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| | | Latest News | | Jackie Baillie: Donât let the SNP lose grip on GDP growth | I remember the scenes in Portugal and Greece during the financial crisis. The queues of workers on the streets of Athens, desperate to withdraw their money from collapsing banks. The young men and women marching through the streets of Lisbon, demanding the chance to do even the most basic of jobs. The boarded-up shops, the bankrupt businesses, the political inertia. |
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| US sub-prime deal set to upstage first RBS profits | The banksâ first-quarter reporting season strides centre-stage this week, with Royal Bank of Scotland set to post flat underlying profits after striking a bottom-line annual profit in 2017 for the first time in a decade. |
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| Sport Update | | | Watsonians beat Heriotâs to clinch Hawick Sevens | Watsonians made it two from two on successive Saturdays by winning the Hawick Sevens yesterday, a week after they triumphed at Melrose. They defeated Heriotâs in the final at Mansfield Park, extending their lead in the Kings of the Sevens competition in the process. |
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