Government unveils multi-billion plan to help small business

8:57am Wednesday 14th January 2009

The Government today unveiled a multi-billion package of measures aimed at unblocking lending to small firms, including loan guarantees and a new enterprise fund to help companies struggling to access finance.

Nurses to be questioned by police over C Diff deaths

2:00am Wednesday 14th January 2009

Nurses at Vale of Leven Hospital are seeking legal advice after being told they will be the first in Scotland to be questioned by police over an outbreak of a superbug.

Coalition led by Greenpeace buys land earmarked for Heathrow runway

12:31am Wednesday 14th January 2009

A plot of land on the site of the proposed third Heathrow runway has been bought by environmental campaigners in an attempt to halt the expansion of Britain's biggest airport.

Bush hails his friend Blair as ‘a man of faith and integrity’

12:17am Wednesday 14th January 2009

Tony Blair last night joined a very exclusive club whose members include such illustrious and varied figures as Mother Theresa, Nelson Mandela, Walt Disney, Frank Sinatra and John Wayne.

Fed chairman: We must stabilise banking

12:15am Wednesday 14th January 2009

Stabilising and strengthening the banking system is essential to a lasting global recovery, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, insisted yesterday, as UK ministers prepared to announce a multibillion-pound aid package today to get banks lending again.

World's academics decend on city for Robert Burns event

3:44pm Wednesday 14th January 2009

Academics from around the globe began arriving today ahead of the world's biggest conference on the life and works of Robert Burns.

Woman seized and robbed of money in Glasgow after concert

3:41pm Wednesday 14th January 2009

A young woman was abducted and robbed in a two-hour ordeal after she left a concert, police said today.

Rugby player John Beattie highlights class divide in sport

3:52pm Wednesday 14th January 2009

A former Scotland rugby player today said the civil service "needs a boot" to help overturn "an unambitious approach" to getting children from poor backgrounds more active.

Scottish manufactured exports fall in line with global slowdown

11:01am Wednesday 14th January 2009

Scotland's manufactured exports have fallen in line with the global slowdown, it was revealed today.

Music and games chain Zavvi to close another 18 UK stores

9:56am Wednesday 14th January 2009

Administrators for music, DVD and games retailer Zavvi said today they were closing another 18 UK stores with the loss of 353 jobs.

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