http://news.scotsman.com/NewsFront.aspx?SectionID=7042 breaking-scotland:Scotland en-GB Copyright 2007, Johnston Press Plc jpnm.coordinator@jpress.co.uk jpnm.coordinator@jpress.co.uk NS http://news.scotsman.com/GetFeed.aspx?sectionid=7042&format=rss Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:02:46 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://news.scotsman.com/template/group/images/rss/NS_rss.gif http://news.scotsman.com 281 70 http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Literary-giant--Gray-mixes.5845657.jp HE has designed album covers, murals and penned the eccentric and elaborate illustrations for his own books. http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Literary-giant--Gray-mixes.5845657.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/39Mindless39-yobs-hunted-by-police.5846155.jp STONE-THROWING youths have been accused of "mindless stupidity" after a bus driver was left temporarily blinded when glass from a window flew into his eyes. http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/39Mindless39-yobs-hunted-by-police.5846155.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Disability-fails-to-stop-Brian.5846199.jp AS A fit 22-year-old, Brian Thomson didn't think twice about climbing a tree to raise funds for Children in Need, but it was more of a challenge when he repeated it 20 ye http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Disability-fails-to-stop-Brian.5846199.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/39Send-Megrahi-back-to-Scotland39.5845653.jp A UNITED States senator has written to Prime Minister Gordon Brown, demanding that the Lockerbie bomber should be returned to prison in Scotland. http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/39Send-Megrahi-back-to-Scotland39.5845653.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Edinburgh-Fife-and-West-Lothian.5846220.jp COUNCIL chiefs are preparing to fight plans for the new £2 billion Forth crossing amid fears it will lead to soaring congestion in Edinburgh, it was revealed today. http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Edinburgh-Fife-and-West-Lothian.5846220.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Dram-shame-as-bosses-close.5845683.jp ONE OF Speyside's leading distilleries is to close with the loss of more than 30 jobs after a review by a major whisky producer. http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Dram-shame-as-bosses-close.5845683.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Crackdown-on-drink-prices-39will.5845641.jp MINIMUM pricing for alcohol could harm non-alcohol retailers in the south of Scotland as consumers are lured across the Border to do their weekly shop, business leaders have w http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Crackdown-on-drink-prices-39will.5845641.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Cleanliness-of-Lothians-NHS-staff.5846183.jp EVEN fewer Lothian hospital workers are washing hands properly, despite health bosses vowing to get tough to combat the threat of swine flu and superbugs. http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Cleanliness-of-Lothians-NHS-staff.5846183.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Man-paid-400-to-have.5846185.jp A POLICE officer posed as a hitman to snare an Edinburgh businessman who wanted to have his own cousin "kneecapped". http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Man-paid-400-to-have.5846185.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Care-contract-delays--39will.5846217.jp CITY leaders were today counting the cost of their defeat on care for the city's most vulnerable people. http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Care-contract-delays--39will.5846217.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Stephen-McGinty-Sign-of-sad.5845631.jp IN 1973, Harlan Ellison, the science fiction writer with a voice like a ballpeen hammer on broken glass, wrote a disturbing short story called The Whimper of Whipped Dogs. It http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Stephen-McGinty-Sign-of-sad.5845631.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Touch-of-animal-magic-as.5845679.jp AN ANIMAL hospital has been named Scotland's best new building. http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Touch-of-animal-magic-as.5845679.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Tramworks-to--hit-festive.5845882.jp THE launch of Edinburgh's pre-Christmas shopping celebrations will be hampered by tramworks in the city centre. http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Tramworks-to--hit-festive.5845882.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Coming-soon-to-a-sky.5845676.jp UP to four times as many sea eagles will be soaring through Scotland's skies by the middle of the next decade compared with today, new research has revealed. http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Coming-soon-to-a-sky.5845676.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Hugh-Reilly-You39d-think-staff.5845699.jp IF ONE were to believe the hype, a new breed of teacher is required to deliver the Curriculum for Excellence. http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Hugh-Reilly-You39d-think-staff.5845699.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Former-paratrooper-commander-opens-.5846205.jp FORMER paratrooper commander Colonel Stuart Tootal was today set to open a day centre for military veterans in memory of Corporal Mark Wright, who died in Afghanistan. http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Former-paratrooper-commander-opens-.5846205.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/An-ongoing-process-of-learning.5845689.jp PRIMARY &#149 Primary teachers can qualify through three different courses. &#149 A four-year Bachelor of Education (BEd) degree course is offered at six Scott http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/An-ongoing-process-of-learning.5845689.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Alerts-lifted-as-waters-recede.5845630.jp SWOLLEN rivers were beginning to recede across southern Scotland last night after record November rainfalls brought chaos to rail and road travel and flooded homes and busines http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Alerts-lifted-as-waters-recede.5845630.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/MP-is-accused-of-breaking.5845668.jp LIVINGSTON MP Jim Devine was criticised at a tribunal yesterday for "repeated failure to comply" with the hearing. http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/MP-is-accused-of-breaking.5845668.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/39Barbarous39-attacker-jailed-for-12.5845645.jp A JEALOUS man who gouged out his former partner's eye and threw it over the balcony of a high-rise flat was jailed for 12 years yesterday for what a judge described as a c http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/39Barbarous39-attacker-jailed-for-12.5845645.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Plans-for-funding-care-in.5845659.jp THE SNP has warned that UK government proposals for free personal care in England could result in Scottish pensioners losing £70 a week benefit. http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Plans-for-funding-care-in.5845659.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Forth-bridge-plans-likely-to.5845884.jp TRANSPORT leaders in Edinburgh are set to block the Scottish Government's controversial plans to create a second road bridge across the Forth. http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Forth-bridge-plans-likely-to.5845884.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Professor-slams-games-consoles-as.5845642.jp CLAIMS that computer games consoles can improve pupils' maths ability have been dismissed by an Edinburgh University neuroscientist. http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Professor-slams-games-consoles-as.5845642.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Nine-admit-violence-after-Rangers39.5845673.jp NINE football fans pleaded guilty yesterday to violence following Glasgow Rangers' Uefa Cup final defeat. http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Nine-admit-violence-after-Rangers39.5845673.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Police-shocked-by-children39s-crimes.5845685.jp SHOCKED police are being called out to deal with crimes committed by children that include rape and attempted murder, it emerged yesterday. http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Police-shocked-by-children39s-crimes.5845685.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Western-Isles-heads-league-of.5845687.jp THE number of vacant properties in Scotland has soared to a four-year high. More than 103,000 homes are lying empty – 4.2 per cent of the country's total. http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Western-Isles-heads-league-of.5845687.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Mar-dh39ionnsaicheas-tu-seo-a.5845709.jp THA neartan móra aig Scottish Gaelic in Twelve Weeks (Birlinn, £9.99), a sgrìobh Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh le cuideachadh Iain MhicAonghuis. Thàinig e a-mach an toiseach a http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Mar-dh39ionnsaicheas-tu-seo-a.5845709.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/39Sex-addicts39-caught-in-act.5845654.jp A COUPLE who appeared in court after being caught enjoying a mid-morning sex act in a public telephone box yesterday claimed: "We can't help ourselves – we're sex http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/39Sex-addicts39-caught-in-act.5845654.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Death-crash-driver-avoids-jail.5846161.jp A VAN driver who caused the death of a grandfather by careless driving has escaped a jail term. http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Death-crash-driver-avoids-jail.5846161.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Navy39s-most--powerful-sub.5845694.jp THE largest attack submarine in the Royal Navy arrived at its base in Scotland yesterday. http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Navy39s-most--powerful-sub.5845694.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT