forkboy84 posted:

I bet that story on the front of the Daily Mail isn't based in reality.

Budgie posted:

Looking at that map of the most deprived areas is quite depressing, as pretty much every half decent house that I can afford is in at best an orange zone. There are even some nice looking ones in the deepest red areas but frankly I already knew they'd be red before seeing that map.

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The front page of The Herald highlights a report which claims payday lending is "absolutely corrosive to mental health"among those who are already vulnerable.



A man who threatened to kill supermarket shoppers by lacing food with cyanide as part of a £2m blackmail plot is the splash in the Daily Record. The paper said David Ward was jailed for seven years for the crime.

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/340/cpsprodpb/04CE/production/_91003210_d7f84d4e-ebd2-4afa-a0d6-82679b389cfb.jpg

Meanwhile The National asks "How do we deal with the UK's debt?" on its front page. It claims a new report has found that independence could save Scotland up to £2bn a year.



A warning from leading business figures that a revived Scottish independence campaign would bring "fresh uncertainty"features on the front page of The Scotsman. In a letter to the paper, industry leaders say it would be "tantamount to a major breach of trust" with voters from the 2014 referendum.



On a similar theme, the Scottish edition of The Times reports that a new opinion poll shows that Scots voters do not want another referendum on independence before Britain leaves the EU.



The Inverness edition of the Press and Journal splashes with a story about a local IT consultant who has appeared in court charged with bigamy.



A story about the private life of former Rangers player Arnold Peralta makes the front page of The Scottish Sun. The 26-year-old footballer was murdered in a drive-by shooting near his home in Honduras in December last year.



A "smart blood test" which dramatically slows the spread of breast cancer is the splash in the Scottish Daily Mail.



And a story about model Daisy Lowe, a contestant in the new series of Strictly Come Dancing, makes the front page of the Daily Star of Scotland.

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The biggest myth of all, in a way, is that haggis belongs to Scotland alone. Haggis is actually a very ancient, global dish. Going back thousands of years, when hunters returned with their kill they would cook-up the parts of the animal that needed eaten first. The fresh offal would be chopped and mixed with cereal and herbs and cooked over the fire in the ready-made saucepan (the stomach). Hey presto – the first haggis. Many cultures actually had haggis made from different animals depending on what was being hunted and we like to think of haggis as the celebratory dish that everyone shared after the big hunt!

Coohoolin posted:

Ok well that's just taking the piss.

nopantsjack posted:

Haggis is good, its basically a halfway house between sausage and burger that you can eat without teeth.

It properly owns bones with other things though, like Haggis on burgers or Balmoral Chicken.

Its weird it has this stigma as gross elsewhere though, if anything its a bit too bland.

TheHoodedClaw posted:

Haggis pakora is proper tasty fusion cuisine

TomViolence posted:

Haggis is shite and we all just pretend to like it. Also, I think it must be a viking import as the scandies have an excellent track record w/r/t making unappetising meals out of things most sane people become nauseous at the mere prospect of ingesting.

TomViolence posted:

Haggis is shite and we all just pretend to like it. Also, I think it must be a viking import as the scandies have an excellent track record w/r/t making unappetising meals out of things most sane people become nauseous at the mere prospect of ingesting.

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Here are all the stories making headlines in Scotland on Monday September 5.

The Herald reports more than 200 training jobs for GPs and hospital specialists in Scotland were left empty after a major national recruitment drive despite a rise in applications from junior doctors.

https://twitter.com/heraldscotland/status/772557478026436608/photo/1

While The Scotsman leads with Theresa May's dismissal of the case for a second independence referendum - the Prime Minister insists Scotland will leave the European Union along with the rest of the UK.

https://twitter.com/TheScotsman/status/772566763116466176/photo/1

The Scottish Sun reports Labour MP Keith Vaz is facing a watchdog probe over claims he paid for sex with male escorts with cash linked to his charity.

https://twitter.com/ScottishSun/status/772585411193495552/photo/1

Nicola Sturgeon features on the Scottish Daily Mail after she spoke out on her experience miscarrying at age 40.

https://twitter.com/JohnCooper633/status/772561453782032385/photo/1

The Daily Record features a drug user who has been on methadone for 21 years - despite never being a heroin addict.

https://twitter.com/Daily_Record/status/772563347782955008/photo/1

And The National leads with scientists who have called for the global seaweed industry to protect sustainability.

https://twitter.com/ScotNational/status/772540567570055172/photo/1

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The Scotsman leads with the news that a child has died in Scotland as a result of an E. coli outbreak linked to blue cheese.



The Herald says a top civil servant is facing calls to resign amid claims she said it was "OK" for abuse victims to die in some circumstances.

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People in Scotland want another referendum on EU membership, according to a poll commissioned by The Times of Scotland.



The Daily Mail reports on the Paige Doherty murder after deli owner John Leathem admitted killing the teenager in a "frenzied" attack.



The Daily Express says top businesses in Scotland are demanding a tax cut from the Scottish government to level the playing field with the rest of the UK.



Brexit minister David Davis was accused of waffling after he made his first parliamentary statement on the UK's plans to leave the EU, says The National.



The Daily Record also reports on the Paige Doherty murder, showing a still from "chilling" CCTV footage which shows the teenager just moments before she died.



The Scottish Sun calls deli owner John Leathem, who admitted killing Paige, the"devil of the deli".



The Daily Star of Scotland says TV show X-Factor has been plunged into a new "fix storm".



And The Press and Journal reports that Aberdeen Grammar school is the most desirable state school in the city.

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I love the widening access & widening participation agenda, and throughout the Commission on Widening Access I was clear that contextualising admissions had to go beyond dropping entry requirements by one grade, or maybe two. NUS Scotland has been banging on about truly contextualising admissions for ages, and so it's absolutely incredible to see the sector body representing Universities in Scotland has decided not to wait for the Fair Access Commissioner to be appointed, and to just plough on making admissions fairer.

Niric posted:

BBC: Scotland's papers: Paige Doherty murder and child abuse inquiry



The only papers with news stories of national interest are the express and the national? What the hell?

Coohoolin posted:

Interesting approach, this! Scottish universities agree to lower entry standards for disadvantaged students.

Vonnie Sandlan, NUS Scotland president, says:


http://www.heraldscotland.com/NEWS/14724626.All_Scottish_universities_to_drop_entry_grades_for_disadvantaged_students/?ref=rss

Jedit posted:

You missed out at least one paper, or possibly a late edition, but Nicola Sturgeon apparently just declared that she'd work with the Tories in a Brexit coalition. I haven't read the details so won't comment further, but in any event she may yet take Owen Smith up on his offer of a sweetie.

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Sturgeon suggests she could work with pro-EU Tories to avoid “hard Brexit”


Nicola Sturgeon has suggested she could join forces with pro-EU Tory ministers in a bid to avoid a “hard Brexit”.

The first minister said forming a “coalition” with like-minded politicians to try and keep the UK in the single market was “worth a try”.

The Scottish Government has repeatedly railed against a Brexit deal without access to the single market, claiming it could cost the economy north of the border billions of pounds.

Opposition political parties criticised Ms Sturgeon’s intervention, with Labour’s Lewis Macdonald claiming she was “shifting the goalposts”.

Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie claimed the first minister’s “obsession with independence” made her “incapable of reaching a constructive agreement with anybody”.

Some Conservative ministers are believed to favour a “hard Brexit”, but that position is not universally shared around the cabinet.

Ms Sturgeon said: “Can there be a coalition across the UK that gets the UK into a more sensible position?

“I think that’s worth a good try because Theresa May, she was on the Remain side, so presumably she knows the real risks of removal from the single market.

“Let’s have a try at getting the UK, not into the best position – because the best position in my view would be continued membership of the EU – but let’s try and get the UK as a whole into the least-worst position and that means staying in the single market.”

Her comments came as Scotland Brexit minister, Michael Russell, suggested there were divisions among the cabinet on leaving the EU.

He said: “There were ministers who voted to Remain and there are ministers who are saying to themselves … this could be very detrimental.

“This is the issue between hard Brexit and soft Brexit.”

The UK Government has yet to trigger Article 50 – the process to leave the EU – after the vote to leave the continental block. A majority of people in England and Wales backed a break with Brussels, but a majority in Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to Remain.

Reacting to Ms Sturgeon’s comments Scottish Labour’s Mr Macdonald said: “This is a definite shifting of the goalposts from the first minister, who initially said that maintaining our full membership of the EU would be the only acceptable outcome, now it is only about access to the single market.

“The people of Scotland deserve to know why the first minister is changing her tune.”

The Liberal Democrats Mr Rennie added: “An obsession with independence makes (Ms Sturgeon) incapable of reaching a constructive agreement with anybody.”

Angepain posted:

i really wanted to like haggis burritos but no dice. turns out there may in fact be a food in existence that does not go with salsa and guacamole.

Coohoolin posted:

Interesting approach, this! Scottish universities agree to lower entry standards for disadvantaged students.

Vonnie Sandlan, NUS Scotland president, says:


http://www.heraldscotland.com/NEWS/14724626.All_Scottish_universities_to_drop_entry_grades_for_disadvantaged_students/?ref=rss

Niric posted:

Both the P&J and the National seem to have it. I just did a quick google, so other outlets probably have variants, but as far as I can tell it's a complete non-story: Sturgeon says a "coalition" of people who agree with her would be a good thing, doesn't say who, or how, or in what capacity they'd coalesce, or what this coalition entails, or anything meaningful whatsoever. It's the vaguest of vague political grandstanding, basically

Of course, this is totally different from that time Labour politicians worked with Tory politicians on a single issue. That was unforgivable and unjustifiable and a sign they're all the same and means never voting Labour again etc etc

Jedit posted:

This is IMO an extremely unwise move; at this point in her premiership Theresa May is in no way going to allow the tail to wag the dog. All Sturgeon has achieved is to cast herself as Nick Clegg 2: Electric Boogal-EU.

Jedit posted:

It should come as no surprise to anyone that the "report" mentioned on the cover of the National comes from everyone's favourite unhinged SNP front, the Common Weal, and that it isn't actually a report at all. It was written by their own "voluntary researcher", Dr Craig Dalzell, an unemployed laser engineer who has no background whatsoever in economics, politics or law.

keep punching joe posted:

forkboy84 posted:

Still don't think I'll get in with 2 crappy Highers tbh. It's a conspiracy to keep me out of university.

(No it's not, I could just do an Access to HE course. Shame Inverness College (sorry, the University of Highlands & Islands) doesn't offer them)

Hoops posted:

Lol

I didn't know this thread was here, can someone catch me up on how terrible it is?

I do *not* live in Scotland currently.