http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/NewsFront.aspx?SectionID=6985 The latest breaking Scottish news including UK and world news updates plus videos en-GB Copyright 2007, Johnston Press Plc jpnm.coordinator@jpress.co.uk jpnm.coordinator@jpress.co.uk TS http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/GetFeed.aspx?sectionid=6985&format=rss Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:15:52 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/template/group/images/rss/TS_rss.gif http://thescotsman.scotsman.com 281 70 http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Class-size-pledge-is-wrong.5886725.jp REDUCING class sizes is not the key to improving pupils' attainment, according to a new report that casts doubt on a central plank of the Scottish Government's educa http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Class-size-pledge-is-wrong.5886725.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Meredith-Kercher-verdict-Amanda-Knox.5886956.jp AMANDA Knox was found guilty last night of the brutal sex murder of British student Meredith Kercher and sentenced to 26 years in prison by an Italian court. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Meredith-Kercher-verdict-Amanda-Knox.5886956.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Plumbing-tycoon-to-sink-30m.5886766.jp IT COMMANDS the most prized view in the world of golf. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Plumbing-tycoon-to-sink-30m.5886766.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Tiger-Woods39-furious-wife-accuses.5886748.jp YET another woman entered the spotlight in the scandal surrounding Tiger Woods yesterday – his mother. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Tiger-Woods39-furious-wife-accuses.5886748.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/SNP-is-playing-into-hands.5886740.jp FIRST Minister Alex Salmond needs to push full steam ahead for independence and ditch his party's damaging "step by step" approach, a former SNP deputy leader has http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/SNP-is-playing-into-hands.5886740.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Lloyds-bosses-to-pocket-huge.5886749.jp PRIME Minister Gordon Brown's pledge to clamp down on bonuses for state-dominated banks suffered a setback yesterday when it emerged Lloyds Banking Group will hand out gen http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Lloyds-bosses-to-pocket-huge.5886749.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/UN-asks-Did-British-experts.5886722.jp THE "Climategate" row threatening to overshadow next week's international global warming summit has taken a dramatic new twist. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/UN-asks-Did-British-experts.5886722.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Scotland-needs-more-flexible-financial.5886784.jp AN EXTENSION of the Scottish Government's borrowing powers and the establishment of a commission to scrutinise fiscal policy are among the 17 recommendations made by the C http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Scotland-needs-more-flexible-financial.5886784.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Prince39s-green-town-gets-goahead.5886771.jp THE Prince of Wales's plans for the "Scottish Poundbury" – an architecturally-pleasing green town billed as 'good for people and good for the planet' – mov http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Prince39s-green-town-gets-goahead.5886771.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Book-aims-to-end-clash.5886757.jp TRANSCENDING the bitterness of the confrontation between their nations and faiths, Israeli and Palestinian scholars have come together for an unprecedented joint history of th http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Book-aims-to-end-clash.5886757.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/ist-ri-seo-mur-eil.5886770.jp THA buill a' Bhattlefield Band air atharrachadh iomadh uair tro na bliadhnaichean. Aon rud nach do dh'atharraich ge-tà se gu bheil an ceòl aca daonnan aig ìre àrd. Se http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/ist-ri-seo-mur-eil.5886770.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Public-39has-too-much-belief.5886753.jp CCTV has been oversold to the public as a panacea to stop antisocial behaviour and crime in Scotland, and has created "a cycle of unrealistic expectation" as to what i http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Public-39has-too-much-belief.5886753.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Ideals-behind-the-Orange-Revolution.5886777.jp LIKE much of central and eastern Europe, this autumn Ukraine is taking time to remember a revolution. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Ideals-behind-the-Orange-Revolution.5886777.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Caibideal-r-an-eachdraidh-nam.5886755.jp ANN an 1844 chaidh nighean dà bhliadhn' dheug ás a' Bhruaich, Christian Watt, air bàta a h-athar gu iasgach an t-samhraidh ann an Sléibht' san Eilean Sgitheanach. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Caibideal-r-an-eachdraidh-nam.5886755.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Mob-hitman-links-Berlusconi-to.5886763.jp A JAILED hitman linked Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to the Mafia yesterday, telling a court a godfather convicted for a bombing campaign had boasted of links to th http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Mob-hitman-links-Berlusconi-to.5886763.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Lethal--from-half-a.5886779.jp TWO weeks ago in Pakistan, CIA operatives killed eight people suspected of being militants linked to al-Qaeda, and wounded two others in a compound said to be used for terror http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Lethal--from-half-a.5886779.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Farewell-to-a-reallife-war.5886775.jp ACTOR Richard Todd, best known for his roles in war films The Dam Busters and The Longest Day, has died at the age of 90. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Farewell-to-a-reallife-war.5886775.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Iraq-Treasury-refused-to-fund.5886787.jp THE Treasury refused to release additional funds for the reconstruction of Basra following the invasion of Iraq, the official inquiry into the war has been told. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Iraq-Treasury-refused-to-fund.5886787.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Rapist-such-a-risk-that.5886765.jp A MAN who held a schoolgirl captive for seven hours and then raped her was given a life sentence yesterday. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Rapist-such-a-risk-that.5886765.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Junta-chief-flies-out-after.5886720.jp GUINEA junta chief Captain Moussa Dadis Camara flew to Morocco yesterday for hospital treatment after being wounded in a gun attack by a former military aide, Moroccan authori http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Junta-chief-flies-out-after.5886720.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/As-the-saying-goesmother-does.5886964.jp EIGHT out of ten mothers admit they have "turned into their mums" – by using tried-and-tested adages to deal with their children, according to a survey. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/As-the-saying-goesmother-does.5886964.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:49:26 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Afghanistan-France-and-Germany-are.5886738.jp FOREIGN Secretary David Miliband has challenged Nato allies to do "the maximum possible" to support efforts to bring peace to Afghanistan, as 25 out of 43 countries co http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Afghanistan-France-and-Germany-are.5886738.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Top-accolade-for-the-clubmaker.5886774.jp THE humble wooden shed at the bottom of Willie McNair's garden may not look like much, but it is a place where champions are made. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Top-accolade-for-the-clubmaker.5886774.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/NHS-hits-targets-but-doctors.5886782.jp THE health service in Scotland is succeeding in cutting waits and improving care, the NHS chief executive said yesterday, as doctors warned of the impact of tighter budgets on http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/NHS-hits-targets-but-doctors.5886782.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Even-if-ET-phones-there39ll.5886724.jp FOR decades, thousands of people have made frantic reports of strange objects and lights in the skies above Britain, convinced we are not alone. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Even-if-ET-phones-there39ll.5886724.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Sorry-Mum-says-sheepish-sailor.5886768.jp THE British sailors freed after a week in Iranian custody apologised to their families as they were reunited yesterday, for the first time since their ordeal. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Sorry-Mum-says-sheepish-sailor.5886768.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Meredith-Kercher-verdict-A-39sentimental39.5886953.jp AMANDA Knox, a University of Washington student, was on a year out in Perugia to study when she met Raffaele Sollecito, an IT undergraduate from a middle-class Italian family. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Meredith-Kercher-verdict-A-39sentimental39.5886953.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/NHS-scared-to-release-data.5886756.jp HEALTH authorities fear answering questions under freedom of information laws because of concerns over how data will be used, it was claimed yesterday. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/NHS-scared-to-release-data.5886756.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Dozens-killed--in-nightclub.5886954.jp AT LEAST 94 people were feared dead after an explosion at a Russian nightclub last night. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Dozens-killed--in-nightclub.5886954.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Cancers-kill-1737-more-Scotsmen.5886794.jp SCOTTISH men have a far higher mortality rate from cancer than men in the rest of the UK, a conference heard yesterday. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Cancers-kill-1737-more-Scotsmen.5886794.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT