James Delaney

Edinburgh

Journalist at BBC Scotland

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Six-figure damages agreed over school abuse claims

1 week ago | yahoo.com | James Delaney

A man who said he was physically and sexually abused by his fellow pupils at a boarding school in East Lothian has agreed a six-figure sum in damages. Angus Bell, 44, claimed students were "set on fire, beaten with cricket bats and strangled" in a "madhouse" of violence and psychological abuse at Loretto School in Musselburgh during the 1990s.
Is Scotland the world's real home of football?

2 weeks ago | bbc.com | James Delaney

Is Scotland the world's real home of football? James DelaneyGetty ImagesFootball's coming home - or maybe it was here all along. For centuries, those south of the border have laid claim to England being the founding place of the beautiful game. Now a football historian believes the origins of the world's most popular sport could lie in Scotland.
Three charged with firearms offences after Edinburgh raid

3 weeks ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | James Delaney

Three charged with firearms offences after Edinburgh raidThree people have been charged in connection with drugs and firearms offences in a raid on a house in Edinburgh. Officers seized "a number of weapons" including a firearm and several mobile phones during a raid on a flat in Crewe Road Gardens in the Pilton area of Edinburgh on Thursday.
Three charged with firearms offences after Edinburgh raid

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | James Delaney

Three people have been charged in connection with drugs and firearms offences in a raid on a house in Edinburgh. Officers seized "a number of weapons" including a firearm and several mobile phones during a raid on a flat in Crewe Road Gardens in the Pilton area of Edinburgh on Thursday. Police Scotland said "extensive inquiries" were ongoing and said the incident is part of their investigations into recent crimes in the east and west of the country.
Ex-Tory MSP says there is 'growing disquiet' in party

1 month ago | bbc.com | James Delaney

Ex-Tory MSP says there is 'growing disquiet' in partyJames DelaneyGetty ImagesJamie Greene quit the Scottish Conservatives to join the Lib Dems over the party's lurch to the rightAn MSP who resigned from the Scottish Conservatives this week says there is "growing disquiet" among former colleagues over the party's move to the right. Jamie Greene told the BBC he had grown "deeply uncomfortable" over how the party had described issues affecting LGBT people as a "dangerous ideology".
Scotland fans stuck in Greece 'staying for a party'

1 month ago | yahoo.com | James Delaney

Scotland fans have been stuck in Athens following the side's 1-0 win over Greece after a fire near London's Heathrow grounded all flights. Supporters returning to Scotland from the Greek capital have had to find alternative routes home via Dublin, Milan and Istanbul due to disruption caused by an electrical substation blaze. British Airways services from Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness to Heathrow - which is Europe's busiest airport - have also been affected.
Scottish flight disruption after fire shuts Heathrow

1 month ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | James Delaney

A fire at an electrical substation in West London has forced a total shutdown at Heathrow Airport [Reuters]Flights between Scotland and Heathrow have been cancelled in the wake of a fire at an electrical substation near the London airport. British Airways services from Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness to Heathrow - which is Europe's busiest airport - have been affected.
Edinburgh flat owners face huge council retrofit bills

1 month ago | bbc.com | James Delaney

It will take me 20 years to pay repair bill imposed by councilJames DelaneyBBCAgnieszka Barys fears she will be repaying her £21,000 bill for the next 20 yearsAgnieszka Barys was excited when City of Edinburgh Council announced plans to bring more than 1,200 flats like hers in Lochend up to modern, efficient standards. Almost two years on, she is facing a £21,000 bill she says she will be repaying for the next two decades, and is still no clearer on when the work will start.
It will take me 20 years to pay repair bill imposed by council

1 month ago | yahoo.com | James Delaney

Agnieszka Barys was excited when City of Edinburgh Council announced plans to bring more than 1,200 flats like hers in Lochend up to modern, efficient standards. Almost two years on, she is facing a £21,000 bill she says she will be repaying for the next two decades, and is still no clearer on when the work will start. She is among dozens of private flat owners in one of the capital's most deprived areas who feel the local authority's retrofit programme has been imposed on them.
Couple challenge winter fuel payment cut in court

2 months ago | yahoo.com | James Delaney

A couple are due to begin their legal challenge against UK and Scottish government decisions to cut winter fuel payments. Peter and Flo Fanning, from Coatbridge in North Lanarkshire, allege both governments failed to adequately consult with those of pension age and did not release an equality impact assessment on the changes. They also claim the decision to end the £300 benefit for thousands of pensioners across the country last year was "irrational" and breached their human rights.