Chief constables from across Scotland have gathered in Aberdeen to examine the problem of racial imbalance in the police service.
The National Black Police Association wants action to be taken on recruiting more officers from ethnic minorities.
However, some senior officers have argued against any move which could be dubbed “tokenism”.
A police force in [...]

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A BID to turn a closure threatened primary into Scotland’s first state-funded Muslim school was launched today.
Council bosses plan to shut tiny Willowbank Primary in Woodlands, Glasgow, and four others nearby to make way for a single new super campus for the city’s west end.
But parents - almost all of whom are from [...]

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[why no description of attackers-ed]
A TERRIFIED woman driver was forced out of her car at gunpoint by two masked raiders in Glasgow.
The car-jackers fired a gun in the air and then drove off in her silver BMW convertible.
It’s the second armed incident in the same south-side area. Just last month, a Porsche [...]

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Kenny Smith, (pictured) Scottish Secretary reports.
Today (30th November) Scot’s the world over will be celebrating St. Andrew’s Day, while single Scottish ladies will be looking for the sign that says their wish had come true!
That’s because traditionally girls prayed to St. Andrew around midnight on the 29th of November asking for a [...]

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A row over the treatment of families of failed asylum seekers has been dismissed as “ridiculous party politics” by the first minister.
Jack McConnell said that discussions with the Home Office about how families were deported had been positive.
He said his main concern was the way in which the children of failed asylum seekers were [...]

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Top police officers have gathered in Scotland to discuss the best ways to tackle money launderers.
Experts from forces in Europe and the US have joined Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency (SDEA) officers at a conference in Loch Lomond on Monday.
The European Commission-backed event has been examining links between the activities of organised crime groups.
Officers [...]

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[St Andrews day is about celebrating being Scottish and should not be hijacked for political gain-ed]

Trade union members, politicians and faith and community groups have marched through Glasgow to show a united front against racism.
About 1,000 people were estimated to have taken part in the Scottish TUC’s annual St Andrew’s Day march and [...]

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The first minister has distanced himself from comments by Communities Minister Malcolm Chisholm over the treatment of failed asylum seekers.
Mr Chisholm made it clear that the Scottish Executive wanted an end to the controversial policy of dawn raids prior to deportation.
However, a source close to Jack McConnell disowned those comments.
As the immigration [...]

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Glasgow BNP held its annual Remembrance Service on Sunday the 13th of November complete with a kilted standard bearer.
Twenty plus activists gathered to remember those who had made the ultimate sacrifice for Britain since 1914 resplendent in their red poppies. One military veteran donned his prized red beret.
Regional Organiser Scott McLean was among those who [...]

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Scotland’s oldest man and the country’s longest surviving veteran of World War I has died at the age of 109.
Alfred Anderson, who served with the 5th Battalion the Black Watch, died in a nursing home in Angus.
Mr Anderson was born in 1896 and was in one of the first British contingents to [...]

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Public services union Unison said it is planning to take legal action against Moray Council over equal pay claims, BBC Scotland has learned.
Talks between the union and management broke down on Thursday.
Unison said a deal on compensation for mainly low-paid female staff was close to being settled, but the council pulled out.
Moray Council [...]

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When Emel Murat discovered a lump in her breast she did not go to her doctor for nine months.
Emel, an ethnic Turkish-Cypriot living in Britain, said she had known little about breast cancer, as it is a taboo subject in her community, and had not known how dangerous her lump was.
A recent study [...]

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Doctors say they want to investigate the case of a British man with HIV who apparently became clear of the virus.
Two Sunday newspapers report Scotsman Andrew Stimpson, who lives in London, was diagnosed as HIV-positive in 2002 but found to be clear in October 2003.
Chelsea and Westminster Healthcare NHS Trust, which carried [...]

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NURSES who have just qualified are finding it difficult to get jobs in the NHS and are taking on other work to make ends meet, it is claimed today.
The Nursing Standard magazine says that across Britain graduates who had spent three years studying to become nurses were taking any job they could - including [...]

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A TRADITION of white performers “blacking up” to perform a Black and White Minstrels stage show has been brought to an end after council leaders stepped in.
Angus Council feared that the show could spur legal action for “portraying racial stereotyping”. The group has also changed its name to the Angus Minstrels.
The Angus Black [...]

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A YOUNG couple were brutally attacked by a gang of teenage racists.
Hoodie-wearing thugs battered Daniel Rothero, 22, after hearing his English accent.
They kicked him 100 yards down the street while another gang member beat up his girlfriend Kerry Smith. Office worker Daniel was treated for three fractures and may need a metal plate in his [...]

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Sixteen months after EU enlargement, an average of 16,000 eastern Europeans are arriving each month in the UK to work.
This is much more than expected ahead of enlargement, with a government study last year forecasting an annual total of just 5,000 to 13,000 workers.
But multicultural Britain has so far been able to absorb all the [...]

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[What about the rise in HIV in Scotland?-ed]
Scotland is to help fight HIV and Aids in Malawi as part of its co-operation agreement with the African country.
The First Minister Jack McConnell made the pledge at the start of a two-day conference in Edinburgh.
He told politicians and experts in the audience that Scotland would [...]

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