ONE of the world’s poorest countries is sending aid workers to Scotland.
Nine volunteers from Third World Indonesia will spend three months trying to tackle deprivation in Maryhill and Milton, Glasgow.
The districts are among Britain’s poorest, with life expectancy for men some six years lower than in Indonesia- 60 compared with 66.
The group, aged 17-25, have [...]

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MORE than one in eight babies born at a Glasgow maternity hospital had cannabis in their systems because their mothers continued taking the drug while pregnant.
A survey of newborns suggests hundreds of city mums-to-be take heroin, cannabis, cocaine or speed.
And doctors warned that women on methadone programmes continued to use street heroin late [...]

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POLICE today urged the public to ’shop a knife carrier’.
Officers have launched the campaign to tie in with the end of the nationwide blade amnesty.
The public is being urged to call the confidential phoneline Crimestoppers - on 0800 555 111 - to report people who carry weapons.
And police have promised to act on [...]

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[The councils are the worst offenders for leaving houses empty! What about someone working abroad for 10 months and comes home to a house full of asylum seekers!-ed]
Homes left empty for six months can be seized by councils and rented out as social housing under legislation coming into force next month.
An Empty Dwelling Management [...]

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[No mention of the Scots whos jobs they are stealing-ed]
MANY of the immigrant workers pouring into Scotland endure low wages, long hours and substandard accommodation.
About 1,000 immigrants arrive every month, most from eastern Europe, but many experience considerable difficulties in finding work and a place to live.
A report by Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) [...]

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A campaign is under way in Shetland to fight the deportation of a young Thai man who has lived there for 13 years.
Sakchai Makao, 23, who has been on the island since he was 10, was taken from his home in Lerwick after a raid by immigration officers.
His detention is believed to be [...]

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A SIX-YEAR-OLd Bangladeshi boy who arrived in the capital alone and abandoned is at the centre of an immigration investigation.
Police believe the youngster was trafficked to Edinburgh by a criminal gang. His parents may have paid as little as £120 to bring him to the UK. He is the youngest of 19 children who have [...]

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