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Day: June 7, 2024

Happy 90th birthday to Peter Goldie – the oldest living Celt

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07 Jun 2024, 9:00 am By Joe Sullivan A season never goes by without a batch of excited teenagers joining Celtic, and, 71 years ago

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  • Young people reveal how adult criminals exploit children to commit crime in Scotland
  • What next amid tension in Drumcree? It’s complicated …
  • STATS SHOW: Neither the 31-day nor the 62-day cancer treatment standards are being met
  • Snooker champion Graeme Dott jailed for sexually abusing children
  • LibDems respond to miserable series of health stats
  • LibDems comment on “damning” Promise report and insists government publish drug deaths stats for care-experienced people

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Young people reveal how adult criminals exploit children to commit crime in Scotland

Young people reveal how adult criminals exploit children to commit crime in Scotland

by LUCY ASHTON A new Scotland-wide campaign has launched a warning that adult criminals are grooming and exploiting children to commit crime, enabling them to

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What next amid tension in Drumcree? It’s complicated …

What next amid tension in Drumcree? It’s complicated …

It may look like Garvaghy Road residents and Sinn Féin are in lock-step. The reality is more complex Mark Hennessy in The Irish Times Tuesday,

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STATS SHOW: Neither the 31-day nor the 62-day cancer treatment standards are being met

STATS SHOW: Neither the 31-day nor the 62-day cancer treatment standards are being met

Just how bad are the NHS statistics for Public Health in Scotland? Dumbarton’s MSP laid them out for all the world to see following the

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Snooker champion Graeme Dott jailed for sexually abusing children

Snooker champion Graeme Dott jailed for sexually abusing children

by LUCY ASHTON Former snooker world champion Graeme Dott has been jailed for seven years for sexually abusing children. The 49-year-old subjected a girl and

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LibDems respond to miserable series of health stats

LibDems respond to miserable series of health stats

by LUCY ASHTON Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Adam Harley MSP said today that his party will continue to fight to fix the NHS after

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LibDems comment on “damning” Promise report and insists government publish drug deaths stats for care-experienced people

LibDems comment on “damning” Promise report and insists government publish drug deaths stats for care-experienced people

LibDem MSP Duncan Dunlop, who has experience of being in care, Maree Todd, Minister for Children and Labour spokesperson Katherine Sangster by BILL HEANEY Scottish

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Scottish Conservatives to warn of Swinney “tax bombshell” on the way

Scottish Conservatives to warn of Swinney “tax bombshell” on the way

by BILL HEANEY The Scottish Conservatives will lead a debate tomorrow (Wednesday) in Holyrood to warn of another SNP “tax bombshell” that could hit middle-income

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Scot Lib Dem Highland MSPs write to government over council plans

Scot Lib Dem Highland MSPs write to government over council plans

Deputy First Minister Jenny Gilruth and Morven-May MacCallum, LibDem MSP by BILL HEANEY Ahead of a parliamentary debate about the Scottish Government’s plans to reorganise

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