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Scotland battered in defence review

Scotland is today placed on the front line of the Coalition Government’s defence cuts after David Cameron announced the biggest paring back of Britain’s military forces for a generation to help reduce the record budget deficit.

Ban smoking in vehicles, Scottish Government urged by Ash group

Pressure is growing on the Scottish Government to ban smoking in cars, with experts calling for a law change in a report published today.

£1bn plan to turn old brewery site into capital’s new cultural quarter

A huge derelict site in the centre of Edinburgh could be transformed into a new billion-pound student and cultural quarter under plans that would also see a hub for the performing arts and creative industries.

Row over EU plan to standardise lorry sizes

Ministers are braced for a row with Europe over plans to standardise the size of trucks after warnings from a leading academic that the move could lead to a dramatic increase in the number of HGVs on Britain’s roads.

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Stretched Rangers forced to tone down training

“There is a hope there that they might be available but we have a lot to take into consideration,” said Smith.

Walter Smith wary of over-confidence ahead of Valencia test

Rangers have worked themselves into the sort of Champions League position where confidence could be dangerous.

‘We’re improving all the time,’ insists confident Davis

The growing expectations of Rangers fans over progress in the Champions League is matched by a burgeoning confidence within the squad.

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Business

Manufacturing output dips

Scottish manufacturing output fell for the first time since early 2009 in the three months to October, a key survey revealed yesterday, but the sector also reported a renewed rise in orders.

Bank Governor signals rates to remain at record low

Bank of England Governor Mervyn King last night appeared to signal UK base rates were unlikely to rise from their all-time low of 0.5% any time soon by highlighting factors which could push inflation below target.

Comment

Cameron shoots himself in both feet with cuts to arms

The Prime Minister spared us the old Groucho Marx joke about military intelligence and a contradiction in terms.

Fictional drama is a sad fact of life for too many children

A beautiful young mother makes love to her husband, waves off her children at school, climbs on her bike and rides to her death on a Glasgow street.

Arts & Entertainment

The Gaslight Anthem step out from Bruce Springsteen’s shadow

The New Jersey rockers stay true to their blue-collar roots.

Fighting a poet’s corner

We’ve learned to expect the unexpected from Mike Scott.

Louise Welsh and Zoe Strachan team up for Glasgay!

Play Panic Patterns sees the writers working as a couple for the first time.

Life & Style

On a learning curve

A letter and a 20-minute chat – that’s what patients usually receive before they are admitted to hospital for surgery.Imagine, instead, an entire afternoon learning about the procedure with a relative close by, meeting fellow sufferers likely to be on the same ward and drinking coffee with the anaesthetist and surgeon.

“I totally blanked. It was a slow-motion moment, and there was blackness and silence. I couldn’t cope.”

Here at the House For An Art Lover in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, I’m waiting to meet “smiley, smiley Carol Smillie” (as the impressionist Ronni Ancona would say).

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