[Why move more Asylum Seekers into Scotland then?-ed]
Racially motivated crime is still rising across Scotland, according to figures for 2006.
Despite a high-profile campaign by the Scottish Executive, 3,387 race crimes and offences were recorded by the country’s eight police forces.
The figures, collated between April and December, compared with 3,192 for the same period last year [...]

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A Sikh schoolboy, who prompted an inter-faith vigil to promote peace, respect and tolerance after claiming his hair was chopped off by racist thugs, invented the story.
The 15-year-old, in tears, gave a graphic description of a vicious verbal and physical attack by four white males who struck as he walked near his home in Edinburgh. [...]

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TV licence police are to launch a festive crackdown throughout the west of Scotland.
Officers will be out in force over Christmas and New Year determined to catch TV licence evaders in the act.
And they will also step up their campaign against dozens of Glasgow businesses which allow staff to watch TVs illegally.
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More than 18,500 TV [...]

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A new European deal for Scottish fishermen has been branded as “another nail in the coffin”.
The deal, reached in Brussels in the early hours of the morning, will see the days many fishermen are allowed to go to sea again being cut.
Scottish Fisheries Minister Ross Finnie said he believed it was the best deal available [...]

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First Minister Jack McConnell has promised officials will meet bosses of an electronics factory which is due to close with the loss of 151 jobs.
The Methode Electronics factory in the Vale of Leven, West Dunbartonshire, is due to close on 20 December.
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A GLASGOW computer software firm has been accused of racial discrimination by a sacked salesman … because he is English.
David Cryer made the accusation against Visionware Ltd of West George Street, at a Birmingham employment tribunal preliminary hearing.
Mr Cryer, who lives in Kidderminster in the West Midlands, told the tribunal he was employed for three [...]

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SLE OF SKYE, Scotland: Scotland’s first contemporary feature film in Gaelic is in post-production. The BBC has begun broadcasting live sports coverage in Gaelic. A Gaelic-only high school has opened in Glasgow. A leading Scottish politician is seeking, via Brussels, to ensure Gaelic’s place as a European language.
Currently spoken by fewer than 2 percent in [...]

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A man is in a critical condition after being shot in a street attack in Penicuik, Midlothian.
Jim Allison, 57, of Glen View in the town, was in an ice cream van in Strathesk Road when the incident happened at about 1830 GMT on Monday.
He was taken to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and underwent [...]

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THE cost of police interpreters has reached record levels, as forces draft in translators to deal with the country’s rapidly growing immigrant population.
The rising number of non-English speakers has led to the amount being spent on police translation services going up by more than a third in the past year, to almost £300,000.
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[Maybe she was worried about the loss if income?-ed]
A WOMAN has been charged with obstructing the course of justice by preventing immigration officers from deporting a family of failed asylum seekers. The 45-year-old is accused of refusing to let officials into her Glasgow home in order to remove a family from Uganda.

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A row has emerged between senior bishops of Scotland’s Catholic Church over the denomination’s stance on homosexuality.
The debate centres around comments from outspoken Bishop of Motherwell Joseph Devine, who has accused the Church of a “policy of appeasement” after he claims it does not speak out enough against homosexuality.
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Disabled and gay groups have criticised the Scottish Executive after Deputy Justice Minister Johann Lamont confirmed that their communities would not be included in new hate crime laws.
In a written answer to Labour MSP Susan Deacon, Ms Lamont, appears to backtrack on recommendations from the Working Group on Hate Crime in October 2004, which push [...]

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