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Business leader launches student IT award »

IT Jobs for Graduates have teamed up with JP Morgan, to launch the Student IT Innovation Awards 2009, in a bid to find the entrepreneur who will come up with the next "techie" idea that could change the business world. The winner of the competition, w...

Wed 28 Oct 2009 by John Hislop | Read more »

Drug company targets critical doctors »

Drug giant Merck compiled a “hit list” of doctors to “discredit” in order to stop criticism of their drugs, according to evidence released from the Vioxx drug trial in the US. The evidence contains email correspondence between ...

Wed 28 Oct 2009 by Harriet Grecian | Read more »

African film festival hits Edinburgh's Filmhouse »

African film festival

Edinburgh is hosting the fourth annual Africa in Motion film festival. The biggest African film festival in the UK, Africa in Motion will be held at the Filmhouse on Lothian Road from 22 October-1 November. Co-director of the festival, Stefanie Van d...

Wed 28 Oct 2009 by Olivia Dobbs | Read more »

Vic Reeves launches the latest chapter of illustrious career »

Vic Reeves 5

A résumé boasting numerous cult television series and radio programmes, a hit single, an appearance on I’m a Celebrity... and a ranking in the top ten greatest comedy acts of all time is one that most would be jealous of. For Vic Re...

Wed 28 Oct 2009 by Nick Eardley | Read more »

Suicide Act to be modified »

Dr Libby Wilson

Dr Libby Wilson has become the first person to be arrested under the new guidelines presented by Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, that attempt to clarify the law on assisted dying in England and Wales. Dr Wilson is a former physician...

Wed 28 Oct 2009 by James Fidler | Read more »

Landmark case against Treasury chucked out »

RBS Headquarters

Campaigners have reacted angrily after a court case which saw the Treasury accused of breaking its own rules on the spending of public money when buying the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) was thrown out of court yesterday. The case, which sought a judic...

Wed 21 Oct 2009 by Nick Eardley | Read more »

Scottish crime rate drops but theft is up »

Police Station

Recorded crime in Scotland has dropped to its lowest level in nearly 30 years, according to official statistics. This year has seen an overall 2 percent decrease in recorded crime in the country, lowering rates to those last seen in 1980. However, de...

Thu 15 Oct 2009 by Jo Kliskey | Read more »

Asylum seekers DNA pilot scheme dropped  »

Asylum seekers DNA testing

A controversial scheme which planned to take DNA from asylum seekers to establish their nationality has been suspended after mass criticism from scientists. The UK Border Agency’s (UKBA) Human Provenance project, first reported on 20 September, ...

Wed 14 Oct 2009 by John Jarvis | Read more »

Britain's only polar bear to be moved to northern retreat »

Mercedes polar bear

The capitol's resident polar bear will soon be moved from her enclosure in Edinburgh Zoo to a new, larger exhibit in the Highland Wildlife Park, it was confirmed last week. The polar bear, named "Mercedes" after the car company that paid to transport ...

Wed 14 Oct 2009 by Emma Towers | Read more »

Friends saved Gilliam's latest film and Heath Ledger's last work »

After a faltering production period, Terry Gilliam’s latest film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, will finally be released in cinemas Friday 16 October. The independently produced £45 million feature which stars Heath Ledger, Lily Col...

Wed 14 Oct 2009 by Sean Cameron, Marion Sauvebois | Read more »

STV proposes 'Scottish Six' broadcast »

STV proposes 'Scottish Six' broadcast

Scottish Television (STV) have publicly announced their intention to replace their current daily news broadcasts with a new 'Scottish Six' programme following similar failed attempts in the past. The show would aim to provide a more Scottish-orientate...

Wed 07 Oct 2009 by Emma Towers | Read more »

£11 million investment for electric cars on Glasgow streets »

Cars in Edinburgh

More motorists will be encouraged to use electric vehicles in Glasgow under plans announced last week by the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI). The initiative will seek to increase the number of electric vehicle charging points available under a sch...

Wed 07 Oct 2009 by Madeleine Battersby | Read more »

New poll exposes student debt worries »

Student bills

Students expect to accrue tens of thousands of pounds worth of debt by the time they graduate, according to a survey published by Endsleigh Insurance this week. The research, which polled almost 2,000 students in the UK on matters of student debt in t...

Wed 07 Oct 2009 by Emma Towers | Read more »

Little progress in filling yawning gender pay gap »

The Scottish Parliament

An inquiry by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has revealed that women in the financial sector receive 80 per cent less in bonus payments than men. The enquiry was prompted by the G20 London Summit when finance ministers did not succeed...

Wed 07 Oct 2009 by Matthew Moore, Alison Leighton | Read more »

Former Lehman Brothers graduate trainees snapped up by Nomura »

A global investment bank has rehired around 60 per cent of graduate trainees let go by Lehman Brothers following the bank's collapse in September last year, with claims that they used a social networking site to contact the individuals. A front-page a...

Wed 30 Sep 2009 by Alice Stanes | Read more »

It's Pirates of the Clyde as filmstar ship looted in Greenock »

A replica vessel that has previously starred in the Pirates of the Caribbean films was raided by youths while docked in Greenock, on the west coast of Scotland. Two men boarded the HMS Bounty in the early hours of the morning on Saturday 19 September,...

Wed 30 Sep 2009 by Chris Berkin | Read more »

People & Planet suit against Treasury gets its day in court »

RBS Headquarters

A campaign which began as a student movement at the University of Edinburgh has won the right to pursue HM Treasury through the courts, in an effort to prove that the government have breached guidelines on the spending of public money. In the first ca...

Sun 13 Sep 2009 by Matthew Moore | Read more »

Wikipedia ends unrestricted editing  »

Wikipedia

Wikipedia is set to overhaul its practices by introducing stricter controls over the editing process of certain pages on the popular website. The encyclopaedia’s new rules will require that any changes made to articles about living people and ce...

Sun 13 Sep 2009 | Read more »

Radical reform of Scottish drinking laws threatens to dry out Freshers' Week »

Alcohol

The most wide-ranging changes in the laws covering the sale of alcohol in Scotland in three decades have been rolled out across Scotland, leading to fears that students will be hit by increased drink prices. As part of the Scottish executive's efforts...

Wed 09 Sep 2009 by Nick Eardley | Read more »

Swine flu: the view from Jilotepec, Mexico »

Pork skins drying outside a butcher's, Mexico

“It is nothing. Here we are all healthy and there are no cases in the hospital.” These are the words of my landlady Lucia, giving me her opinion as we stir our morning coffees, watching sparrows darting among the branches of the avocado tr...

Fri 08 May 2009 by Ross Cullen | Read more »

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