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Saturday 21 November 2009
Scotland is braced for a fresh onslaught from the elements today as Dumfries and Galloway battles its worst flooding in nearly 20 years.
A US senator has demanded that the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing is returned to prison in Scotland.
A man who gouged out his ex-girlfriend's eye and threw it away has been jailed for 12 years.
Finance Secretary John Swinney has triumphed at the 11th annual Herald Scottish Politician of the Year awards.
Walter Smith has identified Stuart Holden, the American internationalist, as his primary transfer target should he find himself in a position to add to his squad during the January transfer window.
World rankings suggest otherwise but, as he looks for his Australia side to emerge from a run in which they have won just two of their last eight matches, Robbie Deans sees Scotland as being at much the same stage of development.
WALTER SMITH must have thought that the international fortnight would at least take him and his beleaguered club temporarily out of the spotlight.
Dance pupils fear final curtain
£2.3bn Forth bridge ‘on time and on budget’
Scream time again for the ‘Twihards’
The Government’s banking bail-out is distorting competition and disadvantaging building societies, who are also picking up the tab for banking failures, the UK’s only mutual competitor to the big banks has said.
Administrators of Threshers owner First Quench have announced another swathe of store closures and more than 1,900 job losses.
As so often down the years, she shared the moment with viewers.
‘You can’t polish a turd.” So goes a Persian proverb that I first heard in Afghanistan many years ago.
For all his faults, Elvis Presley knew a great song when he heard it – or at least the producers and arrangers around him did. Susan Boyle and her team have the same knack.
When Katie Price emerged from night after night of challenges this week, gloop dripping from her plump lips, insects crawling up her hair, it was hard to tell who was squirming the most: the insects or the audience.
He is regarded as one of Scotland’s leading acting talents, but Ewan McGregor has landed a title he will be not be grateful for – as one of the most overpaid stars in Hollywood.
He is one of Scotland’s most successful contemporary artists, whose admirers include Ewan McGregor, Sir Tom Hunter and Alex Salmond.
‘I think people should have the choice to have a child without being labelled,” says Katrina Robertson of People First, the self-advocacy group for people with learning disabilities.
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As so often down the years, she shared the moment with viewers.
Listen to the searing words of the people in Afghanistan
‘You can’t polish a turd.” So goes a Persian proverb that I first heard in Afghanistan many years ago.