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Congregations ‘can choose gay ministers’
Church of Scotland congregations across the north and north-east could soon be given the freedom to appoint people in civil partnerships as their ...
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Facebook life ban for troll in Sophie tragedy
Sophie Taylor, 16, was killed accidentally by Calum Murray at a cottage at Tomintoul in 2011 before the trainee gamekeeper turned his gun on himself. Days later, Duffy placed a doctored picture showing Sophie with a gunshot wound to her head on a Facebook tribute ...
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Auckland disappointed despite a personal best
Rhona Auckland sets herself such high standards that she admits to being disappointed with her personal best performance in the British Milers Club meeting at ...
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Dons Well set to ascend
The 31-year-old is now preparing for a summer of waiting for the phone to ring but believes increasing interest in the Steelmen's better players will clear the way for the Dons, finally, to return to the upper reaches of the ...
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Celtic fans joy turns to despair as star Kris Commons shirt is stolen on way home from final SPL game of season
Football is full of surprises - as a Rangers fan I'd like to wish Celtic and Neil Lennon the best of luck this week for the Scottish Cup ...
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Bungling surgeon told me my back problems would improve when I started to shrink says one of his victims
MICHAEL Kayes paid under-fire surgeon Colin Mainds 10,000 to ease his back pain only for Mainds to tell him the pain would ease when he was over ...
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Jim Hensons son to speak at Guardian Edinburgh Television Festival
Brian Henson, director of The Muppet Christmas Carol, will speak at this year's Guardian International Television Festival. Photograph: Disney/Sportsphoto ...
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Church of Scotland approves compromise on gay clergy
The Church of Scotland's General Assembly Monday approved a compromise that allows congregations who want to have gay ministers to do so. The plan will not take effect until 2015, The Scotsman reported. The church, which has a Presbyterian form of government, will spend the next year developing the legal form for allowing gay clergy, followed by votes by the presbyteries and then by ...
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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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