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‘Lifestyle’ cancers on the rise among Scots women

Cancer rates among Scottish women are climbing, an official report revealed yesterday.

Mourners’ fond farewell to a trailblazer for a better world

Linda Norgrove worked and died in the mountains of Afghanistan.

Council to shut one-third of its rural schools

A Scottish council has unveiled plans to shut one-third of its rural primary schools in a bid to save £15 million by 2014.

Debt fears over bank fees revamp

Royal Bank of Scotland has been accused of “leading the poor into unmanageable debt” after it announced an overhaul of its fees for unauthorised overdrafts.

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‘Moronic element’ to blame for pressure on referees and Celtic have right to question decisions, insists Neil Lennon

Neil Lennon, the Celtic manager, denied that the club is heaping unfair pressure on referees and said a “moronic element” of society was behind the death threats and verbal abuse for SFA officials Willie Collum and Steven Craven.

Morons, masochists and mistakes – just another day in the Old Firm madhouse for Neil Lennon

Neil Lennon has seen it all in the Old Firm madhouse, to the extent that even the subject of death threats can be met with a degree of gallows humour.

McInnes: constant scrutiny of referees ‘boring and unnecessary’

Derek McInnes, the St Johnstone manager, admits he is getting bored with the continued focus on referees and claims the media must take their share of the blame.

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Take That five-piece to play at Hampden next year

Dossier targets ‘flawed’ benefit allowance

Familiar faces greet new Boro boss Mowbray

Business

Mactaggart & Mickel back in the black with £3.6m profit

Mactaggart & Mickel, the venerable Scottish housebuilder, has leapt back into the black after engineering a £7.5 million turnaround, defying the ravages of the recession and the accompanying property slump that left the sector strewn with casualties.

Growth in economy defies City forecasts

The UK economy grew in the three months to September at twice the pace forecast by the City - expanding by 0.8% quarter-on-quarter - official data revealed yesterday.

Comment

The truth is that lies over Iraq made leaks inevitable

It was the last redoubt of the liberal interventionist.

Profundity so often outweighs profanity when it comes to art

I was 10 years old and hugely excited, if a little nervous.

Arts & Entertainment

Warmed by a slow burn

It’s 15 years since baritone Roderick Williams first popped up on the radar in what was pretty much his first professional engagement as an opera singer.

Making demands

Elvis Costello is in New York City, which is hardly reason to chastise him, but it seems fair to point out that he hasn’t been to Scotland for, oh, several months.

Scottish Opera’s rising star Kate Valentine prepares for her biggest home role to date

Love and The Marriage Of Figaro are on the agenda.

Life & Style

Calling the MS detectives

Scotland’s community of 10,000 multiple sclerosis sufferers will be focused intently on a hotel in Clydebank this weekend, where the potential of a controversial new treatment will be debated by clinical experts.

Wild about Scotland

The middle of Rannoch Moor, the top of Schiehallion or Cape Wrath might appear more appropriate locations.

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