[How many asylum seekers will die from cold this winter?-ed]
MORE than 1500 old folk could die this winter because they can’t afford to heat their homes, campaigners warned yesterday.
A call for urgent action went out after figures confirmed a third of single OAPs struggled to stay warm.
The figures showed one in seven homes in Scotland [...]

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Islanders on South Uist have taken control of their estate in Scotland’s biggest ever community land buyout.
The estate, which was owned by a sporting syndicate, has changed hands in a £4.5m deal.

The transfer has taken place amid storms battering the Western Isles and police warned that winds could gust to 70-80 mph.
The [...]

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The most famous whisky bar in the world could be forced out of business under Glasgow’s controversial plan to introduce a blanket ban on glass.
Ken Storrie, the owner of the internationally-renowned Pot Still, said he would rather lose his licence than serve his vast selection of malts, which cost up to £250 a nip, in [...]

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Glasgow City Council today signed a fresh five-year contract with the National Asylum Seeker Service (NASS) that will see the city accommodate up to 4,200 asylum seekers at any given time.
Glasgow remains the only Scottish local authority to have a contract with NASS.
The previous contract with NASS was originally signed in January 2000 and was [...]

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A £120,000 prize fund has been set up to encourage firms to find ways of making natural heritage more accessible to tourists through new technology.
Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and business groups Aimhi and Fusion have made the funding available.
Awards of up to £40,000 will be offered in three categories.
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The incident, involving a child of around eight-years-old, happened at St Leonard’s Primary School.
One mother, who asked not to be named, said she found out about the incident after hearing the pupil had threatened two other youngsters with the weapon.
She said: “It’s terrifying to think you are sending your children to school when there is [...]

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16 months ago there were no children from ethnic minorities in this school. There are now 37 refugee children out of a total of 278 and we are delighted to have them. If we had a much higher proportion it might cause us some practical problems but those already here have enriched the life of [...]

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A SEX predator who abducted and raped a showbiz personality’s daughter was facing a long jail sentence last night.
Bus driver Irfan Hussain, 28, got away with the horrifying attack for five years.
But last year detectives probing a sex attack on a 19-year-old girl kidnapped by a man in a car noticed similarities.
And DNA recovered in [...]

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Sinn Féin is to hold its first-ever meeting with the Scottish National Party at Holyrood today.
A spokesman for Sinn Féin confirmed that Upper Bann Assembly member John O’Dowd will lead a delegation to the Scottish Parliament for a round of meetings with MSPs, including the first-ever talks with the SNP.
Talks have also been scheduled with [...]

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[Un-employment is just risen again in Scotland, so would it not be logical to fill vacancies with un-employied Scots?-ed]
STRICT curbs on the number of Bulgarians and Romanians allowed to work in the UK will leave employers struggling to fill key vacancies, Scotland’s biggest recruiter of staff from Eastern Europe warned yesterday.
George Chalmers claimed he [...]

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Unemployment in Scotland has risen over the last year, according to new figures.
The latest monthly government statistics show 87,800 people claiming the jobseekers’ allowance in October - up 2,000 on the same month last year.
But the government’s preferred method of calculation showed unemployment at 131,000 for the three months up to September.
This [...]

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[Maybe they should do something about all the jobless Graduates in Scotland-ed]
A scheme established to encourage people to live in Scotland has attracted more than 12,000 inquiries in its first two years of operation.
The finance minister said the figures proved the Scottish Executive’s Fresh Talent initiative has been a success.
Tom McCabe also cited [...]

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SCOTLAND’S ethnic minority communities have launched a new body to promote greater political engagement.
The Ethnic Minority Civic Congress aims to develop a collective voice for the ethnic minority population of Scotland, regardless of background religion, age, disability, education, gender or sexual orientation.
It plans to work with a broad range of public bodies, including [...]

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I interviewed Nick Griffin right after we came back from the pub, where we celebrated the his and Mark’s victory in court. The interview is quite short as Nick, his wife Jacky and their kids couldn’t wait to drive back to their home in wales.

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The outcome of the trail against the leader of the BNP, Nick Griffin, and his assistant, Mark Collett; was a great and maybe somewhat unexpected victory for free speech. The fact that the jury reached a not guilty verdict on all charges, for Nick Griffin and for Mark Collett, so quickly and unanimously can be [...]

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THE policeman allegedly assaulted by Scott Harrison is to sue the boxer.
He wants damages for a serious eye injury he claims was caused by Harrison, 29.
The officer alleges the Scots fighter - who is to be stripped of his world featherweight title - punched him after his arrest in Spain’s Costa del Sol.
The unnamed civil [...]

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An illegal immigrant has admitted carrying out a sex attack on a woman in an alleyway in the heart of Jedburgh.
Mofazzul Chowdhury, 34, a former chef at the town’s Sunrise Restaurant, admitted assault with intent to rape in Abbey Place on 20 August this year.
Sentence was deferred at the High Court in Edinburgh [...]

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A bird watcher who pitched his tent too close to the nest of one of Scotland’s rarest birds could have caused a conservation disaster, a court heard.
Stirling Sheriff Court was told how Robert Ashcroft, 43, went to a remote spot in the Trossachs to photograph duck and red kites.
He camped 60ft from a [...]

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A city council street sweeper suffered a serious hand injury when a firework exploded at a cleansing depot.
Peter Jamieson, 44, of Wallyford in East Lothian, was taken from Edinburgh Royal Infirmary to a burns unit at St John’s Hospital in Livingston.
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The brother-in-law of one of the men jailed for life for the murder of Kriss Donald was jailed for helping him to escape to Pakistan, it has emerged.
Amjad Hussain bought Faisal Mushtaq’s flight ticket, days after 15-year-old Kriss was murdered on 15 March, 2004.
Hussain was jailed for nine months in April this year [...]

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