A TINY but ’n’ ben is about to get a new – and noisy – lease of life. The cottage in Angus is the former family home of the American Scot who helped found the most iconic motorbike ever produced. Now devotees of the Harley-Davidson brand have used their own money to buy the cottage to turn it into a pilgrimage site for bikers around the world.
]]>THE company behind a drug which could extend the lives of men suffering from prostate cancer has asked again for the treatment to be made available to NHS patients.
]]>A YOUNG woman who died after a fire ripped through her Inverness home was named locally yesterday as Angela Ireland.
]]>THE Queen is to be presented with a petition aimed at ending laws imposed by the British government on the vanquished Jacobite clans after the 1715 and 1745 risings.
]]>IT WAS famously how they finally got Al Capone. Now Scotland’s Crown Office has revealed that it is pursuing more than £2 million of unpaid tax from some of the country’s biggest organised crime gangs.
]]>DOWNPOURS, floods and gale-force winds will hit much of Scotland today following a brief sunny break in the clouds yesterday, the Met Office has warned.
]]>SORROW. Sorrow. Sorrow. Sorrow. The hearts of thousands of Hibs fans have been broken by a decision not to send a victory parade through the club’s spiritual heartland if it wins the Scottish Cup on Saturday.
]]>SCOTTISH Labour leader Johann Lamont yesterday accused Alex Salmond of floating a possible second question on further devolution as part of the independence referendum because he “fears” he won’t win the vote to leave the UK.
]]>Crofting was the outcome of the Highland Clearances when tens of thousands of people were evicted and moved to small plots on difficult-to-cultivate land in return for an annual rent.
]]>ELDERLY patients in care homes across Scotland are being prescribed powerful drugs for long periods of time without proper checks on whether the medication is needed.
]]>IT HAS featured gripping testimony from media figures Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks as well as celebrity actors such as Hugh Grant and Sienna Miller. Now a taste of the Leveson Inquiry is coming to Scotland.
]]>WHEN Marion McIntyre’s health deteriorated due to dementia, her carer and daughter Iris had no choice but to seek respite support before finally having to let her go into a nursing home.
]]>THE Rangers crisis deepened last night when the club’s administrators accused the Blue Knights consortium of pursuing a strategy that had the potential to liquidate the club.
]]>IT WAS one of the most bizarre maritime losses of the Second World War. A German U-boat was apparently forced to surface off the Scottish coast after filling with chlorine gas following a toilet malfunction – and the vessel was then scuttled by its crew.
]]>THE chances are there will be dodgy weather, a surplus of midges and a lack of night life. But the historic network of crofts that date back more than a century are to be marketed as an “authentic” taste of Scotland.
]]>SCOTLAND should be included in plans for the high speed rail network, an SNP MP has claimed.
]]>IT IS the most prestigious job in Scottish theatre. So, just days after Vicky Featherstone’s shock resignation as artistic director of the National Theatre of Scotland (NTS), it is perhaps unsurprising speculation over who her successor is already at fever pitch.
]]>SECOND World War veterans who served on Arctic convoys should be given a dedicated campaign medal, veterans minister Keith Brown said.
]]>EMPLOYERS have been warned to toughen up their social networking policies or risk legal action from victims of online sectarian attacks.
]]>A POWERFUL new drug that fights one of the deadliest hospital superbugs could soon become available in Scotland.
]]>A TINY but ’n’ ben is about to get a new – and noisy – lease of life. The cottage in Angus is the former family home of the American Scot who helped found the most iconic motorbike ever produced. Now devotees of the Harley-Davidson brand have used their own money to buy the cottage to turn it into a pilgrimage site for bikers around the world.
]]>THE company behind a drug which could extend the lives of men suffering from prostate cancer has asked again for the treatment to be made available to NHS patients.
]]>A YOUNG woman who died after a fire ripped through her Inverness home was named locally yesterday as Angela Ireland.
]]>THE Queen is to be presented with a petition aimed at ending laws imposed by the British government on the vanquished Jacobite clans after the 1715 and 1745 risings.
]]>IT WAS famously how they finally got Al Capone. Now Scotland’s Crown Office has revealed that it is pursuing more than £2 million of unpaid tax from some of the country’s biggest organised crime gangs.
]]>DOWNPOURS, floods and gale-force winds will hit much of Scotland today following a brief sunny break in the clouds yesterday, the Met Office has warned.
]]>SORROW. Sorrow. Sorrow. Sorrow. The hearts of thousands of Hibs fans have been broken by a decision not to send a victory parade through the club’s spiritual heartland if it wins the Scottish Cup on Saturday.
]]>SCOTTISH Labour leader Johann Lamont yesterday accused Alex Salmond of floating a possible second question on further devolution as part of the independence referendum because he “fears” he won’t win the vote to leave the UK.
]]>Crofting was the outcome of the Highland Clearances when tens of thousands of people were evicted and moved to small plots on difficult-to-cultivate land in return for an annual rent.
]]>ELDERLY patients in care homes across Scotland are being prescribed powerful drugs for long periods of time without proper checks on whether the medication is needed.
]]>IT HAS featured gripping testimony from media figures Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks as well as celebrity actors such as Hugh Grant and Sienna Miller. Now a taste of the Leveson Inquiry is coming to Scotland.
]]>WHEN Marion McIntyre’s health deteriorated due to dementia, her carer and daughter Iris had no choice but to seek respite support before finally having to let her go into a nursing home.
]]>THE Rangers crisis deepened last night when the club’s administrators accused the Blue Knights consortium of pursuing a strategy that had the potential to liquidate the club.
]]>IT WAS one of the most bizarre maritime losses of the Second World War. A German U-boat was apparently forced to surface off the Scottish coast after filling with chlorine gas following a toilet malfunction – and the vessel was then scuttled by its crew.
]]>THE chances are there will be dodgy weather, a surplus of midges and a lack of night life. But the historic network of crofts that date back more than a century are to be marketed as an “authentic” taste of Scotland.
]]>SCOTLAND should be included in plans for the high speed rail network, an SNP MP has claimed.
]]>IT IS the most prestigious job in Scottish theatre. So, just days after Vicky Featherstone’s shock resignation as artistic director of the National Theatre of Scotland (NTS), it is perhaps unsurprising speculation over who her successor is already at fever pitch.
]]>SECOND World War veterans who served on Arctic convoys should be given a dedicated campaign medal, veterans minister Keith Brown said.
]]>EMPLOYERS have been warned to toughen up their social networking policies or risk legal action from victims of online sectarian attacks.
]]>A POWERFUL new drug that fights one of the deadliest hospital superbugs could soon become available in Scotland.
]]>
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Weather for Edinburgh
Wednesday 16 May 2012
Today
Sunny spells
Temperature: 3 C to 12 C
Wind Speed: 16 mph
Wind direction: West
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Light rain
Temperature: 5 C to 9 C
Wind Speed: 10 mph
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