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Thursday, 25 April 2013 16:04

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   By a Newsnet reporter

The Church of Scotland is to debate whether the Scottish monarch should have a separate Scottish coronation ceremony should Scotland vote for independence in 2014.

The proposal is to be debated at the Kirk’s General Assembly due to be held next month,  the Kirk says the ceremony would “symbolise their role as Queen or King of Scots”.

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Thursday, 25 April 2013 16:01

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  By G.A.Ponsonby
 
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has been challenged to return money paid to the Conservative party by the Chief Executive of a company which admitted paying a Serbian war criminal one million dollars.
 
In an exchange during Prime Minister’s Questions, SNP MP Angus Robertson listed the crimes committed by Arkan who received the money from Swiss based company Vitol.

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Wednesday, 24 April 2013 17:02

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By a Newsnet reporter

Two Catholic midwives employed by NHS Greater Glasgow Health Board have won their appeal in the Court of Session in Edinburgh against their employer’s insistence that they should supervise staff involved in pregnancy terminations.

The midwives, Concepta Woods and Mary Duggan, had previously lost a case last year in the same court, where they argued that their right to concientious objection extended to supervisory roles, even though they themselves were not directly involved.