Scots lorry drivers are launching a campaign to allow them to driver faster by sticking to the speed limit. This week thousands of truckers will drive at forty miles per hour – the fastest they are allowed to drive by law on single carriageways – in a bid to put pressure on the Government to increase maximum speeds. Global companies who pay little or no tax have been branded “an insult to British Business”. Fife based internet business Amazon has come under fire from a powerful committee of MPs along with Starbucks and Google. A fire station in East Lothian has been badly damaged in an early-morning blaze. It happened at the part-time North Berwick station, with crews from seven others being called in to tackle the flames. Fire chiefs insist emergency cover in the town will not be affected. A new report has found that the decline in Scotland’s economy is on a par with troubled Spain. Accountancy firm Ernst & Young say the independence referendum and the potential for a changing relationship with the European Union is creating uncertainty for investors in Scotland. A Labour MSP is leaving Holyrood to take up a senior post in the trade union movement. Public health experts believe recent improvements in the number of alcohol related deaths are likely to be the result of the recession. A community run shop on Scalpay is being hailed as a “new beginning” for the declining island. Members of the RMT union working on the Orkney and Shetland ferry routes have voted for strike …Video Rating: 0 / 5 Aberdeen and North - Mon, 03 Dec, 2012
Scots lorry drivers are launching a campaign to allow them to driver faster by sticking to the speed limit. This week thousands of truckers will drive at forty miles per hour – the fastest they are allowed to drive by law on single carriageways – in a bid to put pressure on the Government to increase maximum speeds. Global companies who pay little or no tax have been branded “an insult to British Business”. Fife based internet business Amazon has come under fire from a powerful committee of MPs along with Starbucks and Google. A fire station in East Lothian has been badly damaged in an early-morning blaze. It happened at the part-time North Berwick station, with crews from seven others being called in to tackle the flames. Fire chiefs insist emergency cover in the town will not be affected. A new report has found that the decline in Scotland’s economy is on a par with troubled Spain. Accountancy firm Ernst & Young say the independence referendum and the potential for a changing relationship with the European Union is creating uncertainty for investors in Scotland. A Labour MSP is leaving Holyrood to take up a senior post in the trade union movement. Public health experts believe recent improvements in the number of alcohol related deaths are likely to be the result of the recession. A community run shop on Scalpay is being hailed as a “new beginning” for the declining island. Members of the RMT union working on the Orkney and Shetland ferry routes have voted for strike …Video Rating: 0 / 5
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