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Review of miners’ strike policing calls for evidence
SCOTTISH communities scarred by heavy-handed policing in the miners’ strike are being urged to share their stories with an independent review set up...
Report: Living wage could boost greater Glasgow economy
GLASGOW and the other councils of the Clyde Valley could get a £27m boost to their economy if just a quarter of their...
BBC faces strict quotas to ensures it delivers on promises on Scottish content on new channel
BROADCAST regulator Ofcom is planning to impose strict quotas to ensure the BBC delivers on promises for the new TV channel for Scotland...
Demand for tough new law on crimes against the elderly
CRIMINALS who prey on the elderly must face tougher sentences, campaigners will tell Scotland’s new minister for older people today as they demand...
The casual joke in Kabul that almost cost STV journalist Mike Edwards his life
MIKE Edwards has had travel in his blood from a remarkably tender age. “My dad,” he says, “worked on the railway. We were...
Asylum judges ‘ignored’ church evidence of two Glasgow-based Iranians’ Christianity conversion
A SENIOR Scottish judge has strongly criticised two immigration tribunals for failing to properly consider evidence from representatives of one of Scotland’s largest...
TV Review: Vanity Fair is no dusty bonnets and carriages affair
Vanity Fair . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16683731.tv-review-vanity-fair-is-no-dusty-bonnets-and-carriages-affair/
Sturgeon aims to set agenda after being buffeted by Salmond claims
NICOLA Sturgeon will this week try to shift the agenda back to domestic policy and Brexit after one of the toughest spells of...
Concerns over possible chilling effect of Salmond’s fighting fund
ALEX Salmond’s crowdfunded legal action over sexual misconduct complaints could having a widepread chilling effect on women suffering abuse, campaigners have warned. ....
First Braer, now it is fishing ‘ghost gear’ killing Shetland’s seals
IT was built to rescue Shetland’s seals from one natural disaster. Now it has the chance to save them from another. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16683556.first-braer-now-it-is-fishing-ghost-gear-killing-shetlands-seals/
