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Standing up for truth, honesty and justice matters now more than ever
ON Sunday October 20, as usual, I dug out the Seven Days supplement of my Sunday National, as I always read it first. However, it was just bloody awful! Totally excruciating! On the front page was a picture of a 13-year-old Palestinian boy, Li’
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Labour MP loses whip after video appears to show him punching man
A LABOUR MP has lost the party whip after a video emerged appearing to show him punching a man to the ground. The party said Mike Amesbury, the MP for Runcorn and Helsby, had been suspended “pending an investigation” into the incident. It comes
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Robert Jenrick omitted a key fact when discussing slavery abolition
ROBERT Jenrick is partly right in saying that African kings were opposed to the abolition of slavery. There were a few who found it profitable to capture members of another tribe to sell to British slave traders, together with some of their own people
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SNP slam UK Government as GB Energy chief based in England
THE SNP have slammed the UK Government after it was revealed that the new boss of GB Energy will be based in England. At the Labour Party conference in September, Keir Starmer announced that GB Energy – Labour’s publicly-owned energy company –
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Ex-Reform by-election candidate claims '98 per cent of women lying about rape'
A FORMER Reform Party candidate has claimed most women who say they have been sexually assaulted are being dishonest. Stephen McNamara, who is now standing as an independent candidate in the upcoming Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse by-election,
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Scottish Greens will vote against SNP Budget if it cuts council funding
THE Scottish Greens will not back the SNP Budget if it means cuts to council funding, members have voted. A motion – tabled by MSPs Ross Greer and Gillian Mackay – was passed at the Greens conference in Greenock on Sunday, which stipulated that
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Greens will 'push SNP to end funding for firms arming Israel' in Budget negotiations
THE Scottish Greens will push for the SNP Government to end funding for firms arming Israel in Budget negotiations. It comes as John Swinney and his government need to find support from at least one of the opposition parties in the Scottish Parliament
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GB Energy boss given office in England – despite pledge of Aberdeen headquarters
THE boss of Labour’s GB Energy will be based in England despite previous promises that it would be headquartered in Scotland. Emails leaked to the Scottish Sun revealed that Juergen Maier – the former Siemens boss who was appointed to the role
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Two Scottish universities among biggest animal testers in UK, report finds
THE UNIVERSITY of Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow carried some of the highest number of animal tests last year, according to figures from Understanding Animal Research (UAR) .UAR published a list of the ten UK organisations that carried
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Scottish Greens reveal ‘minimum needed' for party to support SNP Budget
THE Scottish Greens have set out the "very minimum" the party needs to support the forthcoming SNP Government Budget. The powersharing deal between the SNP and the Greens at Holyrood ended earlier this year, which means First Minister John Swinney
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Several Scottish city council projects to be postponed due to rising costs
SEVERAL projects have been cancelled by Glasgow City Council amid rising costs. Councillors have agreed to put several schemes on hold, including some city centre street revamps proposed under the Avenues programme. It follows a review of the
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Drama, dance and song on banks of the Tummel
ITS origin is a secret promise made by visionary John Stewart during the horrors of the Second World War – but it is doubtful that even he could have predicted just how well Pitlochry Festival Theatre would flourish. When Stewart, founder of Glasgow
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Mark Brown: This Glasgow show is a love letter to humanity
ON Saturday of last weekend, I: watched Glasgow hairdresser Dotto Nalukala spend three hours braiding the hair of young model Luwam Khasay; followed young midwife Coco Bentgens’s demonstration of the ways in which babies exit the birth canal; saw an
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Robin McKelvie: Visiting Dundee’s transformative history
I’M en route across the famously silvery Tay to Dundee in search of two pieces of remarkable history that have both recently faced an existential threat. One is a ship – but not the one you’re thinking of – and the other is a hulking onshore edifice
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Was Robert Fergusson a poet, prodigal son or tavern rat?
IN this final part of a trilogy on Robert Fergusson, the poet who famously inspired Robert Burns, I am going to chart his tragic decline and early death and show why he is worthy of appreciation. The events marking the 250th anniversary of his
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Outlander showrunner posts heartfelt thanks to Scots as show wraps up filming
A SHOWRUNNER for the popular TV series Outlander has thanked Scotland for making the cast and crew “feel like we belonged”, after finishing the eighth and final series of the historical drama. Matthew B Roberts paid tribute to Scotland in a post
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Man, 70, killed in hit-and-run as police hunt for driver
POLICE are searching for a driver who fled the scene of a collision that killed a 70-year-old man in South Lanarkshire on Sunday. The pedestrian was struck by a small black car, which officers said could be a Mercedes A-Class, at around 12.40am
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This exhibition at Edinburgh's Summerhall 'has literally saved my life'
WHEN the annual Out Of Sight Out Of Mind exhibition at Summerhall arts centre in Edinburgh first began in 2014, CAPS (an independent advocacy organisation providing collective and individual advocacy) advocacy manager Pam Van de Brug and planner Lauren
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Kemi Badenoch in row with BBC Scotland presenter over ‘voluntary union’ comments
KEMI Badenoch has fumbled over whether Scotland is in a “voluntary union” whilst appearing on BBC Scotland’s Sunday Show. The Tory leadership candidate entered a spat with presenter Martin Geissler over whether the Union was voluntary as she argued
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Rhoda Meek: Gooseburgers, otters and a perfect septic tank starter
I RECENTLY discovered a Pinterest board for “Goose Lovers” and had to pour myself almost as stiff a drink as the day I discovered an Etsy shop selling dungarees to hold nappies in place for your “house duck”. Whilst those goose lovers are no doubt
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Snoop Dogg interested in investing in Scottish football club
SNOOP Dogg is interested in becoming a part-owner for Celtic after watching the Ryan Reynolds documentary "Welcome to Wrexham", a new interview has revealed. The Gin and Juice rapper said he would be “crazy” not to consider investing in the club
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Scottish Greens oppose National Care Service plans in conference vote
AN emergency motion opposing plans for the National Care Service has been overwhelmingly passed at the Scottish Greens conference. The motion, which was proposed by Glasgow Green Cllr Anthony Carroll and the party’s health spokesperson Gillian
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Sepa prosecutions of environmental rulebreakers plummet
COMPLAINTS about pollution in Scotland leapt over the past 10 years while successful prosecutions of polluters have fallen from 18 to zero, The Ferret can reveal. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) received 9201 complaints about
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Georgian election result disputed by opposition party
GEORGIA’S parliamentary election result has been disputed by the country’s leading opposition party following a bitter campaign. The country’s Central Election Commission say that the ruling pro-Russian Georgian Dream party won 54.8% of Saturday's
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Scottish Government warns Labour Budget could cost NHS Scotland 2000 nurses
THE UK Government’s upcoming Budget could cost NHS Scotland “2000 nurses”, the Scottish Government has warned. Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to announce plans to hike employer National Insurance contributions in Wednesday’s Budget, in a
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Israeli strikes kill at least 22 people in northern Gaza
ISRAELI strikes on northern Gaza have killed at least 22 people, Palestinian medical officials have said. The Gaza Health Ministry’s emergency service said 11 women and two children were among those killed in the strikes late on Saturday in the
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Alison Phipps: Seven words to save our sanity in the midst of the terror in Gaza
MAN burning alive, a report from a reputable journalist, of children separated from mothers, thrown into a north Gaza pit in Jabalia Refugee Camp, left until their bones start cracking under the weight of sand being bulldozed onto them, and then dragged
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Alyn Smith: Moldova’s narrow Yes victory highlights tensions
AS the Prime Minister and King discovered last week in Samoa at a Commonwealth Summit, the legacies of empires are messy. What was billed as a feel-good traditional family gathering turned into more of an ambush. Other countries which may have
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John Swinney: Immediate ceasefire in Gaza ‘at the heart’ of peace in Middle East
THE First Minister has repeated calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, saying it is “at the heart” of reaching wider peace in the Middle East. John Swinney was speaking on the first anniversary of the day Israeli forces began their ground invasion
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Exhibition shines a light on mental health with an inventive and wide offering
WALKING into Summerhall on a sunny Wednesday afternoon, the place has been transformed. In honour of mental health awareness month, the annual Out of Sight Out of Mind exhibition has taken over the arts centre, showcasing work from 310 participants
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‘It’s a real party – but what’s really vital is the fundraising we do’
HARD though it may be to believe, when the forerunner of the Scottish Music Awards first began, there was no live music. “It was ridiculous,” laughed legendary nightclub owner Donald MacLeod who has helped the annual event raise more than £1 million
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Meeting planned over controversial flood protection scheme
A CONTROVERSIAL £54 million flood protection scheme has attracted almost 800 objections. However, 357 responses to the plan for Musselburgh were rejected as invalid with a total of 470 accepted as valid. Reasons for the rejections included
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Israel trying to 'silence' media with 'terrorist' claims, says Palestinian journalist
ISRAEL is trying to justify the potential deaths of six journalists it accused of being terrorists in an attempt to silence its critics, a Palestinian journalist has claimed. Reem Al Rikhawi told the Sunday National that a raft of allegations levelled
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King Charles could learn from a Scottish University on slavery reparations
KING Charles acknowledged “painful aspects” of Britain’s history while failing to address calls about reparations for slavery, but he could learn from a Scottish university on how to atone for his ancestral past, a leading expert said. At a summit
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Over a million Scots life expectancy worse due to inequality caused by austerity
YEARS of austerity leading to inequality and poverty across Scotland is still the biggest contributor to stagnating life expectancy among Scots, experts have said. Last Wednesday, the National Records of Scotland (NRS) announced that life expectancy
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Are these six Palestinian journalists really terrorists as Israel claims?
THE Israeli military has been accused of smearing Palestinian journalists it has claimed are secretly terrorists. The Israelis say their evidence shows that six reporters for Al Jazeera are members of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
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Strikes targeting John Swinney's constituency face key hurdles
IT remains to be seen how effective a union’s target of John Swinney's constituency will be in achieving their aims, according to experts. Unison members staged a protest outside the First Minister’s constituency office in Blairgowrie, Perthshire
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Graham Campbell: Keir Starmer yet again turns the other cheek to racism
AS he sits in the CHOGM summit in Samoa avoiding the glances of Bahamian, Barbadian, Jamaican and other Caribbean leaders, Keir Starmer will ignore the level of insult to the peoples of the African diaspora. It is not a mere rebuff or a petulant
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Scotland is 'critical' to achieving goal of 'restoring biodiversity globally'
SCOTLAND is “critical to achieving the goal” of “restoring biodiversity globally” says NatureScot, as the COP16 summit gets under way. Kath Leys, NatureScot’s head of biodiversity and geodiversity, believes Scotland has an opportunity to show leadership
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Campaigners worldwide call for removal of British monarch as head of state
KING Charles's royal visit to Australia was marred by protesters – and his poorly received trip has sparked the question for many other Commonwealth nations, asking why the British monarch is still their head of state. Although the majority of
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Andrew Tickell: Extraordinary General Elections – what needs to happen
ARE we heading for an early Holyrood election? On Wednesday, Rachel Reeves will present her long-deferred Budget statement to the House of Commons. This is a significant moment for the UK Labour Government. If a new government should dazzle
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Ruth Wishart: PM’s silence over slavery reparations the latest example of lost Labour
BLAME The Bible. Or, more precisely, the blood-and-thunder dauds of the Old Testament. From Exodus to Isaiah and several points in between, the era in which these chapters were penned were of one opinion. The sins of the fathers should be visited
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David Pratt: The US election is set once again to go down to the wire
IF former Tory politician Rory Stewart’s take is anything to go by, then the outcome of the US presidential election is in little doubt. “If I had to bet, I think Kamala Harris will win comfortably,” Stewart, now turned broadcaster, recently opined
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Gerry Hassan: With fascism on the rise again, how can we defeat it?
TWENTY-FIVE years ago, at the height of Blair, Bill Clinton and “The Third Way”, many felt that the future direction and progress of the world was safe and secure. Widespread optimism and belief in globalisation and economic freedom leading to
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Spotlight shines on craft businesses across Scotland
A SPOTLIGHT is to be shone on Scotland’s craft businesses from Shetland to the Solway Firth. There are more than 2500 makers and craft businesses scattered across the country and many of their wares will be on show during Craft Week Scotland next
