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Independent Scotland open to Cyprus-style bank risks, says Britain
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - An independent Scotland would have a vastly oversized financial sector that would leave it vulnerable to a Cyprus-style banking crisis, Britain's finance ministry says. Before a referendum due in September 2014 on whether Scotland...Tags: Economic Indicator, National Government, Politics, David Cameron, Government
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Disgraced Cardinal to leave Scotland for penance-Vatican
ReutersVATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Disgraced Cardinal Keith O'Brien, who resigned as head of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland after admitting to sexual misconduct, will leave his country for months of "prayer and penance", the Vatican said on Wednesday. A...Tags: Vatican City, Religion and Belief, Sexual Misconduct, United Kingdom, Benedict XVI
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Travel Postcard: 48 hours in the Scottish Highlands
ReutersFORT WILLIAM, Scotland (Reuters) - Often voted the world's greatest train journey, the voyage from Glasgow to Fort William and Mallaig in the Scottish highlands defies superlatives thanks to its stunning views and wild landscapes. Several of the stations...Tags: Restaurants, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Dining and Drinking, Trips and Vacations, Harry Potter (fictional character)
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Jazz harpist brings trio to arts center stage for final show in Blissfest series
The final show of the Blissfest Folk and Roots Concert Series will feature a concert by The Maeve Gilchrist Trio at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at the Crooked Tree Arts Center in Petoskey. Still in her mid 20s, Edinburgh-born Celtic and jazz harpist,...
Tags: Festive Events, Music Industry, Music, Entertainment, Arts and Culture
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The pipes are calling
  After welcoming a Buster over the weekend, the Hub City played host Monday to a busker.  Kevin Moe, an 18-year-old from Laramie, Wyo., played the bagpipes Monday on a street corner in downtown Aberdeen.  He is using the donations he receives to...
Tags: Music, Trips and Vacations, Entertainment, Travel, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia)
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Booker Prize-winning author James Kelman visits Baltimore
Plunging into a novel by James Kelman is like diving head-first into a chilly lake. It's a shock to your system at first, and a bit disorienting, but the trick is to keep moving. Once your muscles get warmed up and you get your bearings, the...
Tags: England, Authors, Genres, Literature, Arts and Culture
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Soccer-Scottish second-tier sides target breakaway
ReutersMay 3 (Reuters) - Several Scottish second-tier sides have written to the SPL asking to be admitted into their league structure from next season in a move which could further split the game in Scotland. The Scottish Premier League (SPL) runs the top... -
5 Lessons From the Tribeca Film Festival
ReutersApr 29 (TheWrap.com) - This year's Tribeca Film Festival began on April 17 with a rock 'n' roll movie, "Mistaken for Strangers," and had its official closing-night gala on Saturday with the appearance of Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro and Jerry Lewis for...Tags: Festive Events, Amy Morton, The Smurfs (movie), Gore Vidal, Ruby Sparks (movie)
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Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Edinburgh
ReutersEDINBURGH (Reuters) - Which city has two central if extinct volcanoes, one of which is topped by the most precariously positioned castle imaginable? It is not somewhere high in the Andes or on an Indonesian island, instead it is the elegant and...Tags: Festive Events, Trips and Vacations, Landforms, Travel, United Kingdom
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Scottish writers lead the way in producing popular crime fiction
As proudly reported in Scottish Life magazine, a British think tank called the New Economics Foundation recently determined that the Scots are the happiest people in Britain, boasting some of the most impressive "wellbeing" scores anywhere. Exactly why...
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Missions have led to myriad languages in local LDS church
St. Joseph News-Press, Mo.In a church that encourages its laypeople to serve long-term missions at locations around the world, an interesting byproduct is the number of languages known in any given congregation. This is the case for the local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...Tags: England, Missouri Western State University , Portugal, Paraguay, Science and Technology
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Prime Minister Cameron argues to keep Britain's nuclear arsenal
LONDON – Amid international alarm over saber-rattling by North Korea, British Prime Minister David Cameron made an impassioned defense Thursday for maintaining his country’s independent nuclear deterrent, despite growing domestic complaints of...
Tags: Culture, National Government, Labour Party (UK), Politics, Weaponry
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