Industrial action at the Sunday Mail and Daily Record is set to go ahead later this week after staff voted overwhelmingly to strike in protest at plans to cut 70 jobs.
Journalists at the Trinity Mirror group voted 95% in favour of industrial action short of a strike, including work-to-rule, in an National Union of Journalists chapel poll on Friday. Of these ballots, 85% also supported action including strikes.
by Andrew Moir Nigel Griffiths has failed to prevent details of a late night sex romp in his office published by The News of the World. The Labour MP made a vain attempt to stop The News of the World publishing photos of him by raising an injunction action. But publication was deemed to be in the public interest by Mr Justice King. [...]
By Domenica Goduto The days are getting longer and brighter, but this does little to dispel Edinburgh’s eerie atmosphere. With its narrow closes and bloody history, it is the perfect setting for “Hauntings: The Science of Ghosts,” a one-day public event that will be held this Saturday, April 4, as part of the Edinburgh International Science [...]
By Sally Edgar The future of the former Odeon cinema building, on Clerk Street, could be decided within a matter of days. More than 2,400 people have joined the online campaign pushing for one last-ditch attempt to preserve the 1930s art-deco style building, which risks partial demolition. Campainers now also have the support of 3,657 members on a ‘Help save the old [...]
by Kirstyn Smith The Scottish National Portrait Gallery is due to close this Sunday after receiving a £4.5 million grant to go towards a long-awaited restoration. The financial aid, awarded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), will help the gallery’s planned revamp which will cost, in total, approximately £17.6 million and follows a donation of £5.1 million from the [...]
By Stewart Primrose Scotland is facing a kilt famine after kilt hire shops reported a massive upturn in sales. This is mainly due to the recent international sporting events, with 15,000 football fans travelling to Amsterdam at the weekend and the recent 6 nations rugby. With Scotland due to play Iceland on Wednesday anyone hoping [...]
By Rebecca Jamieson Would £150 encourage you to give up smoking for good? NHS Tayside hopes so. They have just launched a pilot scheme in Dundee, which gives participants from disadvantaged areas £12.50 a week if they manage to stay off cigarettes. The money is credited onto an electronic card and can be spent at [...]
By Vikki Graves Home Secretary Jacqui Smith claimed £23,000 in tax-payer funded allowances on her second home last year, the maximum claim available to MPs. The news comes as Ms Smith continues to face criticism for an accidental expense claim for adult films watched by her husband, Richard Timney, in April 2008. The timing of [...]
By Sarah Mackinnon Polish culture is set to claim its own place among the throng of cultural celebration which Edinburgh has to offer . It has been announced that a Polish Cultural festival will take place for the first time on the 20th to the 26th April this year. The Spring programme is packed full [...]
By Annabel Cooper Major city landmarks and municipal buildings were plunged into darkness for an hour on Saturday night as Edinburgh joined 830 cities around the world for the World Wildlife Federation‘s (WWF) Earth Hour. Edinburgh Castle, the Forth Rail Bridge, the Scott Monument and the National Galleries were among the public buildings taking part [...]
by Kirstyn Smith Dunfermline Building Society has been bought by Nationwide, it has been revealed today. The institution’s collapse, which resulted in losses of £26 million, meant that it had to be put up for sale. Today’s statement from the Bank of England reports that it agreed to sell “core parts” of the 140-year-old establishment, [...]
Twenty of the world’s influential leaders meet this week in London at the Excel Centre on the banks of the Thames. They meet during a period of almost unprecedented financial turmoil. But will they come up with world-changing solutions? The United Kingdom chairs the Group of Twenty in 2009 and this week it hosts the G20 [...]
By Stewart Primrose Scotland surely face a “must win” match on Wednesday as they take on Iceland after their humbling defeat by the Dutch at the weekend. Saturday’s 3-0 loss in Amsterdam means the Scots have moved down to third place by virtue of goal difference. Iceland, the team directly above them, come to Hampden Park this [...]
By Elizabeth Gorrie Fourteen people have died and nearly one hundred injured after an eight hour siege by gunmen on a police academy in Lahore, Pakistan. It is being reported that Pakistani police forces have recaptured the building following an eight hour stand-off which saw the exchange of heavy gunfire between the two groups. Military helicopters were later brought in to [...]
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