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6 min. ago
U.S. Justice Department tells lawmakers no bank is too big to jail
"No institution and no individual is immune from prosecution because of its size," Mythili Raman, acting assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's criminal division, said in testimony before a...
19 min. ago
Bowl maker secures backing for exports
LAWN bowls maker Thomas Taylor, which was founded in Glasgow in 1796, has secured a £450,000 funding deal from Bank of Scotland to help it expand in Australia. The company, which turns over about £3.4m a year, has...
19 min. ago
Scotland’s flagging hotel industr’s Easter boost
SCOTTISH mid-market hotels received a substantial revenue boost in March, with Edinburgh and Aberdeen reporting the best performances. New figures from accountancy firm BDO show that room yield – the industry’s...
19 min. ago
£6m weather aid package unveiled
Details emerged from the Scottish Government on who would be eligible for the £6 million of weather aid cash with sheep, cattle and arable farmers all being eligible to apply for funding. Sheep producers who have lost...
19 min. ago
London blocks calls for livestock levy repatriation
The prospect of Scotland getting its hands on £1.4 million of livestock levies annually going into the English meat promotion board slipped away this week with Whitehall rejecting the Scottish Government's latest...
19 min. ago
Business briefs: Shell | Johnston Press | Wood Group
Plans to redevelop the Shell Centre on London's South Bank have been approved, developers have said. The 1.45 million sq ft scheme will transform the 1960s office site, providing new offices for Shell and other...
15 min. ago
Leaders: George Osborne’s Plan B | Poor healthcare
WHILE David Cameron was embarked on his latest round of diplomacy in Europe to try to get EU agreement on tackling tax avoidance by multinational companies, his Chancellor, George Osborne, was back in London...
15 min. ago
Tavish Scott: SNP needs to send positive message
This week, the independence debate featured claim and counter claim. So, too, in the previous week. But the over-riding theme once again was a mismatch in weight of argument and analysis. On Monday, the Treasury...
15 min. ago
Michael Kelly: Police have right to quiz services
With the advent of devolution, is there still a role for local government to play, asks Michael Kelly Our police rarely have the ability to surprise us. However, just when I thought that the new Police Scotland had...
15 min. ago
Murdo Fraser: Scottish Tories move with the times
A shift to embrace further powers for Holyrood will put party back at the heart of the political landscape, writes Murdo Fraser ALBERT Einstein reputedly defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again...
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Bill Jamieson: Get real about our debt problems
The independence debate has avoided the subject of our economy - but it must be confronted, writes Bill Jamieson Over the past few days I have had a strange and discomforting sense of living in a parallel universe....
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Iain Gray: SNP closures court disaster
There is no justice in SNP plans to close 26 courts - a decision that will a have a serious knock-on effect 
on the viability of our towns, writes Iain Gray This week, justice secretary Kenny MacAskill laid...
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Postcard from... Ubeda
 More than three-quarters of a century after it was destroyed in the Spanish Civil War, and after 18 years of restoration, a statue attributed to Michelangelo is set to make its return to the small Andalusian town of...
7 min. ago
MI6 spent £200m bribing Spaniards in second world war
General Franco meeting Adolf Hitler at the Franco-Spanish border in October 1940. Photograph: Lapi/Roger Viollet/Getty Images MI6 spent the present-day equivalent of more than $200m bribing senior Spanish military...
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Wartime MI6 had secret plans for 'liquidation or kidnapping' of targets
August 1945: British wartime prime minister Clement Attlee, seated right, with US president Harry Truman, and Stalin. Foreign secretary Ernest Bevin stands behind, centre. Photograph: Yevgeny Khaldei/Corbis MI6 drew...
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When Winston Churchill met Joseph Stalin: suckling pigs and savage brews
Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill pictured at the Livedia Palace in Yalta in 1945. Photograph: Central Press/Getty Images A colourful description of how Winston Churchill spent a night drinking with Joseph Stalin in...
9 min. ago
Hunger strike for Pussy Rioter in parole row
A MEMBER of the band Pussy Riot who was jailed over a protest against president Vladimir Putin in a Russian cathedral said yesterday she was starting a hunger strike after she was barred from a parole hearing. Maria...
9 min. ago
Ai Weiwei releases heavy metal single Dumbass
Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei moved into the musical world yesterday with the release of the first single from his debut album, a song called Dumbass that takes inspiration from his detention in 2011. The video...
18 min. ago
GIOVANNI VISCONTI WINS SECOND STAGE IN FOUR DAYS AT GIRO D'ITALIA
GIOVANNI VISCONTI took his second stage win in four days as Vincenzo Nibali stayed in overall control of the Giro d'Italia after yesterday's stage. Sprint specialist Mark Cavendish's bid for a fifth stage win in this...
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LEWIS HAMILTON PRAYING THAT TYRE ISSUE DOESN'T COME BACK TO HAUNT HIM
LEWIS HAMILTON praying his chances of winning Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix won't be shot down by more rubber bullets. Despite starting second on the Barcelona grid alongside team-mate Nico Rosberg, Britain's 2008 world...
18 min. ago
DERECK CHISORA COULD FACE TYSON FURY AT WEMBLEY ARENA IN JULY
DERECK CHISORA will headline a rearranged show at Wembley Arena in July where he could have a rematch with Tyson Fury. Chisora was to face Deontay Wilder on June 15 but the American is the subject of criminal...
18 min. ago
CARL FROCH SAYS HE WILL 'KILL' MIKKEL KESSLER IF HE HAS TO
CARL FROCH turned three years of anger into a verbal assault on Mikkel Kessler by declaring: “I will kill this f****r if I have to.” The pair meet in a world super-middleweight unification bout at London's 02 Arena on...
18 min. ago
SUPER LEAGUE HAS TO KEEP SAM TOMKINS SAYS WIGAN COACH SHAUN WANE
SUPER LEAGUE should do everything possible to keep superstar Sam Tomkins. That's the plea from Wigan coach Shaun Wane amid growing fears of a megabucks bid for the full-back. Tomkins, 24, is wanted by the NRL, with...
18 min. ago
KLOCKWORK KORKER CAN COMPLETE STYLISH HAT-TRICK AT MONMORE
KLOCKWORK KORKER (9.32), who has run absolute corkers the last twice, can complete a stylish hat-trick in the £2,500 Truframe Greyhound Stud Book Trophy final at Monmore tonight – live in betting shops. It's not often...
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