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“He shouldn’t be coming here, he should be handing in his resignation, and he should be an ex-Prime Minister” SNP Westminster leader @ianblackford_MP is describing Boris Johnson’s visit to Scotland today as a “farewell tour”
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A protest is taking place outside Edinburgh's St Andrews House today against the placing of transgender women in female prisons. The campaign group @WWWheesht wants a review of the current policy.
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"There will be another Scottish independence referendum and I will make a prediction today that Scotland will vote for independence and we will become an independent country just like Ireland." Do you agree?
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🧡 Passengers are pulling together to help #ThomasCook staff who've lost their jobs due to the collapse. 👏🏼 This Facebook post about a flight from #Vegas to #Manchester is going viral.
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First Minister @NicolaSturgeon says a plan for #IndyRef2 will be published next week.
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BREAKING: 22 year old Sean Hogg’s rape conviction has been overturned by the Appeal Court in Edinburgh. Lady Dorian said that due to an ”insufficiency of evidence”, the appeal “must succeed”.
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“There is no closure for her and she feels devastated” Following Sean Hogg’s acquittal, overturning a conviction of raping a 13 year old girl (who retains anonymity), her solicitor @AamerAnwar says her family “have been left to pick up the shattered pieces of [her] life”.
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Robert Carlyle says that he feels humbled by the huge crowds at the #T2trainspotting World Premiere and the dedication of fans.
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🎥 “Perhaps amongst the best news we’ve had in recent weeks.” ➡️ @NicolaSturgeon speaks on a potential new coronavirus vaccine which is said to be more than 90% effective. 💉 However, the First Minister warns it’s not going to provide us with a way out immediately👇🏼
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📸 Bar workers are dumping unused ice outside the Scottish Parliament in protest as new coronavirus restrictions come into force. 🧊 Pubs and restaurants in the central belt have to shut for the next 16 days.
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🗣”I’m so excited to be joining the largest ever Green group in the Scottish Parliament.” #SP21 ▶️ @scottishgreens co-leader @lornaslater says one of the real winners in the Holyrood election is diversity👇
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“It’s absolutely devastating for anyone with a concern about justice responses to rape” Sandy Brindley from @rapecrisisscot says Sean Hogg’s acquittal - after being convicted of raping a 13 year old girl - sends a worrying message to young women thinking about reporting rape.
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WATCH: Loved ones of Bradley Welsh lay flowers and Hibs scarfs at the scene on Chester Street where he was killed in a shooting last night.
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Ewan McGregor says featuring Edinburgh heavily in #T2Trainspotting was hugely important to him.
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🎥”I did break down in tears, and I’m not afraid to admit that…” 🗣Hearts midfielder Cammy Devlin recalls when he found out he was heading to the World Cup. @JamTarts @Socceroos #WorldcupQatar2022
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A convicted rapist sentenced to 270 hrs unpaid work, is appealing his conviction. A jury at Glasgow HC found Sean Hogg (now 22) guilty of raping a 13 yr old girl when he was 17. Following a hearing in Edinburgh - the Appeal Court is considering whether that should be overturned.
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A touch of Holywood came to Leith today as movie star Michael Sheen opened a new credit union. The actor says he wants to focus more time on social campaigning.
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8 years
First up, @charlieputh awarded Best Artist at #ForthAwards & he's been chatting/taking selfies with @shionamc 😀
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🎥 Hundreds of firefighters line Edinburgh’s Royal Mile ahead of Barry Martin’s funeral service at St Giles Cathedral. He died last month after being injured tackling a blaze at the former Jenners building.
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“My overwhelming emotion about guys like Jeremy Clarkson is pity” @NicolaSturgeon has hit back at a column written by the presenter in which he says he hates the First Minister She’s describing his comments about Meghan Markle as “beyond the pale”
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🎥 As the number of #Omicron coronavirus cases in Scotland rises to 29 @NicolaSturgeon says we need to be “proportionate” in dealing with the new variant. 🗣 She tells us how the Scottish Government is managing the situation👇
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WATCH: Her majesty the Queen arrives for her visit to Edinburgh's Gorgie City Farm.
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MISSING: 94 year old Isobel Miller is missing in Edinburgh. Isobel has dementia and was last seen at Chalmers Church in Morningside road around midday today.
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Hibs Manager Neil Lennon pays tribute to their oldest fan, 106-year-old Sam Martinez, following his death.
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Police searching for missing Frightened Rabbit frontman, Scott Hutchison, say they've found a body in South Queensferry. It has yet to be formally identified but Scott's family has been informed.
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🎥BREAKING: 2 men held in a van by immigration officials since 10am this morning are to be released. ▶️It follows large scale protests over their detention on Glasgow’s Kenmure Street. 🗣Human rights lawyer @AamerAnwar says they’ll be released into his custody👇
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Clarification on the latest Covid-19 guidance for children under 11 from @scotgov 👇🏼 ▶️ If eight people meet including adults and kids under 11, kids DO NOT need to distance from adults ▶️ For families meeting with grandparents that aren’t shielding - kids under 11 CAN hug them
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󠁧󠁢󠁧󠁢🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏉 What a game! From 31-0 down, Scotland retain the Calcutta Cup by drawing 38-38 with England at Twickenham. #ENGSCO
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🎥A major demo's taking place outside an arms factory in Edinburgh that supplies weapons to Israel. Workers for a Free Palestine are protesting outside Leonardo (credit: @ggectee )
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“When people write us off, that is actually, sometimes, often, when we are at our strongest - we will bounce back” @HumzaYousaf has been reacting to his party’s by-election loss to Labour in Rutherglen.
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Conservative MP for Moray Douglas Ross has resigned as Under Secretary of State for Scotland over the Dominic Cummings row. He says he "cannot in good faith tell his constituents they were wrong [to stay away from family] and one senior advisor to the government was right."
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I haven't commented publicly on the situation with Dominic Cummings as I have waited to hear the full details. I welcome the statement to clarify matters, but there remains aspects of the explanation which I have trouble with. As a result I have resigned as a government Minister.
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🎥 @JamTarts supporters fed up to 1800 people in Edinburgh every day. ⚽️ #MoreThanJustAGame is celebrating positive work of football fans during the COVID crisis🦠 🗣Carolyne is a @bighearts volunteer in Tynecastle's kitchen making packed lunches for kids & homeless people👇
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WATCH: Transport Minister @HumzaYousaf launches a scathing attack on the Scottish Tories after they hit out at the level of traffic on the Queensferry Crossing.
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🎥A preliminary hearing for the inquiry into the death of Sheku Bayoh is taking place in Edinburgh this morning. He died in police custody in Kirkcaldy in 2015. Solicitor @AamerAnwar says officers involved want a guarantee evidence given can’t be used against them in the future
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The 72nd annual taxi trade children's outing is underway in Edinburgh. Hundreds of disabled kids are being out for a day at the seaside.
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“I trusted them, I felt [Jason Leitch] and Nicola Sturgeon were honest … I don’t understand why they’re still in a job” Elaine Johnston - who lost her brother to Covid - responding to the Scottish govt’s National Clinical Director’s evidence to @covidinquiryuk in Edinburgh.
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First Minister @NicolaSturgeon addresses the crowd at Edinburgh's vigil for #OrlandoShooting in St Andrew Square.
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🎥A 21 gun salute being fired at Edinburgh castle in celebration of Her Majesty the Queen’s Birthday.
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WATCH: Christmas has officially arrived in Edinburgh! The @Edxmas lights have been turned on.
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Staff at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary ward share the moment a patient leaves its care.
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First Minister @NicolaSturgeon tells our political correspondent @Political_AlanS that "it is time to call out" social media abuse against women. She's backing Amnesty International's #ToxicTwitter campaign.
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Scotland have beaten England for a third year in a row in the Six Nations. They've won 29-23 at Twickenham
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WATCH🎥: The Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, visited Edinburgh today. He was at Cold Town House in the Old Town to watch the Scottish cup final between Hibs and St Johnstone. Our reporter @dngjoe spoke to some emergency response workers who were invited along to watch the game
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Nicola Sturgeon has suggested she would still push for a second independence referendum even if the UK remains in the European Union.
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The Lady Haig poppy factory in Edinburgh is to get a £2.5m revamp thanks to a funding boost from the UK Goverment. @RuthDavidsonMSP visited the site today.
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🚲 An Edinburgh cyclist is urging drivers to be more careful when passing bikes. 🚳 The man - who doesn’t want to be named - wears a body camera every day and posts videos of near misses from cars.
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The remarkable Joanna Lamb is the winner of the Forth Cash for Kids Award. The teenager has raised around £60,000 for cancer charities 👏
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We have just spoken to the mother of Ryan Graham who says he has been traced safe and well in Cambodia.
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“It’s as if somebody at last has told the grown-ups about what happened to us when we were little” @NickyAACampbell speaks after giving evidence on his time at The Edinburgh Academy, to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, describing it as “an incredible opportunity for survivors”.
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Jonny Lee Miller told us he ran up Arthur's Seat to prepare for the #T2trainspotting World Premiere.
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🎥 Dozens of emergency service vehicles and fire engines are in attendance at a fire in the old Jenners buildings in Edinburgh’s city centre, on Princes Street.
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The U.K. premiere of 'God's Own Country' is opening the Edinburgh Film Festival - leading actor Josh O'Connor says "it's a dream come true".
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BREAKING: US President Joe Biden has arrived in Scotland for #COP26 . 🎥His motorcade will leave Edinburgh Airport shortly once his entourage have disembarked Air Force One👇
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The Scottish Conservatives have made a direct pitch to Labour voters asking them to lend their support to the party in a bid to stop another independence referendum
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An official apology to Scotland's Gypsy Traveller community - for historic discrimination - would begin a "healing process" and "bring closure". @DrLConnelly reaches the end of 100 mile walk from Montrose to the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh today.
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The First Minister’s branding Sir Keir Starmer’s stance on the two child benefit cap as “shameful” and “unforgivable” It’s after the Labour leader said he wouldn’t change the policy @HumzaYousaf says there are also questions for Scottish Labour leader @AnasSarwar to answer
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Lockdown is being extended in Scotland for at least another 3 weeks.
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🎥 @DniproKids are set to arrive in the UK with 52 orphans from Ukraine later. 🇺🇦 @theSNP Westminster Leader @Ianblackford_MP is travelling with them, he tells @LewisMichie0 the charity’s efforts have been “remarkable”. 🤝 He’s full of praise for both @HibernianFC and @JamTarts
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🎥 Firefighter Barry Martin’s coffin is carried into his funeral service at St Giles cathedral by his blue watch colleagues. He was brought up the Royal Mile on a fire engine.
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A vigil for the victims of the #OrlandoShooting will be held in St Andrew Square in #Edinburgh at 7pm on Wednesday.
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Denise Syme - the Mum of Edinburgh junior footballer Shaun Woodburn - says a four year sentence for his killer is "an insult".
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👏🏻 Congratulations to Steven Carr from @DniproKids the winner of the local hero award at the Forth Awards. 🗣 He spoke to our Senior Reporter @LewisMichie0 after picking up his prize.
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WATCH: Can the people of Edinburgh tell the difference between old and new recipe #IrnBru ?
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Help find Shona Priestly, missing from the Craigentinny area of Edinburgh since Friday morning. The 35-year-old has serious health problems.
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BREAKING: SPFL claim they can't hand out prize money until season is called. They say Dundee pulled their 'no'vote on ending season and Rangers have not supplied any evidence of impropriety in a letter to all 42 clubs.
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Fife Council final result: SNP - 29 Lab - 24 Cons - 15 Lib Dems - 7
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🎥 Hibs Manager Lee Johnson has shrugged off suggestions his team over celebrated Martin Boyle’s equaliser at Easter Road on Sunday against Hearts. 🗣 He’s also responded to comments from Robbie Neilson 👇🏻
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🎥Here’s the moment Home office staff left the property on Marshall Street in Edinburgh where they were attempting to detain residents. 🗣”Shame on you” chant the crowd that forced them to abandon their efforts.
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Cheers can be heard from workers on the new Queensferry Crossing as the final deck section closes in on its position.
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Aamer Anwar is the Solicitor acting for the victim - who retains her anonymity - in a statement he said “there is much more she wishes to say, but it would be inappropriate to comment further until the Appeal Court issues its judgement”.
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A horrific crash in Edinburgh's West Maitland Street this evening. The road is closed as police investigate. It's not known if anyone is injured.
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WATCH: Her majesty the Queen visits Gorgie City Farm and meets the many volunteers as well as Olive the notoriously grumpy duck. 👑🐥
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UPDATE: Isobel Miller has been found safe and well
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MISSING: 94 year old Isobel Miller is missing in Edinburgh. Isobel has dementia and was last seen at Chalmers Church in Morningside road around midday today.
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🎥A convoy of fire engines has just left Edinburgh, to travel to Ukraine. 🇺🇦 The Scottish Emergency Rescue Association is donating four vehicles. @sera_scot They are also taking 18 tonnes worth of emergency equipment like bulletproof vests, generators and PPE.
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🎥Protestors have gathered at Nicholson Square in Edinburgh, appearing to block a home office operation.
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🗣“An absolute shambles.” 🦠SNP Westminster leader @Ianblackford_MP accuses the PM of putting politics before public health after visiting a Livingston vaccine facility where there was a COVID outbreak. ▶️Boris Johnson says no one raised it with him before or after the visit👇
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"I'm struggling with this too" @NicolaSturgeon on how she's coping from separation from family. Don't miss our exclusive #Coronavirus programme with the First Minister & @EwenDCameron from 9am..
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🎥 A 96 gun salute is being held at Edinburgh Castle to mark Her Majesty the Queen’s life - as hundreds look on from Princes Street Gardens.
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⚽️ EXCLUSIVE: @NicolaSturgeon is praising the brilliant work football fans have been doing in Scotland during the pandemic. We've been shining a light on them all week #MoreThanJustAGame - and the First Minister has a special message for everyone who's helping out👇
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“We will have to take money from elsewhere in our budget.” As unions suspend strike action and ballot council workers on the latest @COSLA pay offer, First Minister @NicolaSturgeon tells @Callum_McQ cuts will be made in other areas.
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The Forth Bridge is 125 years old today. We've been taking some spectacular pics from the top of the crossing: http://t.co/SdDRmQc3ea
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🎥🏌‍♂ @jtimberlake & @JustinRose99 caught up with our reporter @davegalloway83 after their 1st round of the @dunhilllinks at @carnoustiegolf #DunhillLinks #golf
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🗣 "At all levels, it fundamentally doesn't sit right." ❌ Former Hearts captain Steven Pressley says the decision to relegate Hearts from the Scottish Premiership is the wrong one. ️⚽️ He's backing calls for league reconstruction.
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🔫 Water pistols and balloons at the ready! 🚕 It’s the 75th edition of the Edinburgh taxi outing today. 🎥 We’re at the Zoo to see some of the best decorated cabs.
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MISSING: Have you seen Sadia? The 42 y/o was last seen in the Leslie area of Fife in the early hours of Friday morning. Sadia speaks very little English and is not known to have friends in the area.
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🔎The focus of the @ScotTories today has been the Hate Crime Bill recently passed by the Scottish Parliament. 🗑 @AnnieWellsMSP wants it repealed calling it “the worst piece of legislation” to come from Holyrood👇
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Rugby legend, @DoddieWeir5 accepting the Forth Contribution to Sport Award. #forthawards #forthawards2017 @DW5Trust
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🔊 Charity set up in memory of @FRabbits singer Scott Hutchison to start awarding grants to mental health projects. ▶️ The indie rock frontman was found dead near South Queensferry after his suicide 2 years ago. 🗣 Mum Marion hopes @tinychanges will save lives👇
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BREAKING: Scotland becomes first UK country to ban smacking children after MSPs vote to change the law👇
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Police say Leah Dixon and Jasmine Agnew have been found safe and well in Falkirk.
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Grant and Neil - the brothers of missing singer Scott Hutchison - say they are devastated by his disappearance. He was last seen leaving the Dakota Hotel in South Queensferry at 1am yesterday.
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Edinburgh Council is asking for women and girls to take part in their safety in public spaces consultation.
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DO NOT TRAVEL in central Scotland - that's the message from @trafficscotland . Amber weather warning in place until 10am tomorrow.
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“It’s really making sure that we can continue to be in this profession” Pupil Support Assistant Katherine Bull is one of thousands of Unison members on strike today. Speaking on a picket outside Portobello High, she says many like her “are being priced out by the cost of living”
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Police say missing Mile Trainer Ross from Edinburgh has been found safe and well. http://t.co/6VnxQy3wFn
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We've just been told that this area of Waverley Station will be closed until May for the filming of the new Avengers movie.
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