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Day: August 2, 2024

NOTEBOOK: COUNCIL BIN AWARD’S A LOAD OF RUBBISH

August 2, 2024 heaneymedia

NOTEBOOK by BILL HEANEY Haud me back, please don’t make me laugh, but the “news” that “a chatbot service on West Dunbartonshire Council’s website that

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MENTAL HEALTH: Bogus psychiatrist who treated hundreds of patients in Scotland loses appeal against £1.3 million fraud

August 2, 2024 heaneymedia

 August 2, 2024 Zholia Alemi’s spent 22 years working as a consultant psychiatrist, earning £1.3m from the NHS, prescribing powerful drugs and even sectioning patients…

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SCOTLAND’S “SHAMEFUL” HEALTH INEQUALITIES EXPOSED IN CARDIAC ARREST REPORT

August 2, 2024 heaneymedia

Scottish Labour has said that health inequalities in Scotland are costing lives, as a shocking new report reveals the gulf in cardiac arrest risk between

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GOLDEN JUBILEE: Heart services receive funding for patients’ mental health support

August 2, 2024 heaneymedia

August 01, 2024 Dr John Sharp Head of Psychology at the Golden Jubilee University National Hospital. By Lucy Ashton Heart services at NHS Golden Jubilee

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Hospital inquiry rejects NHS board’s report as evidence

August 2, 2024 heaneymedia

The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and Royal Children’s Hospital in Glasgow is Scotland’s biggest hospital. By Lisa Summers BBC Scotland Health Correspondent The public inquiry

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COURTS: £9.5m court action against Rangers over football kit sales to ‘kick-off’

August 2, 2024 heaneymedia

Elite Sports Group Ltd lawyers claim the Ibrox club breached a contract which allowed it to supply the strips A multi-million pound court action brought

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Primary teachers hired to teach secondary pupils to read

Primary teachers hired to teach secondary pupils to read

Scotland Politics Scotland Business Edinburgh, Fife & East Glasgow & West Highlands & Islands NE, Orkney & Shetland South Tayside & Central Alba by Lucy Adams, Katy McCloskey and Andrew

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Top-ranked immigration lawyer joins Anderson Strathern as firm continues to invest in talent

Top-ranked immigration lawyer joins Anderson Strathern as firm continues to invest in talent

Left to Right: Mark Templeton, Jamie Kerr and Chris McDowall, and new trainees. (Photo: Chris Watt Photography) September 7, 2026 by BILL HEANEY Independent Scottish

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Forced Adoption era was a dark secret that remained hidden until our expose

Forced Adoption era was a dark secret that remained hidden until our expose

Marion Scott This is the film I am so very proud of. It will be shown on BBC iplayer from Monday and then BBC 1

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NATIONALIST KNIVES ARE OUT FOR SARWAR

NATIONALIST KNIVES ARE OUT FOR SARWAR
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Malcolm Offord: Scotland Can’t Afford Free University For Half Of School Leavers

Malcolm Offord: Scotland Can’t Afford Free University For Half Of School Leavers

by Noah Vickers in House magazine 06 September Reform’s Scottish leader, Malcolm Offord, talks to Noah Vickers about his political journey, how to tackle climate

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MSPs should face same child protection and vulnerable adult checks as teachers and social workers.

MSPs should face same child protection and vulnerable adult checks as teachers and social workers.

by BILL HEANEY Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton, pictured right, has today said that the Scottish Government must press ahead with measures to ensure

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Swinney told to come to Parliament to outline full details of public sector reforms

Swinney told to come to Parliament to outline full details of public sector reforms

by BILL HEANEY The Scottish Conservatives are today (Monday) demanding that John Swinney come to Parliament and give full details on exactly what his public

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Rules for seeking Irish citizenship to be tightened under proposals due to go to Cabinet

Rules for seeking Irish citizenship to be tightened under proposals due to go to Cabinet

Ireland Candidates would have to be resident in the country for eight years and undertake a language test under the proposed overhaul Minister for Justice

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