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John McLaren: Taxing times as Swinney hits road
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Finance secretary John Swinney tonight begins a series of meetings around Scotland in which he will ask members of the public for their ideas on how to deal with the Scottish
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scotsman.com
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:25:27 +0000
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John McTernan: Discretion is the better part of valour - even for generals
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Napoleon always took advice from his generals individually as he didn't want their views to be infected by "group-think". This is still a model for decision making
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scotsman.com
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:25:27 +0000
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Peter Jones: Referendum loss doesn't mean defeat
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Defeat, at least when it is applied to himself or the SNP, is a word which simply does not exist in Alex Salmond's mind. Of all the politicians I have seen over the years,
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scotsman.com
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:25:27 +0000
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David Maddox: The big beasts may be departing but don't write off the younger generation of new Scots MPs
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THOMAS Docherty, the recently-elected Labour MP for Dunfermline and West Fife, yesterday became the first of the new Scottish intake to put down a serious marker in Westminste
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scotsman.com
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:25:27 +0000
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David Maddox: This reform is glue that keeps coalition together
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WHEN Glasgow North West MP John Robertson suggested in the Commons yesterday that MPs were largely talking to themselves about voting reform and the general public did not car
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scotsman.com
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:25:27 +0000
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Platform: Andrea Mullaney gets up with the birds - and is underwhelmed
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After great cost and even greater media speculation, the nation - or the early-rising part of it - tuned in yesterday to see if a dumpy bloke and an angular woman could genera
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scotsman.com
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:25:27 +0000
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Richard Branson bank to site new HQ in Capital
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THE Scottish finance industry received a much-needed boost yesterday as two firms unveiled plans to create hundreds of jobs north of the Border, reversing a recent downward tr
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scotsman.com
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:20:21 +0000
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Phone tap row: David Cameron's chief spin doctor to help police with inquiries
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FORMER prime minister Tony Blair could have been one of the victims in the phone tapping by the News of the World when the current head of communications in Downing Street was
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scotsman.com
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:20:21 +0000
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World turns blind eye as 9m children die
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AN EXTRA four million of the world's poorest children have died over ten years because governments are "turning a blind eye" to those most in need, according to a
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scotsman.com
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:20:21 +0000
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UK critically short of fungi experts
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THEIR specialist knowledge saved the life of author Nicholas Evans, who suffered severe kidney failure after eating a poisonous mushroom picked on a Scottish estate.
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scotsman.com
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:20:21 +0000
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Saluting the few: the remarkable story of Edinburgh's 603 squadron
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ON THE first day of August 1940 Adolf Hitler issued the brutal dictate order No 17 which stated: "I have decided that war against Great Britain will be pursued and intensi
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scotsman.com
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:20:21 +0000
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Mothering is key to bigger brain says study
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SCIENTISTS have discovered the old adage that children get their brains from their mothers is actually true.
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scotsman.com
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:20:21 +0000
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HMRC may have missed time limit on tax bills
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PEOPLE hit with an unexpected tax demand may be able to refuse to pay up as HM Revenue & Customs could have exceeded its own time limits in which to ask for the money, exp
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scotsman.com
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:20:21 +0000
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Warning on illegal sale of electricity top-up cards
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CONSUMERS were warned yesterday about a doorstep scam offering them cheap electricity but ending up costing them twice as much for their energy.
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scotsman.com
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:20:21 +0000
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Victim's Facebook bid to keep rapist in jail waives anonymity 'for justice'
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NICKY Jones was a 13-year-old schoolgirl when a rapist robbed her of her childhood.
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scotsman.com
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:22:53 +0000
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