The yard’s former owner, Jim McColl, who once ran a kitchen unit factory in Dumbarton, has blamed the delays and spiralling costs on repeated specification changes by government-owned CMAL, which commissioned the ship to run on CalMac’s Arran route
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THIS IS AMERICA
joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has tapped Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) to be his running mate. Biden described Harris as “a fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country’s finest public servants.” Harris, a former attorney general of California and ex-district attorney of San Francisco, is a historic pick for the ticket.
THREE DEAD, INCLUDING DRIVER AND CONDUCTOR IN TRAIN DE-RAILMENT
She described the accident, which followed thunder storms, torrential rain and flash flooding in the North East as “extremely serious”.
Universal basic income gains momentum in America
In Newark, New Jersey, Ras Baraka, the mayor, is hoping to get a pilot programme up and running. A third of Newark’s residents live in poverty and have to make tough decisions, Mr Baraka says, like “heat or eat.”
SWINNEY: THEY NEVER LAID A GLOVE ON HIM
There would be blood on the walls. Scalps would be taken, and one in particular, that of John Swinney, the Cabinet Secretary for Education. This would be the day when what happened really was ‘unprecedented’.
THE SQA WILL ISSUE FRESH CERTIFICATES TO HARD DONE BY CANDIDATES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
No bigger clanger has ever been dropped and none has received so much opprobrium in the 21 years the devolved Scottish parliament has been in