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Rapists Are People Too

Ben Acheson | Posted 20.06.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Rape Myths, Rape Crisis Centre, Sexual Violence, Rapist, Scottish Government, Rape, Rape Crisis Center, Legitimate Rape, Rape Crisis, Marital Rape, Serial Rapist, Rape Victims, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, Steubenville Rape, UK Government, British Crime Survey, Human Rights, Sex Crimes, Sexual Harassment, Scotland, Rape Culture, Rape-Attacks, Todd Akin Legitimate Rape, Rapists, UK Lifestyle News
Ben Acheson

Victims, and society as a whole, must recognise that rape is a crime just like any other and rapists must be punished appropriately for breaking their contract with society. 'Appropriately' is the keyword. No matter how much we want to string them up, our laws should be above human emotion.

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Plain Cigarette Packaging Wins Scottish Government Support

PA | Posted 27.03.2013 | UK
Read More: Action on Smoking and Health, Anti-Smoking, UK News, Cigarette Packaging, Scottish Government, Smoking, Smokers, Cigarettes, Health, Ash, UK News

Cigarettes and other tobacco products should be sold in plain packaging, the Scottish government has said. The pledge makes Scotland the first part...

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Charlie Thomas

Are There Unintended Consequences From Banning Cigarette Displays?

HuffingtonPost.com | Charlie Thomas | Posted 12.12.2012 | UK
Read More: Scottish Government, Cigarettes, Smoking, Cigarette-Sales, Business News, Imperial Tobacco, UK Business, Retail, Tobacco, UK News

Imperial Tobacco has lost its fight to continue displaying cigarettes in shops in Scotland. The Supreme Court ruled against the tobacco giant's app...

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'Chaos' As Thousands Of Scottish Students Hit By Loans Shambles

The Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 31.10.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Nus, UK News, Scottish Government, Student Finance, Saas, Scottish News, Student Loans, UK Finance, Scottish Universities, UK Universities & Education News

Thousands of students are still without their bursaries and loans despite being more than a month into the term, with reports of some being forced to ...

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Skin Doctors' Anger As Sunbed Centres Claim Health Benefits

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 22.08.2012 | UK
Read More: Tanning Salons, Tanning Beds Cancer, Scottish Government, Advertising Standards Authority, World Health Organization, Vitamin D, Scotland, Poll, Sunshine, Tanning, UK News

Sunbed centres are allowed to extoll the benefits of the tanning machines as a source of Vitamin D, despite complaints from the Scottish government, t...

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Public Figures Call For New Lockerbie Inquiry

Posted 22.05.2012 | UK
Read More: Lockerbie, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, UK Government, Lockerbie Bomber, UK News, Scottish Government, Abdelbaset Ali Al-Megrahi, UK News

More than 40 politicians, religious leaders and journalists have signed a letter calling for an independent inquiry into the Lockerbie bomber's convic...

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'Megrahi Died With A Guilty Verdict Still Hanging Over Him'

The Huffington Post UK | Dina Rickman | Posted 22.05.2012 | UK
Read More: Lockerbie, UK Government, Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi Libya, Scottish Government, UK News, Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi, Megrahi, Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi Death, UK News

More evidence will come out that will force the Scottish government to re-examine the late Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi's conviction, his bi...

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Trump In Hot Air Outburst Against Wind Farms

PA | Posted 17.04.2012 | UK
Read More: Scottish Government, UK News, Holyrood, Donald Trump, Scotland, Environment, Scottish Parliament, Snp, Wind Turbines, Alex Salmond, Wind Farms, UK News

US tycoon Donald Trump has warned that wind farms could "completely end" tourism in Scotland and the country is "in effect committing financial suicid...

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Newspaper Publishes Lockerbie Bomber Files In Full

PA | Posted 25.05.2012 | UK
Read More: Scotland, Libya, Lockerbie Bombing, Scottish Government, Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi, Pan Am 103, UK News

The full report of the legal grounds for the Lockerbie bomber's second appeal has been published online by a newspaper. The Sunday Herald today pos...

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'The SNP Is Here For You And Your Family'

PA | Posted 10.03.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Scotland, Scottish National Party, Nursery Education, Scottish Government, Snp, Alex Salmond, UK Politics News

Scotland will have the best package of free nursery education in the UK, First Minister Alex Salmond announced today. Mr Salmond said his Scottish ...

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Convicted Murdered Released Early From Life Sentence

PA | Posted 28.12.2011 | UK
Read More: Scotland, Soldier Murder, Compassionate Grounds, UK News, Scottish Government, UK Crime, Andrew Walker, UK News

Convicted murderer Andrew Walker, who killed three fellow soldiers over 25 years ago, has been released early from prison on compassionate grounds. ...

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Scottish Government Raise Tuition Fees For Non-Scottish Students

PA | Posted 29.11.2011 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Tuition Fees, Education, Scottish Government, UK News, Higher Education, UK Universities & Education News

MSPs have rubber-stamped the Scottish Government's decision to allow universities to raise fees for students from the rest of the United Kingdom. H...

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Scotland To 'Employ' Babies As 'Teachers' In Schools

Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 02.01.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Action for Children, Scottish Government, Bullying, Classrooms, Scotland, Babies, UK Students. Parenting, UK Schools, Scottish Schools, UK Universities & Education News

Scotland are to "employ" babies as teachers as part of a programme to reduce bullying and aggression in schools. The initiative, called Roots of Em...

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10 Reasons to Oppose the 'Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Bill'

Kirk Leech | Posted 06.12.2011 | UK Politics
Read More: Celtic, Scotland, Sectarianism, nufc.com, Scottish Government, Rangers, Battle of Ideas 2011, UK Football, UK Politics News
Kirk Leech

The Scottish government has recently introduced the 'Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Bill' which aims to cri...

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Radioactive Leak Found At Former Power Station In Scotland

Posted 08.12.2011 | UK
Read More: Scotland, Dounreay, Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead, Dounreay Power Station, Office for Nuclear Regulation, Scottish Government, UK News

Scotland's environment secretary has called for a full investigation after a radioactive leak was found at the former Dounreay power station. The l...

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Megrahi, The Scotsman and the Unionists

Peter Curran | Posted 04.12.2011 | UK Politics
Read More: Moridura, Megrahi, Scottish Government, Gadaffi, Moussa Koussa, Kenny MacAskill, Scotland's Independence Referendum, Guilt of Megrahi, Libya, Tony Blair and Libya, The Scotsman, Alex Salmond, UK Politics News
Peter Curran

The Scotsman is in no doubt what the big story is today - Megrahi's death bed 'confession'. It puts confession in quotes, but it's a nod and a wink - ...

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Universities Scotland Defend Fee Hike For English Students

PA | Posted 03.12.2011 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Pa, Tuition Fees, UK Students, Scottish Government, UK Universities, Scottish Universities, UK Universities & Education News

Increasing charges for students coming to Scotland from the rest of the UK is "tough but necessary", the body which represents universities ...

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Stormont Freezes Tuition Fees For Home Students While Other UK Students Pay The Price

Lucy Sherriff | Posted 12.11.2011 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: University, Northern Ireland, Education, Scottish Government, European Union Students, Tuition Fees, UK Education, English Students, Northern Ireland Education, EU Rules, Scottish Fees, UK Universities & Education News

Tuition fees for Northern Irish students attending universities in Northern Ireland will remain at £3,465 a year, according to a new fees structure o...

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Scotland Defends Tuition Fees Policy As Human Rights Lawyer Mounts Bid

The Scotsman | Posted 22.10.2011 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: University, Education, Scottish Government, Money, Scotland, Tuition Fees, Lawyer, Students, UK Universities & Education News

The Scottish Government has defended students from the rest of the UK tuition fees, after a human rights lawyer warned he intends to mount a legal cha...

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Dolly Parton Donates 40 000 Books To Scottish Children

PA | Posted 21.10.2011 | UK
Read More: Literacy, Education, Scottish Government, UK News, Dolly Parton, Dollywood Foundation, Scottish Book Trust, UK News

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- More than 40,000 free books have been donated to children in Scotland by a foundation headed by country singer Dolly Parton. T...

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