine for Legionnaires' case
- Gun murder conviction appeal fails
- Olympic security test at Hampden
Scotland on Sunday
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It’s a muggle’s game – and a wizard wheeze
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Shooters up in arms as RSPB impose ban on wildfowling
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Sled dogs get tongues wagging in UK’s biggest huskies race
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Robert Burns would be considered a ‘terrorist’ if alive today, according to film maker
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Historic cottage to be rebuilt stone by stone (minus the satellite dish and burglar alarm)
No further tax powers for Scotland, says David Cameron
SCOTS have been warned a substantial increase in financial powers for Holyrood is not an option if Scotland wants to remain within the United Kingdom.
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Whisky investors cheered by rise in values
CAREFUL with that dram – it might be better off left in the bottle, as Scotch whisky is now outperforming traditional investments, including the stock market and gold.
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New Forth road bridge: German firm tipped to win contract
A MAJOR contract for the construction of the new £1.5 billion Forth road bridge is poised to be handed to a German firm rather than a Scottish business.
15 commentsFraudsters cashing in on knotty problem
FRAUDSTERS are cashing in on an epidemic of Japanese knotweed in Scotland by charging thousands of pounds to eradicate the damaging and invasive weed.
Channel 4 axes Frankie Boyle show
HIS dark brand of humour has generated acclaim and outrage in almost equal measure. But now Channel 4 has parted company with controversial Scots comic Frankie Boyle.
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Politics
RBS chairman turns down £1.4m bonus
THE Royal Bank of Scotland chairman, Sir Philip Hampton, has waived the £1.4 million shares award he was due to pick up next month.
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Eurozone warned to strengthen its firewall
GEORGE Osborne has warned that the Eurozone must strengthen its financial firewall before other countries increase their funding to the International Monetary Fund.
David Torrance: Big guns primed as battle lines drawn
As the momentum gathers pace towards the historic independence vote, unionists are mustering their forces
7 commentsJohn Curtice: SNP may be opening the door to a new generation of voter apathy
JUDGING by the rhetoric on both sides, the question of whether 16 or 17-year-olds should be allowed to vote in the independence referendum is one of the key flashpoints in the dispute between the Scottish and the UK governments.
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Countdown to a vote on independence: Questions and Answers
Scotland on Sunday’s Political Editor, Eddie Barnes, examines some of the frequently asked questions about the referendum, and provides answers to them
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International
Gunman kills four in Indian poll attack
FOUR people were killed in an attack on a police office in north-east India being used as a polling station yesterday.
Fears for medic who helped find Bin Laden
US DEFENCE secretary Leon Panetta has revealed he is “very concerned” about the fate of a Pakistani doctor arrested for reportedly providing intelligence for the raid that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden last year.
Gingrich toiling to keep pace with Romney
NEWT Gingrich is struggling to regain momentum in America’s Republican presidential race after two new polls showed him falling behind Mitt Romney ahead of the Florida caucus on Tuesday.
Chaos in Syria as observers pull back
THE Arab League last night halted its observer mission to Syria, as it emerged more than 80 people had been killed in violent protests there in recent days, including children.
Egypt: Call for El Baradei to give court evidence
A lawyer for Egypt’s former interior minister asked the court yesterday to have Nobel Peace Prize laureate and pro-reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei testify as a witness in his client’s defence.
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Sport
Ally McCoist plays down blow as ‘target’ Pawel Brozek opts for Celtic
RANGERS manager Ally McCoist last night tried to play down his disappointment after it was confirmed that Pawel Brozek, the Polish striker who had been among his signing targets, had opted to enter into contract negotiations with Celtic.
Rangers 4 - 0 Hibernian: Hibs prove generous to a fault
NO Jelavic for Rangers. No Lafferty or Naismith. No Griffiths or O’Connor for Hibs. It is a wonder we got any goals at Ibrox yesterday, but Steve Davis, David Healy and Sone Aluko stepped up to the plate for Ally McCoist’s side, who could scarcely have had a more comfortable afternoon.
Northern Exposure: Why respect is due to the Highland football clubs
As another cup clash with Celtic looms, Inverness stalwart Christie tells Paul Forsyth respect is due to the Highland clubs
League Cup: Ayr United 0 - 1 Kilmarnock (AET)
FOR part-time players, it was always going to be difficult to offer full-time resistance. And in the end Ayr couldn’t. The willingness was there but it was Kilmarnock’s superior quality which told in the end.
Steven Pressley’s pledge means Mark Millar’s time is now
ONE was a youngster still striving to make the breakthrough, the other was a veteran coming to the end of his playing career. One showed promise, the other made one.
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Business
Investors ‘will not decide on executive pay’
OTTO Thoresen, head of the Association of British Insurers (ABI), has dashed hopes that institutional investors will police soaring levels of pay among Britain’s biggest companies.
Valt vows to silence doubters with dedicated distillery
SCOTLAND’S only single malt vodka is set to be exported in much larger quantities after the firm that makes the spirit fired up its first dedicated distillery.
Profits at Shell set to anger drivers
HIGHER annual and quarterly profits from oil heavyweight Royal Dutch Shell are this week expected to ignite the fury of hard-pressed drivers who continue to face near record prices at the petrol pump.
Inflation and minimum wage eat into benefits of capital’s tourist boom
DOUBTS have been cast over the economic benefit of Edinburgh’s tourism boom amid warnings many hospitality jobs only pay the minimum wage while hoteliers have seen their income ravaged by inflation and competition.
Personal finance: A spot of careful planning now can go a long way towards safeguarding your pension investments
THE rollercoaster ride endured by investment markets last year did little for confidence levels among pension savers.
Money
Personal finance: A spot of careful planning now can go a long way towards safeguarding your pension investments
THE rollercoaster ride endured by investment markets last year did little for confidence levels among pension savers.
Debt-to-savings plan worth banking on
YOU may have heard that there’s a pensions crisis in the UK. Too few people saving or not saving enough, life expectancy rising, the state pension increasingly insufficient and employers scaling back their pension schemes … that sort of thing.
Jeff Salway: Bank workers know pitfalls of share perks
FOR Bank of Scotland and Royal Bank of Scotland workers, the chance to buy discounted shares in their employer seemed a no-lose deal.
Will Year of Dragon cause burnt fingers?
After a punishing year for Asian markets, most experts think the worst is over, says Jeff Salway
Jeff Salway: Euro crisis tests investors’ nerves
FOR a time last year it seemed investors had learned not to panic every time markets were rocked by volatility.
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Opinion
Eddie Barnes: ‘An appetite for further change, less than independence’
A one-question independence referendum denies the people of Scotland a chance to consider all the options
Duncan Hamilton: Now we have a question, but we still lack a constructive debate
THIS has felt like a very big week in Scottish politics. It was the week when the question of independence was returned to those who matter: the people.
Dani Garavelli: Wanted - a banker who brings sense of duty to job
BACK at the start of the Iraq War, when the hawks were revelling in shock and awe, and I was this newspaper’s token dove, a colleague used to say to me: “You know, if you understood anything about geopolitics, you’d see we have no choice but to invade.”
Gerald Warner: Once more unto the breach, chers amis, for France’s dreamers
OOPS! It was the political gaffe that suddenly made former US presidential candidate Rick Perry’s inability to recall which government agencies he wanted to abolish look like a minor hiccup.
Kenny Farquharson: Six myths about the SNP and the independence referendum
I LOVE lists. Lists of ingredients. Lists of books to read on holiday. Lists of songs on iTunes to match a particular frame of mind. Lists of things you really should be doing in the house but haven’t quite got round to yet – but, hey, it’s on a list so that’s something, right?
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Spectrum
Interview: Ruth Davidson, politician
Young, not posh and not especially wealthy, Ruth Davidson is a new breed of Tory. But does she have the steel to do battle with Salmond over independence and stay true to herself? Asks Peter Ross
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Interview: George Clooney, actor
He has grown a little older, his hair is flecked with grey and his film choices are less mainstream but no less successful. However, George Clooney knows the secret to his enduring appeal is less to do with talent and as much to do with luck, good manners ... and meatballs writes Siobhan Synnot
Chitra Ramaswamy: Picture this. Your correspondent is queuing up outside a cinema in London’s Kensington, about to see – yes, see – Madonna
It's not a big deal. I've only been waiting 32 years for this moment.
Restaurant review: Knockinaam Lodge, Portpatrick
KNOCKINAAM Lodge keeps winning gongs for being one of Scotland’s most romantic hotels, and even through the hurricane-force winds that accompanied our visit you can see the judges’ point.
Louisa Pearson: Climate change supporters probably envisage our skies full of parakeets
MANY things spend time on the window ledges of my home. It might be a jug filled with freesias, a miscellaneous piece of tat, rashly purchased on holiday, or a thin layer of stour.
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The Week
Book review: Me And You
SOMETIMES, I can’t help thinking, publishing must be the easiest business in the world. All you have to do is not publish anything until something near-perfect like Niccolo Ammaniti’s latest book comes along.
Interview: Beth Jeans Houghton, pop star
IT’S A bitingly cold afternoon but at an outside table of her local coffee shop the first great new pop star of 2012 is whipping off her fake fur to conduct a guided tour of her tattoos.
Art review: Forest Pitch, Selkirk
WHEN I climb into his car in Edinburgh, the Scottish artist Craig Coulthard tells me endearingly that he’s not a very good driver.
Film review: War Horse (12A)
MUCH as I loved Pig In The City, horses have a distinct advantage over their porcine pals, along with sheep, cows and chickens.
2 commentsFilm review: Margin Call (15)
JC CHANDOR’S smart, well-acted drama condenses the 2008 financial crash into a single night when a Lehman Brothers-type firm realises it is heading for collapse unless it can offload its bad assets onto its best customers.
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- Scottish independence: Backlash warning as English identity rises
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