News archive from 22 June 2015

Public to help create audio ‘map’ of UK coastline
FROM dramatic clifftops and rugged rockfaces to windswept beaches and picture-postcard harbour towns, Scotland's hugely varied coastline has inspired generations of artists. Now the sounds of the nation’s shores are to inspire a new piece of music...

Will Europe Get Greek 'Flu?
The last time Greece was on the brink the word on lips around the eurozone was "contagion". If Greece went, would others be the next targets in the financial markets? Would they find themselves pushed relentlessly towards the eurozone's...

Wozniacki enjoys sweet taste of commercial success
Tennis star Caroline Wozniacki has the crowd, if not necessarily the expensive confectionery, securely in the palm of her hand, as she turns her attentions to chocolate making. The photogenic 24-year-old Dane is using a day off in the run up to...

Gray’s School of Art degree show review
ARTISTS don't simply make art any more. Like dentists, they practice. It’s a piece of cant nonsense, but it is pervasive nonetheless, and so now at Gray’s School of Art, while there is still a department of painting, there is no longer a department of...
FTSE 100 boardroom diversity set to decline as non-white talent pool shrinks
Attempts to increase ethnic diversity in the boardrooms of the UK’s biggest companies are heading backwards, according to research which shows a fall in the pool of non-white talent being groomed for boardroom seats in FTSE 100 firms. The proportion...

Fears for NHS as foreign nurses forced to leave UK
PLANS to force immigrants to quit the UK after six years if they are not earning £35,000 or more will put lives at risk and cost the NHS millions of pounds, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has warned. The proposal, which is due to come into effect...

How lack of the vitamin D isn’t a killer
scientists have challenged the belief that vitamin D deficiency from lack of sunshine can cause increased heart disease and deaths in winter. Research led by Emeritus Professor Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe from Dundee University suggests that vitamin D is...

Ruth Davidson: More needs to be done to save Union
SCOTTISH Conservative leader Ruth Davidson is today expected to deliver a stark warning to David Cameron and Tory ministers that "more needs to be done" to keep the United Kingdom intact. Following the SNP’s election victory in Scotland in...

Scottish Labour’s downfall ‘began with Iraq war’
ONE of Tony Blair's closest allies and political friends Lord Falconer has admitted he thought the Iraq war was a mistake and contributed to Labour's decline in Scotland and across the rest of the UK. The admission by the man who, as Lord Chancellor,...

Brian Monteith: Labour’s new policies don’t appeal
SCRAPPING the charitable status of private schools is the politics of envy which will not raise standards in state schools, says Brian Monteith How can the Labour Party seek to regain voters that have departed to support the SNP? Leadership contender...
Shoot-'em-ups and crashing waves: Martyn Ware seeks that seaside sound
He may be the founding member of two of the most revered bands of the 1980s, a renowned music producer and the creator of arty, moody soundscapes. But Martyn Ware – once of the Human League, still of Heaven 17 – has parked his cool at the doors of...
Chagos islanders go to supreme court in battle to be allowed home
Former residents of the Chagos Islands who were forcibly removed from their homeland more than 40 years ago will take their long legal battle to the UK’s highest court on Monday. They are going to the supreme court in London to challenge a decision...
Labour proposes handing education oversight to city regions
Labour will try to wrest back the city devolution agenda grasped by George Osborne by proposing that city regions be handed responsibility for overseeing local education standards. Osborne is planning to devolve powers to city regions, or combined...
nPower cuts shock bill for school
Before they received help from Crusader, that was the problem facing Derrick Taylor, the chairman of governors of Purston Infant School, and headteacher Lynn Tesh. The bill, from the school's supplier, nPower, represented underpayments going back to...

Travelodge to invest £100m on Scottish expansion
Budget hotel chain Travelodge is seeking to invest £100 million on the expansion of its estate north of the Border, chairman Brian Wallace has revealed. Speaking during a visit to Edinburgh to mark the group’s 30th anniversary, he said Glasgow was a...
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- 05:09 Teacher who secretly filmed kids getting changed for PE downloads...
- 05:06 Child abuse images being traded via secure apps
- 04:59 West Brom receive QPR injury boost as Albion and Leeds United...
- 04:59 Ex-Wolves man's surprising revelation as fans blast Lee Johnson
- 04:59 Birmingham City man sends message about his future as Celtic fans...
- 04:59 Aston Villa receive positive injury news as Dean Smith is given...
- 04:51 Glasgow cabbie joins war on haters after terrifying night-time...
- 04:51 Man found dead in burnt-out car tried to smuggle James Bond-style...
- 04:51 Sister of tragic suicide woman uses her diaries to unpick truth...
- 04:46 India-Pakistan crisis: Saudi Arabia aims to de-escalate tensions
- 04:46 4 Leicester primary schools want to break away from council control...
- 04:37 Sepsis: New rapid test 'could save thousands of lives'
- 04:23 Kurtley Beale ready to move on after creating 'bad image' for rugby...
- 04:14 Ex-Russia probe overseer Rod Rosenstein 'to step down by March'
- 03:58 Bulk carrier runs aground on Solomon Islands reef spilling oil
- 03:58 Rod Rosenstein, key figure behind Mueller inquiry, expected to step...
- 03:39 UK and French tourists missing in Australia beach search
- 02:24 Police confirm death of man following three-car Angus road crash
- 02:19 Can the Brexit Party succeed?
- 02:18 Tay Cities Business Week
- 02:18 Dundee firm at forefront of robotics revolution
- 02:18 Fergus Ewing demands compensation for Scottish farmers and crofters...
- 02:18 Kirkcaldy pay TV specialist announces landmark BT deal
- 02:18 Major Angus windfarm to boost local companies
- 02:18 Potato chiefs working to keep buyers on side post-Brexit
- 02:18 Blackberry breeding scheme is already bearing great fruit
- 02:10 Sick refugees on Manus and Nauru to be sent to Christmas Island not...
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