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NATIONAL SCOTTISH NEWS INDEX 2010
(most recent items are at top of table and dated Day-Month-Year)

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15-03-10 Drug may give bomber five more years
15-03-10 Knife crime plans 'may cost £80m'
15-03-10 Glasgow - 2nd most unfriendly UK city
15-03-10
Tram chiefs 'deceiving' public
14-03-10
Inquiry call into construction quango
14-03-10 Scottish Labour in ‘cash for access’ row
14-03-10 UK asylum - huge rise in complaints
14-03-10
NHS compensation bill - £27m
14-03-10 Fears grow over second recession
13-03-10
Trump resort row boils over
13-03-10 Anti-terror guardhouse to protect MSPs
13-03-10 Solicitors independence under threat
13-03-10 Private firm to run Glasgow services?
13-03-10
Exposed: bawdy secret of ancient monk
12-03-10 Tackling bigotry behind bars
12-03-10 Race for carbon capture cash
12-03-10 "Worst act of cruelty" on family pet
12-03-10
Outrage over civil service bonuses
12-03-10 Labour is "killing off marriage"
11-03-10
Minimum prices could close whisky firm
11-03-10 Attacks on Glasgow police up 10%
11-03-10 Big bucks for Buckies down south
11-03-10 Trams turmoil as new delay revealed
11-03-10
MPs should debate 'state of Scotland'
10-03-10 Has Holyrood gone Caracas?
10-03-10 Identical' logo row for Glasgow Games
10-03-10 Kirk's loss from Bible charity collapse
10-03-10
Tartan Tat limit for The Royal Mile?
09-03-10 Burnt, shot, cut: animal cruelty soars
09-03-10 Pubs ban threat for rowdy Marines
09-03-10 Revealed: 700 Scots victims of stalking
09-03-10
Banks unfair and aggressive say MPs
09-03-10 Derelict land ignored by developers
08-03-10 Scots 'Schindler' honoured at last
08-03-10 Asylum seekers high-rise suicide pact
08-03-10
£1m cost as cops hit stationary objects
08-03-10 30,000 public sector workers strike
07-03-10 BBC 'cash for programmes' row
07-03-10 Cops warned Purcell over gangster link
07-03-10 New owners for Rangers FC soon
07-03-10 New threat to Scottish sporrans
07-03-10
Treaty not signed in Edinburgh cellar
06-03-10 Insolvency firms are cashing in
06-03-10 Steven Purcell forced to quit politics
06-03-10 Sick Kids charity campaign closes
06-03-10
Euro legal blow to SNP’s alcohol plan
05-03-10 SNP to demand end to TV licence?
05-03-10 Reveal full truth Steven Purcell is urged
05-03-10 Tram routes - planned 4, built 0
05-03-10
Hypnotist to cure Scots job crisis
04-03-10 Quango doled out millions - few checks
04-03-10 Work starts on Borders rail link
04-03-10 Secret SNP talks for power pact
04-03-10
Designing streets no motorist can use
04-03-10 ‘Hypocrisy’ of food and drink campaign
03-03-10 da Vinci lawyers 'spoke of reward'
03-03-10 Ex-lover wants £½m for Scotland move
03-03-10
Brown sets off Perth city status anger
03-03-10 Firemen  - HSE rules 'prevent' rescue
02-03-10
Loophole lets Scots stalkers go free
02-03-10 MSPs to hear slum inquiry calls
02-03-10 Scottish QC is charged with perjury
02-03-10 Stressed Glasgow leader Purcell to quit
02-03-10
Five in dock over da Vinci theft
02-03-10 'English backlash' grows over tax
01-03-10 Huge cost of splitting from UK
01-03-10 Question in Gaelic BBC can’t answer
01-03-10 Salmond threatens SPT with the axe
01-03-10 Billions of midges freeze to death


28-02-10
Scottish gays get to play rugby for real
28-02-10 Riddle of Salmond and STV 'promises'
28-02-10 Sex predators target vulnerable women
28-02-10 Scotland ‘would face debt disaster’
28-02-10 Scrap paper money says Scots Muslim
28-02-10
Resign call to Shetland Councillors
27-02-10 Lovesick knifeman, aged 85 is jailed
27-02-10 £60 fine for blowing nose in car 27-02-10 Fury over Transport Scotland's £1m PR
27-02-10
Scots - prime targets in internet scam 27-02-10 GPs fear sharing of patient health files
26-02-10 'Yes-Yes' for choosing Scotland's future
26-02-10 Bizarre 'curse' crematorium protest
26-02-10 'We won't instruct police on Tasers'
26-02-10 BBC faces criticism over £1m HQ costs
26-02-10
Teachers must pass tests to keep jobs
25-02-10 Public sector recession looms
25-02-10 Climbers die in Glencoe avalanche
25-02-10 Tories will try to axe aircraft carriers
25-02-10
Kidney blunder but surgeon keeps job
25-02-10 Tyrannical king 'buried in Scotland'
24-02-10 Cardinal rips religious vote bid
24-02-10 Scots drinking culture out of control
24-02-10
13-year-olds fail on writing standards
24-02-10 Gastric bands on NHS for obese teens
23-02-10
Knives used in half of Scottish killings
23-02-10 Government can ignore opponents
23-02-10 Death of the corner shop as we know it
23-02-10 Road bridge case begins to corrode
23-02-10
Staff told to 'falsify and forge' documents
22-02-10 Now the dead must pay council tax
22-02-10 Bid to tackle Scots 'obesity time bomb
22-02-10 City trams stalemate adds to delays
22-02-10
Housing market recovery look distant
22-02-10 Year of turmoil hits lawyer profits
21-02-10 Scotland - world's drug crime capital
21-02-10 ‘Dead-wood’ Tory MSPs face axe
21-02-10 Pitlochry is ‘a village of swingers’
21-02-10 All aboard the SPT gravy train
21-02-10
New law to tackle online stalkers
21-02-10 Rival crime clan in hiding after killing
20-02-10 Wires snapping in Forth bridge cables
20-02-10 Robot hawk to battle Holyrood pigeons?
20-02-10 Is Scotland the UK's pollution 'haven'?
20-02-10 Grim reality beneath the glossy image
20-02-10
Spy cameras on our fishing fleet
20-02-10 Nation’s teachers struggling with cuts
19-02-10 Sick leave scandal of Scotland's  cops
19-02-10 Send fewer criminals to prison - Police
19-02-10 Forensics lab fire-bombed
19-02-10 Two more quit quango in cash crisis
19-02-10
Funeral worker stole from mourners
18-02-10 Art college & University to merge?
18-02-10 Scots job loss fastest in western Europe
18-02-10 Crackdown on council workers ‘sickies’
18-02-10
18 action points after ward deaths
17-02-10 Cow autopsy is festival highlight
17-02-10 Quango chiefs in travel expenses row
17-02-10 Neo-Nazi jailed over bomb plot
17-02-10
Scotland's struggling Kirk sheds jobs
17-02-10 Councils ‘hid’ workers £15m tax debt
16-02-10 Half-hour test checks for killer diseases
16-02-10 Traffic lights row for Edinburgh trams
16-02-10 Poverty link to breast cancer survival
16-02-10 We’ll make migrants learn English
15-02-10
Teenage fire killers jailed for 12 years
15-02-10 Funds boost to Scottish space industry
15-02-10 Scots law reform would please Mugabe
15-02-10 Scots courts fail to halt foreign sex trips
15-02-10
Universities 'panicking' over funding
15-02-10 Rail and tram work costs double
14-02-10
‘Rebellious Scots’ will remain crushed
14-02-10
Action demand against child sex trade
14-02-10 Fewer armed cops so gun fears grow
14-02-10 Chinese banquet for cons at Scots jail
14-02-10
Fears job cuts will take police off beat
13-02-10
Playing FTSE with a banker?
13-02-10 Scots scientist in climate probe row
13-02-10 Fundraiser had secret second job
13-02-10
Cameron fires election starting gun
13-02-10 HIE boss out over conflict of interest
12-02-10 Walking proof that methadone fails
12-02-10 Student paedophile abused 19 children
12-02-10
Raw deal under business rates scheme
12-02-10 Drinkers shun on Diageo luxury brands
11-02-10
£130,000 court fraudster jailed
11-02-10 Chubby hedgehogs sent to 'fat club'
11-02-10 Nuclear disaster? just don't sue us
11-02-10 Sturgeon's support for benefits fraudster
11-02-10
Action plan over internet sex predators
11-02-10 Kenny MacAskill backs “dog Asbos”
10-02-10 Community punishments are flouted
10-02-10 Scotland the world’s cocaine capital
10-02-10 Bank of Scotland cuts 750 Irish jobs
10-02-10 Apple dropped Wolfson after delays
10-02-10
I’ll keep Scotland in UK, vows Cameron
10-02-10 Terror laws doubt as 'bomber' is freed
09-02-10 115 quangos 'should be scrapped'
09-02-10 Housing crisis back at 'war levels'
09-02-10
WANTED: mouse catcher for St Kilda.
09-02-10 Inquiry into Scottish human trafficking
08-02-10
Damning verdict on Holyrood
08-02-10 Vile calumny of the expert witness
08-02-10 Priority to scrap early prison releases
08-02-10 Salmond calls off his lunch dates
08-02-10
Thatcher terrified by Scotland the brave
07-02-10 Coining it as Scots students struggle
07-02-10 Scottish schools plagued by vermin
07-02-10 3,000 face axe as budgets slashed
07-02-10
Tories deny Scotland fast rail link
07-02-10 Sports hospitality seen as bribery?
06-02-10 Tackle tide of secularism says the Pope
06-02-10 Rapist murdered 10-year-old and mum
06-02-10
Scottish insolvency numbers up again
06-02-10 Scottish deer starving in big freeze
05-02-10 Scottish MPs must repay £103,000
05-02-10 Salmond's £9,000 Holyrood lunch
05-02-10
Radio Scotland loses 1,500 a week
05-02-10 MacAskill 'botched' Megrahi release
04-02-10 Scottish Water squanders £50 million
04-02-10 Minister demands ban on bubbles
04-02-10
Hippocratic-style oath for bankers?
04-02-10 Right-to-die bill  - a Holyrood victim
03-02-10 Nurses told go abroad if you want job
03-02-10 Sick Kids fundraiser at centre of probe
03-02-10
Public at risk by cash cuts, claim police
03-02-10 School to rise again as £35m art hotel
02-02-10
SNP swimming lessons - pledge broken
02-02-10 Sleepy teen jailed after threat to parrot
02-02-10 Support for 'Scottish Six' TV news drops
02-02-10 Rich and famous escape parking tickets
02-02-10 Arch-critics try to stop new Forth bridge
02-02-10 Inquiry will not examine Dundee deaths
02-02-10
Shamed MP to collect £60,000
01-02-10 Sex scandal MP to stand down
01-02-10 Spending cuts hit Scots schools
01-02-10 Scottish firms miss olympic gold
01-02-10
Lockerbie papers may never be seen
01-02-10 Meat market is new financial district




31-01-10 The energy cost for Scotland's scenery
31-01-10 Time to lower the legal drinking age
31-01-10
Loophole opens up killers' charter
31-01-10 Business decisions have moved south
30-01-10 Compulsory redundancies next?
30-01-10 Islamic terrorist's miscarriage of justice
30-01-10
Chemists to grill about the 'night before'
30-01-10 Scotland should change secrecy culture
29-01-10 Midwifery graduates forced to go south
29-01-10 Gathering debts greater than thought
29-01-10 Scottish estates halve in value
29-01-10 Crackdown on Scots sex slave trade
29-01-10
My trial not in vain says sacked teacher
29-01-10 Stop griping about the Olympic Games
28-01-10 Glasgow's trams in green £1.5bn vision
28-01-10 Man tried to murder woman, rape family
28-01-10
Nuclear ban is 'tragedy for Scotland'
28-01-10 BBC fishing documentary 'codswallop'
27-01-10 Women's prison in 'crisis' state
27-01-10 Prisoners' two-hour wait to use toilet
27-01-10 Teachers 'pressured' over expulsions
27-01-10 Jail trashed as convicts go on rampage
27-01-10
MSPs set to dump internet jobs plan
27-01-10 Scots drug survey doesn't tell full story
26-01-10 Scientists say close encounter is nearer
26-01-10 Climate change protestors evicted
26-01-10 Alzheimer’s drug ready in two years?
26-01-10 New investor on way - Highland Airways
26-01-10
Court translators cost taxpayers £1m
26-01-10 Nudist cleared of breaching the peace
25-01-10 Capital is too tolerant of beggars
25-01-10 Scotland's £76bn 'devolution dividend'
25-01-10
Killers want compensation for solitary
25-01-10
The Courteous Courier
24-01-10 Hundreds go to Delhi on public purse
24-01-10 Inverness up for ugly award
24-01-10 Pay freeze for top public sector staff
24-01-10 Deal close to pay off Gathering's bill
24-01-10
Latin America develops taste for Scotch
24-01-10 Star Trek technique to help cancer fight
23-01-10 Poisoned eagle - laird’s claim of ‘plot’
23-01-10 English in thrall to Scottish “chieftain”
23-01-10
Security defended after havoc at airport
22-01-10
Police find escaped robber in his bed
22-01-10 Right to die in Scotland will cost £700
22-01-10 Teachers told don't break up pupil fights
22-01-10
Teen faces life for killing have-a-go hero
22-01-10 1000 Scots troops set for Afghanistan
21-01-10 Standard Life mislead 100,000
21-01-10 Scotland remains mired in recession
21-01-10
Holyrood's defense force goes AWOL
21-01-10 £10m cost of teachers' extra holiday pay
20-01-10 HIV rat faces prison for infecting lover
20-01-10 Scots health service is worst in UK
20-01-10 flyGlobespan and the missing £100m
20-01-10 Brawl pub is closed on the spot
20-01-10
Council moves Trump closer to golf win
19-01-10 25% of sex perverts live in Lothians
19-01-10 Scots subsidise the rest of UK - SNP
19-01-10 Virtual trams plan for Glasgow
19-01-10
Should National Trust quangos merge?
19-01-10 Privatise Hogmanay call after losses
18-01-10 We can lead UK out of global recession
18-01-10 Transport body’s £101,000 foreign trips
18-01-10
Most depressing day of the year
18-01-10 Scourge of vermin in Scots hospitals
17-01-10 Terror laws cost Scots colleges millions
17-01-10 Clash with BBC over £81m shortfall
17-01-10 Scots are booziest in Britain
17-01-10 10% pay hike for low paid civil servants
17-01-10
Deer poaching up 50% in Scotland
16-01-10 Edinburgh to cut 700 council jobs
16-01-10 Fred the Shed to help build castles in air
16-01-10 Bishops ‘apathetic’ over Pope’s visit
16-01-10
Council loses crucial trams dispute
16-01-10 SNP 'Incapable' of managing money
15-01-10 Art heist - 200 historians in the frame
15-01-10 Work beside killers...or you're fired
15-01-10 SNP's gender war on women in jail
15-01-10 £45,000 cost of every Holyrood worker
15-01-10
Devolution max gets the nod from voters
14-01-10 SNP plans Abolition of Right to Buy laws
14-01-10
Pole gets life for rape of beautician
14-01-10 Glasgow 'Public enemy No1' shot dead
14-01-10 Budget cuts may sink Clyde ferry
14-01-10 BBC's email insult to Ronnie Corbett
13-01-10
Property boss ordered assassination
13-01-10 £900 - the cost of Scots booze abuse
13-01-10 Museum for brewing's golden years
13-01-10 Scotland's road repairs cash runs out
12-01-10
Scots family are UK's top shoplifters
12-01-10 Scots use credit cards to pay mortgage
12-01-10
Student who butchered his friend's wife
12-01-10 Ex-lawyer's building site art prize
11-01-10 Soaring fraud hits public sector
11-01-10 Scotland's recovery 'weakens'
11-01-10 Taxpayers to face £millions strike bill?
11-01-10 Sewage falls into hospital ward
11-01-10
Aberdeen City Square proposals
10-01-10 Chancellor quits Scots law body
10-01-10 Parents must escort teenagers to loo
10-01-10 Fury at bonus rise for civil servants
10-01-10
Daddy knows best Clegg tells baby guru
10-01-10 Parking bonanza for Scots motorists
09-01-10 Rebel curlers threaten ice invasion
09-01-10 28 Scottish sex offenders on the run
09-01-10
Asbestos -insurers face bill for billions
09-01-10 Power line could be underground
08-01-10 Assessor doubted need for power line
08-01-10 Dirty diapers close Gateway offices
08-01-10 Second property firm goes to the wall
08-01-10 ‘Wee Frees’ battle to get church back
08-01-10
Who opens the doors train row deepens
07-01-10 Anthrax suspect walks out of hospital
07-01-10 Drug abuse dads risk to Scots kids
07-01-10 Approval for 137 mile line of pylons
07-01-10
Concern at lack of Nessie sightings
07-01-10 Pensioner fails to halt Trump work
06-01-10
Stay-at-homes cost Scotland £60m
06-01-10 1 in 7 Glaswegians on disability benefit
05-01-10
Gallery artists seeking 'Banksky' yobs
05-01-10
Teenage petrol fire killer gets 21 years
05-01-10
Scotland buying road salt from Africa
05-01-10 Fears for Scots crime super-campus
05-01-10 New exams could fail Scots pupils
05-01-10 Call for new agency to probe police
04-01-10
Fresh doubts over Chinook crash
04-01-10 Council dug out from its salt crisis
03-01-10 Attacks on NHS staff every 27 mins
03-01-10 £250k Gaelic site with  only 1,500 users
03-01-10
Crabbies slammed over vodka advice
03-01-10 Scots parents - UK’s biggest drug users
02-01-10
100 Scots a day will go bankrupt
02-01-10 Scots children are UK's worst savers
02-01-10
We should copy Russia over booze
02-01-10
40% increase in Scots consumer credit

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