Sun. October 12, 2008
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Scotland on Sunday
October 12, 2008
The former airport
worker, who recently revealed he was quitting
Scotland for a new life in
the United States, became an overnight celebrity after the ...
guardian.co.uk
October 12, 2008
London, Oct 12 (Reuters) -
Britain will launch its biggest retail bank rescue on Monday when the four largest, HBOS, Royal Bank of
Scotland, Lloyds TSB and ...
BBC News
October 12, 2008
Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond is demanding a potential £1bn from the
UK government to boost
Scotland's economy. As the
financial crisis starts to ...
Norway Post
October 12, 2008
Norway only managed a 0-0 draw against
Scotland in their World Cup qualifier at Hampden Park on Saturday, suffering a blow to World Cup hopes. ...
Scotsman
October 11, 2008
Drug costs in
Scotland are a modest part of the total
cancer care budget. It's crucial the current system of pharmaceutical drug pricing is reviewed to ...
Scotsman
October 11, 2008
Royal Bank of Scotland shares plummeted by 25 per cent, and the losses put RBS down a mammoth 61 per cent this week. Halifax Bank of Scotland fell 19 per ...
Scotland on Sunday
October 11, 2008
First, he watched his side being hammered by newly-promoted West of Scotland, then he switched his attentions to another match - his own. ...
Sunday Herald
October 11, 2008
BY 2050 Scotland will be mostly vegetarian, look after half a million climate refugees and put its old and young in "community domes" to protect them from ...
Times Online
October 11, 2008
FOR a very brief period in the middle of last week, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) was no longer Scotland's biggest company. As its share price fell, ...
Scotsman
October 11, 2008
By Richard Bath WOULD Scotland's economy have coped better if a referendum had already been held, a "yes" vote obtained and sovereignty secured? ...
Scotsman
October 11, 2008
The housing
market is already deep in the doldrums with 20% discounts commonplace and three-quarters of homes for sale in the south-east of
Scotland failing ...
Scotland on Sunday
October 11, 2008
BY THE middle of this week we will know how much capital Royal Bank of Scotland requires from the Government and from existing shareholders and whether it ...
BBC News
October 11, 2008
Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond is demanding a potential £1bn from the
UK government to boost
Scotland's economy. As the
financial crisis starts to ...
Telegraph.co.uk
October 11, 2008
Royal Bank of Scotland shares sank to an all-time low of 71.7p. The price of metals also fell. Copper has lost half of its value since July. ...
Independent
October 11, 2008
By Sean Farrell, Financial Editor Royal Bank of Scotland shares fell to a 15-year low yesterday as speculation mounted that the embattled bank would seek to ...
Christian Science Monitor
October 10, 2008
This high-speed
spy movie pits the
CIA against Middle Eastern jihadists but resembles a trailer of itself. By Peter Rainer This feature requires a newer ...
Scotsman
October 10, 2008
By Dan Buglass DESPITE the ongoing problems with harvesting this year's wet barley and
wheat crops, the thoughts of most arable farmers are already focused ...
Reuters
October 10, 2008
Barclays, Royal Bank of
Scotland, HSBC, HBOS, Lloyds TSB and Standard Chartered were down between 8.7 and 21.7 percent.
Wall Street plunged for a seventh ...
Scotsman
October 10, 2008
He sat in the stands in January, having been left out of the Leicester 22, almost as a direct result of being away with Scotland at the Rugby World Cup ...
Telegraph.co.uk
October 10, 2008
But nobody expects
Barclays, HBOS, Lloyds TSB and Royal Bank of
Scotland to be able to tap the
markets for enough. Analysts at Credit Suisse reckon ...
Xinhua
October 10, 2008
Shares of the HBOS shed 18.31 percent, to be followed by the
Barclays, down 16.86 percent, and Royal Bank of
Scotland Group, which lost 16.77 percent. ...
Telegraph.co.uk
October 10, 2008
When Machrihanish Dunes opens to the public next Spring it will be the first true links course on the west coast of Scotland for more than 100 years and the ...
Times Online
October 10, 2008
Consider Scotland, especially if the snow looks promising this winter. At least you won't have to worry about currency exchange fluctuations.
Times Online
October 10, 2008
Mr Grade also upped the stakes in his growing battle with STV in
Scotland and UTV in
Northern Ireland, the two remaining ITV
companies, saying that he wants ...
guardian.co.uk
October 10, 2008
Royal Bank of
Scotland slid nearly 9% to 87.4p, below its closing value of Tuesday night, before the bail-out was announced.
Barclays fell more than 12%, ...
guardian.co.uk
October 10, 2008
Royal Bank of Scotland lost 25% and is down a mammoth 61% this week, and Halifax Bank of Scotland fell 19%, and 37% over the week. ...
Scotsman
October 9, 2008
THERE is a growing body of evidence suggesting local councils across Scotland, and the Scottish Government itself, are now seriously committed to an ...
Scotsman
October 9, 2008
By Jenny Haworth AN AREA of new native forest the size of Inverness has been planted in Scotland over the past eight years, The Scotsman can reveal. ...
Forbes
October 9, 2008
Although the
British government had offered banks like HSBC,
Barclays (
nyse: BCS - news - people ) and Royal Bank of
Scotland (nyse: RBS - news - people ...
Times Online
October 9, 2008
Holyrood ministers have denied claims that there are plans to introduce Sharia in
Scotland. The Scottish government said that
Islamic law had "no ...
Telegraph.co.uk
October 9, 2008
His call to embrace PPP was immediately welcomed by CBI Scotland as one of the most effective SNP ministers could make to 'reflate' the economy by ...
Scotsman
October 9, 2008
Robert Samson, the Scotland manager for Passenger Focus, the official rail watchdog, said: "This week has been one of annoyance and frustration for ...
Xinhua
October 9, 2008
Libya agreed to compensate families of the victims of the 1988
bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie,
Scotland, that killed 270 people, ...
Bloomberg
October 9, 2008
Royal Bank of
Scotland Group Plc and HBOS Plc rallied as
Citigroup Inc. upgraded
UK bank shares to ``neutral.''
BHP Billiton Ltd. and Eurasian Natural ...
Times Online
October 8, 2008
The old Royal Bank of Scotland headquarters stands in one of the great houses of Edinburgh. Dundas Mansion dominates the eastern end of George Street, ...
Reuters UK
October 8, 2008
L: Quote, Profile, Research) surged 55 percent and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L: Quote, Profile, Research) jumped 32 percent after heavy recent losses. ...
Telegraph.co.uk
October 8, 2008
Despite most economic powers being reserved to Westminster, he insisted that was the proper forum for civic Scotland to discuss their concerns with ...
MarketWatch
October 8, 2008
A prosperous cosmopolitan city that thrives amongst a historical old town that dates back to the 12th century, Aberdeen has one of Scotland's most unique ...
World Development Movement (press release)
October 8, 2008
British bank Royal Bank of Scotland has sold its shares in Global Coal Management Resources (GCM ltd), the British company behind the Phulbari open-cast ...
Scotsman
October 8, 2008
Scotland boss George Burley has splashed out £2 million on a luxury Victorian mansion in the Capital. The house, which has been renovated by a specialist ...