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Swinney vows to press ahead with local income tax plan

19.07.2008 01:26    thescotsman.scotsman.com
FINANCE secretary John Swinney today pledged to press ahead with plans to scrap the council tax.


Glasgow East by-election: Abortion and embryo controversies back in spotlight for final days of campaign

19.07.2008 01:26    thescotsman.scotsman.com
CATHOLIC churches are alerting parishioners to the views of the Glasgow East by-election candidates on abortion and embryo research days before they go to the polls.

Glasgow East by-election: Cyberwar as blogger targets Sturgeon

19.07.2008 01:26    thescotsman.scotsman.com
THE struggle to win the Glasgow East by-election has been turned into a cyberwar between some of Scotland's most ardent bloggers after one targeted Nicola Sturgeon, the De

Ross Lydall's by-election blog

19.07.2008 01:26    thescotsman.scotsman.com
Friday, 1015hrs

Unions attack leaked 'work-for-dole' plans

19.07.2008 01:26    thescotsman.scotsman.com
INCAPACITY benefit will be scrapped within five years and the jobless will have to work full-time after two years out of work in exchange for the dole, under welfare reform pr

Glasgow East by-election: Curran accused over role in scrapping fire targets

19.07.2008 01:26    thescotsman.scotsman.com
MARGARET Curran, the Labour candidate for Glasgow East, has been accused of forgetting her role in scrapping guaranteed fire service response times.

Lib Dem accuses rival of stealing ideas

19.07.2008 01:26    thescotsman.scotsman.com
ONE of the contenders to become the next leader of Scottish Liberal Democrats yesterday accused the front-runner, Tavish Scott, of trying to steal his ideas.

Brown set to ditch key economic rule as UK borrowing soars

19.07.2008 01:26    thescotsman.scotsman.com
GORDON Brown has been accused of gambling his reputation for economic prudence by plotting to ditch one of his key fiscal rules as the UK borrowing level reached a record hig

Swinney's local tax in trouble

19.07.2008 01:26    thescotsman.scotsman.com
JOHN Swinney, the finance secretary, was yesterday told to forget his plans for a local income tax unless he made big compromises.

Glasgow East by-election: SNP seizes on warning of fuel cost surge

19.07.2008 01:26    thescotsman.scotsman.com
THE rising cost of living dominated the Glasgow East by-election yesterday after warnings of massive increases in gas prices.

'Calamity' Kate refuses to quit as pressure grows over £50m crisis

19.07.2008 01:26    thescotsman.scotsman.com
THE leader of crisis-hit Aberdeen city council yesterday defiantly refused to resign in the face of a mounting storm of protest over the scale of the authority's £50 milli

Glasgow East by-election: SNP say sorry over police on leaflet

19.07.2008 01:26    thescotsman.scotsman.com
THE SNP apologised to police after a picture of two officers was put on a leaflet distributed as part of the party's Glasgow East by-election campaign, it was reported las

Muslim panel to focus on wearing of Islamic veils in UK

19.07.2008 01:26    thescotsman.scotsman.com
THE wearing of the Islamic veil is one of the issues to be examined by a panel of Muslim experts being set up by the government, it was announced yesterday.

Glasgow East by-election: Mason counters drive to close 2,000 post offices

19.07.2008 01:25    thescotsman.scotsman.com
JOHN Mason, the SNP by-election candidate, spoke out against the UK government's post office closure plans when he visited an outlet in Shettleston Road, Glasgow, yesterd

Lennox: Africa's Aids crisis 'similar to horror of Nazi concentration camps'

19.07.2008 01:25    thescotsman.scotsman.com
ANNIE Lennox, the Scots-born rock star, has launched an outspoken attack on the South African government over its response to the HIV/Aids pandemic in southern Africa, a cr

MoD admits twice as many laptops stolen

19.07.2008 01:25    thescotsman.scotsman.com
THE Ministry of Defence yesterday admitted that 658 of its laptops had been stolen over the past four years â€" nearly double the figure previously claimed.

1bn EU grant frozen

19.07.2008 01:25    thescotsman.scotsman.com
The EU has frozen 1 billion in aid to new member state Bulgaria over fears of corruption and organised crime.

Referendum bid on Lisbon fails

19.07.2008 01:25    thescotsman.scotsman.com
TYCOON Stuart Wheeler has failed in a bid to force a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. An appeal judge held his challenge to the High Court's rejection of his case had &#

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