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The Scotsman
5 Nov, 2018
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‘Give us an extra £550m or face cuts’, Scottish councils tells Holyrood
Councils must be given half a billions pounds extra in the Scottish budget next month to prevent further cuts to services, the Scottish Government has been told.
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Bonfire Night 2018: Tonight’s forecast as Scotland gears up for fireworks displays

The weekend may have been wet and windy, but Scotland now looks set for favourable weather conditions on Bonfire Night.

UK armed forces to allow foreign nationals to join

Foreign nationals will be eligible to join the armed forces in greater numbers, ministers will announce, as British residency requirements for service are set to be scrapped.

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Christine Jardine: US midterms are crucial for Trump and the world

The midterm elections in the US will be the first major test of Donald Trump’s record as President since he was elected two years ago, writes Christine Jardine.

Community sentences ‘hugely valuable’, says Humza Yousaf

Community sentences are “hugely valuable” and help reduce reoffending, Humza Yousaf said on his first visit to such a scheme in his role as Justice Secretary.

The Big Interview: Innis & Gunn founder and master brewer Dougal Sharp

There have been many milestones notched up by independent brewer Innis & Gunn since it came into being 15 years ago. The Edinburgh-based company has developed a portfolio of products and last year sold about 2.5 million cases of beer around the globe.

Sport Update
Chris Sutton uses Rangers jibe to troll Robbie Savage

Former Celtic striker Chris Sutton slated Robbie Savage on Twitter for his inability to be offered a contract by Rangers when they were in the fourth tier.

Fiji are the ‘Brazil of rugby’, Gregor Townsend warns Scotland players

Blood, sweat, toil and tears was all Gregor Townsend was promising his players after the Scotland coach warned that things were not going to get any easier after his side finished second best in Cardiff.

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Stuart Hogg among six players added to Scotland’s Autumn Test squad

Gregor Townsend has added six players to his Scotland squad for the forthcoming Autumn Tests.

Brendan Rodgers among favourites for Southampton job along with ex-Celtic duo

Brendan Rodgers has been named among the favourites to take the reins at Southampton.

And finally...
NTS to explore the social impact of the internet in new Citizen of Nowhere festival

It’s October 2018, an extreme right-winger called Jair Bolsonaro has just been elected President of Brazil with the help of a massive co-ordinated campaign on the Facebook-owned messaging site Whats App, and at his base in London the writer, thinker, curator and futurist William Galinsky is full of a sense of urgency. “People say that we’re living through something like the 1930s,” he says, “and of course there are parallels there. But fundamentally, I think this is more like the early 19th century – the moment when people realised that the huge technological disruption of the industrial revolution was literally going to change everything; communications, society, the way we do politics, everything.”

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