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"Fare Dodger" thrown from a train for not producing a ticket

Posted December 14, 2011

Another week, another video Internet hit.  Previously we had racist rants being filmed, and not covertly either, and this week we have the ScotRail Fare Dodger.  That should read "alleged" fare dodger, obviously.

Sam Main is the alleged dodger and he readily admits he was half asleep after being o…

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Edinburgh's unused tram tracks facing another round of repairs

Posted May 11, 2011

I'm late catching up with the news today as I spent most of it in discussion about depression, particularly centred around the elderly and I will blog on that at a later date.

However, catching up with the news now what do I discover? Princes Street in my home city of Edinburgh is closing, yet again…

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The hunt is on for the politics section

Posted March 16, 2011

Virus

Despite the intention to write this blog often events conspired to prevent me from doing that.  A couple were to do with work and the other was being struck down by a virus within a scarily short period of time. 

Literally within the space of an hour on Monday morning at work I went from wel…

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Standard Life cuts 480 jobs from its Edinburgh headquarters

Posted September 1, 2010

Scotland's financial sector today received another blow as Standard Life announces that it will axe 600 jobs.The pensions and life group announced that 480 of the jobs are to be cut from the headquarters based in Edinburgh.

Across the UK a further 95 people will lose their jobs as well as 25 from ov…

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12 arrested in Camp for Climate Action protests in Edinburgh

Posted August 23, 2010

Protesting against one particular bank and their investments in the oil, coal and gas industries, Camp for Climate Action arrived in Edinburgh on August 19 to begin training and protesting against the actions of RBS, the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Protesting against large corporate companies and govern…

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Death of 3 children in Edinburgh blast are treated as suspicious

Posted August 6, 2010

Lothian and Borders police have confirmed that the deaths of 3 children, all under the age of 12, at an incident in Slateford Road in Edinburgh are being treated as suspicious.

The 3 children, two boys and a girl were found dead in a three story town house as emergency services responded to an initi…

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Edinburgh police seek help identifying man with memory loss

Posted August 6, 2010

 Lothian and Borders police are asking for help to identify a man who was found in the city centre on Wednesday July 21 with head injuries and who is now suffering from memory loss.

At around 11pm on Wednesday night a taxi driver found the man lying in the middle of Northumberland Street. As he had…

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