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Today the SNP led Scottish government is putting forward plans for a referendum, Alex Salmond is proposing four options; the status quo, the limited change offered by the Calman Commission, maximum devolution and full independence.

Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond holds a copy of the party's - White Paper' during a news conference in Edinburgh yesterday where he released details of a planned referendum on Scottish independence, setting out the case for breaking the 300-year-old union with England Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond yesterday unveiled plans for a ...

Today's guest blogger is Andy Hayes. Andy and I are tweet buddies and we love to talk writing among other things.

A former Labour Health Minister has claimed the party`s opposition to minimum alcohol pricing was wrong.

Scottish culture and heritage have been celebrated with a host of events across the country to mark St Andrew's Day.

Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus have rescued six women from a fourth floor flat in the centre of Edinburgh.

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Stormy seas lash the railway line at Saltcoats on the Ayrshire coast. Chris Watt Published on 19 Nov 2009 Scotland faces more stormy weather today with torrential rain on already saturated ground likely to aggravate problems in the south and west.

Councils across the south and east of Scotland are to follow the lead of their west coast counterparts with radical proposals to pool a raft of services in an attempt to save tens of millions of pounds.

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Millions of pounds of funding is in place for a hovercraft service across the Forth.

By CHRIS MARSHALL POLICE have warned of an increase in the dangerous craze of firing lasers at planes coming in to land at Edinburgh Airport.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2009 - NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen today predicted the alliance's future mission in Afghanistan will entail a counterinsurgency approach with "substantially more troops." The NATO chief, speaking to the alliance's Parliamentary Assembly, said he expects NATO will reach a troop-level decision in a few weeks for ...

A COUPLE whose wedding plans had been put in doubt after the bride was refused a UK visa are celebrating after getting the go-ahead. David Forsyth, 43, who is originally from Fountainbridge, could not believe it when his American fiancee, Batya Swenson, was refused permission to travel to Edinburgh.

At Drug Delivery to the Lungs 20 , which takes place from 9 to 11 December 2009, in Edinburgh, Scotland, specialists from Malvern Instruments will present the results of work undertaken in collaboration with the Helsinki University of Technology.

Tomorrow will see the launch of this year's Edinburgh's Hogmanay festival at Edinburgh Castle with the campaign created by Hillside Agency.

There's likely no better place in Scotland to immerse yourself in the ghostly and creepy than in Scotland's capital city of horror, Edinburgh.

THE LOST ART OF GRATITUDE. By Alexander McCall Smith. Pantheon. 272 pages. $23.95. In his sixth Isabel Dalhousie novel, Alexander McCall Smith continues to enchant us with his savory blend of story and character.

DITCH talks are under way in a bid to save the council-backed developer EDI from collapse, it emerged today.