POLITICS, and Edinburgh Tory councillor Alastair Paisley tells us there is much debate about Scots living in England not being allowed to vote in the independence referendum.
OUR story of Facebook mis-spellings reminds a reader of having to keep his face straight when his daughter posted on Facebook "I love the smell of Paul's colon".
A READER tells us of an elderly relative who was boasting to his wife about the advantages of getting on in years when they were in the queue at DIY store B&Q by brandishing his discount card for pensioners on Wednesdays.
DONALD Stewart, boss of commercial property company Forrest Developments, took the missus to the cinema in Stirling to see the Swedish-based crime thriller The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, but at the ticket office he could not remember the film's full title, and instead asked for two tickets for "the film with the dragon in it".
WHEN Stephen Hester, the chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, turned down his bonus of £963,000 last week, it was widely seen as an inevitable capitulation to growing public and political criticism.
I NOTE that the SNP is arguing that citizens of other European Union member states resident in Scotland will or...
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According to the psychologist Walter Mischel, willpower is one of our most important strengths and has key to our life outcomes – at least that's what his book, Willpower: Rediscovering Our Greatest Strength is saying.
In a world which sometimes seems intractable and uncompromising to young eyes it's heartening to learn that something as simple as a sheet of Basildon Bond, an envelope and a stamp can still detonate a bomb among the grown-ups.
DURING my extended and pleasant stay at Swanky Towers, abode of good friends Cedric and Millicent, the male half of yon duo complained frequently that his hands were getting stuck to the bannister, door knobs and light switches.
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POLITICS, and Edinburgh Tory councillor Alastair Paisley tells us there is much debate about Scots living in England not being allowed to vote in the independence referendum.
OUR story of Facebook mis-spellings reminds a reader of having to keep his face straight when his daughter posted on Facebook "I love the smell of Paul's colon".
IT was a mainly mature audience on Sunday night at the UCS work-in anniversary concert at Glasgow's Old Fruitmarket.
A READER tells us of an elderly relative who was boasting to his wife about the advantages of getting on in years when they were in the queue at DIY store B&Q by brandishing his discount card for pensioners on Wednesdays.
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"SIR Fred Goodwin has lost his knighthood," said the chap on the train home to Whitecraigs last night.
DONALD Stewart, boss of commercial property company Forrest Developments, took the missus to the cinema in Stirling to see the Swedish-based crime thriller The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, but at the ticket office he could not remember the film's full title, and instead asked for two tickets for "the film with the dragon in it".
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What a result for football manager Harry Rednapp against the Revenue.
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
The Scottish Government is making available a smartphone app which demonstrates the deleterious effect too much alcohol can have on the coupon.
A £17 million home for the elderly and confused has been constructed near Bern in Switzerland in the style of a mock 1950s village.
Kirsty Wark is of a mind to pursue a new career as a chef.
Ivanhoe has suffered cutbacks.
Strathclyde Police Chief Constable Stephen House has called for a crackdown on bars and clubs which sell alcohol to customers who are obviously drunk.
AS a dutiful daughter-in-law, the Duchess of Cornwall should be spending time looking after the Queen.
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PRESENTING a budget takes a degree of showmanship and yesterday, John Swinney was quite the magician.
THERE is a graph in the latest edition of British Journal of Psychiatry that paints a picture of Scotland that is both tragic and deeply concerning.
IT is important not to use statistics like a drunk man uses a lamp post: for support rather than illumination.
The young suffer disproportionately during periods of low or no growth.
IT did not take long for political capital to be made from a question of three capitals.
WHEN Stephen Hester, the chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, turned down his bonus of £963,000 last week, it was widely seen as an inevitable capitulation to growing public and political criticism.
IN the case for reform of Scotland's criminal law, there can be few more impressive witnesses than the chief public prosecutor.
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