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00:12 - Royal Londoners vote on £219m Co-op deal
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00:12 - Marine Harvest close the net on Cermaq acquisition
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00:12 - Mark Carney may benefit from easing of inflation
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00:12 - Jamie Dimon survives JP Morgan vote
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00:12 - Vertu grabs £31m Land Rover franchise
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00:12 - NHS funding of private sector rose by £3bn in six years, report says
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00:10 - Google Tax: PM Meets With Chairman Amid Row
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00:09 - Harry Potter edition fetches £150k
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00:09 - Harry Potter edition fetches £150k
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00:08 - GIVE IT A REST, ANDY MURRAY
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00:08 - MCLAREN WELCOME BACK HONDA
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00:08 - BRIAN MAGEE: MIKKEL KESSLER'S A BRIT SPECIAL
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00:08 - MIKKEL KESSLER: I'M READY TO FROCH 'N ROLL
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00:08 - WALES WIN RHYS EVANS RACE
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00:08 - OLYMPIC GLORY SKIPS GUINEAS
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00:08 - JOSE MOURINHO'S SPECIAL OFFER TO NICK STEVAN JOVETIC
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00:08 - READING'S £15M PRICE TAG FOR ALEX MCCARTHY
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00:08 - TROY DENNEY WARMS TO THE CHALLENGE
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00:08 - MOYES WON'T STOP ROONEY QUITTING
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00:08 - CARROLL IN 'N OUT
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00:08 - REAL WANT BALE NOW
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00:07 - George Michael ‘fell out of car on motorway’
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00:07 - Emma Cowing: Fertility drive is offensive to women
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00:05 - Iraq violence grows with fresh wave of car bombings
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00:05 - Allan Massie: Indy debate should follow Kirk lead
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00:05 - Matt Qvortrup: Emotions will rule on independence
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00:05 - Brian Wilson: SNP plans border on the ridiculous
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00:05 - Morecambe and Wise writer Eddie Braben dies
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00:05 - Anders Breivik play set for Edinburgh premiere
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29 sec. ago
Royal Londoners vote on £219m Co-op deal
VOTING among over 500,000 members of Royal London is under way on its £219 million deal to acquire parts of the 
Co-operative Banking Group. The mutual pensions giant unveiled plans in March to buy the...
29 sec. ago
Marine Harvest close the net on Cermaq acquisition
Norwegian fish producer Cermaq has failed to win enough shareholder support to buy Peruvian fish feed maker Copeinca, opening the door to a $1.7 billion (£1.1bn) takeover of Cermaq by rival Marine Harvest, the world's...
29 sec. ago
Mark Carney may benefit from easing of inflation
ECONOMISTS believe incoming Bank of England governor Mark Carney will have room to print further money or copy Japan's more radical "Abenomics" after inflation fell to a seven-month low last month. The...
29 sec. ago
Jamie Dimon survives JP Morgan vote
JP MORGAN chairman and chief executive Jamie Dimon yesterday survived a vote by shareholders to split his role in two. Only 32 per cent of votes were cast in favour of a measure to remove Dimon from his chairman’s...
29 sec. ago
Vertu grabs £31m Land Rover franchise
Acquisitive car dealer Vertu Motors is seeking further deals after agreeing to buy the Co-operative Group's Land Rover franchise for £31 million in cash. The Gateshead-based firm, which trades as Macklin Motors in...
2 min. ago
Google Tax: PM Meets With Chairman Amid Row
Google chairman Eric Schmidt has met with David Cameron amid a storm over the tech giant's tax affairs. Mr Schmidt is a member of the PM's Business Advisory Group which had its regular quarterly meeting in Downing...
7 min. ago
Iraq violence grows with fresh wave of car bombings
AT LEAST 13 people have been killed in new bomb attacks in Iraq, a day after a wave of bombings across the country left about 70 people dead. Two car bombs went off in the northern town of Tuz Khurmato, a device...
7 min. ago
Allan Massie: Indy debate should follow Kirk lead
Nationalists and unionists would do well to heed respect shown by both sides to prepare ground for reconciliation, writes Allan Massie The proceedings of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland don’t get as...
7 min. ago
Matt Qvortrup: Emotions will rule on independence
The case either for or against independence will be won not by economic reason but by matching people's passions, writes Matt Qvortrup The First Minister was his own, confident self when he presented the economic case...
7 min. ago
Brian Wilson: SNP plans border on the ridiculous
SNP policy on immigration would inevitably lead to the setting up of checks and controls, writes Brian Wilson You can’t beat an old maritime metaphor, so Jim Sillars’ image of the anti-independence movement “knocking...
yesterday, 22:51
The Scotsman cartoon - 21/05/2013
Swivel-eyed loons or not, embattled Prime Minister David Cameron needs to shore up all the support he can get from grassroots Tories Illustration by Brian Adcock
yesterday, 21:14
Reforms to teachers’ pay ‘will mean bigger class sizes’
Children will face larger class sizes as a result of the plan to let heads award higher pay rises to good teachers, the chief schools inspector has warned. Heads would have to decide whether to opt for highly-paid...
41 min. ago
Most UK species in decline, wildlife stocktake shows
Warm winters and wet springs have caused garden tiger moths numbers in UK to fall by 95% over 40 years. Photograph: Colin Varndell/Alamy An unprecedented stocktake of UK wildlife has revealed that most species are...
yesterday, 23:07
Discovery of alleged Russian plot points to growing jitters
Monday's killing of two suspected militants and arrest of a third in a sleepy town near Moscow was quickly followed by the killing of one of the leaders of an Islamist insurgency being waged in Russia's North...
yesterday, 22:56
IMF urges Treasury to speed up sale of Lloyds and RBS
The chancellor, George Osborne, has made it clear he does not want to put yet more taxpayers’ money in to fully nationalise RBS. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images Speculation about a government sell-off of...
yesterday, 22:55
World news in brief
US finally accepts countries' names UNITED STATES: The US finally recognised today that countries have the right to choose their own name. The south-east Asian nation formerly known as Burma will now be called...
yesterday, 22:55
200 youths riot in poor Stockholm suburb
Police arrested four people during a second day of unrest in the Stockholm suburb of Husby. Around 200 youths hurled rocks at police and set cars on fire today in anger over the police shooting of an elderly man....
yesterday, 22:55
Philippines protest Chinese warship in disputed waters
Philippines officials said today that they had protested to China over the presence of a warship, two surveillance vessels and fishing boats off a shoal occupied by its army in the disputed Spratly Islands. Department...
4 min. ago
GIVE IT A REST, ANDY MURRAY
ANDY MURRAY should forget the French Open and focus on getting fit to win Wimbledon this summer. That is the verdict of former Wimbledon champ Goran Ivanisevic. Murray will decide today whether to compete at Roland...
4 min. ago
MCLAREN WELCOME BACK HONDA
JENSON BUTTON is thrilled that his McLaren team will have Japanese giants Honda back as their engine suppliers from 2015. The Brit, 33, said: “I grew up watching McLaren-Honda Formula One cars racing and winning...
4 min. ago
BRIAN MAGEE: MIKKEL KESSLER'S A BRIT SPECIAL
BRIAN MAGEE has tipped Mikkel Kessler to continue his Brit bashing against Carl Froch in Saturday's world super-middleweight title unification clash. Denmark's WBA world champion Kessler knocked out Magee in three...
4 min. ago
MIKKEL KESSLER: I'M READY TO FROCH 'N ROLL
MIKKEL Kessler is ready for anything that Carl Froch will throw at him in their unification battle on Saturday night. WBA world super-middleweight champion Kessler tackles IBF belt holder Froch in front of a capacity...
4 min. ago
WALES WIN RHYS EVANS RACE
RHYS EVANS has turned his back on England to play with his brother Ben in the World Cup. The Warrington Wolves twins gambled their brotherly love last year when Rhys chose England and Ben opted for Wales. But the...
4 min. ago
OLYMPIC GLORY SKIPS GUINEAS
RICHARD HANNON has decided that Olympic Glory needs more time after his disappointing effort in the Poule d'Essaides Poulains so will miss Saturday's Irish 2000 Guineas. He will still be represented by Havana Gold and...
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