Jim Lawrie, dairy farmer Born: 20 April 1930 in Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire. Died: 11 September 2021 in Kinross, Perth & Kinross, aged 91
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  Obituaries: Jim Lawrie, dairy farmer who pioneered new breeding techniques  
     
  Jim Lawrie, dairy farmer Born: 20 April 1930 in Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire. Died: 11 September 2021 in Kinross, Perth & Kinross, aged 91  
     
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Queen calls on MSPs to create ‘better healthier future’ by tackling climate change
 
The Queen has urged Scotland's MSPs to "help create a better, healthier future" by tackling the challenges of climate change ahead of the Cop26 conference.
 
     
     
 
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Marks & Spencer has brought back its sell-out Snow Globe gin for Christmas 2021- and introduced a new flavour
 
This year’s Snow Globe is available to pre order now - and here are the alternatives already on sale

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Covid passport shambles is a sign of how badly Scotland is run – Brian Wilson
 
Well, there’s a surprise. The introduction of the Scottish Vaccine Passport App has been a shambles. But never mind, it’s got a Saltire on it.
 
     
 
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EIS calls for education review to focus on support for Scottish schools
 
Scotland’s largest teaching union has called on the process to reform Scottish education bodies to focus its aim on improving support for the country’s schools.
 
     
 
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In-demand vintage bus film location to become working museum in Glasgow
 
A nondescript 1960s bus garage in the east end of Glasgow that has become an in-demand location for film and TV dramas is to be developed as a working museum and visitor attraction.
 
     
 
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Scotland on Sunday letters: Labour need to win friends and influence people
 
Euan McColm quotes a Labour MSP who states: “If anyone knows how you win over people who hate you perhaps they could let us know.”
 
     
 
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Hunt launched for escaped prisoner on the run after home leave from Scottish open jail
 
Police in Scotland are calling for help to track down a convicted criminal who has gone missing after a home visit from prison.
 
     
 
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Scotland needs more young speechwriters – Laura Westring
 
You have to order the Irn-Bru. You can’t come all the way to Scotland and not try Irn-Bru”. A smile spread across my face as Eric Schnure, former speechwriter to Vice President Al Gore, decided to humour me. “It tastes like bubblegum”, said Eric, in the way of a very polite person, expert in transatlantic diplomacy, who’d rather have had sparkling water.
 
     
 
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Dunfermline crash: Man in hospital after being hit by car on Halbeath Road
 
A man has been taken to hospital after he was hit by a car on a busy Fife road.
 
     
     
     
   
     
     
     
   
   
   
 
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