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Company Results & Forecasts: Stagecoach to offer hovercraft services

Nov 20 2009 By Greig Cameron Company agrees Forth crossing plan with Bland Group Stagecoach has agreed a joint venture package to operate a permanent hovercraft service across the Firth of Forth. The transport company and Bland...

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Ioane ruled out of Scotland clash

From correspondents in Edinburgh, Scotland Digby Ioane has been ruled out of Australia's Test with Scotland at Murrayfield on Saturday as a result of a shoulder injury. The Queensland Reds centre is replaced in the starting...

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Funding pledge to launch hovercraft service on Forth

Published Date: 20 November 2009 MILLIONS of pounds of funding has been pledged to launch a hovercraft service across the Forth. Transport giant Stagecoach has set up a joint venture with hovercraft makers, the Bland Group, for...

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Edinburgh tram project set to force up water bills across Scotland

Published Date: 20 November 2009 WATER bills are set to rise for customers across Scotland – because of Edinburgh's tram project, it emerged today. There will be a hike in prices for the next five years to help pay for work...

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Australian rugby stars touch down at Edinburgh Castle

Published Date: 20 November 2009 SOME of the stars of the Australian rugby team were given a guided tour of Edinburgh Castle, as they helped launch a new drive to promote Scotland down under. Sekope Kepu, David Pocock, Will and...

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Keep Scotland Beautiful inspectors award Edinburgh its best-ever rating for the cleanliness of...

Published Date: 20 November 2009 LITTER levels are at a record low in areas of the city covered by private contractors while standards are slipping elsewhere in the Capital, new figures have shown. Despite the ongoing bin...

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Businessman paid undercover policeman posing as hitman to 'kneecap' his cousin

Published Date: 20 November 2009 AN EDINBURGH businessman paid a "hitman" to cripple his cousin by kneecapping him during a family feud. But Mohammed Javid Iqbal failed to realise that the proposed gunman was an undercover...

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Rugby player Blair ruled out for Scots (AFP)

EDINBURGH (AFP) – Mike Blair, Scotland's back-up scrum-half, has been ruled out of Saturday's Test against Australia after failing a fitness test on an injured ankle. The Edinburgh number nine suffered the injury in last...

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[Obituary] Obituary: Sula Wolff

Influential child psychiatrist. Born on March 1, 1924, in Berlin, Germany, she died on Sept 21, 2009, in Edinburgh, UK, aged 85 years. In a specialty where clinical impressions cannot always be verified and supported by...

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Public Transport Strategy for New Forth Crossing

Fife Council officers were given approval to continue to work with the Scottish Government and its partners SEStran, City of Edinburgh and West Lothian Councils to develop a Public Transport Strategy for the New Forth Crossing...

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