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7 Aug, 2019
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RBS will move to England if Scotland becomes independent
The Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive has said the bank will move its head office south of the border if Scotland votes to become independent.
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Pilots take evasive action after lasers target planes landing at Scottish airport

Pilots had to take evasive action to avoid a potentially "catastrophic" scenario after lasers were used to target five planes landing at Glasgow Airport.

Alesha MacPhail: Killer who raped and murdered 6-year-old to plead for shorter sentence

The teenager who abducted, raped and murdered Alesha MacPhail will appeal against his 27-year sentence later on Wednesday.

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Scottish independence: Ruth Davidson sends poll dossier showing Yes victory to Johnson

A dossier of Scottish coverage of the Ashcroft opinion poll which found a majority in Scotland would vote Yes in a fresh independence referendum has been sent to Number 10 by Ruth Davidson.

Why political opinion polls may well be harming our democracy – Alastair Stewart

. The issue now rests in the fact that short-sighted campaign tactics are determining government policy, far beyond focus groups, far beyond sampling. writes Alastair Stewart.

Sport Update
Blow for Rangers fans as Premier Sports confirms it doesn’t have rights to Midtjylland clash

Rangers fans won't be able to watch the Light Blues take on Danish Superliga side Midtjylland in the first leg of their Europa League third qualifying round clash on Premier Sports, after the broadcaster confirmed it doesn't have the rights to the game.

Concern for Celtic fans as Cluj fail to deliver tickets just hours before kick-off

Celtic fans in Romania face an anxious wait ahead of their side's Champions League third qualifying round clash with CFR Cluj, with the Transylvanian side still to hand over tickets.

Andy Murray and Feliciano Lopez win tight doubles opener in Montreal

Andy Murray and Feliciano Lopez have held on to save match point and win a tight doubles opener against Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo in Montreal.

Revealed: £10.8m Premier League midfielder turned down Rangers move last season

The father of Chelsea midfielder Mason Mount has revealed his son turned down the chance to join Rangers last summer.

Scottish football transfer LIVE: Rangers missed out on Chelsea starlet | Scottish referees told to ignore new rule

Scottish football managers will be starting to get twitchy as those in the English Championship and perhaps Premier League get desperate in their search of reinforcements.

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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