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NGO Monitor Church of Scotland Fails to Correct a Terrible Wrong
PRESS RELEASE May 19, 2013 Contact: Lenny Ben-David NGO Monitor 054-216-8155 lenny.bendavid@ngo-monitor.org Church of Scotland's "revision" is no step forward Church should cut ties with religiously intolerant Sabeel organization Jerusalem - The Church of Scotland's "revision" of its April report "The Inheritance Of Abraham? A Report On The ...
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UPDATE 2-Seaweed forces EDF to halt Scottish nuclear reactors
Fri May 24, 2013 11:44am EDT By John McGarrity LONDON May 24 (Reuters) - EDF Energy said on Friday it had halted both reactors at its 1,280 megawatt (MW) Torness nuclear plant near Edinburgh after a rising tide of seaweed threatened to clog its cooling system. Britain currently has 9 reactors off line with a combined capacity of over 5,000 MW, or around half of the country's total nuclear ...
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Young farmers in Scotland have bright future
YOUNG farmers in Scotland will benefit from a share of a 10m funding pot announced by the Scottish Government. New chairman of the Scottish Association of Young Farmers Clubs (SAYFC), Katherine Marr, announced the group would benefit from the fund which is designed to strengthen the work of young people's organisations working across Scotland.This week Rural affairs secretary Richard ...
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Why we pedalled on the Scottish parliament
"Big Ride" on parliament just before the mayoral election . It seemed as if cycle campaigning was finally taking off south of the border and cyclists' voices were being heard, while here in Scotland the cycling and walking budget was actually declining despite the government's target of 10% of journeys being undertaken on a bike by 2020.So when David Brennan, a helmet-camera ...
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We loved you so much you didnt deserve this Devastated family of murdered soldier Lee Rigby pay emotional tribute to him
'We were attempting to get hold of Lee, obviously we couldn’t. It was the middle of the night when we got confirmed to us it was Lee,' he said ...
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Scotlands top policeman pleads for the force to keep seized proceeds of crime
he needs to save 58 million this year, and similar amounts in the next two, warning that cuts could cause "irreparable" damage to policing.He said: "I've been continually pleading with government to revisit money seized through proceeds of crime."We all know we are not a special case, but we are seizing millions of pounds every year from organised criminals for the ...
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Sharkey murder trial Witness branded bare-faced liar as jury hears of confusion over when money was repaid
SIMON FRASER was giving evidence in the trial of two men accused of starting a fire which led to the deaths of three members of the same family in ...
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Scottish teachers concerned about their workload and the new curriculum according to new survey
A POLL by the Educational Institute ofScotland found more than 80 per cent of teachers questioned aren't happy with their current working ...
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Seaweed stops Scottish EDF nuclear plant
By John McGarrity LONDON (Reuters) - A rising tide of seaweed halted a nuclear power station near Edinburgh late on Thursday, threatening to clog up its cooling system. EDF Energy took both reactors offline at its 1,280MW Torness nuclear plant, ...
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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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