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The more than $5 million available in research funding would help Scottish businesses develop low-carbon technology, the Scottish government said.
An independent Scotland would be able to sustain itself in part from the estimated $1.5 trillion in remaining oil reserves, a finance official said.
Effort to save 900 Diageo jobs falls short
Liquor giant Diageo said a Scottish government task force has failed to find a plan that would rescue 900 jobs at two historic beverage facilities.
A two-day work stoppage scheduled in Scotland could be the catalyst for panic gasoline buying throughout Britain, various sources said.
Donald Trump's brash statements concerning plans to build a resort in Scotland have perpetuated his image as an arrogant American, Scottish officials said.
Syrup demonstration frozen-out … Grocers might give free beer, wine … Scottish leaders: Scotch is no 'cash cow' … Nantucket sheriff has $7M in reserve … Watercooler stories from UPI.
Scottish officials say that British Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling is trying to milk Scotch whisky as a "cash cow."
British doctors accused of drunken antics … Children advising British government … Gaels outraged by 'Gallic hotheads' memo … Tolls gone, traffic increases … Watercooler stories from UPI.
Scottish traffic managers have discovered that removing the tolls on a busy highway bridge has had the predicted effect -- traffic jams are much worse.
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Malia Obama arrives at the Holocaust Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin on June 19, 2013. U.S. President Barack Obama is in Berlin on his first official state visit to Germany and will meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and later speak at the Brandenburg Gate, where fifty years earlier U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivered his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a Berliner)" address . UPI/David Silpa