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  Poland
risks Russia’s wrath with Soviet nuclear attack map
Dawn: WARSAW:
Poland’s new rightwing government on Friday risked a damaging
confrontation with Russia when it published a Warsaw Pact map
showing detailed plans for Soviet nuclear strike... |
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 Commonwealth
leaders attack EU over trade
NZ Herald:
VALLETTA - Commonwealth leaders have piled pressure on the
European Union to slash farm subsidies to secure a deal on
world trade that could boost global prosperity and... |
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 ECB
set to anger eurozone with rise in rates
The Observer:
Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central
Bank, is preparing to risk the wrath of eurozone governments
this week by raising interest rates in the 12-country currency
bloc for the first... |
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 Blunkett
set for comeback under Brown
The
Times: DAVID BLUNKETT has put aside his differences with
Gordon Brown and can expect a senior cabinet post if the
chancellor becomes the next prime minister, according to his
biographer. |
 Russia
blamed for children’s massacre
The
News International: Putin meets Beslan mothers. MOSCOW:
President Vladimir Putin was to hold a politically sensitive
meeting on Friday with mothers whose children died in the
Beslan school... |
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 Russia
marks end of Beslan siege
BBC
News: The town of Beslan in southern Russia is preparing for a
final ceremony marking the anniversary of a school siege in
which 331 people died. Bells on the site of the old... |
 Iran
under growing pressure to halt nuclear projects
The
Guardian: The chief of the Vienna-based International Atomic
Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, criticised Iran last night
for persistently failing to disclose details of its nuclear... |
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 Action
over Greek mystery crash
BBC
News: Two Greek air traffic controllers face disciplinary
procedures for allegedly failing to make contact with a
Cypriot plane which went on to crash. They should have
tried... |
 Security
Council may outlaw terror incitement
Gulf
News: World leaders whose countries are members of the
powerful UN Security Council will meet during this month's UN
summit to try to put pressure on all governments to stop
people... |
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Sir Harry Lauder
is born on the 4th August 1870. An immensely popular
entertainer in his day, Lauder promotes an exaggerated
caricature of Scottish culture that nevertheless makes him a
fortune and earns him a knighthood. He even becomes the first
recording artist to sell a million records in the UK! For more
famous Scots
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Henry Duncan was
born on the 8th October in 1774 in a Manse in Lochrutton. He founded the first savings bank in his parish in Dumfries
Shire. The bank was born out of his social conscience and made banking accessible to poorer members of society. Read more about personal finance here
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Today was a quiet day in the visit of George IV to Scotland
on the 19th August in 1822, the first visit of a reigning monarch to Scotland since Charles II in 1650. George's visit saw the birth of the modern image of Scotland, orchestrated by Sir Walter Scott who had persuaded George that he had legitimate Jacobite lineage. Highland dress suddenly became immensely fashionable and lowlanders across Scotland rushed to discover highland ancestry so they could sport the suddenly trendy kilt in varieties of dashing new tartan.
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