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Scotland's free care is 'too expensive', warns chief social worker
Scotland :: SD :: USA | 3 days ago
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Harriet Dempster, president of the Association of Directors of Social Work, yesterday questioned whether the flagship devolution policy is affordable. The cost of free personal and nursing care rose by 11 per cent last year to £358 million...But Ms Dempster's...
Tags: free personal, Scotland, personal care, social work, scottish government, Ms Dempster, social worker, free care, Carers rights movement, Healthcare, Elderly care, Social Issues, Geriatrics, Old age, Hospice, Caregiver
Holyrood could get new powers in first year of Tory government, says Clarke
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | 3 days ago
Credibility Former chancellor Ken Clarke's comments to a gathering of business people and academics in Edinburgh yesterday appeared to calm fears that a new Tory government would put the reforms of devolution into the long grass...He also attempted to allay fears...
Tags: Mr Clarke, tory government, Edinburgh South West, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, International Democrat Union, Scotland, Politics of the United Kingdom, Politics, Scottish Parliament, Conservative Party, Kenneth Clarke, Kenneth Calman, Devolution
Euro windfall could be spent to upgrade Highland broadband
Inverness :: United Kingdom | 3 days ago
Credibility Peter Peacock, a Labour MSP for the Highlands and Islands, is seeking to divert £15 million from an extra £40-£50m he says the government has secured from EU currency exchange rate changes. European Leader programme, citing the need rural Scotland has...
Tags: Islands, improved broadband, Highland Liberal, Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Inverness, Scottish Highlands, Broadband Internet access, Broadband, Highland, Clan Fraser, Names
Homecoming year reaches climax
Alloa :: United Kingdom | 3 days ago
Credibility Among them, a series of concerts celebrating Scottish pop, free family events and a sing-along of Auld Lang Syne in 100 different languages. However, a Clan Gathering in Edinburgh had to be bailed out by the city council after it lost money...This weekend...
Tags: Scotland, United Kingdom, Alloa, Robert Burns, Homecoming Scotland, Scottish diaspora, Scottish Government, Kenny MacAskill, Auld Lang Syne, Scottish clans, Homecoming, Commonwealth Games
A nation divided by the weather
London :: United Kingdom | 3 days ago
Credibility But one of his short stories still finds a place in literary anthologies...It's a grim little story that mixes sentiment with a brutal matter-of-factness. An exiled Scotsman dying of bad lungs takes the night train north from London, determined to last...
Tags: Britain, Londoners, Beattock for Moffat, Atlantic, Scotland, United Kingdom, London, Beattock, Climate of the United Kingdom, Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, Climate, Eskdalemuir, Rain, Met Office, Weather forecasting
Argentina fell undisciplined Scots
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | 3 days ago
Credibility The home side blew a 6-0 half-time lead as the South Americans extended their 19-year winning streak at the venue and inflicted Andy Robinson's first defeat in charge. The home side had put themselves on course to complete a clean sweep of autumn international...
Tags: Scotland, Argentina, Phil Godman, Pumas, drop goal, Andrew Robinson, late drop, clean sweep, Murrayfield, Martin Rodriguez, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, allnews, Argentina national rugby union team, Rugby union in Argentina, Australia national rugby union team, Penalty kick, Gonzalo Tiesi, Chris Cusiter, Scotland national rugby union team, Rory Lamont, David Campese, Scottish people, Team sports, End of year rugby tests, Lobbe, Marcos Ayerza, New Zealand national rugby union team, Frank Hadden, Scrum, Nathan Hines
Tanivula keen to give series his best shot
Harare :: Zimbabwe | 4 days ago
Credibility We've selected a strong team that we're hopeful can deliver in Dubai," said Fiji coach Tanivula. The former New Zealand sevens player will be hoping his side can produce the same sort of form that saw them taking two tournament titles last season, having...
Tags: Iliesa Tanivula, Dubai, Scotland, Zimbabwe, Harare, Fiji national rugby union team, Rugby sevens, Rugby World Cup Sevens, Waisale Serevi, New Zealand national rugby union team, IRB Sevens World Series, allnews
Poetry, in an off-kilter way
Newcastle :: WA :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility John Shakespeare Take it away, Tom English, in Scotland on Sunday : ''Greatness in rugby takes many forms. A player who can slalom through defences and score tries sent straight from the Gods...There is the player who lands a shuddering hit on an opponent,...
Tags: Sydney Boys High, Sydney Sisters, Scotland, Clarkey, John Coates (sports administrator), Newcastle, John Dowling Coates, FIFA 100, Eric Cantona, Australia national rugby union team, allnews, Wallaby
SNP threat to take control of schools
London :: United Kingdom | 4 days ago
Credibility Scotland's schools could be wrested from councils after it emerged that teacher numbers are in freefall and class sizes have not come down. • The Government blames councils after teacher numbers fell by 1,300 in a year Damning figures yesterday prompted...
Tags: teacher numbers, United Kingdom, London, Politics, Scotland, Education, Teacher, Scottish Government, United Kingdom constitution, Fiona Hyslop, YouGov, Alex Salmond, Scottish National Party, War Conflict
Looking into the void: James Naughtie’s northern odyssey, part two,
Kilmarnock :: United Kingdom | 4 days ago
Credibility After James Naughtie’s laugh a minute, cliché-ridden put down of Scotland and the town of Kilmarnock, I listened to his latest jaunt on the Today programme into the northern territories with a mix of fear and trepidation. This was an altogether different...
Tags: Scotland, Alex Salmond, James Naughtie, Britain, United Kingdom, Kilmarnock, Salmond, Ethnic groups in the United Kingdom, Politics, Unionism in Scotland, National Conversation, Politics of Scotland
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