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The Scotsman
28 Feb, 2019
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Top Scots businessman tells me Theresa May ‘has destroyed UK’ – Bill Jamieson
The UK will pay for the current lack of genuine leadership, writes Bill Jamieson, with uncertainty over Brexit and the threat of a delay already damaging the economy.
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Senior MEP says independent Scotland could ‘easily’ enter the EU

A senior member of the European Parliament has given a boost to independence supporters by claiming that Scotland’s entry into the EU if it voted to leave the UK would be ‘easy’.

One-in-a-million Scots toddler hoping for rare gene therapy

The family of an 18-month-old Scottish girl who has a condition so rare it only affects one person in a million are raising funds for a groundbreaking gene therapy project in the US.

Is a good retirement still affordable?

We may be working longer, but most of us are counting down to retirement. But planning for the golden years is crucial.

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A judgement all right-thinking Scots will applaud – leader comment

Scotland must deal severely with sectarianism, racism, Islamophobia and anti-semitism.

Firm behind KFC chicken shortage given Brexit NHS contract

Government ministers have, in the event of a no-deal Brexit, awarded a critical NHS supplies contract to the firm behind the calamitous KFC chicken shortage.

Sport Update
The average wage paid by Scottish Premiership clubs – ranked in order

How much does each Scottish Premiership club pay on average per player?

WP Nel and Hamish Watson to return for Edinburgh and Scotland

Hamish Watson and WP Nel could be back to bolster Scotland’s Guinness Six Nations run-in, with the Edinburgh Rugby duo looking set to return to action this weekend with their club.

Hearts’ Zdenek Zlamal targeted with object thrown from Celtic fans

Hearts goalkeeper Zdenek Zlamal missed being hit by what appeared to be a coin thrown from the Celtic fans.

And finally...
Theatre review: All My Sons, Dundee Rep

In the middle of Arthur Miller’s great 1947 drama All My Sons, the Second World War hero Chris Keller – now returned home, and working in his father’s Ohio manufacturing business – describes how, amid all the death and tragedy of the war, he felt that one new thing was being born; a sense of responsibility and brotherhood between men on which, perhaps, a better future could be founded.

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