Sunday, 14 December 2008


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scotsman.com News - Headlines

Two million jobless by Christmas

Companies present the gift of unemployment this Christmas. Picture: TSPL UNEMPLOYMENT in the UK is this week expected to break through the two million barrier for the first time since Labour came to power. More info...

Faces of the soldiers killed by a 13-year-old suicide bomber

Lance Corporal Steven Fellows, 26, was killed by a roadside bomb while three others lost their lives in the suicide attack Picture: PA THE Ministry of Defence last night released the names of four Royal Marines - three of them based in Scotland - who died in Taliban bomb attacks in Afghanistan on Friday. More info...

More criminals to be kept out of jail

Courts have plans to clear the cells for high-risk offenders JUDGES will be told to stop jailing criminals for six months or less in a controversial attempt by ministers to reduce prison overcrowding. More info...