Ongoing breakdowns, suspensions and cancellations to ferries have had an ‘catastrophic’ effect on business and tourism, islanders say. Transport ScotlandThe new ferries will be the
Day: October 26, 2022
Police chiefs warn SNP’s cuts could turn it into “quasi-paramilitary force”
Wednesday, 26 October, 2022 By Bill Heaney Senior figures in Police Scotland have warned that they could be reduced to operating as a “quasi-paramilitary force”
JOURNALISM: New project to highlight independent local news publishers
MEDIA REVIEW by HAMISH MACKAY IN THE SCOTTISH REVIEW A Google-funded project, highlighting the work of Scottish independent community-based news publishers, is to be launched
MONEY: Rishi Sunak delays Halloween ‘budget’
BREAKING NEWS: The Halloween “budget” has been delayed for nearly three weeks to ensure Rishi Sunak’s new government can “reach the right decisions”. The first meeting
NOTEBOOK: ON ALLEGEDLY TURNING THE AIR BLUE
News anchorman in off-air swearing debacle Channel 4 News anchorman Krishnan Guru-Murthy has been taken off-air for a week after he was caught on microphone
EUTHANASIA: RONNIE CONVERY CHRONICLES THE DEATH OF HIS MOTHER
SOCIAL ISSUES, THOUGHT-PROVOKING A death observed 25th October 2022 As the Scottish parliament debates a proposal which seeks to legalise euthanasia, Ronnie Convery chronicles the death,