HOW Scottish men’s football fares in the European league of TV deals is today considered by The Herald’s Graeme Macpherson, as part of a wider look at the health of the game.
Begins Macpherson: “Football and television have always had an uneasy relationship.”
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A COMPLAINT has been partially upheld against the local newspaper, the Rutherglen Reformer.
It follows an article in the newspaper prompted by the handing out of leaflets in the area.
The complaint, partially upheld by the Independent Press Standards Organisation, was because the paper did not correctly identify that it was in some people’s opinion that claims in the leaflet were ‘false and offensive’.
Says IPSO: “As the newspaper had accepted, it had not established that the leaflet contained false claims; this was merely the position of critics of the leaflet.”
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BEGINS the Business Quarter website, here: “Scotland’s capital city is to see its digital infrastructure transformed by an ultra-fast, pure fibre network that will provide gigabit speeds up to 100 times faster than the UK’s average.”
The story also appears, here, on the Daily Business website.
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BEGINS an announcement issued by the contract magazine publishers, Connect Communications: “David Hughes has joined Connect as business development manager.
“David has a background steeped in business development across magazines, newspapers and online. He spent eight years with The Scotsman and ten years with Scottish Business Insider before, most recently, helping launch BQ Scotland magazine.”
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THE link between The Scotsman newspaper and the family of Dave Mackay, the former Hearts, Spurs, Derby County and Scotland player, who has died, aged 80…
The Scotsman’s Stuart Bathgate explains that Mackay’s father, Tom, was a printer at the paper’s then HQ at North Bridge in Edinburgh, “where he worked as a linotype operator in the days of hot metal”.
And Mackay’s older brother, Tommy, followed in their father’s footsteps.
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BEGINS a media release on the website of the National Federation of Retail Newsagents: “As independent retailers met politicians to discuss concerns about soaring incidents of retail crime, less than two miles away from Holyrood a nine year-old boy was being held at knifepoint during a terrifying robbery in his father’s shop.”
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BEGINS the website, radiotoday.co.uk: “The UK and Norway are leading the way with in-car DAB take-up from manufacturers, according to a new survey from WorldDMB.
“New cars with DAB now stand at 60 per cent in the UK and Norway, whilst Switzerland has 45 per cent. Norway and Switzerland are the likely to be the first countries in the world to set firm dates for Digital Switchover (DSO). Norway has achieved the criteria for DSO in 2017 and awaits Government confirmation of this date.”
Read more, here.
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