[Sounds fair to me-ed]
DAVID Cameron is set to strip Scottish MPs of their powers to vote on English issues at Westminster if he wins the next UK General Election.
After launching his party’s Holyrood election campaign yesterday, the Tory leader made clear that the West Lothian Question had to be answered.
And he warned Gordon Brown that [...]

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THE city councillor who caused an outcry after suggesting Lothian and Borders Police was “institutionally racist” has escaped censure from the police board.
Members of the board, which includes councillors, police officials and Lothian and Borders Chief Constable, Paddy Tomkins, voted to take no action against Councillor Shami Khan over his controversial comments.
The decision was made [...]

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Hundreds of unaccompanied asylum seeker children are in line to be housed in Scotland to ease pressure on English local authorities, The Herald has learned.
The Home Office is consulting on proposals to find other homes for about 3000 children who arrive alone in the UK each year and claim asylum, after complaints from London and [...]

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PARENTS are concerned about the future of a popular pre-school nursery which is set to become homeless next year.
Greenbank Church needs the room it currently leases to South Morningside Primary School for its own playgroup and the council has so far been unable to find somewhere else for the 60 youngsters to go.
The nursery was [...]

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Students are the victims of a quarter of robberies carried out in Aberdeen.
Police revealed that over a two-month period eight students were assaulted by thieves who stole cash, mobile phones and MP3 players.
Two of the victims were invited to parties by strangers only to be robbed when they got to a secluded area.
Over December [...]

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TOUTS who make obscene profits by selling tickets for top football matches and concerts should be punished, a Glasgow MP said today.
John Robertson says the touts are getting away with it because there’s no Government policy on ticket touting although it was a Labour Party manifesto commitment in 1997.
He urged the Office of Fair Trading [...]

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A PROSTITUTE was indecently assaulted and beaten up in a brutal attack on a river walkway in Glasgow.
Police revealed the latest attack came just 24 hours after vice girl Susan Shivers, 27, died following her stabbing in a city centre lane three weeks before.
It’s emerged a 23-year-old woman was punched in the face and sexually [...]

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[Get ready for Polish workers on this new scheme. We are always told locals are lazy and un-skilled-ed]
A major project to reopen the railway line between Airdrie and Bathgate has been approved by MSPs.
The £300m scheme will include an upgrade of the links between North Lanarkshire and West Lothian and the construction of two [...]

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Police are urging more victims of forced marriages and domestic abuse within black and ethnic communities to come forward for help.
A conference is being held in Glasgow to raise the profile of the culturally sensitive support available.
The practice of forcing brides to get married is rare but detectives believe many cases go un-reported.
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PROTESTERS say they prevented another dawn raid from going ahead in Glasgow yesterday by demonstrating outside an immigration centre in the city.
During the six-hour protest, one man sat atop a 12ft wooden tripod outside the entrance to the Home Office’s national asylum support service offices in Cessnock. A banner strung between the tripod and a [...]

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[The fact is that the money is not benefitting the Scottish economy.
The same goes for most of the money earned by "legal" immigrants, such as the Poles, who send their money home, not to mention the benefit claims made in the names of family members still residing in Poland. £20,000 to come to the [...]

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A FIREMAN fears the sack after plunging into a river to save a drowning woman.
Tam Brown, 42, hauled her out after an eight-minute, life-or-death battle in freezing water.
But he has been told by bosses he has broken safety rules and could face disciplinary action after a probe.
He said: “I was expected to watch that young [...]

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Prudential has said that the work of 2,000 UK staff was under review after it outlined plans for cost savings worth £195 million a year.
The group said it was in discussions with outsourcing firms but had yet to make a decision on the future of 3,000 jobs serving its UK business, which are split between [...]

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The Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland has issued new guidance which says that people who make anti-gay comments at football matches should be subject to criminal charges.
The new approach is expected to be controversial among the country’s football fans, who are well known for their robust approach to taunting opponents.
The guidance tells [...]

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THE MSP who led Scotland’s anti-smoking campaign is calling for tighter restrictions on lighting up outdoors.
Stewart Maxwell wants to see smoking outside pubs and cafes outlawed after a study showing those indoors are affected by secondhand smoke.
SNP MSP Mr Maxwell is urging Holyrood to enforce tougher restrictions on the smoking ban, which came into force [...]

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SNP LEADER Alex Salmond was last night accused of pandering to “homophobia” by accepting a £500,000 donation from an anti-gay businessman.
The SNP yesterday confirmed that Brian Souter, who financed a high-profile campaign to keep Section 28, which banned “promoting” homo-sexuality in schools, was bankrolling their election hopes with a cheque for £500,000.
Salmond was immediately criticised [...]

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First Minister Jack McConnell accused the SNP of planning constitutional “chaos and turmoil” within 100 days if they win power at Holyrood.
He said they were cynically trying to provoke confrontations with Westminster to further the independence cause.
Mr McConnell’s attack came after the SNP published its plans for its first 100 days in power. [...]

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A failed asylum seeker from Nepal who set himself on fire prior to an appeal hearing has died in hospital.
Uddhav Bhandari, 40, set himself alight in the Eagle Building, Bothwell Street, Glasgow, which is home to the Immigration and Appeals Tribunal.
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