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The Scotsman
6 Aug, 2019
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Nicola Sturgeon: ‘My advice to people in England? Come to Scotland’
Nicola Sturgeon has said her advice to people in England would be to move to Scotland as she opened up on independence and her frosty relationship with new Boris Johnson.
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Police officer numbers in Scotland rise

Police numbers in Scotland have increased slightly, new figures show.
Scotland yellow weather warnings: Extended forecast for thunderstorms, heavy rain and hail

The Met Office has issued two yellow weather warnings for thunderstorms in Scotland, as heavy rain and thunder are set to hit.
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Remainer MPs start Scotland court bid to prevent no-deal Brexit

A cross party group of Remainer parliamentarians have started an action at Scotland’s highest court in a bid to stop Boris Johnson from overriding Parliament’s wishes on Brexit.
How English nationalist Boris Johnson is turning UK into US ‘colony’ – Henry McLeish

Boris Johnson and the right-wing Tories in Cabinet are English nationalists who hope to turn UK into a US ‘colony’, a country where EU regulations are replaced by limited welfare, minimum standards, low taxes and low pay, writes Henry McLeish.
Boris Johnson and Brexit putting Nicola Sturgeon and independence on front foot – Professor John Curtice

For much of the last two years, the SNP has seemed to have been on the defensive about Brexit, writes Professor John Curtice.
Sport Update
German side ready to make fresh bid for Scottish Premiership ace linked with Celtic and Rangers

German side Nuremburg are ready to increase their offer for Kilmarnock defender Greg Taylor, after having an earlier bid thrown out by the Rugby Park side.
The 12 Scottish Premiership away kits – ranked from worst to best

We have looked at the home kits of the 12 Scottish Premiership sides.
‘I took a pay cut to join Rangers’ – Ex-Hearts striker Kyle Lafferty makes wages claim about Ibrox switch

Former Hearts and Rangers striker Kyle Lafferty has claimed he took a pay cut to leave Tynecastle for the Ibrox side last summer.
Kyle Lafferty: ‘My ideal move after leaving Rangers would be going back to Hearts’

Kyle Lafferty has admitted he would jump at the chance to return to Hearts after seeing his second spell at Rangers turn sour.
And finally...
Karine Polwart leads “protest against the loss of everyday nature”

If ever a project developed legs – not to mention fur and feathers – it has been The Lost Words, the beguiling “spell book” combining acrostic poems by the nature writer Robert Macfarlane with glowing illustrations by artist and children’s writer Jackie Morris. Published in 2017, the book invoked the natural world with an incantatory naming of names which seemed to be fast disappearing from youngsters’ vocabularies and, indeed, their dictionaries.
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