Jaguar Land Rover, a great British brand, employs 40,000 people in the UK but uncertainty over Brexit has just contributed to a sales slide of 13 per cent, forcing the company to pause production, writes Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable.
The number of Scottish primary schools forced to share their headteacher with another in the same area has risen by almost two thirds since 2010, an official report has revealed.
The NASUWT is currently supporting a group of teachers at Kaimes School in Edinburgh who have had their pay stopped and have been barred from their classrooms and forced to leave the premises after engaging in a lawful trade dispute to refuse to teach or supervise a group of pupils who they believe pose a risk to their health and safety, writes Chris Keates, general secretary of the union.
Fife-based Donaldson Timber Engineering (DTE) has extended its geographic reach with the âstrategicâ acquisition of rival Cambridge Roof Truss for an undisclosed sum.
While Irish eyes were certainly smiling â Paul Dunne shot a best-of-the-day 64 to lead from a group that included compatriot Padraig Harrington â the two players flying the Saltire in this weekâs $7 million Turkish Airlines Open also had reason to be cheerful at the end of their first rounds at Regnum Carya in Belek.
Does anyone except an aphorist care about the definition of an aphorism? Most likely not, but it is a question that I thought pertinent while reading these collections. In some ways it is easy to say what an aphorism is not, rather than what it is. It is not a proverb â âthe wit of one and the wisdom of manyâ, as one definition has it. Proverbs tend to be anonymous and have an air of being self-evident; although many hands make light work while too many cooks spoil the broth, and you should look before you leap but strike while the iron is hot.
