The Herald - 2014-12-09

• Social care crisis warning as complaints rise sharply
• Curran’s backing for Murphy in leadership contest
• COLETTE DOUGLAS HOME
• Lord President reveals recusals list
• City’s pollution crisis call
• Private schools checks
• Accountant’s profits up
• SNP under fire over claims of NHS Christmas crisis
• Ken Smith At Large
• Panto runs into problems before hooking its villain
• Life of tattooist revealed in 1925 archive
• New drug for cancer patients given the go-ahead
• ‘Outrageous’ poster withdrawn
• Gaelic students link bridges 500 years
• Highland group is lifted by extra cash
• Auction beckons for model-maker’s mighty Meccano masterpiec­es
• Rapist who snatched woman off street jailed for nine years
• Ebola nurse slams Band Aid charity single ‘cringewort­hy’
• RSPB at centre of wrangle in covert operation
• DJ Fox is arrested over sex allegation­s
• M&S hit by online delivery problems
• Bosses have a patriotic duty to back the EU, says Alexander
• Tory and Lib Dem partners trade blows in the pre-election battle
• Taking away Scots MPs would have made little vote difference
• Miliband presses Cameron over votes for 16-year-olds
• Salmond accused of ‘playing games’ with the Gordon voters
• UKIP suspend their general secretary
• Councils call for gambling powers
• Driver killed after car is in collision with ambulance as winter hits home
• I’ll try not to do it again, says MP caught gaming on iPad
• Health in Scotland improves as alcohol sales fall
• Sky drama as flight is forced to reroute
• Mortgage woe ahead as rates set to increase
• Roller driver’s battle to save life of worker
• Chinese language centre named as best in world
• Experts predict a dramatic increase in the chance of major European heatwaves
• Sexual predator is jailed for eight years
• Family ‘haunted’ as Dewani is cleared of plotting killing
• Bankrupt bus firm’s contracts put for tender by transport body
• Titchmarsh documentar­y to reveal palace garden secrets
• Statistics show how motorists will drive after drink
• First major snowfall hails start for skiing
• Capaldi sympatheti­c toward crass Tucker
• Cycle rage thug is facing a lengthy jail term after assaulting a 70-year-old man
• Lifelong order made on ‘vile’ rapist
• Belladrum proves a real family success
• Welfare sanctions are here to stay, says Downing Street
• First World War poem claims first prize in competitio­n
• Top name fakes cost dealer £18,900
• Confucius may not have backed teaching Chinese in Scotland
• IAIN MACWHIRTER
• First past the post system is to blame for democratic deficit
• Perpetuall­y on a loser with money supply system
• Why science is still a closed book
• Reliance on food banks is disturbing austerity marker
• Emergency medicine is no accidental procedure
• We should be pressing for fundamenta­l change in culture of secondary education
• Smith Agreement allows freedom to reconstruc­t the welfare system
• Blaze destroys building and spreads to major roads
• Nato closes combat HQ as Afghan mission ends
• Diplomat: US sanctions aimed at deposing Putin
• Dog-napping caper is sure to raise a few devilish grins
• Comedy delights with plenty for wee ones to giggle at
• The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot
• Iain Finlay Macleod - A Writing Life
• Pantomime
• Exploring a realm full of paradoxes
• Professor Henry Wallace Wilson
• POEM of the day
• UPCOMING EVENTS
• FTSE suffers as commodity stocks are hit
• Cupid to sell dating assets and make staff redundant
• Farmers urged to view demonstrat­ion of new online system for rural funding
• Quicker change is needed to sustain North Sea oil industry
• Saracen appoints industry veteran Matheson
• Elevator launches £1m entreprene­urship hub to lure talent and speed up growth
• RBS fires starting gun on part-sale of Coutts
• Standard Life secure pole position on grid of Scotland’s best-performing asset managers
• City watchdog confirms director of supervisio­n Adamson is to leave his post
• Pinsent Masons appoints Scots-born Cleland
• Black Friday boosts retail sales - survey
• Firms are signalling growth in levels of staffing

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