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Brexit: EU offers border compromise as Cabinet to get weekly updates

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The Scottish Government has brought in an external team headed by the chief executive of an English health trust to implement recommendations for a local authority rocked by a report that uncovered a culture of 'bullying and blame'.

Scottish Government hire special team to tackle NHS Lothian’s ‘bullying and blame culture’

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Michelle Mone. Picture: Philip Toscano/PA Wire

Michelle Mone defends House of Lords attendance amid calls to quit

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Glasgow High Court, where the case was heard.

Ex-youth footballer claims he was abused by Celtic Boys Club boss Jim Torbett

Glasgow & Strathclyde

Social worker Heidi Chalkley, 40, was heading on a night out when she grabbed hold of the rising door and was lifted off the ground. Picture: SWNS

Mum ‘dragged to her death in rising car park shutter door’

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The Man was recorded by other passengers. Picture: David Lawrence/PA Wire

Ryanair racist abuse: Police identify man involved

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Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

Tommy Robinson bailed as contempt case referred to Attorney General

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Scotland's economy could be hit by a post-Brexit shock as firms 'stockpile' supplies to deal with an increasingly uncertain future outside the EU

Scots economy faces Brexit ‘aftershock’ as business looks to stockpile supplies

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The number of fast food outlets has risen by almost a third in nearly every Scottish council area over the past eight years

Calls to tackle the soaring number of fast food outlets in Scotland

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Rumour Mill: Celtic outcast criticises Rodgers | explosive Sportsound row | Hibs hero ‘hated’ Hearts star

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Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers. Picture: SNS

Scottish Football Live: Russian interest in Rodgers, no Griffiths dressing down, Celtic defender begs for a chance

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Hearts manager Craig Levein will resist the urge to make multiple team changes against Dundee tonight. Picture: SNS.

Hearts’ Craig Levein issues a title race warning

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Filip Benkovic, in action against Hibernian on Saturday, is eager to add to the European experience he gained with Dinamo Zagreb. Picture: SNS.

Celtic’s Filip Benkovic eager to continue to testing himself in Europe

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Craig Levein expects a tough test in Dundee. Picture: SNS.

Hearts’ Craig Levein excited by quality of Scottish managers

Hearts

Archie Knox, who was inducted to the Scottish Football Hall of Fame on Sunday, believes Steven Gerrard can take Rangers far in Europe. Pic: Alan Harvey/SNS

Knox backing Gerrard to prolong Europa adventure

Rangers

Martin Dempster: Scots outshining English for once
Martin Dempster

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Robert MacIntyre secured a second-place finish in the Foshan Open in China on Sunday. Pic: Matthew Horwood/Getty Images

Martin Dempster: Scots outshining English for once

Golf

Hearts manager Craig Levein celebrates Arnaud Djoum's opener at Tynecastle. Picture: SNS

Five things we learned from the Scottish Premiership this weekend

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Simon Berghan, second left, is penalised for obstruction and Magnus Bradbury's try against Montpellier is chalked off. Picture: SNS/SRU

Allan Massie: Encouraging signs in European defeats

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Neil McCann's last game in charge at Dundee was a 2-1 defeat to Kilmarnock. Picture: SNS/Craig Williamson

Why the number of managerial changes in Scottish football is not a concern

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HMS Queen Elizabeth has been getting lots of good publicity for the MoD recently, but the Royal Navy is much reduced (Picture: Dan Rosenbaum FRPU)

Paris Gourtsoyannis: Four huge issues lost in Brexit’s vast shadow

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Leader comment: Brexit requires calm heads, not violent rhetoric

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Faith in Theresa May among her Cabinet, fellow Tory MPs and party supporters is now at its lowest ebb but it is still not clear whether she will face a leadership challenge. Picture: Getty

Brian Monteith: Embattled Theresa May tangled up in her own red lines

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The evidence from elsewhere in the UK is that if you cut police numbers, crime inevitably �rises. Picture: John Devlin

Chris Marshall: Crime figures are a warning not to cut police numbers

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Belfast-born author becomes first Northern Irish writer to win the Man Booker Prize

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Two Scottish pizzerias named among UK’s top ten according to TripAdvisor

Food and Drink

Lidl’s pop-up gin bar is coming to Edinburgh in November

Food and Drink

30 of the best Scottish gins including the Scottish Gin of the Year

Food and Drink

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North Sea in £430m boost as two projects get green light

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Maxim Park comprises 756,000 sq ft of office space across ten buildings. Picture: contributed

Maxim Office Park sold in £38m deal

Glasgow & Strathclyde

Managing director Wynne Edwards said the deal will take MarineMTS 'to a new level'. Picture: Ross Johnston/Newsline Media

MarineMTS targets eight-figure sales growth with funding deal

Tech

Lesley Renton and Isabella Kilgannon secured a �342,000 commercial mortgage for the Whitebridge Hotel. Picture: Svenja Timmins

Loch Ness hotel under new ownership

Media & Leisure

Left to right: Co-founders of tech start-up Kindaba Lizzie Brough, Rob Gelb and Will Wright. Picture: contributed

Skyscanner’s Williams invests in Kindaba venture

Tech

Stu Hirst. Picture: LinkedIn

Stu Hirst: Bringing Scotland's cyber community together

Tech

North Sea in £430m boost as two projects get green light

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The Battle of Glenlivet was fought near Ben Rinnes in Speyside. PIC: Flickr/GaryE1981.

On this day 1594: Clans defend Catholic faith at Battle of Glenlivet

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Outlaw King, which stars Chris Pine as Robert the Bruce, will be released via Netflix in November

Outlaw King ‘a crowded epic’: Netflix film opens to mixed reviews

Film 20

Firefighters battle to contain the fire that destroyed the Mackintosh building at Glasgow School of Art in June. Picture: John Devlin

Why are so many landmark historic buildings lost to fire?

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