Robert Renwick News Today

it was still dark when conservative mps arrived at downing street earlier this morning. over breakfast, the prime minister was trying to persuade them to back his latest attempt to send asylum seekers to rwanda. are you going to vote against the bill? are you satisfied? they were tight—lipped on the way out about whether they had been convinced. some have been clear about their doubts. we are all of one mind on this. we all want the government to succeed in stopping the boats. we all...

Lycoming County commissioners approved a Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency subgrant award notification for the Lycoming-Clinton Co-Responder Init

A MUM and her two children have been jailed for their family drug business which saw cocaine pedalled across a town in Cheshire.

The family were caught as part of an undercover police sting.

A retired chartered surveyor has written a loving and detailed history of his adopted hometown of Peebles.

EVEN while Britain was at war with France, Glasgow was getting on with the two great activities that would spur the city’s massive growth in the 19th century – trade and manufacturing. In November 1806, having won the Battle of Jena, Napoleon Bonaparte issued his infamous declaration of Berlin or Berlin Decree. Translated into English, it begins: From our Imperial Camp at ­Berlin, November 21, 1806. Napoleon, Emperor of the French and King of Italy, considering: 1. That England d...

IN this week 275 years ago, Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, had his army carry out his orders that no quarter be given to the survivors of the Battle of Culloden. Cumberland had used the excuse that Prince Charles Edward Stuart had given a “no quarter” order to his army. According to Lord Balmerino, who was executed for his leading part in the Rising, no such order was ever given. A written version supposedly made by Jacobite commander Lord George Murray was a doctored fo...

AS we saw a fortnight ago, many of Glasgow’s people were vehemently opposed to the Union of 1707 and demonstrated passionately against it.  Yet the parcel of rogues got their way and on May 1, 1707, Glaswegians and every other citizen of Scotland faced the reality of the new incarnation of the unitary state that became known as the United Kingdom. The following year, Glasgow joined with Dumbarton, Renfrew and Rutherglen to elect the city’s first Member of Parliament, representing the...