The number of abortions carried out in Scotland is continuing to rise, according to official figures.
An all-time high of 13,081 pregnancies were terminated in 2006, compared with 12,603 the previous year.
The rate of abortions was highest among women aged between 16 and 19. The NHS Tayside area had the highest figures for those [...]

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THE president of the SFA could be forced out of a top FIFA job after being accused of making racist remarks about poorer nations.
John McBeth faces being axed as vice president of world football’s governing body - the role he is due to take up this week.
And one influential FIFA critic wants to send him [...]

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Perhaps you’ve heard the claims: Were it not for the genius and energy of African-American inventors, we might find ourselves in a world without traffic lights, peanut butter, blood banks, light bulb filaments, and a vast number of other things we now take for granted but could hardly imagine life without.
Such beliefs usually originate in [...]

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[Is this the first step to forced bussing? Can anyone see white parents choosing to send their kids to all black inner city schools? Or can we see black parents sending their children to white flight schools in the countryside?-ed]

Some schools would be able to select pupils by race in order to improve [...]

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AGGRESSIVE street drinkers and drug addicts are turning parts of the Royal Mile into a “no-go area” in the morning, traders warned today.
Shopkeepers have reported drunks hanging around at 6.30am and drug-users shooting heroin in alleys off the Canongate. They say they often see abusive and threatening behaviour.
Some say they are frightened to [...]

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Girls of 12 were questioned about their sexual preferences by lottery-funded researchers, it has emerged.
Participants were encouraged to discuss their favourite sex acts and positions as part of a £242,000 study.
The initiative, financed by the Big Lottery Fund, was aimed at exploring young women’s attitudes to safe sex.
But the project has come [...]

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The son of millionaire businessman and Labour MP Mohammed Sarwar has been convicted of an £850,000 money laundering scam.
Glasgow High Court heard that cash and carry managing director Athif Sarwar, 28, had handled thousands of pounds of money described as “criminal property”.
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CHILDREN as young as four play unsupervised on busy street corners by day, while teenagers hurl bricks and bottles at each other by night.
Welcome to Govanhill in Glasgow, where young families who came in search of a better life find themselves caught up in rising racial tensions.
Residents claim toddlers and youngsters, originally from Slovakia or [...]

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An Indian billionaire has bought the Scottish whisky distiller Whyte & Mackay in a £595m ($1.2bn) deal.
The spirits giant United Breweries, which is headed by Vijay Mallya, announced the all-cash acquisition to the Bombay Stock Exchange.
In a statement, the firms said the deal would help expand the market for Whyte & Mackay’s brands [...]

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Fishing industry leaders have branded an attempt by environmental pressure group Greenpeace to stop a trawler fishing for cod as “suicidal”.
Greenpeace members jumped into the North Sea directly in front of the fishing boat Endurance on Saturday.
The protestors claim overfishing could cause stocks of cod to be completely wiped out.
But a spokesman [...]

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To get ahead, get an accent. The lilt of Scottish and southern Irish voices are much more attractive than the Queen’s finest English.
In a boost to Gordon Brown and the Scottish and Irish diaspora, new research to find out what accents people like - and dislike - most has found that the English are [...]

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Ministers are to investigate arrangements for erecting mobile phone masts in the light of growing fears that they may cause cancer and other diseases because of “electronic smog”.
They will review the exceptionally favourable rules that allow mobile phone companies to escape normal planning regulations and stop councils from considering the effects of the masts [...]

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TWO young men have each been jailed for a minimum of 16 years for stabbing to death a complete stranger.
Derek Morgan, 21, and Lloyd Patterson, 22, armed themselves with knives before going out to look for trouble on a Saturday afternoon in Glenrothes, Fife.
When they came across a group of men, they picked [...]

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ELECTRONICS firm Lenovo could shed up to 100 jobs at their Greenock plant amid fears it will pull out of Inverclyde altogether.
The Chinese company, based at Spango Valley, announced its latest round of cuts to its remaining 170 highly skilled workers yesterday afternoon.
It comes less than a year after they shed 390 jobs at the [...]

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SHIPBUILDING is set to make a dramatic return to Greenock as part of the area’s extensive regeneration.
Clydeport, the owner of large parts of ex-industrial land along the riverside, has earmarked part of Greenock’s waterfront for the shipbuilding and ship repair industries.
The move would signal an important lifeline for the ailing industry in its Inverclyde heartland, [...]

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OPTIMISM is high among British companies but Scotland’s small firms show the strongest figures of any UK region.
According to Lloyds TSB, the economy rebounded sharply in April and above-average growth is likely to be sustained throughout the second quarter of the year.
This follows on from Scotland being the best performing region on the first quarter [...]

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[Playing the race card as per usual. Who allowed people like this into this country in the first place?-ed]
A CONVICTED thug has had his current detention term increased after stabbing a schoolboy on the bottom.
Halim Noor knifed the15-year-old, who was making his way home from his secondary school in Glasgow’s South Side last March.
Noor [...]

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Scotland’s main parties have made a final pitch to voters before Thursday’s Scottish Parliament election.
Labour’s Jack McConnell was in Glasgow, while SNP leader Alex Salmond toured key marginal seats by helicopter.
Conservative leader Annabel Goldie dropped in on journalists on the end of a rope at an Edinburgh activity centre.
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It seems that England is not the only nation in the UK experiencing an ever growing population, aided by the rise in immigration. Scotland’s population has increased for the third year running to almost 5.1 million.
The official figures revealed April 28, show Scotland has experienced the second largest wave of people travelling from other countries [...]

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