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The Scotsman
30 May, 2018
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Ruth Davidson launches pitch to become First Minister
Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has called for an end to tax breaks for the wealthy and more open immigration under plans to make the party a “credible force” for government in Scotland.
Latest News
Scotland to roll out free sanitary products for low-income women

A project to provide free sanitary products to women from low income households is to be rolled out across Scotland.
Ageing Police Scotland computer system needs £200m-plus upgrade

Police Scotland needs funding totalling more than £200 million to modernise its ageing computer systems amid growing concerns over cyber-enabled crime.
Bridge to Australia bolsters FinTech opportunities

Australia and Scotland’s FinTech businesses are perfectly game, set and matched under new initiative

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Humza Yousaf brands EDL founder Tommy Robinson a ‘clown’

Humza Yousaf has branded Tommy Robinson a “clown” and his supporters “knuckle draggers” after the former leader of the far-right English Defence League was jailed for contempt of court.
STV staff reaffirm support for ballot on industrial action

Staff at STV have reaffirmed their intention to ballot for industrial action after rejecting a request from bosses at the broadcaster to delay the process for two weeks.
Sport Update
Russell Martin admits Rangers loan was ‘wrong place, wrong time’

Russell Martin has conceded that his loan spell at Rangers was a case of “wrong place, wrong time.”
Billy Gilmour: ‘Scott Brown would have bullied me if I had stayed at Rangers’

Chelsea and Scotland Under-21 midfielder Billy Gilmour swapped a chance of playing for Rangers for a development pathway at Chelsea and insists he made the right choice because Scott Brown would have bullied him off the ball if he had stayed.
Rangers chairman Dave King calls for SPFL chairman to be suspended

Rangers chairman Dave King has called on the Scottish Professional Football League to suspend its chairman Murdoch MacLennan over his business links with Celtic shareholders Dermot Desmond and Denis O’Brien.
And finally...
Music review: Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Fresh from their European tour, the RSNO were firing on all cylinders in this knock-out programme of music with a strong visual quality conducted by John Storgårds. There was a painterly feel to the intricacy of Andrzej Panufnik’s Landscape for Strings which begins with a delicate mist of cello harmonics edged with ethereal off-stage female voices. Storgårds’ finely controlled pace brought out the subtle shifts of tone and texture at the centre of this mesmerising work.
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