Martin Williams
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'Shambles beggars belief': Scots transport bosses end plans for ‘green fuel’ ferries... costing taxpayers millions
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Bombshell analysis from ferry owners CMAL reveals the number of faults that are outstanding on the ferry fiasco ships ferries has risen from 166 before nationalisation to 237. Some 65% relate to safety, maintainability, or specification requirements.
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I now have an official Facebook account for all things Herald / SundayHerald / ET over
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Anger and apologies as severe food shortages hit Scots islands after ferry breakdown
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'Mindblowing': Taxpayer cost of ferry fiasco firm soars to nearly £600m
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One of the teenage Barra girls missing during Manchester terror attack found alive in hospital
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Taxpayers face £20m loss from Scot Gov's massive power-purchase guarantee to tycoon's firm
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A former senior HM Revenue and Customs inspector believes his former employers made an error in using a 'grossing up' method to calculate a huge £74m Rangers' tax bill - that is being blamed for the club’s financial implosion.
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Donald Trump found to have fraudulently boosted non-existent Scots homes value by up to £200m as golf club makes total losses since opening of £13m
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Row as Nicola Sturgeon marks Scotland's historic victory with clip of her celebrating ex-Lib Dem leader losing her seat
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'Politics gets in way of island survival': SNP blocks vote on compensation fund for islanders hit by ferry fiasco
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Young Ehryn goes back to school having beaten cancer & with a new heart
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'Duplicitous' Scots Tory leader 'missed' three chances to support chlorinated chicken ban before backing it
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Unfairly penalised? Council leaders demand answers from Nicola Sturgeon about extent of Covid lockdowns in Scotland
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Calls for inquiry over six-fold rise in cost of David Mundell's Scotland Office army of spin doctors
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Nuclear industry blasts 'hopelessly ideological' First Minister over power plant ban
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'Any council not agreeing to freeze their council tax will not receive their share of this funding' [Shona Robison]....
Councils reject 'bully' ScotGov ultimatum to implement tax freeze or lose funds...630am Thurs
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'Greatest economic failure of decade': Scotland 'set to lose billions' in windfarm profits
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Hundreds protest in Glasgow over "racism" in EU referendum campaign
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WATCH: The First Minister and European Commission president embrace ahead of talks
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BREAKING Hang on to ur hats. Leading Leave campaigner
#BorisJohnson
has been made foreign secretary. God help us all
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Anger as Scot Gov ferry fiasco firm faces being dissolved over finance failures
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All dads and mums will be shedding a few tears over this. Heartbreaking isn't the word.
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BREAKING: Scottish Government to take ScotRail under state control from March 2022
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Watch: Why Andrew Neil was rapped by BBC over illiteracy in Scotland claim in Salmond grilling
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Irate neighbour flies Mexican flag at edge of Donald Trump's Aberdeenshire golf course
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David Cameron 'one of the worst prime ministers in modern history'
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'Burnt out and undervalued': Scots nurses 'willing to strike' as one in three forced to skip meals
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Scot Gov shipyard firm CEO told to account for 'lost' £130m of taxpayers' ferry money
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Sir Andy Murray and wife Kim Sears celebrate birth of first son, reports
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Sturgeon refuses to say whether she would answer sex census for kids questions
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'Thank you Scotland': Craig Eddie wins ITV's talent show The Voice
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VIDEO: Hundreds pay tribute to Orlando shooting victims in Glasgow's George Square
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Affordable housing pledge broken as SNP target falling short by 10,000 and number of children in temporary homes soars
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'Reckless' - SNP attack UK 'race to bottom' in food standards as over 80% of Scots raise chlorinated chicken concerns
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Celtic win FIFA fans award for Lisbon Lions display before 'unsafe' flares tribute in match against Hearts
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Police in attendance as thousands protest in Glasgow against Boris Johnson as Prime Minster
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BREAKING: Scot rescued after surviving over 30 hours at sea clinging to a surfboard
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How Andy Murray is just one win away from being the first British tennis singles player ever to be world number one
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Watch: Why Scotland is described as the second best country in the world to visit in 2017
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Scotland's lifeline ferries now nearly five years behind schedule
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BBC examine 244 complaints over Sturgeon's 'inappropriate' 11 minute commentary of Salmond affair in Covid briefing
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'Incompetence': Ministers 'lose taxpayer millions' in new ferry fiasco 'farce'
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Wetherspoons criticises Sturgeon's "extremely onerous" five-tier Covid restrictions system
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BREAKING: Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks, one of the founding fathers of British punk dies. RIP!
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BBC Scotland should be accountable to Holyrood, say nations leading scholars
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BREAKING: Coronavirus: CMO Dr Catherine Calderwood's Covid-19 resigns
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The NHS saved my life. And it will save YOURS. They need our 100% support so
#StayHomeStaySafeSavelives
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Poll: Majority feel Scotland should have Indyref2 if Britain exits EU
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""She made a mistake and immediately admitted that mistake. You know what? It happens."
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The break up of Scotland? Now Orkney talks of independence
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Video: How whisky has become as big a tourist attraction in Scotland as Edinburgh Castle
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New Covid safety fears as over 80% of Scots teachers are not confident over classroom social distancing
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'Betrayal': Ministers sunk £300k on three-year Scots oil refinery closure plan
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'Like payday loan rates': Anger at 'colossal' £8.5bn bill for £2.9bn of Scots infrastructure projects
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'Beyond scandalous': Ferry fiasco firm costs taxpayer nearly £500m...so far
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Six ferries down over one weekend as CalMac 'calamity' deepens
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""This is indeed great news not just for Caithness and Sutherland but for all of Scotland. "
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VIDEO: Police officers pay their respects to Orlando shooting victims in Glasgow vigil
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BBC officially dismiss 1300 complaints about a comedian joking about killing white people on Frankie Boyle show
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German supermarket chains better than British at displaying Scottish lamb
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Arise Sir Mo. Surely a knighthood for Ferrari
#Farah
, who lands Olympic double distance double with gold in the 5k
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SNP-led councils reject Scottish Government's pupil sex census in growing backlash
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'Most effective': Leading science group acclaims a Scots comedian's medicine for helping curb Covid-19 spread
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Skye warmer than the Canaries as Scotland's mini-heatwave continues
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Scots baffled as Easter eggs arrive on supermarket shelves
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Coronavirus: We may not admit to drinking more - but alcohol sales are booming
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'Remarkable' poll puts Scottish independence support at 52% - the highest since the UK voted for Brexit
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Sky apologise as Celtic fans sing 'if you hate the Royal family clap your hands' during applause tribute to Queen
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Anger as Scottish Gas owner to give £500m to shareholders after record profits
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Concerns over Scots school social distancing as pupil absences due to Covid treble in 12 days
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THE cost to the taxpayer of Scotland’s ferry fiasco firm is approaching a ‘scandalous’ half a billion pounds
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'Forever grateful': Scots' father and son's lives saved after frozen hillside fall with help of doggy body heat
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‘F*** the Tories’: Simon Pegg's R Rated maths plan rant over Rishi Sunak goes viral
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Video: Hundreds protest over Trump presidency in Glasgow - and create an alternative inauguration
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Manchester United lead the tributes as Scots football legend Tommy Docherty dies, aged 92
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Offshore wind power ‘so cheap' it could lead to cuts in consumer fuel bills
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Anger as Glasgow vet is stranded after being caught up in Trump refugee ban
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Video: "It's ok not to be ok"...Celtic fans pay tribute to star striker Leigh Griffiths
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Salmond reveals plan to put Tony Blair in the dock over Iraq War
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'Scandalous' - Row over Scots green jobs going abroad as Bifab 'loses' cut of wind farm contract
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"Forcing older and more vulnerable people into a cashless society would see many left behind and financially excluded. Urgent steps must be taken to protect access to cash and we support calls for the FCA to have a hand in this going forward."
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BBC Scotland should be accountable to Holyrood, say nations leading scholars
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"What is utterly extraordinary is Nicola Sturgeon's refusal to ever hold anyone responsible."
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BREAKING: Yes, it has been confirmed
#BorisJohnson
has already begun training for his new role as
#ForeignSecretary
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Half of Scotland's care workers paid less than Real Living Wage
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Protests erupt in US over Trump's immigration ban and more to come across Scotland & UK
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BREAKING Rotherham have parted company with former
#Hibs
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#AlanStubbs
after just five months
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