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Nov 6, 2024 | 
scottishdailyexpress.co.uk | Richard Patrick Elias
A return to horsepower is helping progress the UK's electricity sector. For the first time since the modernisation of the industry, horses are being used to extract timber on SSEN Transmission projects. It may be the image of a bygone era but experts say that here is still very much a place for horse logging when it comes to the extraction of timber from ancient Scotland’s forests.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
scottishdailyexpress.co.uk | Richard Patrick Elias
The public has been warned to stay clear of parts of Scotland’s two biggest cities tonight as masked thugs ran rampage on Bonfire Night. Riot police were pelted with fireworks, bricks and bottles and buses forced to divert due to the chaos. Despite new regulations being introduced to ban people from letting off pyrotechnics in parts of Edinburgh, gangs of teenagers ignored the ruling and caused havoc.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
scottishdailyexpress.co.uk | Richard Patrick Elias
A collaboration with a world-famous Scotch whisky distiller to restore an extinct oyster reef is celebrating a major milestone. Glenmorangie is marking ten years of its involvement to regenerate the site close to its Highland base and now they have marked the return of its 100,000th oyster to the waters.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
scottishdailyexpress.co.uk | Richard Patrick Elias
One of the UK’s most senior crime fighters has said the illegal migration has a major detrimental impact upon Scotland – despite the geographical distance from the English Channel. Graham Biggar said the country was not immune to the problems the global issue brings. The director general of the National Crime Agency was speaking in Glasgow on Monday at the start of the 92nd General Assembly of Interpol.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
scottishdailyexpress.co.uk | Richard Patrick Elias
Police Scotland have launched a murder probe and named a woman killed in a Glasgow housing estate as 40-year-old Sandie Butler. It followed reports of a "disturbance" near a block of flats at St Mungo Avenue in the city’s Townhead on Tuesday afternoon. Police said the deceased had suffered "serious injuries" and she died a short time after police arrived at the scene.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
scottishdailyexpress.co.uk | Richard Patrick Elias
The Scottish Government has been accused of treating police with "contempt" after it was confirmed officers are to withdraw their goodwill in an on-going dispute over pay and conditions. The action will start on Friday evening and see a variety of measures being introduced to highlight issues over pay and conditions. This will include finishing shifts at the allotted time, not beginning shifts early and not taking home protective equipment.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
scottishdailyexpress.co.uk | Richard Patrick Elias
John Bonner did not have any problem admitting knowing the man whose reputation for sadistic violence made him a household name in Scotland's biggest city. But he was apparently unaware of Kevin Carroll's criminal past, one which had seen him branded a "maniac" by a low-level dealer who had been told to work for him. In January 2010, the man known as "the Gerbil" was shot dead in a north Glasgow car park. The man who had driven him there was John Bonner.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
scottishdailyexpress.co.uk | Richard Patrick Elias
One of the Scotland’s highest-profile lawyers has announced that his firm will no longer be accepting Legal Aid cases due to its “decimation” amid scathing criticism of the Scottish Government. Aamer Anwar says the decision comes as he is seeing more and more people struggling to get adequate defence advice. His Glasgow firm has been funding cases out of their own pocket for some time but now it has simply become too expensive for him to be able to continue the practice.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
scottishdailyexpress.co.uk | Richard Patrick Elias |Dave Finlay
A drug trafficker who previously told a court how he accidentally locked an infamous criminal associate in a car seconds before he was shot dead, has been jailed for being part of a Scottish supergang. John Bonner was one of three men sentenced on Tuesday for their part in plot to smuggle narcotics into the country from Spain.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
scottishdailyexpress.co.uk | Richard Patrick Elias
On Wednesday, May 10, 2023, in Lyon, a new appeal for help was announced by Interpol, which has its headquarters in the beautiful French city. It created just a ripple of interest for UK-based news organisations but "Operation Identify Me" might just be the final piece in a criminal jigsaw puzzle that would place an Englishman at its very heart.
