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- TONY Blair yesterday began his long goodbye to Labour, raising the prospect of a succession battle between Gordon Brown and John Reid and warning that success at the next election depends on continuing his programme of reform. |
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- THE finance minister has ordered civil servants to keep a comprehensive review of the Executive's £31 billion budget secret until after the Holyrood elections because it contains details of controversial policies which might provoke "adverse public... |
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- IT INVOLVED trips to Mexico to film the perfect wave, and to Croatia to catch the perfect moon, and cost £5,000 a second to film. |
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- THE Executive was yesterday accused of under-funding social work services for vulnerable children by more than £160 million this year. |
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- NETWORK Rail yesterday warned that a new line between Edinburgh and Glasgow will be delayed by MSPs' calls for the number of stations to be doubled so that their constituents do not miss out. |
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- MARGARET Atwood, the internationally acclaimed novelist, yesterday issued blunt advice to budding authors: don't do it. |
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- CHILDREN carrying toy guns are causing a massive rise in armed police operations in Scotland, officers said yesterday. |
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- A FORMER charity fund-raiser who was at the centre of a multi-million-pound scandal is facing a jail term, after he appeared in court yesterday and admitted a £450,000 fraud charge. |
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- AN IRAQI civilian said British soldiers took bets on who could knock him down and celebrated beating him "like it was Christmas", a court martial heard yesterday. |
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- A CONVICTED rapist who carried out a sex attack on a woman while on bail just hours after being cautioned by police for carrying a knife was jailed for life yesterday. |
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- FOR Dorel Popa, a 49-year-old chef living in the central Romanian city of Brasov, yesterday's decision by the EU to allow his country and Bulgaria into the European club will be a welcome one. |
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- THE Louisiana Superdome, a scene of misery, frustration and death in the days after Hurricane Katrina, came back to life this week as the New Orleans Saints took the field for what turned out to be much more than a game of American football. |
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- IN WHAT must be one of the shortest runs for president of the United States ever, George Allen, a Republican senator from Virginia, is fighting for his political existence, never mind White House ambitions, after being accused by former team-mates on... |
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- A TALEBAN suicide bomber killed 18 people outside an Afghan provincial governor's compound yesterday. Several were Muslim pilgrims set to travel to Mecca, officials said. |
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- SADDAM Hussein's genocide trial adjourned for two weeks yesterday after a stormy session during which the chief judge expelled all seven defendants after a shouting match. |
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- ANDREW Fastow, the former chief financial officer of Enron, whose apparent business wizardry was exposed as fraud and theft in the company's 2001 collapse, was sentenced to six years in prison yesterday. |
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- WHITE Van Man is to be offered driving lessons in an effort to make him safer and greener on Scotland's roads. |
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- THERE is always a buzz around a school at the start of term. But this year the bubble of excitement and expectation has been heightened. |
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- ASK Rona Kennedy, the headteacher of Kirkhill Primary School in East Renfrewshire, how her day is going and you'll probably get the reply: "Oh, fair to hellish." |
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- ANYONE who has attended education conferences recently - or taken part in discussions with schools, local authorities or the Scottish Executive - will tell you "partnership", as a concept, falls within the same category as motherhood and apple pie. |
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- ONE of Germany's leading opera houses has unleashed an angry debate over free speech by cancelling a production over security fears because a scene featured the severed heads of Buddha, Jesus and Mohammed. |
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- CONTROVERSIAL plans to build a 16-turbine wind farm in Highland Perthshire have been given the go-ahead by a Scottish Executive Reporter - a year after the scheme was blocked by councillors. |
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- TRAFFIC wardens have warned they are unable to book motorists on many parts of Edinburgh's Greenways because there are so many worn road markings and missing signs. |
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- THEIR school may only have 16 pupils but the children at Tarfside Primary School in Angus are already accomplished film makers. |
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- THE issue of bad teachers is as old as Adam and Eve (or, for readers of the same-sex edition of the Bible, Adam and Steve). |
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- THE stereotypes are pretty straight- forward, so when I embarked on Freshers' Week at Edinburgh and Strathclyde unis, I expected any differences to be simple matters of class. |
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- A SUCCESSFUL lawyer and former Tory city councillor who stole £70,000 from a disabled client who regarded him as a friend was yesterday |
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Chalkface (Sep 26 2006 23:59 GMT) - NEWS and events information for the education sector. |
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- JAPAN'S new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, pledged yesterday to boost the country's role in global affairs and revive respect for traditional values at home. |
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- GORDON Brown has never been "reconciled" to the fact that Tony Blair became Labour leader instead of him, Peter Mandelson has said in a coded attack on the Chancellor. |
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- SCOTS living in Norwich have been banned from hosting their traditional Hogmanay celebrations after locals complained the ceilidh musicians would make too much noise. |
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- WHAT makes a good teacher? |
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- MINISTERS have no way of knowing whether their policy of moving civil-service jobs out of Edinburgh actually provides value for money to the taxpayer, Scotland's financial watchdog declared yesterday. |
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- SCOTLAND'S top music festival, T in the Park, hit a new high yesterday when it was nominated in six categories for the prestigious UK Festival Awards, the most any single event has received. |
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- TWO people were killed last night when a 150ft crane collapsed on a building site and crashed into a block of flats. |
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- THE schoolgirl at the centre of a custody fight yesterday urged her mother to give up her legal battle and allow her to stay in Pakistan. |
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- ONE of the Scottish National party's leading figures today sets out a radical plan for greater involvement of the private sector in the provision of public services. |
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- IN TRUTH, this wasn't Tony Blair's best speech. It was scarcely above average. |
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- A RADICAL action plan aimed at ending the "boom and bust" cycle plaguing Scotland's troubled fishing industry was unveiled yesterday. |
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- NEARLY a third of food and drink products in the UK contained pesticide traces, according to a report, which found a rise in products with chemicals at illegal levels. |
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- COLOMBIAN brothers who founded the Cali cartel and were once in control of 80 per cent of the world's cocaine market yesterday admitted conspiring to smuggle more than 440,000lbs of the drug into the US. |
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- SCOTLAND'S sperm donor crisis may be ending, with rising numbers of men signing up to help desperate couples facing long waits for fertility treatment. |
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- A LEADING children's charity has called for action to stamp out age discrimination against young people. |
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- SIX men are to stand trial in connection with an alleged sex attack on a 14-year-old girl recorded on mobile phones in a flat in Glasgow. |
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- A FISH farm manager yesterday expressed his "regret" at a series of serious safety failings prior to the drowning of Martin Blackley, a Royal Marine athlete and Winter Olympic hopeful. |
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- HU JINTAO, China's president, yesterday appointed a political ally as governor of the important southern Hunan region as part of a reshuffle of provincial leaders to further consolidate his power ahead of a key party meeting. |
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- THE government has been ordered by European judges to pay the Soviet spy George Blake more than £5,000 - because the length of a court wrangle over royalties from his autobiography breached his human rights. |
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- BROADCASTING legend Sir Trevor McDonald was the guest of honour at a prestigious international-language awards ceremony held yesterday at the Scottish Parliament. |
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- EXTREME weather conditions are to blame for a catastrophic fall in the number of barn owls, an expert said yesterday. |
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- A £2 MILLION stem cell research centre will help turn Scotland into a "global leader" in the technology. |
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- October will be "a month of horror, terror, and general mayhem" at the Pioneer Theater in lovely New York City. "Who, with the exception of its creator Leonard Schein, could have guessed that Vancouver's nascent film festival would grow... |
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