The Scotsman - 2018-12-13

• May holds off rebellion but Tory civil war continues
• Mackay widens tax gap for middle earners
• Compassion for Griffiths as striker takes break from football
• Forget grammar, ideas and fun are more important for children
• Who pulled the trigger?
• ‘History won’t be kind to those who prioritise political advantage’
• Tory MP suspended over sex texts has whip restored ahead of vote
• Brexit deal still in limbo as May refuses to name new date for MPS to vote
• Brexit timeline – countdown to leave
• EU has some fun with May’s plight but still mystified by UK move
• Supreme Court to rule on Scottish Brexit bill
• CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
• Questions raised at Holyrood over how new mother died in stairwell
• ‘Any additional funding for the NHS is extremely welcome at this stage’
• Economic growth to remain slow
• Amid uncertaint­y over Europe
• ‘There are some mixed messages for businesses’
• ‘As soon as you’ve got a paper crown on your head, everything’s fine’
• Life on Mars could spring from soil similar to Skye
• School and family pay tribute to ‘lovely’ teen
• Rise in the number of mentally-ill children treated in adult wards
• Cutting Scotland’s drink-drive limit fails to make roads safer
• Scots in most deprived areas face significan­tly lower life expectancy
• Donald Findlay QC is top legal aid earner as bill to taxpayers falls
• Licence fee concern as BBC to go £27m over budget for set revamp
• Wreath to be laid on Iolaire to remember 200 who died
• Police win legal challenge over paying compensati­on to Barrymore
• Warnings over slime toys health risk
• Police hunting gunman behind fatal attack at Christmas market
• Turkey to launch new Syria offensive within days, warns Erdogan
• Bacon without nitrites
• Brexiteers’ dream of a Golden Age of Empire will create only a Little Britain
• Humans are the only animals to have a chin and we also have a vestigial ‘third eyelid’, writes Ben Garrod
• Brexiteer fantasies are wrecking Britain
• Budget with question of fairness at heart
• Inside Health
• We can lessen the heartbreak by learning the lesson of life-saving CPR
• Pharmacies provide positive influence on health of local communitie­s
• Costing energy
• It’s time to listen to Michael Howard and manage a no-deal Brexit from EU
• ON TWITTER
• Write and wrong
• Wood on track for jump in revenues despite oil jitters
• Inksters Solicitors expands into Thurso
• Strathclyd­e centre hails £500,000 tech investment
• Mr Mackay’s budget may prove burdensome to hard-pressed businesses
• FTSE firms hanker experience
• Investment course supports start-ups
• New buy-to-let offerings should tempt investors
• Sainsbury’s and Asda push watchdog for more time to digest mega-merger
• Aberdeen’s Faroe continues to play hardball over DNO swoop
• Sterling rallies as investors count on May
• Bob Bergland
• Melvin Dummar
• John Gibson
• Rural housing heading for a crisis warns expert
• New Qms-funded research aims for optimal size for livestock
• Eider a target for Harry The Viking
• Lightning rise shocks Voltage
• ‘People ask about my husband and I say, it’s actually my wife’
• Law reflects on ‘emotional rollercoas­ter’ of a stillborn son to joy of his new daughter
• British team look for lifeline as Sky falls in
• Blow for Varnish case as Dr Freeman pulls out of tribunal
• Turner hopes artificial intelligen­ce can add zip to the Glasgow attack
• Scotland U20 captain Mcdowall lands his first pro contract with Warriors
• Payne in at deep end as Falcons look for prop help
• Mellow Levein now happy to delegate
• Super Sane at the double as City fight back to win group
• United miss golden opportunit­y to top group as they slump in Spain
• “The pitch won’t change. It’ is what it is and we have to go out there and give it our best shot”
• Levein: I’d love to keep Naismith

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