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The Scotsman
23 Mar, 2019
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Holyrood ministers tried to fudge absence of funding plans over parking tax
Scottish Government ministers sought to withhold mention of the absence of “any detail” on plans for a workplace parking tax from official communiqués, it has emerged.
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Brexit ‘to blame’ for rising hate speech in Scotland

The author of a landmark report on sectarianism in Scotland has blamed Brexit for a rise in hate speech.

Value of all Scotland’s natural resources revealed

Natural resources in Scotland have been valued at one-third of the UK’s total by a groundbreaking new study.

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Watch incredible footage as huge waves crash onto car on Isle of Lewis

Coastguard pilots battling to get to work at Stornoway Airport on the Isle of Lewis have posted remarkable footage which shows the perils of living with gales in the Western Isles.

FinTech Scotland hails milestone in bid for global open finance centre

The Scottish bid for the development of the Global Open Finance Centre of Excellence (GOFCOE) has claimed a new milestone.

Sport Update
‘Celtic and Rangers should be ashamed’: Presenter blames Old Firm for Scotland woes

Jim White has launched an astonishing attack on Celtic and Rangers as he blames them for Scottish football international’s woes.

The SPFL players who have scored the most goals against Rangers

Here are the players who have given Rangers fans the most headaches in recent seasons

3 reasons Hibs striker Marc McNulty has been even better than advertised

For Hibs fans who also religiously follow the national side, there was one slither of silver lining to take from Thursday night’s debacle in Kazakhstan.

And finally...
Theatre reviews: Nora – A Doll’s House | The Taming of the Shrew

ON TOM Piper’s brilliant set for Stef Smith’s thrilling new 21st century perspective on the story of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, three doorframes stand between the domestic space and the outside world. For each door, there is a different version of Nora, the young wife and mother who, at the end of Ibsen’s play, famously walks through her front door and slams it, finishing the charade of the conventional marriage in which she was treated like a child and a plaything.In Smith’s vision – staged by the Citizens’ Theatre at Tramway – the first Nora, electrifyingly played by Anna Russell-Martin, is from the #metoo year of 2018, the second (Maryam Hamidi) from 1968, at the height of the sexual revolution, and the third (Molly Vevers) from 1918; yet on this dizzyingly brilliant two-hour journey through the arc of Ibsen’s story, driven by a subtly powerful musical score from Michael John McCarthy, the narrative passes between them with a strange and chilling ease, like the baton in some endlessly-repeating relay race of timeless female experience.

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