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IT weapon to fight crime scrapped at cost of £8m |
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Courtesy Herald
Lucy Adams
Chief Reporter.
A STATE-OF-THE-ART police computer system costing nearly £8 million to help the fight against crime in Scotland has been abandoned before it was ever used.
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Brown's dire warning on the cost of independence |
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Courtesy Herald
Robbie Dinwoodie
Chief Scottish Political Correspondent.
GORDON Brown has returned to the political fray with an impassioned warning that independence after a referendum in 2014 would mean either higher taxes or cuts to public spending.
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Wales ready to cash in on Trident if Scots go it alone |
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Courtesy Herald
Kate Devlin
UK Political Correspondent.
WALES is preparing to cash in on millions of pounds of defence spending if Scotland becomes independent, official documents show.
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Two new prisons in Edinburgh and Greenock to replace Cornton Vale |
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Courtesy Scotland on Sunday
By KATE FOSTER
TWO new women’s prisons will replace Scotland’s notorious Cornton Vale under radical plans to improve conditions for female offenders.
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Police plan crackdown on gangland contracts |
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Courtesy Herald
Lucy Adams Chief Reporter.
The appointment of a powerful new intelligence commissioner is being considered under proposals to stop organised criminals and their businesses securing multimillion-pound legitimate contracts.
The independent judicial figure would analyse sensitive information and advise councils, public bodies and private companies on whether to grant contracts to specific firms.
The aim is to ensure companies with links to gangland bosses cannot win big contracts with private or public-sector organisations.
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