Images of a man wanted in connection with indecent assaults in Aberdeen have been released by police.

The four attacks took place between September and December last year.
The man is described as aged between 25 and 30, with black curly hair, and having a tanned, possibly Middle Eastern, appearance.
Grampian Police urged anyone who [...]

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[What right have they got to vote on Scottish issues when they are not even Scottish? They can vote in Polish elections too as I am sure they will set up polling booths for this purpose.-ed]
Migrant workers in Tayside are being encouraged to make their voices heard by voting in the upcoming elections.
Thousands of [...]

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A Pensioner directed racial remarks at neighbours whose dog he claimed was allowed to foul grass near his home, Elgin Sheriff Court heard yesterday.
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The number of eastern European children in north and north-east schools has grown by more than a quarter in just 12 months, prompting calls for extra cash to help local authorities cope with the influx.
As hundreds more youngsters from countries such as Poland enter primary and secondary schools across the region, there are fears that [...]

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A TAKEAWAY manager who had unlawful sex with a teenager has been jailed for five years.
Gazi Shaikhuzzaman, 46, had intercourse with the girl at addresses in Edinburgh between October 2003 and March in 2005.
Judge Lady Smith told him at the High Court in Edinburgh: “She was vulnerable and confused and she was traumatised [...]

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THE number of eastern Europeans registering to work in Scotland jumped by nearly a fifth last year, suggesting Scottish employers are making increasing use of foreign labour.
Scotland’s success in drawing in new workers came at the expense of London, with increasing numbers of migrants snubbing the UK capital and opting for the less crowded [...]

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In November, a 15yr old Sikh boy ran to the Police and media claiming that he was assaulted by 4 white youths as he walked through Pilrig Park in Edinburgh.
He told police that the gang taunted him with racist remarks, then assaulted him by punching and kicking him, before they ripped off his bandana [...]

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HIDDEN classics of the Chinese cinema, unseen in the UK for a generation or more, will be rolled out in cinemas across Scotland next month.
Some are jewels of the silver screen, buried in the archives of the Chinese film industry. Others have been banned within China for pushing social or sexual boundaries too far.
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A doctor sacked after being jailed for indecently assaulting a female colleague has lost his unfair dismissal and race discrimination claims.
Dr Tapash Saha, 45, a former gynaecologist at Dumfries Infirmary, was imprisoned for nine months in 2004.
The General Medical Council ruled last year that he could return to work but he was subsequently dismissed.
An employment [...]

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More than a third of Scotland’s councillors have applied for payouts of between £10,000 and £20,000 to stand down at the May elections.
A total of 434 have expressed an interest in quitting when voting changes to proportional representation.
The payments could cost the Scottish Executive more than £7m.
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A man who tried to smuggle two kilos of condom-wrapped cocaine into Scotland hidden inside his body has been jailed for four years.
Kingsley Ifeka, 43, was stopped at Edinburgh Airport last October and while in custody he excreted a handful of packages.
Ifeka, a Nigerian, was then admitted to hospital and during a 10-day period he [...]

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A media sales manager who was harassed and suffered discrimination because he is gay has been awarded almost £120,000 compensation.
Jonah Ditton, 32, from Paisley, was insulted and sacked after eight days by CP Publishing Ltd and advised that he was not “psychologically balanced”.
An employment tribunal awarded him £118,309 for discrimination on the grounds of his [...]

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RACISM against new migrant workers must be tackled by politicians immediately, the head of the Commission for Racial Equality has warned after a tripling in complaints about discrimination towards people from eastern Europe.
Ali Jarvis, the director of CRE Scotland, said ministers must act to address tensions between Scots and immigrants before the problem gets out [...]

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[Maybe they should learn English before they come here? How do they expect to get along in the workplace without knowing the language?-ed]
RACE watchdogs criticised the Scottish Executive yesterday for failing to provide English lessons to new migrants.
Earlier this week Ali Jarvis, the director of the Commission for Racial Equality Scotland, warned ministers must [...]

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POLITICIANS and anti-racism campaigners reacted with outrage last night when it emerged that the far-right British National Party was to get its own election broadcast during this year’s Holyrood campaign as well as hundreds of thousands of pounds in free election publicity from the taxpayer.
The Scotsman has learned that the BNP is to field candidates [...]

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An Italian chef has admitted in court that he had infected his former girlfriend with HIV and Hepatitis C.
At the High Court in Glasgow, Giovanni Mola, 38, said he accepted he had infected the woman, known as Miss X.
He said he did not tell her about his condition as he believed the situation was under [...]

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A police officer has admitted giving false evidence at a trial.
Sundeep Patel, 29, told Edinburgh Sheriff Court he had altered evidence to cover-up the accused man’s claim that he had acted in self-defence.
The Lothian and Borders officer, based at Bathgate in West Lothian, pleaded guilty to giving false evidence at Linlithgow Sheriff Court in July [...]

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