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Man who neglected puppies and sold them on could have assets seized
A MAN jailed for mistreating puppies could have 12,000-worth of any future assets seized under proceeds of crime legislation. The confiscation order made against Charles Swan is the first to target a person convicted of animal cruelty in Scotland, prosecutors said. Swan admitted keeping puppies in squalid conditions, which he sold from a farm near Stirling. He is estimated to have made 12,340 ...
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Solicitor jailed for four years after being caught trying to smuggle drugs phones other items into prison
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Landlord of flat in which Scots jockey Jan Wilson died in blaze is jailed for violating fire safety regulations
ALAN Foster admitted four charges of breaching fire safety regulations two of which related to a property in which Jan Wilson, pictured, and fellow jockey Jamie Kyne died in ...
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Video Ukip leader Nigel Farage evacuated from Edinburgh pub
Nigel Farage says Ukip not 'just some little pressure group' and that Conservatives could topple David Cameron before 2015 ...
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Nigel Farages Scottish hounding was an antidote to fawning media treatment | Mike Small
Thursday's confrontation between Nigel Farage and Scottish protesters has led people to question just why Ukip is so unpopular in Scotland. However, it is the wrong question to ask. Instead we should be asking just what has happened to English culture that a party with a loathsome agenda of homophobia, barely masked racism and a litany of other far-right notions has made such headway in the ...
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Tributes paid to thoughtful and humorous soldier Robert Hetherington who was killed by bomb blast in Afghanistan
THE funeral of one of three soldiers recently killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan has taken place. Mourners paid their last respects to Private Robert Hetherington at a ceremony in Edinburgh. The 25-year-old died with Corporal William Savage and Fusilier Samuel Flint when their Mastiff armoured vehicle hit an improvised explosive device on a routine patrol in Helmand on April 30. Their ...
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Dead childrens named used as aliases by undercover police at Scotland Yard
The use of dead children's identities by Scotland Yard undercover police officers was "common practice", a chief constable investigating the matter has ...
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Flagship Scottish hospital under review after being found to have third highest mortality rate for heart surgery in UK
A LEADING heart hospital found to have the third highest mortality rate in the UK says it has reviewed its practices.Golden Jubilee Hospital in Clydebank, near Glasgow, had a 4.14 per cent "risk-adjusted" death rate, according to a recently published audit by the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery (SCTS) between 2008 and 2011.Almost 4,000 heart operations were performed at the hospital ...
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Cyclist dies in rural road accident in Inverness-shire
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Slow progress made on Scottish roads upgrades reveals report
THE Audit Scotland report shows that the proportion of roads are still below 2005 levels, when 69.9 per cent of local roads were classified as ...
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Scotland's waterways seeing revival
Scotland’s waterways, the canals used to transport bulky goods and vast quantities of coal in the days before the development of the railways, are of great significance in terms of their role in the development of the country, new projects are making sure they remain so.
Scotland recently began investing heavily in its canal system with the introduction of the Millennium Link, a project to restore the Union Canal and Forth and Clyde Canals for use by recreational boaters, tourists and to encourage investment in the tourism, retail and commercial sectors. Read more
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