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High-flying fund manager Baillie Gifford has significantly reduced its Tesla share holdings across at least 11 of its funds and investment trusts, including Scottish Mortgage. The Edinburgh-based fund manager, which was Tesla’s largest external investor with a 7.7 per cent stake as recently as last year, sold off shares during January, This is Money research … Read more
Hilarious moment digger driver shoves workman into freezing cold muddy puddle on Scottish building site Greig Roger filmed the moment his brother Kyle was pushed into a dirty puddle The pair were working on a building site in Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire One of their colleagues used the digger to push Kyle into the puddle By … Read more
Scotland’s way ahead Nicola Sturgeon made several announcements today ahead of a full roadmap out of lockdown she expects to present next week. Addressing MSPs in Holyrood she said: Schools would reopen from February 22, starting with limited primary and secondary age groups No other years would return to face-to-face teaching before March 15 Scottish … Read more
What are each of the UK’s nations planning? ENGLAND: Boris Johnson is due to announce lockdown-easing roadmap, including details on phased return of schools, on February 22. SCOTLAND: Nicola Sturgeon confirmed Scottish schools will start to reopen on February 22. WALES: Primary schools will begin the process of reopening next Monday as Mark Drakeford announces … Read more
Nicola Sturgeon will today announce whether more children can return to Scottish schools – six days before Boris Johnson tells pupils in England when they can expect to be back in classes Under the plans, all children in early learning and childcare would return Pupils in Primary 1 to Primary 3 would also be allowed … Read more
St Kilda was inhabited 2,000 YEARS ago! Archaeologists discover Iron Age pottery on Scotland’s remote archipelago, indicating a community was ‘well established’ there Experts excavated a site in Village Bay, on the island of Hirta, from 2017–2019 The work was undertaken prior to the refurbishment of a military tracking base Radiocarbon dating indicated the island was inhabited … Read more
Comedian Rory Bremner sells his seven-bedroom Scottish country mansion and estate for £2.7m after restoring it to its former glory Comedian Rory Bremner bought the 10,000 square foot property for £1.5 million in 2009 The estate was built for Captain James Paton who made his fortune with the East India Company Paton used a network … Read more
Comedian Rory Bremner sells his seven-bedroom Scottish country mansion for £2.7m after restoring it to its former glory Comedian Rory Bremner bought the 10,000 square foot property for £1.5 million in 2009 The estate was built for Captain James Paton who made his fortune with the East India Company Paton used a network local informers … Read more
Scottish health secretary will be ‘very important witness’ in trial of former SNP MP Natalie McGarry who is accused of embezzling £25,000 from pro-independence groups, court hears Ex-MP Natalie McGarry, 39, has today denied two charges of embezzlement She is accused of appropriating £21,000 for her use between 2013 and 2015 Glasgow Sheriff Court told Jeane … Read more
Mother-of-three, 35, says brazen burglars walked into her flat and stole her children’s home-schooling laptops and smartphones before locking the front door behind them as they left Kerry-Ann Quinn, 35, said that they were trying to steal her three sons’ gadgets Ms Quinn was in the shower when crooks broke into the flat in Maybole, … Read more