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“Violent men ignored as councils fail to provide service that tackles domestic abuse” Sunday Herald
Posted by MM on Mon 30th Jan 2006 at 8:03 am“Scottish teen girls top the booze league” Sunday Times
“Call for action on young drinkers” BBC
“Expert calls for restrictions on drink advertising” Grampian TV
“Revealed: huge rise in ID theft” Sunday Herald
“With this passport you can open a bank account, run up thousands of pounds on credit, hire a limousine ... even get a mortgage. The only trouble is it’s fake. We bought it from the Russian mafia. Welcome to the booming business of identity theft” Sunday Herald
“When I tried to buy a house I was told I was in debt ... but I’d never owed anything” Sunday Herald
“It’s easy to get your hands on a birth certificate ... even the First Minister’s” Sunday Herald
Update
“Judge rules abandoned trial should go ahead ” Evening News
“Judge overturns error case ruling” BBC
Following posted on 23.01.06
“Human rights move over trial bid” BBC
“Lord Hardie explains controversial decision” Law Society Journal On-line
Following posted on 18.01.06
“Why judge threw out attempted murder case” Scotsman
“Judge calls for Crown improvement” BBC
Following posted on 13.01.06
“First Minister concerned at collapse of trial ” Scottish TV
“Fresh trial bid after court error ” BBC
“The case against Lord Hardie” Scotsman
“McConnell ‘concerned’ at trial fiasco ” Scotsman
“Law chief urged to probe trial blunder” Evening Times
“Anger grows as murder bid thrown out after blunder ” Evening News
“Crown told Welch in jail day before case was dropped ” Evening News
“Ministers’ concern at trial failure” Law Society Journal On-line
See also
‘Does the First Minister accept that we urgently need a speedy inquiry into that fiasco to establish exactly what went wrong?’
Miss Annabel Goldie (West of Scotland) (Con)
Parliament 12.1.06: First Minister’s Questions
“Tayside sees big drop in crime figures ” Courier
Posted by MM on Fri 27th Jan 2006 at 8:15 am“Pay-out bill for injured police rises to £4.3m ” Scotsman
Press release (on related matter)
“Update on Police Assaults” SPF
“Feel like I have been raped again: Mum stunned to learn attacker’s release date; Victim agony after Crown Office letter blunder” Daily Record
Posted by MM on Fri 27th Jan 2006 at 8:04 am“Licensees let off over under-age drink sales” Press and Journal
“Grampian has worst rate for teen tipple charges” Law Society Journal On-line
“‘A lot of people do not want to come forward’” Herald
“Attacks on Jews revealed as Holocaust is remembered” Herald
Update
“Corporate killing law ‘bar to investment’ ” Scotsman
Following posted on 25.1.06
“STUC attacks business boss on corporate killing” Holyrood.com
“Scotland needs new law to tackle shameful Piper Alpha legacy” Scotsman. Article by Ian Tasker, STUC.
“Conference debates corporate killing laws ” Scottish TV
“Business leader warns of industry backlash to corporate killing law” Sunday Herald
“Boss in gas blast ‘insult’” Daily Record 23.1.06