http://heritage.scotsman.com/NewsFront.aspx?SectionID=6986 Top Stories en-GB Copyright 2007, Johnston Press Plc jpnm.coordinator@jpress.co.uk jpnm.coordinator@jpress.co.uk HS http://heritage.scotsman.com/GetFeed.aspx?sectionid=6986&format=rss Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:55:38 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://heritage.scotsman.com/template/group/images/rss/HS_rss.gif http://heritage.scotsman.com 281 70 http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Broke-helpless-Darling-has-run.5899049.jp IF THIS was the Famous Last Stand of Fiscal Prudence, avert your eyes. As a defence against the debt onslaught Britain now faces, Alistair Darling's performance was about http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Broke-helpless-Darling-has-run.5899049.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Black-Rod-blames--39amateurs39.5899101.jp BRITAIN put "amateurs" into senior positions in Iraq during the occupation of the country, causing the deaths of local people and troops, a senior army officer claim http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Black-Rod-blames--39amateurs39.5899101.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Peter-Irvine-breaks-11th-commandment.5899068.jp HE IS used to facing brickbats with his outspoken views on Scotland's tourism industry. http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Peter-Irvine-breaks-11th-commandment.5899068.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Chancellor-39ducking-big-decisions39-as.5899106.jp CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling has announced a pay squeeze for millions of public sector workers and a National Insurance hike as he tried to rebuild shattered public finances. http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Chancellor-39ducking-big-decisions39-as.5899106.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/-Tax-rises-and-pay.5899035.jp WITH the UK drowning in debt, here are the Chancellors key proposals to get Britain back on road to recovery http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/-Tax-rises-and-pay.5899035.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Windfall-tax-on-bankers39-bonuses.5899099.jp BANKERS and brokers yesterday attacked Alistair Darling's windfall tax proposal claiming that it would discourage foreign financial institutions from investing in Britain. http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Windfall-tax-on-bankers39-bonuses.5899099.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Irish-PM-sets-an-example.5899046.jp IRELAND slashed pay for public sector workers, cut welfare provisions and imposed new environmental taxes on fuel yesterday as it unveiled a record 4 billion (£3.6bn) http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Irish-PM-sets-an-example.5899046.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/They39re-in-the-army-now.5899064.jp THE number of new recruits enlisting to join the army in Scotland has risen by 25 per cent in the past year, despite the rising death toll in Afghanistan. http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/They39re-in-the-army-now.5899064.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/-RBS-art-A-bank.5899039.jp ARTWORKS from the Royal Bank of Scotland's collection are to go on show to the public, reports Tim Cornwell http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/-RBS-art-A-bank.5899039.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Mixed-reception-for-new-move.5899083.jp AS THE bodies subject to the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act look set to be extended, the law-makers in Scotland might be well advised to consider the results of a su http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Mixed-reception-for-new-move.5899083.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Flooding-crop--failures-.5899070.jp THE most stringent measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will still leave hundreds of millions of people suffering crop failures, flooding and water shortages by the end http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Flooding-crop--failures-.5899070.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/-George-Kerevan-Chancellor-offers.5899063.jp IT WAS a Budget – forget the "pre" suffix, which has long ceased to mean anything – made on the playing fields of Loretto, the discrete private school in Musselburgh a http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/-George-Kerevan-Chancellor-offers.5899063.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Man-who-could-be-unify.5899060.jp WHEN I met him at his modest offices in 1999 – a year before the second intifada uprising exploded – Marwan Barghouthi expressed a grudging admiration for the state-building a http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Man-who-could-be-unify.5899060.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/SNP-claims-spending-delay-will.5899059.jp SCOTLAND'S economic recovery is in jeopardy after the Chancellor Alistair Darling failed to allow future spending to be brought forward, it was claimed last night. http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/SNP-claims-spending-delay-will.5899059.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Ministers-must-do-more-to.5899082.jp WITH the second tranche of £20 million recently released as part of the £60m Town Centre Regeneration Fund by the Scottish Government, it seems things are looking good for re http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Ministers-must-do-more-to.5899082.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Crofters-vote-for-takeover-of.5899112.jp A GROUP of island crofters will today vote on plans for Scotland's first hostile estate takeover, five years after agreeing to the move. http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Crofters-vote-for-takeover-of.5899112.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Blueprint-for-recovery-looks-more.5899108.jp IT WAS less a pre-election bribe and more a post-crisis sting. Chancellor Alistair Darling had always made clear that the whole country should share the pain. http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Blueprint-for-recovery-looks-more.5899108.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Cancerfight-family39s-eviction-fears-after.5899053.jp THE family of a woman battling cancer face eviction by the Ministry of Defence, because her navy husband took a desk job to look after her. http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Cancerfight-family39s-eviction-fears-after.5899053.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Dear-Santa-I39d-like-Christmas.5899050.jp CAMPAIGNERS they fear Precious Mhango, a ten-year-old Scots asylum seeker, may be forced to spend Christmas locked up at Yarl's Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire. http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Dear-Santa-I39d-like-Christmas.5899050.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/President-on-spot-as-exaltar.5899033.jp WHEN he was a Roman Catholic bishop, Fernando Lugo taught liberation theology to uplift the poor. Now president, he is in the uncomfortable position of sending special forces http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/President-on-spot-as-exaltar.5899033.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Budget-cuts-threaten-most-vulnerable.5899054.jp WORKING in the social care and voluntary sector is a challenging task, even more so in the current economic climate. The "third sector" provides care and support to so http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Budget-cuts-threaten-most-vulnerable.5899054.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Patient-care-could-pay-the.5899066.jp THE NHS is facing significant financial pressures and will have to make £200 million in savings this year, according to a report published today. http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Patient-care-could-pay-the.5899066.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Ten-years-on-80m-conference.5899096.jp WORK on an extension of Edinburgh's main conference centre is set to get under way – ten years after plans were unveiled. http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Ten-years-on-80m-conference.5899096.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Mountain-biking-girl-16-lucky.5899081.jp A TEENAGE schoolgirl was "lucky to be alive" last night after she plunged 90ft down a steep river gorge at a Scottish beauty spot. http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Mountain-biking-girl-16-lucky.5899081.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Briefing-board.5899095.jp PEOPLE THREE new members and one psychiatrist member have been appointed to the Parole Board for Scotland, the Scottish Government has announced. Forensic psychologist Eliz http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Briefing-board.5899095.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Killer-Knox-plays-down-US.5899080.jp IMPRISONED student Amanda Knox has admitted that she got a fair trial and has hit out at kneejerk American reaction to the Italian judicial system. http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Killer-Knox-plays-down-US.5899080.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Analysis-Shortterm-political-gains-may.5899077.jp ONE thing is clear in the aftermath of the global banking crisis: the public is very angry with the bankers who got us into this mess and the bankers don't seem to recogn http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Analysis-Shortterm-political-gains-may.5899077.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Cancer-drug-could-be-used.5899092.jp A DRUG being tested to treat cancer patients could also hold the key to helping asthma sufferers, according to Scottish researchers. http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Cancer-drug-could-be-used.5899092.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Diageo-fight-ends-as-axed.5899107.jp THE dispute over Diageo's decision to end Johnnie Walker whisky's historic link with Kilmarnock is over, after workers voted overwhelmingly to accept a redundancy pack http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Diageo-fight-ends-as-axed.5899107.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Grim-postbombing-ritual-as-siege.5899100.jp PAKISTANI provincial minister Amir Haider Khan Hoti spends much of his time handing out envelopes containing cheques. http://heritage.scotsman.com/topstories/Grim-postbombing-ritual-as-siege.5899100.jp Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT