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Study suggests taking painkillers during pregnancy can harm baby
PREGNANT women could be putting the fertility of future generations at risk by taking every day painkillers such as paracetamol. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16160836.Study_suggests_taking_painkillers_during_pregnancy_can_harm_baby/?ref=rss
Scots academics held back by sexism, book claims
A new book has warned women in Scottish Universities are being held back by an old boys network and claims leading institutions are...
“Social life on Uist is so much better than in Glasgow,” say young residents
PUBS may be few and far between, nightclubs even rarer. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16160786.___Social_life_on_Uist_is_so_much_better_than_in_Glasgow_____say_young_residents/?ref=rss
Young ‘returners’ helping to reverse the depopulation trend on islands
They sit almost as far west as you can go without hitting America; a cluster of islands with white sandy beaches, tiny crofts...
Fearful politicians told to speak up or UK faces ‘cliff edge’ Brexit
Some of Scotland’s leading thinkers have warned a failure by the political class to speak out against Brexit is send the country hurtling...
Syrian refugee Munir Emkidah: “When the regime is killing civilians like this, the whole world is responsible”
Munir Emkidah is a Syrian refugee and former human rights activist who fled to the UK after war broke out in 2012. ....
Radar search may have located ‘mass grave’ of Culloden victims
A secret Jacobite Society has heard – on the 272nd anniversary of the Battle of Culloden – that ground penetrating radar may well...
David Torrance: Airstrikes in Syria are far from ideal, but it’s better than nothing
Today in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister will explain her decision to authorise airstrikes against Syria alongside France and the United...
Full Metal Jacket actor R Lee Ermey dies at 74
American actor R Lee Ermey, known for playing Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 1987 film Full Metal Jacket, has died at the age of...
Don’t miss the brief burst of spring, gardeners urged
People should get out and garden in the coming days and weeks to make the most of a spring which “could be over...
