MPs' expenses scandal gains Telegraph more than 600,000 sales

Seeded on Wed May 20, 2009 12:05 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

Total triumph for the Telegraph

world-news, daily-telegraph, ninian-reid, guardian, sun, times, rupert-murdoch

Facebook users unwittingly revealing personal information thanks to way privacy settings work

Seeded on Wed Apr 8, 2009 4:23 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

Let's face it, the case against Facebook is open and shut

technology, facebook, social, networking

John McLellan named Scotsman editor

Seeded on Fri Feb 20, 2009 7:34 AM EST (Guardian Unlimited)

A sound appointment. Good luck to him in a difficult, even desperate market

world-news, scotsman-editor

A savage indictment

Seeded on Mon Feb 16, 2009 3:56 AM EST (Daily Record, Glasgow)

Alcohol, bad housing and Third World health issues. Welcome to the dark side of Scottish life.

world-news, murder, scotland

Google blacklists entire internet

Seeded on Sun Feb 1, 2009 1:37 AM EST (Guardian Unlimited)

Many a true headline written in jest...

world-news, google-glitch, dangerous-websites, internet-browsing-can-seriously-damage-your-health

Israel: Fighting for OUR freedom from Taliban terror

Wed Dec 31, 2008 5:02 AM EST

There was a time - in my jaundiced, war-weary way - that I would have denounced both sides embroiled in the present conflict in Gaza. In short, the Jews and the Muslims of the Middle East could fight it out to the bitter end for all I cared. My view has changed.

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world-news, gaza, israel, rockets, hamas, palestinian-cause, saudi-arabia, oil, opec, taliban

Dining Out In Style In Bratislava

Sun Dec 21, 2008 2:16 PM EST

Slovakia is a fledgling democracy sitting shoulder to Central European shoulder with a group of nations free from the yoke of tyrannical Communism. It's also a hop, skip and a jump (or hydrofoil ride) from tantalising Vienna.

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travel, slovakia, parlamentka-restauracia

Health scare after business delegates fall ill at centre - Press & Journal

Seeded on Fri Dec 5, 2008 8:12 AM EST (P&J)

Basic hygiene; wipe and wash - every time !

health, aberdeen, food-posioning, botulism, handwashing, hygiene

Squirrel war hots up

Seeded on Wed Nov 12, 2008 2:27 AM EST (Telegraph)

Let's hear it for Britain's much-maligned grey squirrels

odd-news, grey-squirrels, red-squirrels, bird-feeding, ninian-reid, the-duke-of-buccleuch, anti-americanism

Listen to Joe Kinnear's expletive-packed Newcastle press conference and read it in full

Seeded on Fri Oct 3, 2008 6:50 AM EDT (Telegraph)

Mind your language, kind sir. WARNING: THIS CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE (INDEED, FOUL LANGUAGE) which does nothing for Britain's genteel image !

sports, newcastle-united-football-club

Hoots Mon, There's A Moose Loose Aboot This Linguistically-Superior Hoose

Seeded on Thu Sep 25, 2008 4:21 AM EDT (dailyrecord.co.uk)

Get Ahead - Get Yourself A Scottish Accent

world-news, scottish, accents, election, athletes, rdp, donovan-mcnabb, sports

John Knox Would Turn In His Grave

Seeded on Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:29 AM EDT (Daily Record, Glasgow)

The ecclesiastical benefits of drinking alcohol in a public place. Long live Scotland, land of the truly bizarre.

odd-news, scottish, church, nascar, edwards, harvick, fight, carl-edwards, kevin-harvick, sports

Attack Youth Has Had His Chips

Seeded on Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:06 AM EDT (Daily Record)

So, just like the Mounties, the Peelers got their man.

odd-news, edinburgh, potatoes, rcmp

Horse Whisperer author Nicholas Evans In Poor Shape After Mushroom Horror In Scottish Highlands

Seeded on Mon Sep 22, 2008 6:05 AM EDT (dailyrecord.co.uk)

Sorry to state the blindingly obvious, but never, ever trust your horticultural instincts by picking mushrooms in the wild that you believe to be edible and viable. Wait instead for your next visit to Wal-Mart where you know you are in safe and trusted hands. End of lesson.

health, mushroom-poisoning, horse-whsperer-author-nicholas-evans, wal-mart

MI6 agent's cover slips during BBC interview

Seeded on Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:44 AM EDT (Telegraph)

Watch your back, Monsieur Poirot. That moustache of yours could be destined to end its days in the next cup of Earl Grey tea.

odd-news, false-moustache, bristish-spy, bbc, agatha-christie, david-suchet

That Sinking Feeling

Seeded on Thu Aug 28, 2008 2:26 AM EDT (dailyrecord.co.uk)

Oops, a red-faced letter day in Bonnie Scotland. You tak' the High Road and I'll tak' the watery one !

odd-news, post, office, loch, lomond, scotland

Is Russian President Medvedev a Closet Homosexual ?

Wed Aug 27, 2008 2:32 AM EDT

Careful examination of the thousands of photographs and miles of video footage currently circulating in cyberspace have brought me to the conclusion that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev could have homosexual or bisexual tendencies.

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world-news, is-russian-president-medvedev-a-homosexual, pink-politics

John Edwards calling former staffers asking for forgiveness

Seeded on Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:01 AM EDT (NY Daily News)

Come on, give the guy a break. He is a man on a mission - to assist the impoverished underdog of which, sadly, there are far too many in the United States. John Edwards was a star performer in the Primaries and he will bounce back into frontline politics in good time.

politics, john-edwards, democratic-party, battle-for-the-white-house

Jesus, What Next ?

Seeded on Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:56 AM EDT (dailyrecord.co.uk)

Is this the ultimate sacrifice ? Read on...

odd-news, budget-fiasco, parsimonious, the-scottish-talent-for-meanness, council-turmoil

The Crash Of A Celtic Star

Seeded on Fri Aug 22, 2008 2:46 AM EDT (dailyrecord.co.uk)

Mike is a hero in picturesque Berwick upon Tweed - and throughout the Scottish Borders. He stepped out from an auto wreck a different man to the football star who started the ignition on that fateful day back in 1995.

sports, glasgow-celtic-football-club, the-walled-borough-of-berwick, soccer, northumbria-police, berwick-rangers, alcohol-abuse, the-berwick-advertiser

ETA And The Madrid Air Crash Disaster

Seeded on Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:16 AM EDT (dailyrecord.co.uk)

This will have been a catastrophic accident - of that I'm sure. But the people of Spain will want to be re-assured it wasn't an act of murderous sabotage perpetrated by members of ETA who still pose a menacing threat to security in both Spain and the south of France.

world-news, madrid, air, disaster

Pre-teen Slasher Sought in Festival City

Seeded on Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:00 AM EDT (dailyrecord.co.uk)

We may be wary of tall, hooded teenagers coming our way en masse - especially at night. But now we have to fear another type of potential attacker - a young boy barely out of diapers.

odd-news, knife-crime, edinburgh-international-festival, edinburgh-new-town, lothian-and-borders-cid, boy-slasher, stewarts-melville-college

007 Dithers Daintily (and who can blame him)

Seeded on Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:50 AM EDT (dailyrecord.co.uk)

Commendable Connery has found a fence well worth sitting on. He has a good nose for a sectarian minefield. His idea of a joint Celtic-Rangers team to take on Brazil was a masterstroke. Great pity it was so arbitrarily dismissed.

celtic, glasgow, rangers, sir, sean, connery, snp, scottish, national, party

Terrified Tourists In Divebomb Peril

Seeded on Wed Aug 13, 2008 2:20 AM EDT (dailyrecord.co.uk)

And we thought Alfred Hitchcock was over the top when he gave us The Birds ?

odd-news, bird-attack, alfred, hitchcock

A Negative Prince Philip Endangers Cancer Sufferers

Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:39 PM EDT

Prince Philip (aka the Duke of Edinburgh) - or his advisors at Buckingham Palace- have managed to twist the editorial arms of the London Evening Standard into printing a groveling front-page apology over a story this prestigious newspaper printed which claimed that His Royal High …

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health, cancer, prince, philip, duke, of, edinburgh, london, evening-standard, prostate

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