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, 21 Nov 2009 15:06:45 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/latestnews/Scottish-classrooms-to-face-new.5845662.jp A MAJOR review of the way teachers are trained has been launched by the Scottish Government, amid concerns that too many of them lack practical skills and knowledge. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Scottish-classrooms-to-face-new.5845662.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Policeman-swept-to-death-rescuing.5845698.jp TRIBUTES were paid last night to a policeman who was swept to his death as raging floodwaters of "biblical proportions" demolished the bridge on which he had been sta http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Policeman-swept-to-death-rescuing.5845698.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Literary-giant--Gray-mixes.5845657.jp HE has designed album covers, murals and penned the eccentric and elaborate illustrations for his own books. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Literary-giant--Gray-mixes.5845657.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/39Pirates-will-kill-us-in.5845883.jp A BRITISH couple being held hostage by Somali pirates said last night they fear they will be killed or handed to terrorists if a ransom is not paid soon. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/39Pirates-will-kill-us-in.5845883.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Lib-Dems-can-keep-fraudster39s.5845650.jp THE Liberal Democrats have been told they can keep a donation of £2.4 million from a convicted fraudster. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Lib-Dems-can-keep-fraudster39s.5845650.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Oprah-sets-date-for-show39s.5845663.jp OPRAH Winfrey will end her popular US TV show in 2011 because it "feels right in my bones" to stop after 25 years, she said yesterday, urging viewers not to believe http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Oprah-sets-date-for-show39s.5845663.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Swine-flu-Now-drugresistant-strain.5845635.jp HEALTH officials are probing the first British case of a drug-resistant strain of swine flu spreading from person to person. Doctors have already come across several strains o http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Swine-flu-Now-drugresistant-strain.5845635.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/39Send-Megrahi-back-to-Scotland39.5845653.jp A UNITED States senator has written to Prime Minister Gordon Brown, demanding that the Lockerbie bomber should be returned to prison in Scotland. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/39Send-Megrahi-back-to-Scotland39.5845653.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/39Death-certificate-of-Christ-on.5845695.jp A FRESH debate about the authenticity of the piece of linen said to bear the image of the face of Jesus Christ has been triggered after a historian claimed to have uncovered http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/39Death-certificate-of-Christ-on.5845695.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Top-EU-job-for-unknown.5845646.jp GORDON Brown has been accused of a stitch-up with French president Nicolas Sarkozy over the surprise appointment of Baroness Ashton as the European Union's foreign policy http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Top-EU-job-for-unknown.5845646.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Dram-shame-as-bosses-close.5845683.jp ONE OF Speyside's leading distilleries is to close with the loss of more than 30 jobs after a review by a major whisky producer. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Dram-shame-as-bosses-close.5845683.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Disabled-student-wins--access.5845691.jp A DISABLED teenager denied access to his bank because there was no wheelchair access yesterday won a landmark victory for disabled customers and £6,500 damages.. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Disabled-student-wins--access.5845691.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Crackdown-on-drink-prices-39will.5845641.jp MINIMUM pricing for alcohol could harm non-alcohol retailers in the south of Scotland as consumers are lured across the Border to do their weekly shop, business leaders have w http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Crackdown-on-drink-prices-39will.5845641.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/D-39n-sers39-uinneig-tha.5845690.jp A BHEIL e iomchaidh, san "Ionad Nàiseanta do Chànan is Cultar na Gàidhlig", a fhuair còrr agus còig millean not ann an 2008 (a' chuid bu mhotha dheth sin bho l http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/D-39n-sers39-uinneig-tha.5845690.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Analysis-Local-grievances-are-being.5845665.jp YOU may know al-Qaeda wants to kill you, but does al-Shabaab, the Islamic militia fighting the UN-backed government of Somalia, perceive the West as a direct enemy? And does t http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Analysis-Local-grievances-are-being.5845665.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/39Devoted39-husband-who-killed-wife.5845677.jp A "DEVOTED husband" who strangled his wife in his sleep walked free from court yesterday after prosecutors withdrew their case against him. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/39Devoted39-husband-who-killed-wife.5845677.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Jungle-murder-gang-39drained-fat.5845678.jp POLICE in Peru have arrested a jungle gang that killed people and drained fat from the corpses to sell for use in cosmetics. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Jungle-murder-gang-39drained-fat.5845678.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Touch-of-animal-magic-as.5845679.jp AN ANIMAL hospital has been named Scotland's best new building. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Touch-of-animal-magic-as.5845679.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/39Knox-hated--Meredith-.5845649.jp AN AMERICAN student accused of murdering her British roommate in Italy had a growing hatred for the victim and killed her in retaliation during a drug-fuelled sex game, a co http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/39Knox-hated--Meredith-.5845649.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/House-prices-to-fall-in.5845629.jp HOUSE prices are predicted to fall next year as one of the country's biggest lenders warned of a rising unemployment prolonging the recession. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/House-prices-to-fall-in.5845629.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Tramworks-to--hit-festive.5845882.jp THE launch of Edinburgh's pre-Christmas shopping celebrations will be hampered by tramworks in the city centre. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Tramworks-to--hit-festive.5845882.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Coming-soon-to-a-sky.5845676.jp UP to four times as many sea eagles will be soaring through Scotland's skies by the middle of the next decade compared with today, new research has revealed. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Coming-soon-to-a-sky.5845676.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Hugh-Reilly-You39d-think-staff.5845699.jp IF ONE were to believe the hype, a new breed of teacher is required to deliver the Curriculum for Excellence. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Hugh-Reilly-You39d-think-staff.5845699.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/39I39m-trapped-I39ve-told-mountain.5845638.jp JOHN Carlin, owner of the Allerdale Court Hotel in Cockermouth town centre: "I have lived here for 15 years and have never seen anything like it. At two o'clock, it wa http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/39I39m-trapped-I39ve-told-mountain.5845638.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/An-ongoing-process-of-learning.5845689.jp PRIMARY &#149 Primary teachers can qualify through three different courses. &#149 A four-year Bachelor of Education (BEd) degree course is offered at six Scott http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/An-ongoing-process-of-learning.5845689.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Alerts-lifted-as-waters-recede.5845630.jp SWOLLEN rivers were beginning to recede across southern Scotland last night after record November rainfalls brought chaos to rail and road travel and flooded homes and busines http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Alerts-lifted-as-waters-recede.5845630.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Analysis-Disorders-can-range-from.5845688.jp FOR most people, sleepwalking is a minor annoyance, affecting roughly 2 per cent of adults. But for some, the effects can range from the embarrassing to the outright dangerous http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Analysis-Disorders-can-range-from.5845688.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/EU-united-for-once-in.5845647.jp GORDON Brown's team had been working for weeks on a back-up plan in the likely event that Tony Blair was vetoed for the top job. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/EU-united-for-once-in.5845647.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Gunman-kills-Russian-priest-who.5845643.jp A MASKED gunman entered a church and murdered a Russian Orthodox priest who had received death threats for converting Muslims to Christianity and criticising Islam, prosecutor http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Gunman-kills-Russian-priest-who.5845643.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/MP-is-accused-of-breaking.5845668.jp LIVINGSTON MP Jim Devine was criticised at a tribunal yesterday for "repeated failure to comply" with the hearing. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/MP-is-accused-of-breaking.5845668.jp Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT