Nicola Sturgeon is poised to formally seek a "section 30" order from Westminster in a "matter of weeks" to pave the way for a second referendum on Scottish independence to be staged, it was confirmed today.
One person has been confirmed killed and three are unaccounted for after a large portion of a hotel under construction in New Orleans suddenly collapsed.
When I first clapped eyes on the story about the Lord Provost spending tax-payersâmoney, I couldnât quite believe the degree of outrage it was provoking. I mean, I knew what sheâd done was ethically dubious â no-one needs 23 pair of shoes (and even if she did she shouldnât have them on the public purse) but really did it merit all this stone-throwing and sanctimony?
SCOTLAND will play Japan and bid to reach the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals at Yokohama International Stadium (11.45am BST) after the venue cleared an inspection following the devastating Typhoon Hagibis which tore through the country on Saturday.
Scotlandâs Rugby World Cup is over after they were emphatically beaten by rampant hosts Japan, who celebrated their first ever quarter-final and topped Pool A following a brilliant display of pace and clinical finishing that Gregor Townsendâs side couldnât match for most of the game.
A detailed venue inspection at Yokohama International Stadium is underway to determine if the Japan-Scotland game can go ahead on Sunday in the wake of a destructive typhoon.
Running desperately across the windswept wilderness of a Highland glen, hampered by their long, flowing 18th century tartan dresses, the two black slave sisters make their desperate bid for freedom from their master who brought them back to Scotland as âtrophiesâ from his slave plantation in Virginia.
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