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ArticleWarn­ing safety demands ‘not met’ after rig deaths

THE RMT union has warned off­shore safety demands “have still not been met” after a second worker died on the same North Sea rig where crew­man Jason Thomas van­ished through a dis­lodged deck grat­ing. The alarm comes just days after oper­ator Ensco...

ArticleSwin­ney’s cab­inet steps for­ward

JOHN Swin­ney has his new Cab­inet. Here’s who got what, who swapped jobs, and what it all means for Scot­land. JOHN SWINNEY First Min­is­ter THE First Min­is­ter will take on the respons­ib­il­ity for the con­sti­tu­tion and Scot­tish...

ArticleWarn­ing signs of hor­rific child abuse at ‘Beastie House’ were repeatedly missed

ArticleLegal row over Rogano settled

A LEGAL row over the Rogano res­taur­ant in Glas­gow has been settled hours before the Supreme Court was due to hear the case. The UK’S highest court, sit­ting in the city this week, was due to hear a chal­lenge by Forth­well Lim­ited, which has...

ArticleCost of cli­mate inac­tion laid bare

SCOTLAND faces a future of power cuts, heat-related deaths and the increas­ing threat of wild­fire and flood­ing unless meas­ures are taken to adapt, accord­ing to a new report from the UK Gov­ern­ment’s inde­pend­ent cli­mate advisors. Across the UK,...

ArticleFuel freeze ‘fails to ease deep crisis’

PAUSING the fuel duty increase will not lift the con­struc­tion industry from “break­ing point”, the UK Gov­ern­ment has been warned. Steven Mul­hol­land, the chief exec­ut­ive of lead­ing UK plant-hire firm Con­struc­tion Plant-hire Asso­ci­ation,...