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Scotsman.com Update Friday 21 September 2007
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Fri, 21 Sep 200704:35 AM (UK)
Scotsman.com Update
SCOTSMAN.COM NEWS - HEADLINES
Second minister is forced to act in shareholdings row
A SECOND government minister announced last night that he would put hundreds of thousands of pounds of company shares beyond his control in the escalating row over conflicts of interest within the SNP administration.
BBC boss signals more Scottish TV
SCOTLAND's television industry appears set for major expansion with hundreds of new jobs after the BBC's director-general pledged a £50 million increase in regional programmes made north of the Border.
Boy aged 14 is stabbed to death 'in feud between neighbours'
GRIEVING friends and teachers paid tribute yesterday to a schoolboy who was stabbed to death, apparently the innocent victim of a feud between neighbours.
He spoke for Dennis, Gnasher, Minnie and comical friends
AFTER his unexpected death from a heart attack, JIM GILCHRIST salutes Ian Gray, a Trojan of the comics industry in Scotland for four decades
New faces at the top seek solution to taxing puzzle
JIM GALLAGHER and KEN GIBB look at the three faces of the Rubik's Cube of local council finance
FACT OF THE DAY
Today marks the birthdate, in Ayr in 1756, of John McAdam, whose experiments in "macadamisation"- a tar-based waterproof road surface which we now know as tarmac - was to revolutionise road transport the world over. One wonders what would McAdam make now of the state of Scotland's roads?
