Scotland’s economy is expected to slow down over the next year, analysts have predicted.
The Bank of Scotland said weak business and consumer confidence would counteract strong housing markets, share prices and lower interest rates.
The annual rate of growth was predicted to dip below 2% around the middle of the year.
However, the new [...]

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Liberal Democrat leadership contender Simon Hughes has explained why he has admitted having gay relationships.
The 54-year-old MP said in Thursday’s Sun that in the past he had had relationships with both women and men.
He said he had considered pulling out of the leadership contest but did not think the [...]

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Former Liberal Democrat leadership challenger Mark Oaten has stood down as the party’s home affairs spokesman over an alleged affair with a rent boy.
Mr Oaten released a statement apologising for the “embarrassment” caused to his family, friends and the Liberal Democrat party.
Married Mr Oaten, 41, and the MP for Winchester, dropped out [...]

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George Galloway faced a backlash from his constituents yesterday who accused him of abandoning them for television fame on Celebrity Big Brother.
Mixing with a Page Three girl, a former Baywatch actress and the former mistress of England coach Sven Goran Eriksson has not gone down well with many in east London.
Jim Fitzpatrick, the minister for [...]

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CHARLES KENNEDY was given a £10,500 barrel of malt whisky which is not registered with the House of Commons.
The ex-Lib Dem leader, who was forced to quit after admitting a drink problem, was presented with the “hogshead” by Glen-morangie distillery.
He pledged not to drink again when he announced his battle against alcohol.
Kennedy has not declared [...]

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THE Government was today accused of planning to divert lottery cash from good causes and charity to fund services normally paid for from general taxation.
MPs are today debating the second reading of the National Lottery Bill, which will merge three of the bodies distributing cash to good causes into a new Big Lottery Fund. [...]

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The latest Audit Scotland has blasted the city council for constantly failing to meet their requirements. Citizens of the city are well aware of the shortfalls of living in the city but Audit Scotland highlight the problems for the rest of the country to view.
Audit Scotland’s findings revealed that 56 per cent of the city’s [...]

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Councillor Iain Whyte the leader of the Tory group at the council has today been challenged to empty the bins and has his leadership called into question in today’s Evening News by a Kingsknowe resident today.
The difficult situation between the council and its employees who collect our refuse is not helped by the comments of [...]

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Thousands of asylum seekers are to be offered millions of pounds in cash to return to their home countries under a scheme announced yesterday by the Home Office.
The Government expects to spend about £6 million over six months encouraging around 3,000 refugees, who have been refused permission to stay or are awaiting decisions, to return [...]

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THE Macpherson report into the murder of Stephen Lawrence has led to a politically correct backlash with police afraid to investigate black and Asian crime for fear of being accused of racism, according to one of Britain’s most prominent Muslim MPs.
Mohammad Sarwar, the Labour MP for Glasgow Central, said some communities are being [...]

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A recent letter published in the Dundee Courier about the Labour Government’s failure to control immigration demonstrates why the BNP are growing all over the UK.
Titled ‘These figures are shocking’ the letter read:
“Sir, The news that 494,100 immigrants came to Britain last year and 207,600 of our own people left is nothing short of shocking. [...]

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Seven same-sex couples are taking part in the first civil partnership ceremonies in Scotland.
The Civil Partnership Act, which came into effect earlier this month, gives gay and lesbian couples the same legal rights as heterosexual couples.
Couples will benefit from a major change in next of kin status and inheritance tax and pension rights. [...]

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WESTERN Isles council has hit back at claims that it is banning gay marriages, and says it is fully complying with legislation on civil partnerships.
It was reported that councillors have backed local registrars, who say they will not take part in civil partnership ceremonies on the islands.
The council says this does not amount [...]

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David Cameron has launched a 5-point positive action plan to guarantee more women and black and ethnic minority MPs.
The new Party leader appealed to every woman in Britain, and everyone from a black or ethnic minority background, who shares his passion to change Britain for the better and who shares our values to apply to [...]

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The Scottish Parliament has backed plans to speed up divorce following a Holyrood chamber debate.
Where the split is not contested, the separation period will shorten from two years to one and from five years to two where one partner contests the case.
A group of 34 MSPs failed to have the process restricted to 18 [...]

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The Catholic Church has told MSPs that plans to reform family law will weaken the concept of marriage in Scotland.
It made the claim at a meeting of the justice 1 committee as it took evidence on the Family Law (Scotland) Bill.
Plans to speed up divorces and give greater rights to co-habiting couples would only [...]

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THE Scottish Executive was today accused of building up a £500m election war chest as a new report warned council taxes could rise by up to 6.6 per cent next year.
Cash totalling £1.5 billion which has been allocated to Scotland is still sitting in the Treasury. Two thirds of it is committed to projects [...]

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The annual British National Party St. Andrew’s Day meeting, held this year in Glasgow on Sunday the 4th of December, brought in a record collection that amazed even veteran members present.
90 people attend the meeting at a plush hotel in the city and helped raise a fantastic £5,700 to allow Glasgow BNP to campaign [...]

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A £113MILLION plan that includes a proposal to build a supermarket on the site of a sheltered housing complex has sparked protests.
Around 35 elderly residents in Barrhead, Renfrewshire, have been told their flats are on one of the sites targeted for a possible megastore.
Developers want to build a store at one of [...]

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Anti-Israel politician George Galloway came under fire yet again this week after he told an Arab television interviewer that Zionists control the media.
The Bethnal Green and Bow MP’s latest comments came after he was introduced as “a former member of the British Houses of Parliament” during a live interview with Qatari Al-Jazeera television.
He responded: [...]

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