keep punching joe posted:

The Scottish Six is not about making the news more parochial, it's about making the news more relevant. The BBC has failed to come to terms with devolution and reports on issues that are wholly English as if they are UK wide. Other than for us to point and laugh, what's the point in the national news reporting on junior doctors contracts and a-level results?

Now the Scottish Parliament can raise taxes, and Westminster now has EVEL. Things have diverged substantially in the space of a couple of years, and will in all likelihood diverge even further. Having a Scotland centred national news broadcast is sensible and right.

Scotland 20whatever was pretty poo poo and I'm glad it's dead. It's quite hilarious that on a shoestring budget STV can provide better daily political coverage than the state funded broadcaster.

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Here are the stories making headlines in Scotland on Thursday August 4.

The Daily Record report Rangers were "surprised" to learn their new home kit will go on sale on Thursday despite a dispute over rights to the club's badge.

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While The Scotsman leads with the  surfaces of Scotland's motorways which are in worse condition and deteriorating faster than other roads, according to public spending watchdogs.

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Dundee FC could be forced to move from their home at Dens Park because of a £1.2m land deal at Camperdown, reports The Courier.

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The Scottish Sun lead with a Pokemon fan who was struck with a bottle by a gang who pulled up beside her in a car playing the theme tune.

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BBC bosses ordered a River City star to delete online posts criticising the broadcaster over its indyref coverage, it has emerged in The National.

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And The Press and Journal lead with a man's body recovered at a loch in Orkney following a major search for two missing fishermen.

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Jedit posted:

They really are the newspaper for sad, bitter racist fucks, aren't they? "Och, I'd never have lost ma job on the telly if only Scotland had voted tae be free, but the English want tae oppress us!" Elaine C Smith was on the board of both YES Scotland and the Common Weal for two years, and as soon as she stepped down from that the Beeb gave her a new sitcom. If this loving idiot lost his job for his Indyref tweets it was for bringing his employer into disrepute, which is not a political matter.

Pissflaps posted:

This is going to upset some people

Extreme0 posted:

There are things that don't get reported that can be considered news worthy but don't show it out of either bias or thinking it's not worth much.

Like was there any mention of the surveillance bullshit councils were doing that the ferret dug up in the media?

Jedit posted:

I got about 45 seconds in before I could bear no more of the soulless husk muttering in a monotone about regional news programmes. How is it relevant?

Jedit posted:

Not me I'm afraid, I'll be at the Discworld Convention.

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Here are the stories making headlines in Scotland on Friday August 5.

The Daily Record reports a former soldier murdered his estranged wife and left her mutilated body in a house with their two young children.

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While The Scottish Sun leads with masked intruders who tried to break in to Wayne Rooney's £6m home while he was playing in his testimonial match.

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The north east edition of The Press and Journal reports a pensioner has died after suffering for more than ten years with a debilitating deformed leg.

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The Scotsman reports on plummeting interest rates, as well as Andy Murray flying the Team GB flag at the Olympic Games opening ceremony in Rio.

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Similarly, The Herald reports on the Bank of England's reveal of the lowest interest rates in history.

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The Scottish Daily Mail lead with the son of a Scottish aristocrat who has been charged in Kenya with trafficking nearly 100kg of cocaine.

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Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has sparked anger inside her own party for disappearing to the US at a time of momentous political events back home, reports The National.

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And The Courier features Dundee FC manager Paul Hartley who has praised the club's owners after a £1.2m land deal at Dens Park.

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Acaila posted:

Who else wants to come hang out with the cool kids?

Acaila posted:

Niric

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Front pages: Stories making headlines in Scotland on Monday

Here are the front pages from across Scotland for Monday August 8.

The Daily Record and The Scottish Sun both report on a man stabbed and killed outside a friend's 21st birthday party.

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While The Daily Telegraph and The National talk politics with claims about a Scottish independence referendum next year, and David Mundell's role in Brexit discussions.

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Monday's Scottish Daily Mail front page features new crime figures which are being put down to "feral children" and "young thugs".

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The Herald and The Scotsman both split their front page between oil stories and Andy Murray beginning his Olympic singles gold medal defence.

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Elsewhere The Press and Journal front page says hotels in the north of Scotland will be hit with a "tourist tax", adding to existing struggles.

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And finally The Courier speaks to a Tayside police chief who says the force remains supportive of T in the Park

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Front pages: Stories making headlines in Scotland on Tuesday

The Daily Record focuses on the sentencing of a man who killed a nurse as she walked home.

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While The Scottish Sun reports on the teenage girl who was raped outside a supermarket.

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Tuesday's Scottish Daily Mail claims the national police forced have told cleaners to use less bin bags in a bid to save money.

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The National celebrates its 500th edition with a front page of Jeremy Corbyn and problems in the Labour party.

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Sister-paper The Herald reports on another case of police paying out, this time on an "unlawful" spying case.

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And The Scotsman splits its front page between pollution hotspots on Scotland's streets and Team GB gold medallist Adam Peaty.

Elsewhere The Press and Journalsplits its front page on an exclusive report on the whereabouts of a missing stroke victim, and the oil rig which ran aground near Lewis.

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And finally The Courier front page features the furore over Fringe revellers "drunken behaviour and scenes" on the last train home from Edinburgh to Tayside and Fife.

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Extreme0 posted:

https://twitter.com/kezdugdale/status/762525436962283520

At least one Union is working out for her.

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CommonSpace columnist James McEnaney says the Scottish Government has questions to answer on tax

AS was reported at the weekend by the Sunday Herald’s Paul Hutcheon, a storm is brewing over the Scottish Government’s newest revenue generation scheme.

On the face of it, the plan seems beautifully simple: end the council tax freeze, raise £100m in additional funds, and then spend it on education. That’s it.

Well, not quite ‘it’. Obviously some adjustments will be needed. Funds must be allocated on the basis of need rather than hoarded by the areas with the biggest houses, and some sort of formula will be required to calculate an equitable means of redistribution.

And the SNP will also have to hope that nobody remembers Nicola Sturgeon describing council tax as “fundamentally unfair” before reneging on her promise to abolish it - after all, attempting to use a “regressive” (her word, not mine) form of taxation as part of a crusade for equality would perhaps make the first minister look rather hypocritical.


But, those issues aside, it all sounds straightforward enough. More money for schools is a good thing, so everyone should keep calm and fall in line, right?

Well actually, no, they shouldn't. In truth, concerns about these plans have been simmering - albeit largely in private - for some time. Now things have changed, with a leaked document showing that Cosla - the umbrella body representing the majority of Scottish councils - is far from keen on the proposals. So why would local authorities object to increasing spending on education by £100m across the country?

Much like the troubled Named Person scheme, the problem here lies in the execution rather than any ‘benign’ intentions.

On the face of it this may look like an innocuous, even innovative, means of raising much needed funds for education, and the government will - as ever - not be short of cheerleaders to deride those who questions their proposals. In a practical sense, however, what the government is actually planning is a blatant attack on a key principle of local democracy.

Here’s the situation: for nearly a decade the government effectively banned Scotland’s local authorities from increasing council tax, with serious repercussions threatened for any who refused to play ball. Though a few came close to defying John Swinney they all, in the end, did as they were told by the SNP.

To all intents and purposes central government simply annexed local government fundraising, a move which the SNP calculated would be politically beneficial. After all, who doesn't love a simplistic tax freeze?

Increasingly, however, the status quo became untenable as jobs were lost, services cut and, perhaps worst of all, it became clear that the richest benefited most from a blanket freeze. As soon as the SNP ditched plans to replace what it called the “hated council tax” with an alternative “based on ability to pay” it was obvious that something had to give.

So, earlier this year Nicola Sturgeon announced that her party would tinker with the upper council tax bands and allow the rates to increase, with these changes expected to raise £100m. Crucially, that money would then be confiscated (or stolen, if you prefer) by central government.

The problem is that there appears to be no mechanism by which these financial acrobatics could currently be achieved, especially with transfers between authorities needed to make the system equitable on a national scale. It therefore seems likely that the government will simply cut council budgets by £100m and then graciously permit local authorities to make up the shortfall.

Perversely, it looks as though councils will not necessarily see any financial benefit from the end of the council tax freeze, with central government instead reaping the rewards. In fact it seems that the only way in which more money can be made available to protect vital local services would be for local authorities to cut their education spending.

On this occasion, the gap between government rhetoric and practical reality is significant. Beneath the veneer of spin and PR it is not difficult to see that what the government is proposing is wrong.

If Nicola Sturgeon wishes to promise an extra £100m (a figure her party is very keenon) for education then she should at least have the decency, honesty and courage to raise that money herself.

Instead, having decided to maintain the council tax rather than replace it, and in a desperate attempt to avoid raising income tax on the highest earners, the first minister is now effectively marching councils to the cash machine with a knife at their backs.

New powers over income tax mean that the government cannot claim that its council tax raid is the only option available - it is simply a political choice, and it is the wrong one.

Extreme0 posted:

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Front pages: Stories making headlines in Scotland on Monday

STV2 hours ago

Catch up on all of the newspaper front pages from around the country for Monday August 15.

The Scottish Sun reports on Andy Murray taking Olympic gold in Rio.

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A man who faked his military career and doctored pictures is on the front page of the Daily Record.

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The Herald's lead story is on accusations the SNP has made a Holyrood 'power grab' by appointing party MSPs to key roles.

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The National focuses on criticism of a BBC interview over a potential RBS post-indyref move.

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The potential Royal Bank of Scotland move also leads in The Scotsman.

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The Courier in Dundee leads with tributes to a veteran killed in a motorcycle crash.

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The Press and Journal reports on traffic chaos in Aberdeen city centre after a man scaled a statue.

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cheerfullydrab posted:

As an ignorant American, do you think the outcome of the last referendum would have been affected if the two options had simply been "SCOTLAND" or "UK"? No other language whatsoever, no context available at the polling place.

I am getting into the study of ballot language and I am curious to hear the opinions of people who went through that vote.

Jedit posted:

I don't think it would even be that much. Anyone who thought of themselves as Scottish not British was already voting Yes.

Extreme0 posted:

It just wouldn't work. Like Labour saying they are socialist and saying Jeremy Corbyn is bad because he's a socialist

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Front pages: Stories making headlines in Scotland on Tuesday

Here are the front pages in Scotland for Tuesday August 16.

The Daily Record tells the story of an Aberdeen man who travelled 6000-miles to Rio and back to see Andy Murray pick up gold in a day and a half

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The tragic death of former Premiership footballer Dalian Atkinson leads The Scottish Sun.

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The National front page is on destitute refugees being told their children must go into care to get help.

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There has been a rise in calls to ChildLine over 'sexting', reports The Herald.

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The Scottish Daily Mail leads on a new study linking a pregnancy painkiller to behavioural problems in children.

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Warnings from Angus Robertson that RAF Kinloss may be under threat make the lead story in The Scotsman.

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The Courier leads with the sale of a landmark former department store in Perth.

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A toddler was taken to hospital after fears he had consumed potentially lethal cocaine, according to The Press and Journal.

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Acaila posted:

Also Kin, you really do need to see The Dark Room cos it's ace.

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The Scottish Sun reports on police failing to link World's End murderer Angus Sinclair to an unsolved murder case.

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A nursery carer who drew a moustache on a child's face amid a catalogue of abuse leads the Daily Record.

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The National's front page shows a new Japanese stamp honouring its industrial links with Scotland.

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Humanist marriages are now more popular than any other single denomination, The Scotsman reports.

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The Herald front page is on three teachers starting a legal bid against being transferred.

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The guilty verdict on hate preacher Anjem Choudary dominates the Scottish Daily Mail front page.

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The Press and Journal leads on a fire witch [sic] torched a trawler in Peterhead harbour.

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A study has found teachers are assaulted by pupils once every three days in Fife, reports The Courier.

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The Scottish Sun reports on claims that police are being told not to pursue drug dealers amid cost-cutting.

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The reports from an anonymous whistle blower also leads in the Daily Record.

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The Scottish Daily Mail calls the latest increase in drugs deaths a result of the SNP's 'soft-touch justice'.

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Nicola Sturgeon's call for 'humane' treatment of EU nationals is on the front page of The Scotsman.

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The Herald exclusively reveals a plan for 1800 new Glasgow council houses.

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The First Minister said EU nationals are 'not just bargaining chips', reports The National.

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The Press and Journal leads on a sex attacker who sent abuse pictures to an offshore worker.

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Here are the front pages in Scotland for Friday August 19. 

The Scottish Sun leads on the historic Olympic gold and silver medals for the Brownlee brothers in the triathlon.

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A drug dealing mother and daughter selling fake Valium are exposed in the Daily Record.

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The Herald reports Nicola Sturgeon's fears that then Brexit vote as [sic] fuelled racist attacks.

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The picture of a five-year-old boy after being pulled out of rubble in Aleppo is on The National front page.

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Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey could be banned from her profession after allegedly lying about her illness reports the Scottish Daily Mail.

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The Courier leads on a review that could lead to school closures in Perthshire.

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A cyclist killed after a crash with a lorry is on the front page of The Press and Journal.

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Here are the stories making headlines in Scotland on Monday August 22.

The Scottish Daily Mail leads with Mo Farah's gold victory on the final day of the Rio Olympic Games.

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While the Daily Record reports a teenager tried to save him mother and brother, before they were pulled from the sea at Aberdeen beach.

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Again The Scottish Sun lead with the deaths of the mother and son, which has sparked a warning from the RNLI.

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Jeremy Corbyn will use a visit to Scotland this week to categorically rule out the prospect of a 'progressive alliance' between Labour and the SNP ahead of the 2020 General Election, The Herald reveals.

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The National reports Scotland's seafood industry faces a £93m black hole over the next six years because of Brexit.

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And Kenny MacAskill has said Scotland was "set up to take the rap" for the global fall-out of the Lockerbie bombing because the country lacks the "might and power" of the international elites it was up against, in The Scotsman.

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MacAskill: ‘Scotland took the rap for Lockerbie aftermath’

SCOTLAND was “set up to take the rap” for the global fall-out of the Lockerbie bombing because the country lacks the “might and power” of the international elites it was up against, former justice secretary Kenny MacAskill has said. Mr MacAskill says he is “contemptuous” of the US and UK authorities which left Scotland with an international “black spot” over the trial and release of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, the only man convicted of the 1988 bombing. And he warned that investigators will never get to the bottom of the Lockerbie case, which is likely to endure alongside other conspiracy theories like the Kennedy assassination and 9/11. “We took the rap for Lockerbie – but there was huge international deals going on,” MacAskill told the Edinburgh international book festival yesterday. “They were commercial and they were security and we were just flotsam and jetsam – the same as the bags
 that fell upon the poor town of Lockerbie.” Lockerbie is the UK’s worst terrorist incident, which saw Pan Am flight 103 explode over the town killing 270 people on board and on the ground. Mr MacAskill, who stood down as an MSP in the Holyrood election earlier this year, became the focus of international attention when he took the controversial decision to release Megrahi in 2009 when he was diagnosed as having terminal cancer and just three months to live. He went on to live another three years, prompting widespread anger among the families of the Lockerbie victims, particularly in the US.

Mr MacAskill yesterday launched a furious attack on the “hypocrisy” of key players in the affair, such as the UK government which did oil deals with Libya in exchange for an agreement to return Megrahi. “The Scottish Government and indeed Scotland got a black spot – not simply the bomb that landed and devastated the town of Lockerbie. We got dumped with this and told get on with it. “Meanwhile the British, the Americans were conniving. Others were all over there.” He added that the relationship between Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was “something else”. “This was a global event which happened to impact upon Scotland, but in which the Lockerbie bombing was a sideshow in many ways.” He added; “It suited people to be able to put the blame on somebody and to say it was Scotland. Because Obama, Clinton, [former minister Jack] Straw all came out and said “don’t agree with it – absolutely appalling.” And they had been conniving and working for it. We actually delivered what they wanted which was to let Megrahi go.” The UK government wanted to ease the way for lucrative oil deals between Libya and British oil giant BP, which prompted the notorious prisoner transfer agreement between the UK and Libya. This could have also seen Megrahi returned to his homeland, but was not granted by Mr MacAskill. The former justice secretary told a sell-out audience yesterday that the Lockerbie bombing was carried out by a “coalition of the willing” which took in the Libyan state, but was also likely to have included Palestinian terrorist group the PFLP-GC (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command). “You can’t take the Lockerbie bombing in isolation,” he said. “The trial doesn’t happen in isolation in international affairs where Scottish judges and the Scottish police service are entirely oblivious to what is going on when the UK foreign office, the American intelligence services are engaged – all of this was ongoing and there was downright hypocrisy.”

In 2003, Gaddafi accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing and paid compensation to the families of the victims, although he maintained that he had never given the order for the attack. Mr MacAskill said: “This is going to run and run – this is up there with the grassy knoll and 9/11,” Mr MacAskill warned. I don’t know that we will ever get to the bottom of this. Equally I’m highly sceptical as to whether a Scottish inquiry could ever get to the bottom of this.”

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Here are the stories making headlines in Scotland on Tuesday August 23.

A six-year-old boy who died alongside his mother after being swept out to sea has been described as a "lovely little boy" by his headteacher in The Press and Journal.

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The Scotsman reports Jeremy Corbyn will seek to convince Labour members he can win back support from SNP backers by attacking the Nationalists' credentials as a progressive party during a visit to Scotland this week.

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While The Herald leads with a new report that claims Scotland has the UK's worst gender pay gap with females in management roles paid almost £11,000 less on average than their male counterparts.

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The Scottish Sun reports lecturer Robert Kerr stabbed his wife Xin Xin Liu 76 times then made himself a hot drink as she lay dead.

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The Daily Record also lead with Kerr, whose guilty plea was reduced to a plea of culpable homicide, as well as the death of a piper.

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Hundreds of police officers will be axed amid "secret cuts" to the force, reports the Scottish Daily Mail.

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Scientists have issued a warning over 'bagpipe lung', reports The National, after a piper's death was thought to have been caused by mould in his instrument.

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And The Courier reports two drivers had to be cut free from their vehicles after a bus and van collided in Angus.

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forkboy84 posted:

It's definitely a start but it still made no real dent in support. All 3 events are bad but we've yet to have something on the scale of Neil Hamilton, Jonathan Aitken & Jeffery Archer. It's not like the repeated resignations for sleaze of Peter Mandleson brought down New Labour either.

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Jedit posted:

I presume you're referring to the Poldark thing? Because regarding the oil crisis the Mail posted an only slightly more alarmist version of a headline on most of the other papers, while the National went full Chemical Ali.

E: "the rights of Scottish strawberries". gently caress off, you bigoted provincial cretins.

Pissflaps posted:

A key difference in the arguments between Brexit and Scottish Independence is that the UK is a net contributor to the EU whereas Scotland is a net beneficiary of UK membership.

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In maps: Scotland's most deprived areas

The stark contrast of poverty and wealth in Scotland's towns and cities has been illustrated in an interactive map of deprivation.

The Scottish Index of Multiple of Deprivation named Ferguslie Park in Paisley as the most deprived area of the country.

But the maps show that there are pockets of deprivation in most of Scotland's urban areas.

They highlight the most deprived areas in red, while the least deprived are dark blue

Edinburgh:


Glasgow:


The index found that Glasgow has 56 of the 100 most deprived areas in Scotland.

Meanwhile Edinburgh has six of the most deprived areas - up two on the same survey four years ago.

Outside the central belt, Midstocket, in Aberdeen, and St Andrews south west in Fife were among the least deprived areas

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The Scotsman reports that Prime Minister Theresa May has put the UK on course for a "hard Brexit" which will see the country exit the common market and the imposition of curbs on EU migration.



The Herald says a report has revealed thatweaknesses in children's services - similar to those that contributed to the death of Liam Fee - continue to persist in Scotland



The first powerful treatment for Alzheimer's is on the horizon after a new drug was found to combat the changes to the brain that cause the disease, according to The Times of Scotland



The Scottish Daily Mail has a story about Police Scotland, which the paper says has produced a 10-page report on whether buying new printers would discriminate against minorities.



The National reports on comments made by Labour leader contender Owen Smith on BBC Radio Scotland, saying he dismissed a list of broken promises made during the Better Together campaign as"contingent on Labour being in power".



The Scottish Daily Express says SNP rule in Scotland has seen a "decade of decline", as new deprivation figures are published



The Scottish Sun says Max Clifford has been accused of performing sex acts in front of a 28-year-old woman during jail visits.



The Daily Record leads with a story about the father of Scotland's youngest motor neurone disease sufferer, who has written his daughter a "heartrending letter".



"Corrie race storm over slave joke" is the headline on the front page of the Daily Star of Scotland.



The Press and Journal says the SNP's control of Aberdeenshire Council is "hanging in the balance" after "Legogate" councillor Martin Kitts-Hayes stepped down.



And The Courier has a story aboutScotland's deprivation figures, reporting that Dundee has some of the worst-off areas in Scotland.

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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

Coohoolin posted:

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

Vonnie Sandlan, NUS Scotland president, says:


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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.”

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.

jre posted:

It's unreadable now because someone posts a 100 front page images and a single comment, then someone quotes them with "I agree"

Which makes a change from it being unreadable due to my posting so ......

Jedit posted:

So you don't see Sturgeon walking back on her party's pledges to get a seat at the big boy's table as a problem? I wasn't invoking Clegg as the boogeyman here - Sturgeon is doing exactly the same thing.

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Scotland's papers: Indyref2 plans and teacher tragedy

Many of today's Scottish front pages focus on First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's programme for government, which she unveiled on Tuesday.

The Scotsman reports Ms Sturgeon has offered a £500m "Brexit lifeline" to businesses in Scotland.

The Herald says the first minister hasmoved closer to calling a new independence referendum by laying the foundations for a repeat vote.

Ms Sturgeon is positioning the Scottish government to call a "snap vote" when the country is ready, according to The Times Scotland.

The Scottish Daily Express urges the first minister to "rule out" a new vote on independence, saying it's the only way to fix the economy.

The National says "Scotland will be ready", as Ms Sturgeon announces the draft bill to hold a second independence referendum.

The Scotland edition of the i newspaperreports on the first minister's offer to small businesses struggling to get investment.

A "revolutionary" new blood test that can detect cancer years before full-blown symptoms has been unveiled by scientists, reports The Scottish Daily Mail.

The Scottish Sun has a story about the science teacher from Edinburgh who died hours after breaking her leg in a freak classroom fall.

The Daily Record says "heroin baron" Terry Scott was moved to Scotland's "softest prison" after just over a year of a six-year sentence for drug dealing.

Strictly Come Dancing bosses are in a spin after a video of contestant Daisy Loweperforming a striptease emerged, according to the Daily Star.

The Press and Journal says north-east fisherman fear a coastal protection zone could be used as a "weapon" against them.

And The Courier reports that a woman has appeared in court charged with the murder of Dundee mother Marie Low.

Reveilled posted:

I'm mostly lurking the thread but I'd appreciate it if you'd put the front pages in [timg] tags as it's a lot to scroll through if my browser doesn't jump correctly to unread posts.

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The Herald says university principals have that warned middle-class students will besqueezed out of universities under plans to boost the number of poorer undergraduates.

The Scotsman reports that Nicola Sturgeon has insisted Scotland will not be"window dressing in a talking shop" when it comes to Brexit negotiations.

The Times Scotland has a story about MPs moving out of Westminster for six years as part of a £4bn restoration plan.

Two police officers attacked by a man on a Glasgow street were filmed by a "jeering mob", reports the Scottish Daily Mail.

The Scottish Daily Express says Britain's property market will enjoy a "Brexit boost"after the UK's vote to leave the EU.

Nicola Sturgeon has warned Theresa May she lacks the mandate to take Scotland out of the single market, reports The National.

The Daily Record leads with the story of a dog owner jailed after ordering her Staffordshire bull terrier to attack another woman, leaving her seriously injured.

The Scottish Sun says former Scotland striker Kris Boyd's family is in shock after the footballer's brother took his own life.

"Shameless French family of 10 demands UK mansion" is the headline on the front page of the Daily Star of Scotland.

The Press and Journal says police have found new DNA evidence in the Brian McKandie murder hunt.

And The Courier has an exclusive interview with the brother of aid worker David Haines who was killed after being kidnapped in Syria two years ago.

Coohoolin posted:

Bonus cartoon:

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The Herald leads with the closure of controversial Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre in Lanarkshire, as doesthe Scottish edition of the Times.


The front page of the Scotsman features the delay in bringing in the Named Person scheme.

Paige Doherty's murderer John Leathem is on the front page of the Daily Record. The paper claims to have obtained footage of him with a stripper.

A school janitor is to marry an 18 year old former pupil, according to the Scottish Sun.

The front page of the Scottish Daily Mailleads with the news that one Scottish marketing firm has been fined for making 1.6 million nuisance calls.

The National says that the appointment of former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Vehofstadt as the European Parliament's negotiator in Brexit talks with the UK is a "major boost for Scotland's interests".

The Scottish Daily Express says the British Transport Police think plans to merge the force with Police Scotland are "ludicrous" and "horrific".

Hoax callers are "putting lives at risk", according to the Dundee edition of The Courier .

A story that £40,000 worth of heirlooms have been stolen from the home of an oil executive features on the front page of the Aberdeenshire edition of the Press and Journal.

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A photograph of four-year-old Olivia-Mae Johnston dominates in the front page of The Herald. She held a candle at a memorial service to mark the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.

In its lead story, the paper reports thatHumanists have launched a legal challenge to give pupils the right to opt out of religious observance in Scottish schools.

Home Secretary Amber Rudd has warned that Britons travelling to Europe may have to pay for permission to enter EU countries, according to The Scotsman.

The "mystery death" of the son of Johnny "Mad Dog" Adair makes the front page of the Daily Record. It reports that the body of Jonathan Adair was discovered two days after he got out of prison.

The Sun reports that Celtic fans have been criticised over a "hanging doll" stunt at Saturday's Old Firm match. Its says two blow-up dolls in Rangers scarves were suspended from the Jock Stein stand at Celtic Park during the high-profile clash.

Meanwhile the Scottish Daily Mail reports that a police officer at the centre of the M9 crash scandal has been awarded a £35,000 pay rise. It says John Hawkins was Chief Superintendent of the division where the accident happened. He is now an Assistant Chief Constable.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has called for Ruth Davidson, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, to apologise for "offensive" remarks, according to The National.

The Press and Journal's north-east edition leads with a story about a £5m revamp for "four ailing towns".

And one Syrian refugee has told The I newspaper that his future is in Scotland.

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The news that David Cameron is to quit the House of Commons, while the BBC loses out to Channel 4 to screen the Great British Bake Off, dominates Tuesday's front pages.

The National says that the former prime minister has quit parliament rather than rebel against Theresa May's grammar school plans south of the border.

Meanwhile, The Times of Scotland writes that David Cameron has called time on his political career after two months spent watching Theresa May "purge his allies and tear up key policies".

Mr Cameron is now set to "reap millions of pounds" outside politics despite never having had a "real job", is how the Scottish Daily Mail reports the story.

Elsewhere, The Herald reports on a warning from Dr Mark Holland - the president of the Society for Acute Medicine - who has said that the NHS in Scotland will experience "pockets of meltdown" this winter as the service comes under increasing pressure.

On a similar note, the Scottish Daily Express claims that GPs could close their doors to patients because of a chronic shortage of family doctors in Scotland.

Support among Scots for independence is marginally higher than it was almost two years ago when the country rejected leaving the UK in a closer-than-expected vote, says The Scotsman, which reports ona new poll by Kantar TNS.

A Scot who caused a flight to be diverted in the US refuses to apologise for "causing chaos", claims the Daily Record.

The i writes that Labour are set to be the main losers under plans for the "biggest overhaul of the parliamentary map" for nearly a century. Jeremy Corbyn and his leadership challenger Owen Smith are among many senior opposition figures whose constituencies will vanish or be heavily redrawn.

Channel 4 is now the home of The Great British Bake Off after the BBC lost the rights to the baking phenomenon, reports the Daily Star of Scotland. The paper says the popular baking show will now be shown on Channel 4, after it was confirmed the broadcaster has signed a new three-year deal with the channel.