Tag: Scotland

• Thursday, December 12th 2013 - 22:24 UTC

  Falklands oil industry teams up with Scotland's oil service business sector

  

  A successful and well attended conference took place at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre on the 4th December 2013 to open up business links between the Falkland Islands and Scotland’s oil service business sector. This event was the second of the two planned events from the project known as FalkLink.

• Wednesday, November 27th 2013 - 07:21 UTC

  Independent Scotland would keep the pound, the Queen and oil and gas reserves

  

  Scottish leader Alex Salmond unveiled on Tuesday what he called a “mission statement” for the country’s future: a 649-page paper detailing many of the terms for an independent Scotland. The country’s first minister released his Scottish National Party’s so-called white paper ahead of a referendum on independence from the United Kingdom set for next September.

• Tuesday, October 8th 2013 - 17:20 UTC

  London launches paper warning on defence income lost and costs for an independent Scotland

  

  A Scotland analysis paper on Defense, published on Tuesday, highlights the extent to which an independent Scotland would no longer benefit from the £34 billion annual UK defense budget, one of the largest in the world.

• Thursday, May 2nd 2013 - 07:18 UTC

  Foreign Office and Parliament plan strategy ahead of Scotland’s independence referendum

  

  Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague welcomed the publication of the Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee Report on foreign policy considerations for an independent Scotland. The Foreign Affairs Committee announced its inquiry into ‘the foreign policy implications of and for a separate Scotland’ on 18 July 2012.

• Friday, March 22nd 2013 - 02:22 UTC

  On 18 September 2014, Scotland will decide if it wants to become an independent country

  

  First Minister Alex Salmond set a historical vote in motion announcing on Thursday the date for a referendum on Scottish independence, 18 September 2014 and promising to campaign hard for the “Yes” side. The simple question reads: “Should Scotland be an independent country?”

• Tuesday, February 28th 2012 - 17:33 UTC

  A quarter of people in England support Scotland becoming independent

  

  Just over a quarter of people in England support Scotland becoming independent, a new survey has found. The latest NatCen Social Research British Social Attitudes Survey found 26% of English residents favoured ending the union between the two countries, the highest figure yet in such a survey.

• Thursday, January 26th 2012 - 05:25 UTC

  Do you agree Scotland should be an independent country? Yes, but…

  

  Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond said his planned referendum on independence will ask a simple question on whether the country should go it alone, though he didn’t rule out a third option of more power within the UK

• Monday, January 16th 2012 - 02:35 UTC

  PM Cameron ready to discuss a referendum on Scottish independence

  

  British Prime Minister David Cameron offered on Sunday to hold talks with Scottish leader Alex Salmond to thrash out their differences over arrangements for a referendum on Scottish independence that could lead to a break-up of the United Kingdom.

• Monday, September 26th 2011 - 04:07 UTC

  Los Pumas snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

  

  No one would relish a match against the host nation of the Rugby World Cup, but Argentina, unless the improbable happens next weekend, will face the “All Blacks” in the quarter-finals on 9th October.

• Tuesday, July 5th 2011 - 19:13 UTC

  When Falklands and the World Cup 1982 nerve-wracked the Foreign Office

  

  According to recently released document the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher wanted Scotland to crash out of the 1982 World Cup in Spain in an attempt to avoid a diplomatic headache over the Falklands conflict.