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Cheap mortgages fuel big rise in house prices

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100

HOUSE prices have hit a record high as confidence floods back to the market.

Rod Stewart is No 1 after 34 years

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100

IT HAS TAKEN half a lifetime but Rod Stewart is back on top of the album charts today – 34 years after he last hit the No 1 spot.

Benefit ghettos where most live on handouts

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100

BRITAIN’S “benefits ghettos” where more than half the working-age population depend on state handouts have been exposed.

Now MPs are in line for a pay rise of 15 per cent

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100

MPs are to get a £10,000 pay rise while the rest of the country endures tough austerity measures, it emerged yesterday.

How Dambuster charity day was invaded by ‘Nazis’

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100

ORGANISERS of a Second World War re-enactment, coinciding with the 70th anniversary of the Dambusters raid, wanted the event to be realistic.

Kent toasts top wine title

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100

A SPARKLING wine produced in a quiet English village has been judged on a par with the world’s top champagne.

Risk to Scots economy of another bank crisis

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:30:00 +0100

ANOTHER banking crisis like the 2008 crash could pose a “very serious risk” to the taxpayers of an independent Scotland, according to a Treasury report.

Euro winner Emmelie has some Celtic connections

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:23:00 +0100

EUROVISION winner Emmelie de Forest may come from Denmark – but there was a Scottish influence behind her triumph in the contest on Saturday night.

Scot relives avalanche terror

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:15:00 +0100

A SCOTS climber caught in a terrifying avalanche in the French Alps has revealed how he “desperately swam and clawed” through the snow to survival.

Scots surgeons plan UK's first face transplant

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:12:00 +0100

SCOTTISH surgeons could be the first in Britain to carry out revolutionary face transplant surgery.