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Revealed: The Scottish universities running at a loss

HALF of Scotland’s universities are running at a loss compared to just one in eight in England sparking fears over the financial sustainability...

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New Donaldson’s School service helps young people struggling to fit in

At the end of a long sheet of paper that tells in drawings and words of Lewis Mitchell’s journey from birth through school,...

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Whitehall wants ‘dumb’ police merger to be delayed

THE Scottish Government is coming under increasing political pressure from Whitehall to put back its “dumb” plan to amalgamate the British Transport Police...

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Dundee throws its weight behind Glasgow’s bid for the new Channel 4 headquarters

ONE of the potential rivals to Glasgow’s bid for the new Channel 4 headquarters has thrown its weight behind the plan. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16190723.Dundee_throws_its_weight_behind_Glasgow__39_s_bid_for_the_new_Channel_4_headquarters/?ref=rss

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A Baltic bank, a Belarussian bribe and a British embarrassment

IN EARLY 2011 two men walked in to a bank in Riga, Latvia, and set up a company. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16190405.A_Baltic_bank__a_Belarussian_bribe_and_a_British_embarrassment/?ref=rss

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UK and Scottish ministers in last-ditch bid to break Brexit bill deadlock

UK and Scottish ministers are preparing for one last try next week to square the circle on the Brexit Bill – but hopes...

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Third of ambulances on emergency callouts ‘arrived late’ in 2017

MORE than a third of ambulances responding to life-threatening emergencies last year failed to arrive at the scene within the target response time,...

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Tory MSP tells “unionist ultras” to dial down rhetoric on Gaelic

A TORY MSP has called for online partisans – including those he called “unionist ultras" – to tone down their rhetoric on Gaelic....

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Tom Gordon: SNP learns the hard way that silence is not golden

WHEN all else fails, do the right thing. That appears to have been the SNP’s maxim this week after its self-inflicted problems with...

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Kevin McKenna: Badly-judged SNP attack on UK backfires

IN those febrile days of 2014, fading now but not yet forgotten, a posse was marshalled from the ranks of Labour Unionists to...