Nigel Farages Scottish hounding was an antidote to fawning media treatment | Mike Small

The Guardian - Friday 17th May, 2013

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 ...

Tributes paid to thoughtful and humorous soldier Robert Hetherington who was killed by bomb blast in Afghanistan

Daily Record - Friday 17th May, 2013

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 ...

Dead childrens named used as aliases by undercover police at Scotland Yard

The Independent - Friday 17th May, 2013

The use of dead children's identities by Scotland Yard undercover police officers was "common practice", a chief constable investigating the matter has ...

Flagship Scottish hospital under review after being found to have third highest mortality rate for heart surgery in UK

Daily Record - Friday 17th May, 2013

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 ...

Cyclist dies in rural road accident in Inverness-shire

Daily Record - Friday 17th May, 2013

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Slow progress made on Scottish roads upgrades reveals report

Daily Record - Friday 17th May, 2013

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 ...

Scottish Education Awards TV presenter Cat Cubie looks back at school days as she prepares to host prestigious bash

Daily Record - Friday 17th May, 2013

THE glamorous TV presenter followed in her academic family's footsteps by gaining a university degree - but she couldn't resist the lure of a career in ...

Northern Nights CRANES

Daily Record - Friday 17th May, 2013

A CHARITYlunch was held at the Marcliffe Hotel in Aberdeento raise funds for CRANES, cancer research Aberdeen & north-east Scotland, which supports locally-based research into the causes and prevention of all forms of ...

Record View Royal Banks latest job cuts are cruel and contemptuous

Daily Record - Friday 17th May, 2013

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STV presenter Anne Smith and workmates will abseil cliffs to raise cancer charity cash

Daily Record - Friday 17th May, 2013

YOU must be something special if your workmates will jump off a cliff for you. This weekend two television presenters and five journalists from STV in Aberdeen will abseil down cliffs at Cove alongside their colleague Anne Smith. It's the latest in a series of charity ventures by the TV reporter who was diagnosed with breast cancer three years ago. The Aberdeen news team are raising ...