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A Scottish private island has gone up for sale recently, and the list price is the same price as a London flat. Inchconnachan is an island that no one currently lives on, and is located at Loch Lomond, a place popular with tourists. With a list price of £500,000, I can’t see it being on…
Several people, including a police officer, are believed to have been attacked and injured in Glasgow today. Unconfirmed reports are circulating that an altercation in a hotel led to multiple people being stabbed. A team of armed police have been deployed, and paramedics in protective gear have been seen treating a patient in the street,…
Scotland has become the first UK country to recommend the use of face coverings. Even though the evidence has been described as “limited” a Scottish government officials has said: “There may be some benefit in wearing a facial covering when you leave the house and enter enclosed spaces, especially where physical distancing is more difficult…
The former first minister accused of the sexual assault of 9 women has been ACQUITTED on all counts of sexual assault. The incidents were said to have taken place between 2008 and 2014 and he had maintained his innocence all this time. The prosecutors tried to paint the picture of a powerful man who abused…
Pass rates have dropped for Scottish Highers but has risen for the National 5 qualifications. More than 133,000 students are finding out their exam results in Scotland and 60,000 have chosen to find out by text and/or email. A total of 185,914 pupils sat Higher exams this year and 138,972 (72.8% have achieved a A…
The Bank of Scotland have been fined £45.5m for not alerting the authorities to early indications of a fraud which jailed six people. The fines relate to an incident in 2007 by the head of the bank’s impaired assets team, Lynden Scourfield. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have announced the bank knew he had been…
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