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BOSTON, May 16 (Reuters) - Vanguard Group said on Friday it has added a fourth firm to a three-member team managing a large foreign stock fund, a move that was criticized by an analyst. The second-biggest U.S. mutual fund manager said privately owned Edinburgh Partners has joined...
Screening and Test Evaluation Program, School of Public Health, National Health and Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Centro per lo Studio e la Prevenzione Oncologica, Istituto Scientifico della Regione...
A BARBECUE is to be held in The Royal Terrace Hotel Gardens to raise funds for Maggie's Cancer Caring Centre in Edinburgh. The event is being organised by The PA Exchange and Zest Health and Beauty and half the proceeds will go to the cancer charity.
In 1877, 40 years into the reign of Queen Victoria, an anonymous letter arrived at the offices of the Dundee Weekly News. It was a message in doggerel rhyme, a tribute to a local vicar who "has written the life of Sir Walter Scott/ and while he lives he will never be forgot/ nor when he is dead/...
The prime minister is to address the general assembly in Edinburgh Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in Edinburgh later. It is 20 years since the then prime minister Margaret Thatcher addressed the gathering of the Kirk's ruling body and set...
By Andrew Grice, Political Editor When Gordon Brown addresses the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in Edinburgh today, no doubt some in the audience will privately reflect on the widely differing fortunes of the Prime Minister and Alex Salmond, Scotland's First Minister. Mr Salmond's...
Do you give in yet? Because Gordon Brown still isn't through. Another speech tomorrow, to the General Assembly on the Church of Scotland at The Mound in Edinburgh. Pointedly, it's the 20th anniversary of Thatcher's speech there - allowing Brown to contrast his mission with her wickedness. We can...
Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 06:00 CDT By Norval, Mary Woods, Gregory M; Grant, William B Mary Norval*1 and Gregory M. Woods2 1 Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, UK 2 Menzies Research Institute and School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart,...
THE FINISHING line is on the horizon for determined walker Ian Orrell, who has crossed the Scottish border on his way from Land's End to John O'Groats. Ian (60), of Higher Lane, Whitefield, is aiming to raise £6,000 for homeless charity Emmaus and passed through Edinburgh on Tuesday after...
As part of the RSA 182nd Annual Exhibition, Mary Gillies has been awarded The Highland Society of London Award (￡500), for the best work in any discipline by a Highland artist) for her work entitled Midwinter. Mary was brought up on the Isle of Barra in the Western Isles where she attended...
