[Leafletting a Gay festival is not part of a firefighters job description-ed]
Brian Coleman, openly gay Deputy Chairman of the London Fire Authority, has branded the 10 Scottish fire-fighters who refused to distribute leaflets at gay pride “bigots”.
The officers face disciplinary action after they refused to hand out standard fire safety leaflets at the Pride Scotia [...]

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Britain has been used as a staging post for major shipments of bunker-busting bombs from America to Israel. The Israelis want the 5,000lb smart bombs to attack the bunkers being used by Hizbollah leaders in Lebanon.
Two chartered Airbus A310 cargo planes filled with GBU 28 laser-guided bombs landed at Prestwick airport, near Glasgow, for refuelling [...]

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A driver who caused the death of a toddler when his car ploughed into her pushchair has been jailed for three-and-a-half years.
Mohsin Raziq, 25, from Muirend, Glasgow, had previously admitted causing the death of Melissa McInnes by driving dangerously at excessive speed.
He also admitted failing to observe other people on the road and [...]

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Muslim business travellers are boycotting Glasgow airport, according to a leading Scottish figure.
Bashir Mann, from the Muslim Council of Great Britan, complained of heavy-handed and humiliating searches by anti-terrorist police officers.
Dozens of executives have said they are no longer prepared to fly from Scotland and are using Manchester instead.
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The European Commission is set to press ahead with “draconian cuts” to cod catch allowances, according to the Scottish Fisherman’s Federation.
The group, which met with EC fisheries officials in Brussels, said the move would have a serious impact on the Scottish fleet.
Initial proposals include a further cut in the allowable catch for cod and [...]

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A teenage girl has told a jury how her alleged rapist threatened to kill her if she told anyone he had carried out the sex attack.
The 15-year-old claimed Harry Kusz, 26, raped her while she was “playing dares” with a friend at a location in Aultbea, Ross-shire, two years ago.
Mr Kusz has denied [...]

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Tommy Sheridan’s successor as leader of the Scottish Socialist Party has told a jury the MSP confessed at a party meeting to visiting a swingers club.
Colin Fox, who returned from holiday in Portugal to give evidence at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, described the admission as a bombshell.
An emergency meeting was called [...]

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The NHS 24 helpline service has been criticised by a sheriff over the deaths of two people in Aberdeenshire.
Sheriff James Tierney said the system had failed Shomi Moshina and Steven Wiseman by not identifying their life-threatening conditions.
He claimed that if NHS staff had “erred on the side of caution” during their diagnosis there [...]

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[What harm would it do to display it?-ed]
A signed photograph of Adolf Hitler discovered in a store room in Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum will not be displayed in public.
A spokesman for the museum said there were no plans to display the photo given to a former Lord Provost of Glasgow in the 1930s. [...]

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A former escort girl who claims she had an affair with Tommy Sheridan has told a court she had a five-in-a-bed orgy with the former SSP leader.
Fiona McGuire, 32, said they were joined by two women and another man as they drank champagne and took cocaine in an Aberdeen hotel room.
However, Ms McGuire [...]

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[Cheap labour knows no bounds-ed]
A union is concerned about plans by a North Sea oil services firm to recruit 150 offshore workers from the Philippines.
Amec is employing the Filipinos as part of the Buzzard oil field project off the Peterhead coast as it could not fill all the posts from within the UK.
The OILC [...]

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[What is Scottish about him anyway?-ed]
The Scottish National Party says it is on course to have Scotland’s first Asian MSP sitting at Holyrood.
Glasgow councillor Bashir Ahmad is among the candidates the party has listed as those it most wants elected to the Scottish Parliament next year.

The party’s current Holyrood leader, Nicola Sturgeon, leads [...]

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Sixty people were arrested following an Orange parade in Glasgow on Saturday, police said.
Strathclyde Police said 12 were held for sectarian offences, one for knife possession, one for having an offensive weapon and the rest for minor offences.
Police said the majority of the 15,500 marchers were well behaved, but that some onlookers had [...]

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