Scotsman.com News - Politicsnews-politics:PoliticsDounreay costs pass 1bn mark- July 8, 2008 THE cost of maintaining the Dounreay nuclear plant since 2000 has climbed above 1 billion.http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Dounreay-costs---pass.4264328.jp London's woken up to knife crime we've had it all along- July 8, 2008 CONSERVATIVE leader David Cameron yesterday used the platform of the Glasgow East by-election to talk tough on knife crime, calling for anyone caught carrying a knife withouthttp://news.scotsman.com/politics/London39s-woken-up-to-knife.4264168.jp MPs call for a boycott of Tesco- July 8, 2008 MPS have urged Tesco customers to boycott buying chicken until the chain improves welfare conditions.http://news.scotsman.com/politics/MPs---call-for.4264203.jp Milk mailed to EU in price protest- July 8, 2008 GERMAN farmers have posted thousands of litres of milk to the European Union's agriculture commissioner, Mariann Fischer Boel, in protest at low prices.http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Milk-mailed-to-EU-in.4264171.jp Union anger after Sarkozy says 'no-one notices strikes'- July 8, 2008 FRANCE'S powerful trade union leaders have lashed out at the president after he said in a speech this weekend that strikes in his country now had little impact.http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Union-anger-after-Sarkozy-says.4264196.jp Tavish Scott favourite to lead Scottish Lib Dems- July 8, 2008 THERE will be at least three contenders for the Scottish Liberal Democrat leadership, it was confirmed yesterday, after Tavish Scott and Ross Finnie joined Mike Rumbles in thehttp://news.scotsman.com/politics/Tavish-Scott-favourite-to-lead.4264175.jp Curran challenges SNP man to TV fight- July 8, 2008 MARGARET Curran was last night finally selected as the Labour candidate for the Glasgow East by-election a race she only entered in an attempt to rescue her beleaguered parthttp://news.scotsman.com/politics/Curran-challenges-SNP--man.4264182.jp Plea over 43bn Saudi arms case- July 8, 2008 THE decision to drop the Serious Fraud Office bribery investigation into the 43 billion Saudi Arabia arms deal was not taken for commercial reasons, Law Lords were told yesthttp://news.scotsman.com/politics/Plea-over-43bn-Saudi-arms.4264173.jp Iraq pushes US troop withdrawal- July 8, 2008 NOURI al-Maliki, Iraq's prime minister, yesterday raised the prospect of setting a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops as part of negotiations over a new security ahttp://news.scotsman.com/politics/Iraq-pushes---US.4264199.jp MPs demand increase in benefit fraud prosecutions- July 8, 2008 MPs are calling for more benefit fraudsters to be prosecuted, after a report found that fewer than 7,500 out of a potential 200,000 cases ended up in court.http://news.scotsman.com/politics/MPs-demand---increase.4264189.jp |