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• Former nurse patents booze-o-meter glass

  
  Deadline Press & Picture Agency — Authority: 444
  By Rory Reynolds A FORMER Scots nurse has invented a glass design that shows drinkers the number of units they are downing in an attempt to cut down on the nation’s binge drinking culture. John Sharp, 57, came up with the design, which can be printed on wine, beer and spirit glasses to provide a visual of how ...
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• Hundreds of psychiatric patients escaped

  
  Deadline Press & Picture Agency — Authority: 444
  By Cara Sulieman HUNDREDS of psychiatric patients have escaped from Scotland’s mental hospitals in the past five years. The figures include 38 serious offenders who receiving treatment without time limit – including murderers and rapists – and 20 who were on remand. The numbers have led to a call for the ...
  1 week ago

• Lockerbie bomber’s health ‘deteriorating’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  Tripoli (Libya), Dec. 20 (ANI): Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi’s health is deteriorating, according to a Libyan hospital source.A Sky News report quoted the Tripoli Medical Centre as saying in a statement that al-Megrahi’s condition has worsened and the cancer has spread throughout his body.The ...
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• Lockerbie bomber had secret 1.8 m pound Swiss bank account

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  London, Dec. 20 (ANI): The Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, had 1.8 million pounds in a Swiss bank account when he was convicted eight years ago, it has been revealed. The Crown Office, Scotland’s equivalent of the Crown Prosecution Service, has confirmed it refused to grant bail to al-Megrahi as ...
  1 week ago

• Ileach launches inspired mischief

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 444
  The Isle of Islay was already annoyed with CMAL (Caledonian MacBrayne Assets Ltd), owner of the ships contracted to west coast ferry operator, CalMac. The company ran a competition to name the new ferry being built for the Islay route, offering a vote on a set choice of four names. None of these was the [...]
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• Threat to newspapers in Scottish plan to let council adverts switch from press to online

  
  Jon Slattery — Authority: 532
  Scottish ministers have announced plans to allow councils to no longer publish public notices in newspapers and instead put them online in a move that will alarm the rest of the newspaper industry in the UK. The Scotsman reports that the proposal by the SNP government in Holyrood has been fiercely criticised as ...
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• Farm Waste in the U.K. to be Greener Under New Proposals

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  A new scheme to reduce the amount of non-packaging agricultural plastics (NPAP) such as silage wrap and crop covers going to landfill has been proposed by Defra, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Assembly Government in a consultation published today. Every year around 83,000 tonnes of waste NPAP is generated on ...
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• The DSA Assessor’s Guide to Feeware and Open Source Applications

  
  RSC NewsFeed — Authority: 126
  The aim of this guide is to promote awareness of open source and freeware Windows applications that can be used to support learners with additional needs. The overall collection of more than 50 programs is called AccessApps. In many cases, the programs on AccessApps are very similar in functionality to well-known ...
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• OFT & Which? call for independent regulation of lawyers as Justice Committee hears evidence on Legal Services Bill

  
  A Diary of Injustice in Scotland - by Peter Cherbi — Authority: 111
  Holyrood’s Justice Committee heard regulation must be taken away from the Law Society of Scotland. THE OFFICE OF FAIR TRADING has told the Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee the Law Society of Scotland should be stripped of its regulation role, to give better consumer protection in any reformed legal ...
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• Lockerbie Bomber Missing From Home and Hospital

  
  Homeland Security News — Authority: 530
  Lockerbie bomber, Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi has turned up missing. Although he may turn up in time, this probably comes as no surprise to many. Apparently he was not as close to death as was reported back in September.Mystery surrounded the Lockerbie bomber last night after he could not be reached at his home or ...
  1 week ago

• Lockerbie bomber’s mysterious disappearance set to embarrass Scottish govt.

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  London, Dec. 16 (ANI): In a vanishing act that may cause further embarrassment to the Scottish government, Lockerbie bomber Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi has disappeared mysteriously, as his Scottish monitors were unable to contact him at home or in hospital in Libya. Under the terms of his release from Scottish jail, ...
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• Consumer fears as Law Society pleads to Holyrood Justice Committee for more ‘closed shop regulation’ of legal services in Scotland

  
  A Diary of Injustice in Scotland - by Peter Cherbi — Authority: 111
  Scottish Parliament will hear pleas from lawyer to continue regulating themselves. THE JUSTICE COMMITTEE of the Scottish Parliament will tomorrow, Tuesday 15th December, hear pleas from the Law Society of Scotland to be allowed to continue in its role as self regulator of the lion’s share of legal services in ...
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• Kids sent home from school for being drunk

  
  Deadline Press & Picture Agency — Authority: 444
  By Cara Sulieman SCOTS primary pupils are being sent home by teachers for being DRUNK in class. Shock new figures show teeny tipplers have also been admitted to hospital for treatment after boozing. As many as five kids were sent home from class in the last year in the Lothians because they were drunk, according ...
  2 weeks ago

• ‘There’s a porpoise close behind me…’

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 444
  … and it’s in trouble. The use of static nets is to blame. Now locally becoming an imperilled species, the Harbour porpoise can be seen regularly around Argyll waters and much of the Scottish coastline.They are the smallest member of the family which includes dolphins and whales, collectively known as Cetaceans. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Government to consult on including private firms under FoI

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 444
  The Scottish Government is reported as preparing to consult on including certain private companies under Freedom of Information legislation (FoI).The focus centres on private firms delivering mainstream public sector services in Scotland. Today’s edition of The Herald cites the following as subjects for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Scottish political blogs under the microscope

  
  doctorvee — Authority: 408
  It has been an unusual few weeks in the Scottish political blogosphere. Already, a number of bloggers had apparently lost motivation and were openly wondering if they should continue . Since then, a number of blogs have closed down, apparently due to external pressures. Firstly, Wardog was closed down after ...
  2 weeks ago

• Alex Salmond wants to give Barack Obama a bottle of whisky

  
  Deadline Press & Picture Agency — Authority: 444
  By Rory Reynolds FIRST Minster Alex Salmon d hopes whisky will inspire Barack Obama to change the world. Cheeky Salmond said he would gift the US president a bottle of Scotland’s finest malt – 42 per-cent proof – to mirror ambitious new world emission reduction targets for 2020. Salmond, who believes ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tweet Extra

  
  SUBROSA — Authority: 567
  Tweet Extra ScotlandOffice Currently doing the No 10 webchat on Scotlands Future in the United Kingdom. www.webchat.number10.gov.uk/Default.aspx?webchatID= ScotlandOffice 18 minutes ago from web This is not a promotion for Jim Murphys ...
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• Multi-Million Investment in Video Games Centers of Excellence in Dundee And Manchester

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  Scotland’s video game industry will be given a welcome boost today with a £2.5 million investment for Dundee from the UK Government’s Strategic Investment Fund – established to back business in new growth sectors. A total of £3.5 million investment was announced for linked centers of excellence in Dundee and ...
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• Court grants second back seat McKenzie Friend in case against Edinburgh law firm Tods Murray as Lord President’s claims to Parliament questioned

  
  A Diary of Injustice in Scotland - by Peter Cherbi — Authority: 111
  Lord Woolman grants second use of a McKenzie Friend in Scotland. AFTER FORTY YEARS of McKenzie Friends being kept out of reach of Scottish courts, a policy which was quietly broken by Lord Woolmans mid November ruling in Wilson v North Lanarkshire Council & Simpson & Marwick granting Scotlands first use ...
  2 weeks ago

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