A while back, your sketchist got a call from one of those "sources" we're always hearing about. The point was to inform me that I was dead wrong. The very idea of the possibility came as a terrible shock.
Holyrood ministers were told yesterday it was for them and not Westminster to change the law to allow deaths of military personnel killed while serving abroad to be investigated in Scotland.
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Sir Kenneth Calman, aged 66, is one of Scotland's most eminent medics and public officials, who has handled complicated political issues before, while being the published expert on the medical benefits of laughter.
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After months of trying to get their constitutional ducks in a row,
Conservative, Labour and LibDems at both Holyrood and Westminster have agreed on a remit for a commission that will review the devolved powers of the Scottish Parliament, and yesterday named its
independent chairman. Its one condition is that
independence is ruled out.