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Future shock: Invention of ‘suicide booth’ for the home changes everything we fear about death
Future shock: Invention of ‘suicide booth’ for the home changes everything we fear about death . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16160160.Future_shock__Invention_of__suicide_booth__for_the_home_changes_everything_we_fear_about_death/?ref=rss
Revealed: The world’s greatest national parks
John Muir, the great environmentalist, said: “Going to the mountains is going home.” The wilderness isn’t a luxury; it isn’t a pretty postcard...
The Big Read: The art of listening
HUMAN language is thought to have been around for at least 10,000 years and for much of that time we’ve not only been...
Bombs fall on Syria as May approves early-morning strike
IT began in the early hours of yesterday morning. In the first ever coordinated Western strikes against the Damascus government, US, British and...
Iain Macwhirter: Hitching a ride on Trump’s missiles in a largely pointless military action
This is all our nightmares rolled into one. An irrational and unpredictable US President, compared to a Mafia boss by the former head...
Breaking the silence: scandal of sexual abuse on campus revealed
Students who have been sexually harassed are afraid of reporting incidents to Scotland’s colleges and universities because there could be “academic consequences”, according...
Opposing sides unite to condemn Spain’s ‘authoritarian’ behaviour
SENIOR figures on both sides of the Scottish independence divide have accused the Spanish state of “oppressing Catalan democracy". . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16160194.Opposing_sides_unite_to_condemn_Spain___s____authoritarian____behaviour/?ref=rss
Sturgeon facing clash at STUC over agency workers’ rights
NICOLA Sturgeon is facing a row with unions after she claimed that some workers choose controversial agency contracts which make them pay to...
For whom the belt told
I WAS probably not long out of short trousers when I realised that Lochgelly was actually a place and not a thick, rigid,...
Causing a stink: Scotland facing rubbish collection shutdown during summer of discontent
SCOTLAND is facing a summer of discontent with rubbish collections set to shut down for weeks at a time in some of the...
