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Boyzone to battle for glitterball glory in Strictly Come Dancing charity show
The Irish singers will be hoping to wow fans as part of BBC’s Children In Need appeal. . https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17199979.boyzone-to-battle-for-glitterball-glory-in-strictly-come-dancing-charity-show/
Swinney in teacher pay row over claims of 31% increase to probationer salaries
A fresh war of words has broken out between the Scottish Government and the main teaching trade union amid claims that probationer teachers...
Andy Maciver: the Tories are right on directly-elected lord provosts
Adam Tomkins is not a typical politician. At least not yet. I hope he doesn’t become one. Too few of our politicians have...
Revealed: ailing health board planning to shrink workforce by 10%
ONE of Scotland’s most financially chaotic health boards is considering “unbelievable" plans to “reduce” its workforce by 1300 in a bid to balance...
Fighting climate change? It’s mostly about the ten per cent.
LAST week, MSPs were delivered a hard-hitting report by a climate change expert. It said what we are doing now, and what is...
Paul Hutcheon: the “tax gap” row is about politics, not economics
TORY Chancellor Philip Hammond’s Budget last week has thrown into sharp focus the diverging policy choices made by the UK and Scottish Governments...
Fidelma Cook: ‘I have cringed so often at the rudeness and vulgarity of Britons abroad’
IT IS only when the three big men sit down at my table that I can look beyond them and see their shoes...
Scots chauffeur to the stars is banned from being a company director for seven years
THE owner of a chauffeur firm to the stars which went bust has been banned from being a director of any UK company...
Wet and windy Saturday as UK feels effects of ex-hurricane Oscar
Scotland and north-west England will bear the brunt of the heavy rain, and the Met Office warned that flooded roads could cause travel...
Hard border a threat to Northern Ireland peace, Irish politician warns Brexiteers
A leading Irish politician has blasted Brexiteer claims that a Northern Ireland border backstop is unnecessary as “completely unfeasible”, warning that the peace...
