A manufacturing company has closed two factories with immediate effect, with the loss of 420 jobs.
The Simclar Group - an electronic components manufacturer - has closed its sites in Irvine and Kilwinning.
In a statement, the Scottish firm said it had been unable to remain competitive due to pressure from low cost economies and falling orders.
The [...]

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ALMOST 18,000 immigrant workers have arrived in Edinburgh in two years, as the city proves to be Scotland’s biggest magnet for those starting a new life.
More people from outside the UK registered for work in Edinburgh than in Glasgow and Aberdeen put together in the two years to last April, official figures show.
More than [...]

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A PALESTINIAN activist lost an attempt to claim asylum yesterday, after a complaint that a Jewish judge had handled her case was dismissed on appeal.
Although Fatima Helow made no allegation that Lady Cosgrove, Scotland’s first female judge, had shown bias, she insisted that the judge’s membership of an international group of Jewish lawyers meant she [...]

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MORE than 20 foreign workers were arrested in a raid on a fish processing plant yesterday.
The early morning swoop came after bosses at Strathaird Salmon on the Longman industrial estate in Inverness raised concerns over identification papers and documents used to gain employment.
More than 50 police officers, as well as immigration officials carried out [...]

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SCOTLAND’S 40,000 Polish immigrants are being urged to take up their right to vote, with just 100 days remaining before the May elections.
As the countdown to the Scottish elections begins in earnest, EU immigrants are being encouraged to make their vote count on 3 May.
In what promises to be one of the tightest elections [...]

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Unemployment in Scotland has increased despite a fall across the UK as a whole, new figures show.
The number of people out of work went up by 12,000 between September and November to 137,000.
Across Britain, the jobless total fell by 29,000 over the same period to 1.67 million.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures also showed [...]

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The holiday season revs up before Halloween, accelerates at Thanksgiving and is way over the speed limit by Christmas. There’s another small but intense surge before New Year’s. Then, it’s all over. Just like that. It’s dark, it’s cold. No more twinkly lights, no more parties. The Christmas trees are on the curb, and you [...]

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A PERVERT faces jail for a sex attack on a schoolboy in a [...]

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SCOTLAND’S football bosses are to sue Walter Smith and Rangers over the resignation of the national team boss.
Smith was finally confirmed as the new manager at Ibrox today.
But SFA chief executive David Taylor revealed no deal had been reached with Rangers chairman David Murray on compensation.
Describing the decision to quit as a “serious blow”, Mr [...]

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Staff at the NCR factory in Dundee have been called to a meeting later, amid fears for the safety of up to 800 jobs.
The Amicus union said the company had increasingly been transferring the production of its bank cash dispensers to a plant in Hungary.
The 800-strong workforce have been told not to report for work [...]

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Officials at Orkney Islands Council have moved to try and calm accusations of homophobia, after they refused a leading British composer permission to get married on his home island.
Sir Peter Maxwell-Davies, the Master of the Queen’s Music, had planned a glittering ceremony for himself and his partner Colin Parkinson on the remote island of Sanday.
However, [...]

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MOTHERWELL residents are up in arms over fears refugees will be given housing list priority as the town prepares for the first wave of immigrants from the African Congo next week.
Despite North Lanarkshire Council’s promise no-one waiting on the housing list would be disadvantaged by the arrival of refugees, Wishaw Press has received complaints from [...]

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Walter Smith has quit as Scotland coach to become boss of Rangers for a second time after agreeing a three-year deal.
The Scottish Football Association will now take legal action against him “for breach of contract” and against Rangers “for inducement to break the contract”.
Smith, 58, replaces Paul Le Guen and will be assisted by former [...]

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A MUSLIM state school would be welcomed in Dundee should funding become available under an SNP government, the city council’s education convener has claimed.
Councillor Kevin Keenan said he shared “fairly similar views” to SNP leader Alex Salmond, who told a newspaper yesterday that a Nationalist win in next May’s Scottish Parliament elections would lead to [...]

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A labourer high on drugs stole charity boxes raising money for the grieving family of schoolboy Jack Anderson.
The Carrick Knowe Primary pupil, 10, died in Edinburgh’s Saughton Road North, when he was hit by a car on his way home from school on 5 October.
Gary Millar, 25, admitted on Tuesday, at Edinburgh Sheriff Court, to [...]

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AN outspoken anti-crime councillor is set to appear incourt after being charged with verbally abusing the wife he recently dumped.
Married SNP councillor Gordon Hunter, 43, was arrested after allegedly clashing with his wife Lesley and charged with breach of the peace.
The councillor is a vocal critic of anti-social behaviour and recently told a council meeting [...]

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Scotland’s ageing population does not represent a “crisis”, according to a Holyrood think tank.
A year-long study by the Scottish Parliament’s Futures Forum says the nation can afford to grow old, if it rethinks its approach to retirement.
The long-term trends show that Scotland has a shrinking, ageing population.
But the forum, headed by Lord Sutherland, believes the [...]

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