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...Scotland. At that time, pubs were still a male domain and there were very few female customers. Women usually came in with their male partners and occasionally in groups, depending on the type of bar. Female bar staff were therefore outnumbered by their male customers in these arenas. The uniforms female bar staff were provided with were usually highly sexualised. In one...

...Scotland in 1946 and educated at Bell Baxter High School in Cupar. As a teenager he joined the Air Training Corps and obtained his glider pilot's license. He worked initially at the Cupar Sugar Beet factory as a laboratory technician before moving south to Edinburgh to work for Cussons as a Shift Chemist. While there he obtained his OU degree and began work for Edinburgh...

...Scotland, Barclays, HSBC, Santander, MBNA, NRAM (Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley), Yorkshire and Clydesdale banks, the Co-op bank, Nationwide, Capital One, Welcome Financial, Principality Building Society – and Tesco. These will not be the last ‘scandals’ associated with the retail financial services sector and its direct targeting of individual consumers. The...

...Scotland between 2007 and 2010 and Labour currently presides over such an arrangement in Wales. In both cases deals are made on a policy-by-policy basis. What might happen this time? Whether a deal like this could work in 2015 depends very much on arithmetic and political sentiment. Current seat projections suggest both Labour and the Conservatives could be around 30 to...

...Scotland, 13 August 1995). Others sought to prove empirically that Glasgow's murder rate was the highest in Britain; that the murders occurred in some parts but not in all parts of the city; that violence is closely linked to issues of poverty (Scotland on Sunday, 13 August 1995). A Labour MP declared the need to protect Glasgow's ‘new’ image; others claimed that the...