2 h. ago Calls for 'silent fireworks' at Scots council public displays

Highland Council will be asked to vote this week on a motion to use "silent fireworks" at future council-run displays.

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7 h. ago Princes Street: Calls for public summit on future of Edinburgh's Princes Street

Scotsman columnist Stephen Jardine called walking down the street a ‘fundamentally depressing experience’.

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55 h. ago Edinburgh's Princes Street is a fundamentally depressing experience. Here's what we need to do to fix it

Edinburgh needs to hold a public summit to develop a vision for Princes Street that’s big enough to match its grandeur

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3 d. ago Jenners Heritage in Pictures: Here are 29 pictures of the much

It was a golden age of shopping on Edinburgh’s Princes Street - and Jenners was the jewel in the crown.

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3 d. ago Court releases audio of 911 call that led to Luigi Mangione’s arrest

Judge allows call from manager of Pennsylvania McDonald’s to be made public after press urged its releaseAn audio recording of a 911 call that led to Luigi Mangione’s arrest has been made public after the press advocated for its release.The audio recording was played in Manhattan state court this week during a proceeding about evidence gathered during Mangione’s arrest over the murder of senior United HealthCare executive Brian Thompson a year ago. Mangione was arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania in December last year after the restaurant’s manager called 911. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Nedim Bajrami defiant on Rangers future as he reveals unseen Danny Rohl summit

The Albania international was the hero for his side as he netted from the penalty spot to rescue a point against Dundee United

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5 d. ago Princes Street Gardens Heritage in Pictures: Here are 40 fascinating photos of the famous Edinburgh park in the 1950s and 1960s

There was plenty going on in the city centre park more than 55 years ago.

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5 d. ago Reuse and return schemes could help eliminate plastic waste in 15 years – report

Pew Charitable Trusts finds plastic pollution will more than double globally by 2040 unless action taken The 66m tonnes of pollution from plastic packaging that enters the global environment each year could be almost eliminated by 2040 primarily by reuse and return schemes, significant new research reveals.In the most wide-ranging analysis of the global plastic system, the Pew Charitable Trusts, in collaboration with academics including at Imperial College London and the University of Oxford, said plastic, a material once called revolutionary and modern, was now putting public health, world economies and the future of the planet at risk. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Reuse and return schemes could help eliminate plastic pollution in 15 years – report

Pew Charitable Trusts finds plastic pollution will more than double globally by 2040 unless action taken The 66m tonnes of pollution from plastic packaging that enters the global environment each year could be almost eliminated by 2040 primarily by reuse and return schemes, significant new research reveals.In the most wide-ranging analysis of the global plastic system, the Pew Charitable Trusts, in collaboration with academics including at Imperial College London and the University of Oxford, said plastic, a material once called revolutionary and modern, was now putting public health, world economies and the future of the planet at risk. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Reuse and return schemes could help eliminate plastic pollution in 15 years, says report

Pew Charitable Trusts finds plastic pollution will more than double globally by 2040 unless action taken The 66m tonnes of pollution from plastic packaging that enters the global environment each year could be almost eliminated by 2040 primarily by reuse and return schemes, significant new research reveals.In the most wide-ranging analysis of the global plastic system, the Pew Charitable Trusts, in collaboration with academics including at Imperial College London and the University of Oxford, said plastic, a material once called revolutionary and modern, was now putting public health, world economies and the future of the planet at risk. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago OBR says Reeves calling public finances ‘very challenging’ before Budget was not misleading

Fiscal watchdog faces Treasury committee after accidental publication of key report prompted chair to resign

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6 d. ago CCTV released after teenage girl 'is sexually assaulted on train'

The reported attack happened on Wednesday 29, October. Police are calling on the public for help to identify this man wearing a black hoodie, black beanie and blue lanyard, to get in touch.

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7 d. ago Did Rachel Reeves lie to justify her £26billion Budget tax raid?

The Chancellor is facing calls to resign over misleading the public and Cabinet minister over the state of Britain’s finances

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7 d. ago Did Rachel Reeves really lie to justify her £26billion Budget tax raid?

The Chancellor is facing calls to resign over misleading the public and Cabinet minister over the state of Britain’s finances

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7 d. ago Defiant Starmer to defend Budget after Reeves forced to deny lying about black hole to justify tax hikes

Calls for multiple investigations following accusations that the chancellor misled the public

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7 d. ago Rachel Reeves denies lying about Budget black hole to justify £26bn tax hikes

Calls for investigation into accusation Labour chancellor misled the public

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8 d. ago Was Charles' secret Cotswolds meeting with King of Bahrain a summit on his brother Andrew Mountbatten

The meeting was at Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa's Oxfordshire estate on November 11, less than a fortnight after Andrew was stripped of his royal titles and home.

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9 d. ago Fire crews race to Edinburgh's Princes Street as fire engines line busy shopping street

Emergency services were called to Princes Street in Edinburgh this afternoon.

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1 week ago US police involved in fatal incidents use victims privacy law to hide their identity

In dozen of cases officers have used Marsy’s Law, which gives victims of crime anonymity, to shield their namesFor months, Ohio police officer Connor Grubb and his department attempted to hide his identity following an incident in which he shot and killed Ta’Kiya Young and her unborn daughter in a Kroger parking lot outside Columbus in August 2023.Grubb, who on 21 November was acquitted of murder and other charges, claimed that Young, who was stopped for allegedly stealing, attempted to drive over him – which would make him a victim of a crime and eligible to protect his identity from public view through a legal provision called Marsy’s Law. Police footage of the killing shows Young slowly driving the car forward and to the right before Grubb fires through the windshield and into Young’s chest. Continue reading...

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1 week ago It was my late mother’s birthday – and I spent it exactly as she would have wanted | Zoe Williams

I worried about nuclear war throughout my childhood, partly because it was the 80s, and partly because we were always demonstrating against it. On this important day, I knew where I needed to be ...It would have been my late mother’s birthday last Monday, and because I am either astronomically stupid or fathomlessly wise, I elected to spend it at a public meeting about nuclear disarmament. I’d call it a blast from the past, except I feel superstitious about introducing explode-y words too near the nuclear topic.I spent my entire childhood worrying about nuclear war, partly because it was the 80s, and everyone did, and partly because we spent our lives demonstrating against it. We had “Protest and Survive” stickers everywhere, in droll parody of the public information booklet “Protect and Survive”, along with “Nuclear Power? No Thanks”. We were also early adopters of climate change anxiety, while fiercely against the closure of coalmines. If you’re wondering where we expected to get ...

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