Police are hunting a man who attempted to abduct a teenage girl as she walked home in Glasgow.
The 13-year-old girl was approached at about 1830 GMT on Friday in the Govan area of Glasgow.
A man in a small, dark coloured car rolled down the window and grabbed her arm as she walked on Summertown Road.
The [...]

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[This wil just allow thousands more to swamp Scotland-ed]
A major survey into the demand for a new direct air service linking Aberdeen and Poland is drawing to a close - and has attracted thousands of responses.
The BBC Scotland news website revealed the research last month.
More than 2,500 people have so far responded online and also [...]

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A day of action by farmers and hauliers is set to take place on Saturday in protest at the rising cost of fuel.
The Road Haulage Association said a convoy of 30 lorries and heavy goods vehicles would make its way from Hamilton to Stirling along major roads.
A group calling itself Transaction2007 has also said it [...]

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THE businessman at the centre of the Scottish Labour donations crisis today accused Wendy Alexander’s team of “gross mismanagement.”
Paul Green insisted he had regarded his donation of £950 as “above board” after assurances from Labour MSP Charlie Gordon.
He also said his donation was written on a personal cheque from his Jersey address.
In an interview on [...]

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[They send a lot of their money home, so how is this benefitting Scotland?-ed]
MIGRANT workers are here for one main reason - money.
They can earn several times the wages doing menial jobs, rather than stay at home doing much more skilled work.
Often, they are vastly overqualified for the jobs they do.

And many have two and, [...]

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ALMOST 150,000 migrants have come to Scotland in search of work over the last five years.
Huge numbers are coming from Eastern Europe, but we are still attracting thousands of people every year from countries including India and Pakistan.
And there are significant numbers of in comers from Australia, Ireland, America and New Zealand.
That’s good news, given [...]

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