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Motor racing legend Jim Clark celebrated as hundreds flock to Duns for remembrance event
THE roar of the track echoed through Duns yesterday as hundreds gathered to pay tribute to Scots motor racing legend Jim Clark.Crowds thronged in the Borders town to watch the once-in-a-lifetime moment when two of Clark's famous cars blasted up and down the road.Fans had come from all over the world, drawn by the legend of the man who raced to the first of two world championship titles 50 ...
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Scottish doctors close to carrying out UKs first face transplant
SCOTS surgeons are gearing up to perform the UK's first face transplant.Medics at Glasgow's Southern General want to start offering the op to disfigured patients.They are talking to bosses about the idea, which could make Scotland a world leader in transplanting faces from dead donors.Wounded soldiers could be among those to benefit.The world's first face transplant took place in ...
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In Pictures Scots put on their comfiest suits for Onesie Day
GREEN was put on gardening leave after the meeting on April 13 in which he was grilled about his links with former chairman Craig Whyte. Dunfermline boss Jim Jefferies rages at SFL chief over 'senseless' points deduction which led to Pars' ...
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Independent Scotland open to Cyprus-style bank risks Britain
LONDON -- An independent Scotland would have a vastly oversized financial sector that would leave it vulnerable to a Cyprus-style banking crisis, Britain's finance ministry ...
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Thousands of mining jobs in Scotland in danger
Hundreds of open cast mineworkers were laid off and left with unpaid wages last month, following the collapse of Scottish Coal, the largest surviving mine operator in Scotland. Of the company's 758 workers, all but 142 have been made redundant. The company operates six open pit mines in East Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire and Fife. Scottish Coal was one of the private operators the emerged ...
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Scotland clash with Pakistan abandoned
Scotland's second One-Day International with Pakistan was abandoned without a ball being bowled on Sunday.Misbah Ul Haq's men were due to play the second of two warm-up games ahead of the ICC Champions Trophy, which starts on June 6, but the game was called off after heavy rain forced the umpires to rule that no play would take place.The match had been due to start at 10.45 (British ...
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Scottish bank customers warned over deposit protection scheme
A Treasury report has analysed the impact of Scottish independence on the deposit protection scheme that guarantees up to 85,000 to UK bank customers. Photograph Carl Court/AFP/Getty ...
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Independent Scotland might not be able to guarantee savers deposits
An independent Scotland might find itself unable to guarantee the deposits of savers in the event of another financial crisis, the Treasury warns ...
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Breakaway Scotland to face high saver protection costs-UK study
By William James LONDON | Sun May 19, 2013 7:01pm EDT LONDON May 20 (Reuters) - The cost of protecting Scottish savers would prove difficult to bear if the country broke away from the rest of the UK, a study by Britain's finance ministry said on Monday. The findings come in the latest paper from the British government on how independence would impact the country. On Sunday the ...
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Lees Of sheep and dreeps Waxing nostalgic for Scotland during a visit Down Under
Nick Lees, left, with cousin Donald Cameron, centre, and brother Jim Lees in Cape Leeuwin, where the Indian and Pacific Oceans meet off Western ...
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Scotlands tough call stay in the UK or stay in the EU | Angus Roxburgh
a referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union . That's because the next British general election could conceivably not merely give the Scots yet another government they didn't vote for, but bring on a referendum that could take Britain out of the EU - something that is opposed, by all accounts, by a majority of Scots.Having the wrong government imposed on you can at ...
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Home address of Ian Rankins famous fictional detective John Rebus revealed for the first time
IT'S the one mystery which has remained unsolved over 18 Rebus booksbut now author Ian Rankin has revealed the hard-drinking detective's home address for the first time.Rankin, 53, who is working on his 19th Rebus novel Saints of the Shadow Bible, had previously revealed his most famous character lived in Arden Street in Marchmont, Edinburgh.The location has been a source of ...
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Investigation launched after woman found dead in Edinburgh garden
Hearts and Hibs - under the umbrella of one Edinburgh club - would have the football and financial muscle to take on the Glasgow ...
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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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